The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser. — Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1847-05-11 00:00:00

TO CORRESPOI 'DENTS, rrespondent wishes us to ask if the Floating-bath, which now on sale, could not be made available for the reception of fever patients We are sorry to postpone the excellent suggestions of "J. B. W." The letter of "T. B." shalt appear in our next. Our intelligent correspondent will, on glancing at our columns, readily ex cuse us for the postponement of his communication. THE LIVERPOOL STANDARD The circulation of the STANDARD is now greater than that of any Conservative journal in Liver pool, and we think we may add, of any provincial Protestant paper in Engl;Znd The high respecta- bility of its readers has always been acknowledged. Within the last twelve months - , our advertisements have increased nearly one hundred per cent. Cbc Eitnrpoot Yearly Sutseriptiaa : In Advance, 13e. On Credit, 15s. TUESDAY MORNING, MAY 11, 1847 The result of the proceedings in the House of Lords during the past week has been such as to the ministry of Lord John Russell what precarious Position, and to suggest the ques tion whether or not a dissolution of Parliament must be immediately resorted to. On Tuesday ,mendment .o that portion of the Irish Poor Relief Bill by which out- - door relief was pro posed to be given to the able-bodied poor, and .ation of the clause to the Ist sting the or August, 1848, was moved by Lord Monteagle, and carried on a division by a majority of 13 against the proposition of Government. On Friday, another blow was inflicted upon them by Lord Sta nley— and we think with great reason-lby the defeat of Clause No. 11, which enacted that, whenever the rate on an electoral division should exceed 2s. 6d. in the pound, any surplus rate should fall upon the union at large. The noble lord argued that it was unjust that where a landlord owning, as in his own sif of such an electoral division, had done his utmost to enable his tenantry to support them- industry, the property of such landlord should be burthened with the support of other landlords, who had made no such efforts; and, on a division, Government were left in a minority of 19. Another onslaught on the measure was to have been made last night, of a character fatal .to the principle upon which it is founded, as will be seen from the following extract which we give from a leading article in the London Times of yesterday:— It may be as well to recapitulate the successive steps of mutilation devised by the laudowners. The first was to reduce all the clauses relating to the relief of the able bodied poor from a permanent to a temporary measure of very brief duration. The second was to confine the whole of the rating to the narrow limits of the electoral division, said thus enable landowners commanding such divisions to drive out all their poor of all descriptions, into towns, the rates of which being insufficient to their maintenance, 'they must speedily perish or become a burden on the British public. The value of this alteration in the land lord's eyes, will appear from the fact that the 150,000 poor creatures recently cast upon Liverpool had all been -immediately before ejected by the landlords, and driven upon the towns, which, in their turn, passed on to our shore the current of misery. The third step is that which is to be moved, and doubtless carried, by Lord Stanley this evening. Its object is to secure for the landowner a perfect immunity from rating, and to leave that disagree -able burden to a class which, in Ireland, is notori ously neither willing nor able to endure it. It will pre vent a poor-rate from offering any interruption to the old order of things so painfully familiar to all who know anything of Ireland. The wretched cotters will still bid for land ; the landlord will still get extravagant rents ; the tenants will pay their rents with tolerable punctuality, in order to keep their land,—but they will refuse to pay their rate, even if their exorbitant rents should leave it in their power; if the rate is enforced, they will combine and offer a successful resistance. The rate will not be collected. The poor will be left to perish. The British public will have to pay, and the landlord, as usual, escape scut free. Such is the game. Lord Stanley, who has never omitted any opportunity of parading his contempt for the great industrial interests of this country, and his desire to increase their burdens beyond their utmost powers of endurance, is very properly selected for a mo tion which has the inevitable consequence of transferring the whole poor-rate of Ireland from the Irish landlord, and the Irish tenant also, to the industrious tax-payers of this country. What course ministers will adopt in case of a defeat here, is a matter to speculate upon. 'We observe, however, that the Morning Chronicle and other papers, supposed to have their confidence, look forward to an immediate appeal to the country as the result. Possibly a post or two will decide this question. It is certain, however, as we are informed upon the first authority, that under any circumstances, a dissolution was previously contemplated by govern ment to take place not later than the 11th of next month WE are inexpressibly rejoiced that at length go vernment have seen fit to adopt the steps which we were the first to propose, for mitigating the danger of contagion from the masses of paupers daily ar riving from Ireland in a state of incipient, if not of confirmed fever. There were two objects which we sought to secure, when recommending that the Lazarettoe, in the Sloyne, should be mail- of for the reception of fever ,„a„:„..Ls, and that vessels brin e ,;.,, ~..per emigrants from Ireland should be submitted to inspection, and, if found necessary, to the discipline of quarantine regulations. The chief object was to prevent the direct transmission of disease, to be circulated, by contact, amongst our resident poor in the filthy lodging houses re sorted to by the Irish ; and the next was to impose a check upon the importation of Irish poor at all, by subjecting the owners of steamers to a necessary detention, which may have the effect of diminish- ing the inducement to take such cargoes at the nominal price for which they were at present brought over. Both these ends will now be achieved. The selfishness of landlords and others in Ireland, who it is well known are sending over their poor here and paying their passage, to escape the burthen of keeping them at home, will be sen sibly checked ; and we may have a chance left us of dealing with the pauperism which meets us at our own doors We know t at it has been said " Wait until the operation of the Irish Poor-Law Bill gives you the power of removing the Irish immigrants to their own parishes." But it is clearly a great hardship that the expense of this removal, and of affording support in the meantime to such large masses of people, should be saddled upon Liverpool and a few other ports, which happen to be the resort of steamers from the sister country. Better far throw the difficulty which the quarantine regulations will create in the way of the importation of such nor- . Lion of them as . do not come for the purpose of emigration, or with some slight chance—and, in the pre: state of our ma t for labour, 5e very slig employmen ,nd supporting themselves, ')eComing a burthen upon --1,34; ...all t own in d ustrious Ireland, the delusion prevails amongst the — pea santry that they have only once to set their feet they may be, and however incapable or unwilling to strive for themselves, and their comfort is secured. They have only, they imagine, to land and commence their importunate solicitations to posed to be given - in our streets, and money to be in our pockets in inexhaustible supply. It is only common justice to ourselves to be permitted to stipulate that, in thus unreasonably taxing our bounty, they do not bring fever and disease amongst our population. We trust sincerely that it will be found that the vessels allowed us will be found sufficient to accom modate not only all the cases of sickness which may hereafter arrive, but also to enable the autho rities to reduce materially the number of those ac commodated in the present injudiciously located hospitals. Perhaps it may be found that the new erections in Mount Pleasant need not be used at all ; and the annoyance caused to the neighbour hood may be got rid of altogether. WE may now rest assure The d of tli fact that a ge neral election is at hand. ybeen got through. e busi ness of the country has ahead The ministry are in possession of A power no to deal with the wants of Ireland, and it is announced, upon all but official authority, that a dissolution ' will take place in the middle of June. •fl i e °ques tions which most naturally suggest themselves in such a crisis are, first, " Upon what principles is the battle of the constitution to be fought ?" and next, " What is our state of preparation for the struggle ?" Certainly :there has seldom been an occasion when the first of these was so difficult to solve. There is no great public question agitating the public mind, or creating a distinctive division of PliTtifxs. The education question is no longer such one Ireland cannot furnish either the eniniste- Under such ing of a MASTER AND MATES.