The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser. — Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1850-03-05 00:00:00

1, nice distinction i off-band to a fellow and an opinion given after mature consideration of the facts of the case as stated in his brief, duly endorsed with the customary fee. The former was td be regarded merely as his travelling opinion ; and might be right or wrong, as chance directed. The latter only was to be regarded as his legal opinion. The same principle is occasionally to he found actuating a portion of our own profession. Let but a single instance of malversation or abuse come before such a journalist, committed by any individual member of a class worthy of his steel, and how eagerly it is seized upon as the plea for letting loose a flood of virtuous indignation upon the unhappy heads of the whole of that class ! What noble sentiments glide from his pen, thus inspired ! What fine writing sparkles and dazzles through his columns ! But let the offender be one of our journalist's own party, or patrons; let the cue be given him, and the fee be duly endorsed upon the brief ; and he at Once most considerate and discrimi nating in his judgment ; appeals earnestly to the public to distinguish between the many innocent and the few guilty, whom he insinuates may prove to have been not so very guilty after all. We are all liable to fall into error, he reminds us; and detraction may be levelled at the best of mankind. In a word, the unsparing censor of yesterday's offence is its whining apologist to-day. A glaring instance of this sort of reckless dis honesty is before us in the opposite tone in which the London Times has chosen to treat two cases, both of which are connected with the same offence, but very different in dye, and affecting different parties. Our readers may probably remember a communi •cation published in the Times, some weeks ago, upon the unsupported authority of " A Cabin Passenger" on board the unfortunate ship Caleb Grimshaw, imputing serious misconduct on the part of her owners, in sending her to sea in an inefficient state, and gross cowardice on the part of her commander, Captain Hoxie, in having been amongst the first to desert her. The charges, as affecting the consignees, we proved at once to be false; and the conduct of Captain Hoxie has since been thoroughly vindicated, and the statements of the cabin passenger denied as fabrications, on the authority of the commander of the vessel, Captain Cook, which rescued a large portion of the unfor tunate passengers. Upon the slender evidence, however, of this cabin passenger, the Times launched a sweeping condemnation against the whole of the emigrant ships sailing from the out ports, and the American ships from Liverpool in particular. They were described as " badly built, badly found, and badly officered." He even went the length of stating that, having once succeeded in getting emigrants on board, it was regarded by the parties engaged in the trade as immaterial whether, or not, such emigrants ever arrived at their destination ! Ti Decom e charge was an nay indiscriminate one of fraud, systematic cruelty of crime itself, against these parties. There was no reservation ; no hint that there might be excep tions to the general rule. More recently a similar attack was levelled against the ship Robert Burton, upon evidence utterly void of credit, and which we showed, on the authority of her chief officers and her consignees—the ship being at the time lying in our docks—corroborated by a letter from the son of a highly-respectable merchant of this port, who went out in the vessel to Philadelphia as cabin passenger, to be utterly untrue. The cause of these slanderous and wholesale accusations against the emigrant shipping of this port, most of which is American, and celebrated for its first-rate quality in every department, can scarcely be divined, unless we suppose that the 7 imes was in the humour for indulging in a little strong writing, and desirous of earning a little popularity amongst the pseudo humane of his female readers, or was fishing for a brief with the usual indorsement, to induce him to adopt a milder tone in future. As an example of the ease with which the Times can pocket his exuberant philanthropy and become the apologist of the offender, we give The following case :—On Tuesday evening last, in the House of Lords, the Earl of Mountcashel put some questions respecting some occurrences which had taken place cn board several emigrant vessels to Australia, the mere outlines of which had already shocked the public, as conveyed to us by the Adelaide press, and confirmed by the Australian authorities. One passage will suffice to show their nature. "It is impossible," observes the immigrant board of Sydney, "to convey a just idea of the gross abuses Which occurred on board the Sobraon, owing to ' the imbecility (?) of the surgeon-superintendent. Unrestrained intercourse took place between the sailors and the women, and between certain officers 1 and a certain single woman. Amongst these were twelve girls from a foundling institution in Dublin, one of whom, a very interesting girl, was seduced by the chief officer, and died, in conse quence of miscarriage, before she could be landed from the vessel." Out of twenty surgeons appointed by the Emigration Commissioners, the Adelaide Observer says, " Eleven were reported by the colonial authorities as, more or less, unfit to be employed again." In many other vessels, gross immorality and intimacy between the females and the sailors had been proved to have existed; and the whole system stands condemned as infamously mismanaged. Now, here was an opportunity for a little fine writing. The Times might have pitched his key here as high as he liked—and the higher the But the real delinquents were the officials 01 Ihe Colonial-office ; and the Times had his cue, WI Thursday last, to protect and whitewash his friends. We find him, therefore, treading most gingerly over the ground thus—" Could we believe that the cases quoted by the noble lord were other than exceptional, we should feel it a duty," &c. Hew ready the Times was to believe the unsup ported statements of " A Cabin Passenger ! ' Again : "It is clearly the duty of the person who honestly desires to expose these iniquities to state that he has discovered that a certain portion —say five per cent.—of the emigrant ships, is polluted with this kind of offence, but not to imply that the whole system, upon which emigration from this country is conducted, has become tainted with so foul a blot." Would that the Times had acted towards the emigrant shipping of this port in such a considerate and Christian spirit! But those connected with them were only individuals ; the Times has his present brief from a government board. We could go through the remainder of his crawling and fawning article, and pick out a host of " ifs" and " huts" similar to those given above ; but the task is sickening, and we have given enough already to show to the world the peculiar system of morality, by which this pattern journalist is actuated, in his alternate assumption of the cha racters of Thersites and Mawworm. THE manufacturers are just now discovering the fact that the home demand for their products has very seriously diminished. Importers of produce find that they are unable to procure remunerative prices ; and the middle class of tradesmen—the shopkeeper and the artizan—are complaining of diminished custom. All these parties are asking themselves how it is that, with free trade and low prices of food, such a state of things can he—and some of them arc wandering in one