The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser. — Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1848-11-14 00:00:00

TO CORRESPONDENTS. The short article of " C " is not sufficiently polished for publi cation, but the Writer will evidently improve. The Rev. Thomas Nolan desires to acknowledge the receipt of to be added to the St. Barnabas Collection, for the Church Missionary Fund. Will "A Subsc i ier to the Monument" favor us with his name. We scarcely ccmprehend what "Amicus" means by "officially recognised." The degree referred to can be conferred by some of the continental colleges, but the same literary rank is not attached to such degree as that which belongs to our own universities. The letter of" Consistency" is far too long. Ebr Malaria. TUESDAY MORNING, NOV. 14, 1848. WE are not aware that it is very necessary to reply to an article in the Albion of yesterday, in which our contemporary takes up the cudgels for Mr. Eyre Evans in his absence. We shall only say, therefore, that we adhere fully to what we have stated; and shall be perfectly prepared to maintain our position should Mr. Evans, on his return, chose to assail us. WE are glad to perceive that we are drawing towards a satisfactory conclusion of our controversy with the Manchester Guardian, upon the subject of the Liverpool Association's proposed scheme of currency. His comparison of a system of paper money, based upon Consols, to the depreciated and inconvertible paper money of Buenos Ayres, was given up by him in his previous article. The French assignats, to which be referred so triumph antly, and the foreign exchanges are abandoned in his last article ; and the question between us, he says, itiaw, is" narrowed to a single point," viz., the liability to fluctuation of the proposed basis, as compared with that of the present basis. " If," says the Guardian, "it can be shown that the scheme in question is founded upon a real measure of value, which can be relied upon as more stable and unvarying than gold, we shall feel disposed to admit that it may be an improvement on the present system of currency." We hold him, there fore, to this point. Now we know of no "real measure of value"— we believe there can be none, unless by the arbi trary adoption of one particular description of property. This under the present system is gold, the very property of all others most liable to fluc tuations from its portability, uncertain quantity, and other causes, which we conclude, by his con tinued silence upon this point, our contemporary admits to be the case ; whilst the property proposed by the association can only be subject to one disturbing cause, viz., a political commotion, by which all property would be affected alike. But the Guardian appears to object to this property as being " a mass of debt," overlooking the fact that it is nevertheless considered the best, and safest, property in the kingdom • and that people are wil ling to give even their gold for it. This property not being an "assumed," but an admitted and definite amount, it follows that it is as divisible into any number of parts for a measure of value as an ounce of gold. The Guardian's illustration of a " man assumed to be six feet high," cannot, there fore, apply to the case, for if the man's height were as well defined as is the amount of the funded pro perty, there can be no doubt that he would then "afford a satisfactory measure for a standard foot." In our last we directed the attention of the Guardian to the fact that, so recently as October last year, Exchequer Bills were not convertible; and asked him " whether this arose from a depre ciation in the Government Securities or from an appreciation of the gold." The question is shirked altogether in his attempted reply. He says : " There might possibly have been some apparent foundation for the allegation that the low price of the funds arose from 'an appreciation of gold ;' but, then, un fortunately for the argument, there was no gold in circu lation at the time when the price was the lowest. There was nothing in circulation but depreciated paper, and it was in that paper that £lOO consols sold for £57, and, we believe, even lower. As, therefore, gold had nothing to do with the transaction, directly or indirectly, it seems to us to require something more than a bare assertion to prove that the low price was caused by 'an appreciation of gold!" - - Not a word about the inconvertible Exchequer Bills ! It was too notorious, we presume, that in October last year gold had appreciated, and the bank was only saved from stoppage by being per mitted to pay in paper. Gold had certainly some thing "to do with that transaction." What, how ever, does our contemporary mean by On Consols: being worth only £57 "in depreciated paper ?" It could not be much depreciated when ±:57 returned £3 per annum, or 5 per cent. interest, except as compared with that gold, of which our contem porary says " there was none in circulation." Such a state of things, moreover, could never occur under the system proposed ; for fifty-seven hundredth parts of a thing could never be equal to the whole. We can see easily enough how consols could flue tuata, and have fluctuated as compared either with gold, or with a paper based upon private credit or property; but they could never depreciate or appre ciate in the relation of the whole to its own component parts, except at times of under or over issues, which we have shewn would be self correc tive by the rate of interest. But upon what was the currency based, and what was the measure of value at the period referred to by our contemporary, when "there was no gold in circulation," and Consols were bought and sold, though "geld had nothing to do with the transaction, directly or indirectly ?" Obviously the country was left without a standard measure of value. Besides any fluctuations which may have taken place under such a wild and confused state of things. afford no criterion by which to form a sound judgment upon the system of currency pro posed by the association. In considering the tendency of the proposed 'currency to vary in value, we must ask the Guar dian to dismiss gold from his mind altogether, ex cept as a commodity; and to make no deductions from the relation which its basis, Consols, has borne at any past period to a pound, either in gold or paper. Having done this, let him apply himself to the consideration of the point as to whether it would not be possible to obtain a steady value for money by a definite rate of interest ; and then in form us under what circumstances, save the one we have alluded to, such currency could vary in value. The Guardian concludes with the old bullionist inquiry,—" after all, what is a pound i " We shall not, ourselves, be drawn by this manoeuvre from the particular point, to which he says, " the question is now narrowed." We shall refer him instead to the following answer to it, by a very able writer, whose views approach nearly to those of the association, and who is the author of a work recently published by Longmans', entitled "The National Distress, its Origin and Remedy," which the Guardian might find it worth his while to peruse. It would save him hereafter the necessity of his continued attempts to trace the existing monetary distress to railway investments or com mercial imprudence. _ _ " If it now be asked, 'What,' under the proposed mo dification of the currency standard and basis, 'is the mean ing of a pound" the answer is, —` A pound is a fixed standard and measure of value, secured by the State to yield the owner an annual return or increase equal to the average increase or return of gold, or 3 per cent. per annum, and consequently of definite interest or money value and purchasing power.'