—At a meeting of the Board of Examiners, held on the 7th inst., Captain Andrew Young Marshall, late master of the Lerwick, of Dundalk, was examined and found duly qualified for a first-class certi ficate as a master. PACKET SHIP YORKSHIRE, CAPTAIN BAILEY. — This noble ship arrived here on the Bth instant, after a passage of 19 days from New York, she having previously landed her letter-bags at Cork on the 6th instant, fearing that the easterly winds would detain her longer in the Channel. She sails again for New York on the Ist of June. The following is a list of the cabin passengers :—Mr. George Vandenhoff; Miss Marshall; Dr. Boardman, lady and servant ; Miss Holland ; Mr. R. Sherwell and ladv - ; Mr. Francis Hall ; Mr. Francis A. Hall ; Mrs. M`Donough ; Mr. M'Cue ; Mrs. Tobias and Miss Tobias ; Mrs. Henry Tobias, child, and 3 servants ; Mr. Lyford ; Dr. Paine ; Mr. Clifton Augrave ; Mrs. Berkley and servant ; Mr. W. Currell ; Mr. G. Holmes ; Mr. John F. Lowndes ; Miss M. Mortimer; Mr. J. H. Gourlie ; Mr. R. Albruht ; Mr. B. R. Lummis ; Mr. George Wood ; Mr. G. T. Hills ; Miss Ellen Thaxter. BODY OF A CHILD LEFT AT A DOOR.—Yesterday, at the Police-court, a gentleman named Hughes, complained of annoyance from mendicants, and also that the dead body of a child had been left at the door of his house in West Derby-road. He thought the police might be somewhat more active. Mr. Rushton said it was certainly disgrace ful to leave a body at any one's door, but (as we under stood him) that the laws relating to mendicancy were, from their limited powers and the state of the town rendered almost unavailing, except as related to the legiti mate expenditure of money. If the bill now before par liament should pass, the magistrates hoped to be enabled to find means of overcoming many of the difficulties that now pressed upon the town, and of adopting remedial measures. In the meantime the authorities and the inhabi tants of the town must do the best they could under . the circumstances. The cases for relief were so numerous, that even the Borough gaol contained 688 persons, while it ought never to have more than 408 occupants RECENT CASIT4T.TYV,--54UDVNN DEATHS.—On the 28th of last month, a man named William Giles, aged 42, in the employ of Messrs. Maxwell and Co., King-street, got his fingers hurt ht rolling a cask. Medical attendance was p r o fT ett, but he died of lock jaw on Sunday last, the . .rieg - of the injuries.—William Lock. aged six years, 'who lived with his parents in Hornbv-street, was at play in the kitchen, a fortnight ago, when he accidentally fell into a mug of hot water, and was so much scalded that notwithstanding every medical appliance, he died on Saturday last.—A man, name unknown, was, on Sun day morning, at one o'clock, found in a petty in Lace street, in a destitute and weak state. He was taken into a neighbouring house, and died soon afterwards.—Cathe rine Griffin, a child three months old, who, with her parents, bad left Drogheda for this port on Saturday, by the Fair Trader steamer, died on board the same night. The body was landed on Sunday for interment.—John WlCenna, aged 46, who had for some time been ailing. recovered to it considerable extent, and resumed his woik at the docks. He was employed at a vessel in the King's Dock on Saturday, when he was taken suddenly ill. He was taken to the Southern Hospital ; but, though every possible assistance was given, he died in a very short time. —John Valentine, aged six years, was playing close to the pit in St. Domingo-lane, Everton, when he acciden tally fell into the water, and was drowned A. man was FEVER.—APPLICATION TO TIIE POLICE MAGISTRATE At the Police-court, yesterday, Mr. Parkinson, keepe Rn officer (467) had, on the previous night, Sunday and afflicted with fever. They were - conveyed to the workhouse, but were not received, the establishment being full. They were thence sent to the infirmary, but from a like cause were not admitted, and he was obliged, finally, to receive them into the bridewell, in which there were fifty-five prisoners. Ho bad that (yesterday) morning sent them to the parish receiving-house for patients in St. Anne's-street, in a fever van, and believed they were now there. He wished to know whether the bridewell was to be made use of as a fever hospital, to the endangerment of all within it. Mr. Newman, the sexton of the Roman Catholic Chapel, Copperas-hill, had said that hundreds of wretched and diseased persons came to Dr. EwiUg's place ►rehensive "of fatal consec To Mr. Rushton's inquiry it appeared that no aPpheation had been made to though disease was in the town, much unnece had been excited by exaggerated statements re If he applied to the police they would prevent lam roar, ry alarm lle inight state generally that places for the reception of fever patients had been prepared by the 'parish authorities, and that more would be constructed as soon as possible. They must do as well as they could. . On Saturday afternoon, the new Birkenhead terry boat, Britannia, belonging to Messrs. Edward anu SPV/YI cum Wil Inn hv _ of the Rirkanhearl l=intel_ TANNIA." tried on the river, and proved h, any of the river boats afloat. She is an iron vessel . , built by Messrs. J. Hodgson and Co., from a model by Mr. John Grantham. Her length is 114 feet, and her breadth of boll 17 sixty-horse pon feet. S his iriends, Including Mr. the manager at Messrs Fawcett and Co. erected tile enkrinc board at the time works, whO amongst the company on teamed up and down the river for about four hours, and went away with amazing speed, beating every vessel that she neared. In a run with The Queen of Beauty, from opposite the pier to New Brighton, she was the winner by about half a mile. She afterwards equally surpassed in speed the James Ather ton. She afterwards beat the Ayrshire Lassie, a very powerful vessel: Both boats run to and from New Brigh-, ton, and were hitherto considered the fastest of _the ferry boats. She made 34 strokes per minute, with pistons moving three feet. She has tubular boilers, and all modern improvements are introduced. The vessel is di- vided into Compartments by water-tight bulkheads, which ensures safety in case of collision, or other accident. The " Birkenhead" is a fast boat, but this is still faster. Her cabins are very roomy, and when finished will command admiration from the elegance of the whole arrangements. This is the fifth boat which the enterprise of Messrs. AVilloughbv have added to their fleet, in return for the liberality of . the public towards them, and we know of no ferry where the boats are more regularly and efficiently worked, or where greater civility and attention are paid to passengers. They m a y now c l a i m t o h ave th ree o f the smartest steamers plying o n th e r i ver , namely, the Mersey, the Birkenhead, and the Britannia. The corn - piny on board the latter, at the trial, were regaled with w i nes , &c., and were highly delighted by the excursion and the extraordinary performances of the vessel. She actually ran from Birkenhead to George's Pier, with the tide, in fire minutes. PROTECTION TO THE CURRENCY. rialist or the conservative with a war cry, if, indeed; there ,remains any longer a difference of opinion worth speaking of between these two parties. Free trade is a settled question, and a protectionist fight is hopeless now. The church is clearly as safe in Glasgow,l7th April, 1947, the hands of a Whig ministry as in tilos; of either TO THE MEMBERS OF THE CANADIAN PARLIAMENT questions . GENTLIZMEN,—The most headstrong Free-trader must now conservative or protectionist, and the few feel, and begin to see, that the untax ed So y rt i giLla g lii it o n u ( c upon which a division can be got up in parliament i a s n (,t detrimental, co i o not onl y . to the agricul tur al body are . not of weight sufficient to agitate the public classes,) bul'i a ls s , o (a ( ii i d r - ;c i t rir t e o ctly'through