The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser. — Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1847-08-31 00:00:00

ount of lich si But we TO CORRESPONDENTS id modest letter of " T,' le the lines which he ha second edition of ou ,h mail, he will obtai I to a conter unication ? It appears ur private perusal. ;have furnished his nan anti b. 31, 1847 to mow we a 'The m amazed ar m the ad to examine forth to account to: with which they ap• ts, anti a other in :eired the fol to you at the same time wi ear so hard upon dis F money which is repre uently discuss the mat in refer to this mo &DER.' n•ward ption of a few por hall have to adhere Ity experienced ints, and t fact of th )y and in the rkenhead, ar a paying property on the It admits, too, fl providing too soon an which has to be created, and )f the only pru Hid_ the nnin n, nt and wise c this large amount of cal 3 urge ,nd o working them to the We offer the ,nd of the pi s for the cm our Birkenhead neighbou never begrudged them th iltless of ad are in the b now t is for the ador nd, we may hich the Con s of the a hang upon the prompt completion and putting in operation of the works in the neighbourhood of the Pool. The conclusion is inevitable, that if this desideratum cannot be achieved by the Commissi oners themselves, a consideration for the owners of ely inves f the in: aporary prosy and rtakir hat a nation ne of an in slio'n, we need not when we come to regard ion the use of ordi a little closer at the re an equal or himself and his 1 mending and replaci ,vation, as he had at Either labour, or im- 'idual or a w ammo ,nd cap ?lus to ral or 3 be conveyed is ti at 'orks, which are not 2t surplus than u rdingly labour, v victuals NV .ed of the ordin s of valuable cc laws tel gold upon which d, has gone out of of England 'change—and re- which they ought to pursue in the disposal of their property. Like other people, however, we fancy that we have had quite as mar in that locality as are likely movements; and much dc likely to be a profitable one for the pt interested, viz., the ratepayers of Birke s most lead. It may suit the owner ally Doc away, for ti it, the inte upon the cor n of these Do .hteen IT t excee he owl. of do b Ourh( Such an think that - the time has now come in which the differences which have existed between themselves Llousies,.the a d rprgne -ougt etiorts to be laid o ed to make the 1 it of the p ent state of things; to cement tog population on both sides of the Mersey, and to renthr our noble river, what it is destined t the leading. mart of the comm( never m .cial nation of the world and th- T other fitted to be wox of the Nature assuredly Lat the advantages for the puisuit rid industry, wi ival lavishness upo ich she conferred with the Cheshire strand nst each on the contrary, they are e t was side should be On th have 1 hem toge ity. Why lon on tic in interests both circt working - to render them one—. about tl of one )f the union of in inform the public - of of the value of the property thus lying unprodu %nee o: Ings, ry exper e annua ;erest of wh: iff of parish and Other officers, has to be paid b.) to be designed half the Po tioti for we a, 'high it w: lit. win I ability of the commissi do( 7, now lyir )id dilapidation, into pr .inhead can never be d to v . until it has t never be occupied exce ;es for which fl ss and tract ,t by the cl on of the duel which is .equired but the certainty, as well, of both to the )surd spirit of le, and mu r the interests of the THE LIVERPOOL STANDARD. ~,~ _~. prevailing dissa Bed acceptance, Prime, Ward, and Co .; •~ - FINANCIAL AND COMMERCIAL SUMMARY. The state of the money market has undergone no mate rial change during the week, although the prices of stock have shown a tendency towards an advance. Money has been in great demand ; and 6 to 7 per cent was paid on Friday for advances from the bank, a circumstance to which is attributed the fact of that body not having re duced the rate of discounts as was anticipated. The con tinued occurrence of extensive failures amongst the specu lators in grain, and houses connected with them, is caus ing considerable uneasiness in the mercantile and monied circles ; and, should confidence be further must look forward to an additional scarcity commercial purposes, by the withdrawal from cireulatic of a portion of the paper which is ordinarily availabl The announcement of the refusal of Messrs. Gurne Overend, and Co., to accept the drafts upon them of extensive firm of Prime, to protect whose lonour forward) until the arrival of the Hibernia, incre and ( Our cotton market has been dull throughout the week, the total sale being 20,710 bales,• of which 1,900 were on speculation, and 17,6E30 for export, leaving only 17,000 for the trade. Bowed 'and American are quoted I lower; Mobile at last week's rates. The accounts per Hibernia did not affect the market on Saturday or yesterday. From other causes, however, yesterday's market was a little firmer. The Manchester market for manufactured goods con tinues to decline, and a further reduction of the hours of working at some mills is announced The same