The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser. — Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1848-08-08 00:00:00

TO CORRESPONDENTS. lEf" A Shareholder" will denude his communication of the imputations on the directors we may insert his letter. The directors, we imagine, can only have one interest in view— the general good of the company; but as there may be a difference of opinion as to how that may be best attained, we shall not object to publish a communication with that object alone in view. The complaints of " John Robinson" are well founded, but we can seldom find room for letters received on Monday. We have been compelled to postpone until next week an article explanatory of a remark which we made a fortnight since re lative to certain parties making the Water Question a stalk ing horse for political purposes. Our remarks have been con strued in some quarters to refer to the National Confedera tion, but as we did not intend to allude to that important body, we are anxious to set ourselves right, but we cannot do so this week. Ltherpool gPtanbarb. TUESDAY MORNING. AUG. 8, 1848. ANOTHER " Slaughter of the Innocents" took place on Wednesday evening in the House of Com mons. A batch of small bills were announced as dropped for the present session, so very simple in their character, and some of them so obviously necessary, that it must strike any one as marvellous that, in such an assembly, comprising so many men of business, one or two spare hours could not have been spared since the 4th of February to dispose of them. But so it ever is. The majority of our representatives in Parliament can see nothing which is not of imposing aspect, with the exception of their own small speculative hobbies. Practical measures, unitss of large import, involving some great principles, or connected with the balance of -parties, are elbowed aside from night to night, and week after week, until at length they are allowed to be quietly smothered. Amongst the measures thus dismissed on Wed nesday night, is one which really ought to have occupied a more prominent position than has been assigned to it, and which ought to - have been 'pressed forward by the voice of public opinion as most especially important at the present crisis. We refer to the bill for effecting an alteration in the law with respect to damage done to property by riotous assemblages. By the law as it stands,—the remedy given against the Hundred falls very far short of the justice of the case. A riotous mob -and we- have recently, although happily not in Liverpool, had some experience of the proceedings of such mobs—may break into and strip a ware house, a house, a shop or any other building ; may inflict ruin upon the industrious tradesman by sweeping away the proceeds of years of patient toil and thrift; and there is no remedy available for the recovery of his property. The offence only amounts to a misdemeanour; and, to enable a party thus injured to recover from the Hundred, it must amount to the crime of felony. There must be a demolition or a beginning to demolish the warehouse or the shop—an invasion of the freehold. By the bill, introduced at the commencement of the session, it was proposed to give a wider range to the law, and to enable parties to recover for loss sustained by the acts . of riotous assemblages, whether the freehold was touched or not. In fact, it was proposed to return to the law nearly as it bad previously existed. The proposal was strictly just. There can be no reason why the house—the shell—should be protected, and the property which it contains unprotected : and there is still more claim now, in the altered state of society amongst us, than there was when the principle that protec tion should be given to the individual for losses occasioned by the neglect, or the want of power in the authorities, to preserve order was first re cognised. We have seen rising up around us within the last few years vast communities, depen dent upon capital, the caprices of markets, and a variety of other contingencies for support, who may at any hour be driven into excesses and vio lence, to strikes and turn-outs, during which they may revenge themselves, or feed themselves, upon the property of the unoffending shopkeeper, who must submit to be plundered without redress ; whilst, at the same time, an injury inflicted by the very same hands, and through the very same agencies, upon the possessor of a mill, a barn, or even a wall, is amply paid for. We are more liable now than we ever before were to similar disturb ances as the fruit of political agitation. And it is grossly unfair that the damage done during such disturbances should fall almost solely upon those the least able to sustain it, and who, in most instances, have had the least hand in bringing them about. The most proper measure, however, amongst others, is to postpone to another session, in order, Sir George Grey informed us on Wednesday night, that the Attorney-General may have an opportunity of framing one upon his own pattern. He is willing for some alteration to be made ; that a remedy may be given against the hundred, where the offence committed has been only a misde meanour instead of a felony; but he is afraid of opening the door too wide; and the legal subtlety of her Majesty's law officers may be able to impart some retarding friction to its hinges. There has been abundance of time, moreover, for those law officers to have considered the bill ; and we are not at all certain that, by the aid of the multitude of lawyers the house contains, it might not have been made all that is required at an hour's, or half an hour's sitting. The object which it had in view, however, was one only affecting a few miserable shopkeepers—mere canaille in the eyes of a Whig ministry. It was thrown aside, with other similar low-bred pieces of unfinished legislation. The house could not waste its precious time upon it; and accordingly proceeded to press forward a bill for the improvement of sundry gravel walks, and other approaches to her Majesty's park at Windsor. THE great Irish rebellion of 1848, like an ambi tious rushlight, has prematurely flared up, and been puffed out for its impudence. The armed millions, who were to have swallowed up her Ma jesty's forces, horse and foot, and artillery, have vanished into thin air, before the moral weight of a proclamation and the muskets of fifty or sixty police; and the leaders—the men who were to have hurled her Majesty from her throne—the presi dents of a republic in embryo—where are they ? Vanished also ; burrowed into some deserted rabbit warren, or crept into some favoring coal mine, or some illicit distillery of the genuine potteen. The gorgeous uniforms of green and gold, whi c h were to have transformed drapers' shopmen into colonels 1 and captains, are laid up in ordinary ; the pikes, which were to have done such terrible execution, are destined to be transformed into snore pacif c implements ; and the stock of muskets and pistols prepared will probably never be employed in a nobler cause than that of shooting an agent, or a landlord, from behind the comfortable shelter of a hedge, or a stone wall. Alas for the hopes and the aspirations of the men of the bright sword and physical force ! Was ever the world so befooled by a set of actors, who promised soul-stirring tragedy, and ended by producing farce, most miser ably farcified ? But a few days ago, we saw the opening of the performance. And it will be admitted that the bills promised wonders, and that the preliminaries had been most elaborately worked out. The piece opened with what struck us forcibly as a sort of Irish version of Bombastes Furioso, his Majesty, the King of Munster, delivering with admirable force the well known challenge, " Whoever shall these boots displace, Must meet O'Brien face to face." Anon we saw his majesty, with his cap of '9B surmounting his locks, and silver-headed sceptre in his hand, surrounded by an army of some hun dreds of heroes in serge, summoning seven police men to