them, to all other mind to any exertion, or worth the trouble or ex- i nterest of th e e mp ire, through inorat causing a vast dimi nu ti on ve 7fthe re. pen r se of contesting about on the hustings. To It is l t o ru o e tlg a r t c; a n T ntrie of our precious metals. currency by par mmentary men, indeed, and to a few hanger s - of the evils this contillne tr i y n I n r o l r an la d.s ot t i h rs eoste i nsible cause of part on and expectants out of doors, it may be . an object i c tr o u u e rs t e ha o t f o Ne r (under r. Sir Robert Peel) ha u v i iW r ia b k u e t n i llL s suicidal `ualy who is in or who is out of office—whether a Whig em pl oyment, and encouraging fo reign, is the that gau es s s e l o n F h ° want e or a tory ministry occupy Downing -street ; d but by g . England rising superior to the p l re c sit y. distress without a most the mass of the people the issue The s he viewe with sewt e i r s e ipterfer i ence with the curre ncy . utter and disgusted indifference. prestige of Free-trade tt is ?anoauibist, t c h o a u t n F ir n i gl i a n n(hi l s better situated to carry out names—the trust in professions, and almost in in- , w e w or o ll id atid if oth er coun tries would reciprocate, the advanta e e ouri, isr EVERY dividual honour—was buried in the wreck of the were not for even the circumstances of not' h Hindostan so degraded as not to be lowered by British competi- Peel ministry, and the deiertions and apostacies I tion. E ngl ishmen would therefore ALL be Free-traders as a which preceded its fall. matter of theory 3 but what is about to be shown to be even MR. ISAAC BUCHANAN'S PAPERS, CONTINUED FROM THE SIXTH PAGE England's experience of free imports without reciprocity, _ „ircurnstances, an d w ith suc h feel- which, in bitter irony, is called Free-trade, (in me convertite , )athy we i g hi ng upon the public mind, it ferruin !") viz.—that it matters not whether the cause of im- Or Free-trade;'the result to those who labour fOr their bread is the position of parties will be the result. If '4l"s7".'"'"'"u'. Wet have a reduction of employment to the people of of the most prominent of the Peel renegades . . willew Engla . nd very nearly the whole amount we pay for foreign labium. probably be driven into retirement by the indigna- 2nd. A reduction of England'sability a the superstructure of .to manufacture, through tion of county constituencies, thus streno-therf its Ir currency being brought down by the removal d of gold, the_ hands of the protectionist party. But'the i r n o" y u ff e e o r o f i r v oz o t t h e t gain to our rivals in manufactures. b . bility is great that the loss of conservative seats being exactly our loss, w a w b e e r tte t r o st m o a c , k) f f oe tge pre cious metals giving an ee in the boroughs will balance the gain in the coun- fpoorvetignwitr the better.) (so that increasedin fact the less gold England hia.es to ties. The registers, it is ascertained, have been . well worked under the auspices of the league and To these aenera t effects might be a n d e d w ed l t a te .s p w ar i t i tc t u o la nt r o a n eas regards the United States, that our its local offshoots, whilst conservatism has been l si tthe it eotton land into whear and Indian corn, thus p , r 4 portion making no corresponding efforts. In addition to English miflow its quantity, raising the price of cotton to the these circumstances, operating to depress the ex- Such under the experience of England, what would the Cana citement usually attending a general election, the das be So that, wcie ‘ t r h e e e r -tr tds e i?each s y ? j u n convened or at o Montreal for circumstances of individuals, the cramped' and your first session under Lord e Ell we to precarious position of commercial men, and of Tts o :c l call rely r V s onfidence of . ;our constitu y enYs s n nt w i t e t k used to e tradesmen of every class, contribute to deprive al- i p m rotee t t protective by principlea at a general elec tion. I feel it equallypresent steamer to let most of all interest those political questions which you know the exact thingsposition of this country ordinarily decide such struggles. I particularly d . ... . Upon one question alone a stand might be ma t I I and ought to be made, by men who love and wi the stiff now being written by some of the London newspap'eri, le, into the idea that Free-trade_has little or nothing to do with to the church and the constitution of their You will observe I have been cautions'in not charging Free protecttrade with getting us into this state, (though I believe. Sir R. cumibry. a nab question is tine um maintenance Peel's 1842 measures have much to do with it,) and that my of PROTESTANTISM, and its protection, at all ha- charge against Free-trade is, that under it no elasticity or con fidence exists to get us out of the scrape. zards, from the open assaults of popery and infide- I may, however, state my firm convicton, that the evils aris lity on the one hand, and of expediency-mongers ing from the potatoe rot are nothing compared with those which the price tty ( 0 11 w th h e e tt a lio si;enicoe,olfouroetctitoone one-half, would no and apostasy on the other. There is something intelligible in such a ground for conservative exec- of our own growth, t have ‘ ti 'e n tl i o n w c n re f a r° se l c i l but by foreign importations, for which a we tion. We may differ amongst ourselves in our had to pay gold. ~ Our home trade would now be go i ng th roug h the o r de a l o f a ' views upon questions of protection, of finance, o f general bankruptcy, unconsoled even b y t h e pros pect th a t , a ft er commercial or general policy ; but here we might thus getting white-washed, they can live under the unCue and combine, and form a powerful body, whom neither cn l i e p l r competition s o t f a u a n t i t s a fi x e e d d t f h o a r t e i t tn e I p a r b e o a u e o r. . t sufferings of this whig, radical, nor ultra-protectionist could safely country are in no degree caused by the conduct of the Bank of outrage in the pursuit of their selfish interests. England, but entirely by the want of confidence caused by Sir Robert Peel's Free-trade measures. With a purely Protestant party in the Hou s e o f Thi s i s i ncontrovertibly a bullion, and not a Bank of England, of Commons—say of but a hundred good men and Panic; and one which will convulse the monetary affairs of the true—we should hear of no such bills as that of wh ole _ empire, and not only those of Lombard-street. To be sure we have not as yet got a bullion panic in the shape Mr. Watson, and have little to dread from the of a run upon the bank, and this shows the bank's innocence combined assaults of whigs, trimming conserva- of the cause of the suction of gold; but we have a bullion pa tives, and that Clas s o f p ro t ec ti on i s t s w h o are will- coun t n ry t f h o e r e quivocal g h o ipe a r o:i. n f d rom les :he as that rua s the oa m t o h s e t en(tiriog sense cause of a i ing to throw into the ditch every other interest, profitable and disposable property foreigners can take abroad. however valued and however solemnly committedl have a s deapidrectliiaattioSoirofßtreerrot currency Free - trade measures will render to their keeping, provided by the sacrifice they can Ido not believe that the Bank o f England will be able to sell save their own. Goiernment securities ' so as to prepare for the payment of the July dividends, unless Parliament, before it rises, passes a no less sweeping measure than MAKING SILVER SHILLINGS A LEGAL TENDER TO ANY AMOUNT, AND ALLOWING THE BANK Or ENGLAND AND ALL OTHER BANKS TO ISSUE (confined by Sir Robert Peel's regulations) ONE POUND NOTES. This would, by raising gold to a market price, place the foreign trade on the same footing as the home trade, which draws no gold, but has its prices inflated to the amount of the depreciation of the silver currency. It will soon become evident that gold cannot be had except at a premium, and then will come the run on the Bank of Eng land, not from shippers only, but also by parties to hoard for the premium. Such are the direct and legitimate consequences of Sir Robert Peel's departure from the principle of protection to British labour at home and abroad. I believe that he has undermined the prosperity, and struck a fatal blow at the integrity of the empire. Even the national debt of England will be found to be only so much wastepaper if we persist in our present suicidal course, for it is secured only by the industry of the empire, from which we have taken away the ability to perform peculiar duties and bear peculiar burdens, by the removal of all