—As with the present basis and standard, the answer to the same question would be, that,—`A pound is a substance of intrinsic value, limited at present to be a certain quantity and fineness of gold ; but ofindefinite, because ever variable, interest or money value and purchasing power.' " MR. WEBSTER has published a second letter on Dock matters, addressed to Mr. Bramley-Moore, wherein he plunges and flounders, if possible, more than in the first, and establishes the fact of his gross ignorance about the Liverpool Dock Estate. Mr. Webster is evidently wishing to obtain noto riety, arid to fill up vacant time caused by the cessa tion of briefs from his clients at Birkenhead. We might very safely leave him and his letters in the hands of the public ; but we shall, nevertheless, give the second, like the first, a passing notice, to show how little reliance can be placed on Mr. Web ster's statements. The real object which Mr. Webster appears to have in view is to persuade people to lend their money to Birkenhead •; but this effort, we are apprehensive, will be " love's labour lost ;" and, could he even write like Cicero, employ the per suasive eloquence of Demosthenes, or warble as melodiously as Saint Cecilia, he will never induce money lenders into the delusion of burying more sovereigns in the slob on the Cheshire shore. At page 2, Mr. Webster says— " It is no part of my object to dispute the sufficiency of such security, (the Liverpool Docks), or to deny the large margin that exists for raising the rates. It is enough for me to show ' that money can be better laid out at Birken bead than at Liverpool ;' that such expenditure at Birken. head, instead of at Liverpool, would improve that very security, and that it is for the interest of the annuitant and of the bondholder of the Liverpool Dock Estate that the commerce of the Mersey should he provided with the required acc)mmode.tion, by profitable expenditure at Birkenhead, rather than, by unprofitable expenditure at Liverpool." We give this extract to show that we are not misrepresenting Mr. Webster in his vain endeavours to persuade the public to lend their money to a scheme which has wholly failed, and which now, to borrow an expression, " lies dead and putrid." Mr. Webster admits the blunder in his former letter, of having debited the Dock Estate with nearly a million of money for the cost of the Albert Dock and Warehouses, and omitting to give any credit for the income arising from this immense structure. He excuses himself on the ground that he took the dues on goods,;itonnage, and lights, as audited in the published annual accounts ; but this is no excuse for Mr. Webster, a barrister who professes to be so intimately acquainted with the Liverpool Dock Acts; for he must, or ought to, know that the Albert accounts are obliged, by Act of Parliament, to be kept separate, and that the incomings from the establishment do not appear at all in the accounts to which he alludes. Every body knows this except Mr. Webster, who ought to be the first to know the fact, according to his pretended knowledge of Liverpool affairs. One more proof of Mr. Webster's want of know ledge of the affairs of the Liverpool Dock Estate . ; and, by-the-bye, how should he he otherwise than ill-informed ? Are we to go to London for correct information about our own local affairs, and is that information to find its way to London through Birkenhead Dock Commissioners and Birkenhead jobbers ? 'We must certainly look to some other source for correct information. At page 3, Mr. Webster says— " That the accounts of the Corporation of Liverpool, just published, show £250,879 to be due from the Dock Trustees, for land at the North Shore, by which latter amount the existing bond debt should be increased." Here, again, Mr. Webster is entirely wrong ; and he must excuse us if we tender to him some whole some advice, to confine himself to matters for which he may have some aptitude, for he certainly possesses none for unravelling accounts, whatever may be his talent for mystifying, and rendering obscure, that which most people considered pretty clear and easy to be understood. If Mr. Webster had examined into the Dock accounts he would have discovered that this sum formed part of the bond debt three or four years ago ; and, on the other hand, if he had searched in the proper quarter he would have found the Corporation gave credit for this amount in Dock bonds, redeemable some six or seven years hence. According to Mr. Web ster's sheaving, this sum of £250,879 is owing, in open account, to the Corporation, and has still to be added to the bond debt of the Dock Estate. It is not so. The bonds were given at the time of the purchase, and from that moment formed part of the bond debt. Mr. Webster says to the Dock Chairman— " Your concluding observation, on Tuesday last, that the fact of the expenditure during the last twenty-four years, namely, from 1824 to 1848, of an amount of wages on the dock estate exceeding the whole of the bond debt, is sufficient proof that the estate is one of the best in the United Kingdom in financial solidity,' involves a fallacy similar to those already adverted to, the question being as to profitable or unprofitable increase of capital. The expenditure of £3,882,000 in the town of Liverpool may have been highly beneficial to that place, but it may have been injurious to the bondholders, and may have entailed a perpetual tax on the commerce of the Mersey." A fallacy to say, that when an . estate, containing an immense Dock space, with magnificent walls, quays, warehouses, &c., has had expended in the construction of it, £3,882,000 in labour alone— exclusive of materials, the price of land, and other property—that fact is not a proof that it affords a good security for a bonded debt, less than that amount of labour ! Why, Mr. Webster must be dreaming. At all events, we can assure him that the bondholders are not of his opinion. AT length the question is attracting the earnest attention of thinking men—how long can the country endure the burthen of the present incapa ble and dishonest ministry? And, what is more satisfactory still, we observe very distinct evidence that an effort will shortly be made to release us from their domination, by getting rid of the state of things, which alone contributed to impose it upon us. We need scarcely say that we refer to the division of the great Conservative party, caused by the adoption, by the Peel section of that party, of the policy advocated by Mr. Cobden and the Manchester school, and the almost personal enmi ties, which it engendered between statesmen, agreed upon most of the vital questions which agitate the community. It is felt that in the present posture of affairs, with a commerce prostrated, and bank ruptcy and ruin attacking successively,every mer cantile and trading interest,—with the revenue of the country sinking month after month below its expenditure—with an insecure state of our foreign relations, and a distressed and murmuring popula tion at home—with our colonies sinking into de cay and the national credit itself placed in peril-- we cannot afford to cherish those enmities any longer, without being impelled into a crisis of dis aster, terrible to contemplate, and which it may prove to be beyond the wisdom of the wisest to repair. Twelve months ago it seemed possible that, by the gradual action of public opinion, a party and a government might be formed, according in opinion and policy with the feelings of the great mass of the loyal and reflecting portion of the people; har monious amongst themselves with respect to the general principles of a paternal and constitutional rule and at issue amongst themselves, if at all, only, upon minor and inconsiderable details. The lamented decease of the leader of that party in the House of Commons—Lord George Bentinck—in flicted the first blow against the growing tree, under whose shadow in its maturity we had hoped that Englishmen might have sate, a happy, a pros perous and a powerful people. But it needed not that blow to assure us of the impossibility of the constitutional party in the country remaining in an isolated position from those, with whose general principles they agree, and maintaining an attitude of protest only. We are startled to find that the good ship has been drifted too nearly upon the rocks to allow of the officers maintaining a sullen aloof from each other. The time of action has come; and it must be "a pull altogether" which alone can save us. This is the rapidly grow ing opinion of both sections of the once-united and powerful Conservative party throughout the kingdom ; and it is strengthened by the good wishes of nine-tenths of the Liberal party themselves, disgusted with the imbecility