remarKs hick apply to other branches of manufacture, some of are represented as being in a deplorable state. happy circumstance that the operative classes have the prospect of food at reduced prices, to make up i their reduced In' It is a part for The Corn Trade during the week has presented some apparent anomalies. In the leading country markets prices have receded,witheut any pressure a supply Fi. im importations which we have been weekly receiving, prices, of Flour especially, were on Friday fully maintained This is attributable to its bei drawn oil as it arriv meet the consumption- of the - interior of the countr which has been almost cleared of last year's wheat. Ti will continue until the farmers have completed their field and stacking operations and begin to market the new crop, when we shall no doubt see prices come down with suffi cient alacrity. It is not thought that the stocks in Liver pool are so large as to excite any serious apprehension of the result to those by whom they are held. The princi pal losses will arise from the. cargoes on the voyage and as in the case of A marked improvement occurred in the value of most of the English. Securities, just prior to the termination of business on Fridays, the favourable adjustment of the ac- THE GREAT BRITAIN AGAIN AFLOAT The Great Britain has, by the perseverance and skill of Mr. Bremner, been at length released from her rocky prison in Dundrum Bay. On Monday her Majesty's steamer Birkenhead returned from Kingstown to Dun drum Bay, and a steamer also arrived from Warrenpoint. On Tuesday her Majesty's steamer Scourge arrived and landed a number of men to assist in the operation. Two large lighters were made fast to the Great Britain, one on each side. On Friday night, when the highest tide of the month occurred, the weather being calm and favourable, - 1 all the preparations complet, the great trial was ^s fully successful. The' huge structure was -n water, and was towed by ..here she arrived at ...,.ernoor). She was rather leaky, ome slight repairs, she was again taken in tow Ind towards Liverpool at twelve at noon on may observe that the Great Britain left his port on the 22nd September last year, and got shore in Dundrum Bay at nine the same evening. made, and v triumphantly drawn into d, the Birkenhead to Belfast o'clock on Saturd but, aft( t fom LIVETEPOOI A consi [ng by a t lsation was excited yesterday morn- announcement to the effect that at k.m., there had appeared off the Orms .ceamer, with five masts, in tow of a steamer, .at the former " appeared " to be the Great Britain. caution observed in this notice almost defeated itself. tt five-masted steamer was ever heard of or could be cted but the Great Britain ? and it was known before she had been got off and, in due time, would be here legrap even: o'cloct ieads a large from Belfast, and necessarily in tow, as she bad no steam up ; but she was not expected quite so soon, so that the strange announcement assumed, to many, the appearance of a hoax. Others, however, were sanguine, _and as the vessels, if they came at all, might be expected about noon, with the tide, or soon after, thousands of persons hurried to the quays and the landing stage, anxious rrivaT of the C _seviathan, and d. her. Nor with th most kindly feelings towaras were they to be disappointed. Our reporter pro- ceeded by a river steamer, in which were a number of gentlemen interested, to meet her, shortly after twelve o'clock. At one o'clock she was seen looming largely, yet indistinctly, in the distance (during a squall with rain), as sbe came up the Victoria Channel, pre- ceded by her Majesty's iron steam frigate Birkenhead, (built at Birkenhead by Mr. Laird,) which had her in tow with two hawsers. She very rapidly neared, until her magnificent hull came into full view when she reached a point off the Rock Battery, at half-past one o'clock. She was gaily decorated with flags on all her five masts, audit was a great delight to all who saw her, including several nautical gentlemen, to remark, even by minutely examin ing her by the eye, to find that, notwithstanding all the endure ;peer stre' s above precisely in their origina ing that her frame hai undergone no mutation in form. There is no " hogging," or convex rise of the decks, and there is no central or concave depression, or anything indicating the slightest approach to a broken . back." It is impossible to conceive to which she has been subjected, ln rivetting must here and there be sligi this can readily be renewed, and, in thi similar circumstances, rests the superiority Lie severe ordea point, under of an iron over a wooden ship—that superiority being the toughness and elasticity of the metal. We have to add—and we do it to the satisfaction of the " Steam Navigation World," —that the Great Britain presents no more appearance of age to sea. She is by no means weather-beaten, and, with the exception of a little tarnished paint, looks as " slick" as ever. On a near approach our reporter ob served some slight contusions and indentions in the plates, but of no moment, as these little cutaneous in juries can speedily be