The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser. — Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1844-04-09 00:00:00

TO CORRESPONDENTS. In our report last Tu^sday of the case of White r. Sharp, tried on the preceding day at he assizes, we omitted to say that the judge gave the defendunt's counsel liberty to move the court to enter a nonsuit on the point raised by 11:m. Tne des're, expres-ed by our correspoddent "Justice," of a half holiday being accorded to the merchant's clerks of this town, is one in which we fully sympathize, and which we think oughi to be granted. But he is is reckoning entirely without his host if he imagines that the example is likely to be set by the Anti Monop y p Arty. The love of tyranny is too deeply engrafted in the heart of liberalism to allow the members of that party to relax the hold which they have upon those in subordination to them. With respect to another portion of his remarks, does our correspondent not know that the mer chant, who has been a clerk himself, is generally more ex acting than one who h is not, upon the same p incipie that commissioned officers who have risen from the ranks are the greatest marbincts? " LAICUS." We r.hould gladly insert the excellent remarks of " A Constant Reader" upon the letter which app eared lately in our Saturday's conternp rary, under the above signature. We do not w sh, however, to be involv d in a controversy (which would doubtless be the effect of our insertion of his communication) upon a subject for which the columns of a newspaper are scarcely a fitting medium. SOUND PRINCIPLE. The cntiments of these lines are good, but they w uld be better in a pros dress. A Friend to Consistency is assured that men live after being bespattered by the alackguardism of the popish Mercury. The reviler is beneath notice. Let hint rail his full. WHITE V. SHARP.—The facts of this case, as furnished us by " Fair Play," in reply to the p ragrai h in the Mail upon the subject of this trial, might furnish a ground for a motion for a ne.. trial, but we do not see how we could publish them upon anoaymous authortty,' and he ought to apply to the paper which made the mistake, THE .e 5 ,11 COMEDIES.—We cannot inform our correspondent " Neutral" why the parties, who have offered this prize of £5OO, do not put the contributors " out of their mi sery:" or when they intend to murder the many anxious hopes which must be entertained. Perhaps some of them will find that their fate has come upon them quite soon enough, if even it be deferred for months to come. "UNCLE SAM'S PECULIARITIES."—We have hastily perused this entertaining work, but are compelled to postpone our no tice of it until next week. tiberpoot &tanTiarb. TUESDAY MORNING, APRIL 9, 1844. The power, which centres in the three " kings of the poor" at Somerset House, approaches its ob jects with a stealthy tread. For years past it has been aiming, unseen, at an unchallenged supremacy over the poor of the empire, and a sole administra tion of the millions annually levied for their mainte nance. Repressed by the legislature from direct in terference with those parishes which possess local acts for the regulation of their poor, (of which Liver pool is one), they have gradually broken through all restraints, until any legal exemption from their au thority has become almost a mockery. But such indirect wielding of authority does not appear to satisfy this triumvirate. It is not suffi cient for them to lord it unrestrained over the rural parishes of England. They seek now even more extensive rule. They seek direct authority to con trol the doings of vestries and parish boards, hitherto only indirectly subject to them—to unionise, to centralise, to classify, and to render still more shadowy the little of local authority which their past encroachments have left ; and a Conservative government abets them in their endeavolirs to pro cure these new powers, by clauses in what they have facetiously denominated their "Amended Poor law Bill." We have already canvassed some of the proposed enactments of that bill, and, in particular, expressed our detestation of the clauses relating to bastardy, which are characterised by little less than heartless mockery towards erring womanhood, accompanied by preposterous unfairness as regards particular parishes. We shall now, therefore, confine our selves to those parts of the bill which affect places having local acts for the regulation of their poor. By the 17th clause of the bill it was evidently in tended—although Sir James Graham escapes under the plea of obscure wording—to procure, in all pa rishes, including those having local acts, differently constituted boards of guardians, by a division of such parishes into districts, and by making the office of chairman in all cases elective. This clause, how ever, with the 56th, which compels meetings of boards of guardians and vestries to be held at least once a fortnight, has been promised, at the urgent remonstrance of deputations from the metropolitan parishes, to be modified so as not to include those places tving local acts. By the 28th clause it is proposed to give power to the Poor-law Commis sioners to unite parishes, whether under local acts or not, into audit districts; and its effect will in all probability be to drag the authorities of such pa rishes as that of Liverpool, with their accounts, to whatever central locality, 20 or 30 miles distant, may be chosen by a Somerset House official in which to set up his court of audit. The most objectionable clauses, however, are those which confer power upon the commissioners to establish district schools for pauper children, who are to be removed, say 20 or 30 miles from their own parishes and friends, to some central educational establishment; and to erect district asylums for the reception of vagrant poor, in lieu of affording them casual relief. Now we put it to our readers, what must be the effect of the carrying out of these two clauses. We are already erecting, At a great outlay of money, schools for our own pauper children. Will these buildings be permitted to be devoted to their original purpose, or shall we be allowed only one of these two alternatives, viz. to contribute to the expense of some huge erection, on Chat Moss, or on some equally lively locality, to which our poor chil dren are to be drafted from the neighbourhood of their homes, or to enlarge our existing building for the reception of the pauper children of some forty or fifty additional parishes ? Would either of these alternatives be gratifying—he any other than most revolting to the ratepayers of Liverpool ? They would not. But even worse than this, so far as Liverpool is concerned, would be the operation of the clause re lating to the erection of district asylums. We have in this town, from its position as the inlet of the masses of Irish labour to the agricultural and ma nufacturing districts of the north of England, a greater amount of casual pauperism—of vagrant pauperism than any town in Great Britain. At a large expense, certainly, we have hitherto dealt with that pauperism, in the old-fashioned way pointed out by the old and humane law of our forefathers ; but if we are to have our present system wholly subverted, and in the place of administering casual assistance to enable poor wan derers to reach their homes or a market for their labour, we are to erect, at a vast outlay of money, a building huge enough to enable us to apply to them the