The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser. — Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1851-01-14 00:00:00

10 CORRESPONDENTS. earth; and whose exports are inundating not only There will of course be prizes awarded at the great Exhibition, this country ; but the whole of E uro p e . and they will be distributed, it is understood, by the highest We leave the subject here without further re per sooo.ge in the realm. The highest prize is, we think, mark—without glancing at the effect produced, or o na We are requested by a highly respected correspondent to state to be produced, by th e new source o f wea l t h dis that Archdeacon Manning has not joined theChureh of Rome. covered in the soil of the great Republic. It is Mr. Marshall was curate to Dr. Hook, and not to Archdeacon sufficient to know the fact that, so far as statesman's Wilberforce, as stated by our correspondent. craft can accomplish it, the United States will avail We are not aware that any step whatever has been taken to prevent the contemplated removal of the North-American themselves of all the w or ldly goo d th a t G o d sen d s Mail-packet service from this town. ' them ; and will not allow themselves to be duped We feel rather flattered by the couple of columns of abuse into the absurdity which our Free-trade politicians which the :,fail—we beg pardon of the editor, who is usually placed as a trap b e fo re th em . W e may g i ve t o understood to represent a paper, or weought rather to have said, " the proprietor" of that journal—has showered upon Brother Jonathan, and he will take. But he gives us, as a penalty for our refusal to march through Coventry nothing in return. with him to St. Barnabas's, in search of a candidate for Liverpool. 9i course, we are obstinate "heretics," "hire lings," "traitors," and all that sort of thi ng; h u t we are , vi• a E are beginning to understand why the ex ambitious of printing neither red bills nor blue bills, except as a matter of business; we never go whining about for cessive indignation expressed by her Majesty's orders to reprint our marvel' ore efforts at reporting; and prime minister, Lord John Russell, at the aggres we will merely add, that we care j us t as much about what "the proprietor" chooses to say of us as the public care— sign of the Pope, and his minion, Cardinal Wise and that is nothing. man, has so far moderated itself as to postpone its liament—February. Time was when the Barons and Commons of England, backed by the authority of their Sovereign would have taken prompter mea sures to repel such an insult to the throne and the constitution of the realm. We live, however, it The opening of the session of Parliament is seems, in an age of truckling and cowardice. We drawing near, before which it is important that the PrOtest with one breath, and say "All hail !" to the opinions both of the clergy and the laity should object of our loathing with the other. Our pre have been laid before the throne. We beg, there- cious Whig ministry is about to hid us bow down fore, to direct the attention of our Protestant read- to the one God in our own land, and to leave a ers to the urgent necessity of their signing promptly sister land to worship the Diana of the Ephesians, the two addresses—national, they may be called— Mahomet, or Vishnu, or any other god or goddess from the lay members of the Church of England ' whom it pleases their priestly tyrants to adopt, and to her Majeser the Queen, and from the clergy and ,to call upon us to endow. The only question re laity to the Archbishop of Canterbury; both ad- maining is,—How long ? When will the people of dresses calling for protection to the Protestantism this gulled empire know the characters of the mi of the kingdom against Papal aggression from serable clique in office, whom they are weakly en without and the taint of Popish practices within trusting with their confidence. the church. Although, hitherto, the fact of the ad- The public thought that the letter of Lord John dresses in question being depotited at a few places Russell to the Bishop of Durham was an earnest of in this town for signature has had little publicity I his determination to revert to that sound Protestant given to it, they have already had enrolled upon course of policy from which he and his predecessors them the names of a great number of the Pro- lin office had fatally departed. A straw thrown up, testants of our town ; and we trust that this notice, however, is sufficient to show how the wind blows; with the advertisement in our columns this day, , and probably the following extract from a leading will be sufficient to induce the masses of our article in the London Times—a journal which is fellow-townsmen, by their signatures, to g i ve a just now toadying Lord John, or, being the signal proof, and ground of confidence, to the stronger party, is patting him on the back—will Protestant party in the legislature, and to her Ma- prepare our readers for what is coming : jesty the Queen of these realms, that the anta. "It is quite evident now that, whatever the fifth article gonism of England both to Papal aggression, and of the Legislative Union may say of the unity of the two to Romanizing practices in the church, i s decided, churches, publi c opinion in England ref u s e s t o recogn i se their indentity. Things may be done against the one which resolute, and unchangeable. must not be done against the other. Titles and pretensions .........-.. will be allowed there which will be treated with the most determined resistance here, and much will pass for current THE present month's number of Blackwood con- coin in Dublin which is treated as base and counterfeit in tains a very striking article, entitled " British London. We are not saying th a t th ese thi ngs oug ht t o b e, Labour and Foreign Reciprocity," which appears ti u n t et s i t p a n tin fnu a n notorious s o a u n n d d un r 11 e i t i l t i a o b r l e w fact. ron c, Be t h t a h s e b d e iesn to have been suggested by Mr. Carte's " H armony d rawn in indelible characters; g not by acts of the legisla of Interests, Agricultural, Manufacturing, and ture, or the pen of speculative politicians, but by the Commercial," the production of an able American spontaneous and irresponsible instinct of an united peo writer. We are not here about to review the article pie. To treat the establishment of a Roman Catholic in question as a whole, in which shape, however, we nhioerrliffcheryinin Englandkind froma sa n t insult e st n a ti l t i lmg e r n e t a t o e; inn Roman degree can cordially recommend it as worthy of the attentive Catholic hkgrarchy in Ireland, would be the very pedantry perusal of our readers. Our object is only to cull a of bigotry." few facts from one portion of it, which deals parti- The gist of this is unmistakeable. To treat an cularly with the effects of our free trade measures insult levelled against the Crown, through the upon the position and probable future policy of the Church of England in Ireland, in the same way as great transatlantic republic ; and our contemporary an insult levelled against the Throne through the will, perhaps, excuse us if, in doing this, our Church of England in England, is " the very remarks may be to some extent a condensation only pedantry of bigotry !" " Public opinion," the of his own more ample text. Times says, "refuses to recognise the identity" of The great card of the free traders—the chief bait the two churches, although an act of Parliament held out on every platform to the selfishness of the declares them one and indivisible. " Things may manufacturing classes—was the prospect, nay, the be done against the one which must not be done certainty, that, by opening our ports to the agri.. against the other." We beg pardon of the Times, cultural products of the United States, we should but it is not so ; and Lord John Russell, his patron, open out almost an inexhaustible market for British or tool, will discover the fact, to his cost, if