direction in search of a remedy, some in another. " Give us financial reform," " Impose the legacy and probate duties upon land as well as upon personal property," exclaim one section of the suffering community ; " We want a more extended franchise," argue the George Thomsons and Walmsleys of the political world. Other sections have other pet recipes; and the majority agree only upon one point, viz., in shut ting their eyes to the plain, unmistakeable cause of their suffering, which is patent to all the world ex cept themselves. The men of trade have got the agri culturist down ; they wish to keep him down ; and are ready to jump to any conclusion in order to evade the admission that they have thus ruined one of their beat customers, lire shall endeavour to impress this fact upon the classes in question—that the depression of the general trade of the country has been, to a great extent, directly caused by th blow dealt against the agricultural and other native interests by our free trade policy ;—and if, in the performance of this task, we borrow freely from another of the able series of articles on the subject of agriculture, commerce, and manufactures," contained in this month's number of Blackwood, we feel certain that our excellent contemporary will grant us a willing pardon. First, then, we shall deal with the question of the diminution of our home demand for manufactures. The people of Great Britain and Ireland, we are told by a carefel authority—Mr. Spackman, in his " Occupations of the People" —may be thus classed, viz., persons dependent on agriculture, a little over 18,700,000, and persons directly and in directly drawing their livelihood from manufactures a little short of 8,100,000. Any measure, or measures, therefore, which depress the condition and decrease the consuming power of the greater number, must greatly overbalance the effect of any reasonably increased prosperity bestowed upon the minority. It is computed that the manufacturing productions of this country amount to about £178,000,000, of which last year—which is trum peted to the world as one of great commercial activity—the exports were £58,000,000, leaving more than double that amount, or £120,000,000, to be consumed at home by the two classes. Now, let us see in what ability these classes have re spectively been to take off the manufacturers' hands this large quantity of goods. Take the agricultural classes first. In moving the address to the Throne, Mr. Villiers, the free trade member for Wolver hampton, stated that— " He had made a calculation of the saving effected by the people in consequence of the present reduced price of food. He found that the average price of wheat in 1847 was 695. sd. ; on the 20th December, 1849, it was 395. 4d." (The honourable gentleman showed a similar decline in other sorts of grain, and proceeded)—" The usual calcu lation was that our population of 30,000,000 consumed one quarter of corn to each person annually. But taking a low estimate of consumption, and calculating that the population annually consumed 20,000,000 quarters of each description of grain, he found that the saving effected by the difference of prices between 1847 and 1849 amounted to £61,000,000." (A further saving of £30,000,000 is taken as having been effected by the reduction in meal, butter, cheese, potatoes, &c. ' • and Mr. Villiers proceeded to argue)—" So th a t th ere has been a total saving in the expenditure of the people upon food of £91,000,000. This was the result of free trade in the very first year of its operation. And when so large an amount was saved for expenditure upon other articles than food, be thought it was no matter of astonishment that the general condition of the people had improved, and that the country was in a flourishing condition."(!) We shall not stop to remark upon the astounding assurance of the man who could deliberately utter the sentence marked by us in italics, but proceed to ask what has become of "the large amount saved for expenditure upon other articles than food ?" The manufacturers have not received the benefit of it : that is a fact beyond dispute. The cry from them is now, and has been for months, that the home demand for goods has greatly fallen off. Has it been expended in increased consump tion of other articles of comfort or luxury? The following table of the consumption of four of the principal articles scarcely bears out this assumption : 1845. 1848. 1849. Coffee, lbs 34,318,095 37,101,279 34,431,074 Tea, „ 44,183,135 48,735,696 50,024,688 Tobacco and snuff, 26,322,944 27,305,134 27,685,687 Wine, (gallons) 6,986,846 6,369,785 6,487,689 The only large excess of the consumption of 1849 over that of 1845 is in the articles of tea and tobacco,—both of them frequently resorted to by the working classes as the substitutes for a more satisfactory meal. We contend, moreover, that had the increase in the consumption of these arti cles been double, we should not have admitted them as showing an improved condition of the people generally, in the teeth of the known facts that in 1845 the middle and working classes were in the very height of prosperity, with railway undertakings giving employment to hundreds of thousands, and stimulating the prices of every industrial product; whereas in 1849 we are pain fully aware that the very contrary was the general rule. This sum of £91,000,000, then, has somehow evaporated. Nobody owns to having received a corresponding benefit from it. The 8,100,000 people who derive their livelihood from manufac turers have not got fat upon it. Let us, however, see at whose expense it is alleged to have been saved. The annual value of agricultural productions in this country has been estimated by competent statisticians at £230,000,000. The saving in question has, therefore, been abstracted from this sum; and the loss has been divided between the owners and cultivators of the soil. These classes have had £91,000,000 less to spend with the manufacturer, the artizan, the importer, and the shopkeeper, as the result of free trade and cheapness induced by foreign competition. They have been compelled to limit their purchases to articles of absolute necessity ; and the natural result has been complaining tradesmen, half-em, ployed artizans, accumulating stocks, and accounts worse paid than they have ever been within the memory of the most experienced observers. It is not, however, the decreased expenditure in the necessaries of life of the owners and cultivators of the soil which has affected the home market. The profits, and consequent power of consumption, of nearly every class in the community, have been decreased since we entered upon our present ruinous policy. Take the shipowner, for example ; and we find from the following table, published by Messrs. Lindsay and Co., the eminent shipowners, of London, that freights have declined within the past four years from thirty-five to fifty per cent. We give the figures : s. d. s. d. from 105 0 to 60 0 .... 117 6 to 77 6 .... 