surrender their arms, and giving them two hours to consider the awful consequences of recu sancy. After this feat, there was the usual stage marching and counter-marching ; and at length we find him in front of the Widow M'Cormack's slate house, in which 50 or 60 policemen were en sconced, ordering his heroes, in a voice of horribly alarming loudness, to " blaze away and slaughter them all," whilst himself, lest the light of rebellion should go out with him, is carefully squatting be hind a wall, and out of shot, amongst the cabbages. Then there is a volley from the policemen within the house, from the effects of which several of the besieging force are seen to fall ; and " suave qui pent" is very volubly repeated in Irish, the King of Munster himself setting the example by creeping on all fours under a fence, his agile efforts being aided by the persuasive effects of a couple of musket shots. The curtain drops here, leaving us in agony with respect to the extent of the impression made by the volley; such agony being increased by in formation conveyed to us of his majesty having been seen, somewhere after the rout, sitting in a field, blubbering in most unkingly vein, and sub sequently surrendering his stick of office to an un armed policeman, whom he meets on the road. There is an episode, too, in which the king is repre rented as riding away—a la Dick Turpin—upon a police inspector's horse. Thus ended the first act ; and the curtain has risen, before a puzzled and expectant audience, disclosing the scene of the late bloody battle,—m which all, except the few who were killed, ran away, —occupied by the tents of some thousand or two of troops, without an enemy to fight with. Born bastes' boots are displaced, and he has not redeemed his challenge. The King of Munster has shewn himself to be veritable dunghill ; and, there is, we presume, to be no more of the piece, for the present, at least; some say not until after harvest, and some not until after the arrival of the Greek kalends. It is whispered that the leading actor has been so ter ribly in earnest, that he has gone lunatic through his exertions ; and that his mind will have to be disabused of the impression that the bullets and bayonets of the enemy are real, before he can be induced to return and play out his part. He had set it down that he was " never to he taken alive ;" and he has no fancy for the previous operation re quired for his being taken in any other state. We suspect, in serious earnestness, that the poor King is a little affected in his brain ; that his brags of physical force and of dying for his country have been only the thick-covering fancies of a madman's brain. There is, at the least, symptoms of this in a singular manifesto addressed byphim to the Mining Companyof Ballingany, dated "Callan, 29th July," a copy of which has just been enclosed to the Lord Lieutenant, by General Macdonald. After request ing the Directors not to persecute their men for having aided in protecting him —or, in reality, for joining in the insurrection, he goes on to make the following modest recommendations, viz. : " That for the present the whole of the proceeds arising weekly from the sale of coal and culm be applied in pay ment of men constantly employed in raising coal and culm." Or, in other words, that the entire property of the Company should be confiscated for the use of the labourers ! The letter proceeds very pleasantly, as follows : " He (Mr. S. O'Brien) recommends that a brisk de mand be encouraged by lowering the price of coal and calm to the public. In case he should find that the Mining Company endeavour to distress the people by withholding wages, and by other means, Mr. O'Brien will instruct the colliers to occupy the mines on their own account (!); and in case the Irish Revolution should succeed, the property of the Mining Company will be confiscated as national property. On the contrary, if the Mining Company observe a strict and honourable neutrality"—submit to be robbed— " doing their utmost to support the people of this district during this present time of difficulty and trial, their pro perty will be protected to the utmost of Mr. O'Brien's power." Admirable ! Most candid madman ! Here we have foreshadowed the very end and aim of re bellion. Repeal of the Union ? Republican in stitutions ? Fudge ! There is not one in ten of O'Brien's late followers who know the meaning of the shibboleth. The movement is obviously a com munist movement. The war is to be levied, not so much against the Saxon as for the appropriation of the Saxon's property. It is not to seat an im becile and a craven, like O'Brien, on the imaginary throne of imaginary Kings of Munster that Tippe t rary longs to be led to the field. It is. no "wild revenge" which spurs them on, but a deep longing for a settled property in the acres, which they have made the scene of their squalid turbulence. Thanks to Mr. Smith O'Brien ! If his ill-acted farce of rebellion had no value in our eyes, as tending to prove to disaffected amongst the Irish people their unpreparedness to cope with the power of a united empire, and the feebleness and incapacity of their blustering leaders, it has, at all events, drawn from himself this confession, that its object is not the regeneration of Ireland, and the motives of those engaged in it pure patriotism ; but that, from first to last, it is a scheme of plunder. There may be a little of " wild revenge " as an accessory ; but plunder and confiscation are at the root of the rebellion. After we had written thus far, we received intel ligence of the arrest of the chief actor in this farce, and of several of his leading subordinates, the par ticulars of which we detail elsewhere. THE advocates of the Rivington Pike scheme have got hold of another stalking horse. The cho lera is coming. Already it has reached the shores of the Baltic. It is raging in St. Petersburg ; and any day we may expect to bear of its having reached our own shores. Ergo, exclaim the water doctors, —" Press forward at once the Rivington scheme; procure water from the Yarrow, the Roddlesworth and the Douglas, to flush your sewers and cleanse your streets; you have not a moment to lose!" We are not at all disposed to treat lightly the threatened advent of that dreadful scourge, or to deny the advantages which would result to the public health from the possession of an ample supply of water. We rather pride ourselves upon the fact, indeed, that the necessity of taking prompt measures for procuring such a supply had our humble advocacy long before it excited much notice from some of the gentlemen, who are now so zealous in the cause; when Mr. Earle and Mr. Rathbone were thinking more about beautifying the town than improving its sanatory state, and had centred their affections more in St. George's Hall than in the sewers of Vauxhall-road or Marybone. But we must object to the near approach of the cholera, or even its actual presence, being any argument in favor of rushing headlong into the Rivington, or any other scheme, without full consideration. Push on our engineer as we will; expedite the required works as we will ; be lavish of expenditure as we will; a supply of water from Rivington is only in futuro, whilst the cholera is almost a present fact. We cannot drive it away by merely exhibiting plans and specifications, chymical analyses or Mr. Spen cer's sealed bottles of the delightful fluid itself. A more common-sense policy would be to set about enquiring whether it is not possible to make more than we do of the protective means, which we have in our 'possession. We are assured by practical men that, if not an abundant, or at least such an abundant supply as some people contemplate, an increased supply can easily be had. Let the Health Committee take steps to procure us this. It may be made available in, comparatively speaking a very short period, probably before one half of the working survey of Rivingtoq is completed, and for less money than the engineer will have to spend before his working drawings are ready to be laid before the Council. We are not about to enter at all into a discussion upon this long mooted plan of water supply. Like the public, we are weary of it. But we can not omit once more to reprobate the uncalled-for imputations which are levelled by the advocates of the Rivington scheme, in the Council and else where, against every gentleman who presumes to differ from them. They are "a set of selfish rate payers" forsooth, who are to have "a lesson read to them on their selfishness and short-sightedness ;" they regard "pocket interests" to the neglect of all thought of " the lives and habits and morals of the town." We are not disposed to retaliate such unworthy imputations, or we might perhaps ask Mr. Rathbone, Mr. Earle, and some of their friends, • whether this great scheme is altogether to be under taken on sanatory grounds. The pocket is perhaps quite as sensitive on one side as the other. ROCK FERRY COMPANY.