and the venality, the mingled rashness and insolence, of the men whom they have selected as their heads. We may still hope, in good time, for the kind of party being formed, which we have contemplated as the type of pure constitutional principle. But at present we most urgently want administrative ability, to rescue the country from its position of ruinous reverse and difficulty. A significant evidence of this growing determi nation of the Conservative mind is to be found in a passage of a letter of Lord Stanley, a nobleman of admittedly high constitutional principle and of unimpeachable honor, addressed to the electors of Lynn, in reply to a requisition, signed by 187 of their body, calling upon his son to become a can didate for the seat vacated by the lamented death of Lord George Bentinck. His lordship expresses his gratitude for the mark of respect thus shown to his family, which he says : " Is greatly increased by perceiving that the requisition is signed indiscriminately by electors of all shades of opi nion in that great Conservative party which recent events have unfortunately divided, but whose harmony and com bined action, as far as may be found practicable, appears to be all-important to the best interests of the country." It may be worth while to remind our readers, in explanation of his lordship's increased source of gratification, that the Borough of Lynn contains within itself a divided Conservative party, between the members of which the remains of former violent ill feeling still exist, the colleague of their late member being Viscount Jocelyn, a member of that Peel party, of whose recent policy both Lord Stan ley himself and Lord George Bentinck were the consistent and determined opponents. The result of any other course on the part of the electors of Lynn than their present waiver of past political enmities, and cordial union in behalf of the heir of the house of Stanley would obviously have been the return, as on a recent occasion, in our own borough, of a follower of the Whig party. A similar instance of the feeling which we have adverted upon is to be found in the changed tdhe of some of the leading organs of the Conservative party. Every reader will remember the indignant attitude in which the London Morning Herald and THE LIVERPOOL STANDARD. the Standard have been accustomed to meet the mere possibility of any cordial action between the Protectionists and their former leader, Sir Robert Peel. We find the former journal, however, speak ing now in a very changed strain, and urgently advocating an oblivion of the past and a cordial reunion of the _two sections of the Conservative party. In a recent publication, be thus urges the necessity of such a course : " Is there no one point," he asks, " upon which both sections of Conservatism can find themselves agreed ? Is there no common ground upon which all may assemble— we address ourselves, be it remembered, to Conservatives, and not to Radicals, open or disguised—shake hands, and re-unite for the prosecution of a common end, and the achievement of a national good.? It is difficult to take even a passing glance at the condition of affairs, and to conclude that there is no such common ground of action. The followers of Sir Robert Peel, for instance, may be convinced that in 1846 the time had come for the repeal of the corn laws, whilst Protectionists may still retain their original opinion that no time could possibly arrive when it would be lawful for Sir Robert Peel to renounce the entire policy of his life ; but neither Peelites nor Protectionists can continue in the conviction that it is wholesome to carry on the business of the country with a deficient reve nue, with the balance of exports and imports continually against us, and with dependencies a clog to the mother country and a burden to themselves. The friends of Sir Robert may be pardoned for standing by their leader in the hour of his difficulty, as the seceders from his side may be excused for not co-operating with their chief at the period of his shame ; but neither friend nor seceder can derive comfort from the support or toleration of a ministry who are at once the abettors of treason and the prosecutors of criminals, the actors of the offences which they pretend to abhor, and the representStives of the Sovereign, whose prerogatives end rights they are the first to call in question and affront." We would go even further than this, and ask— is there no common ground upon which moderate Whigs, as well as Conservatives, may meet to legis late, for the purpose of arresting the tide of evil which is desolating the country, and introducing agony and shame to so many once happy hearths ? We contend that there is; and are prepared, in our earnestness to see such a common ground occu pied, to say with our contemporary— " We do not care to inquire now whether Mr. Cobden was right or wrong, whether free trade be a panacea for all the evils of the day, or whether the wars of the conti nent have or have not retarded the operation of principles in themselves beyond criticism or cavil. It is quite enough for us to know that a screw is loose somewhere—that the machinery will not work—that the promised results do not come. We are hard up. The expression is familiar and intelligible to the humblest capacity. When indivi duals are in that disagreeable extremity they must draw upon their legitimate resources, beg, borrow, or steal. A nation has no royal road to competence. It can no more extract sovereigns from abstract theories than a silk purse can be wrought from a sow's ear. If it has not the means of living it must find them, as the distressed have found them before, and will find them again." Even stronger, however, is the appeal of one, who has ever proved himself the sound-hearted advocate of true Conservative policy—the editor of Blackwood's Magazine—in an able article in his publication of this month, and to which we refer our readers, in preference to weakening its effect by any quotation from it here. The writer thinks with us that honourable men, however far committed to theories, will not refuse at such a crisis as the present to re-examine their tendency, and even "to acknow ledge an error when its consequences are - made so palpably manifest, or persist to gloss it over for the sake of an egotistical consistency." With re spect to one particular question we have hopes even of the great Conservative leader, Sir Robert Peel himself. The Right Honourable Baronet has ac knowledged that his pet act of Statesmanship, the Currency Laws, have failed to produce the effects which it was devised to bring about, He has seen it tested in concurrence with two opposite condi tions of our fiscal policy—with protection and with Free Trade—and failing equally under both. Surely a statesman, whose pride has ever been in expedi ency rather than in the maintenance of any fixed, principle, and who has seen fit to change in every portion of his past policy, can never be expected to adhere with pertinacity to that particular measure only, from which the results to his country's inter ests have been the most signally disastrous ! THEFT FROM A SHOP.-At the Police-court, yesterday, a young woman, named Elizabeth Henry, was charged with having stolen a piece of ribbon, twelve yards in length, from a shop in Scotland-place, on Saturday last. She had entered the shop with another woman on pre tence of making purchases, and was detected with the stolen article concealed under her cloak. The other female made her escape. The prisoner was committed for trial. SCRIPTURAL EDUCATION V. POLITICAL CONVULSIONS. —On Sunday evening last the Rev. Mr. White delivered en excellent sermon, in fit. Mary's Church, Birkenhead, on the practical character of the Christian religion ; and last night he gave, in the National School-room, a lucid address on the recent distressing events in the various nations of the continent as resulting from the infidel prin ciples so sedulously propagated there. The Rev. A. Knox occupied the chair. LIVERPOOL AND WEST DERBY.