remedied equal to new. She had projecting from her stern a huge spar, (her main yard, we believe,) acting as a temporary rudder, by means of a rope, one on each side, leading to the steering wheel through a block affixed along the taffrail, and projecting on either side, forming outriggers. This rudder appeared to be hung at an angle of about thirty-five degrees of declension from the higher deck, aud, under water, was I. at the outward end, forming a perpendicular moveable from side to side by the ropes—a lieu of the usual rudder, capital yet simple, contrivance in _ hich could not be attached, a portion of the after stern 1-rn of the " screw," being carried away in the ..siding of the ship in Dundrum Bay. deck appeared to be swarming with people. As the Great Britain proceeded up the river, her re qnpearance, or rather somewhat unexpected —nq welcomed by firing of gunson the Cheshire post, a The - vessel resuscita- inning at up, with a pilot-boat a speed which could Birkenhead, r steamer though i thus employed is a noble and powerful with a beautiful lich would be greatly iir or other decOratior ,e wom at the pique, and the loi f England, at her main .t, or "whip ly evident on seeing the Great ng, bu s were t and that much ired in cro3sin, the -Iri. count' bringing forward buyers, Consols Went up to 87*, and the October price to 871, leaving off at these quotations, with a firm appearance. Three per Cents. Reduced closed 871 to s ; Three-and-a- Quarter per Cents., 88k to 89 ; Long Annuities, 9 1-16 ; India Bonds, 7 to 2 dis. ; and Exchequer Bills, par. to 3 pm. and business was rather better, owing to the expectation entertained among some parties out of doors that a chance exists of things generally taking an improving turn for rests, mere than the rumoured intention of the Bank to reduce the rate of discount, we are wholly at a loss to discover. Money was certainly tight, with every prospect of so continuing, as far as present appearances indicate. Bank Stock is 195 to 197 ; Three per Cents. Reduced, 874- to t ; Consols for Money, 871,- tot, for the Account, 874 to According to the last advices from America, all parties at New York were looking with the greatest anxiety for the accounts to be received during the next few weeks of the state of the weather on this side. Throughout the corn) were all in, and proved most abundant. Re specting the condition of the money and stock market at the departure of the steamer, one of the p as follows pers remark s decidedly in better request since our last notice, and the rates on all descriptions of loans may be quoted at somewhat higher. The publication of the re- .engthened the mviction which wa! ied by some individuals, that it would )r Congress at the ensuix additional loans, and hen buses, the price of Governm session to au- e, in connexion ave demand for , from the opening of 794.147 100,665 a fram the re: agents here that the vessel started quite but by the time she was half across, she made a great quantity of water. and there was great difficulty in keep- was on the r I her b ees of ti hip her Ige upon pressure of sales, had declined tc The following is the report of brougl descrii •ket durini :n any re as tun and up es of American f to the dulness c on account of their great scarcity, are rather " What matters of interest have occurred as bearing upon.our market have been external to the cotton ques tion itself, such as the failures in London, and here also to a smaller extent, connected with the corn trade, and the often repeated difficulties of discount and dear money. Had we not been overlaid by questions of this kind, it can be do, I that the firm tone of EXHIBITION OF THE LARGE PICTURES, BY MR. WM. ETTY, R. A., ILLUSTRATING THE MOST IMPORTANT EVENTS IN THE LIFE OF JOAN OF ARC, MAID OF ORLEANS. By the kindness of Messrs. Collis and NI; , Adam-street, Adelphi, London, the proprietors of the above splendid pictures, painted for them by Mr. Etty, the royal academician, at a cost of 2,500 guineas, we have been favoured with a private view, preparatory to their being engraved in the highest style of line and mezzotint by Mr. C. W. Wass, engraver to H. R. H. the Duke of Cambridge. The subjects chosen—the most important events in the life of one of the greatest heroines of modern _ _ nius of the distingt out in ti tear as we can gue t the t ;k Of rescuing h ranged alongsi is Joan after sl ited as devoting I so far as regards strength and capability of endur r exertion, which we naturall 3 fine, not unfeminine, but e The light is well managed rtistically execs ye . of determina The colouring, v !Itty's most gorgeous style. ian the si :tare, which is of an att( is of the artist's own des ,t to delineate her ( Joan of Ar under the in f inspiration riding on to victory ; she may b to be breathing a short prayer; her eyes cas iNin, believing herself imbued with inSuiration from of ion than the Med by a power of which hei-ver She had started from a short sleep that she heard her sacred VON le of her to assist her in steerir still in the stern of tl hip, disengaged from any ma- the tops Of the I 1 in its revo. jog