The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser. — Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1845-03-11 00:00:00

Mat. 11, 18h5 RO YAL VISIT TO CHRIST'S HOSPITAL. I th e gueen and Prince Albert honoured Christ's Hos itn w ith a visit, on Sunday, to attend divine service and _esz the scholars at their evening meal. SeT ee t d he RoYal party entered the hall the organ co a m nd - PlaYing the national anthem. Her Majesty c re Albert (who wore the star of the Most Noble Ai o e r of the Garter) passed up the middle of the hall, nd a l ed ,itntnediately by the President and the Treasurer , ir k 8 ° b y the Royal suite. tifdl a ppearance of the hall was very interesting ; the feet in g , which is about 200 feet long, 52 feet wide , and ors A, contained near 900 scholars, ranged at long 4 ,...af tables ; and great numbers of governors of the ztetion occupied seats on either side of the hall. 041 the east end. was the organ gallery with the scholars f Posing the choir, and at the west end were a number ij i l l _ s ed seats, filled with the ladies of the governors and The 'ambers of the corporation. en Te Lord Mayor and most of the aldermen were pre e t ' e a nd Occupied seats on the south side of the hall at the ite B stile e nd ; end fronting the corporation on the oppo -owere the members of the committee, and other le raors Her M • Majesty sat in the chair of state usually filled by eft, eesident, who sat on this occasion on her Majesty's h e n u The treasurer was on the right of Prince Albert ; Pere chess of Buccleuch and the Countess of Dunmore enti tat the right of the treasurer, and the noblemen and e men in waiting occupied seats on the left of the pre ent. Th t th„ e chair of state was placed in front of the raised seats Krs West end of the hall, and behind the Queen sat ?i" Thompson, the wife of the President, and Mrs. The. the w if e o f t h e T reasurer . he Steward of the Hospital was stationed underneath he , i ' s na gnificent window of stained glass in the middle of rer r ; l o a r li, which contains the arms of its four Royal go. 4' a ' 8 ' Viz., the Queen, Prince Albert, the Prince of &' and Prince George ; and those of Edward VI., the 'l l cler of the hospital, and of Charles 11., founder of the hathernatical School ; also the arms of the President and e Treasurer °rl the • • )3, signal from the Steward the service commenced rf the whole of the scholars singing the first two verses ? 1 00th Psalm, written copies of the psalm being pre thneiu to the Q ueen an d Prince Albert by two of the The kn ee li ng. lo t e reader for the evening, Edward A. Newton, one [o th e senior Grecian scholars, then read a portion of the h e ~,c h aPter of the Gospel of St. Luke, beginning with Thent verse. Sfollowed several prayers. ); es . Scholars sang four verses of the 139th Psalm, co ornamental penmanship being presented to her by the scholars by whom. they were written. Vi ai ' a ce havi ng b een sa id the supper was served. Her hec est Y and Prince Albert then rose, and, followed by )t e Yal suite, p as sed down the whole extent of the ta -4eB, 1 a the hall while the sholars were at their meal. The i:ldet and the treasurer attended the august visitors. te ats ° queen and the Prince having returned to their Iv and the s u pp er bei n g ended, an anthem was sung. for e whole of the scholars then passed in procession be 'leed`le Queen and Prince Albert, the 12 Grecians (pro- Pa s , ti li to the universities of Oxford and Cambridge) le r i; r ig first, followed by the 12 King's scholars, destined , naval service. The other boys followed with their in the order of their wards. r e i, Qs scholars having made their obeisance to the Sove cerZtl and the Prince retired from the hall. The organ T h '.d to play during the procession of the scholars. 