—We have been as sured on good authoritythat one or two points in a report, published in our last, of the parish appeal cases between these unions, were rather too strongly worded. The two unions have come to an amicable arrangement to abandon merely technical objections in disputed pauper settlements, and to decide before a judicial tribunal, those only in which the merits are not agreed on. it was con sidered by the overseers of Liverpool that the cases alluded to in the report rested• on formal objections, and thence they were abandoned, and the costs, we are told, were not incurred with the consent of the overseers. The arrange ment will be . Itonestly carried out by both parties. We may mention that several circumstances stated to have transpired in court were arranged privately, and the cases were decided on that private arrangement. THE POTATOE CROP OF THE PRESENT YEAR.—We are glad to state that we have learned that the disease in po tatoes has not turned out to be nearly so destructive, after the gathering of the rest, as was apprehended, espe cially in this neighbourhood, both in Lancashire and Che shire. In some fields and gardens, nearly the entire crops have proved to be of excellent quality ; and we have a constant and good supply of this popular vegetable in all of our markets. The general opinion now is that the crop will keep, and will last until the middle, if not the end, of May ; allowing for the usual consumption. An excellent article was attainable at Birkenhead market on Saturday last, at ls. 2d. to Is. 3d. per peck :• the price is certainly comparatively high, but a fall is anticipated, when the farmers begin to open their reserved hogs. It is also hoped that the quality will be better than that of those hurried into towns for immediate sale, during the prevalence of the alarm as to the general crop. The ac counts from Ireland as to the potatoes'are considerably better. THE FIFTH OF NOVEMBER.—The annual supper in commemoration of the Gunpowder Treason, and the happy arrival of King William 111. in England, was celebrated by the members and friends of Lodge 143 of Loyal Orangemen, at the Black Bog, Bridge-street, Warrington, on Monday evening, when upwards of 0 sat down. After justice had been done to the good things provided by the worthy host, Bro. Woods, non nobis domine was sung, and the chair was taken by Bro. Henry Gorst, W.M., supported on the right by G. Greenall, Esq. M.P., and on the left by Joseph Perrin, Esq. ; the vice-chair was filled by Bro. John Houghton, D.M. After the usual toasts of " The Queen," " Prince Albert and the rest of the Royal Family," " Protestant Ascendancy in Church and State," the health of the worthy member was proposed in a most able speech by the vice-chairman, in which he alluded to the many acts of kindness performed by him for both friends and political opponents, and especially towards the working classes. Mr. Greenall, in returning thanks, said that on receiving their invitation he deter mined that nothing should prevent him from being present that evening. Several other toasts followed. BEAUTIFUL MARBLE STATUARY.—On Saturday we had the pleasure of seeing, at 26, Bold-street, two beautiful statues and four busts, all in marble, executed in Rome, by Mr. Robert Ormerod Smith, for gentlemen of this town. The busts are of Edward Rushton, Esq., magistrate, (to be presented to that gentleman) ; of John Bramley Moore, Esq., (our present Mayor) ; the Rev. Thomas Bold ; and Christopher Bushell, Esq. The sculptor has been highly felicitous in producing in all of these, marked and undeniable likenesses of the parties. They are all cut in the finest Parian marble, with a minuteness and delicacy of finish which is rarely attained and has seldom been surpassed by the most celebrated masters. The bust of the Rev. Mr. Bold will be instantly recognised by any visitor who has seen and listened to that venerable divine. That of Mr. Rushton exhibits equal vrais-semblance, in every point, the Roman acquiline nose and the whole centour of the manly face and person are unmistakeably defined. The same may be said of the bust of Mr. Bramley-Moore—if possible, indeed, even more striking, and we are almost devising a fault when we opine that the hair on the head and visage is rather too voluminous ; but this portion of the bust is probably un finished, and if over-raised may be readily reduced by the chisel of the artist. The bust of Mr. Bushell is a fine piece of sculpture, but appears to us to be a slighty flatter ing likeness of assuredly, a handsome gentleman. The drapery throughout is graceful and natural. Perhaps, however, the most beautiful specimens are the two statues, which appear to us to be fancy pieces, or studies. They form a pair, and are exquisite full length representations of a boy pnd a young maiden ; the former holding a rabbit to his breast with one arm, and another in his garment by the other ; the latter in a stooping position on one knee with a butterfly perched on her delicate shoulder, upon which she is gazing. We consider both of these to be exquisite likenesses of juvenile beauties of " the human form divine,"—the perfection, indeed, of the beau-ideal in shape and symmetry. The finish is superior, and con sidering the posture and position of the figures and limbs, must have been accomplished with extreme labour and care. The female figure reminds us of the passage in Shakspere:— " What fine chisel could ever yet cut breath ! Let no one mock me; for I will kiss her." From these specimens alone we augur highly of the forthcoming mastery of Mr. Smith as a pursuer of an art even more noble than that of the limner. We know not the gentleman personally, and visited the productions no ticed during his absence from the room. IMPORTANT PARLIAMENTARY NOTICE.-PRO POSED CHANGE IN THE CONSTITUTION OF THE LIVERPOOL DOCK TRUST. We beg to direct our readers to a notice, in our adver tising columns, of an application to be made for an act of parliament next session, which will affect a change in the powers of the Council and burgesses, more important, in our opinion, than the Municipal Reform Bill itself. The object of the promoters of the measure, stript of the legal technicalities in which it is expressed, is simply to divest the corporation and the burgesses of Liverpool of all con trol over the management and the property of the Dock Es tate; and to vest that control in an independent body, which is, by the act, to be constituted " a body politic and corporate, under the name and style of ' the Trustees of the Liverpool Docks.' " Provisions are proposed for the purpose of altering the mode of electing such Trustees, with their Chairman and Deputy-chairman, of regulating the period of office of the two latter, and of altering and extending the powers of the whole. In a word, a power ful body is to be formed, under the name and style men tioned, and with our vast Dock Estate as their realm, which will certainly not be second in local importance to our municipal body itself. We are not prepared to state what are the pressing in ducements, at the present moment, for this important movement. We believe, however, that we may state ex plicitly that its promoters are the merchants, the shipowners, and the dock ratepayers of the port ; and our readers would probably have been able to see, without our saying more, what are likely to be the motives of these gentlemen. It has for some time appeared to several par ties of influence, that the Dock Estate of this port was one of magnitude sufficient to require for its management the undivided energies of a distinct body ; and that its ex isting constitution was of an anomalous character. It has been thought that the check or veto of the Council was more of the nature of a harassing than of a beneficial con trolling power over the proceedings of the Dock Com mittee; and that important improvements and measures, calculated to be conducive to the prosperity of the port, and of the commerce of the country at large, were fre quently retarded by the necessity of submitting them to the decision of a body, necessarily not so well conversant with their merits as the body by whom, on the evidence of practical experience daily before their eyes, they had been determined upon. We fancy that amongst the most pressing inducements for the change being sought, just now is the very serious chp.nge which is being made in the constitution of the Council itself, from amongst