he commodities. The American people were to meet adventures upon any such mean and Whiggish us with open arms, to abolish their restrictive tariff, course as is shadowed out by our contemporary. to lay aside their dream of establishing a native The time has not come yet for giving up the manufacture, the approaching reality of which was Church in Ireland to Rome, as a salve for the striking terror into the hearts of the cottonocracy, wounded feelings to be caused by the rejection of and to devote their undivided energies to the work its approaches to the Church of England. Lord of developing the resources of their soil, and raising Clarendon may have to be appeased ; the M'llales cotton for the looms, and food for the mouths, of and other turbulent demagogues of Ireland may the population of Great Britain. In vain it was have to be appeased ; Lord Minto and Lord Pal objected by the opponents of the mad policy of the merston may wish for a graceful mode of retreat day that America had been, since the first declare- from their pledges to Pio Nono ; but the Pro bon of her independence, pledged to maintain a testant Churchmen of England will stand by their policy protective to the native industry of her brother Protestants in Ireland to the last, and people. In vain the fact was pointed to that the regard the downfall of one church as hut the pre raising of the entire revenue of the republic from its cursor to the downfall of the other. The Church custom-house duties on imports, with the absence of Ireland is to be, it seems, the sop to the wolf. of all internal taxation, was the great principle of Reason and natural history assure us of the fact its institutions. Still charlatans persisted in their that the wolf will get hungry again Ebt Eiberpool otanlarli. TUESDAY MORNING, JAN. 14, 1851 outrageous assertions ; and still insensate mobs gaped, in extacies of greedy delight, at the prospect held up before their greedy eyes. Well, we have been now travelling on the path towards perfect free trade for the last ten years ; and where, so far as the United States are con- THE ministerial organs are just now giving us a foretaste of what will constitute the .10 Triumphe of their masters in the session of Parliament which is approaching. We are to be overwhelmed with blue books, Board of Trade returns, and other sta tistical contrivances, and persuaded, against our reason and experience, that the people of Great Britain were never in a more prosperous condition than at the present moment. A regard for our own safety, however, suggests that we should test rather stringently the correctness of those docu ments, and weigh well their real hearing; and to a part performance of this task we devote a portion of our columns to-day. We are told, vauntingly, that the amount of our exports in 1850 has been £60,400,525 against £54,089,809 in 1849, making an increase in the year of £6,310,716. Hence, it is left to be inferred that increased prosperity is undeniable. Let us enquire, however, what constitutes our exports, and how far is their increase or decrease a correct index of our prosperity. Our exports may be classed under three heads :—First,----of articles of native produce, such as grain, cattle, minerals, &c. Secondly,—of articles of which the raw material is of foreign growth, but into which British labour and skill enter as components : and thirdly,—of foreign products, imported into this country as to a depot, and re-exported to neutral markets. With respect to the first of these, native products, we have no authority for believing that any increased export has taken place. In fact, we may say, with some confidence, that the export, in quantity, has decreased, rather than increased. The money amount of exports under this head may have in creased to a trifling extent, as the money price of most other commodities has advanced. The second head, into which we have classed our exports, is that portion of them which consists of labour employed upon the perfecting for human use of foreign raw materials. Under this head there will be found an undoubted increase in value. Our exports of manufactured Cottons, for example, we have no doubt will figure in the returns of the Board of Trade as above those of last year—the quantity we know to have been less. But there is a fact, or two, connected with our exports of manu factured Cottans, worthy of consideration. We consumed of the raw material last year 1,513,5171b5; and taking as our authority the annual circular of Messrs. Dufay and Co., of Manchester—which our friends in that town will not object to—the average price of middling New Orleans Cotton was in 1849, 4d. 11-12ths per lb., and in 1850, 7d. 2-9ths. The increase in 1850 would thus he, in round numbers, 21 per lb. Taking the average weight cerned, is the realization of these splendid pro phecies and assurances ? The American president of the day, and his cabinet, hold as fast to the maintenance of the principle of protection, although a few trifling modifications of the tariff have been conceded, as their predecessors of the past half century. The American people have done just what every man at all acquainted with their insti- tutions and temper expected thern to do—that is, they have devotid the capital which British folly has been throwing into their lap to the perfection of their native manufactures, the development of the vast resources of their soil and climate, and the extension of their commerce throughout the world. Their manufacture of cotton goods were to be laid aside. Yet, how great has been its increase will be gathered from the following table of BALES OF COTTON WORKED UP IN THE UNITED STATES Northern manufacture, Southern do, None. 1843-44 1844-45 1845-46 1846-47 1847-48 347,000 bales None. 423,000 „ 37,000 bales. 428,000 „ .... 40,000 „ 531,000 .... 75,000 „ 518,000 „ —.100,000 „ Thus a manufacture, which Free Trade with Great Britain was to have destroyed, has increased from 347,000 to 618,000 hales within six years. During the past year, we believe, a further increase has taken place ; and, what is most threatening to British supremacy, is the transfer going on of this branch of industry from the New England States to . the locality where the raw material is grown, and where, besides the saving of the cost of inland transit, the manufacturers will have the advantage of the cheap labour of his present non-adult, and comparatively useless slave population. A similar progress has been made in the deve lopment of the mineral resources of the United. States. It was hoped that, under the influence of Free Trade, and as the result of the promised diversion of American industry to the raising of agricultural produce, we should be enabled to pro vide an increased and permanent market for our coals and iron. America still maintains a protec five. duty of 30 per cent. upon these two essential raw materials ; and, as the result, the native pro duction of coal and iron has been as follows, during 1848-49 the periods named 1821 to 1829, average tons 1835 to 1841 „ 37,000 .. 90,000 - .. 250,000 1,108,000 .. - 1,621,000 .. 380,000 3,089,000 ..800,000 1842 1844 1848 Nor has the agricultural development of that great continent stood still whilst her people were thus rapidly increasing its mineral and manufacturing wealth. In the year ending June 30th, 1848, we find that they exported 958,744 barrels of flour, 1,531,000 bushels of wheat, 5,062,000 bushels of corn, and 226,000 bushels of corn meal. In the following year, up to August 31st, the exports had increased to 1,114,016 barrels of flour, 4,684,000 bushels of wheat, and 12,721,000 bushels of corn, corn meal having fallen to 88,080 bushels. The following table of the export of provisions shows a still further and gigantic increase. of the bale of cotton, as estimated by the eminent firm of Messrs. Hollinshead, Tetley, and Co., cotton brokers, of Liverpool, at 3861b5., and assuming for the sake of even figures, £3 10s. as the advance per bale, which is less than is warranted, it will be found, by any one who will take the trouble to carry out the calculation, that the raw material of cotton consumed by us last year has cost us no less than £5,697,207 more than the same raw material cost us in 1849. With respect to the third class of exports, viz. : those of foreign and colonial products, shipped out of bond, a similar advance in price will be found to have swelled their money amount. For the item of cotton alone, exported, we may add about £1,500,000 to the excess created in its export as a 1840. 