11 5 11 Queen and Prince Albert then rose and qu itted the attended by their suites. COMMERCE OF DUBLIN T hp (Prom Thom's Official Directory for 1845.) bap c ommerce of the port of Dublin had increased so corn ca towards the close of the last century, that the ac h;rnodation afforded in the river for shipping was found fopBll,ffiejent, and parliament consequently, granted £45,000 ree n l rc °,,ing docks on both sides of it. The docks coin eberle.ing with the Grand Canal on the south side were torn-ho m 1796, and St. George's, the latest of the Cus ae,,,use docks, in 1821. These latter are capable of re - 4 ; t rodatin g 40,000 tons of shipping, and are k su o r- f ed ands stores capable of containing B,ooo tt c s hascellar a.rr_ obacco, and 20,000 chests of tea, a - U., t er 1 2,000 pipes of wine. The docks on w the south t ee ' afford commodious wharfage for 100 sale of merchr!nt rii: and colliers, exclusive of that supplied by the river t -,Y1,8* Although these, and the graving docks attached brijitem, are at present scarcely used, ye!, such were f the b „, .ant commercial prospects at the period of their or th4;leo, that it was at one time in contemplation to reduce Sir ?hole of the low grounds south of Ringsend, from 20040hn Rogerson's quay to Merrion-square, an area . of de ces, into a series of docks, wharfs, and ship-build tog-Yards —a plan which an inundation of the river, in os ti ,„, e aoence of a breach in the quay in 1792, that spread nr,",„ .. this tract, and allowed sailing craft to navigate it, th;' e d to be of easy accomplishment. The formation of av a - , as Ylnen harbour at Kingstown, then Dunleary, which iti o - "onneaced in 1817, gave additional effect to the com te s ce of the port, by the increased protection it afforded the b i e l ling. The improvements made on the bar and in L ,,u of the Liff y b y th e b a ll as t by rendering the chan te,, Peiently de e p f or th e nav i ga ti on of vessels of 1,400 , K:as also contributed greatly to the same effect. inel ea re Were belonging to the port in December, 1844, 1,2 0 V0g steamers, 397 vessels, of every size from 15 to Ot t ons ; the registered burden of all amounts to 33,802 r Most of the se ve s sels are employed in the coasting th at -rc so-channel trade, there being but six or eight in Pt ah " the W es t I n di es, t h e same num b er in that of Itoriche Amer .the Spanish Peninsula, and 20 or 30 in the :re re can tieriber trade. Within the last few yenrs Ir a •• Laudable exertions are making to establish a foreign thtart trade, and, from the improved business habits of e'er P n e° Ple, there is every •reason to anticipate a result p u b a ii beneficial to the spirited undertakers and to the thy' In 1844. the importations from China attained z i , e ee or four cargoes of teas, and one or two more are it ilt e ted before the close of the season. There . were also eCtutrtations from Calcutta and the Mauritius. .The bee 4 s exercised by the mercantile interests of Dublin to s twa e the whole of the importation of the West India without any interference of the British trader, the ; r ise Promise f a i r , as , up to the I s t of December, 1844, born:°o-channel receipts are very low as compared with li ons the preceding years ; and, from the great exT , - t eeet s i: T w making by the importers to encourage ship doubt direct from those islands, there can be but little Ile ees ,.t f h st in a year or two Dublin will not be under the full 50 of of havi ng rec o ur se to the E ng lish market for a It c is al b of this important article. !Lich } l t ngular fact that in all the vicissitudes of decay w ine hav e nearly swamped the commerce of thisport, the kospe'rade bas stood firm and unimpaired : it is now as eidusens ag it was fif t y y ears b ac k. O ne cause f or the 'riti s e n of second-hand importations of wine through the loisuboarket undoubtedly is, the good taste of the Irish f 4l , l ec: which would at once detect the deceptive a `"e Wines passing through the hands of the London C ations even though it had not the unadulterated impor °f the Dublin to contend with. Cape wine and some the wi erY low descriptions of Spanish wine excepted, all 4 e B sold in Dublin are of direct importations. ob. e b e i s Pe . s t s Ymptom of the improvement of the trade of 4 ,re Is found in the annual account of customs duties t h 4el es of home • From 1821 to 1832, p e re ee i consumption. , r eri th Pts were nearly stationary at about £600,000. " 4 th e at date to the present time, the last year closing 1, t ,0f December, the receipts were—ln 434' '410,177. 1838, £801,406. 1842, £899,842. 1834' -t 727.428. 1839, £846,721. 1843, £960,427. 183,7, 745'4.90 , , 502. 1841, , £873,327. 921. 1840 4857,121. 