its peculiar privileges. One shudders to think of the individual misery which will be inflicted on the population here, if we persist in viewing the currency and Free-trade as two questions instead of one, as in reality they are—a fact that you know well, from the cruel ex perience of Canadian industry, when the Legislature of the State of New York stopped specie payments in 1837. And begging von not to suppose for a moment that I am less the irreconcileable opponent of class interests than you knew me when I had the honour to represent the metropolis in the first parliament of United Canada, I remain, Gentlemen, your obedient humble servant, ISAAC BUCHANAN. REMEDY FOR THE EVIL EFFECTS OF FREE-TRADE. From the foregoing it will be gathered that Mr. Buchanan sup poses, "that not only the existence of our national industry, but our existence as AN EMPIRE WITH DEPENDENCIES ABROAD, depends on our immediately reverting tO A PRINCIPLE OF SELFISHNESS, OR ACCUMULATION, to the extent the currency or otherwise the general prosperity (class interests he does not for one moment argnp tor), demands He believes that ~ .764. -impossible to preserve the attachment nf comnists, of the British sailors, or even of the indus trious classes at home, without protecting the severely-taxed labour of the British freeman, who will insist on somewhat higher enjoyments than a mere animal existence, against ruthless invasion by the untaxed labour of foreign serfs and slaves, whose climates are so infinitely superior to ours as to render little or no clothing or fuel necessary." Mr. Buchanan farther says, that "The easy victory rained by Free-trade over Protection was wholly caused by the country having got disgusted with the exclusiveness and rapacious selfishness of the English landowners, who, while they had the legislation of the country in their hands, obtruded, in every way possible, their own selfish, exclusive interests and dogmas into the vitals of the liberties and general interests of the empire." " He would not be an advocate for a return to the Corn Law of 1815, or even to that of 1842; but he thinks that, even under a depreciated currency, the Corn Law introduced in 1846 by Sir Robert Peel (improved by there being no duty when the price is over 505.) must be perpetuated as a protection to the currency of the country; for Mr. Buchanan holds "That the currency can only he protected through such protection to our home industry as will practically keep up its amount in fair proportion to the amount of foreign labour sold in our markets, and for which specie has to be paid. Mr. Buchanan further argues, "That it is utterly unreason able to expect the population of this country to be• such fools as long to submit to their Home Industry being trammelled 11* Excise duties and restrictions, after untaxed foreign in stry has been let loose on theirs; so that the only chance of the Interest of the National Debt of England being punc tually met is to be found in our retaining moderate Customs' Duties, (even if these were not imperatively required for the which is the life's blood of our native industry any great increase of the Income Tax (however objectionable it may be in abstract principle) must lead to the absenteeism of capital from England, as_ was broadly stated by Lord Ash- Mr. Buchanan, as will be more particularly seen in his paper headed "THE POSITION OF THE PROTECTIONISTS AT TIIE OPENING OF PARLIAMENT," proposes a BRITISH COMMER CIAL LEAGUE similar to that tetween the States of America and Germany. "HE WOULD EXTEN T) THE PRIVILEGES AND EVEN THE NAME OF GREAT BRITAIN OVER ALL OUR. COLO NIES, VIEWING THEM AS COUNTIES, AND ESTABLISHING BETWEEN THEM AND THE MOTHER COUNTRY, AND BE TWEEN EACH OF THE COLONIES RESPECTIVELY, THE SAME UNRESTRICTED AND UNTAXED COMMERCIAL INTERCOURSE AND POST-OFFICE COMMUNICATION AS BETWEEN TWO COUNTIES IN ENGLAND. HE WOULD AT ONCE REDUCE THE DUTY ON PRODUCE FROM CHINA TO 10 PER CENT. ON THE VALUE IN THIS COUNTRY ;• AND MAKE THE LAW PROVIDE THAT ANY FOREIGN COUNTRY CAN, AT ANY TIME, OPEN A TRADE WITH THIS COUNTRY, ON RECIPROCAL DUTIES OF 10 PER CENT. ON THE VALUE IN THE COUNTRY WHICH RECEIVES THE PRODUCE." tionary C F:CIISLATORS DO gee in our commercial and monetary systems, for a time when the population must be thrown back hi their ordinary fields of industry, there cannot fail to be e terienced in this country a misery fur more extensive and widely ramified than any distress ever before felt in Eng land." itntt Mr. Buchanan farther states—" But ex or the greatest itri- provements . in any, even the Most pitriot systems, will prole altogether insalcient for more Wan a very limited period, if means are not taken to remove away or rather to induce to go voluntarily) from this country an amount of our population, equal, at least, to o ne -h a lf the yearly increase thereof ; and it therefore becomes the co Rf M 0 N PEOPLE IN THIS COUNTRY NEVER TO LOSE SIGHT OF THE FACT, THAT THERE IS NO COUNTRY IN THE WORLD, EX CEPT OUR OWN COLONIES, WHICH WILL NOT SHUT THEIR COUNTRIES CEASE TO BE BRITISH COLONIES.' REMEDY FOR TH E PRESENT MONETARY CONVULSION Mr. Buchanan, it will be observed, holds "That the presen —because, in fact, it is nlita [gement of our THE LIVERPOOL STANDARD. kalP7n, THE DEPUTATION FROM LIVERPOOL TO THE CHANCELLOR OF THE EXCHEQUER, ON THE MONETARY CRISIS. The result of the application, made on Thursday last by a deputation from this town, to the Chancellor of the Exchequer, praying for a relaxation by Government of the stringency with which the supply of money for com mercial purposes is regulated, appears not to have been attended with the deference to Liverpool interests which Iwas expected. It is stated that the materials of which the deputation were composed. were not altogether such as to influence the action of Government in our favour. Ministers have already demurred to stepping out of their course to assist the views of speculatins in the raw ma terial of our manufactures ; and the admission of one of the deputation, that he was the largest holder of cotton in Liverpool, told materially against the objects which they had in view. It is said besides, that the people of Manchester have been beforehand with us, representing that any money facilities afforded to Liverpool will have the effect of keeping up speculation in cotton ; ankl. that, if this be done, the operations of the manufacturers will have to be suspended, and the mills thioighout the dis tricts either closed or their owners compelled to resort to a further reduction of the time of working. How this result of an appeal, from which much was expected, may affect the position of our mercantile commu nity, it is difficult at present to say. Government, however, seem to be in earnest; and no lenity islikely to be shown towards any parties• who have brought themselves within the meshes which ever surround men, who trade or specu late unduly. Solvent, undoubtedly, these parties are ; some of them men of undoubted wealth. But it is not to be admitted that men, however wealthy, should be allowed to adventure upon speculations, from which they can only get out scatheless by the aid of government, and the alter ation, in their favour, of measures and modes of supply ing the wants of the public, which have been deliberately resolved upon, and upon which the ordinary transactions of commercial men have been based. FORTHCOMING SUPPLY OF BREADSTUFFS FROM THE UNITED STATES As an antidote to the exaggerated representations circu lated with respect to the ability of America to supply the wants of the old countries of Europe, an extract from the circular of an eminent New York firm may be interesting to our readers. After allowing for the deficiency of stock at the ports this year, as compared with the last, the writers give the following as an estimate of the quantity which is likely to be at disposal in the port of New York, for export to Europe, up to the Ist of September next bls. Wheat, bush Flour and wheat now in store and to arrive at and be shipped from the various shipping ports on the Western Lakes prior to the next harvest .. . " Deduce - from this the drain through Canada 952,500 5,100,000 200,000 1,000,000 "Leasing of flour " The wheat (a large portion of which will be manufactured into flour) five bush. to the barrel 752,500 4,100,000 " Making a total to arrive at tide water reduced to flour "Allowing that the consumption of this year does not, up to the Ist of Sept., exceed last year, it was as follows Leaving for export 820,000 1,572,500 1,537,614 " Now, it is not pretended that only 35,000 barrels of flour will or can be shipped from this port previous