1841. 1844. 1848. . in crease, Beef, article, making up the whoe lncrease, Beef, barrels 19,631 56,537 106,174 133,286 attributable to the enhancement of the price of this Butter, lbs. 1,177,639 3,785,933 3,251,952 3,406,242 raw material, to seven millions sterling. Chinese, Cheese, lbs. 723,217 1,748,471 7.312,145 17,433,632 Pork, barrels 66,281 133,290 161,629 253,486 Last and West Indian, P4azilian, and other tropi- Ham, lbs. 1,643,879 2,796,517 3,886,976 56,060,822 cal produce, contribute their influence. In con- Lard, barrels 7,418,847 10,597,854 25,746,385 37,446,761 I nexion with this advance in raw materials and But it will be said, America has imported from foreign produce, we may remark that the chief us in increased amount to meet these vast imports. countries to which we have exported more largely, Such, however, does not appear to be the case, in quantity, of cotton goods than usual hare been according to Mr. Carte's returns of the customs' the United States and India, both of which have revenue of that republic. The following is given eminently benefitted by the rise in the prices of as the customs' revenue derived from imports in their products at our expense. Thus America has the years named : increased her purchases from us of plain calicoes 5,000,000 yards ; of printed and dyed 8,000,000 yards ; and of a few other articles ; but as a set off she has received from us at least three-fifths of the six millions sterling increase in the value of cotton, in addition to a large amount for her breadatuffs. This is certainly no great increase of the imports Another singular fact, which the free traders will of a country whose population is increasing more have to explain is that the countries whioh have rapidly than any other country on the face of the chiefly decreased, some of them largely, their coo. 1844.5 27,528,000 dollars 26,712,000 23,747,000 31,757,000 28,346,000 1845-6. 1846-7. 1847-8. 1848-9, TIE LIVERPOOL STANDARD. , sumption of our manufactured goods, are the great I grain-growing countries of Europe. We are perfectly aware of the sort of ingenuity, and indeed of casuistry, which will be displayed, both in Parliament and out of it, to explain away these and other facts. We have a specimen indeed before us in the Manchester Guardian of Wednes day last. In the article in question our contem porary was labouring to rid the public mind of any uneasiness as to the existing deranged state of the exchanges; and used the figures which we have given at the commencement of this article, showing the increase in the value of our exports this year as compared with last year. From these data he argued that there was no reason to suppose that there was any actual adverse balance of trade against this country upon the year's business, but that the probability was in favor of an opposite result, inas much as " Of corn, provisions, coffeP, sugar, tea, cotton, wool, and timber, the quantities imported in 1850 have been less, and in some cases very considerably less than in 1849 ; while, however, of almost all, the consumption has been greater, the difference being made up from the stocks on hand at the commencement of the year. There is no article on which any important increase has taken place in the import in 1850, except wine to the extent of about 1,300,000 gallons." Now, if the Guardian had chosen to be inge nuous, he would have compared similar and not dissimilar results ; value in one case with value in the other, or quantity with quantity. But, to suit his purpose, he takes value, when striving to show that the exports had increased, and quantity, when desirous of showing that the imports had decreased. When doing so, he must have been aware, that in the former there was a decrease in the quantity so far as regarded the important item with which he was most familiar ; whilst the leading articles in the opposite scale had been imported at materially advanced prices, as compared with 1849, cotton, as we have already shown, although decreased in quantity, having produced an excess, principally reaped by the grower, of no less than six millions sterling. Nor is such a result anything very new, By the American estimate, the crop of 1844- 812,000,0001bs.—was valued at 65,772,000 dollars ; whilst that of 1845-958,000,0001bs.—was only valued at 56,000,000 dollars. Again, the small crop of 1847-71,000,0001bs.—was estimated to have produced 72,000,000 dollars ; whilst the extraordinary crop of 1848-1,100,000,00011 m.— reached only 60,000,000 dollars. Such attempts to torture facts to suit a purpose, we assure our contemporary, generally recoil upon the heads of those who practise them. At all events, they show how necessary it is to watch our dealers in, and concoctors of, statistics and trade returns. The court continues at 'Windsor. Her Majesty and the Prince Consort have taken their usual early walks. Lord and Lady John Russell have left their residence, Pembroke Lodge, Richmond Park, for Windsor Castle. The United States Mail steamer ship Arctic, Captain Luce, sailed for New York, from this port, shortly after noon on Saturday. She took out a fair average number of passengers and a pretty heavy cargo. . _ Next month, Mr. C. E. Horsley's oratorio, " David," which was recently produced with the greatest success by the Philharmonic Society of Liverpool, will be performed at Exeter-hall on a scale seldom equalled in the me tropolis. THEATRE ROYAL.—The pantomime at this theatre continues to draw crowded houses. We beg to suggest to the management the propriety of allowing it to be given at least twice a week, if not each alternate day, for the amusement of our Cheshire juveniles. KIRKDALE CHURCH.—The Rev. David James delivered his fourth lecture on the Romish controversy to a densely crowded congregation on Sunday evening. The subject was Purgatory. Connected with this church, we are glad to learn that a small chapel of ease ( in the form of a licensed room) has lately been opened on the Bootle road, near the first toll-bar, where two full services (at half-past ten and three) are performed by Mr. James and his curate, Mr. Pilkington, each Sunday. This, no doubt, will result in the erection of a church there, the neighbourhood being densely populated, 'and the distance from the mother church of Kirkdale being considerable. CONCERT.—A very excellent concert, patronized by the Esrl of Sefton, was given on Tuesday evening last, at the Concert-Ball, by Messrs. Saqui and Miranda. The leading local talent, vocal and instrumental, was present. The attendance was numerically great and important. The duet, " Venti Scudi," by Miranda and Saqui, was loudly applauded. Rubini's favourite aira, "A to divo," by Mr. Miranda, was given with much taste ; indeed, with a little more practice, there can be no doubt he will be come a leading tenor. Saqui appears to excel in the buffo. Mr. Percival's fantasia on Irish melodies, as also his other efforts, were pronounced passing excellent. PROTESTANT LECTURE.