—The annual meeting of this company was held yesterday at the Clarendon-rooms, but reporters were not admitted. FIRE LIGHTS.—The speedy and cleanly ignit:on of fires is always desirable, and we believe that the patent fire lights for that purpose advertised in another column, pos sess all the advantages that can be desired and tend to save much time and expense. ALLEGED CRUELTY OF A CAPTAIN.—In another column it will be found that the captain of a Quebec ship, who had charged some of his men with mutiny, failed to sub stantiate his charge, and that he was summoned by the accused for cruel treatment. The case was called upon yesterday at the police-court, but none of the parties appeared. GRAND CONCERT.—In addition to the extraordinary attraction of Jenny Lind at the splendid concert at the Collegiate-hall, in this town, next month, we perceive that Signor Rogers has been engaged, who is decidedly the next finest tenor singer to Mario, Fed has never been heard here. He made a marvellous sensation at the Royal Ita lian Opera this season. THE WEATHER.—Since our last publication, the weather has been extremely unsettled, with very heavy rains, particularly on Friday, Saturday, and Sunday, which may have done some injury to the grain crops, by laying them, as they are now heavy and approaching to ripeness. We have not, however, as yet heard of any particular damage, and, if the weather should take up, all will be well. The other crops are rapidly advancing. ANOTHER TRIAL.—It appears that the hangers-on of Conciliation-hall are already b pas t ing of their intention to re open that nursery of treason the moment the country is permitted to enjoy even temporary tranquillity by the suppression of the " King of Munster's" abortive effort to overthrow British supremacy in Ireland. Mr. John O'Connell, it seems, actually contemplates his restoration to the dictatorship, which, when matters grew serious, he was but too happy to surrender. THE LITRiPOOL STANDARD. THE BRAZILIAN FRIGATE ALFONZO. This fine war-ship, which, some months ago, was launched from the building-yard of Mr. Thomas Boyden, was (as stated at the time) constructed for the Emperor of the Brazils, and is intended for his majesty's own use, to navigate the coasts, creeks, and rivers of that country, as well as for purposes of defence in time of need. She is built of the choicest timber. and is certainly one of the strongest vessels ever turned out of this or any other port. She is about 900 tons burthen, and though calcu lated to carry heavy metal and munitions of war upon a light draught of water, and is, therefore, full below, she has a fine appearance as she now lies in the Coburg Dock. She was constructed under the superintendence of Ad miral Grenfell, of the Brazilian service, who will, we presume, take the command. The vessel has flush decks, of great strength, and on the upper or gun-deck carries two long 64-pounders, on carriages working on circles,—one forward and the other aft; also, four 62-pounders in the waist, working through side-ports. These are ponderous, yet elegant, pieces of artil:ery. There are also a number of small arms of various kinds. There is a large armoury and gun-room between decks; and the ship is fitted up in every way as an efficient vessel of war. _ On Saturday, through the kindness of Mr. Bawden, who has superintended the erection of the engines, we were favoured with a view of these fine pieces of mechanism. They were built by Messrs. Benjamin Hicks and Son, of Bolton, and are, together, of 350-horse power, but will work more with perfect safety. They are on a new•prin ciple, and with direct action. All the beams and all the frame-work are of wrought iron, and the appearance of the whole (including the brass, &c.,) is like a huge and beautiful specimen of the finest polished clock-work. Cast iron would be double the weight, and not so secure. The same builders constructed the engines of the Fury ; but they have here introduced many improvements. A variety of brass-work is introduced, including motion wheels to speed. or to reverse, the engine with great ease and alacrity. The diameter of each cylinder is sixty-eight inches, and the stroke of the piston five feet. The im mense cranks are also of wrought iron, and weigh each 18 cwt. They were bored, turned, and planed. Agreat deal of the usual cast-iron work is substituted by copper and brass, and the whole is exceedingly compact, highly finished, and beautifully bright. The condensing ap paratus is novel in principle. The air-pumps, and the mode of admitting the injection water are also quite new. The same may be said of the gearings, especially the eccentrics, which are curious and beautiful. Compared with another vessel of 350-horse power, cn the usual principle, (where cast iron is employed,) the saving will be at least one-third in weight, and the security will be one-half more. This, with general compactness, will more than compensate for the additional cost, which is considerable. The boilers are on the flue principle, with fires at both ends. In the lower after engine-room there is " a donkey," of one-horse power, for pumping, &c. There is, also, in another part, a tank for the distilled water from the tubes or steam pipes. On the whole, these are the finest and most compact engines of the size we have yet seen. We understand the Alfonzo will make a trial trip this day. PUNCH IN IRELAND. AN UNREASONABLE DEMAND GOT RID OF. Mr.. H. Grattan, in a recent speech, mentioned, as one of Ireland's grievances, the want of brick and slate houses for the peasantry, which, he maintained, the landlords ought to build them forthwith. After the slating , which the said peasantry received at the widow Cormack's house, we suspect that houses of the mud and thatch kind will be preferred. as bricks and slates are likely to recal unpleasant reminiscences for some time to come. A- NEW WEAPON OF CIVIL WARFARE. When it was supposed that Messrs. O'Brien, Meagher, and the other rebel leaders, bad taken refuge in the col lieries in the neighbourhood of their defeat, it was con ceived that it would be a rather perilous feat for the police to attempt to dislodge them from amongst the " black boys." An eminent tactician of our acquaintance sug gested, as an efficacious movement, the propriety of throwing down each shaft a few dozen hives of bees, whose stings, well applied, would promptly place both the pikes and the pickaxes of the said " boys " liors de combat. IMPORTANT EVENT. It is said that Mr. Smith O'Brien is to be made a mem ber of the Merchant Tailor's Company on the first va cancy, in consideration of his " uniform" fondness for greens, and especially for cabbage, as exhibited in the Widow Cormack's garden. His art of cutting has also excited the universal admiration of the master snips. The sum of £lB 12s. was collected for the Liverpool Church of England School Society at St. John the Evan gelist's Church, on Snnday last. The claims of the society were advocated by the Rev. Henry H. Higgins ) minister of the church. THE ALBERT WAREHOUSES.