1844, £1,102,747 On ba-j.tatiNG JOINERS' TOOLS. — the for trial at joiners' sessild*Auslan, a joiner, .Wednesday la it was committed quantity of _ o loahns, charged with stealing a large '3, V r onn the shop of Messrs. Rule and found N . he Pro ledp, Jarn es'-street. Part of t was found at a public other hoa' e ' in Scotland place,perty was ..o. Ar ose, left by the prisoner, m b d y l b sp t e hel in Albion : stree , otherlided the prisoner in a . part ctor Anders, who al t o : den PretPerty was traced to his possession, which had , vtlitie,..en from the shop of Messrs.. Smith and Son, No. ars, lasttlarn Henry -street. The amount of both robberiesonthenightowf athse£ll7BthBsJ.anu ,, T a i co roners in leest-Oflcanta AT H AMPSTEAD.—Tae h c o o was found herd on the body of James Delarue, w a ver jury finding Oight, ed, near Hampstead, on _the night of Friday fort he , tl iet of tie!rnillated yesterday cyeekt_t ker, g rav i„ wilful murder " against Thomas etiOve; jeestdy. The prisoner the ' eg in an omnibus back to prison.ilneards m s a h a o li rt e ly nr a y fterw . but Itetticle he was loudly groaned at by t A he h, multitude, l 2 1 4 heerNY smiled in return, and said, shall be Parn.Lor,e a week is over." On Tuesday a he was and again too .liice%•,‘ oefore the magistrate, and another rem lice ~`°‘. this day (Tuesday)• The letter b signed " also a duplicate to ti, (ni rkt on de eased, was sworn to y_ the father to Caro "' tha t 7,e Prisoner ' es handwriting, as was . a a . The Prt aotitiLetter found in the prisoner's lodgings. o the coolest eonapn'tsintained throughout the investi t4stiO4rp. and at times put on an expression g o w f a c s o a n ff t eras trldifference. The only time 4411 0ri len his father was examined : w [On Friday elj e k slit idi„„ery was made, a e e m c r Le P d e : Itasfewhilich 'locker was in the habit , of th w e al fi k n iu d g in w g it o b f . th__ , t concealed amongst soke cnild near the place of the tour, I . er, v.. "Ilt, stiff grass, with a quantity '; ri b of Foulsham "eN°O-44,111..e Oc cnautNcg.—The parish of blood on it.] u. e l t ed 7d" °II' hes been for several days intothrown COM ,sittetlale in conseq ence of a most brutaloutrage an ex ea 70 and 8 0 leis aftt,..n,the peis n on of an old man, i,., aCat,nanled Am!ss.. l c Of peb;!:-Octed to drini9ng_._ n 0 morning t Foul- H e 0 r n e s theid e e d t w a e t Foulsham, o fth D o ' t °, 4 . k ept ' tpry he was . entieedbeer-shop a of his 15.colnottiaiZ Benjamin C h e They sent for a the'ye "antity 0 S fw•elir lithe to roz, t. wh r. ere several drinking ~ St ate rnad e the ui la ap, an d g ut it into some beer, ve whichry bad man drink P ; he was soon in a an d the old , huisic was o btained,dancing commenced, tvastbrat.t, being in tt e of stupor, knew nothing that W ti ll i i e4 : l ! ° _, T I , whil: p s a a rties in the room I . '" tY '4l° Pall d Wm bout the room. Notbisatispfied l:ent, es and nient, they stray!) 1 presence of parties, '''' t h ' s t reat e 1 a • ed the old man of his int o name made him dance in tle h °4 l a and fe male. In this naked state he was pulled burnt was seriously I: wa s ii r tf: b fi i re, and held there till he was so injured that h„ r nat il , , eto walk or stand. He '11111") Places helpless state from i h le e tel l) • and fit, h brick floor, where horhaleed 1 , he was laid on te _ I' -e till -' ni gitt lie was not able to reach his own 9 11n P 4 c e h t :k 1 Thee.Vitlll'lt morning, when he went to bed and to tin -Ile or ad instant, and then died of the p ;lyec_ e at ~ matter from the parts badly burnt. At . the t pe rs 4 verdi ct of manslaughter was returned d a o g i a n in g s s, 141 tbeiltee the chief actors in these shamet i "e been committed to gaol on the charge. THE CRIMINAL LAW. In the charge which Mr. Justice Coleridge delivered at Salisbury to the grand jury for Wiltshire on Thursday, his lordship proposes a very importa-t alteration in the criminal law of the country, and expresses his wish that the experiment should be tried. The grand jury, in a presentment, echoed his suggestion, and coming from so high an authority, the proposition is certainly entitled to consideration. _ In commtutitig on the calendar before him, Mr. Jus tice Coleridge observed—. _ . " In some