whose body a portion of the members of the Dock Committee have to be chosen, before whom the proceedings of that committee have to come as before a final tribunal, and without whose assent they cannot advance a step in any important matter. We have ever advocated the presence in the council chamber of a fair admixture of men of every class in the town. There are questions daily coming before the attention of the corporate body upon which the tradesman's or the shopkeeper's experience and local knowledge isas valuable, and his voice ought tobe as poten tial, as those of the merchant or shipowner. But, with respect to dock management, the range of fitness is not so wide ; and we dare say that with the not very discriminating course pursued at the recent elections, when the test was more the opinions of the candidates upon a particular, though a most important question ; and with the boasts of a certain confederated body of their ability to turn the elections in favour of their nominees on future occasions ringing in their ears, it may have occurred to our mer cantile body, and to the dock ratepayers generally, that two great estates, requiring such different kinds of men of such different capabilities, for their satisfactory manage ment, should be confided to totally distinct bodies. We can at present see nothing to object against in this arrangement. We are satisfied that there will be busi ness ample to employ two independent bodies. Our great fear is lest, by the action of the Council upon the Dock Committee being withdrawn, we should not be able to realise, what we still contend to be most desirable—the rating of the Dock Estate. Should this unfortunately be the case, it may probably occur to those, whose head long haste in this matter has, we suspect, urged on the separation of the two bodies, whether they will not them selves have to bear the burthen of their own and their fellow-townsmen's regret and disappointment. TO THE EDITOR OF THE LIVERPOOL STANDARD. MR. EDITOR,—In the recent discussions arising out of the annual meeting of the Jews' Society, in this town, we have heard muchofone-sidedviews, millennarianisrn,Jewiah restorationism, &c. Now it appears to me, that if any clergyman thinks Dr. M`Neile's statements on those sub jects to be one-sided, so as to be unscriptural, his best course would be to answer the doctor's books, The doc tor has published two volumes, one on Jewish Prophecy, and one on the Second Advent. They have gone through six or seven editions. It would be more in character with a scholar and a divine to publish a fair and full reply, than to force discussion on a meeting convened for the tran saction of the yearly business of the society.—l am, sir, your constant reader, SPECTATOR. ST. PAUL'S CHURCH, SEACOMBE. We were much pleased on Sunday to see a beautiful window of stained glass, fitted in the chancel of this church, designed and executed by Mr. Cairney, of Glas gow, the same artist who executed the gorgeous west window of St. Simon's church. The figure of St. Paul in the centre lancet is cleverly drawn. and most harmoni ously coloured, having the angel of the saint under the figure. The tracery itself, emblematic of the Holy Trinity, has the three compartments filled in with angels, expressive of triumph and praise. The other lancets are filled in with geometric forms, enclosinc , medallions, with other sacred emblems, which altogether add greatly to the character of the edifice. We believe this window has only cost the sum of £35 which is little more than six shillings per foot, and in place of the unseemly red curtains on the south side win dows, we sincerely hope to see them glazed and decorated in a similar manner. The interior of the church has also been recently fitted up with three most elegant bronze chandeliers of seven lights each, with ground glass shades, which afford a very pleasing light during evening service, and are aided by side lamps placed at moderate distances from each other, against the side walls. In order still further to increase the effectiveness of the services, a por tion of the choir and congregation are being instructed with a view to congregational singing, under the superin tendance of Mr. Blundell, of Wallasey, who has kindly given them his gratuitous services. EXAMINATION OF MASTERS AND MATES.—At a meet ing of the Board of Examiners, held the 6th instant, the following gentlemen were examined and found duly qua lified to receive first class certificates as masters :—Capt. John Newlands, late of the St. Lawrence • Capt. Alex ander 111`Pherson, late of the Flora M'Donald ; and Capt. Francis Boyce, of the Pakenham ; all of Liverpool. The total number of masters of vessels passed by the examining masters up to the 16th ult. was 950, fifty-four of whom passed in Liverpool, of whom 52 obtained first-class certificates. Twenty-seven first-class extra certificates were granted in this number-1 issued in London, 19 in Liverpool, 4 in Leith, 1 in Portsmouth, and 2 in Plymouth. SOUTHERN HOSPITAL.—We understand that ournewly elected mayor has consented to attend at St. Barnabas ' Church, on Sunday next, when a sermon will be preached in aid of the funds of this valuable charity, by the Rev. Thos. Nolan, the estimable incumbent of the church and the painstaking and affectionate honorary chaplain of the institution. It will be seen that the charity is at present in debt, and as it confers the greatest blessings, both spi ritual and temporal, on the district, we hope a crowded congregation will be present, to hear its urgent claims pleaded by its powerful advocate. We had the pleasure yesterday to witness the arrival of the Earl of Auckland, screw steamer, in this river. This splendid vessel, the beauty of whose model attracted uni versal admiration, was built by Messrs. Wigram and Co., of Blackwell, for the General Screw Steam Shipping Company, and is to be despatched on the 17th of this month for Oporto, and on her return, we believe, will be laid on th:. I , .rtli for Constantinople, being one of the new line recently advertised for the Levant trade. In sp.cii. passes any screw steamer hitherto built for the mercaki, it:. service. ST. MARY'S CHURCH, KIRKDALE.—On Sunday last, an appeal was made to the congregation at this church in aid of the Jubilee Fund of the Church Missionary Society. The sermon in the morningwas preached by the Rev. D. James, incumbent, and that in the evening by the Rev. S. B. Sutton, curate. The collections amounted to £2B. We regret to observe that in several churches in Liver pool a much smaller sum than might have been expected has been collected for this special fund. We trust, how ever, some means will be devised to increase the aggregate amount, and render it worthy of the good old town. FESTIVAL CHORAL SOCIETY.—On Thursday evening this society gave Handel's well-known but still favorite oratorio of Samson, at the Music Hall. The meeting was a full one; and, with the exception of a slight disagree ment here and there between the choir and the band, the whole went off very satisfactory. The principal vocalists were Mrs. Holden, Mr. Ryalls, Mr. Roberts, and Mr. Holden, jun., all of whom acquitted themselves in their well-known able style. We were particularly pleased with the violin accompaniments played during the evening by Mr. H. F. Aldridge, the leader of the b an d. Th ey were faultless and most beautiful in taste. THE WATER QUESTION. —The Water Committee have, in furtherance of the powers conferred upon' them, ap pointed three sub-committees, in order to realise, as far as may be, a division of the labour in the several depart ments. They have appointed a " Works' Committee," consisting of the following members : —Messrs. Bennett, Danson, Cooper, Morris, J. Holme, Poole, and Harbord, To these are referred the rumours that have got afloat re lative to the alleged stoppage of the supply of water from the local wells, in order (as further alleged) to show a ne cessity for a resort to Rivington ; and also to inquire into the truth or falsehood of other allegations as to the con dition of the present water-works sold to the Corporation, in engines, and in working.