to the Ist of September next. But in view of the extravagant statements recently put forth of " hundreds of millions" of bushels in this country, and that the quantity of flour and grain to be exported will only be limited by the capa city of transportation, is it not surprising, when the facts, as near as they can be come at, are put upon paper, how people can be led away by their imaginations, or perhaps by more interested motives ? "In review of the above estimates and calculations ' nide, as we verily believe, from the best data which can be ob tained, and allowing for all reasonable errors of under or over estimates, and taking into consideration the fact well known to all engaged in the trade, that the usual supplies of flour received at New York and the New England markets from New Orleans and other southern places during the winter, have all been 'diverted by the export demand to Europe--leaving: not only the city of New York, Boston, and other eastern places, but Phila delphia, Baltimore, and Richmond, almost entirely bare of stock—we are led to the irresistible conclusion, that if as large a quantity of wheat and flour are taken for export from this port during the next four months as were last year in the same time, we shall have a serious compe tition between the consumers in this country and the consumers of Europe for the ' staff of life.' " GUN CorroN.—A further experiment was yesterday made of the patent gun cotton by the agents Messrs. Ingram and Clarke. at the tunnel, London-road, in the presence of the contractors and several scientific gentle men, all of whom expressed their decided opinion of its superiority over gunpowder for blasting purposes. We give in another column the result of several experiments made on Friday. STEALING A LOAF.—A man named James Connor, was charged before Mr. Rushton, yesterday, with having stolen a loaf from the shop of a young woman named Margaret Gerard. He said he was in such want of food that he was tempted to the act by fear of starvation, and a consequent desire to be put into gaol. Inquiry was made as to whether the prisoner was in receipt of any parochial relief. It being ascertained that he had not received such assistance he was discharged with an admo nition, aro advised to make application to the proper officers. THE " PRIDE OF ERIN."—A beautiful new steamer, bearing this name, arrived here yesterday. She was built by the celebrated Napier, of Glasgow, and is 478 tons burthen, with engines of 400-horse power. She is com manded by Captain John Williams, late the experienced master of the Finn M'Coull, and belongs to the Dundalk Steam Packet Company, to which port she will ply in conjunction with the Dundalk. Her cabins are most beautifully and conveniently fitted up, and the sides are decorated with papier mache panels, containing elegant views of Irish scenery. DISGRACEFUL RUMOUR.—Yesterday, some ignorant and heartless wretch found means to circulate through the business parts of the town, a report to the effect that the American packet ship "The World," which sailed several days ago with a large number of emigrants, for the United States, had returned to the port, fever having carried off from 100 to 130 of the passengers and crew. We were somewhat astonished that so great a mortality should have occurred on board the fine ship named, after her leaving the land, and entering th pure atmosphere of the Atlantic • and are glad to say that there is no truth what ever in die rumour. _ _ THE WEATHER.—After some days of strong and rather cutting winds from the southward and eastward for several days last week, the cold on Friday partially gave way, and some rain fell during the day, and still more at night. On Saturday the rain continued throughout a great part of the -day, and the temperature became milder. Rain also fell thick on Sunday morning, greatly refreshing the crops and wetting them to the roots. The day was fine, the thermometer having risen from 49°, on Thursday to temperate, or 60°. Yesterday was peculiarly fine, the glass rising to 62' and 63°. The appearance of the whole face of the country has been greatly improved, by the downfalls stated; and though the crops generally are backward for the season, the husbandman and gardener may yet have all their labours and anxieties fully repaid, by alternate kindly showers and sunshine. The cuckoo is heard in various districts, and the more located songsters of the field and grove are in full note. The progress of vegetation, so long retarded, is unusually rapid, and the country presents a beautiful and fresh appearance. A farther remarked to us that one might almost hear the things " crack," by force of growth. ROCK FERRY.—There is no more beautiful spot on the banks of the Mersey than Rock Ferry; and, considering its present aspect to that which it presented a few years ago, the change is certainly wonderful. Where hut re cently was nothing but a few meadows, sloping to the sea shore, now are erected villas, which, f ur th e i r b eaut if u l ap pearance and variety of design, can scarce l y b e equalled. But the most prominent feature in this n e i g hb our h oo d i s the hotel. Situated on an eminence, and standing out in bold relief amid the surrounding scenery, it appears just and ever- :hanging view An inspection - of the interior fully corroborates this assumption. Well-furnished apartments, with newly-papered walls, and pervading cleanliness, even to scrupulosity, impart an air of comfort lie resort The desire of the to render his hotel one of the inost attractive in thiS vicinity, has not been confined to internal embellish ments. The accommodations externally are of the high est order. The gardens, which at this season have been thrown open to the public, contain unquestionable evidence of most perfect taste in selection, arrangement, and management. The walks arejudiciously laid out, inter- green contiguous forms no inconsiderable object of attrac: tion. It is in first-rate condition, and the sward perfectly 1.1 faultless latrons and committee is composed of active . and intelligent gentle men. We take the following extract from the prospec tus—" The Roscoe Club is .especially intended to supply the social and mental requirements of a numerous and re spectable body of young men and tradesmen, who at pre sent have no suitable place in which they can profitably employ their leisure hours.. It will be provided with a Carefully-selected library ; a news-room well supplied with the best and most popular newspapers and periodi cals ; and a lecture-ball in which dissertations on the va rious branches of literature ' science, and the fine arts, will be delivered, and concerts of a high class occasionally given. Classes will be formed fol. instruction in the lan guages and the higher branches of education ; also essay and discussion societies, which will be assisted andpided by judicious professional persons. Frequent soirees and conversazioni are intended to be held, similar to those which have been attended with so much eclat at the Royal Institution. These will, no doubt, be an interest ing and valuable feature in the club, and prove a: source of great attraction to . the members. In this department it is expected that the literary and scientific gentlemen, under whose auspices the club has originated, will give their va luable assistance by occasionally delivering lectures on subjects they have made their peculiar study. A gymna sium will be attached, in order that, while every facility is afforded for the development of the mental faculties, the increase and improvement of the physical powers will not be neglected. Spacious and well-furnished dining and coffee rooms will bc provided, in which every arrangement will be made to secure the comfort of the members." The tams of membership are very reasonable. honorary mem THE IMMIGRATION OF IRISH INTO LIVERPOOL, AND THE EFFECT OF THE QUARANTINE REGULATIONS We have referred elsewhere to the steps adopted by Government to meet the difficulty under which the rate payers and the authorities of Liverpool are labouring, in the effort to maintain the masses of Irish paupers who have been arriving by every packet, and to prevent the spread of fever arising from their contact with our own population. It is gratifying to find that the owners and agents of the packets, by whom they are brought over, are co-operating with the authorities, and are willing to throw their own interests into the shade, and to consult, first, the more important end of the health and condition of the people around us. The following handbill, signed by the agents for the city of Dublin Company, the