and showing their ba, rew w - -- - of course, produced by the mere gh the water me., were crowded spectators as she neared the town, as were also the k quays, landi 11 desirous to obtain a view of her, and and rakish, though her tom served four men a We of t her wt .sts were 1, and a ting in the steering department, by ected with the temporary rudder. he Old Church shortly after half- quarter has mud previousl be necess issue rather by the - facilities which t tended to speculators than by any ext actual investment." The receipts down the Hudson river navigation to the 14th instan Corn t Export from Ist to 10th A Wheat flour Id, to ti Le latest dates since the 1 The ce her arm i. ;carcely conscious ler couch, imagh irging her to• cot banner, and her steed : then darting at full speed throng the streets, until - she reached the scene of action, Joa plunged headlong into the thickest of the figl being lted by `danger when closely viewed, she seem invigorated, nay, almost inspired, by its presence, as on conscious of support from on high. Waving aloft th a on to France, 1830, and accords with a similar incident whicl happened man g the gate, when a wounded g brought in,' Ha! own boils with tyle whi ipon whi in which Joan lived is still in ei old marke I as the hous eh we I Joan rid a breadt dendid animal, beauti The '.eomposition aroughout is worthy of the picture represents the trap herself at the stake—des4 icene in her I Ler enemie diers and officers c hom - they have condemned as a sorceress. ,nd features of the enthusiastic girl are e expression of the lattE till nob changed, and t re of the sad realit es, engrave be such a Lid not be glad to I Is they are i rs of historical 1 of. The pic- ed respectivel3 A -. vno and iling in a small boat Unfortun in bett Aug. 31,1547. LATEST INTELLIGENCE. (By EXPRESS.) LONDON C N MARKS YESTERDAY vur inarKet was moderately supplied with English IN hem `"' morning, by land-carriage samples from the near counties, which met a slow demand, at a decline of from ss. to 6. P er quarter upon the quotatio ns o f M on d a y l as t . G oo d qualities of foreign Wheat were saleable, in a retail way, at a reduct ion of from 4s. to r . per quarter upon that day's rates. . quoted Is. cheaper. English Barley did not 1 2s. per quarter of its previous value. oats were lest than of late, at an abatement of Is. to 2s. pe r s of all sorts, being scar , .- IA is. to 2s. Barrel d Gerr STERDAY l e p d t , l therefore, realised. to nurse° tn t si o mestwu. t heeaesid g ki ttrage u eeersur i s ' iec t aos e a.riintrg eijosdods.: fast, but kierif;;;:rerati!er price, but mid: r Calves, st Tolland alit' many there ar The thir tory—Joar of her figure dreamy a. expre of a ture is o: in hoar )1' more Cork Co On Su it with too much violE an adult. After the rc ItCV. J. for the D proceedings NI d in iln consid nor con standing will speedily be ready f Very far best red whe: per quarter, )p, and ie Al.rkets are still gc was sold at to-day's top price Within a farad, it picking where the line is strong the hops ka clusters. The accounts from all tl favourable, and a much highE is talked of. The quant year is unusually l MELANCHOLY ts are g luty than ,nd filber eellent. •ural clean eery of Kidwelly, conducted the young per ,ptised, to a font, specially provided for the id in his usual most impressive and solemn er read d of tl RA ILWA in the funds, ; business is inactive• aerally rather better, money, 87i Three-and-a' to ss. pre- luer Bills, k.msterdam on the being down there I of their decline ruing. The Two the Fours 89 to 3: ?assive 44 1,-,1 A. 2 w and uninl- n of Ferrara by n the contrary' n state that reinforcements were I cooper, recently em rd, Deptford, has the wilful murder LI for trial, char of his wife by giving her' arsenic. Intelligence has been received at Lloyd's of the loss Of the East Indianian Robarts, of London, 1000 tons, by E 30.000 Ye logs of tt that the ;hip 7ew, who were g and repulsive s. Of all hu and, in all PO" Lps, tne worst „ . n of the proudest race upon, of France, is the criminal and was rather e favourable sP' mices to show en ividual and national cz s is, pen lstocrai idon share market, on d this, coupled with t 11 her royal suite will remain in Scot' 3 is now in town, wi le royal party succession to Lord Gre better look s leave on 'I lursday to jolt& of State in attendance, i° Sir George Grey is expected W./LilG 11lJ1 VIL uur,uuy • EDRATlON. — Conciliation Hall bow I its already tarnished laurels. Its Among toe members enrolled in the latter bl were Lord Wallscourt, and Mr. Chisholm the Londo ant,d ‘i c ‘ That Leopold house Hail." e aiT washe acct wilf We regr mounce t lev Alexaz crecutors or day, it app( ared that the Ii larger thin - was date of the fail pound, will not IMPROVE 'eston, h r. Sumn act, a very N which cor such away in eight day ❑der the bbed 1 ig business' iy last week Amstey, the inquiria destructive fire at Beech-street+ d a ver the ten- once commit- I a meeting of th e and Co., held to• the firm are mus h £73,O'it being 73,0vv,,' sets, which at the realize 20s. in the ;ondon nines. _; ;htl :hat the tale." chan