favourite test of the Poor-law Commissioners — the workhouse test—we venture to predict that the ratepayers of Liverpool will find ample reason, in the increased drain upon their resources which will be required, to pray for a relief from that unconsti tutional power which thus roughrides them at its pleasure, and to feel anything but gratitude to that Conservative government which evinces such won derful alacrity in working out its inhuman and op pressive suggestions. May we call the earnest attention of the Select Vestry and of the parishioners of Liverpool to this " Amended Poor-law Bill," which proposes to visit so severely the interests of this parish ? A host of cit ciAlustances have recently occurred to shew the extent to which the central authority of Somerset House has fastened its influence —its dictation— upon our town ; have all but rendered nugatory the possession of a local act for the governance of our poor, and taken from us all save the mere shadow of control over our parish funds. It is time that we should be up and stirring in self-protection— that we sho Id oppose a resolute resistance to those further encroachments of an alien and unconstitu tional authority, of which, it is plain, we are intended to be made the victims. Already the various pa rishes of the metropolis, more alive to their interests than the authorities of Liverpool, have made a stand against the clauses to which we have referred ; and the voice of the people of Liverpool should not be wanting to aid in an effort for their defeat. A return, containing some valuable statistical details relating to the imports, exports, and con sumption of corn, grain, meal, and flour during the year ended sth January, 1844, has just been pub lished, by order of the House of Common, from which we extract the following statements, which may be of interest to our readers : The total quantity of foreign wheat upon which duty was paid for home consumption, from the sth January, 1843, to the sth January, 1844, was, according to this return, 843,739 quarters ; of British colonial wheat, (under the Act sth Victoria, cap. 14,) 12,406 qrs.; and of Canadian wheat, (under the new duty of is. per qr.,) 12,412 qrs. The latter amount must not be regarded as furnishing a crite rion for our future trade with our North American possessions, as the reduction of duty to ls. only came into operation last autumn. The total quantity of foreign wheat and wheat flour imported during this period was 948,309 qrs., and of colonial, 119,239 qrs.; against which the exports were 71,236 qrs. The quantities of other foreign grain imported were as follows, viz., barley, 178,686 qrs. ; oats and oatmeal, 84,597 qrs. ; rye and ryemeal, 4,872 qrs.; peas, 39,668 qrs. ; and beans, 47,999 qrs. The amount of duty received during the above period, upon the various descriptions, was, for foreign, £601,172 ; for British colonial, £2532; and for Canadian, £62o;—in all £604,324 this year, against £1,093,340 during 1842. Thus, in these two years, or rather from the passing of the Corn Bill on the 29th of April, 1842, a revenue has been derived from foreign grain of £1,694,512, averaging £847,256 per annum. The rate of duty during 1843, was, from January to the end of July, 20s. ; in August and September it fluctuated between 18s. and 14s. ; and in October, November, and December it was 19s. to 20s. The average rate paid throughout the year may be stated at 148. 3d. The largest quantity of foreign wheat was entered in the month of September, viz., 600,846 qrs. in one week, at a duty of 15s. per qr. ; 46,396 qrs. were entered in the same month at 17s. per qr., and 40,501 at 18s. Under the old Corn Law, the greater part of the foreign wheat and flour im ported was thrown upon the market in the month of September, at a duty of ls. only, the preceding two months being employed by speculators in cre ating an artificial scarcity, in order to raise the averages to the necessary height. During both the years in which the new law has been in operation, such attempts have failed. In 1842, the lowest duty attained was Bs., and last year 14s. Thus a large revenue has been gained from an article which previously contributed little, whilst the supply has not been diminished below the wants of con sumers; and attempts to extort extraordinarily high prices have been checked by the gradual operation of the scale. The highest monthly average price of wheat in England and Wales last year, was 595. 7d., and the lowest 465. 2d., showing a difference be tween the two extremes of 13s. sd. per qr. The real fluctuation, however, of the price of the whole quantity consumed through the year has not ex ceeded a few shillings per quarter. The total quantity of foreign and colonial wheat and wheat flour in warehouse, at the end of De cember, 1843, amounted to 220,743 qrs. The views of the advocates of protection, as to _the low rates of freight at which foreign wheat can be imported into Great Britain, are fully borne out by this return. The largest wheat - importing coun tries to this kingdom during the past year have been Prussia, (which has furnished two-thirds of the whole,) Germany, Russia, Denmark, and the North American colonies. This fact, also, in great part, determines the question, whether, under any corn law, the United States of America are able to con tend with the corn-growing countries of Northern Europe, as we have been told by the Cobden and Thornely school of politicians they would be. Under what has, in effect, been almost a fixed duty, the United States have furnished a mere fraction of our supply. We are told again and again by flippant "libe ralism" how mach of the wrongs and grievances of Ireland is inflicted by the establishment of the Pro testant Church in that country ; but we much question if it has ever entered into the heads of such declaimers, to enquire to what extent the real grievances, —the wretchedness and ghastly poverty of the Irish people—are to be attributed to the exac tions of the Romish priesthood themselves, and the pressure of that voluntary system (!) which is held up to us as the perfection of human wisdom and human justice. We have luckily at hand the means of enlightening our English readers with respect to the working of Popish voluntaryism in Ireland, its intolerable pressure upon the poor Roman Catholic population, and the cormorant avarice of those to maintain whose usurped dignities it is employed. The authority, from which we take our informa tion, is a letter whichi has just been addressed by a Roman Catholic clergymen, through the medium of a leading Irish Conservative journal, to his co religionists, complaining . of the course which has been taken by the Romish hierarchy in Ireland, in rejecting, without any concurren , e, or even consul tation, with the body of the priesthood, the proposed, or at least mooted, Government provision in lieu of the present system. The letter, we may premise, was refused insertion in the Liberal papers. The writer maintains that. the great bulk of the Romish clergy would gladly accept such state provision, or any provision which would free them from the rapacity of their superiors ; and he proceeds to show the interested motives by which, on the part of the bishops, such refusal has been prompted, by the fact that "no ministry, however profligate of the means of the state, could dream of allowing them, for the maintenance of their episcopal dignity," more than they at present exact from the people ! We give the heads of these exactions, as laid down by the writer—remember, reader, a Roman Catholic priest. " 1. In the first instanc e, the y must be p ai d 5 s 6 d. for evecy piiuper who marries in their diocese ; and, n o mat ter whi trier the parish priest, in the conscientious discharge of tie pi wrr vested in himself, marries a couple gr a ti s, seeing 4,lten that, unless he does so, the parties would live in pubdc sin, to the great injury of reliliion ; yet the parish pries must account to the bishop for every mar riage, and pay him for every marriage, whether rich or poor. Should the parties be in good circumstances, the bisho s s insist on a proportionate share of the marriage fees." A pretty large slice this of the charge for coupling the males and females of an almost pauper population. But proceed to No. 2. 