instances the offences were so very light, that they suggested to the mind a question whether it would not be consistent with justice that cases of so light a na ture should be summarily disposed of. The expense to the county was very large, and the long imprisonment and loss of character when there was a conviction, seemed heavier than the offence required. In this calendar he saw a charge for stealing seven dead starlings, another for stealing two tame rabbits, and other charges equally light, and the parties had been in prison ever since the begin ning of January. Supposing a conviction followed, they must feel how much the judge was fettered in making up his mind as to the punishment to be awarded. Here there had been as much imprisonment as they would have passed if tried at the time. It was a bad thing for a man to be convicted, and depart from the co•irt with little more than a nominal punishment; but if the judge did not take the prior punishment into consideration, the punishment would be too severe; but should the party be acquitted, then every one must regret every hour of the imprisonment to which he had been subjected. He did not know whe ther gentlemen were aware of the large number of persons charged with offences who were not convicted at the trial. The last year there had been about 30,000 committals, and above 8,000 acquittals or bills ignored. That was a very large proportion of the whole number. It might be said that many of these acquittals did not make out the entire innocence of the party ; but he did not think, either as lawyers or magistrates. they could venture to look at an acquittal in any other light than that of estab lishing the perfect innocence of the party. Every ac quittal supplied some degree of reflection upon the com mittal—something like a feeling that injustice had been done. He did not mean to say'but that the committal might have been perfectly justified by the evidence placed Lefore the magistrate, but all must join in wishing that some experiment should be made tor the purpose of seeing whether these small charges could not be disposed of in a different manner. It was a delicate question, he admit ted, to - interfere with a tribunal which worked well and wisely for the ends of justice; but they should not be tied so completely to a particular form of trial as to sacri fice the great and paramount end of doing justice to the individual. It was evident the value of the property taken, or the age of the offender, would not be the test, but that there might be some combination of circum stances to guide parties and lead to a successful alteration. He did not mean to give the power to a single magistrate, but to the petty sessions, and there might be regulations giving the accused an opportunity of postponing or re- g his trill . It is indeed a delicate question, as the learned Judge admits, that he has raised. It is no less than the inter ference with a tribunal which he says " has worked well nd wisely PRUDENT CONDUCT.—On Monday last Mr. Samuel Durnbell, who was lately employed by Messrs. Maclure and Co.. lithographers, &c., Castle-street, called at the shop of Mr. Smith, druggist, 35 Great Homer-street, and asked for some prussic acii, which he said was wanted by Messrs. Maclure for an improved process in lithog raphy. Mr. Smith wished to send the bottle containing the poison to Mr. Maclure, but Mr. Dumbell desired it should be sent to his own house, which was assented to. Mr. Smith, however, let the matter rest till the following morning, when he filled a phial resembling that Contain ing prussic acid which he had shown to Mr. Dumbell, with water, into which he put about a grain of tartaric acid. This he labelled " Poison" and sent to Mr. Duel bell's residence. On Friday last, a messenger from Messrs. Maclure arrived in hot haste at Mr. Smith's shop and inquired how much prussic acid he had sold to Mr. Dumbell. It appears that he had that morning swallowed the whole contents of the phial, and then, exhibiting it to the housekeeper, declared that he had taken poison. Ter rified, she ran to Messrs. Maclure's office, who, finding where the supposed poison had been purchased, despatched a messenger to Mr. Smith to inquire as to the potency of the potion. Of course all parties were , greatly relieved when it was discovered that Mr. Dumbell had swallowed nothing more dangerous than a little acidulated water. MR. CHARLES KEMBLE.