t spri im parte. anged 0 P only once e, on tion in the Lave co elf in the g I himself instant, th owing probably to the n f per Cents. by 3 Y;(7 y, any ealloa the Kel t the formation of a ar of tempo] Dover, ha s Ilion to the Soutb ) get up .a concern stl as. 110 one i, na uv - kat has niau` as he s,inmtth theire South for cides' bileee Archer br ateratlelre their resource' ,' ngagemen y, .nd wind ; 1 r ! , commen°. - .er onty cll5. F-YEARLY MOFi totnhteho of m e vi a7sti capital ..o o u o 0,r,114. I - 1; 1 ;y - fromL 0 n d on been formed. The real obj ...tern company, and it n: convenience of the pop .ovide for under pr and, sho ;en t. eirctuy with othe DUNTIES i arm fell t fhp 1 e enabled to enter into to obtain a shor dopted, A ;old goes o able, e , in th ,d goods for nved in the m refusal to dis ontem he preser e been, tc 11 tell his hie, with to carry out and import 11 foreign con unfavouiable st will be conferrinf, 'J udes, that if our harvests had been the most undant that ever were known, so that we had ted instead of importing grain, the pres and the enhancement in the rate L now prevail, though somewhat pally have existed," is one that !e for loans, interest, whi ninished, would as well qualified by the act, "either at the present or at some future time. - A few cases — perhaps many—of individual and merited calamity would probably have resulted; but we should cer tainly not have seen the whole machinery of manu factures and trade as at present, at a dead lock. The innocent and prudent would not have been found, as now, suffering for the sins of the design ing and the reckless. dition, IT is stated publicly, v 3 ,10 e l presume upon good 1d authority, that " another illoNi h eme D nt" is about to be made at Birkenhead ; that are to be made free both for tonnage and and ocks there cargoes, for in es, years, for a period of eightee n mont hs or two e order to ascertain how fa r trade i s likely, under the most favoured circumstances , t o patronize the Cheshire side of the river." This step is said to be justified by the benefit which the opening of the Docks to an active business would confer upon the owners of land, buildings, warehouses, and rail ways in the locality, whose investments are stated to amount altogether to a sum little short of £13,000,000 sterling. Of course we have no right to dictate to the commissioners of Birkenhead the line of conduct 1, or that ra nominal vali It dis- that the bank has not any othe ,d to supply the els of comm 'erce and hat one great re !data 11, - are high, is and from c the screw; in other )WS into the country a to borrow, not be sot possessed of the by its exer- idered their property y depreciated rates; yin deinand for manu although those goods irers' hands, the Bank, Le best paper, prohibits• the markets requiring Railways which are in s, with some hesitation, of the commercial world .avated by an un- and if mespondent when we the basis of our cur ded system of Free ;old a our one- gely of foreign grain, or any aodity, without producing e of our foreign exchanges, favour upon the corn- m with which he con- le min( The question, therefore, wl whom can the dock; and prop head C rs be the most ,geously worked short, can the current of commercial eti )romptly _an d larg neighbourhood of Wan that this can be best of lom, in :d by the Dock Com- with her head to the northward, sheering the north end of the Prince's Pier. Thence, with dome difficulty, on account of her great length, she was taken into the Prince's Dock basin, and as the tide fell secured __ gridiron, where she will undergo a temporary tightening repair. She will thence be taken into the Co burg Dock, to await further orders from the directors. ) the The ship was under the command of Captain Claxton, R.N., one of the directors, and we must say that the kill, tact, courage, and perseverance, which he has dis ilaved in superintending the operations in Dundrum Bay zfely in a precarious;leaky, and somewhatunmanageable 1 all praise. We subjoin a copy of a zallant officer, kindly handed to us by " "a" 1 " - -^d C 0.,) relative founded upon a light stock, would have given prices an ?is it is, our I.ther t quotations before, everything about a pro the result of which is likely to :ontinuing very dull, and the spinners pursuit 'e them to till more contracted consumption ABUNDANC F THE HARVESTS IN GEM Friesland, in - the kingdom of Hanover, dated 23rd instant, the writer of which states that the price of 81bs. of bread (rye), which was a few months ago selling at equal to is. 3d. of our money, is now 61d. ' • and that potatoes and all other articles of food are similarly reduced. The haL vest was all go average of past seasons pay of the a in, anc *lien - 'it is borne - in mind that ;s.; such a differe ,e cost of living must be a cripple, named Andrew Kelly, ton Henry Mistairn. The pri ,.tinn_ struck the complainant a to their Own hands the property of t whole, with such +ll a+ alteration in the presed plans as tion with may be required to work it in conju and as a useful auxiliary to, their own estate the inhabitants of Birkenhead will speedi their