105 0 to 55 0 Singapore Calcutta . Hong-Kong (Last quotations ) Bombay Ceylon Mauritius Callao Hayannah ..... ..... Odessa Alexandria Cronstadt Quebec The deductions from previous freights here shown, obviously must have come from the pockets of ship owners of this country, and decreased their ability to buy native manufactures or foreign produce, and to employ labour. Into whose hands do they go ? Nine-tenths of the amount into the hands of the foreigner. The diminished profits of the ship owners result in decreased wages of captains and seamen. From Cork, for example, we learn from a letter addressed to the Shipping Gazette, " the wages of shipmasters have been reduced one-third; and, further on, " shipmasters have been obliged to accept of reduced wages, in order to obtain em ployment to enable them to support their families. Several of them, who were fortunate in having a little money saved, have commenced tailoring, rope making, acting as coasting pilots," &c. There is one class of the community who, it is really surprising to think, could have been duped into the adoption of a policy, whose be-all and end all was the extension of our foreign trade, at the expense of the best customers of the home market, yet who have in every borough and county throughout the empire been the loudest and most vehement abettors of free trade in corn. We refer to the shop-keeper class. The writer in Blackwood well describes the mode in which this class was hoodwinked by the league agitation. He says : 95 0 to 60 0 95 0 to 70 0 84 0 to 60 0 95 0 to 63 0 85 0 to 47 6 95 0 to 42 6 12 0 to 5 6 32 6 to 19 ,0 47 6 to 32 0 " There was no honesty in these men. They were fighting a desperate game, without regard to the general interests of the country, so that they could be the indi vidual gainers; and they fought it, as gamblers will do, unscrupulously, falsely, and dishonestly. They durst not have hinted that the immediate effect of the repeal of the corn laws would be a large and permanent depreciation of the value of agricultural produce. Had they done so, the tradesmen and retail dealers, whom they chiefly aimed to dupe,—because the electoral influence of that class is im mensely large,—would at once have seen that, by limiting the general power of their customers to purchase, they were, in fact, depriving themselves of so much of their former profit. Shopkeepers and tradesmen do not live by the export trade : they maintain themselves and their families by distributing the products of labour among the community; and their gains, as well as those of the arti zan, are measured by the amount of custom which they receive. Any legislative change, therefore, which could have the effect of diminishing that custom in a serious degree, would necessarily be most detrimental to the interests of this class,—a proposition so clear that no effort of political jesuistry could disguise it. The corn law repealers knew this; and accordingly they rested their case upon different grounds." Let the small tradesmen, the shopkeepers, and the artizan class throughout the country, many of whom are doubtless at this moment congratulating themselves upon the cheapness of food, and their diminished expenses of housekeeping, take the trouble of setting off against the saving from these sources the loss from reduced profitsand diminished custom. Let them look into their ledgers, and see if the outstanding accounts are being paid with the same cheerful punctuality as before their agri• cultural customer was prostrate. If we do not much mistake, they will discover, as the result of snch inquiry, that they are paying very, very dear for their cheap loaf. BY the arrival of the Europa mail steamer, from New York, which arrived in our river on Sunday at midnight, we have dates up to the 20th ultimo. Her news will be found elsewhere in our columns ; and it will he seen that the advices as to the state of the cotton market completely confirm the state ment given by us a fortnight ago, as brought by telegraph from New York to Halifax, giving two days later from the former city, and noticing a decline in the cotton market of / to / cent, with more sellers than buyers. The subsequent opera tions, indeed, more than confirmed the truth of the state of things represented, although previously to the sailing of the Europa the market had become stiffer, from the fact of advices coming from the southern markets favouring the views of the advo cates of short crop. Of course, we leave our readers to place what confidence they please in the advices in question. Messrs. Stewart and Co. persist in their opinion that the crop cannot reach above 2,100,000 bales; and they state that this opinion is based upon re ports from about a hundred of the principal depots at which cotton is lodged in readiness to be sent down for shipment, and the fact that nearly the whole stock has arrived at these depots. It is only proper to state, however, that private letters, con taining telegraphic despatches from the south, received in New York on the 20th ultimo, give rather more favourable accounts. The Europa has brought out a considerable number of orders for British manufactures. The western buyers had liquidated their fall engagements most satisfactorily ; and a large and prosperous spring dry goods trade was anticipated. First class Bills on England were done at the sailing of the packet at logl. Money was plentiful; and the Californian additions to specie in the States were giving an impulse to every branch of com merce. It is said that the Earl of Sefton has very liberally made a reduction of 20 percent. to his tenantry. Mr. Stephenson visited Rivington Pike, on Thursday. in company with Mr. Newlands• Mr. Alderman Griffith, of this town, is the new high sheriff of Anglesey. The Rev. Dr. - WlNTeile is announced to speak, on Tuesday next, at the meeting of the Birmingham auxiliary to the Church Pastoral Aid Society. On Thursday night, a servant girl, in the Rimrose Hotel. Houghton-street, absconded, taking with her a work-box, containing £5O and some deeds. SOCIETY FOR THE PROPAGATION OF THE GOSPEL.— On Sunday evening, after an excellent sermon by the Rev. J. C. Richmond, the sum of £l9 was collected in St. John the Evangelist's Church, in aid of this valuable society. Messrs. Winstanley and Sons will to-day submit to public competition a collection of select engravings —most of them first class, and many of them in rich and costly gilt frames. The collection comprises works by the prin cipal masters of the art. Messrs. Ratcliffe and Corlet have opened a new drapery establishment in Castle-street. The fittings up of the interior are elegant and classical, and the establishment is a beautiful addition to the recent improvements in shop architecture in the town. ST. MATTHEW'S CHURCH, TOXTETH-PARR.—We are glad to perceive that two sermons will be preached in this church, on Sunday next, for the purpose of defraying the expenses which have been unavoidably incurred in order to render this place fit for the decent celebration of divine service. On Friday morning, as Mr. Banner, surgeon, was driving along Rodney-street, in a gig, with a servant man, the splinter bar broke and struck the horse, which began to kick and plunge violently, and the gig was dashed against a lamp-post and the servant thrown out. He was much bruised ?bout the face. Mr. Banner was unhurt. WEST DERBY UNION—INCREASE OF GUARDIANS.— The Poor-law Board has altered the number of guardians to be elected for the townships of Everton, Toxteth-park, and West Derby, giving six additional to the three places, viz., one additional to Everton, four to Toxteth-park, and one to West Derby. There will, therefore, be :hereafter three guardians for Everton, nine for Toxteth-park, and four for West Derby. SUMMER AND RAILWAY EXCURSIONS.—As railway trips have now become almost a necessary of existence in the summer months, it is satisfactory to find that the business of providing for the public accommodation has fallen into the hands of Mr. Marcus. The great lines are indisposed to accept the proposal of any excursion con tractor; and we have seen testimonials to Mr. Marcus from Captain Huish, Mr. Macgregor, and others, of the most flattering nature to his character. Mr. Marcus's first trip is announced for Whitsuntide—to London, Paris, &c. THE MERCHANT SEAMEN'S FUND BILL.