2. For dispensations in the prohibited degrees of kindred both in consanguinity and affinity. According to the proximity or remoteness of ihe rtlationship, bishops get from £3 to £5, according to the state in life arid na ture of the circumstances of the contracting par ties.' Sad want of a Luther here ! " 3. Bi-hops select and set apart two or three of the best par she i n t h e i r di oceses f ur t h e i r ow n u,e, Which' in ecelrstastic i t p ar l ance , are d es i gn ated as !news ,. parishes, that is, to enable those dignitaries to support THE LIVERPOOL STANDARD. their estahlishments and sustain the pomp of their high stations in the church!' H;:ppy must he the condition of these " mensal pariAies," whose inhabitants are bled and blistered under the immediate eye, and for the benefit of, the chief spiritual physicians. " 4. Bishops ge t f rom £3 t o £6 f or ever y altar in every parish under their spiritual controul, and the money is called praxis money.' 5. Along with getting so much from the parish priests, they also must get from one to two guineas from every curate, according to the supposed means of his curacy. 6. Bishops get from every clergy man whom they may appoint to a parish or parish priest thirty or forty guineas, or more, according to the nature of the benefice to which the clergyman may have been collated. This is called ' collation money,' according to our language, and is the same as the money the tenants give for the leases of their houses and farms. 7. In some parts of Ireland it is the practice for every clergyman to pay £1 or lOs for the bishop's servant. Thus it is noto rious that the servant only gets a small salary out of that fund ; but the remainder goes, of course, to maintain the dignity of the mitre ! 8. Bishop:, in fine, have and take to themselves the annual Chrisetnas and Easter collec tions made at their mensal chapels, and do not allow their curates or administrators one shilling of it to support themselves." A goodly collection of profitable items are here, which our " Roman Catholic cl ergyman" instruct us how to sum up—thus : " There are in every diocese, arch and suffragan, with very few exceptions—such as Galway, Kilmacduagh, and Killala—at least sixty or seventy parishes, and every parish produces at an average 100 marriages. Every Parish has three or four altars—the annual average num ber of vacancies may vary from ten to sixteen. Now, let the marriage fees, the fees for kindred, the praxis money for every altar, the collection charges, the receipts of the mensal parishes, the nominal servants' collection, the curates' episcopal dues—let all this money be added to gether, and the public will be able to say that the bishops are right to oppose with all their power any state provi sion for the Irish hierarchy." We will endeavour to make the calculation for our communicative friend in our best arithmetic. Here it is. YEARLY REVENUE OF AN IRISH BISHOP. 60 parishes, averaging 100 marriages each, at ss. 6d. per marriage f 1650 0 0 Say "praxis money," for 60 parishes with 3 altars each, at £4 each .... 720 0 0 Ditto from curates, at £I. 10s each.. 270 0 0 12 vacancies per annum, collection money—or quere, bribe ?—from each fortunate candidate, 30 guineas.... 378 0 0 Bishop's servants, say 60 parishes with 3 altars, at ss. each Ascertainable regular income of each " titular," therefore £3063 0 0 A sum considerably more than he would receive as his share of any government provision ; and this, too, well paid, for each bishop receives his money all in a bulk at the several visitations from the seve ral parish priests, or from the " vicars foreign," generally appointed in the several deaneries to dis pense in " bans" and collect the episcopal fees. Three thousand and odd pounds per annum of regular income for each of the bishops under a " voluntary system ;" and this with the items taken at the lowest estimate. The highest would give us four thousand, at least. And then add the proceeds of the two or three mensal parishes—the best in the various districts—and which may fairly be put down at seven or eight hundred per annum ; the fees for dispensations, which we have no data for estimating; and other miscellaneous and casual sources of epis copal income ; and without doubt it will be seen that an Irish Roman Catholic bishop is a much better paid personage than the world has generally imagined he could be in a country so miserably poor. We cannot at this moment remember how many of them there are drawing at this rate directly from the pickets of the Irish people; but it is clear that their exactions constitute no small amount of the moving cause of the poverty and privation endured by that people. And now let us see, from the same authority— who can be contradicted if he has spoken more than the truth—how their reverences, th priestood, con tinue to maintain themselves in good case. We quote verbatim from the writer : "1. in the first place, parish priests charge every householder, rich and poor, 2s. 2d. a-year as their confes sion dues, and a day is set apart for every village twice a year, at Christmas and Easter, to receive the people's confessions, and to collect the 2s. 2d. from every head of a family. 2. It is also a matter of course, whether rich or poor, to have a good dinner and breakfast, with plenty of whiskey, for the clergy and their clerks on that day. 3. The parish priests charge 2s. 6. for every baptism. 4. parish priests get £1 lOs. or £2 for every marriage they perform, and, if they have not the cash, they are allowed to cohabit in sin until they make it out ! 5. The parish priests make collections at every wedding; and (6) at every funeral, and insist on the relatives contributing very largely on those occasions. No notice is taken of any i person, nor is any respect shown for him, who does not pay 2s. 6d. or ss. at the plate collections ! 7. They make large collections at their chapels at Christmas and Easter, and read out from their altars the names of all who con tribute, and non-contributors also. 8. They collect corn from every village in their parish, and in some parts they oblige their curates to gather it for them without any thanks. If we add together the 2s. 2d. station money, the 25.6 d. baptism fee, the marriage money, the collections at funerals and weddings, the offerings at chapels at Christmas and Easter, the result of the 'borane scouring,' —if all this be reduced to one item, it will appear that they will join the bishops in opinion, and say that a state provision would be a great evil. It would be a sore, one to them, and hence their maxim is, nihil innovetur. Beautiful voluntaryism this ! Wretched people who are condemned to groan under its exactions ! Profound philosophy which imagines that a flock of cormorants, thus battening upon the flesh and blood and prosperity of Ireland, would leave their hold of even so attenuated and exhausted a subject to grasp at the poor offering of a State provision ! THE FUNDS OF SATERDAY NlGHT.