—The Finance Committee appointed, consists of Messrs. Hornby, Tinne, Ferguson, and Cooper, to attend to and economise the expenditure of the new works ; and on the " Purchase of Land Com mittee," are chosen Messrs. Poole, Cooper, Harbord, J. Holme, and Hornby. It was stated in the Journal of last week, that the engineer, Mr. Hawksley, was to receive £2,400 a year until the completion of the new works. This statement is erroneous. Contracts have been signed, by which he is to receive a sum of £9,600, equal to 2 per cent. upon the whole of the Rivington works; but the amount previously paid to Mr. H. is not to be in cluded in the item. The resolution of the Council, au thorising the Water Committee to make these arrange ments, and to enter into all necessary contracts, was passed on the 16th of August. The contracts have now been so far forwarded that there appears to be no chance of a with drawal from what the promoters consider to be the "grand scheme" for an adequate supply of water; and further discussien of the question would, therefore, be futile, GOVERNMENT INSPECTION OF THE LIVER POOL AND BURY RAILWAY. Yesterday, and Saturday, the Government Inspector, Captain Wynne, went over the works of this line of railway, for the purpose of examining the line previous to its being taken from the contractor, and opened by the Company. He was accompanied. on both occasions, by the Contractor, Mr. William M'Cormick, the Consult ing Engineer of the Company, Mr. James Thomson, of London, the Acting Engineer, Mr. William Thomson, and Mr. John Hawkshaw, Consulting Engineer to the Lancashire and Yorkshire Company ; and we are happy to be able to announce to the public, that not only have the Works been approved of by Captain Wynne, but he has been pleased to express his unqualified satisfaction at the excellent manner in which the contractor has exe cuted his work. _ _ This line was commenced in the month of January, 1846, and consequently it has been completed in less than three years, notwithstanding that it was considerably retarded by the railway panic of '47. The full length of the line is 34 miles, passing through Wigan and Bolton, which are the leading towns on the line. The number of stations on the line are sixteen, viz.,—Liverpool, Bootle lane, Prescot-road, Simon's-wood, Kirby, Rainford, Pim bor-lane, Farmoor, Upholland, Wigan, Hindley, West Houghton, Bolton, Darcy Lever, Bradley-fold, Black lane, and Bury. The entire cost of the line, including the purchase of laud, has been, we understand, about £900,000. At Bury this line joins the Leeds and Man chester line, from which it will derive a great deal of traffic : indeed we believe it is intended to run the trains from Leeds to Liverpool direct through on this line, thereby saving considerable time, and, consequently, con siderable expense. The chief traffic will be coal, cotton, manufactured goods, and passengers. A great portion of the Yorkshire trade will come on this road ; and not as heretofore via Manchester. Starting from Liverpool the most important feature which attracts the attention of the visitor is the intended connexion between this line and the new North Docks, from which source much of its traffic will be derived. At this point there is a draw=bridge provided, in case it should be requisite to build any docks east of the present Stanley Dock, and a little further on there is a depot for goods, carriages, &c. The viaduct from the North Shore into Oldhall-street is one of the finest pieces of masonry which is to be met with anywhere. The brickwork of this, we should observe, has been constructed by Messrs. S. and J. Holme, in conjunction with Mr. M'Cormack, who, except as regards this piece of work, has been the sole contractor for the rest of the line. This viaduct is about a mile and a quarter long, and it consists of 118 arches, of brick and cement. On each side of the road there is a strong parapet wall, coped with semicircular blocks of sandstone. When completed, however, this viaduct will be extended from the present temporary station in Oldhall-street, to the intended one in Tithe barn-street, close to the Exchange. Shortly after you pass the viaduct a fine segmental trussed wooden bridge, the span of which is 65 feet, crosses the Leeds and Liver pool canal. This bridge, which is of novel construction, is one of the strongest and safest railway bridges which we have seen. The girder is composed of several pieces of timber, bolted together, the timber ends being so " broken" that the whole forms one piece ; this then is " cambered" up and trussed to a high segment, which being well secured at the abutments, is , rendered so strong that it is impossible it can give way. From this we proceed to Walton, where there is a tunnel 1300 yards in length, cut through the red sand stone formation. The height of this tunnel is twenty feet from the rails to the crown of the arch, and it is exceedingly dry, level, and clean. Some of the gentlemen, who, yesterday, passed over the line, pronounced this to be one Of the finest tunnels in England. At both ends of this tunnel there are some heavy excavations, chiefly clay and sandstone rock. One of them is at least fifty feet deep. Passing this we come to a handsome stone bridge, which crosses the river Alt. This is a single arch, span forty feet ; the elevation forty-five feet, and it must have been a work of no ordinary difficulty to get foundations in ground so soft. The next work of importance is the crossing of Lord Derby's Moss, at Rainford. This must have been a work of great magnitude. The moss is two miles long, and so soft that it was only at the depth of twenty-six feet that the clay formation was found. In the construction of the line here every engineering diffi culty has been overcome, and the line is as firm, and the run over it as smooth, as in any other portion of the work. We may state, en passant, that we never travelled on any line where that great desideratum—easy and com fortable travelling—has been so nearly attained as on the Liverpool and Bury. On this moss the drainage and ballasting is so good that when tried with a very heavy engine and train, the deflection was imperceptible. The mode of operation upon it was to construct what are called " herring-bone ' drains, with tar barrels across it, and to weight these_with shale from the coal beds. When we reached this point the inspector had the train passed over it twice, and he felt quite satisfied that whatever difficulties lay in the way of making a good road over this point of the line they had been overcome by the talent and' energy of Mr. M'Cormick. From the moss to the next point of attraction—Billinge Tunnel—is about four and a half miles, which is principally cuttings. The Billing° Tunnel is 960 yards long, and it is cut through coal measures and rock; and from the quantity of water which came into it, much difficulty must have been sur mounted before it could be reduced to its present dry and clean state. At Pemberton there is an embankment of two miles long, and about forty-eight feet in elevation, at its highest point. The weight of the clay deposited I here, acting upon the soft ground in the vicinity of the river Douglas, caused the adjacent land to rise on each side of the line at least three feet. Here the line passes through a piece of land which once served the renowned Oliver Cromwell for an encampment during the period of the civil wars, the Epaulments and Abatis of which can still be distinctly traced. From this the turnpike road aeWigan there is alengthened curve which terminates at the Wigan viaduct. This viaduct is constructed of timber and iron. There are 45 "bays,"each 30 feet span, resting on solid ashlar blocks of masonry. At the turnpike road there is a tubular girder bridge, of 65 feet span, which crosses the road ; and at the cross ing of the Leeds and Liverpool canal there is also a bridge similarly constructed. These bridges and the viaduct are excellently finished, and reflect great credit on both the engineer and constructor. On trial there was no deflec tion from the straight line, with an engine of 50 tons stroke. The next work f great difficulty is a bridge which passes under the North Union line at this point. It is certainly one of the neatest and most tastefully de signed and executed pieces of masonry which we have seen. The