property resuming its value and ente and popi Dock ation re rust to enter upon this task, some .ttle sa- crifice must be made by the Birk sioners ; and to reconcile them to this, we may re mind that they will be thus embracing the least of two evils. If their dock schemes fail in their han or are even seriously retarded, the loss accruing to the owners of the mass of property embarked in the township, and to the commissioners themselves from its non-occupation, must be ruinous. Better far, in a pecuniary view, for themselves, and infi nitely better for the community of Birkenhead, to purchase the prosperity of the en abandonment of a portion of their pretensi Dock Commissioners. With Wallasey Pool as part and parcel of the Liverpool Dock Estate, the ship ping entering it paying one uniform rate with Li verpool, one rate only whether using both sides of the river or one side, the views professed by the original projectors of the Birkenhead Docks would indeed be carried out, and we should see the form ation of what might then be appropriately termed the Port of the Mersey, the population on both sides of the river sharing a common prosperity. ocality We regret to state that Mr. Broeklebank, of the firm of Peek, Brothers and Winch, died at Blackburn on Satur day, in an awfully sudden manner. He was found dead in bed that morning, having expired in a fit during the night. QUICK SAILING.—The ship Lydia, 477 tons, Captain H. Jones, has made two voyages, out and home, from this port to Antigua in six months and two days. She will again sail for Antigua to-day. She belongs to the well known respectable firm of Messrs. C. W. and F. Shand, who are the owners of several other first-class smart vessels. DEATH FROM FEVER OF ANOTHER ROMAN CATHOLIC CLERGYMAN. — We regret to have to state that another victim to his earnestness in contributing to the wants of his Roman Catholic brethren—theßev. Richard Gillow, of Copperas-hill chapel, died yesterday. The rev. gentleman was a member of a highly-respectable family from the neighbourhood of Preston, and was very much respected. THE SCHOOLMASTER WANTED.—Our contemporary the Journal, in an article addressed to speculators and importers generally, warning them of the consequences to be anticipated from over-trading, says :—" We presume on no superiority of knowledge ; with commercial details we profess no familiarity ; but we are sufficiently informed generally to be aware that not one man in fifty knows his Own business 1" As our contemporary is, of course, one of the fiftieth men who know their own business, it would be kind of him to impart to a few of the craft in our town a little of the knowledge in question. There are some we could point to who seem to know everybody else's busineis, but not theirnyfu, lettei from thi to her escape from Dundrum, and her very leaky condi tion at Belfast, which will, we doubt not, be read with interest. With respect to Mr. Bremner, through whose practical talents she was got off, we need but say that his i a lmost forlorn hope, will place his fame as apon a deservedly . enduring foundation. _ 7,-1 A 0041. an engine DEAR IRS,- ye the pleasure to at ,t of the Great Brit ,din in Dundrum ltended after the mornin move to post- the Wee' important indeed artizan snip uoauug WILII I,lle Lite ) Luc Lem"; La l AULL Mt, Lou zi,rung, i •-- J • so the signal was made as pre-arranged for fifty:men from committed to gaol for a month in default of paying the her Majesty's ships for pumping. penalty. We were therefore put to our shifts, and the work re- ROBBING A CAR DRlVER.—Yesterday, Thos. Parkin quired for anchors, cables, warps, boxes, and their appen- son was brought before the magistrates, charged with dages, which were all cut adrift, by occupying our crew stealing a horse-cloth and whip from John Jones, a car allowed the pumps to get behind hand, and the water, driver. The complainant was at a house in Skelhorne which it was reputed required fewer pumps than before, street, on Saturday, taking up a fare, when the prisoner speedily got ahead and at four she was to all appearance a took away the horse-cloth and whip and was in the act of _ _ . . • waa taken info I-mei-nay_ He w as an The magist: rate ordered hhal'to be commit- water-logged ship, Fresh vigour was, however, infused, . and before we got off Strangford, where I thought it best old offender to go, a thick, a most dense fog came on, and obliged us ted for trial. to go to Belfast; where baying kept the water under, we INGWEST.—Yesterday, on view of the body of John arrived at about 4, p.m. lam now shipping labourers, and Rourke, aged 55. He resided in a cellar in Slade-street, hope to be able to start to-morrow. A dry ship.—Your's lay down before the fire on Wednesday night to sleep, truly, (Signed) C. C. CLAXTON. and was found dead next morning. The surgeon attri- To Messrs. Gibbs, Bright, and Co. buted death to disease of the lungs, and a verdict of " natural death" was accordingly returned. The only The Eastham regatta will take place to-day, and the important fact elicited was that there were three persons sports will be first rate. sick of fever in the cellar at the time, and that six per- A MAN FOUND DROWNED.