Bel fast, Drogheda, and Newry Packets, has been extensively circulated in Ireland, to prepare passengers for the rou tine-of treatment, to which they will be subjected on their arrival in this port, and the condition on which they will be permitted to embark from ports in their own country : "DECK PASSENGERS. " ORDERS having been issued in Liverpool, that Steam Vessels arriving from Irish Ports, and having Deck Passengers on board, shall be compelled to hoist the Yellow Flag, and pro ceed to the Lazaretto ground, to ascertain if one or more Deck Passengers on board be in a state of Fever, and that the same shall be removed to the Lazarettoes ; and farther, if any Steamer be found on a SECOND voyage t o have any person on board in a state of fever, such vessel shall be placed under quarantine, " And as such orders are incompatible with the necessary dis charge of Cargoes and Live Stock, and the disembarking of Cabin Passengers, and also of persons intending to emigrate from Liverpool, " NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN, "That no Deck Passengers can be allowed on board, or be taken to Liverpool in any vessel belonging to the City of Dub lin Company ; the Drogheda Company ; th Dundalk Company ; and the Newry Companies, unless examined by some Medical Officer, that may be appointed for that service, at the respective Ports, as to their freedom from fever; and, also, that no desti tute persons, who may not be able to support themselves by their own labour, will be allowed to embark between the above Ports and Liverpool. "ON AND AFTER THE I2TH INSTANT, THE DECK FARE WILL BE ss. EACH WAY.” Yesterday a deputation, composed of parties interested in the Irish steam-boat navigation, had an interview with his worship the Mayor, at which it was suggested that Government should appoint medical officers at each port in Ireland, by whom parties applying for passages might be examined, and certificates of health given. It was urged by them that the regulations laid down were a little over-stringent. Fever, they suggested, might break out on board from natural causes ; and it was hard that the proprietors or charterers of steam boats should be mulcted for what they could have no control over. Death might also occur on board from natural causes ; and it was thought by the deputation that the captain's certificate of the health of his cargo of passengers ought to be suffi cient to warrant a landing, without the detention of sur vey by the medical officers. The lazarettoes, too, it was urged, might be moored off the Magazines instead of in the Sloyne, by which a tide might be saved for the steamers. Of course, all these suggestions, upon which we express no opinion, will receive his worship's consi deration. It is not a time just now to be precise or ex acting ; and the respectable companies and agents, who conduct the packet trade between this port and Ireland will, we doubt not, act with every consideration for the life and health of their fellow townsmen, whilst they ex tend every aid and full facilities for the transport of their unfortunate countrymen in the sister isle. The following letter was yesterday addressed by the Mayor to Mr. Rounthwaite Town-hall, 10th May 1847. DEAR SIR S I thought I should have seen you and the other steam-vessel agents at four o'clock, and that I might have verbally communicated to you that the Lazaretto is ready for the reception of such fever patients as may possibly be found on board your vessels, that three medical officers have been appointed, and that it is intended they should commence their duties to-morrow. It is not proposed that the steamers should go in the first instance to the quarantine ground, and every desire will be manifested to cause you no unnecessary obstruc tion ; and I hope that you, on your parts, will offer the needful facilities to the authorities, that you will instruct the com manders of the vessels to hoist the yellow flag, and keep it flying until visited, and remind them of the prohibition which forbids their entrance into the docks until the medical officer has discharged his duty.—Dear sir, truly yours, J. K. Rounthwaite, Esq. G. H. LAWRENCE. The select vestry have engaged a steam-boat for the purpose of boarding the Irish steamers on their arrival at the mouth of the river, and placing on board three medi cal officers to examine whether the passengers are free from fever, and if so the Irish vessels will have no need to pass on to the Sloyne. The medical officers would be called on to perform this duty last night for the first time. We understand that the period fixed on for any vessel bringing passen gers i n f ec t e d w i t h f ever, a secon d t i me, to remain in quarantine is fifteen days. REDUCTION IN THE LIVERPOOL DOCK DUES. An important motion was announced at the last meeting of the Dock Committee by the chairman, Mr. Bramley Moore : and will be laid before tNat body in detail at its next meeting. At present, the dock chairman has not entered fully into the details of his plan. Sufficient, however, has transpired to enable.us to lay before our readers a statement which may be relied upon as correct. Last year we had a surplus of dock revenue, amounting to at least XlOO,OOO. In the ten months of the dock ycar now expired, upwards of :'-'28,000 increase upon last year has accrued to the estate. What is to be clone with this surplus? Mr. Bramley Moore, we believe, is pre pared to submit a proposal to the Dock Committee ? that a por tion of this surplus shall be dealt with by abolishing the dues upon the staple import of the port—cotton. This is to be done as a matter of just consideration towards the most important of our imports. At pfesent, the dues upon this article produce upwards of .e37,k10 per annum; and the surrender of this amount of revenue ought to be regarded by the manufacturing interest and the public generally as a judicious and generous measure. Several other remissions will accompany this abolition. FREE TRADE AND THE MONETARY CRISIS We give, elsewhere, some letters, forwarded us for publica tion by a respectable and able correspondent, Mr. Isaac Bu chanan, with respect to one of which, however, we feel bonnd to state, that we cannot enter into the views of the writer or of the Protectionist party, if Mr. Buchanan is a correct exponent of their views. We refer to the letter headed "New British Colonial System." Our confidence in his integrity of intention and principle ? hisloyalty, and a knowledge of the extensive in formation which he possesses in matters connexctedwith our Co- lonies, has mainly induced us to admit into our columns senti ments so averse to our own. Admirers as we are of the Church of England, we cannot help feelin e , ,, that if a party possessed of un doubtedly British hearts, like Mr. Buchanan 's . can be organized in our colonies, although enemies of an establishment, we shall have in them much better stuff to contend against than the popery and infidelity which at present assail us. Such a party we might accuse of wrong beadedness ; but we could not accuse them of venality, or of treacherously betraying a church, against which they object, as some of that church's professing supporters have done in time past. BREADSTUFFS FROM AMERICA.—From the Ist Sep tember last to the 10th ult., there were exported from the United States to Great Britain and Ireland 1,420,557 bar rels of flour, 325,127 barrels of corn meal, 1,400,942 bushels of wheat, and 8,508,176 bushels of corn. The total export from the States was 2,200,412 barrels of flour, 1,916,367 bushels of wheat, and 9,084,161 bushels corn. vv ALLEGED THEFT OF INDIAN CORN. — Yesterday, at the Police-court, a man named Thomas Shaw, driver of a float owned by one Coyle, was charged on suspicion with having stolen a bag of Indian corn, one of 100 bags dis charged at the Clarence Dock, for Stewart and others. They were loaded. into Coyle's cart, with instructions to he taken to a warehouse in Vaudries-street. The cart, on being unloaded, was found to have brought only . 99 bags. It appeared that the cart• which the prisoner drove was, on this occasion, driven from the ship Lehigh, in Clarence Dock, to the warehouse, by a carter named Burns. Mr. Superintendent Anders, happened while in Waterloo-rood to see a bag on the pavement, behind a cart, and found it to be marked " G," the same as the rest of the consignment. As it was expected that further evidence would be adduced, the prisoner was remanded. The Duke of Wellington gave an entertainment on Fri day last at Apsley-houso, to Major-General Sir Harry Smith, G.C.8., and Lady Smith. FRIENDLY SOCIETIES—PARNELL V. SMITH.