—We under stand that Messrs. J. N. Wood and W. D. Bold have gone to London as a deputetion from the trustees of the Merchant Seamen's Fund of this town to the Board of Trade, in order to urge the preservation of our local fund, which would be confiscated b 3 the proposed act. Messrs. H. C. Chapman and Thomas Bold, accompanied by Mr. Carson, will also go up to tawn on Saturday, as a deputa tion from the Shipowners' Association, with the view of obtaining alterations in the bill. We understand that the Liverpool fund shows a balance of nearly £50,000, not withstanding the issue of a large amount of relief, whilst all other trusts are in a bankrupt state. The ministerial measure, nevertheless, proposes to sweep the whole into its own control. THE WEATHER.—During last week the weather was, with very slight exception, delightfully mild and agree able. The change, indeed, was so great from the severity and changeable temperature of the preceding weeks, that some parties began to fancy that we were on the pleasant. but dusty, road to real summer. Saturday was especially fine, and even warm in the sun, which now begins to as sert his potency as we approach the equinox. Tne winds were chiefly westwardly. Sunday forenoon was gloomy, and somewhat squally, wind southward, but afterwards veering to about N.N.W. The thermometer fell from about " fair" to " change," and a little below the latter, and at one p.m. rain commenced, and continued, at in tervals, to fall heavily for some hours. In the evening it again brightened up, and the night was clear and starry, but cold. A rather frosty air prevailed yesterday morn ing, but we observed no congelation. The day was clear and breezy. Vegetation, from the influence of the mild ness alluded to, has already made considerable progress, and verdure in budding leaves exhibits itself in hedges. trees, and shrubs, in situations not much exposed. We must not, however, halloo before we are out of the wood; for, before the arrival of " glorigus summer," we may yet have biting cool winds, if not frost, which may give a check to forward vegetation. A late spring is generally the safest in this country. Owing to the general severity of the past winter, we think it probable that we s, all not this spring be visited by any killing depression of temper ature. The wheats look well, and are not too much ad vanced for the time of the year. The gardens also look well. and there are already abundance of flowers. THE NEXT COUNCIL MEETING.—A c Council meeting will be held to-morrow, which, to judge from the subjects to be discussed, as set down on the notice paper, will he one of unusual interest. There is a good deal of routine business to be disposed of, after which a question will come before our municipal representatives that has been repeatedly mooted in the legislative council, and has fur nished for the last few years an anxious subject of debate in every circle of our community.—A letter from Mr. Rushton will be read, "setting forth the evils that arise from the want of an institution other than a prison, to which juvenile offenders may be sent for reformation rather than punishment, and suggesting a remedy." The suppression of crime at its source is confessedly one of the paramount duties of the present generation, not only viewed as a work on which the m. rat and social security of society depends, but positively teco nmending itself to our consideration in an economical point of view. If we refuse to check the threatening evil on the highest and the most legitimate ground, we may find it to our interest to effect the object out of regard to our pockets. From time to time statistical tables have been framed, which prove that it would be cheaper to train the offspring of misery and crime to become useful and well-behaved members of society, than by allowing them to graduate through all the varied steps of criminality in which they are nurtured, ultimately to maintain them in pri son. We sincerely trust this important subject will be handled in an enlightened spirit, and not be dismissed until it has received the mature consideration of every member of the council. Mr. H. Banner will come before the board in the character of a petitioner, ennobled by the nature of the cause he will advocate. A letter will be read from .this philanthropist, asking the grant of the scite of the old Botanic Garden for the purpose of erecting an Asylum for Orphan Boys. For such a purpose, it might be concluded the boon would b e gran t e d without hesitation, backed by the claims which Mr. Banner could advance did his modesty allow. Surely it would be im possible to withhold the favour. It is well known that the origination of the idea, and the carrying into practice, of the Asylum for Orphan Girls, (one of the brightest ornaments of the town,) was due to Mr. Banner. Mr. Councillor Bennett will move a resolution, having for its object the improvement of the approaches to the town, and Mr. Counsellor Parker will move a resolution, to the effect that the possession of the Baths at George's Pier be handed over to the Health Committee at the expiration of the term of the present tenant, (which will be in May next,) for the purpose of being applied to the use of the public. This is another subject involving vital interests, and while we congratulate the worthy mover on what he has already achieved in this direction, we wish him every success in his future efforts. Mr. Parker's benevolent wish is to give the poor salt water baths at the most rea sonable charge possible. THE UNALLOYED PEER. The Banker Lord must have his name destroy 'd The Peerage must be pure—no Peer aILoY' D: No longer by his City Title known, Lord over gold—he's now Lord OVERSTONE. Kent, Feb. 27, 1850. TO CORRESPONDENTS, We have little doubt that head, but it is not alway has hit the right nail nn the lusions to the Standard "then !nts of the R 7 publi'shed in r a contemporary, that J. C. Richmond, (who are descend s, who left :this country in 1620, A.D., in orderAt they opinions which they were not allowed to profess in their na tive land), brought him up an Independent, but *as soon as he arrived at mature years, he joined the Church." The lour to withdraw several articles, Eiberpool &tanbarb. TUESDAY MORNI TG, MARCH 5, 1850 AN eminent lawyer once dre between an opinion, gi passer er in the inside of a coa THE LIVERPOOL STANDARD. THE ALLEGED PROSPERITY OF THE MANU FACTURERS. Mrs. Glasse's sage remark, prefixed to one of her les sons on the Art of Ccokery,—" first catch your hare," — and another equally good old English maxim—" don't halloo until you are out of the wood"—might with great advantage have been borne in mind by her Majesty's Ministers, whilst penning the congratulation upon the improved and flourishing condition of the manufacturing interest, contained in the Royal Speech. We have already given a few facts, showing such congratulation to have been a little premature, to say the least of it ; and further experience leads us to fear the approach of a state of things the very opposite of prosperous. The writer of the trade article in the Manchester Cou rier of Saturday last, after noticing the dull state of the market for goods, and especially for home consumption, states : "In the present state of the market, both spinners and manufacturers are following out the only judicious course, viz., extending the working of short time. The number of manu facturers who have reduced their hours of working has in creased considerably during the week, and spinners of the coarser yarns_ have done the same. At Heywood and Roch- dale, many of the mills which were