—An inquest was held sons lived in the same wretched place. The health com yesterday at the coroner's office on view of the body of a mittee will, no doubt, look to this. A DEATH UNACCOUNTED FOR. — Yesterday an inquest of ma the Eastha m n unknown, w ferry boats. hich was picked The u bpody in t was i he rive n ar state of one was held at the Coroner's office on view of the body of decomposition, and the height was 5 feet 6 inches. Susan Kelly, aged 24, who lived with her husband in a CRICKET MATCHES.—We understand that a match will cellar in Brick-street. It appeared from the evidence so be played on Wednesday (to-morrow) morning between far that she did not often drink, but that when she did the first eleveri of the Edge-hill and the Olympus so, as on Saturday last, she was extremely violent, and in Cricket Clubs, on the Edge-hill ground, Hall-lane. A a quarrel with her husband and others she fell down, or match will also be played on Saturday next, at noon, be- was thrown down the cellar stairs, but whether by her own tween the second eleven of the Edge-bill and the first act in struggling with her husband did not clearly appear, eleven of the Bark-hill Clubs, on the ground of the former. and the evidence being inconclusive the inquiry was ad- CAUTION.—We have authority for informing the public journed. that a man who is going about the town and neighbour- DEATH FROM DRINKING.—At the Coroner's office yes hood with a petition, apparently numerously and respect- terday, an inquest was held on the body of Kilmer Gre ably signed with donations for the widow and eight I v ory, a seaman, who lodged in Simpson-street. On children of the late Lieutenant C. Loftus Robinson, is an ednesday evening he became stupified with drink, and impostor. He sends the petition into the house with a staggered to bed. Soon after a noise was heard, and he note, purporting to be from a highly-respectable clergy- was found on the landing of the stair with his feet up. man at Walton, who knows nothing of the case. The He complained of his shoulder being stiff, and got worse same liberty is taken with the names of other clergymen ; until Saturday, when a doctor was sent for, but he died and we can only repeat the caution which we have fre- the same evening. He had been in the habit of drinking quently given, that no person should be induced to con- much. The surgeon ascribed his death to congestive tribute to any such applicant, without previous inquiry apoplexy, arising from excessive drinking. into the truth of his statement. STEALING WEARING APPAREL.—Yesterday, an elderly SMOKE CONSUMPTION.—Mr. Joseph Williams received woman named Margaret Burke, was brought before the on Saturday a letter from Messrs. Jones, tobacco mann- magistrates on a charge of robbing Mary Bennett of some facturers, Chester, stating that " his smoke consuming clothes. The complainant, a poor woman, residing in a apparatus, after being in operation some months, answered court in Norfolk-street, left her home for a few moments the purpose most effectually." Messrs. James Glover to go to the grocers, on Saturday evening. On her return and Co., brewers, of Russell-street, in this town, have she saw the prisoner at the bottom of the staircase with a also written to Mr. Williams to say that his " apparatus candle, and on being asked what she was doing, replied completely destroys the smoke, except for a short time that she had taken a pair of trowsers and a vest (which after making the first fire. We also find there is a saving were in her possession) , be cause she was hungry. of about about twenty per cent. in coals, with the additional ad- formation was given to the police, and the prisoner, who vantage of a greater regularity in the heat and despatch did not make any resistance, was taken into custody. She in boiling the worts : after being in constant use eight stated to the magistrates, in her defence, that she wa s s months, we do not find any injury done either to the driven to the commission of the crime by starvao coppers or stealn boiiert" . prisoner was committed for trial, without prig out the fear of ation with ment without Those corner-stones, religion, I have long ceased to adorn the figurative edifice of France Still, we hoped we had seen the worst, and.that the crisi might end happily. In the midst of our hopes falls, lik —a people without loyal 3e grea' a bomb, the Preslin murder to crush them crime was born of vice—a crime, too ; but both are crimes of a sort to which the filthy and infidel portion of the French press and French literature generally have given the name of virtues ! Where the stage and the novelists encourage lust and murder, and where the law looks upon adultery and bloodshedding as amiable weaknesses, no wonder that God is outraged, and hearths desolated, by such social crimes as that which has so lately awoke the public horror.