—We are assured that,. after a very careful examination of the receipts and pay ments for the Albert Dock Warehouses, those splen did erections do not realise a profit of more than l 4 per cent. There is plenty of food here for a lengthy oration from Mr. Eyre Evans. The body of special constables in Birkenhead now num bers nearly a thousand, and they are drilled every eve ning. The police have been provided with cutlasses, to. the exercise of which they are being drilled, and in which. they are becoming very expert. Bodies of special con stables at Oxton, Rock Ferry, and other places in Che shire, also assemble almost nightly for drill. DEATH FROM CONGESTION OF THE LllNGS.—Yester day an inquest was held on view of thebody of Henry Bateson, of Craven-street, aged 60. Deceased was a weigher. On Friday evening deceased complained of being ill in his bowels, and kept his bed all day. At four on Saturday morning he became much worse, but refused to take anything. Shortly after twelve o'clock at noon, the person with whom he lodged went up to him,. and found him quite dead. It was found that death was caused by congestion of the lungs, arising from an affec tion of the bowels. _ BANKRUPTCY OF JAMAICA.—It will be seen from our summary elsewhere of the West Indian intelligence, that the financial state of the Island of Jamaica is extremely bad. The Receiver-General of the public Treasury had issued a notice that he was without funds, and could not pay the salaries falling due, but that he would give notice as soon as he could pay a moiety of the amounts due. The Jamaica Dispatch says that the payments of the September quarter also cannot be met, and the Treasury may be said to be a bankrupt, there being a deficiency of £14,000. IMPUGENT ROBBERY.--Yesterday, at the Police-court, two mere youths, Thomas Wilson and David Higgins, were charged by Alfred Kershaw with having on Friday gone into a house in Soho-street, in which there was, at the time, only a little girl, and asked for a bundle of clothes in blue and white, which he said was his. It was given to him. It appeared that part of the family in the house had very shortly before come from Staleybridge ; that the prisoners had got into company with one of them on his arrival here, had watched him to the place, and could describe the bundle which he carried, as that given to him by the child. They were both committed for trial. OBTAINING MONEY UNDER FALSE PRETENCES. — At the Police-court, yesterday, a man who had been employed at Mr. H. Littledale's, in Wallasey, was charged with having obtained in Liverpool several small sums by way of loan, he stating that he was short of money, and had to make several purchases for Mr. H. or his lady. It ap peared that there was no truth in such representations ; but that as he had not actually stated that his master or mistress had authorized him to say so, the cases adduced were insufficient in law for a commitment of the pri soner ; but he was remanded, in order that enquiry might be made into some other alleged offences of a similar nature. COMMITMENTS AT THE POLICE-COURT, YESTERDAY. Rosanna Burns, and Ellen Mc. Ginnis, charged by Eliza beth Connor with picking her pocket of 9s. in St Martin's market, on Saturday, were committed to gaol for three mouths.—Several fellows found haunting the town at late hours, were committed for three months.—A woman named Mary Twist, was charged with having robbed a man named John Bird of £1 ls., while he was drinking with her in Finch-street. She was an old offender, and was committed for trial at the sessions. Mary Coy le , for stealing several pairs of stays, a corset, and a cloak, (worth in all about £7,) from a shop in Bold-street, was committed for trial. THE ANDERTON CARRYING COMPANY.—Yesterday, a general meeting of this company was held in the Claren don-rooms, Mr. Robinson Duckworth in the chair. Mr. F. Boult, after passing a warm eulogium on the directors, moved a formal dissolution of the company, which being seconded by Mr. Holt, was carried unanimously. The chairman then observed that their deed of settlement re quired that there should be another meeting before the act of dissolution could be legally carried out, and that it was necessary to give ten days notice of such meeting. It was proposed to hold a meeting on the 19th instant, which would be duly advertised. [We learn that the company having been purchased by the Earl of Ellesmere, the above p roce edings are necessary to effect a legal transfer.] the L iverpool IMPART I AL urfiWal/T,NiESSaSt.—Mr. Whitty, th e e dit or o f present in Ireland, and we quote the following paragraph from a letter which he pub lished in that paper on Saturday last, merely premising that Mr. W. is a Roman Catholic of the first water. He says :—" They err who suppose the Catholic clergy averse to revolution. A few Italianised divines may act on the law that all power is from God, and rebellion, therefore, sinful ; but the majority entertain no such notions; they are of the people—with the people—and, in politics, are Irishmen rather than priests. In rebellion, the bishops could not restrain them. There is no doubt that many of them consider an outbreak at some future day as in evitable ; and it is a fact that several have provided them selves with those ecclesiastical robes suitable to the ad ministration of the rites of the church in the camp and the battle-field." IMPORTANT CAUTION. — Mr. W. T. Callon, surgeon, of Islington, has communicated the particulars of a case which recently came under his attention, and which should operate as a warning to the public against the use in culi nary operations of a certain description of glazed pan. One of his patients was recently taken ill after eating some preserves made in a glazed pan, and the pan was submitted to Dr. Brett, who says, that having chipped off some of the enamel, and submitted it to analysis, he ob tained unequivocal evidence of the presence of arsenic. He adds that having made some experiments with another pan of the same description, he finds that certain acids are capable of acting upon the enamel and seperating the arsenic therefrom. The orginal patentees of the glazed pan have certificates from the most eminent men denying altogether that there is anything deleterious in the articles of their manufacture, but they, of course, cannot be an swerable for those made by other parties. GENERAL TRADE REPORT. Monday Night. Some time back the arrest of Smith O'Brien would have created a sensation on 'Change ; but that gentleman's late conduct, pretty clearly evidencing that he may be looked upon as a political non-entity, has taken away the charm which might otherwise attach to the inheritor of the ancient honours of Irish chieftainship. Alas ! he has fallen into the hands of the Philistines, and no one thinks his misfortunes worthy a passing observation. The best thing government can do for him will be to place him under a little wholesome restraint, so that he may neither commit himself nor his countrymen to the perpetration of such dangerous eccentricities in future. The Irish question, indeed, seems to have nearly lost its influence on public se. curities. Consols opened at 871 to 4- on Saturday, but owing to a large sale of stock and anxiety from the state of the weather, they receded to 861 to 87, at which they closed. For the 7th of September the last price was 86/ to 87k. The grievance to the West India interest, which we men tioned a fortnight since, has been partially removed, in the ',increase of duty on continental refined sugars from 245. Bd. to 265. Bd.. which, although a trifling alteration, has given some satisfaction, but on the whole it is looked upon merely as a compromise. • With reference to our COBH Market, it is a curious fact, that while Wheat has been held very firmly here to-day on account of the heavy rains which have fallen in this district, it is Is. lower in the London market, with a dull sale, owing to the favourable weather which prevails in the south ; and the accounts by telegraph from all parts of the country report the weather as being very fine. Although there has been little passing in the Wheat trade here to-day, speculators have shewn a disposition to pur chase; and the prices of other articles remain the same as on Friday, with the exception of Indian Corn, which sells slowly, and is somewhat lower. Our imports into this port since Thursday have been :-Wheat, from Ire land 258 qrs. ; Barley, Europe 720 qrs. ; Oats, Ireland 580 qrs., coastwise 175 ; Oatmeal, Ireland 10 lds. ; Flour, Ireland 490 sacks, Canada 200 brls. Exports:-Wheat, for Ireland 80 qrs., coastwise 12 ; Beans, coastwise 200 qrs. ; Pease, coastwise 10 qrs. ; Indian Corn, Ireland 910 qrs. ; Indian Corn Meal, Ireland 226 brls. ; Flour, Ireland 67 sacks, coastwise 20 sacks 100 brls.