—The lecture announced to be delivered last evening, by the Rev. D. James, upon the subject of " The Man of Sin," at the Concert-hall, Lord Nelson-street, was attended by one of the most nume rous and respectable audiences that we ever saw assem bled in that building. Roman Catholics were invited to attend ; and about a thousand people having assem bled round the doors long before the hour of meeting, it was imagined at one time that a Roman Catholic " triumph" was intended to be achieved, and that the meeting was to be broken up by clamour and brute force if necessary. A glance, however, at the honest Saxon faces of the meeting, as it was constituted when we entered, satisfied us that it was a meeting o Protestants—working men—many of them with their wives and daughters ;—men willing to listen to the truth, and determined to stand by it. Mr. Alderman Parker was called to the chair ; and, after a brief appeal to the audience, asking for their patient attention to the lecture about to be delivered, and especially referring in kind terms to his Roman Catholic fellow-townsmen, in troduced the rev. lecturer, Mr. James, to the audience, amidst enthusiastic cheering. When the rev. lecturer was about to commence, a voice from the audience ex claimed, " with prayer." Mr. James explained that it had been considered best not to °commence the meeting with prayer, in order to meet the objections of that portion of their fellow-townsmen who might be in the meeting, and who had objections to join in prayer with Protestants. The rev. gentleman then delivered a most powerful and argumentative address, and received throughout the warm plaudits of his audience. At the close, a cordial vote of thanks was accorded to him. MEETING OF ROMAN CATHOLICS, LAST NIGHT.—A meeting of Roman Catholics was held last night in the school-room attached to St. Nicholas' Chapel, Copperas hill. The object of the meeting, as announced in the placard, was to re-organize the " Catholic Benevolent Society." R. Shiel, Esq., was to take the chair. The room, which is rather spacious and commodious, was well filled ; the company, however, were not very select, and appeared more likely to become recipients from, rather than contributors to, any fund to be applied to charitable purposes. Shortly after the time appointed for the com mencement of the proceedings, the Right Rev. Dr. Brown, the future (?) Bishop of Liverpool, entered the room, attended by the Rev. Dr. Crook, of St. Patrick's. The Bishop is a venerable man, far advanced in years, and thouzh his erect and tall figure gave him great advantage, his tottering gait proclaimed his weight of years and infir mities ; as he advanced to the upper end of the room he smiled beneficently on the people through whom he threaded his way ; arrived at the table he appeared to be suffering from exhaustion ; a seat was handed to him, and his attendant, Dr. Crook, and Mr. John Yates began to disengage him from the mufflers in which his throat was enveloped. The Bishop then entered into a lively con versation with Mr. Yates. In a little time three Roman Catholic priests entered, and, advancing in succession, knelt on one knee before the Bishop, and reverently kissed the hand he presented to them. Mr. Richard Shiel, accompanied by Mr. Powell and another gentle man afterwards came into the room : the two former knelt and kissed the bishop's hand, after which the pre late graciously requested Mr. Shiel to take a seat beside him. Mr. Shiel seated himself and entered into conver sation with the bishop. About a dozen priests came in afterwards, including those resident at Copperas-hill several of these went through tho ceremony of kissing hands. The object of the meeting has beenalready stated, our limited space precluding any further consideration of it. ST. PAUL'S,. KNIGHTSBRIDGE.—Therm s a gentleman of the name of Sir J. E. Harington, who has been carry ing on the controversy in Mr. Bennett's behalf, and who is, we believe, Mr. Bennett's churchwarden. Well, a clergyman now in England met with Sir , J. E. Harington in Rome last spring, and supposes that this " church wardel of St. Paul's, Knightsbridge," - is the same person. But at Rome that Sir J. E. Harington who was there last spring prostrated himself before tho•HHost, and even knelt in worship of that stupid fraud, " the handkerchief of St. Veronica!" If there are not two gentlemen of the name, what else than a Papist is Mr. Bennett's churchwarden ?" But this is not the only circumstance connected with St. Paul's, Knightsbridge, which has recently, ale — to our knowledge. Romanisra has been practise.'• in that congregation for some time past in its most din. gerous points. We speak.from very accurate informs lot, when we say, that parents have discovered that their sons were in the habit of frequenting haunts of dissipation, and indulging in habits of gross vice, and then of going to Mr. Bennett or his curates on,each Saturday night to be " con• fessed and absolved"—then to pursue the same round on the following week. It is on the young that these delusions are generally practised. A. gentleman of rank was recently living at a well-known watering-place in Devonshire, where " Tractarian practices," and especially those of the confessional, were rife. He had two daughters rather young. One of the curates succeeded in impressing these young ladies with the advantages of the confession, and at last the habit became a settled one, that whenever their parent went out to dinner a note was despatched to the curate, who came over and " confessed" his young pupils. A suspicion somehow reached the parent, and suddenly returning one evening, he detected the whole affair, and quickly turned the rev. gentleman out of doors. The same system produced still worse results, very re cently, we believe, in Bath. A priest of the Romish church, we are informed on highly respectable authority, has recently been found to be " missing" under the fol lowing circumstances :—A gentleman, professing Protes tant, but liberal opinions, alloyed his lady to form an acquaintance with the said priest. The result was, first, her conversion to Popery, and then, by the facilities offered by the confessional, her corruption, and a breach Of the seventh commandment.—Morning Herald. LITERARY AND PHILOSOPHICAL SOCIETY, The sixth ordinary meeting of this Society was held last evening, in the theatre of the Royal Institution. The papers announced were on the " Unity of the Fine Arts," by S. Huggins, Esq., and on " Architectural Criticism," by H. P. Horner, Esq. Mr. Huggins' paper was a very elaborate exposition of the views of the writer. who contended for one principle, which was essential to excellence in each branch of the Arts, including sculpture, painting, poetry, music, and even architecture. He ad duced many names from ancient history in support of his argument, the bearers of which hiid'fieen famous in most, if not all, the departments of Art. The Rev, H.H. Hig gins wished to understand whether what was meant by the unity of art was a mere conventionalism or a principle. Mr. Huggins said it was to be found in nature, otherwise it could not be a principle. Mr. Higgins thought that many men who excelled in one branch of art had no ade quate appreciation of another, and he therefore could not understand on what basis the principle of unity of art was founded. Mr. Huggins contended that where this was the case the deficiency arose from physical causes, and that any such instances did not invalidate his theory. A long debate ensued, in which several gentlemen took part ; among them Dr. Dickenson, who contended that by the daguerrotype process, a portrait could be pro duced rivalling the nicest proficiency of the rules of art. Mr. Huggins differed, and stated that by that process it was true the expression of the countenance at the precise moment of taking the portrait was gained, but it failed entirely in depicting the character of the individual ; it might on the contrary be said of the artist, that he painted the soul, which can never be said of the daguerrotype. —Mr. Brooks Yates, who occupied the chair, concurred in Mr. Huggins views of the subject. A gentleman present observed that he was aware from the fact of having recently been through Germany, that the subject was exciting great interest. He had had a conversation at Munich with the celebrated Hess, who held the same views as Mr. Huggins.