—This waS a case which came before the Queen's Bench on Saturday, )er and trustee of a friendly ._„ hers, who had agreed to dissolve the society and divide the funds, and had divided them accordingly. Lord Denman said the court held that no trustee of this sort has power to decide a question relating to •the conduct of the society against all the members thereof. The judgment of the court, therefore, was that Mr. Parnell could not maintain ilVoisT 4 TNen V. SHAne,—ln the Common Pleas, on§a turday, judgment was given_in this cage, whioh was plication for a new tria he action was brought by the nt, as one of the committee of - management of a railway company, called " The Direct London and Exeter Railway,' for the return of his de posit on GO shares in that company. The particulars o the case were given at t' of the cause, The court re- when a verdict , was given for. the plaintiff fused to grant the rile for a new trial, stating that there was no ground for either a uonsuit or a verdict for the de fendant. This decision establishes the liability of the committee of management for the deposits paid by share holders, nndcr circumstances similar to those of this now notorious case. THE FUNDSAC., SATURDAY NIGIIT.---There was more steadiness in Public Securities to-day than has occurred for a considerable time, and a more limited amount of business.' Consols opened at about full 1 per cent. de cline on the close of yesterday, and for money they were done from 86 to /, and for the account , from 87 to 80. The quotations at the close. were ty. for money, and q 86it for the account. Reduced Three per Cents, were done from 851. to 1; the Three-and-a-Quarter per Cents., 871 to a 4; Exchequer Bills, 1 to 5 pm. ;. and Bank Stock, 189. There were no decided operations, the parties hitherto contending for the rise and the fall having for the time being, by mutual consent, retrained fr om active hostilities. The transactions in Foreign Securities were more numerous than usual, but the amounts were incon siderable. Somepurchasesweremade in Mexican Bonds, on the faith of peace followingthe capture ofVera Cruz it being believed that the course of events is precisely in the direction of theprevious understanding between Mr. Polk and Santa Anna. The Mexican Bonds were done at 201; Brazil New, 821; Gillian, Deferred, 511; P or t uguese Four per , Cents:, 35; the Five per Cents., 821; Spanish Five per Cents., 224; the Three per Cents., 33-ft; Passive 4i-• Venezuela; 38.1; Belgian Fou r - an d- a- H alf per ants.; 1. 91; and Dutch Two-and-a-Half per Cents., 57 Railway Shares were flat, with a reduced amount of business. The shares of some of the old lines have not altered much for several days, but in other cases the prices are giving way piecemeal, and do not recover. The shares of the North Western have, in this respect, been most conspicu oua during the week. lermanent cause Monetary nn( He views it to be "HERE CHILD'S PLAY our wasting time in discussions about the MERE MACHINERY OP THE BANK OF ENGLAND as established by Sir Robert Peel—as much child's play as if a physician, called to a patient in whom life is ex piring, were to devote his whole attention to an examination into the form-or outward structure of the patient's limbs, or as if we were to stop to praise the marvellous adaptation to its use of the channel of a mighty river, when its well springs arc drying up, or when its waters have flown away." Mr. Buchanan seems to have no more doubt than when, on Sir Robert Peel's Free Trade announcement, he published (in the London Standard, of 7th February, 1846,) his first letter to the members of the Imperial Parliament, that " The want of confidence, or paralysis, caused by the Alien and Anti-British 'RER Tii principle of THE LATE.PREBIEK'S a _ _ --"SURFS WILL RENDER UNAVOIDABLE A NO LESS SWEEPING CHANGE IN THE CURRENCY THAN THE MAKING SILVER (TWENTY SHILLINGS TO THE POITNID) A LEGAL TENDER EQUALLY WITH GOLD." _ " The Banker, or the person owing the debt, would thus have it in his power to pay which ever he pleased, (either being equally valuable in the trade of this country,) THE PARTY DRAWING SPECIE FOR EXPORTATION BEING THAIS OBLIGED TO PAY THE MARKET PRICE for the coin which will suit him, or take what will not suit to send abroad, and being thus led to see that British labour (or manufactures) is the most pro_ titable thing he can take." • The Customs sale at London, which was the most extensi ve M for the last 5 years, has just concluded. Amongst the most ex tensive purchasers was r. Chateaux, of Bedford street, whose advertisement appears in this day's paper. The gooda com prise every fabric that ingenuity or forolgu enterpr ise could be supposed to produce. May 11, 1847. LATEST INTELLIGENCE. (BY EXPRESS LONDON CORN MARKET.--YESTERDAY, At this day's market the supply of English wheat was short. The factors began by asking most extravagant rates—as much as 20s. per quarter over the currency of this day week, which checked buyers. Late in the day sales became more steady, but prices are from 10s. to 12s. per qr. dearer than Monday last. The supply of foreign was pretty liberal, and the demand equally good, realising a similar improvement. We must also note advance as follows :—On Flour Gs. to 88. per barrel, Indian corn on the spot and floating cargoes held for ss. per qr., barley, malt, beans, and peas, 39. to 45., and oats Is. to 3s. per qr. The attendance of buyers from all parts was most numerous, and the business done on a larger scale than for many years past. SMITHFIELD CATTLE MARKET -YESTERDAY, The Beef trade was brisk, at an advance on last Monday's quotations of quite 2d per Sibs, and at which a good clearance was effected. A few of the primest Scots produced 48 Ind per 81bs. The numbers of Sheep were about average ones, and of excellent quality. The primest old Downs were mostly dis posed of at fully last week's quotations, the highest in the wool being 6s per Sibs, but all other breeds moved off slowly at barely late rates. Downs out of the wool were selling at 5s 4d per Sibs. We were fairly supplied with Lambs, 260 of which came to hand from the Isle of Wight, yet the trade was active, at an improvement in value of 2d per Blbs, the best Down qua lities producing Gs. 4d. per Sibs. The supply of Calves was good, while the Veal trade was heavy, at barely previous cur rencies. Pigs were in good supply, and sluggish inquiry, at late rates. MONEY MARKET-YESTERDAY In the market for public securities this morning, there has been no great amount of business done, the reports from Mark lane being of an unfavourable character. At the opening Con sols were quoted for the account at 86i, but receded to f, and have since fluctuated between and ; for money the rates have been 861- Three-and-a-Quarter per Cents. have been done at 8114 7, Three per Cents. Reduced 85f. Bank Stock has varied from 187 to 189, India Bonds for ..elOOO 2 dis., under .4'looo 5 pm., Exchequer Bills 5 2 pm. LIVERPOOL PHILHARMONIC SOCIETY. The third undress cmncert of this society was given last night at the Collegiate Institution, and was well attended. The first piece was a cantata, " St. Cecilia's Day," by J. B. Van Bree n which owes its ehief merit to the beauty of its aCCOM paniment, and these were given in a manner which reflected great credit to the orchestra, and especially its conducter. The deep notes of the organ were of great value in the choruses. In the reci tation and air, "Sing praise," Miss Stott was very uneven; and, although in the next, " Frescati, fairest vale," she had gained confidence, her voice was st ill feeble and occasionally out of tune. In the chorus, "Shady groves," th e d ou bl e b asses (which led o ff ), told well, and the clarionet of Master Storge was most effective in the chorus of men. The instrumentation in the chorus chorale, "Increase odours hov'ring o'er us," wrs magnificent. The recitative and air, " With gratitude," was finely sung by Mr. Ryalls, who was in excellent voice. The second part commenced with a symphony of Hadyn in B flat, of which the introductory movement was inefficient, especially the violins, which were unsteadily played, and out of tune. The slow movement was nicely played. The minuet made up all the deficiencies. The horns and first hautboy were conspicuous, and well played. The finale was excelle n t. In the selection from Bishop's music, Miss Stott seemed more at home. The glee of " Blow Gentle Gates," by Miss Stott, Miss Parsons, Messrs. Ryalls, Jackson, and Armst rong , woul d have been perfect if the band had been more piano. Our pre viously expressed opinion of Miss Parsons is unchanged. She has a fine