—Church Gazette. FURTHER. FALL IN THE PI highest price realiz shed its maximums —drcity," was £32 per load. Wheat of th same quality was offered in Windsor market on Saturda last, and only very small sales effected, the general • pression amongst the buyers being that in the another month it would be down to £l2 or -‘'" The following are the last prices of r market towns alluded to : —Reading Newbury, £l4 to £l7 ; Bicester, bouring count during the " s OF CO' at the time it had per load. heat per load at the 12 lila to 4:11 10, bury, to £l6 ; Th'ame £13 7 163. to £l5 15s.;7Aliing don,. £l5 to £l6 ; Wallingford, £l3 to £l4 10s. ; and Maidenhead, £l3 10s. to £l7. There appears to be a general complaining throughout the provincial, districts that the price of bread to the public has not been reduced in anything like proportion to the great fall in wheat and flour. EFFECTS OP FREE-I PAUPERISM IN LAN, TRADM —ALARMING INCREASE Ob ASHIRE.—On this subject, says z free-trade journal of Saturday, such an alarm has been taken in Bolton, that the Mayor has convened a special meeting to consult as to what is best to be done. In Preston the increase upon the poors' rates has been very great. In the June quarter, 1846, the number of poor relieved in that town was 3,687, the cost being £1,130. In the June quarter of the present year the number re lieved has been 12,615, and the cost £3,795. The Preston Guardian in drawing attention to these facts, Says :—" It will be ruinous to go on at the rate of fifteen thousand a year for poor-taxes alone ; and if the forebodings respect ing trade be realized, we may have that sum very greatly increased in the winter, from the vast numbers who are expected to be out of work. In addition to which, the county rates, instead of diminishing, are likely to increase upon us. What is done should be done instantly." MORE ABOUT POTATOES.—Of the state of the potato crops abroad, the editor of the. Gardener's Chronicle, who has been at much pains to obtain authentic information, says, in that paper of Saturday,—" The season is now so far advanced as to justify us in believing that the danger is over, and that the principal part of the European har vest oithis root is safe ; and thus again are confirmed the opinions which we have this season ventured to express, that the symptoms were more favourable, and that the a d l i l s disease had b h t a os d ua l r o s s pt t oa i r t ti s he Paris virulence. wee k will have removed be equally satisfactory i n Belgium. There is noth in g in the Bel g ia n potatoe crop i bushel, while the. 41b. loaf is 10 ( 1 . , in dicate an enorm ous French tterolast crop; i s the potatoes s e . 6 con tinent d.a w su il p l pi n y ot ofdtihminiah eform.e ar We appear and havea co a n ito fid il e a n r ce in t fo h r a m t a th ti e on su f p r p o l m y which can lead to a suspic ion that it has been attacked by the disease of previous y ears. In li ght land or heavy, clay, marl, or bog , ( the Polders,) the crops are universally te an d promise twice as large a return as i n co mmon Holland, and affair safe, years." THEATRE ROYAL, LIVER. This favourite theatre opened last night under a new management, with the play of Richelieu, the leading character being sustained by a o you ng tragedian—Mr. Geor ge Owen, 1 - whom high ex pectations had been raised, from notices of his acting in various provincial theatres. We have not had, upon the eve of a publication, a fair opportunity of forming a judg ment of his abilities ; and must, therefore, refrain from saying more at present than that many passages of his acting elicited hearty applause, and that some evinced great merit. The company geperally is good. The house NM moderately well filled, • ith the Stockton and Darlington Company for a _el antee on the expenditure from Bishop Auckland to IN' dill, and the meeting was made special for the purpo. r , he Chairman stated he believed there would be no f u ~0 her call during 1847, as they had sufficient funds to g0,,,,v 0 n 413 a And of +ha yam. • nrthr half. fllcs laket nail had b k received, some parties were willing to pay the 5 per cq ie interest, rather than raise the money immediately. 1 1 , 6 'as reduced from 18 to 12, and , number - of report was unanimously adopted. LIAM, eldest son of 'JOHN TANLOR, Esn., to MARY A +,, of the Inl! n A t l . r. a P t .sFtL. JohnANA GthAeNboafpTtiostt Church, P - MARY APCARTNEY, both of Tu JOHN APCABE, to Mrs, _ L MARKET, A U GUST 30. r any alteration from our last state/net% ; we have large supplies as far as number goe; greatest part of inferior quality. We had a lit ner° at and anything good sold readily r, - - • LOP Mutton, LIVERPOOL COTTON MARKET, AUG. 3°' or. We can only report our customary state of the Cotton l e o , ket, quiet but steady. The news by the Hibernia was C3ieti lated to rouse us, but the stupor of death seems to have se doi upon us as well as all branches of trade. The sales of te" are 3,500 bales, in small leetle quantities, for consumer s ' condition of whom is very deplorable. TIDE TABLE TORN. IEVENG.! HGY h. m. h. m. I ft. in 2 19 2 44 I 18 0 Sept. 11 3 8 3 35 4 37 Aug Tuesday Wed.:. ; Thursday 21 4 4 3 512 I 551 4 633 I 7 17 Satuida Sunday aft. Sunday 5i 7 6 1 9 58 1 Alondiy • AT LIVERPOOL. 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