—Dr. Hume came forward to continue a paper commenced on a former occasion, in consequence of the absence of Mr. Homer. The paper was entitled, " Suggestions on the advancement of literature and learning in Liverpool." He said it was necessary, for the benefit of those members who were not present on the former occasion, to state the subject of the paper then commenced. On that occa sion, he alluded first to the establishment of a public library and museum; his suggestion next referred to our schools, and advocated the establishment of one answer ing in character to Queen's College, London, and Queen's College, Birmingham, in Liverpool. To show the importance of this, he would instance the case of our Established Church ; and he would divide the clergy into two classes—the educated and the uneducated,—by the latter he meant such as had not received a literary and scientific education at all ; and he regretted these were greatly on the increase. He had broached this subject so far back as 1846, and what he proposed was that the four institutions should combine for the object. At present these institutions were com posed of about five hundred gentlemen, paying some thing like £5OO annually. The learned doctor went on to say that much might be effected by a judicious appli cation of this power. From this subject, he went on to elaborate the objects, internal economy, and operation of the public schools at present in existence, consisting of the Royal Institution School, (which he characterised as based on the model of the ancient Grammar Schools,) the Mechanics' Institution Schools, and the Collegiate Schools It is calculated that during the past year the sum of £lO,OOO has been saved by deaths, changes, and removals in the naval service. Dr. W. Stokes, the eminent Dublin physician, and Mr. Whiteside, the barrister, have declared against abolishing the Lord-Lieutenancy. Resolutions in opposition to the sealed order of the Poor Law Commissioners, for another rate-in-aid, have been passed by the Athlone, Ballinasloe, Ennistymon, and several other Unions. Lord and Lady Ashley have arrived at East' Lodge, Brighton, where their youthful family has been residing, from visiting Viscount and Viscountess Palmerston, at Broadlands, Hants. The steps pursued by the committee to protect the interests of the fifth shareholders in the Lancashire and Yorkshire Railway have been approved at a meeting of the parties concerned, and the ultimate measures to be taken are to receive consideration. The Duke of Wellington, we are glad to state, con tinues in excellent health at Strathfieldsaye. The Mar quess of Salisbury and Miss Burdett Coutts, we under stand, were the sponsors, by proxy or person, at the recent christening of the infant daughter of Lord Charles Wellesley. Mr. Langston's statement, at the county meeting, that Dr. Pusey, as Regius Professor of Hebrew, has for fifteen years received £lOO per annum by a Parliamentary vote is incorrect. The Regius Professors receive, as professors, a stipend of X4O per annum, paid to them by the Chapter of Christ Church. They receive nothing from Parliament. The country is likely to have the benefit of Sir Edward Sugden's valuable services in parliament again. The right hon. and learned gentleman has been invited to stand for Windsor, in the vacancy that is created by the appoint ment of Mr. Hatchell to the office or Attorney-General for Ireland—he having hitherto been only Solicitor- General. Lord Beaumont has, at his sole expense, built, at Carlton, a school to contain 120 children, where that number are taught history, cyphering, writing, and geo graphy, for one penny per week, including books and stationery. He also rents another room for an infant school, containing 50 children, taught upon the same terms. Tux WINDOW TAX.—It is reported that the Chan cellor of the Exchequer, instead of proposing the total repeal of the window tax, contemplates only a reduction of the impost. In the event of his being compelled, by the pressure from without, nominally to repeal the tax, he hopes to retain a portion of it, by levying some new sort of tax on houses.—Advertiser.. LOYALTY EXTRAORDINARY.-At the inauguration din ner of the Mayor of Kilkenny, on the Ist instant, Alder man Smithwick, in the course of his speech, said that, as regarded himself, ne was not so ambitious about his coun try as others. All he wanted for Ireland was an Irish King and Queen, and an Irish House of Lords and Com mons. THE THREE DENOMTNATIONS.—On Friday week, the annual meeting of the Protestant Dissenting deputies of the three denominations (Independents, Baptists, and Presbyterians), was held at the King's Head Inn, Poultry. The report of the committee contained some statements protesting against the aggression of the Pope, to which, on various grounds, several of the deputies took grave exception. A warm discussion ensued, which ended in the adoption of a motion for adjournment, ATTEMPTED MURDER AT DRONEIELD.—A few nights ago, at midnight, as Joseph Harrison, a young man about nineteen years of age, was returning to his lodgings, and had just placed one foot within the house door, he saw an arm protruded from a corner a tew yards above, when immediately a gun was discharged, and he received a portion of shot in his left side and arm. but luckily the principal part of the contents lodged in his dress, and he sustained no serious injury. _ _ _ MARRIAGES IN HIGH LIFE.—On We.lnesday, the Bth of January, were married by special license, at the parish church of Ballymascanlon, county Louth, the Hon. Augustus Frederick Jocelyn, brother to the Earl of Ro den, late Captain 6th Dragoon Guards, to Grace, second daughter of Sir John Macneill; and on the same occasion, Edward Hare Croker, Esq,,. late Captain 6th Dragoon Guards. to Isabella, eldest daughter of Sir John Macneill, of Mount- pleasant, Dundalk, and Rutland-square, Dublin. The ceremony was performed by the Rev. Lord John Beresford. NARROW ESCAPE.—On Saturday, as the Hon. Wzn. Portman, eldest son of Lord Portman, and Mr. Henry Bankes, son of George Bankes, Esq., M.P., were return ing from Blandford, in a dog-cart, to hunt at Bryanstone, the seat of Lord Portman, the horse became unmanage able, and demolishing the splash-board by a kick oft the leg, threw Mr. Portman forward on his head, under the cart, Mr. Bankes being ejected in the same manner•by a kick on the ancle. The groom on horseback then pro cured assistance, and the gentlemen were removed to Bryanstone. It is satisfactory to add that thoagh they were considerably bruised and wounded, no bones were broken. IRON MASTERS' QUARTERLY MEETING.—DUDLEY, SATURDAY.—The concluding meeting of the quarter was held in this town to-day, and the assembly at the hotel this evening was numerous and influential. The improved pros pects of the trade were generally admitted, and , the prices of last quarter may now be considered as finally fixed by the principal houses of the district. As was anticipated at the preliminary meeting held at Wolverhampton a fort night ago, owing to the lowness of stocks and increased demand an advance has been realised 'iron pigs. Alto gether there is cause for congratulation in the improved position of the iron trade, but at the same time much reason for caution in avoiding unsafe and merely specula tive transactions. t,e,73: 1,1,7 wort, The new mill of Mr. Boyd, at Belfast, fell down with a tremendous crash, on Friday, burying a number of workmen beneath the ruins. The building was roofed, and the slating all but finished ; and no cause can be assigned for the accident, save the supposition that the heavy rain of the previous night had loosened the brick work to such an extent as to unfit it for the support of the beams. About a quarter past seven o'clock, the --Irmen comm ence d th e i r o p era ti ons for the day, and h nnt been more than three-quarters of an hour at Pie whole building came down with a ie h ie T . e ruin was complete and instantaneous, and the uukurtunate men, some of whom were employed in preparations for arching the second floor of the mill (which was three stories high, and about eighty feet in length), and others, were at once overwhelmd. It is. feared that thirteen lives, have been lost. The loss will he about £3,000. THE ARCHBISHOP OF YORE.