—Consols were done at par to-day, bat only for an amount under £l,OOO stock, and it is not snpposed that any large sum could have been done at that price. After that bargain the quotation fell to 994. sellers, and so remained until the close of the market at 2 o'clock. In other respects Eng lish securities exhibited little variation. and values were in most instances much the same as those current on Thursday last..• Bank Stock was quoted this afternoon, this being the first day of private transfer, 1981 to 199 ex ' div.; Three per Cents. Reduced, 99 to ex div.; Three and-a-half per Cents. Reduced, 1021 to 4ex div. ' • Long Annuities, 12 7-16 to ex div. ; India Bonds, 88 to 90 premiuM ; and Exchequer-bills, 72 to 74 premium. The Foreign Stocks were steady, without any great increase of business, and the house was thinly attended in conse quence of the Easter holydays. Spanish Five per Cents. left off 26/ to 4 ; Portuguese, 46 to 47 ; Peruvian, 304 to 31/ ; Mexican, 364 to 47 ; the Deferred, 164 to 4; Dutch Two-and-a-half per Cents., 611 to 4; the Five per Cents. 1004 to 4; Danish, 864 to 874; Colombian, 15/ to 4 ; Chiltan, 102 to 104 ; Brazilian, 80 to 81; Belgian, 104 to 105 ; Buenos Ayres, 37 to 38. RAILWAY DOINGS.—As spring opens upon us, the va rious railways are beginning to get their blood in circula tion. and to all appearances the traffic on the leading trunk lines seems likely to prove much greater than has ever yet been seen since the first establ , shment of the railway pen most aeunstpiin seyi o st u e s m l y. for t The be r a t n h d o w f e April notices e n e g m e s n e t r o al o all the trunk lines, and in some of those, hitherto regarded as uncertain, and to which the public have been indiffer ent, there is a very marked improvement. The South Eastern and Dover may, perhaps, be mentioned as the most remarkable in this latter respect, and, according to the traffic returns, is making rapid strides. Its receipts for the week, ending Friday las*, reached the sum of £3,581, which is an improvement of nearly £l,OOO on the week preceding, and exceeds by nearly £l,OOO that of the London and Brighton for the same period. One thing greatly in favour of the Dover Railway's prospects, is, that it has only just been opened, and, even yet the Brick. layers' Arms branch, which must add greatly to its reve nue, is not completed. These improvements in railway receipts must give them increased recommendation to public notice as the best and most certain investment for capital. We see by the American papers that our Ame rican friends are beginning to get vastly inclined toward railway investments. All kinds of American State Stocks had fallen in price, varying from 1 to 5 and 6 per cent. ; railways on the contrary were daily progressing. and the rise was even greater in proportion than the fall in other securities. ROBBERY AND SPEEDY APPREHENSION OF THE THIEVES.—On Sunday afternoon police-constable Ste venson, No. 522, had his suspicions excited by three e quivocal-looking fellows in Richmond street. He ques tioned them, and not being satisfied with the account they gave of themselves, he removed them to Bridew ell. Un being searched a silver castor was found in one of their pocket s , and on consulting the police notice of a l arm , it was d iscovered that the house of Mr. Higg i ns, Hope street, h a d b een entered and robbed halt an hour b e f ore. (in further i nqu i ry another of ihe thieves has been appre h-nded. Th ey were all brought before Mr. Rn ,l iton n M nnday, who committed them to take their trial at the sessions. NISI PRIUS COURT.-YESTERDAY. qOSLIN v. BIDDER.—This case was resumed at the siting of the court this morning, and several witnesses acre examined to prove that the money hail been lent. and that the plaintiff and defendant were on terms of clos.. intimacy. a t the close of the plaintiff's case, Mr. KNOWLES addressed the jury for the defendant, contending that the latte r was not ind e nted to t he plaintiff to the extent of a single shilling—that he could have bur rowed money frocn his relatives if he wanted any, and that the plaintiff was not in such circumstances as that he could afford to lend the large sum of £1,300 in the short space of 12 or 18 months. Witnesses were then examined for the defence ; after which, ___ Mr. WATSON replied. His LORDSHIP, in summing up, said that although this was a claim for £1,370, no evidence had been offered to an extent exceeding £BOO, and £3O for rent. The main question in the case was, whether the evidence given in favor of the plaintiff to show that at four different times sums of money to the amount of £BOO had b -en lent, was evidence upon which the jury could safely rely. lie thought juries were quite warranted in saying that they would always require pretty conclusive evidence in order to justify them in finding for the plaintiff when a case of this description, without the ordinary vouchers and docu ments, were not forthcoming, and where oral testimony alone had to be relied on. The four loans said to have been made came in order of date In this way. The plain tiff said he lent the first sum of £l2O at Christmas, 1840 ; £l5O in April, '4l; £490 in August, '4l ; and £4O in December, '4l ; making altogether £BOO. The jury retired, and, after an absence from Court for 20 minutes, returned a verdict for the plaintiff for £B3O. OLIVERSON AND ANOTHER V. BRIGHTMAN AND OTHERS. This, which was a special jury case, was called on at 6 o'clock. Only one of the special jury (Mr. Robertson) answered; and in consequence his lordship directed that the absent jurors should be fined in the sum of £2O each. A. tales was accordingly prayed for, and the case was tried by a common jury. Mr. Knowles, Mr. Wortley, Mr. Martin, and Mr. Tomlinson, appeared for the plaintiffs; and Mr. Fitzroy Kelly, Mr. Dundas, Mr. Watso n , an d Mr. Crompton, for the defendants. The action was brought against the General Maritime Insurance Company, for the recovery of the amount of a policy of insurance effected on part of the cargo of the Penang, which left Liverpool for China, in November, Mr. Ksio'svers stated the case. He said this was an action in which the plaintiffs sought to recover the sum of £3,000, being the amount of loss upon a policy of in surance effected with the defendants, who were the repre sentatives of the General Maritime Insurance Company. To the terms of the policy he would call particular atten tion bye and bye, at present he would only say that the policy had been effected on a cargo of goods, shipped on board a vessel called the Penang, which sailed from this port for China, in November, 1840. The Penang was a Liverpool vessel, and the property of gentlemen resident here; but the cargo, which was a very valuable one, was the property of different mercantile houses in this coun try. and among others, Messrs. Garnett and Horafall, of Clitheroe, had a part, and they were in reality the plain tiffs in the present action, the nominal plaintffs being brokers. The cargo amounted to between £BO,OOO to £90,000 in value ; and when the Penang sailed in Novem ber, 1840, her