—This highly talented gen tleman commenced his second engagement at the Collegi ate Institution on Tuesday- evening with great ecldt. The doors were literally besieged by anxious expectants long before the time of opening, and prior to the entrance of Mr. Kemble the house was filled by a brilliant and fashionable audience. On this occasion Mr. Kemble read The Merchant of Venice with great vigour, and received a well earned tribute to his efforts from the assembled throng. On Frid iy he gave King John, and, in the a between the King and Hubert and Hubert and Arthur was exceedingly effective. To-morrow evening he will read Othello. With reference to this effort of Mr. Kemble, we cannot do better than quote the strictures of the Manchester Guardian. It says, " the unqualified terms of approbation i i which we had occa sion to express ourselves at the former efforts of this highly-gifted veteran leave us almost at a loss to speak of this, which on the whole, appeared to us the chef& tenure. In no play is there more scope for the display of his rare and versatile genius,: and this from the great variety which the characters present. As Hazlitt justly remarks, The Moor, Othello, the gentle Desdemona, the villain lago, the good-natured Cassio, the fool Roderigo present ad variety of character as striking and palpable as that produced by the opposition of costume in the pic ture." Yet the distinguishing traits of each and all these re brought out with the most complete con- and produ - ced a tout ensemble which we have never seen equalled, with the accompaniments of all the ' means and appliances' of stage accessories. Amongst the innumerable beauties with which Mr. Kemble's read ing of this noble tragedy abounded, we must particularize the drinking scene. I , Ve venture to say that Cassio's ine briety, as pourtrayed by Mr. Kemble, will not be easily forgotten b 7 those who had the gratification of being present ; nothing could be more true to nature, and free from that offensive grossness of manner with which we have seen it given by some of our actors." characters sistenc MR. THomws Hoon.—We can hardly congratulate our readers on presenting them, this month, with an effigy of Thomas Hood's outward features, instead of that portraiture of his mind, and those traces of his kindly heart, which he has been wont with his own pen to draw in these pages. During . the last month his physical strength has completely given way, and almost as much through incapacity of his hand to hold the pen, as of his brain for any length of time to guide it, be has at last been compelled to desist from composition, Those in whom admiration of the writer has induced also a friendly feel ing towards the man, will have some consolation in learning that amidst his sufferings, which have been se vere, his cheerful philosophy has never failed him ; but that on his sick bed, as in his writings , and in his lif, he has known how to enlighten the melancholy of those around him, and to mingle laughter with their tears. We have thought it due to our readers and to the public thus briefly to make known that Mr. Hood is more seriously ill than even he has ever been before ; avoiding to express any h open or forbodings of our own, or to prejudice the uncertain issues of life and death.—Hood's Magazine. CHARACTER OF THE PRINCESS CAROLINE.—If her education had been what it ought, she might have turned out excellent ; but it was that very nonsensical one that most women receive—one of privation, injunction, and menu to believe no man, .and never to express what they feel, or say what they think, for all men are inclined to entrap them, and all feelings are improper ; this vitiates or abrutis all women—few escape." (Surely this censure is too sweeping.) "On summing up Princess Carolit,e's character to-day, it came out to my mind to be, that she has quick parts, without a sound or distinguishing under standing; that she has a ready conception, but no judg ment; caught by the first impression; led by the first im pulse ; hurried away by appearances or enjouement ; lov ing to talk, and prone to make