previously on short time are to be still further restricted, whilst some will be entirely stopped. Messrs. Fielden Brothers have commenced working only four days per week at their extensive mills at Waterside, near Todmorden, and it is said that their other mills will be entirely stopped for the present, Messrs. Fielden paying the hands three days' wages Der week in the interval. Other con cerns have also reduced their hours of labour to three days per week." Messrs. Du Fay and Co., in their trade report, for the past month, atter giving their opinion that the manufac turers of domestic and heavy cloths are not doing well, even with a reduction of 8 per cult. in the raw material, state that,— " 12,000 domestic looms are now working short-time, and the intention is to increase the number to 30,000, in order to prevent the further accumulation of stocks, and by that means, if possible, to enhance the price to something like a remune rative one." There is something significant, and indeed startling, in the paragraph which succeeds the above : "It seems that the wants of the world, however large, ar not urgent enough to pay the dowesticmanufacturerafairpricee for a fair quality, and in order to meet the demand at fair prices, thinner and lower goods must be made, which take of course a less weight of the raw material. 1850 will form no exception in this respect to previous years ; we are changing from heavy goods to lighter and inferior descriptions, in order to turn out of the looms the usual quantity of yards at about the same amount of cost." The trade in these domestic cloths—the sort of goods which rival manufacturing nations first learn to make for themselves—is passing out of our hands ! The conclu sion is irresistible ; and the resort to coarser fabrics—to " cheap and nasty" goods—will not retard the consum mation, although it may tend to throw increased discredit upon our other manufactures in every foreign market. Messrs. M'Nair, Greenhow, and Irving, in their circu lar, remark upon the fact, as a newly-discovered one, that high prices here produce no "corresponding response from foreign markets." The conclusion to be drawn is that the foreigner is not quite so dependant upon the cotton manufacturers of this country as they have all along wished us to believe. He can smoke his pipe and enjoy his schnaps,, or his eau de vie, although all the looms of Manchester stand idle. He sees the pretty fix in which our manufacturers are placed. He looks on, whilst Brother Jonathan, with his Californian wealth, aided by a plethoric state of our home money market, is' enabled to raise the raw material to famine price ; and in reply to the pressing appeal—" buy our cotton goods !" he intimates politely that he can wait, at least until, the contending parties having worn out eachother's temper and means, things find their proper level. Messrs. M'Nair add the following admission : "The demand for the home trade, daring the month, has been unimportant, a fact scarcely reconcileable with the sea son of the year, but consistent enough, to a certain extent, with the distress which undeniably exists in many of the agricultural districts." The Free-traders of Manchester will yet have more occa sion to lament the loss of this important trade. But we need not go out of our own town—nor need we to refer to any other than a free trade authority—for proofs of the present fearful commercial depression. The writer of the money article in yesterday's Albion—a liberal paper of the first water—says : " Nearly every branch of trade, the farming interest, and the great national undertakings of the day, appear each and all to be going out of joint. Not only are railway shares diminishing in value,..without reference to the real position of the compa nies, but the sales of produce for the last few weeks have been very limited, the price of the farmer's produce, food, continues to decline, and Manchester is curtailing the labour, and con sequently diminishing the wages, of the manufacturing opera tive. Turn where we will all is for the moment gloomy, and prosperity nowhere apparent. To us this is unaccountable. We see a national bank languishing from satiety, and the trade of the nation, as well as the wealth of .the people, rapidly de clining; at the same time. The means are there, but the im pulse is wanting!" INCREASE OF THE SHIPPING AT LIVERPOOL The following table exhibits the number of vessels entered outwards and inwards, during the two last years, at this port. The increase it proves in our shipping is extremely gratifying : INWARDS British—Cargoes . „ Ballast . Foreign—Cargoes „ Ballast . Increase in 1849 OUTWARDS 1848. 1849. 2353 2886 9 8 1036 1078 163 70 British--Cargoes „ Ballast Foreign—Cargoes „ Ballast 3561 4042 2843 234 1195 Increase in 1849. 3249 189 1269 4318 4751 4318 ANALYSIS OF THE LIVERPOOL WATER BY DR. BRETT Dr. Brett, our celebrated resident chemist, has, at the request of the Parochial Water Committee, addressed an important letter to the chairman of that body, embodying the result of his experiments in determining the compo nent ingredients in the water of the several wells which supply the town. He first directed his attention to the relative proportions of lime, magnesia and common salt in the different samples, and he furnishes a tabular state ment of the result, by which we learn that in the imperial gallon there now are the respective proportions of the in gredients stated : Lime. Salt. Magnesia Bevington Bush .... 7.76 23.03 5 27 Hotham-street 4 4B 5.54 5.42 Bootle 3 The quality of the water is equally defined in the Wind sor, Soho, Park, and Green-lane wells, which vary a little, and the average of the whole is,—lime, 3.74 ; salt, 6.39; and magnesia, 4.so,—the quantity of these ingredients being now less than as determined by the same operator in 1816. We quote the following passage of Dr. Brett's letter entire:—" With respect to the effect which these lime salts produce on the water in question, they are doubtless the substances which communicate what is called hardness to the water, but are not at all calculated to injure the water for internal use; but, on the contrary, espeeially the sulphates of lime and magnesia, tend to prevent that injurious action upon lead, which decidedly soft waters are well known to produce, Numerous expe riments; moreover, have been made at different times, by myself and others, which clearly show that, by boiling the Liverpool water so as to expel carbonic acid, and separate the lime and magnesian salts, which exist in the water as carbonates, the hardness is materially reduced, and this more especially when a little common washing soda is em ployed." _ _ The qUantity of salt is (the writer proceeds to say) much less than that stated by Mr. Spencer; the average from seven wells differing little from that given by Dr. Playfair in 1846, and more recently by Mr. Gage, junior. " With regard," he adds, " to the presence of common salt in water, in a sanatory point of view, every medical man knows perfectly well th a t, inst ea d o f b e i ng injurious, it is positively beneficial ; fo , . health could not be main tained without a certain quantity of this ingredient enter ing into our articles of food." The analyser has not, in his experiments, detected the presence of nitrates, end the assertion of the existence of animal matter producing them by decomposition, is, he states, by no means proved. On the contrary, the water is remarkably free from vegetable and animal matter, and " it would be ridiculous to assign any injurious property to the mere presence of nitrates in the Liverpool water, which, if they exist at all, must be present in extremely minute quantities." The water from these wells does not act upon lead so as to render the water unwholesome, which rain water does. Dr. Brett concludes by saying,—" From my knowledge of the water supplied to this town for the last ten or eleven years, and, speaking as a chemist as well as a medical man, I am decidedly of opinion that it would be extremely difficult, if not impossible, to obtain a sup ply possessing superior qualities in a sanatory point of view, and the results of certain experiments go to show that its hardness may be materially reduced, so as to ren der it applicable for those purposes where softer water may be required." THE JEWS AMONGST THE GOLD.