port of destination was altogether uncer tain, as the jury would be satisfied when they heard the evidence in the case. No doubt the vessel would have made Canton, if Canton had been open at the time; but it would be seen that the state of relations between this country and China, were at the time such, that no depen dence could be placed on any existing peace, and that there was no knowing what port in China was open. Those matters were now recorded in history ; for some years uncertain relations existed ; trade was in terrupted ; and all the openings to Canton had been seized by the Chinese government ; and though there was talk of a treaty it was found that the Chinese had no disposition to concede, and that Mr. Elliott, the British representative there, had not either the poser or the in clination to force the Chinese to a concession. It, there fore, became a matter of importance to all who were send ing out cargoes to China to take care and see in their po licies that all contingencies were provided against. Shortly before the sailing of the Penang, it was ascertained that there was a prospect of more amicable arrangement—that the opium, he believed, had been given up and the hos tages restored ; but, beyond that, all was uncertainty, and nobody was aware as to the state in which things would be found when the vessel arrived. Before the sailing of the Penang, the plaintiffs insured their goods with the de fendants.; and he would now call attention to the terms of the policy, for the policy itself helped to explain the case very much. The learned counsel here read the terms of the policy, and proceeded to say that it was impossible to draw up a policy in more general terms, or to invent one that was more likely to give general protection to the cargo, as the risk was to continue upon the goods un,;il the same should be discharged and safely landed. Under those circumstances, the Penang sailed ; in the bay of Biscay she encountered some bad weather, but no material havoc ; but when off the Cape of Good Hope she was attacked by a violent storm, which did her considerable injury. One of the yards fell upon her deck ; it stove in some of the deck-planks ; and in consequence of the vessel being on her beam-ends for a considerable time in stormy weather, the water got ad mitted into the aperture made by the stoving in of the deck ; and of course considerable injury was done to the cargo. The captain did all he could under the circum stances ; he had lost his masts, but got up what were called "jury masts," and made the best of his way to Singa pore, where be arrived on the 13th of April ; and there he consulted parties as to the length of time it would require completely to refit the ship and continue his voyage. He was told that in three weeks or a month the whole of the repairs might be finished; and this determined him, not to unship the goods and to examine the damage done to the cargo, but rather to proceed as fast as he could to China, where the examination might with greater ease and safety take place. Had he examined the cargo at Singapore, it would have been necessary to unsli p the whole of it, to incur considerable expense in getting it into warehouses, and also to incur considerable delay ; and little doubt would exist in the end that the cap tain exercised a very wise discretion in determining not to unship the cargo there, but to get the repairs done, and to put off the work of examination until he arrived in China. Accordingly the repairs were done ; this took up a much longer time than was contem plated aboutt ePenang the Bth sailedo of J t o o n e m , a w ca h o e all n the but, in the meantime, the captain had communicated with ; repairs and i t beingwas not finished, until the parties in China to whom the cargo was consigned. The bulk of it was consigned to M`Viccar and Co., an ex tensive house, having establishments there, at Calcutta, and also at Bombay. Their resident partner was a Mr. Byrn; and to him the captain wrote, informing him of the accident, telling him that beyond doubt the cargo had sustained damage, and poiniing out the necessity of having an eatly examination at the first opportunity. One of the partners, Mr. Fisher, bad been at Singapore while the vessel was there ; and tuerefore he also would have ac quired and communicated information on the subject. 'the Penang reached Macao on the 22d of June. M r..By rn was there; and so far from affairs in Gina having as sumed a more favorable appearance at tile time, they were even more unsettled. About a month before, Can ton had been stormed by the British forces ; a treaty had taken place, but a treaty which the Chinese were show ing every disposition to avoid; th-y were repairing their forts on the river; Mr. Elliot had issued a procla mation advising all the British residents to leave the place; and accordingly Mr. Byrn left Canton, and when the vessel arrived he was residing at Macao. So soon as Mr. Byrn saw the cap, air', the accident to the cargo came under considerat.on ; but it was impos•ible to land the goods at Macao, which was nominally a Portu guese settlement, but, in point of fact, eiitiray under the dominion of the Chinese. It was connected wit h the main land, and it was dependant for its supplies of fresh provi sions on the Chinese. It would, therefore, have been an act of imprudence to land ; and it was equally impossible to go to Canton, for no prudent man would have sent goods to Canton at the time. But it was necessary immediately to examine the cargo, because, if damage were done, it was every day increasing ; and accordingly Mr. Byrn took the resolution, which was best for all parties,—that of sending the Penang to Hong Kong, to tranship the goods and examine the cargo there. At that fime Hong Kong was the only harbour to which vessels could go with any safety. It was a good harbour, partially sur rounded by the land, protected from the winds, and al. ways supposed a secure place ; and, in point of fact, all the British vessels were then lying there—the vessels of war as well as trading vessels, to the amount of 200 sail. Having taken this resolution, and having a y e.stl called the James Lang. both her and the Penang sailed fir Hong Kong on the 27th of June. The Penang came to an anchor in that harbour; the James Lang was lashed to her; . and without loss of time the examination of the cargo was commenced. It was found necessary to take the whole of the cargo out. At that time the James Lang had on board 500 chests of tea, which it was the in tention of M`Viccar and Co. to send to Europe; and with the view of supplying the want of ballast, those chests were put on board the Penang, and the cargo of the latter was transhipped to the James Lang, When the cargo had been the most part discharged, and the damage l bales separated from thereat, and only about 200 bales remained in the Penang, an occurrence took place, to which he bad now to call particular attention. The Peaking began to discharge on the sth of July, and on the 20th there was a storm called the typhoon. On the 21st it was apparent that this storm would speedily be in active ooeratioa ; and accordingly the James Lang cast herself off twin the Penang, and dropped anchor a short distance off, hut, by the force of the storm, which was one of unparalleled violence, she was driven on an island , where s he was shattered to pieces, and whore the greatest part of the cargo had been lost. Cfatoritioately, taere w and her the part -f the cargo shipped by the plaintiffs, arid upon which they had t ffected the insurance. Means were [,.ken to collect the caigu, and altogt t ., er that p a rt of it which was recovered amounted to x;l:`29 14s. 24d. The insurance with the detereiants ass f .t:4,1_100 ; and by deducting the sum saved fran the annuot of the policy, there would remain a balance of £2Bio 5.. Nd., which, with the addition of about £2Oll or £3OO of interest, would he the am. unt of the verdict they sought to reco ver, The defendants had plea:led three pleas. The two first might be treated pretty nearly as the same ; and the third was that the James Laing was uns-aworthy when learnt-d friend (Mr. K.