—An address from the clergy of the East Riding, expressive of opposition against the Papal aggression, and a determination to preserve the Church of England pure and undefiled, having been pre sented to the Archbishop of York, his Grace has re sponded to the sentiments contained in it in a letter, in which he thus alludes to the ambitious designs of Dr. Wiseman :—"Nor will the natural jealousy with which you regard this invasion of the prerogative of our Sove reign, and this attack on the independence of our church and country, be diminished when you call to mind that the probable author of this presumptuous movement has been already raised to a dignity which may entitle him to aim at. and ultimately to obtain, the highest position of authority and power in his own church. The result of his elevation to the Papacy might, without vigilance on the part of the people, disturb the peace and endanger the liberties of our country by the more extended influence which would then be at his command. The late attempt is only a feretaste of what might be expected but for that determined spirit of resistance which has been everywhere manifeated." THE CHOLERA IN JAMAICA SPANISH TOWN, DEC. 13, 1850.—1 am most thankful to be able to report the almost entire cessation of the cholera in Kingston and Spanish Town. A few cases, in duced by neglected diarrhoea, whereby the system is dis abled from absorbing the necessary medicines, are daily occurring ; but the fierceness of the pestilence was merci fully stayed in so sudden a manner as to cause almost as much wonder as its precipitate appearance. On a sudden an oppressive yet exciting load was shifted from the mind, and we were hardly able to convince ourselves of the reality. Our estimable and deeply esteemed medical man, Dr. Bowerbank, has sunk under the weight of his exer tions, which exceeded the bounds of his bodily and mental strength. The dangerous illness of his wife added greatly to the pressure on the bruin, and he now lies, alas ! insensible. It is, however, hoped, and I trust I may add, believed, that entire rest will, under the divine will, restore him. We all feel deeply on this occasion. I regret that I am compelled to add to the long list of barbarities which I detailed in my last letter. Dr. M'Fayden, of Kingston, one of the most skilful and experienced practitioners, and one above all others who devoted his skill and time in relieving the distresses of the poor, has lately died. His wife and daughter were placed in such a situation as to be unable to attend upon him, and I hear he died from neglect. Not a soul would relieve his sufferings or administer to his wants, save his fellow practitioners, when they visited him. Of those for whom he did so much not one returned to act the part of nurse. His death is a dark blot on the character of the negroes. A servant, living with a family in Spanish Town, was seized ; none of her relatives came near her ; her employers, however, procured every assistance— medical and otherwise but nature sank, and she died. She had been in service some time, and was known to have saved a little money. As her corpse was being carried in the cart, with clothes, bedding, &c., to the burial ground, four of the relatives m e t it, followed it, and seized the mattrass, ripped it open, discovered a few dollars, divided the spoil, and the next day were all dead. A clerk in one of the public offices had lost his wife ; he grieved much, was very nervous, and was at length attacked. He had a son, a brown youth, about eighteen years, who had constantly lived with him, and was taught to earn a livelihopd ; he left his father without a soul to nurse him, neglected to procure and give him proper medicine and nourishment, shut his eyes to his father's tortures when drawn into all shapes by cramp; but made good use of them to discover where the few spoons and forks and other valuables were kept. He was found in this act by a gentleman who very properly forced him to attend for a while on his suffering parent by threatening to break his head with a heavy stick if he refused—" Either die from the effects of nursing your father, (if such a fear at all actuates you,) or die by my hand." The poor man died, and the wretched son carried off the plunder. _ _ Politically speaking, the evil effects are yet to be felt. With the continued rain on this side of the island the crops have become unusually large; rather, I should say, the cane fields are laden with an unusual growth; for the sugar is generally designated by the term " crop." In most parishes one-half of the productive power has been cut off, and what is very singular, on most estates the head men. i. e., their best workmen, have been the first victims. As yet, I cannot comprehend this fact. I fear that many estates will be compelled to sacrifice more than half their crop—cutting the canes and feeding the cattle with them—not having labour sufficient to bind, cart, carry, and grind them. They must be cut to save the crop for next year. Wages have also risen to add to the many other difficulties. Unless we have a large popu lation of some sort poured in just now I have the most dismal fears as to the future. I know all the difficulties attendant on the importation of savages, and have always objected to it on principle while I considered and believed that there was a productive power generally if not univer sally sufficient for the wants of the island. Now, how ever, to my mind a most serious crisis is impending. My impression is that we ought to have an European population of some sort located in our higher lands, that by the cultivation of the vegetable products we might, by degrees, force the negroes, who alone are fitted for conti nued day labour in the low lands, to cultivate the estates. This curtailment of the supply of labour will, I fear, materially affect the numerous efforts made to introduce the cotton plant as one of our staples. I believe, how.- ever, that one person will send about 5001 b. to the Exhi tion. Mrs. Macdougall's excellent concert will take place to-morrow night. It will be unusually attractive. A chamber of commerce is in course of formation at Bristol. Viscount da Torre de Moncorvo, who has so worthily filled for many years the important post of the Queen of Portugal's Minister in this country, died in London on Saturday. COMMUTATION OF TlTHES.—Return stating what has been, during seven years, ending on the Thursday before Christmas Day, 1850, the average price of an imperial bushel of British wheat, barley, and oats, compared with the weekly averages of corn returns. Published in the Gazette pursuant to an act passed in the 6th and 7th year of the reign of William IV., intituled, " An act for the commutation of tithes in England and Wales" — Wheat, 64. std. ; barley, 4s. ; oats, 2s. Bd. A new method of stopping railroad trains has recently been discovered in the United States ; electricity is the means used. The plan contemplates the arrangement of ei galvanic battery on the locomotive, under the eye and hand of the engineer, with a rod running thence to each wheel in the train, connected with the different clogs or brakes, and to be connected with the battery by a touch, so as to apply simultaneously and instantly any desirable amount of pressure to every clog. RELIGIOUS PERSECUTION.—On Friday last a young man named Mathew Kenny, of Enniscorthy, who em braced the Protestant faith, for doing so was subject to such treatment from his parents as to call forth the inter ference of the magistrates, who accordingly granted a warrant to the police to take Kenny out of the custody of his parents. On Saturday last he was brought before the magistrates, before whom he lodged informations against his father, mother, and brother, for having cruelly beaten him and threatened to take his life. They were ordered to give bail, themselves in the sum of £lO, and two sure ties in the sum of £5 each, to keep the peace towards Mathew Kenny, who has now been obliged to seek refuge in the workhouse. NO • MORE SHAVING.