—The wealthy mem bers of the Jewish fraternity appear to be embarking freely in the lucrative branch of trade in their favourite metal—gold—opened out to them by the recent Califonia discoveries. Amongst the list of consignees in this country of gold from San Francisco, by a late arrival, the name of Rothschild appears opposite a shipment of some 200,000 dollars ; and as, at the date of the advices per Niagara, 1,000,000 dollars were stated as about to be forwarded home on English account, we may predict, with confidence, that another considerable amount of the same metal will find its way to the strong-box of the same eminent capitalist. The trade is too good and safe to escape the keen eyes of his tribe. Unlike all other articles of import, there is always a market, with a fixed price and an excellent customer for this article. It can be picked up at San Francisco for from 12 to 16 dollars an ounce, or, in English money, from £2 16s. to £3 6s. Bd. per ounce, of standard firmness, whilst the Bank of Eng land generously opens her coffers to receive all that is offered to her at £3 17s. 9d. nett. The trade, we repeat, is a good one for the Rothschild tribe. It remains to be seen whether it will prove an equally good one for the bank. THE TIMBER TRADE We understand that the committee appointed at the meeting held last week—to consider the present state of the timber trade—have held several meetings since their appointment. We have been informed that the commit. tee have not yet settled upon any of the three proposed sites for this trade, they being, up to this time, engaged in investigating the amount of accommodation which will be required. At the meeting, on yesterday week, a full report of which we gave in the paper of Tuesday last, we were pleased to observe that the three great public bodies be longing to this and the other side of the water were fully represented : the Corporation, in Messrs. Jones and Hall; the Dock Committee, in Messrs. Rankin, Bold, Fisher, and Saunders •, the Birkenhead Dock Trust, in Messrs. Laird, Prichard, and Kennedy, accompanied by their secre tary—Mr. Hadfield, and their manager. Mr. Sloman. It is, however, but fair to add, that the mem b ers o f th e Liverpool Dock Committee stated that they attended the meeting as individuals connected with the timber trade only; but, nevertheless, their presence was a fine indication of the desire which the Dock Committee feel to afford the best accommodation possible for the trade. We perceive that our neighbours at Birkenhead are making vigorous efforts in prosecution of their works at Wallasey Pool; and as they hold out promises the most flattering both as to ample dock and quay room, com bined with extremely cheap storage, it behoves the guar dians of the dock estate to be on the alert lest so important a branch of trade should be transferred from this to the other side of the Mersey. In addition to the works already in progress, to be opened on the Ist of June. the Dock Company are prepared to build the whole of their works up to Wallasey bridge, to advance money to the trustees of the docks on their bonds, in order to enable them to excavate and dredge the pool, and also to provide graving docks. We observe that Mr. Bright has been appointed chair man of the committee nominated at the meeting yesterday week, and Mr. Samuel Holme deputy chairman. Th• following is a list of the sub-committees :—Birkenhead Committee: Messrs. David Cannon, Wm. S. Slater, James Bland, John Laird, R. S. Graves, James M`Murdo, Owen Jones, Duncan Gibb, and Thomas Wilson. South End Committee, meet on Tuesday, at two o'clock Messrs. R. L. Jones, James Houghton, Holderness, Wm. Anthony, J. Miller, C. Saunders, H. Halhead, Engle, and Campbell. North End Committee, meet on Wed nesday,fat twelve o'clock : Tomlinson. Fisher, John Yam worth, M. Gregson, Braithwaite, Poole, Thomas Royden, James Smith, J. Fleming, R. Rankin, and J. Carmichael. Inland Carriage Committee, meet on Friday, at half-past two o'clock : Messrs. Wm. Bellhouse, B. Poole, E. Chaloner, and W. Ewing. Navigation Committee, meet on Wednesday at two o'clock : Messrs. S. R. Graves, D. Gibb, Holderness, R. Rankin, Fisher, Royden, and Bellhouse. Finance Committee: James Houghton, H. Halhead, S. Holme, and M. Gregson. BANKRUPTCY COURT. RE GEORGE KIRKE. Mr. Commissioner Perry gave his decision in this case yesterday. The principal facts are briefly as follow : George Kirke, the bankrupt, was the owner of conside rable property at Wrexham, consisting of coal mines and lime works. A fiat in bankruptcy was issued about twelve months ago, on the petition of a creditor residing at Wrexham, who also named assignees ; this appoint ment was opposed by Mr. Blundell, solicitor, of Wrex ham, who attended for Mr, Richard Venables Kirke, the nephew of the bankrupt. The result of this opposition was the appointment of the nephew and Mr. Overton, ironmonger, of Wrexham, as assignees ; and Mr. Blundell, who is the son-in-law of the bankrupt, as solicitor to the fiat, which he afterwards resigned. Since their appointment, the assignees have sold a coal mine for the sum of £3,500, which mine was valued at £lO,OOO. Some of the creditors, therefore, have petitioned the Court to have the assignees removed. Mr. Blair and Mr. M`Otibrey were counsel for the peti tioners, and Mr. Simon for the assignees. From Mr. Blair's stating of the case, it appeared that one of the assignees, Mr. Rd. Venables Kirke, nephew of the bank rupt, is the owner of the Bryn Malley mine, which adjoins the Pendole mine, belonging to the bankrupt's estate, which it is alleged he improperly sold. The affidavits stated that the Bryn Malley mine, belonging to the nephew of the bankrupt, was much inferior to the Pen dole mine—that the nephew had a difficulty in letting his mine, but was promised a certain rental for it on a lease, provided the lessee could obtain possession of the Pendole mine at a sum named. The affidavits went on to state, in effect, that, by selling the bankrupt's mine for the price named, the nephew of the bankrupt bad been ad vancing his own interests, instead of studying the inte rest of the bankrupt's estate. Other affidavits deposed to the Pendole mine being worth £lO,OOO. and there were also several affidavits put in which explained the natural and working position of the mine. „ . Mr. SIMON, for the nephew of the bankrupt, denied that his client had been influenced by any such interested motives in the di- posal of the property as had been im puted to him by the petitioners, and at the conclusion of his address, which occupied the cour t near l y th e w h o l e o f Tuesday, he: called upon his honor to refuse to act upon the prayer of the petition. His HONOUR, in giving his decision, went carefully over the facts, and in so doing passed a slight censure on the assignees' conduct on one or two occasions. He thought the property had been purchased very much below its value, and it was to this