voice, which wants only power and development. Mr. Ryall's song, "I Love the Hills," was very finely given. THE FEVER SHEDS , TO THE EDITOR OF THE LIVERPOOL STANDARD. SIR,—A letter appeared in the Albion newspaper last week, on the subject of the FEVER SHEDS adjoining the Workhouse, in Mount-pleasant, which was signed anonymo us ly un d er t h e letter " Z." It contained an attack upon "Drs. Cooper, Neill, and Watson," and was characterised by an unprofessio na l s l u r on the three medical practitioners, who were only some of the medical practitioners who had ventured to protest against the enormity of the Select Vestry. I felt reluctant, under any or dinary circumstances, to present myself again in print before the public, and especially under anonymous attacks, which, all men have agreed, present no adequate provocative to break silence. However, the question is a vital one, and I shall say one word. If the author of " Z" were not ashamed of his name, the motive urging him to write would justify his giving his real name to the public in the minds of all good citizens. He pre tends to be a medical man; but the proof is wanting. How do I know, or either of my traduced brethren, that it is not a shadow put for a substance? I suspect much that some par tisan of the Select Vestry, or one of themselves perhaps, (since a lay committee of their body have sat as a jury upon a medicaj question, viz., the reporting on the medical capabilities of the lazarettoes for feverpatients !I ) Perhaps one or other of such par ties are writing as physicians in the public press, for the purpose of lending a surruptitious c r edit t o a defeated cause. I pre sume, that "Z " a layman, because a re gu l ar pro f ess ional would not be ashamed of his name, which the author is perhaps correct in feeling, seeing that even with his paraded literature he is scarcely "up to Saturday night" in the science he professes to handle, however satisfactory possible to the Select Vestry I As for his charitable insinuations, they must have torn his own heart in harbouring them or ridding himself of them. He has sacrificed the unity of the profession, which ought to be a point dearer to him, to us and to all medical men, than our own in dividual interests. As for the insinuation of unworthy motive (wish of notoriety), I fancy, that after residence many years here, a simple sense of doing our duty contents us, and which anonymous slanders cannot rob us of. I beg "Z" to content himself with the good news, that his pyrotechny, if startling by its explosive burst, was yet " perfectly harmless 1 " There is only one sentence in the whole letter that merits s special answer, and that is the charge of the " three physi cians" being the first on recor d w h o ' h ave b e en a igr f Had the v es t r y man or hi s shadow known the teat irac of fever the patients in the town the deaths from fever, or the fact that case; had he k nown, f or i nstance, the actro•- number the mortality is more, than 100 per cent. above the average, and that the real co n diti on o f things has been carefully concealed from the public, to pr even t a l arm ; an d had he known that Liverpool is subject to severe epidemic fevers, which is not the case at present, for no epidemic exists, but simply s fever from known physical causes : he would have seen that our only desire was to forewarn the public, so as to forcers , them—and to have every fever case removed out of the town — and especially to preVent any being brought into a ward where there are nuisauces enough already. These steps, we contend, are absolutely necessary, for a very fatal epidemic has appeared in the northern counties, and maY appear here at any time ; and all parties will have to regret that the nidus of pestilence which now exists had not been re moved in time. This is the last anonymous letter I shall take the trouble to answer—in fact I ought to apologize for the present notice. I am, sir, your obedient servant, GEO. C. WATSON, M.D. Bedford-street, North, 10th May, THE IRISH IN LlVERPOOL.—Yesterday, a deputation, con sisting of Mr. E. G. Deane, Mr. R. Harbord, and Mr. JefferY, waited on the Mayor, to present a memorial which has, for the last few (lays, been in course of signature, asking of his worship to call a town's meeting on the subject of the burthen imposed upon this town by the influx of Irish poor. We learn that ? as the result, his worship was induced to call a public meeting, which will be held in the Sessions-house to-morrow. PRECAUTIONS AGAINST FEVER.—Three thousand of the habitations condemned by the sanatory act, we are informed have been permitted to be occupied by th e p oor an d wretched immigrants from Ireland in this town. There they are fester ing with disease—creating disease— and yet we have outskirts available, which, by the aid of government, who, we are cer tain, would not deny us aid in our hour of need, might be used without entailing any evil or damage upon the neigh bourhood. The ordnance department has an ample store of tents, which might be usefully employed as recipients of fever patients; and we do not think that an addition to our present stork of hulks in the river would be refused, were we to apply for them. MEETING OF THE RATEPAYERS OF TOXTETH PARK.—AO adjourned meeting of ratepayers of Toxteth -Park was held last night, at the Royal Oak, Park-road, for the further considera tion of matters connected with the administration of the affairs of the parish. Mr. William Short was called to the Chair, and read a letter from the Mayor, handed to him by Mr- Rd. Harbord, addressed to Mr. 11. G. Harbord, chairman at the previous meting ; acknowledging, in polite terms, the receipt of the memorial transmitted by him on behalf of the meetings stating that he v t( rennin(' to assure the memorialists that it shout° receive the best attention of the Health Committee of the Council. The mceling being merely preliminary to a gene& and more public meeting of the rate-payers, it was simply, after some conversation as to ulterior measures, agreed, that the committee then sitting should st an d adjourned until it was definitely ascertained what the Corporation purposed to do. The committee accordingly adjourned, after some names pro posed were added to their number. SHIPPING INTELLIGENCE. MONDAY. May 11.—Wind S.S.W. ARRlVED.—lsabella, Robson, from Alexandria. SAt LEn.—Serafin, Galdez, and Luisa y Jesusa, Gables, tor Havana—Wreath, Lawrence, Bremen—Jamaica, Selkirk, Bahia —Mary, Campbell, Africa—Elizabeth Wood, Hadwen, Barba dos—Delia 'Walker, Condoy, f or Cronstadt— Bavaria, Howe, New York—Droning Marie, Rasmussen, Elsinore—Princess Alice, Cummings, Gibraltar—Rover, Purdy, Yarmouth, Belinda, Kelly, Callao. Dreadnought (steam tug), from Wexford at this port, with wrecked goods from the Rochester. liuma, that arrived here yesterday from M a laga, wa s i n con tact sth instant, off Scilly, with a ship, which carried awal bowsprit and.witldlaps, stove the deck, and killed one man. Anne Kenny, Baldwin, from Charleston at Waterford Old England,. hence for ShanFhae, at Cove, leaky. Hindley, Shaw, from Mauritius at ditto. TELEGRAPH OFFICE, MAY 10 WIND AT HOLYHEAD —South, moderate breeze, 6 um South, zentle breeze, 12 noon. . ' OFF HOLYHEAD. No. 3875. Firefly, schooner, from at 6 30 a.m. 268 t. Devon, ship, from Bombay, at 10' SO a.m. 725. Scotia, ship, from -, at 11 a.m. 8096. Mary Hartley, ship, from 4701. Doctor, schooner, from Constantinople, at 3 p.m. 2107. Van, brig, from ----, at 3 p.m. 9826. Princess Sophia ship, from ---- at 4 30 p.m. 841. Bella Portena, brig, from , rit 4 30 p.m. OFF THE PORT, at 6 30 p.rn.--Two ships and three schOonett LIVERPOOL COTTON MARKET, MAY 10. 4 ,„ 1 - The demand to-d a y h as b een very general, thoughnutty? small quantities. The sales are estimated at 4,000 hales, 0 0 4 week's prices. The perv a di ng g l oom s till h angs over us , no one knows or dares to forebode what a day may bring for_.'„, LIVERPOOL CATTLE MARKET, MAY 10. We have had a small supply of all kinds of stock at our tillt ket to-day, which was sold at little or no variation from waek's prices.--Beef, 7d. to Bd. per lb.; Mutton, Bd. to LIVERPOOL HAY AND POTATOE MA:R11 0 MAY 10, 1847 s. d. a. d. Hay. old, 201 t, 0 7 oj) 010 Potatoes, iv. 90Th. 9 0 New Clover Grass 0 0— 0 0 Cups Straw, Wheat .. 0 sf 0 6 Black ... . Oat 0 4i— 0 5 ManFlewurael .. 0 = o ° Barley Carrots.. a. d. o• LIVERPOOL: TUESDAY, MAY 11, 1847. PRINTED AND PUBLISHED t I\l . GI EVERY TUESDAY moRNA.4' A By ..lOSHUA FLETCHER LACK, o f O 113, Grove Street LEONARD ADDISON, of 14, ( ' hest O rford - street , At N 0.4, *r, Gsom iK's clutovms.t.,lo.7mir9•l•••