bridge is askew, and is composed of five dif ferent arches, laid quite close together, and each of which is capable of bearing 200 tons weight. The peculiarity, of the bridge is that each of these arches bears the weight of a train passing over its apex. We next reached the bridge passing under the " Wall-gate" - of Wigan, which is com posed of cast-iron girders with segmental arches, similar to those at . Mostyn on the Chester and Holyhead line. This brings us to the town of Wigan, where there is to be an extensive station and adequate warehouses. From this we passed over several bridges of very neat design to Springs Branch .Viaduct, which is also constructed of timber. The piles for this work average 45 feet in length, and are driven at least 20 feet into the earth ; but in other respects it is similar to the Wigan Viaduct. The next point worthy of notice is a high embankment near to Hindley, of a mile and a quarter long, from which we entered a weighty clay cutting averaging thirty feet deep. At Hindley mill, there is a double-arch, bridge, in a forty-five feet embankment, over the mill stream. From this point to the Bolton and Preston rail way, is a cutting of stiff hard clay, averaging about twenty feet in depth. The length of the cutting is four miles. Here we joined the Bolton and Preston line,, and ran on it to Bolton. And it may be remarked as one of the features of the line, that formerly a passenger could not reach Bolton from Wiganin lessthan two hours; whereas by this line the journey from Wigan to Bolton will be per formed in 15 minutes. Leaving Bolton, the line passes over a segmental cast iron girder bridge, and runs on to the Bolton Viaduct, which is constructed of wrought iron la'ice work, on the same plan as that which was designed by Sir John Macneil for the Dublin and Drogheda Rail way. This viaduct, which is 700 feet long, cannat, we are certain, be equalled in England for beauty and durability. At Darcy Lever there is one of similar design. The height of the piers of this portion of the work averages 120 feet. From this point the valley of Darcy Lever is seen to great advantage, and in our opinion it is the best view on the line. From this to the viaduct at Bury is one continuous line of very heavy cutting, if we except a most stupendous embankment which is close to the via duct. This viaduct, which crosses the river Irwell, is an excellent p'e2e of engineering. It is composed of five kshlar arches of 72 feet span, and than which there is not a finer piece of masonry in England. Passing over this a junction with the East Lancashire line is formed, from which point the traveller may proceed to the Rochdale Station, and from thence to any part of the west rf 1-:11 , ;- land,—thus doing away with the necessity w:.icli new ex ists of changing carriages at the Manchester station, when the train is intended for Leeds or any other towns in that part of Yorkshire. At Bury there will be an extensive station, which of course forms one of the termini of the line. We should mention that the rails are all laid down on Sir John Macneill's plan, which secures them from the possibility of getting out of guage. This line will, we understand be open for traffic on Monday, aud, considering that it is a new line it is cer tainly one of the best which we have been on—indeed, so well and so carefully have the works been executed, that in passing over it we sometimes imagined that it hail been in operation for years. There was no jolting, no giving way of banks, nor any other obstruction wnieh would in. dicate haste, want of skill, or niggardliness on the part of the contractor ; and, as it will form one of the most im portant links in our railway communication with the West of England, we doubt not but that the enterprise of the shareholders will be rewarded with an ample dividend. ROBBERY FROM THE PERSON. — Yesterday, at the Police-court, a young woman, named Mary Welsh, was charged by John Robinson, of Prescot, with having, on the evening of Saturday, the 11th instant, robbed him, in an eating-house near St. George's Church, of a sum of about £5, in gold and silver, and which he had put into a purse. He pursued her and had her placed in custody. Upon her were found two sovereigns, a half-sovereign, and £3 6s. 6d. in silver. She said at the time that she had received the money from her husband, who lived in Tenterden-street. Enquiry had been made, and the house mentioned by her was found to be uninhabited. She was committed for trial at the sessions. PRIME RED BANK OYSTERS.—We cannot refrain from commending the quality and flavour of the oysters at the new establishment of Mr. Bindon, in Castle-street. They are, we can avouch, truly delicious, and entirely free from the coppery or metallic taste of even what are termed " natives, " being fed in a peculiar and novel manne r . They are the . Red Bank " oysters from the sister island, and are considered by amateurs to be a new and valuable discovery and variety of the most digestible and nourishing s pecies Of shell-fish. Nov. 14, 184$. AMERICA. The royal mail steam-ship Britannia, Capt. Lang, reached Liverpool on Saturday, and by her we are in re ceipt of advices from New York to the 25th, and Halifax to the 29th ult. The length of the passage is owing to strong easterly winds, which continued without intermission during the whole voyage. Between New York and Halifax the Bri tannia encountered violent gales, with a heavy head sea, which prolonged the run between those ports fully 34 hours beyond the usual time. The Europa, Captain Lott, ar rived at Halifax on the 22nd ult., in 81 days ; and at New York on the 25th ult., at 2 o'clock p.m., in 11 days from Liverpool. The United States steam-ship had arrived out. The steam-ship Forth arrived at New Orleans on the 23rd ult. The royal mail steam-ship Niagara, Capt. Ryrie, which left Boston on the Ist inst., came up the river last night, about ten o'clock. The steam-propeller, Sarah Sands, arrived at New York on the 28th ult., in sixteen days and a-half. The steam ship Europa arrived at New York on the 25th ult., having made the shortest trip from Liverpool to New York on record, being an hour or two less than eleven days, inclu ding the stay at Halifax. The barque Carmelite, of Bangor, from Fayal for Bog ton, was wrecked in a hurricane on the 20th Sept. The captain, two mates, five seamen, and four passengers, were saved ; nine passengers, (three of them females,) and one seaman, were drowned. _ _ A contract has been signed for the conveyance of monthly mail across the Isthmus,fromChagres to Panama, and thence by steam-ship to California and Oregon. Advices from Venezuela to the 19th September state that President Monagas bad re-issued the decree of May 11, declaring Maracaibo in a state of blockade. Paez was endeavouring to raise a contribution among his followers, but failed. The Indians have again been committing depredations in Texas, but in most cases they were defeated. Despatches from Campeachy state that the Indians, to the number of 10,000, attacked Taxcaba again, and com pelled the whites to fall back upon Saluta. The latter lost 200 men. Acosta was ationg the killed. The United States troops heve formally evacuated the state Chihuhua. The news from Mexico represents the country as being on the verge of a great crisis. It appears that a pronunciamento has been issued in Tam pico, proclaiming not only the independence of that state, but its annexation to the United States. Santa Alma's return was expected at the head of a great army, and a terrible state of anarchy was expected. The New York Morning Herald,—" If Tampico succeed in carrying out her designs of independence, her example will be followed by other states of the republic, and in a few years the whole country will be begging to be annexed to the United States. It may possibly be, that the question of annexing the whole of Mexico will be the great issue in the Presidential election of the year 1852." PRESIDENTIAL ELECTlON.