question of ” under value" that he should address himself to, for after a careful going over all the facts he did not consider there was any ground for saying that there bad been collusion or corrupt dealings. As regarded the assignees, indeed, the terms of the peti tion only went to charge Mr. R. V. Kirke as suspected of such practices; as suspected of having mis-employed his power as an assignee. His Honour did not altogether acquit the assignees of blame, nor Mr. R. V. Kirke especially ; yet, taking into consideration all that had been urged in defence of their conduct, he could not be con sidered to entertain the prayer of the petitioners. Mr. SIMON appe3led for costs on the part of the as signees. -- The COMMISSIONINER did not consider Mr. R. V. Kirke entitled to costs, and dismissed the appli ca ti on. Mr. SIMON showed that his clients had been drawn to the court, and it was of importance that their characters should be cleared from suspicion ; with the permission of the court he would state his grolinds for asking costs. The COMMISSIONER was of opinion that costs could not be allowed to the assignees. Mr. BLAIR ; on the part of the petitioners, also applied for costs. His HONOR did not think he should be acting right by giving costs against the estate. After consulting with the learned counsel on both sides, his Honour concluded to hear their respective claims, in this respect, on a future day. LATER FROM AMERICA. ARRIVAL OF TIIE EUROPA. The royal mail steam-ship Europa, Captain Leitch, ar rived here on Sunday at midnight, with advices from New York to the 20th, and Halifax to the 23d ult. The pas sage has been one of the quickest on record, having been made in less than eleven days and a-half. She has brought seventy-three passengers, a list of whom we subjoin. The steam-ship Herman left New York for Southampton the same day as the Europa. The question of slavery still occupies the attention of Congress, as well as the House of Representatives, and it is expected that California will be received into the union without that stain.—The Senate has almost unanimously rejected Col. Webb's mission to Austria.—The papers contain much about the Nicaragua question. It is con firmed that Tigre island hasibeen resigned by the British. The Washington correspondent of the New York Herald gives the following as the result of the negociation, hut the intelligence wants confirmation :—" Mr. Clayton aban dons the Monroe policy and the treaty of Mr. Hise, and gives to all other nations the same privileges on the ship canal as to the United States. The privileges of the com pany are secured, and the right of way ; but England is not required to relinquish her pretensions to the Musquito coast. If this be the true state of the case, the treaty amounts to a surrender to Great Britain ; and if any such thing is sent to the Senate it will be rejected. The canal is made the principal subject of the treaty, while the sovereignty of the Mosquito coast is the real issue between the two nations." A great fire occurred at New Orleans on the 17th ult., which destroyed about thirty stores. There had also been a steam-boat explosion. From the Gulf of Mexico we learn the loss of the steamer Rhode Island, bound to San Francisco. It is believed that upwards of thirty of those on board were drowned. The steamer was expected to sink soon after those on board left her. Sir Henry Bulwer, our minister, was in New York. The Pennsylvania canals opened on the 7th ultimo. From Mexico it is reported that the new tariff was to enter into operation immediately. • From Canada we have advices that the Hon. Mr. Ca meron had left for Washington, to procure a commercial reciprocity. The Annexation Society had issued a reply to Earl Grey's late despatch. There had been some dis turbances at the Three Rivers, Lower Canada, of insigni ficant character and origin. From Havana we have mercantile advices to the 7th ultimo. Supplies of sugar and the demand had increased whites 9 to 10 rials. Coffee scarce : 12,1 to 13 good to prime. Freights to Cork £2 15s. Exchange on London 10 per cent. premium. Accounts from Rio Janeiro to the 7th January indicate alarm for the tranquility of the empire. The Brazilian Legislature commenced its sitting on the Ist January, the Emperor opening it in person. His brief speech adverted chiefly to the recent disturbances in Pernambuco, and dwelt on the necessity of increasing the force of the army and navy, A provisional treaty had been formed between Paraguay and the Argentine Confederation. Pernambuco advices of the 22nd January report, —sugar, white, 1.950 to 2.650 ; brown, 1.540 to 1.600. Hides, 100. Shipping abundant. Exchange on London 28d. We learn from Venezuela that the price of coffee had risen, and was expected to go higher. Sixty-four dead bodies had been duff out of the ruins caused by the late boiler explosion_at New York. The Money-market at New York was easy—money being abundant. During the fortnight upwards of 3.500,000 dollars worth of gold bad been received from California. There was no particular alteration in foreign exchange, though the rates had slightly advanced for bills on London and Paris, and the demand was active. Do mestic exchanges remained without change. Freights were—To Liverpool, for cotton, 5-32 d to 3-16 d per lb ; flour, is 9d to 2s per barrel; grain, in bulk, 51d to ful per bushel, for corn and wheat respectively. To Loudon Is 6d per barrel for flour, and other articles in proportion. The intelligence from California seems as exciting as ever. Gold continues to be exported freely. Business iilarcb • at San Francisco was not quite SO to he 'Tce grow rapidly. A letter, dated t p.ll on account of the rainy weather. Til,eb`pj "The enterprise and rapid growth of WI other city in the world, and that, t00. , ._ ° ,1 ° ) namely, the cash principle literally fulfill!! boao dust." There are no shin plasters yer , hibited by the constitution. The people. 'nil having a mint established here, as there is 1 6 1 0 smelted, and struck off pieces of 5 dols.lll?',iiti, real value is not known by the Conlon present refuse to take them Th e rL rat ed !eto a r i 4 Z,, l f or ppe l a i r l i T 1; IS EVEN iaint. the pt 117111cr 4 _ ° The , I, fo r t i le a third e nr ; LIST OF PASSE N GERS. —.e Oln Ne i ker, Martinot, ' Mr. H. K. Maxwell, dyr Consul Trieste • Mr. Franshaw , M r. ; n i r Mrs. Farnden Miss M. A. Lath an• • d i o l ' lady, and t wo d aug ht ers • Mr. fism . flo„f r . M. Gill, Mr. Willi am s, Mr. Scheib , Crompton, H. B. M. Chargé de AffalrW Hon. Mr. Stanley, Col. S. A. li r i ll°l llo Strange, Major R. Faverweather , kano, Conte P. Mozzarelli, Rev. 11 .„. Hastings, Nilber, Joseph Walker , T• S. Loten, E. H a ' ile Greenway and 1: Ottenheimer, Etherington, Haigh, Branus, Fronbat, P. Baggio, G. G;.l reno, L. Ermsui c k. H. J. Hart, 3 1 -• • CD' A. W. Frestadins, James Corban , Ju°Cl e s H. Vermot, Jas. W. Sharpe, P. John Kearney, J. W. Peters,S.CarY . Frabridge, Marti n , H enr y, Hardmeyer,bio Halifax: Capt. Chambers, Messrs. C °l. Robson, Anderson, and Millbank. C a Ptain wag 6 4o ßylow °ma, fra il i l 41 ant6. KIN 4114t76 1 . 5Ci a . / The L ady T E .t,:,°orß 9e at oD?1 ' 4 " s ftee vvi ,Ex t} COTTON.—From the departure of the grs day last our market was h ea vy, and Pbal JO s tb #toB- of a cent, b u t f or th e p as t three e eti better feeling, with incr ea sed firmness , '"4 tbe l accounts from New Orleans and Alobile ! ha ve; of the receipts at those points, and price:tols advanced to zi a cent, so that they no w ,. 