missish friendships that last twenty-four hours. Some natural, but no acquired morality, and no strong innate notions of its value or ne cessity ; warm feelings, and nothing to counteract them ; grea 0 _ __ 0 ,,0d humour, and much good nature—no appear ance of caprice—rather quick and vice, but not a grain of rancour. From her habits, from the life she was allowed and even compelled to live, forced to dissemble; fond of gossiping, and this strengthened greatly by the example of her good mother, who is all curiosity and inquisitiveness, and who has no notion of not gratifying this desire at any price. In short, the Princess, in the hands of the steady and sensible man, would probably turn out well ; but when it is likely she will meet with faults perfectly analogous to her own, she will fail. She has no governing powers, though her mind is physically strong. She has her fa ther's courage, but it is to her (as to him) of no avail. He wants mental decision ; she, character and tact.—Lord Malmesbury's Diary, A TOUCH OF COLD WEATHER.—A New York paper of Feb. 11, says :—On Sunday week the mercury in the thermometer at Quebec was down to thirty degrees below zero. To THE EDITOR OF THE COURT GAZETTE. - Sir,- Being myself very sceptical with regard to what are usually denominated restorative preparations, my wife had some trouble in persuading me to try a preparation for the purpose of attempting to recover my hair, of which a fever had fully deprived tee ; when about sixteen months since I read in your Court Gazette of Old •dge's Balm of Columbia, (of 1, Wellington-street, Str. • , London,) and I allowed my wife for three months su • essively to rub my head as often as, I believe, the dire ons required. As a constant reader at the rooms here •f your paper, I have to thank you for the successful ex riment, for lam happy to say my hair is now as thick s ever it was, and 1 have every reason to speak well of . e Balm of Columbia which I certainly obtained throng , you ; therefore I am, sir, your truly obliged, J. b. Glasgow, May 20, 1844 We have been request • to corroborate the receipt of the above, which we hay much pleasure in doing, having heard of the virtues of the Balm of Columbia in other instances.—CEO. C. OLDRIDGE'S ILM causes Eyebrows to grow, prevents the hair f m turning grey, and the first appli caion causes it to c rl beautifully, frees it from scurf, and stops it from fallin off. Abundance of certificates of the first respectability are shown by the Proprietors, C. and A. OLDRIDGE, Wellington-street, Strand, where the Balm is sold, an by most of the respectable Perfumers and Medicine V odors. Price 3s. 6d Gs., and lls. per bottle No other prices are genrine. Ask for OLDRIDGE'S BALM OF COLUMBIA, 1, WELLINGTON-STREET, LONDON. Sold by respectable Chemists, Perfumers, and Sta- tioners CORRESPONDENCE. SHIPBUILDING TO THE EDITOR OF THE LIVERPOOL STANDARD. SIL—In the report of the council proceedings on Wednesday last, I perceive that, in reply to some very just remarks from Mr. North on the arbitrary treatment the Liverpool shipbuilders bad received at the hands of the corporation, by which shipbuilding had become al most extinct in this port, a port of all others where it should have been fostered and encouraged, Mr. Moore attempted to vindicate the conduct of the council by stating, that the trade, had not been driven away by them, but had left the port in consequence of the rate of car penter's wages being higher here than in Whitehaven and some other places. Now, I freely admit that shipbuild ing in Liverpool is by no means a lucrative business, and that the high rate of wages is one reason of its being so, but I most distinctly deny that it is the only, or even the principal cause of the trade leaving the port; the high character and superior workmanship of Liverpool-built ships have always secured for them a better price than those built in the outer ports ; and had not a long continued system of fatal discouragement been pursued by the au thorities towards the builders, Liverpool would at this day have stood preeminently conspicuous amongst the shipbuilding ports of the kingdom. The necessity of having carpenter's yards and graving docks distributed at something like convenient'distances from each