—According to all appear ances, there is every probability that the coming election will be one of tke closest and most hotly contested, if not the mast so,:of any that has ever taken place in that coun try. The most important of the preliminary elections that have taken place, are those of Pennsylvania and Ohio, the returns of which, next month, will, no doubt, settle the question of the Presidency. We are in the dark as yet, and we shall remain so until the end of November. Money was easier at New York. The extreme rate of interest on first-class mercantile paper was ten per cent. per annum. Foreign exchange was in limited demand, with a fair supply of bills on the market. Bankers asking 1081 to 1081 for sterling. Good commercial bills, drawn against produce were to be had at 108. Nothing doing in Exchange on Paris. NEW YORK, OCTOBER 30, P.M. FLOUR, &c.—Our Market for Western Flour opened with more buoyancy, and a good degree of activity; the demand being principally for the home trade, the enquiry for export la limited.—There was but little done on 'Change, the market closing without animatiou. The sales for the day reach 7000 bbls. at 35 182 to $5 25 for mixed Western and com mon State; 525 to $5 34 for straight brands of both ; $5 311 to 35 37/ for favourite Wisconsin and good New Or leans ; 371 to 35 44 for pure Genesee ; B's 621 to s's 871 for fancy ; and .B'6 to S 6 50 for extra. Of the above sales about 2,500 bbls. were for export ; 500 bbls. City Mills at 35 25, and 900 bbls. New Orleans on private terms. Southern is drill at S 5 50 to .85 62/. Rye Flour is steady with sales 400 bbls. at 23 50 to 33 5,31. Corn Meal is without change, with sales of 250 bbls. at 33 311.t0 $3 371, the latter price for the premium Meal. GRAlN.—Wheat continues heavy and depressed, particularly the low grades. Genesee is in moderate supply and held firmly at SI 26 t 0•5127, with buyers at SI 25 ; of Western the sales are 2500 bushels good Ohio at .3110 ; 2500 do. do. on private terms; 1800 bushelacommon Chicago at 81 02, and a small lot of South ern on terms not made known, closing heavy. Rye is inactive iat 67 cents. Oats are rather firmer at 33 to 34 cents. B ar l e y s lower, with sales of 6000 bushels good two and four rowed at 69 to 70c. Corn is less buoyant, particularly the low grades ; the sales are only 30,000 bushels at 65c. for wearily Southern; 67 to 68c. for Western mixed ; 71c. for round white ; and 72 to 73c. for Jersey, Pennsylvania and Northern yellow closing dull. I.PacivisioNs.—There is less doing in Ohio Pork.; the market is still ratherunsettled. We quote mess inactive and nominal at 312 621 to 312 75. In prime 108 bbls. are reported at S 8 621, it is, however, held at 38 75. Beef is dull at 89 511 to .310 for mess, and 35 to S 5 50 for prime. Beef hams are selling in small lots at hl2. Lard is very quiet, 100 bbls. prime sold at 71 cts.. Slaughtered hogs command 52 to 6c. ; 300 sold to be delivered before- the close of navigation, at 6c. per lb. Butter and cheese are dull of sale, and the market droops. Wnisiter.—The market is heavy; 100 bbls. prisan and 75 hhds drudge sold at 24c., time and interest. NEW YORK COTTON MARKET, NOEVEMBER IsT.—For the week closing on Tuesday, the 24th instant, the sales were 8,000 bales, and as the market was amply supplied throughout, buyers had daily the advantage. A considerable portion of these sales, however, as well as those of the week just closed, were of parcels to be taken from the wharf by southern samples, free of expense to sellers, and as the classification was not usually so high, as that adopted by the trade, the quotation of such sales exhibited in periods a greater nominal decline than in fact existed. On Saturday, the sales reached 1,200 bales, with less samples, on sales, and as a consequence better prices were paid for desirable parcels. The sales yesterday were 90 0 bales, with a steady market. The closing quotations in this market were as annexed : LIVERPOOL CLASSIFICATION. N. Orleans, Mobile, & Uplands Florida Texas. Inferior ...... none. none. 44 to 5 Ordinary si to 51 5/ to 51 5* to 51 Middling. 52 to 5/ 51 to 5/ 5k to 6 Good Middling 6to 61 6to 6/ 61 to 61 Middling Fair 6i to 6* 6-1 to 61 6i- to 61 Fair Fully Fair 6l to 6/ none. none. Good Fair 7to 73 none. none. Fine nominal. none. none. The Sumter, Ala., Whig, says that the cotton crop of the lower part of Sumter and Choctaw counties is turning out much better than was expected, and expresses the opinion that, owing to the fine weather, the crop throughout all South Alabama will be much larger than last year.—Ne w yorit Sun, November 1. _ . _ FREIGHTS.—Rates were rather slack to European ports. Flour for Liverpool was engaged in a British vessel at 2S; in American ships.2s. 6d. was asked, but 1000 bbls were engaged at 2s. 3d. ; corn was worth 7d. in bags, to lid. in bulk to Bd asked; beef wcs taken at 4s. and heavy goods at 30s. To London. cheese was taken at 30s. BALTIMORE, Oct, 20. The market for flour is scarcely so firm as Saturday, and to effect sales to any extent, holders have to submit to a decline. Howard-street we quote at .85,182, and City Mills 85,25; priine, white wheat is• selling in a small way at 1,12 to al,is and MI 1,08 to $1,09; sales 15,000 bushels Corn at 60c. for white, and 67c. for yellow. Whiskey is quoted at 25ic. BUFFALO, Oct. 30._ Receipts since Saturday—Flour 33,000 bbls., wheat 99,0 0 u bushels, corn 48,000 do. Flour was dull at 84 and 84 2- 5 . Wheat was held at 85 and 87 cents, and corn at 45 cents. No sales of either were reported. Freights were improving. We quote flour to• Albany at 87 and 89 cents, wheat at 22, and corn at 20 cents. ALBANY, Oct. 30. Receipts since Saturday—Flour 15,600 bbls., wheat 14,80 0 bushels, corn 29,400 do., barley 56,000 do. Of barley we notice sales of 15,000 bushels, at 64 to 66i, and sales•of 6000 bushels oats at 33 cents. HAVANA, OCT. 16, 1848.—The stock of Sugar is reduced to a very insignificant quantity, and purchases made since our last report, were, in some instances, at an advance of vial 00 the rates then named. There is scarcely any, left in the coun try, and what is held here, is in the hands of very firm planters, who have high views. We continue our last quotations , although it would be difficult to make up a cargo without submitting to higher prices : Assorted kinds, 52 to 12, r ° 92 rials ; • ordinary whites, 7to 74 rials ; goo d to fi ne whites, 72 to 84 vials; choice whites, 9 to 94 rills; superior and florete yellows, 52 to 62 vials; ood to fine yellows 5i to 64 rlals browns 51 to 64 rials ; eucuruches 44 to 5 rials. Of 31usco vadoes there is little or nothing left. A letter from Rotterdam of the 6th instant, states that the cholera, which appeared there on the Ist instant, has raged with great violence. On the preceding day 41 new' cases were declarel, and 29 deaths, whilst there were but seven recoveries. During the previous five days there had been 298 eases, 157 deaths, 121 recoveries, and 16 remained under cure. a t p h p e e f ar ro t ! pockets T LofATAgirch—Some e n t o hi b e ot e tOm we , ar so a th tag at li t o h n e l y , have their hands in their own pockets while they are real exploring their neighbours ! METEOROLOGICAL REGISTER, BY MR. C. H. CHADBURN, 71, LORD-STREET. ATMOSPHERIC Daily Direc- ; g Temperature tion -.. q in Humidity at Fall of a !!,, Pressure at shade by self- , Noon. „ f Wind 2 o_, Nine , six thermometer Wet and Dry Rain. Noon. Difference of at r _...ii registering , a.m. I p.m. Max. Min. ' bulb. ? _ -- i; In. In. Deg. Deg. 1 Deg. In. 7 29'59 29'83 46 39 I 2 0.08 N icw 45 35 8 30'10 , 30•16 44 34 I 4 Nby w 42 30 9, 3016 130'46 40 35 2 3.28 37 3 1 10 30'45 ! 3010 43 39 2 s. 45 40 11; 3014 3015 46 42 I 2 N.w. 45 4 0 , 121 —— , 451 37 13 3016 . 3013, i 2 N.W. —", t h a, t hai l eay fa s v lwWe l f llth : foggYi !law. ___---•• THE WEATHER.-7th : heavy squalls; forenoo, and clear.-Bth: fine; evening, heavy rain; nigh of snow.-9th: clear; clouded.-10th: foggy.-1 night, clear.—•l2th : foggy ; night, clear.-13th : cl LIVERPOOL CATTLE MARKET-YESTERDAY• We have had a very large supply of Beasts at our market to day; the supply of 'Sheep very small. Prices for Beef wer e much the same as last week, and Mutton a little higher. Beef , 40. to 50.; Mutton, sd. to 6d.. DIED. On the 12th instant, at her residence, 30 Brovrnlow-street , ANN, the beloved wife of Mr. JOHN MULLIN, builder, Log' don-road. LIVERPOOL : TUESDAY, NOV. 14, 1848. 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