—Mons. Boudet, a French che mist, in a communication to the Journal de Pharmacie, gives tilis formula for a depilatory :—" Take of sulphuret of sodium, or hydro-sulphate of soda, crystallized, three parts; quick lime, in powder, ten ditto : starch, ten ; mix. This powder, mixed with a little water, and applied over the skin. acts so rapidly as a depilatory, that if it be removed in a minute or two after its application by a wooden knife, the surface of the skin will be entirely deprived of hair. By this process the removal of the hair becomes so simple, rapid, and safein operation, that it will supersede the use of the razor in many cases. It may be applied to parts the most delicate as well as irregular, and to surfaces either limited or extended, and it is only after several days, that the hair begins to re-appear. THE CARDINAL AND THE QUARER.—When Mr. Lucas, editor of the Tablet, formerly a Yorkshire Quaker, joined the Church of Rome, he addressed a pamphlet to some of his-quondam co-religionists, entitled " Reasons for be coming a Catholic." A member of the Society of Friends, Mr. Lupton, wrote a reply to the production in question, giving it the appellation of "Reasons for not becoming a Catholic." The latter booklias remained in oblivion for some years, but the occurrence of the present agitation induced Mr. Lupton to forward a copy to his Eminence the Cardinal. and Mr. Lupton received the following reply : " Cardinal Wiseman begs respectfully to acknowledge the receipt of Mr. Lupton's pamphlet and MS., notes all of which he has attentively perused. He does not see that they can call from him any observations beyond an ex pression of his sincere wish that every one would, treat religious subjects with the same calmness and gentleness as Mr. Lupton exhibits. Truth would then soon over. turn prejudice, falsehood, and passion. P.S. Mr. Lup ton's letter only reached this address a few days back. 35, Golden-square, Jan. 8, 18 51 ." The letter is i n the handwriting of the Cardinal, and bears an official seal displaying a Cardinal'ehat. IMPORTANT PARISH ASSESSMENTS.—Two drawn battles have just been brought to a satisfactory termina tion between the parish of St. Matthew, Bethnal-green, and the Eastern Counties Railway Company.; and Christ Church, Spitaffields, and the eminent brewers, Messrs. Truman, Hanbury, and Co, In the first instance it ap pears, from the evidence collected by Mr. Paine, archi tect and surveyor, who has been engaged, on behalf of both the above parishes in making a re-assessment,. that the extensive brewery is capable of "wetting" no, less than 106,460 quarters of malt. The assessment was for merly Xl4OO, which was increased to £2500, and ultimately adjusted at 1 - 3000. In the other instance above mentioned, of the railway, the assessment is based upon the rate able value of sixty-seven furlongs of: the line, including the stations, &c., within the parish of St. Matthew, Bethnal-green. After a smart contest between the gen tlemen learned in law on either side,, the amount has been adjusted at £5,000 per annum. In 1849 the gross receipts of the railway were found to be £770,73645. 7d. ; working expenses, £293,589 4s. 4d. ; for deductions, Sze., £190,000, leaving the rateable value at £287,167 Os. 3d. The subject is considered as one of great importance to railway companies as the rating upon income is somewhat novel, and will more or less affect every parish through which a railway passes.—Sunday Times. _ _ THE BISHOP OF LONDON. AND. THE REV. BRYAN KINo.—A correspondence has taken place between the Bishop of London and the Rev. Bryan King, the Rector of St. George's-in-the-Bast—who, it will be remembered,, has been frequently before the public, as one of those clergymen adhering tck Tractarian notions—relative to the visitation to his church by the Archdeacon of London. The bishop, in this instance, has certainly over-stepped the bounds of prudence, to say the least of his interfe rence, however wrong the conduct of Mr. King may have been. That gentleman's parish is a portion of the old parish of Stebonheath, or Stepney, which has always been free from archdiaconal visitation, the rector being a quasi archdeacon himself, and having the power of supervision over the entire district, which extends from Whitechapel on the west to Bow on the east, from Betbnal-green on the north to the Thames on the south, including Popl ar , Limehouse, Shadwell, and St. George's-in-the East, Wapping being the only parish out of the jurisdiction. The Bishop of London, from the time of his coming to the see, desired to do away with all peculiars, and to bring such parishes as Stepney under his immediate direction, and in no quarter has that anxiety been more directly shown than with respect to the above-named parish. He has, however, failed to bring it under archdiaconal visitation ; Stepney still remains in state quo. We ex press no opinion as to the desirableness of the position. We merely state the fact. But, whilst such an independ ence exists, the Bishop was clearly in the wrong to send his archdeacon to the Church of St. George's-in-the-East. The only course open to him was to have gone himself.-- Bell's Weekly Messenger. Jan. 14, 1851. LATEST INTELLIGENCE. BY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH. LONDON, MONDAY NIGHT. ADDITIONAL NEWS BY THE OVERLAND MAIL , A trifling encounter took place at the Kohat Frontier between the British troops, under Major Taylor, and the Wurzerrees. The latter were repulsed by the British troops, and only one wounded. On the 31st November the Governor-General set out for Anar Kulb, to proceed to Semdaomede. Sir Charles Napier was expected at Bombay on the 3rd January. Sir William Gomme ar rived on the 6th December. Nizam had been perernP• torily summoned to pay his debt to England before the 31st of December, 1851. Sir William Anderson, the Governor, had arrived in Ceylon. The Indian papers have late news from New South Wales, from which it appears that there have been heavy gales, in which sundry ships had gone ashore and been wrecked. Violent rains had fallen in the interior. The Legislative Council passed a vote against transports of convicts in the Colonies. PARIS, SUNDAY.—The Fives were done to-day at 941 The democratic members of the Assembly met to-day, to consider the course they should pursue. The result Cl the meeting was not known. It is reported that General Lahite declines the appointment of Ambassador to Lon. don. The report of the proceedings of the Commissiov has been ordered by the Assembly to be printed, but aril expected to contain very little of importance. GERMANY. HESSE CASSRL.—The federal commissioner of Count Leiningen has threatened to take still more violent and compulsory measures against the Common Council of Cassel. In consequence of this measure, the Council has consented to submit, to the Elector's decrees of the 4th, 7th, and 28th of September, 1850. AUSTRIA.—VIENNA, 9TH JAN.—The directors of the Bank of Austria have resigned. The financial statement of the second quarter of 1850 has been published,—tha deficit 18,585,131 florins. Riots have taken place at Fuime. The Croatian population of that city had pulled down the Austrian flag, and hoisted the Croatian banner instead. BERLIN, 10TH.—Baron Manteufel has left the capital for Dresden. DENMARK AND THE DUCHIES.-KIEL 11TH.—The Holstein Diet held a secret sitting on the 10th. The debate continued all night, and the House adjourned at 4.30 on the morning of Saturday. They resolved to instruct the Stadholders to accede to the demands of the Commissioners, provided the Commissioners consented to the occupation of Rensberg and Frederickstadt by Holstein troops. The numbers were, 43 ayes, and 26 noes, LATEST BETTING. TATTE RSA LL'S MONDA Y. LIVERPOOL STEE PLE CHA9E.