-11y) would tint rely o n thethe goods we, e placed on board her. lie believed that third plea, because lie was in a position to ,how t at she not lost in the trimmer alleged during t ie contimiance offirst whe ther th e r i s k was at th a t time d, tern , red ? The the risk ; and this would give rise to tote qie-stioa, second plea was in substm.ce toe Stir as the first— naulely, that ;he goods were landed at the port of destination before the loss ; and these two pleas would raise the question which would be ultimately sub mitted to the jury, and upon which they would have to say, whether, under these pleas, the good, had heen landed at their final port of destim.tion at the time the loss too k place? He contended, that it was perlectiv idle to say any port of destination had been reached. fhe object of the policy was to enable the parties to take their goods to any port in China—any port where the goods might be disposed of. All was doubt when they left ; there was no certainty as to what part they should go ; the intention was, to send them to some port where they might be dis posed of; arid it was pefectly idle to talk of Hong Kong as a place where the parties sending the goods even con templated that the goods should stay. Tuere were no warehouses at Hong Kong ; if there had been, it would have made no difference, because, under circumstances, they would be just as much under the protection of the policy in a warehouse as they were when on board the Penang. The only part, where a sale could then be expected, was the port of Canton; and teat was not open. Attention had since been turned to the more eastern ports ; but, in 1810, Canton was the only place where a market could be expected for goods. I - long Kong was not such a place ; in point of fact the great motive for going to the latter place at all was, the ne cessity which existed for having the cargo examined ; and therefore the goods were under the protection of the policy when lost in the James Laing. Mr. Knowles con eluded by pointing attention to three period; from which the interest might be calculated, and by stating that inas much as the defendants had thought fit to send a commis sioner to China, they had delayed the tr al of the cause, so that the parties in favor of the plaintiffs, who were present on a former occasion, were necessarily absent now. _ _ His LORDSHIP thought the real point involved in the case was this—with what intention the transhipment had taken place at Hong Kong ? Mr. KELLY said, not exactly, as the intention of the parties might admit of doubt. The question would be this, whether, assuming all his learned friend had stated, the goods were landed with the intention of waiting until the hostilities should be at an end,—whether that was not, in point of law, a determination of the voyage? He contended that it was. His LORDSHIP thought the questions would be—what was the intention of the parties in the act they did at Hong Kong ?—and next, whether the policy had been de termined by that act ? Mr. KELLY said that when the intention was once be fore the court, on which, he believed, he should not raise any doubt, the following question would arise :—as suming that the goods were transhipped under the cir cumstances with that intention, did that, in point of law, determine the voyage or not ? His LORDSHIP.—The only question for the jury is, what was the intention ? Mr. KELLY.—Suppose there be a question of intention, that would be the question, but I don't think there will be any. The evidence of Hugh Cumming, the captain of the Penang, and that of Thomas H. Pritchard, the captain of the James Laing, having been read, the court adjourned at twenty minutes past eight o'clock. LIVERPOOL CHORAL SOCIETY'S CONCERT. On Tuesday evening last, this deserving society favored us with a performance, for the first time in Liverpool, of Handel's fine oratorio of " Deborah." The Music-hall was crowded on the occasion—inconveniently crowded-- by a highly respectable audience. The orchestra and chorus, which were very extensive and complete, contain ing upwards of 150 performers, were conducted by Mr. G. Holden, Mr. J. Richardson presiding at the organ. The opening " double chorus" was excellently given, as indeed were the ehorusses throughout, which are fine compositions. The recitative which followed Miss Leach seemed a little at fault ; but recovered herself in the duet with Mrs. Armstrong, and throughout the rest of the evening carried her audience completely with her. We understand that, with a liberality most creditable to her, the services of this young lady—and most valuable they are—are given on these occasions gratuitously. The chorus `Oh blast with thy tremendous brow," was grand, both in composition and execution, and was deservedly encored. Mrs. Armstrong sang the recitative and air which fol lowed, very chastely and prettily. In the opening recitative of the second scene, Miss Holden seemed to us to be a little off the key, and of course embarrassed a little Miss Leach, who followed her. In the other pieces allotted to her, however, this young lady acquitted herself most satisfactorily. A fine air in the second scene, " Awake the ardour of thy breast," was beautifully sung by Mr. Armstrong, whose fine deep voice was displayed in it with great advantage. The cho rus in the same scene was finely executed, and even finer still the chorus in the next, " Despair all around them." Indeed this may be called one of the best choruses in the oratorio ; that of " See the proud chief" being the other competitor for the palm of excellence. Mr. G. Holden, jun., we presume a son of the able leader, sang a recitative very neatly; and, Miss Holden appeared to great advantage in a recitative and air, but was too much drowned by the orchestra. Indeed we may .remark upon this as the prevailing fault of the instru mentil performers. There seems to prevail amongst each of these gentlemen an excessive ambition to be heard above his fellow,—fiddle vieiug in loudness with clarionet, and double bass scraping to overpower trombone. As the result of this contest of strength, the airs throughout were sadly marred ; and, unless in the case of powerful singers, almost lost. It would be far better if a selected portion only of the instruments played in accompaniments. The whole performance went off extremely well, and was throughout loudly applauded. LICENSED VICTUA.LLERS.