-Generally speak ing, the reports of the POTATO crop are more favourable throughout England ; but the Irish accounts are very conflicting, and we prefer laying extracts from letters and circulars before our readers to expressing any decided opinion upon the subject ourselves ; we have, how ever, said before, and our belief is still the same, that the evil is not so great as is anticipated :- Belfast : With respect to the Potato crop, whilst there is no doubt that some disease in the stocks and tubers has shown itself as the early crop came to maturity, it has been so limited as not to affect even this portion of the crop to any great extent, and gives reason to hope that the generai crop may escape with a similarly light amount of disease • at the same time, all wait with anxiety the result of the next three or four weeks.-Limerick: The statements received respecting Potatoes are so varied and contradictory, from different parts of the country, that it is impossible to arrive at any conclusion that will apply to. the entire crop, and were it not for the interest which attaches to the subject, we should wait until a week or two enabled us to write with more certainty. We regret to say that the fields in this immediate locality exhibit a very decided increase of disease within three or four days; but, on the other hand, we are informed by many farmers at a distance that there has seldom been a promise of a better crop.-Waterford : We daily hear reports of blight becoming more general in the Potato crop. Our market well supplied at 6d. to 10d. per 161h.-Thaphal : More extensive complaints of the spread of the disease, but still' hopes are entertained that it may be checked, and the greater portion of the crop saved in good condition.- Cork := There is now no doubt of the existence of the Potato disease to an alarming extent, and'we have reason to think an official report has been made to Government snbstantiating the fact. The Corrox market has been somewhat influenced this week by less favourable accounts front Manchester; and although sales up to Friday averaged 5,300 bales daily, rice at the close were a shade in favour of buyers, but we can make no alteration in the quotations. On Saturday about 3500 bales were sold, 500 for export : the market continued dull, but without material change in prices. The sales TO-DAY are about 5,000 bales ; of which. 700 are Surats, and the remainder chiefly Americans, at 3d. to sd. per lb. The market has been very quiet, and, perhaps, a little in favour of the pur chaser. About 500 bales have been takeraor export.- The disasters of the times, so far, however casual de pressions. may have taken place, have left us, with respect to this important branch of commerce, inn much more favourable position than we occupied at this period last year. Owing to a larger crop in America than was ex pected, and the almost total suspension, sinee Feb. last, of shipments to the continent of Europe, we have already received an excess of import from the United States over last year of £398,000 bales, while there is only an excess of stock of 114,000 bales, The consumption of all kinds has increased this year 150,000 bales, or 5000 per week ; and the total stock is now 585,800 against 413,100 bales. The following table of receipts, exports, &c., received by the• packet from the States to-day, show that the crop is likely to prove little short of 2,300,000 bales, and the prospects for the growing crop are so far favourable. The receipts in the last week were only 144000 bales, the season being nearly closed:- Vessels Shipped gi .=° e,6; , Loadiag t o e t 2 f. - E"g Total. 4%. 8 pi ti Gt. Brithitt. oz 671 • P. , 1848 1188/77 278191 111653 132195 1710206 2240356,239689 55 75 1847 716419 164 593971 86980 1069856,1749813 371280 1846 12042126, For the last few days a greater disposition to purchase has been displayed in the WooL trade. at some improve ment in prices. The stocks of Colonial, East India, and home grown Wool are still large, and in the absence of nearly ell exportation, we are entirely depending on home consumption, which continues in a healthy and improving condition. Public sales here are announced for the 10th and 11th instant, And there are already advertised 1,800 bales Australian, 1,000 East India, and 600 of other de scriptions. They are expected to go off satisfactorily. The imports here for the month are 6,984 bales, of which 1,553 are Australian, and 2,515 East India. Imports for the week :-Foreign-Trieste 81, Smyrna 51, America 5, previously 47,836, total 47,973; Seoteh-318, previously 6,542, total 6,860. Since the public sales of China and Bengal SILK, there has been a better feeling shown ; and though we have no alteration to quote in prices, the market is decidedly firmer, and the consumption Undiminished. The present stock of China in the public warehouses is 15,216 bales, and 4765 Bengal, which will account for prices continuing to rule low. In Italian, Breese and Persia Silk there is less offering ; but the transactions in these descriptions have been very limited. Waste Silk: Both Knubbs and Husks, and also Gum Waste, are unsaleable, and prices nominal. Silk Piece Goads: There has been more in quiry for Corahs ; but importers still continue to hold for higher rates : all other description of Silk Piece Goods. are neglected. Since the General Brokers' Circular was issued, there has been a steady demand for Sugar of all descriptions, and prices have been rather in favour of the seller. The sales are, 100 hhds. Barbadoes, 365. to 435. 6d. ; 100 hhds. Porto Rico, 375„ to 38s. ; 140 hhds. Demerara, 355. 6d. to 38s. ; and 1,400 mats Mauritius, 335. 6d. to 365. 6d. ; a cargo of Porto Rico has also been sold to the grocers. A few Bengals have been placed at previous rates. A de mand has sprung up for Molasses ; the sales are, 500 pun cheons Antigua, at 18s. 3d. to 18s. 6d., from the quay.- More business has been done in Saltpetre, but an ad vance could not be obtained ; 1,200 bags realised 275. to 255. 6d., for 2} to 5 per cent refraction.-Rum is not much sought after.-Bengal Rice is in fair request, about 6,000 bags have been sold at stiff prices.