-12 to 1 agst Sir John. DERBY.—No change. CHESTER CUP.-15 to 1 agst Rhesus, 25 to 1 agst Wallflower, 33 to I agst Cossack, 40 to 1 agst Montague, 50 to 1 each agst Trouncer, Italian, and Lady Evelyn, 66 to 1 each agst Knight of Avenel and Hariott. LONDON MONEY AND SHARE MARKETS.—YEsrzaOAIr- There was little done in the* English market to-day. The Foreign market dull; contangos on Mexicans, j per cent. The following are the closing prices :—Consols Account, 964 1; Three-and-a-Quarter per Cents., 881'9; Bank Stock, 214 15; Exchequer Bills, L. and S., 57 60. The Railway Share market heavy, but prices not worse than Saturday. Little real business doing, the jobbers being engaged with their accounts. Con tinuations heavy. London Stock, 124} ; Ditt o Q uarters, 311; Midland Stock, 48 a; Ditto Halves, In ISt; North Stafford shire, 841 ; South Eastern and Dover, 23 1 ; Caledonians, 101 1; Ditto Preference, 51 f ; Eastern Counties, 5 ; East Lanca shire, 12 1; Edinburgh and Glasgow, 28 . 91 Great Northern, 171 4 ; Great Western, 78 9; North British, 84 I; Lancashire and Yorkshire, 56 7 ; London, Brighton, and South Coast, 89 90; York, Newcastle, and Berwick, 184' i; Ditto Extension, 64 4 ; Ditto Preference. 34 21; York and North Midland, 22/ 1 ; Ditto Preference, 1 1. Rates continuation North Western, 4 per cent.; Great Western, to a per cent. ; South Western, percent. ; Hovers, 3-16 to 4 per share; Great Northerns, 4.t0 a per share; York and North Midland, to a per share; Berwicks, 1 per share ; Ditto Extension, 1-16 per share; Brightons, 3-16 to 5-16 per share; Eastern Counties, 1-32 per share. MANCHESTER SHARE MARKET. —YESTE RD AY. The following are the closing prices :—London Quarters, 3 12-16ths pm. ; Ditto ..elO Shares, 2 9-16ths- pm. ; Lancashire and Yorkshire, 56; Manchester, Sheffield, and Lincoln, 25 15-16ths j; Ditto New Preference, Bs. pm. ; Ditto No. 1, 12 ; Preston and Wyre, 8 3-16ths ; South Eastern and Dover. 23 1-16th 1-16th it ; Shropshire Union, 3-1 dm. MANCHESTER GOODS MARKET.- •YESTERDtLT, • The market has opened to-day very q uie tl y. Prices•• con tinue firm at the rates current on Saturday, but the amount of business done is very small. The American news, per Africa, has had no perceptible influence on the market hitherto. LONDON CORN MARKET.-YESTERDAY. - - - ----•• The supply of English Wh eat at market this — morning is limited, but, having only a thin attendance of buyers, trade is slow, at about the prices of this day week. Foreign moved on in retail, without change in the rates. The-demand for Flout was limited, at former terms. Barley, Beans, Peas, and Oats met with a moderate inquiry only, at previous rates. In other articles no change. English White Wheat, 44e. to 485.; ditto, Red, ditto, 395. to 445. Qrs English Wheat „ Barley „ Oats .. „ Malt .. „ Flour .. „ Beans.. „ Peas.... Foreign Irish Oats, „ Malt, ff 1620 quarters Weather fine. GLASGOW CORN MARKET.—YESTERDAY. No change in to-day's market. Trade is very flat. Supplies liberal: LONDON PRODUCE MARKET—YEsTERDAv Sugar.—Some parcels foreign sold privately at firm rates; yellow Havannah at 40s. to 435. Coffee.—Plantation Ceylon sold at a small advance; native dealt in with more freedom at 5344 for good oroinary. Tea.—Rather more doing owing to easier rates being taken. Refined Sugar.—Home trade demand more active; prices firm ; brown lumps, 50s. to 505,• 6d. Rum.—Demand still active ; Leeward Island, is. 9d.; East India, is. 7d. to Is. 74d. proof; Demerara, 2s. 4d. to 25..9d. for 30 to 40 over. Iron.—Quiet but firm; Scotch mixed. Nos. 445. per ton. Oil.—Very dull ; prices declining; pale seal, .e 36 103 , to 4'37; Linseed, 345. 3d. to 345. 6d. LONDON TALLOW MARKET.-YESTERD The Tallow-market continues quiet. Fine new Y. C. on•tke spot is 375. 3d. to 375. 6d. The stock in hand at present IS 62,583 - casks against 44,452 the corresponding week last years being an increase of 8.131 casks. The deliveries last week' were 2159 casks, and in corresponding week last•year 2,50. This shows a decrease of 359 casks. SMITHFIELD CATTLE MARKET.—YEsrEnDAY The supplies of Beasts and Sheentsmall, and trade dull; Calves alone obtained an advance in limes. Beef, 2s. 3d. to 3s. Bd.; Mutton, 3s. 4d. to 45. 4d. ; Veal, 3s. to 4s. 60. ; Parks 2s. 1011. to 3s. 6d. Arrivals : Beasts, 3,849; Sheep, 19,070 ; Calves, 100; Pigs, 295; Holland Beasts, 358; Sheep, 890; Calves, 61; Scotch Beasts, 400; Norfolk and Suffolk. Beasts, 1,500; Leicester, OP coin, and Northampton Beasts, 900. LATEST SHIPPING NEWS. Arrived at Deal, 11th : Soubakdor, from Calcutta. Off Weymouth : Pantaloon, from Cape of Gcod Hope. At Plymouth : Sir John Falstaff, from Moulmin. At Bristol, 11th : Paquette D'Habanero, from Havana. Arrived from Liverpool, at Leghorn, Dec. SI: nrYn Y' sll )r At Pernambuco, 13th: Havana. At Sicily, Sth: Robert Laws, damaged. Sailed for Liverpool from Portsmouth,l2th : Forget- 3e-Not. The Duke of Cambridge's new military, frock, coat is of scarlet, instead of blue, as heretofore. EAST AND WEST INDLA Docics.—On F►iday the meet ing of proprietors was satisfactory, and a dividenth of 3 per cent. for the half-year, or at the rate of 6 per cent. per annum, was said to be declared. There were also said to be £lO,OOO carried to the reserve fund to meet - the out standing debt. REDUCTION OF WAGES.—The shipowners: of Lynn have, by the resolution of a generatmeeting,.determine4 to make a reduction of 10s. per voyage in the sailors wages, and Id. per ten on those of the coal-porters, which were previously Id 4 The number of men employed 1 0 clearing a vessel is-also to be lessened. The Earl of Cardigan has been keeping. Christmas 00 his estate at Deene Park, Northamptonshire, in good old English style, by-distributing duiring 4 the past week among his poorer dependants, the carcases of several fine oxen? with a liberal supply of warm clothing and firewood, while the yeomen ci the estate, in accordance with an annual' custom, have partaken of a sumptuous dinner. ROYAL AIinIITREATRE—FRANCON2'S CIRQUE N. TIONAL.—The performances of this company during the past week, have more than fulfilled the expectations which in our last we held out to-the public. Yesterday every ing—and we presume it will be repeated during the week-' the comic scene of the "-two Parisian Cockneys" - wee introduced for the first time, and elicited hearty applause. The "•Penny Trumpet"' performance of the clown, Toni' kinson, is a very clever-one ; and Herr Mau is a v-eritahle Sampson. We observe that to-morrow and Saturdal next are fixed upon for giving morning performances. NINEVEH SCULINeURES.—A letter h a s b een receive°. f ro m Mr. Layard dated Bagdad, Nov. 210th, 1850, ill which, speaking of the sculptures which ha is sending 0 the University of Oxford, he says—" The sculptures %ay fortunately were on the same raft with one of the Lions , which was wrecked between this place- and Barrah, and for- elapsing b bfo y e wh r i e ci t l h l ei hut r rev h o o v v e e ry d , t t o h f e o y rvr w a el tatlobioeomvleattoae m &gland. They have since, therefore, remained at Burrah with the rest of the antiquities, but I hope 0 ship them next month, and it is probable they may? with you in spring." Mr. Layard also regrets that " the sculptures which ought to have been shipped two yell ago are still lying on the beach at Burrah, and have so" fered irreparable injury." He further says, " I have neW, deserted Nineveh for the time for B a byl on , b u t h av e no t actively commenced excavations, being without the nece s c i sary, documents from the Porte, and the country aroun d Bagdad being in an unexampled state of confusion et; disorder. In fact scarcely an y one can l eave the gate, without a good chance of ha v i ng hi s th roa t cu t, or m akin g a triumphal re-entry in his shirt." LIVERPOOL : TI.TZSDAY, JAN. 14, 1151. PRINTED AND PUBLISHED EVERY TUESDAY MORNINf• By JOSHUA FLETCHER LACE, of 53, Grovestreet, $* LEONARD ADDISON, of 14, Great Orford-street. At No. 4. ST. 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