—A memerialemanating from the committee of the Licensed Victuallers' Association, of this town, and having attached to it the bona fide sig natures of 1,050 members of the trade, complaining of the partial operation of the window-tax, as levied upon them, was, last week, forwarded to Lord Sandon for pre sentation at the Treasury. The Chancellor of the Ex chequer in his reply states that " the innkeepers and li censed victuallers of Liverpool appear to be in error as to the extent of exemption granted to other tradespeople. The window in the bar-room of a publican, if used solely for the sale of their goods, and not for the entertainment of guests, is considered as a shop window, and there does not appear to the Chancellor of the Exchequer any reason for extending to these parties any further exemption." Mr. Wainwright in enclosing this reply expresses the sin cere regret of Lord Sandon and Sir Howard Douglas that. the Clianmllor of the Exchequer should have found himself called upon to come to so unfavourable a deci sion. LIVERPOOL SHIPWRIGHTS. — Under this heading the Albion, of yesterday, contains a paragraph, furnished, no doubt, by some anonymous scribbler, (for we take it for granted that our contemporary would not deliberately in vent,) to the effect that the agents of the mail steamer Britannia, "being extremely anxious that her repairs' should be completed without delay, wished the carpenters to work on Good Friday, to which those individuals had no objection provided they received double pay;" and proci card to found upon this alleged fact various charges of blindness to their own interests, obstinacy, bias, &c. against this body of men ; their chief offence, however, consisting in their refusal to consent to " a rea. sonable reduction (!) of wages." Of course with the ques tion of what are reasonable wages and what are not,— whether or nut ss. a-day is more than a fair price for the lahour of a hard-working and skilful carpenter, we have nothing to do. Our business is with this Good Friday's fact. which mc are enabled distinctly to state is grossly untrue. The agents for the Britannia never " wished the carpenters to work on Good Friday." They only asked them whether they intended to work and were answered no. With respect to ihe latter portion of our contetupo rary's half abusive and half wheedling paragraph, we can assure him that the car enters of Liverpool are not the men to mistake chaff for corn, chips and shavings fur so lid timber or the Albion's scribbler for a gre a t p h i loso p her. M E °BA AL I M P UDENCE. —The yh following ehsaevet w lumina ries a caught in d in the Mercury of Friday last , and was copied approvingly into the Albion of ye terday. We give it for the sake of s h ev, e i theit whenever extraordinary they glee im which agine the t e LIVERPOOL. ST i.NDARD tripping : " NEW By ILDINGS IN LIVERPOOL.—Under this title a very swaggering paragraph appeared in the tiny Tory of Tuesday, containing exaggerated statements of the abun dance of employment here for all operatives connected with building, while, in fact, though business is tolerably brisk, numbers of men have just been dismissed for want of sufficient work. If the statement should be copied into papers of circulation and influence, considerable mischief may be done to parties who may flock hither and experience nothing but disappointment." The truth of the statements in our " swaggering para graph"—what, pray, is a " swa g gering paragraph"?—we are quite content to leave to the decision of the public on our respective credits. We must, however, have a laugh at the Mercury's crowing over his superior " circulation and influence,' as compared with our own. Happy men , who has for his readers such a multitude of briekinakersl He should redly wear his honours upon his face, and " swagger " as THE LIVERPOOL MERCURY ; and Brickrnakers', Bricksetter4 and Hodrnen's Chronicle. t tt l'':hh i l hI a e eo i tevl. ' ie g training.tq uuu Lord-street of p ' t d) nc h o":tetr ( ti ' 3'fe admirers(te the i Pas e sa t oti ). icf l e ueh tet'bld't of e ef r'lP id t W hat 'lY manufacturedr that ja Urquhart—the.a t i w ' blessed em (m) r THE VESTRY MEETING.—The announcement by Mr. r o a r w s i silence H r c o e 0 upon o i n n Urquhart, at the la-t meeting of the Select Vestry, that andnsum i p mn h ta i e l t l o i 1 oe s t o el i tiiat " would probably he the last time he should have an gratefully upon the ears of the members present as a opportunity ef:i. ect t c.e h i e ,op in fT:l ' hA : teu, m ,gf,,u u ads s tr t d,u m h a i v y e , fallen sound as u aei s o t speeches aw a k a e n and both the :rejoiced, no doubt, as did table happiness. Beware, And, almost t , h t eo same tmraep spared individual 1 Trusti n n fl i no i infliction ht i o he n e of nl columns or : d a , d s - t philosopher, who affects to be vending his :m.ftirtifi,ige:tn,rit:.pewl,:h.imeibeeeisiketrecrraif,tuta,i:r:itl:rian..Lsemue:,onksrt,:,..itaertlreldevaa nteus: eetitlemen, owii dying speech. Depend upon it, the Radical faction are n,,, gong, wit'A their own consent, to favour us with their absence at our t arish board. They are only putting and us off our guard, that they may be able to return upon us like a thunder (lap, when we are not in a slate to defeat the meek their effo: t:, We entreat of tur Conservative friends to be n i , :trid active THIS DAY ; to be in attendance and force at the Annual Ve,trv. The enemies of good local legisla tion have strained and are straining every nerve to secure tile election of their 4Te,rturt s ; and, if Conservatives are supine, they must succ ed. Let there be no divisions— no halth g—no di , i,t rut runs, therefor:, now. We nail pull ener::et - cally it vv- a mild not have this Conservat to parish dragged through the mire of Radicalism. UNITED STALES. n ec i e n iv an ed ° l6:64'; the ß r y ii t i ll t, P ll l.) ,, ,a (e t :t:r io n _ l4 .k t ° n t e t t i 4ft e h r an we th h at av g e iv r, colu.i.n. Her ;I;.tes extend to the 22d ulrimo. til l Mr. Web s ter wa : i n N ew Y or k, and, according to a p l a l p h e i r s s i h r i e e to n d i u s hse, is as r is ep '; e f s u e l n i t ' e ' d o f as th s e ay f i t e ig xa t s h q a , t te t , ti h;s "; ll . l ; receivingive assurancesthe ! the principil questi on o f th e d ay i n C ongress a n d out oft t He has given, sits the N ew Y or k H era ld, the most PO co n t tt the tio naTlex vote ofe at they volving the fo rr h n re l at i ons o f t h e country. Advices had be en rece i ve d f rom G alves t on , Texas, to the 7th ult. It was reporte d t h ere that C ap tain Hai aastrhsaesnnatoe, chanceor of 0 . v 3, _1: had met a party of Mexicans, west of the Nueces, au] alter a short e ngagement, kill e d an d woun d e d sev eral I?' took five or six priso .ers. The prisoners seat of Government at Washington. Stocks at New York were all up on the day preceding the departure of the Hottinguer, and a better feeling Pr e ' vailed among the brokers. calei COTTON MARK ET. —SAVANNAH, March to of the week have b en very Fruited, amounting in all at only 1218 hales, 1058 of which were Upland, — vi 7. 9, i 2 :7st 74-, 34 at 71, 12 at 8, 16 at 81, 298 at B+, 119 at a a' t • 81, 71 at 84, 72 at 84, and 16 bales at 84 cents. 16 1 3 Sea Island, 1 ;it 18, 3 at 20, 10 at 204, 12 at 21. 14 at 2 1 7 : 21 at 22, 18 at 23, 31 at 24, 5 at 27; 10 stained at 6, ' l s t , 18 at 8, 12 at 9, and lat 15 cents per lb. Quotationsl. Inferior to ordinary, 74 to 74; middling, 74 to Si; 1311 • to tiling fair, 84 to 84; fair, 84 to 8i ; fully fair, 8+ good fair, 9 —. NEW ORLEANS, March 11.—The sales of coital: were sent total Saturday amounted to upwards of 4000 bales at ( " 1 ", prices, but gener a lly s p ea ki ng h o ld ers are less dispo sed meet buyers as promptly as before. The principal P ° tion of the business is for England. Liverpool classification---Louisiana and MississiPPa l Inferior 6to 61; ordinary, 64 to 74 ; m iddli ng , 7 L ° l 4 o; middling fair, 84 to 84; fair, 9 to 94; good fair, 9a good and fine, 104. NEW YORK, March 21.