- The business transacted in Mincing-lane during the week has been large, and tile colonial markets generally present a less heavy appearance. The public sales of sugar have been considerable, and in several cases an advance of 6d. per cwt. has been obtained. The refiners have come into the market since the settlement of the duty on foreign re fined at the rate of 265. Bd. in lieu of 245. Bd. as previously arranged, and have purchased extensively. In foreign sugar some parcels have been offered publicly, which have been generally realized at full rates, while privately, also, a few cargoes have been sold afloat. A parcel of China sugar, however, consisting of about 5,000 bags, has changed hands at a very low price. The transactions in coffee have been moderate, though a large quantity of plantation Ceylon has been put up, and sold at full rates. The native descriptions of Ceylon have been realised at former quotations. Holders of Mocha are supporting the market, and at a sale held on Friday 50s. per cwt. was demanded for middling yellowish garbled. The tea mar ket has been heavy, and the actual business small. The TIMBER market here has a little brighter aspect, and all descriptions of timber (with the exception of spruce and Baltic red deals) are a shade higher; all the cargoes of square timber that have arrived have been sold off the quay, but some of the parcels of spruce deals are being stored on importers account. The import this year up to the present time shews a large increase on last year up to the same period, and if the manufacturing districts continue to improve a higher rate of prices may be con fidently looked for. The IRON Market is firm, and an advance price is ob tained for manufactured iron. Scotch Pig Iron is steady at 455. per ton for mixed numbers. The improvement noticed last week in the value of AMERICAN Lard has scarcely been maintained since • of the 400 tons offered at public sale on Tuesday , 70 ;ens were disposed of at about previous rates, holders being very firm. The transactions in Pork are nearly confined to best parcels of " Prime Mess," which realise full prices. The demand for Bacon is good, but owing to the large supplies, a shade lower prices have resulted as regards low qualities. Hams and Shoulders sell at about previ ous rates, with a steady inquiry. There is little anima tion in the Beef trade ; recent imports, of ordinary qua lity, have sold at 87s. 6d. @ 90s. About 1500 boxes of Cheese were offered at auction on Tuesday ; very ordi nary quality, which constituted the principal part, sold at o ( s fre t e o ) 275. @ 335. ; the remainder, at 35 5. @ 385 . , with one lot of 70 boxes, extra, at 435. The prices curren t a r e - Cheese-(duty paid)-Fine, -8 to - a p er cwt. ; middling , m 4O e s ss to , p 4 e 3 r s tr ; ce o . rd m in l a b ry ' I ' l 40s to 60s ; extra, India, family, &c., 97s to 105 s; ditto, per half-barrel, 28s to 355;-mess, per barr el, 2001 b., 50s t o 56 s ; ordinary, 401 to 468, old 36s to 40 s; pri me, 38s to 40s. Pork -8785t0t0923586d5. ; Beef - ar ij y . , 2 B U.S. (free)-Prime mess, 36s to 555, old -s to -s per barrel, 2001 b. ; prime, 33s to 365, old 33s to -8; mess, family mess, &c., 428 to 50s, old 40s to 455. Bacon-(free)-Eastern, -s to -5; western, 288 to 458 ; shoulders, 22s Od to 246 Od, old -s per cwt. Hams-Dried, (duty paid,) 358 to 428 per cwt. ; in salt, (free,) 255 to 325. Lard-(free)-Fine, in kegs and bar rels, 42s to 448 per cwt. ; good, in do. do., 408 to 418 ; ordinary to middling, 365 to 38s ; inferior, and grease, 30s to 355. Soda B:scial-(duty paid)-261 to 281 per cwt. Pilot Biscuit -(duty paid)-15s to 205 per cwt. In consequence of large importations of IRISH Butter, I. and dealers having a quantity of previous purchases on hand, prices have receded in many cases ls. per cwt. under the rates of this day week. Irish Bacon and Hams are very little inquired for ; and the demand for Lard has decreased. The following are the prices (landed in Liver pool) :—Butter : Waterford, new, 80s. to 84s. ; Kilkenny, Carlow, and Clonmel, 80s. to 84s. ; Carrick, new, 795. to 82s. ; Wexford, Carlow, 80s. to 825.; Belfast, 80s. to 82s. ; Ballymoney & Coleraine, 78s. to 80s. ; Banbridge, 78s. to 795. ; Newry and Dundalk, 725. to 765. • Londonderry, 765. to 78s. Bacon : Long Middles, f ree from bone, new, 565. ; Short Middles, free from bone, new, 575. Hams : Dry, 655. to 725. Lard : Fine Keg, 50s. to 525. Arrivals for the week ending this day : Butter, 8852 firkins, 1815 crocks; Bacon, 74 bales; Hams, 4 hhds. ; Lard, 8 tierces, 54 kegs. The return from the Bank of England for the week ending the 29th of July gives the following results, when compared with the previous week : Public deposits, £2,303,143 ; Decrease, .e 107,714. Other deposits, 10,835,797 ; Decrease, 541,091. Rest .. .. 3,506,556 ; Increase, 7,945. On the other side of the account : Govment. securities, 42,522,735; Decrease, £284,811. Other securities 11;027,342; Decrease, 63,606. Notes unemployed 8,118,990; Decrease, 291,850. the amount of notes in circulation is £18,944,350, being a decrease of £96,370; and the stock of bullion in both departments is £13,710,104, showing a decrease of £398,603, when compared with the preceding return. The last monthly banking returns show a decrease of £1,772,799 in the circulation of notes in England, and a decrease of £2,940,529 in the circulation of the United Kingdom, when compared with the corresponding period last year; the difference from the previous month being an increase of £397,595 in England, but a decrease of £115,769 in the United Kingdom. They also show an increase in the amount of bullion in the Bank of England of £4,104,758 on the year, and £556,484 on the month; and in the Scotch and Irish Banks, a decrease of 4 - 179,179 on the year, and an increase of £36,420 on the month. Business in the West Indian islands is still in a very unfavourable condition. The following is the report from Jamaica, dated July Bth the present state of the island few persons will purchase except to meet immediate demand for consumption. Shippers should be very cautious in their supplies, as the present absence of speculation may cause the smallest surplus of any article to damage the market. Shippers of fish appear to forget that there are places beside Jamaica to which that article might be exported. Arrivals still continue to a most embarrassing extent, and must result in loss. Tlse foreign trade in dry goods is looking ups little. Several merchants arrived in the steam-packet from Columbia, Bic., and would have done business to some extent here, but the market is so ill-assorted that the transactions have been limited. ARREST OF SMITH O'BRIEN AND TWO OTHERS. Intelligence reached here yesterday morning of the capture of Smith O'Brien, and his arrival in Dublin. He was arrested on Saturday night, about eight o'clock, at the Railway Station at Thurles, and was immediately transmitted to Dublin, under a strong escort, by special train, where he arrived about two o clock on Sunday morning. When arrested he was about to take a ticket for Limerick, at the railway station at Thurles, when he was recognised by one of the guards, who, laying his hand on his shoulder, said, "'You are Mr. O'Brien ; you are the latteen's prisoner." Mr. O'Brien made no reply, and theguard at once sent for the police, thirty-seven of whom, with an inspector, arrived in a few minutes, and took their captive before Prince George of Cambridge, who transmitted him to Kilmainham Gaol, under an escort of Lancers, where he at present lies. On reaching the prison. he expressed an anxiety to retire to rest, as he was a good deal fatigued, " having," he said, " walked a considerable distance." Having been supplied with some tea, he shortly after went to bed, and soon fellinto a pro found sleeps A third edition of the Dublin World states that the following are the authentic particulars connected with the arrest i—" About half-an-hour previous to the starting of the train Mr. O'Brien asked one of the guards the way to the place where the tickets are procured. The guard, whose name is Hulme, and who is a fine young fellow, an Englishman, who served some time in the Manchester police-force, satisfied Mr. O'Brien's inqui ries and at the same moment recognised him. Hulme, being on duty, could not leave his post, but he despatched a soldier to the barracks with the verbal message that Smith O'Brien was within reach. The soldier on-his way to the barracks met Head-constable Hanover, Rhu is one of a body of country detectives, and apprised him that Smith O'Brien. was at the railway terminus. Hanover said, " You dont't say so ; nonsense !