2 dins' or -k of a cent below those current on lb` 3 66,52 , receipts at all the shipping ports are l, cre se , 1,560,336 to same date last year, 3 rt 191,811 bales. The total foreign exP o dec res 7 , bales less than last—say 215,883 bales dec reP; tain, 6,259 decrease to France, 29, 710 Europe, and 18,526 decrease to other Fore ., e si, , . ments from southern to northern ports af ore" this season than last, an d there is an 21,501 bales. The quotations are : Atlantic. 1 11 : 32 3 r ili o i t :O n o n e 3, 223 .I\ R, 4 1 1 1 T,:tlTen de TA R E e, L E R F li N t h p h ' S AY 0 * ill 4 kr 0 t()lt hl l , 'st k, he op , 4.3b,j, Inferior Low to good ordinary Low to good middling. Middling fair to fair Fully fair to good fair Fine 4, kirt trhni!Pi, jib eot t, eti b!e44ls ant an t'Der t 14,4, e by'INLXeI 90e: ere tet,4l( s:181141,, tiot to, litillo4 ti;o,,llke or 4440te. ana Nur 8,41 Y 110 YA Total import since Ist instant ..... Export from Ist to 19th Feb., ,!557 , .'' Cotton bales t Export from the Um s b Since Ist September, 1849......... ' Same time, 1848 ............. . ........... The short crop esti ma t es are gainingja asserted that most of the crop is alreaulady i e rs , BREADSTUFFS.—There has been a std . 0 1 , flour for home use, but no export delna n i r; t of which 1000 barrels have changed t al '„vd , e ,sl Extra Ohio is quoted at 85•873 c. to $6 iC e - ss req 75c. to $6 37e. Southern has been in dull at about 123 c. decline. of PROVISIONS.—The market is dull, sa l f e sp rti are made at $lO 62 3c. to $ lO 75c., and °, sides, long middles and short do. 6c to 61c r s toc , t i to 63c perlb.; shoulders 33c to 4e. Th e le at d i beef is much reduced, an d sa l es a re to l c mess beef $8 for country and $lO 50c for f r om 25c; good cheese is scarce; prices range of is in fair re ques t at 61 c to 62c. are limited. 100 t ons S cotc h p „, los!? Ittotc—The market generally is alit Jo s'y ship, and a lik e quan ti ty 21 dots to *.` to 0 yard. English bars are held a t 41 dole 50 ' some sales at former ra t es . brotii -. I.lle ._ 7 iviS„l4t,i,, Th Qveo ErZ e. the i wihe 4 sTER ' , q t h, tis, , n,en, i „ , N „..P..,, b ,:..!; ettg 11 app ' In' ''', 4 leer tl Y:t e ar ' e c - e ' ie lll q r the r ' li , L th e o t ,, e Ag e, ' an 0 Low, %a n h _ ( ', 4 4 1 1 - lite s' o tleces: f s ti 1 I t i o ,th e rnerm,,,, 14, 4 : l llli k btreate g 4 11 0 t 'd, in 11,ti l f) ....\1 ek i Mr, ' oh i , tt DU ) 11 t 'll th N EW 44 1 li IN; pres ent h, 4 in tlTear, f , t il l t erpooi G i i A ~ A very destructive fire took place, the London Examiner printing-office' i f The West I n di an s t eamer Severn , f 0 1 , Sunday, brought a m illi on an d a -half The King of Bava r i a h as strongly ten' "acts of violenc e " comm itt e d on the brother Otho, King of Greece. te9 A letter from T r i es t e o f th e 25th std n ol o ceipt of despat c hes announc i ng the inteLof,ho Admiral Parker h a d ra i se d th e blocked a t 7 0 , Great preparatio ns h ave b een mad° t ie) give Major Ed war d es a we l come r eceP county. do Al The London Common Council has he grr majority, to subs cr ib e £5OO t owa rds t' in 1851. ttO Mr. Vance, wh o f ormer l y contestea c o again a candidate for its representatOn c ' e ot tive interest, w ith every prospec t o f a n ., tbej A contract h a s b een entere d i n to 1 11 General for a regu l ar mont hl y comn ig this country and Australasia. A SIGNIFICANT ERROR.—In our S o ca j i Lord J. Russell is made to say that "I t o'o disgusted with recent legislation." cd,'''', 4 l the word should have been " disquie" cr eOW Baron Alderson has decided that a asid stock bank cannot establish his cla inl btsi ll p holder without havin g fi rs t sue d and 01,. Tb against the public offi cers o f t h e ban 11 13 / , TO ItNl /a t 1 0 "; P ktie A ko t !.!bs T 064 a -4 tilo r. , ° t . bisi t h t I ' l 4 h. H011000)1 Ithe: tht b kintho rablel 'tev. 4Pitroo p„,t ho i,.,, tar R o f 4 tkr' ll W ‘Y. \\Pk , M^qicaii4nLe , Nt N„ fora tile Antronti urable l ichoi as important decision T 1 17 .ie Mining Journal says that S - D rite . l l been invented, i n w hi c h th e require fire, air, o r wa t er w ill b e di sp enseo a gy P.,0 traction, while effecti ve , w ill b e pe rtg',o half at least, of the present worlii P ° saved. y i lt, _ 5l vA METEOROLOGICAL It o .... y, A BY MR. C. H. CHADBURN , 71, I, l i g,l lily 1 ATMOSPHERIC P li Temperature , t andencpe AT llv yi , in Humidity" t .1 4 , Pressure at shadebyself- N0_•11..-- f A .. thermometer `;, 4 , , Nine , Six lb. Fi a.m. I p.m. Max.l Min. , bu ....... 0 0.. Ip, --. i i tr ki k tt liot tn . the' Wt 4 * Mart . in, lere_ll, ep Pi t 4, a 1:14(14,. ,:t4 , VA. et V'. Iv , ob e lek . • l i Nt ece !btai n Vt . ' O I 4 I N 32 . 1 i s°. 4 l 'ov; rl ' , 7e r - c • l ' 44 ;1‘,* A e (i r c i l , Quee n l . 1 10 4 tor„, Anon St, (r tti t 4 11 the N i t. t o t m as ast, 1)1) 4r '/111;ti. - In. 1 In. De;. Deg . Deg. 25 30'39 30'35 53' 44 5 27, 30'27 30'23 52 45 5 28, 30'23 30'28 50 42 4 1 1 30'28 30'35 55 48 4 0 /4 2! 30'22 30'05 5$ 40 5 , 3 1 1 4130'28 30'35 l 4 —Lied!r N i , fee 11 '447 ,11 t ; I ''HAL: S t Ptilkie Tu tttA Y T klit ti Te thei r tt • ,i v 114 1 T ‘ T ic 4113(1:1e?,ieliej. : clOO CI , e : i THE WEATHER.-26th : Morning, - ( 0 - ' r cloudy.-3d : Clouded • 12 to 4 27th : Clouded.-28th : Morning, dense 0 5:,, ; March Ist: Clouded; afternomfbright.-q re / —4th : Brilliant. ' ---1 , __---- - (1 0 SHIPPING INTELL I " • , P.m.,............111ear i MONDAY, MA twit d ARRIVED.—COMMOdOre (S.), Littler rio 111 Caehill, Bonny—lsab e ll a T nompso n, Sandford, Rio Grande—Bridget, King OA Baron of Renfrew, N ourse, Calcutta a clior r i, rara; sailed 12th Jan.--Kate Howe , %V James, St. Micha e l s —Willi am an d A n 641 11 form, Tinkham, Tarenti—Villa de Eti , ow SAlLED. — Swordfish, G reen , for Per i Sevii Hackstaff, and John Hancock, Burge ss, . Morrell, New Orleans—Magnet, Scott: r 11 :110 1 :, Waterloo, Allen, New York—J. T. . phia—Medomseh, Bayson, New Orleans Para. .0# 341 '111, AR oti k N t qlsz, an Emme~i-q; an land gre';', l jltB "°4 .eitt at tY. .1% 4 1 15'bt 4 \4l : l2l yßAk Q . 1% 'N4 4t ei kk+s, Z e tit( l l7. -- „ enni ----- thi s Europa (s.), Leitch, from New York B , l t o,t, Feb., and from Halifax 22 n d Feb. Has on freight. Fanny, for San Francisco, has put ba e t. Warder, hence for Bremen, at Falmon' t h. Penelope, hence for O s t en d, at Falinoo op Hinda, Curwen, h ence at A r i c a. , ) hen A Free Trader (s.s.), and L evan tine (s'"' dr Feb t uary. +to, V • Bolivia (s.), Francis B arc l a y, Par f ,#,41 at Valparaiso. 'a rp' Henry Gardner, from Cardiff at ditto 1 , r il l . •o 1 ° pi Mary Worrall, sailed from Val-nrais n F" filn` ol el /Vim Bridson, sth Dec., for England ;„ , coq pe l for California; Henrietta, Ist Dec., fo r 0 1, 21st Dec., for Iquique. for The Wm. Prowse, from Coquimbo 'i n to I port, was totally lost 22nd Dee., going - se and art of cargo saved, 'oo° * 1 Fre p T e rader, Kestrel, Robert Win t lel Callao. . 5 0 •4, K i Antics,d so i l , a Mint, 16th; Prince Regent, 17th; Jeri n 'otl ll ,,dr Kent , d ow it Promise, 3rd Jan.; Berwick Castle, an ~ei l all for England. 480 1 11 fl t i a r , , nd sailed Madawaska, KEY WEST, Feb. R.—Admittance , i4 ea toliV e ip zatlan for this port 2nd Jan.—Lord "ht in it ~, New Orleans, for Liverpool, was broog io ad a N e wreckers, having ran ashore on Logg,r, r er, ',;ii i i the 23rd, and is discharging.—AVa nu ; e re °I - 00 4 maica to Liverpool, was brought in ' pfei r ? by wreckers, having run ashore on th e _ e ani , fort Reef, and is discharging.—Col dsir to ~o gi i Havana, was wrecked at the entrane e , e sr Crew saved; pert of cargo expected t ° :',4. 01 Horacio, Astigina; Josefina, Calv°' Leus, tis, h hence at Havana. 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