—The market to-day is inactive, about 700 bales sold in small lots; about bales taken by spi nners res id ue f or export ; prices u.n Seo tied. Several holde rs are w ithd raw i ng their supplies ,i 6 s hopes a more active d eman d w ill f o l low the arriva l o r steamer. Freights are again dull at 4d. for square baleh and 4d. for round bales. The Select Vestry have appointed Samuel /41'Cu1 10 e ll l Esq., honorary consulting surgeon to the Workhouse al* Fever Hospital. ILLICIT DISTILLATION.—On Sunday evening, „ the officers of exci se f oun d a pr i vate still at work in the co' under a shop in Dale -street. DINING-ROOMS. —We refer our readers to Mr. 4 May's adverti semen t i n t h e fi rst page of our paper, w, has establi,hed an eating-ho use on t h e American princiln We feel satisfied that if it is conducted with the same sP7O - the " Tamony Hall" is, which he names, it most/ the Yankees say, ' go a-head." CASHMERE SHAWLS.—We have been shown by it Searle, of Bold-street, (whose advertisement appears i ;t another column,) severa l pattern specimens of shay/15'j, !he ensuing summer, some of which are not only excee,l, ingly elegant in appearance, but possess also the 1,,,n{,.' d ness, firmness, and durability, so much desired. Tye are certainly worthy the inspection of our fair readers. NEW PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH. MYRTLE-STREO I. , The Foundation Stone of this edifice will be laid on Thor:" day aftern oon nex t, at f our o ' clock, by the Hon. bd Maule, and in th e even i ng a S o i r e e in celebration o f t event will be held a t th e M us i c H all, as advertised i n °at present paper. Mr. Franklin advertises in another column his dini o g; rooms in George- s t ree t. H e sets out an excellent and the celebrity he obtained while at the Shipmas te ;i. Association he seems determined to maintain by, if ble, catering more anxiously for his customers. 4 rooms, though n o t ex t ens i ve, are retired and select, a„" this in a to wn lik e Li verpool is no slight recommen' ' Lion. Mr. TEMPLETON'S CONCERTS. —This fine •-- t he commenced last ni g ht a ser i es of entertainmentsin Liver Theatre, Church -street, before a numerous l ' - o o highly-respectable audience. It will be perceived 1)1 he advertisement elsewhere, that on Wednesday evening a will give his favourite entertainment on the musi c or Marp Queen of Scots ; on Thursday evening a mince neous selection of songs; and on Saturday evening 3 Ott, entertainment comprising the songs of Sir W a lter Sc ° . • • On Frid a y morn i ng he will give an entertainment 10 Pet Royal Assembly Rooms. ' THE PRES BYTERIAN M OVEMENT.—The new fig. ; " . tioo progress at railro a d spee d ; and Mr. O'Connell had b e tter io look sharp le s t hi s monster monopoly be not sPeettio entrenched upon, an d th e " interest ' attachable to. to performances at th e C orn- E xchange be not transferre l o the proceedings now in operation throughout the pro vi m . of Ulster, respecting the mixed-marriage question. lams cording to the Derry Standard. 1,500 Preshy;erian° l 7 ts t, at Ramelton, in the county of Donegal, on ThursdaY,_ t o t at which, as at Strabane, speeches were delivered that, , _ st the sake of the ultimate object in view, had for the o _ 4 ° , part far better not have been spoken—eloquent, high''' . soned, and exciting though they unquestionably wer_e_ LIVERPOOL PROVISION MARKET, APRIL Er„ ,,,.. Being entirely denuded o f fi ne B u tt ers, our m arket exbi b ..,,, no satient point. at any rate, differing from our last repo ,i- tha The stock of indifferent Butter at present on hand, holders ie '" - moat . h s l ri o e u . sc. . t . ou tp a. . r f t t . , W s ea d m . a a yie a n b o i te . 17:ct will fetch a longi h figur e " t o r f ad t e for a week or two, but are of opinion that the mutter la rather . h er e gen z ' i n , . fatty our last quota nu the market at ti • Some very bad Irish IS is CU -r " • na as low a price as 58s per tierce. G ood fit for sailors o long voyage, is well worth 85s to pos per tierce. Prime Port 55s to 62s Od per barrel ; ollizr kinds 45s to 5, s. Nothing at , stirring in Foreign Provisions. There is no good Belfast Baru to be dad uSder 38s per cwt. _....4 rnuchrs.t arrival, WARRINGTON CORN MARKET, APRIL 2. Total quantities per Price P, et Imp. Quarter. Imp. Clu, a s 137 .. , 3 5 .42 1 0 w 0 0 6 3 - ! 0 0 Wheat. Barley _ Oats Peas... .e 427 0 14 0 -D BI W f ' LATEST DATE INDIRECT. DIRECT. From China.. Jan. 25, .. Calcutta .. Feb. 22' .. Bombay.. March 1 .. Mauritius .. Jan. 5 .. Valparaiso Buenos Ayres MonteVideoJan.lB Bahia . Feb.l7 April 9, 1844. AT LIVERPOOL. INDIRECT. From Rio Jan. 30 • • Pernambuco Feb. 29 Marauham Feb. hl N. Orleans .. Mar. 9 • Mobile Mani() .• • Savanuah... Mar. 13 Charleston Mar. 14 'Ad New York Ty t"rf LIVERPOOL HAY AND POTATOE MARI' APRIL 8. , f a 0 1 ! Potatoes, V 991 b s. d. s. d. Hay, old 2' lb 0 I'' 0 v Pink-eyes o __ 0 9i Cup, - 2 4 Clover .... 0 __ 0 5 i Short-tops 2 0- 2 2 Straw,Wheat. 0 4. 0 0 4 i 0 Cattle - 0 Turnips, .19 , ton .... 27 6 —2B 6 Barley Carrots _ do , ' , TELEGRAPH OFFICE, APRIL 8. Wind at Holyhead, S.W. gentle breeze in the morning; mocerate at noon. Off Holyhead, No. 3196, Safeguard Brig, at 1 0 a.m. yeste Brig, Asp from Galveston, and No. 37 6 , Milton at 6 p.Da y ester° for Montreal. Off Point Lynas, at 1 p m. , has a pilot, No. 2467 crus sd Ship. from— Off Great Ormshead, at 10 a.m., No. 8096, Mary Hartle, from Valparaiso, and No. 1017, Boykett Brig, at I p•Erb , Bordeaux. 9 Off the Port, at 6 p .m., I ship, I barque, 5 brier as schooners. Tuesday MAN . TIDE TABLE. YS ----" Wednesy. 1 9, 4 3 21 15 EVN. HEIGHT HoLYDAY3, ri > . , ' ------__ ------ 0. 3 4 4658 13 14 3 8 J m u ar pi s te s r e r t i s se lo e b 4 . ll 4 ... l . ef: Thurs... 11 542 625 12 6 .. 1 0 1 ' Friday.. 12 7 8 746 12 6 Venus sets 11b l'" -- 0 . , Saturdayl3 819 848 13 4 Saturn rises 3b 01 :atr Sunday 14 gl2 935 14 8 Ist Sunday after. Monday 15 956 10 15 15 5 Easter Term be7,_:, - ----- - 0 ‘IEETINGS OF CREDITORS FOR LIVER Y O OP 00 . APRIL. 1/ ..rio i le, Isaac Eckersley, (Ist) - District Cow 1 10, Joseph Ridgway, (Ist) l i 1 1 2 2: IS, James Stuart. (proof and div.) s l& e 'i t l h lia F T it H er a o s f k t a a y n n d e T . h(pornnooasf Musgrove,a and div.) . Ditto, 1! 1 , i -, Michael Devine, (Ist) Ditto , I 16. Ralph Lewis (2d) 16, James Sproule, (audit) 16. William Evans, (audit) Ditto, :I 16. Henry Bourne Jones, (proof and div.).. Ditto, i 't 17, Samuel Ball, (Ist) Ditto, I. 1 - , William Whitley Ditto, 1), 17, William Jackson, (proof) .(;Icl (audit) Ditto,D D i i t t t t o o, i ll 17, Edward Gibson, (lst) 17, Donald Nicholson, (proof and div.) D itto, l ` f 17. C. Humberston and Co. (proof and div ) pitt o, 9t er, 0 18, Thomas Millar, (2cl) .. District Court, Manch e ot, f 1 9, Thomas Brewer, (3d) 9, David Rowlands, (proof and div.).... Ditto , 0 19. eth Flitcroft and Thomas Musgrove, 1 (proof and final div.) Ditto , _ e l KO ,Ai 19, - John Molyneux Bird, (special) Nr. ga. LIVERPOOL: TUESDAY, APRIL 9, 184. PRINTED AND EVERY TUESDAY PUBLISHED MORN° BY 0. 04 JOSHUA FLETCHER LACE, of 53,Grove-stre et, LEONARD ADDISON, of 14, Great Orford-stre: o t b , ,0 4 At N 0.4, ST. 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