—however, L have a warrant for him 1.." Hulme pointed out the person of O'Brien, who was immediately arrested. Mr. O'Brien made no efforts-to disguise himself, but he had an aspect of indescribable dejection and care. He had been re cently shaved, hut in other respects his toilette was very imperfect. He was dressed in a black frock.coat and gray tweed pantaloons. He was very cold, and Mr. Jones, R.M., lent him .a great coat, for which courtesy he ex pressed' his thanks. He said he was weary of hiding himself and of travelling day and night;. that he would a thousand times rather encounter a battle than conceal himself any longer, especially as he knew that, sooner or later, he must have been taken. He had not changed his linen for a week. When starting on his ill-s'arred enter prise he had a large supply of wearing apparel, but he had gradually parted with it to the country people. Mr. O'Brien was quite alone when apprehended. He was armed with a single loaded pistol, but made not the least resistance." After Mr. O'Brien's departure from Thurles, two other arrests took place ' one of them Fitzpatrick, and another named Nolan,.who is said to have come over for the pur pose of taking command of a division of the insurgents. On Saturday morning, Francis Hanley, a student of Trinity College,. was arrested in Dublin. He had been in correspondence with O'Brien's party. It is now expected that the other leaders. in the rebel lion will soon be captured. Mr. Meagher is said to be in the Keeper Mountains, and Doheny slept on Friday night in a cabin near Thurles. Hot pursuit is after him. ROBBERY OB THE MAILS.-ATTACK ON A. POLICEMAN. On Saturday as the up and down mails between Limer ick and Tralee arrived at Abbey Fell, about twenty miles from Cahirmoyle, the seat of Mr. O'Brien, the coach was surrounded by some hundreds of the country people well armed, who demanded the fire-arms and the mail bags, which were giNcen up to them by the guard, resistance being useless. On reaching Limerick, the guard gave information to the authorities. Near the place of this attack, the country people seized a policeman in coloured clothes, who had a warrant for the arrest of Mr. O'Gor man. They searched him and took his watch, £lO and a six-barrelled pistol. They tore the warrant in pieces, kept him five hours in custody, and then discharged him. Subsequently the money was returned to him. LATEST INTELLIGENCE VIA HOLYHEAD AND CHESTER. DUBLIN, MONDAY MORNING. The arrest of Mr. S. O'Brien has not produced that excitement which many would expect. Yesterday Mr. O'Brien partook of a hearty breakfast, and seemed wonderfully cheerful notwithstanding his aw ful position. In the course of the afternoon Mr. O'Brien's solicitor called and sought admission, but was peremptorily refused, as were all applicants notwithstanding their rank or station. LATEST INTELLIGENCE. (BY EXPRESS.) Advices are in town from Dantzic, yid Ostend, which report revolutionary tumults in that city. All the better class of the inhabitants, resident foreigners as well, were called out in consequence, and doing duty under arms. LATEST FROM PARIS, PARIS, SUNDAY, 6 30 P.M. Nothing of importance has transpired to-day, nor has any foreign news arrived since my despatch of this morn ing. There prevails, however, a general feeling of ap prehension, and some families have decided on leaving Paris for a fortnight. I cannot trace this to any definite cause. It may probably arise from the apprehension of the consequences of the debate on the report of the insur rection. MONEY MARKET—YESTERDAY. The satisfactory nature of the accounts from Ireland, and generally from the Continent, improved the funds, and made an apparently strong market this morning at the com mencement of business. Consols advanced to, and were firm at, 87} to # for money and the 10th instant. But some rather considerable parcels of money stock which were pressed for sale at this stage of prices, speedily re duced them to 862 to 1, at which they now remain. It is reported to have been discovered that it is a " bull" instead of a "bear" account, as before supposed, and hence that hold ers are anxious to get out of stock purchased on speculation of higher rates. The dealers and brokers are much occupied in preparing for the liquidation of accounts on Thursday next, the 10th. Reduced Threes are 862 to Three-and-a-Quarter per Cents., 87i to Exchequer Bills, 395. to 425. premium. LONDON SHARE MARKET.—YESTERDAY. The Share market is heavy this morning, with prices of a downward complexion. We quote London and North Westerns, 124 to 6 ; Eastern Counties, l4i to ; Brightons, 29} to ; North Staffords, 91 to 9 dis. ; Great Northerns, to 3 dis. Caledonian Pref., prem. LONDON CORN MARKET.—YESTE RDAY. The supply of Wheat, by land-carriage samples from the near counties, was but moderate this morning. Early in the day an effort was made to obtain an advance upon the quota tions of Monday last, which was, however, only successful in a few instances, and the trade eventually closed rather heavy, at the rates of that day. Very little business was done in either bonded or floating cargoes. Barley, for grinding purposes, was in fair demand, and its value was Well maintained. The sale for Oats was far from brisk, but prices cannot be quoted lo er. New white Peas were Is. to 2s. dearer. Beans firm, without alteration in value. SMITHFIELD CATTLE MARKET.—YESTERDAY. Although the number of Beasts is larger, there is a considera ble falling off in weight. A great many are coining to market in very middling condition ; they have evidently done badly at grass ; consequently, the best descriptions fully maintain Fri day's quotations ; indeed, nearly 4s. 4d. has been obtained for selling qualities. The supply of Sheep and Lambs is hardly so large as on Monday last; trade is more cheerful, and the best qualities are making rather more money. Owing to the non arrival of some Dutch boats, the supply of Calves is much shorter; prices have consequently advanced about 4d. per 81bs. THE IRON TRADE OP SOUTH STAFFORDSHIRE.—It is gratifying to be able to state upon unquestionable au thority, that within the last fortnight there has been a decided improvement in the iron trade of these districts. Orders for all kinds of iron are abundant : but althogh an advance of prices has been seriously discussed, none has yet taken place upon those fixed at the recent quarterly meetings of the trade. Another pleasing feature of the present times is the apparent good understanding which exists between the masters and the men. August 8,1845. LIABILITY OF SHAREHOLDERS IN JOINT STOCK BANKS. NEWCASTLE-ON-TYNE ASSIZES.-FRIDAY. (Before Mr. Justice Cresswell.) NESS V. BLACKWOOD. Mr. Knowles appeared for the plaintiff, and Mr. Martin and Mr. Manisty for the defendant. Defendant pleaded that the debt had been paid. Mr. Martin, in addressing the jury for the defendant, on whom the onus of proof lay, said that this action, although in the name of Mr. Ness, was in fact, like others on the list, brought by the directors of the North of En gland Bank, for the purpose of endeavouring by indirect means to compel the shareholders in that bank to pal what was called a forced loan, in order to enable the directors to carry it on without resorting to the plain and straightforward course of compelling the shareholders to pay up their calls. The history of the ease would. he thought, open the eyes of the people relative to joint stock banking establishments. In 1831 this bank was established, with the enormous capital of £400,000 or £500,000 ; the directors knew best what they had done with the money, but in 1847 the bank stopped, without having one penny to pay any single individual. The con sequence was great discontent among the bond fide share holders, and means were taken for the purpose of calling. upon them in the manner pointed out by the deed of settlement to pay the debts of the bank. The learned counsel animadverted strongly on the conduct of the directors, and especially in issuing a circular calling for loans, but in which it was stated that " several highlf respectable parties had , been excepted, as they held such a number of shares that the calls had been considered: oppressive and equivalent to a loan." The learned counsel then stated that Mr. Ness had received the money, and explained how an assignment had been made of the debt and judgment to• a Mr. Blaylock, of Carlisle, with the view of enabling the directors to institute the present proceedings. Mr. John Tinley, defendant's attorney, remembered a scirefacias being issued against Mr. Hudson at the suit of Ness. He afterwards met that gentleman in the streets of North Shields, and said, " Yon are frightening people out of their wits by issuing .wire facias for such large sums." He replied, " Yes, I understand they are using my name, but I have got all settled and paid." This was in. February or March ; the present action was brought in May.. On the following month heagain met Mr. Ness, and said to him, " By the way, the bank is still using your name,. although you said they paid you." He said, ` It's very wrong, they will be getting into a scrape ; they paid me, and 1 did not expect they would use my name:' [The letter from the bank, referred to in the opeginge was put in and approved.] • Mr. Ridley was called to prove Mr.. Henderson's signa ture to the letter. Cross-examined.—Witness is a direc tor of the bank ; Mr. Ross, Mr. Henderson, Mr. Hevrson, and Mr. Robson were also directors. Each of these gentlemen. had a loan account with the bank--money advanced by them to meet the exigencies of the bank. Witness saw money drawn by the checks of these gentle men paid to'Mr. Philipson for Mr. Blaylock, who lives at Carlisle. Re-examined.—Mr. Jobling was at this time solicitor to the bank. The bank solicitors are the plain tiff's solicitors-in this action. Mr. Knowles., for the plaintiff, said that the real ques tion was, not'whether the directors had exercised a sound or an unsound direction, but whether Mr. Ness had been. paid his debt by the bank. He would show that in point of law the debt exists to this day and is in full force, and' that it belongs to a party who was now using the name of Mr. Ness, as he was entitled to do if the debt was his. The payment was not by the bank, but by four individual directors, who drew out their own money for the purpose ; and he would prove that the debt and judgment had been handed over to Mr. Blaylock for the purpose of keeping it alive. These being the facts, he had no doubt the-learned Judge would direct them to find a verdict in accordance' with a decision in the Court of Exchequer, to , which he made reference. Mr. P. Thompson, Mr. Ness's solicitor, proved the' making of the assignment. On Mr. Martin rising to reply, His Lordship intimated that there were no facts-for the jury, and informed them that in law the debt had not been paid, but assigned, and the defendant's plea had con sequently not been made out. __ _ The jury at once returned a verdict for the plaintiff, on which The learned Judge observed, " Gentlemen, in time shareholders in banks will understand their liability.!' Verdicts were obtained for the same plaintiff in several other cases of a similar nature against various other de fendants. THE MAYOR'S SILVER CRADLE. TO THE EDITOR OF THE LIVERPOOL STANDARD• SIR,—As the Town Council appear to want a preoedent for granting the Mayor's claim, and as such authority cannot be found, I was glad to find that the friends of our worthy Chief Magistrate had determined to testify their regard by a town subscription in order to carry out that object. As I have not heard where I can pay my mite, I should be glad if you would kindly inform me, as-well as others of my friends and townsmen, where subscriptions are received for the above purpose. I am sure many will be glad to mark the high sense en tertained by the town of our Mayor's private virtues-and public spirit. I am, Sir, yours, &c. Liverpool, August 7th, 1848. it. S. .1. [Mr. Mayer, of Lord-street, can gi;re our correspon dent every information respecting this matter. We shall be glad to take charge of any subscriptions, and hand them over to the proper quarter.] CRICKET.—A match at this game came off on Saturday last, at Wallasey, between the first eleven of the Walla sey. and seven of- the Seacombe Albion Cricket Clubs. The latter club came off victorious, beating their ePP° - nents in one innings, by a majority of six. SERIOUS ATTACK.—On Sunday night, about nine o'clock, as an elderly gentleman was walking- home at Windsor, he was suddenly accosted by a ruffian s who de manded his money or his life. The gentleman irnoi diately prepared to defend himself, but unexpectedly his assailant struck, him a severe blow on the face and knocked him down. The gentleman then called loudly for assist ance, and the scoundrel, fearing it might arrive, mad? (4f in a hurry without securing any of his intended victim a property. THE CHOLERA IN EGYPT.—Letters form Alexandria announce that the cholera had manifested itself with con siderable intensity at Cairo ; and that the epidemic had also reached Tantah, a town on the Damietta branch of the Nile. Ibrahim Pacha immediately gave orders to suspend everywhere all laborious works, and to s upply the men engaged in them with wholesome food, and the country people are forbidden to bring into the towns either grass, vegetables, or fruit. Mehemet Ali has been decla red by the Sultan incapable of governing in consequence of his state of insanity, and Ibrahim is recognised his successor. THE ROYAL AMPHITHEATRE.—Last night, after the tragedy of "The Stranger," a new and highly interesting original burlesque, entitled "The Enchanted Isle," by Mr. R. B. Brough, (formerly editor of the Liverpool Lion,) was produced at this theatre, and was exceedingly well got up, both as regards caste, character, and scenery It possesses considerable local interest, is written in the style of Bombastes, and full of amusing puns. It quizzes in laughable style the political commotions and popular wildness of the day, and is interspersed with numerous, and admirable parodies on songs. The scenery is very beautiful, and copious, and the " fairy " machinery beautiful and appropriate. As the piece had not cell" eluded until after 11 o'clock, we cannot of course notice this new, talented, and funny production further unto next week. METEOROLOGICAL REGISTER, BY MR. C. H. CHADBURN, 71, LORD-STREET. .....- m Humidity at Pi ATMOSPHERIC f l 4 i Daily D i rec- t ,i ~,, thermometer Temperature tion 1 .el Pressure at shade by self- Noon. registering Fall of 5. !.... Difference of of at - 4 ..•___.-- _?: Nine Six a.m. I p.m. Max. Min. bulb. 00' - e Wet and Dry Rain. Noon. % ..... : 4 In. In. Deg. Deg. Deg. In. f xc 64 '- 1 29'30 29'53 65 58 3 o'l4 vvN.Nv 1 as 5 2 29'85 29'88 67 56 5 o'ol wby N 61 5, ' 3 29'82 29'74 67 55 7 W 5 4 4 29'68 29'62 67 56 5 0 . 11 w.s. W 63 5 2943 29 37 65 55 6 j 3 1 1.18 ~,,,,,,w 0 631 I" ---. 7 29'95 , 29'95 5 T -- -2'2-s--- THE WRATH ER.---1 SI : bright; noon, light rain; night, 1 40 , heavy rain.-2nd : bright ; light rain; night, fair.-3&: a";.,.. —4th : bright; light rain ; night, heavy shower.-sth : 10° ,.. 5 . ing, bright; afternoon, heavy showers; night, heavy. sho w f;„ —6th : morning, fine ; afternoon, heavy showers ; mk , ,iit, 1t . ,,t —7th: morning, fine; noon, heavy shower; night, bright n' fair. LAST MONTH'S REGISTER. 29 92 ' -- Barometer, max. in., 30 57; min., 29 32; average, Thermometer, max. deb., 79; min., 50: average, 63 '. 08 ;i u ring midity, max. difference,B min. 2; average, s•o2.—Rain " 75; month, in., 2'51. EVERTON.—Temperature, max. deg' , min., 48; average, 6015. LIVERPOOL CATTLE MARKET, Atm. 7 ' m ar- We have had a large supply of all kinds of stock at otu fer ior ket to-day, but the greatest portion of second-rate andu ll quality. The best met with a fair demand ; inferior , Beef, Sad. to 6d.; Mutton, 6d. to bid. ; Lamb, sid- to I. On the 2nd instant, at Ba rt o n u D pon-Irwell, in her 6 9 th year, er- MARGARET, relict of the late Mr. JOHN COLLIgo, chant, of this town, formerly of Kingston, Jamaica . LIVERPOOL: TUESDAY, AUG. 8, 1848. • PRINTED AND PUBLISHED T N G, EVERY TUESDAY MORN . s d By JOSHUA FLETCHER LACE, of 53, Grove street, A x LEONARD ADDISON, of 14, Great Orford-street, At No. 4. ST. GEORGE'S CRESCENT. LIYERPOO%.,. mid Orders for Advertisements received by Messrs. Newt_ " t street' Co., Warwick-square ; Barker and White, Fle e ..rger, Deacon, Walbrook ; Reynell, Chancery-lane ; Charlelvinn. 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