other, ap pears to have been entirely overlooked, and Trentham street, where so many noble ships have been constructed, and which in 1840 contained more than half the ship building establishments• in the port, has been converted into the Albert Dock, and out of seven ship-builders who were then removed without any remuneration for the loss they sustained by taking down the extensive build ings, which, at their own expense, had been erected suita ble accommodation, could only be provided for three firms, thus, at one fell swoop, wiping four from the al ready limited number. But this is not all. Two of these parties, Messrs. Wilson, and Humble and Milcrest, the most extensive builders in the port, after laying out im mense sums in erecting suitable buildings for carrying on their business at the. North Shore, have now been com pelled to remove, after a few months' notice, without ap peal and without redress; both firms have given up the building department of their business, and thus in 1845 there are not half the number of ship-builders in the port that there were in 1840. There are, indeed, plenty of ship-cobblers in the town, but where, as Mr. Royden very reasonably asked, " are apprerdices to learn their trade? and, how do the shipowners expect their vessels will be repaired if shipbuilding cease to exist amongst us ?" While on the subject of repairs, allow me, Mr. Editor, to enlist your aid, or, at all events, through the medium of your widely circulated journal call the attention of the members of the Dock Committee to the present scanty supply of graving docks; they have not been increased in any adequate proportion with the wet docks, indeed, one of the most central and convenient of them has been taken away to make an entrance into the Canning Dock ; the necessary result is, there are nearly always a number of vessels waiting for berths, and instances are not unfre quently occurring of their being sent to other ports for repairs, from want of accommodation here. It will, per bps, be scarcely credited that in Liverpool there is only one graving dock capable of receiving large steamers, the Great Western, on a recent occasion, having to be sent round to Milford, the steamer Reindeer, within the last month, went to London for repairs. after waiting here for some weeks, and the Queen of the West, packet ship, sailed last week without being coppered for New York, where the work will probably be done, she had been entered for the graving dock here, but was unable to get in ; other instances might be mentioned, but I trust enough has now been said to call attention to the grie vances under which the shipbuilders and shipwrights of Liverpool are at present labouring, and that those who have the power may likewise have the will, of introducing a better state of things amongst us, and adopting a more liberal policy tan they have hitherto pursued, restore, so far as yet may be practicable, the noble science of ship building to a position becoming the second commercial port in the kingdom. TLIE, LIVERPOOL STANDARD. Yours, &c, A SUFFERER. [We trust something will be done to remedy such well grounded complaints as those of our correspondent. A piece of land between the Prince's and Waterloo Docks was considered very favourable for graving docks, but we understand this has been granted for the site of the Sailors' Home. It is somewhat remarkable, that during the very week when so much has been said about the high rate of carpenters' wages here, the ship builders of Sunderland have raised the wages of the carpenters at that port.] TO THE EDITOR OF THE LIVERPOOL STANDARD Sta.,—l was please d to see the announcement in your last of the intended meeting to protest against the con templated increase to the Maynooth grant, as well as other concessions to popery, by her Majesty's ministers. But I cannot conceive, sir, why this should be made a political party question. There are thousands in Liver pool as firmly attached to the grand doctrines of the Re formation as any of their fellow subjects, although they are neither Censervatives in politics, nor Episcopalians in religion ; and why they are not allowed to unite with their brethren in raising their voices against their com mt,n foe, requires explanation. The present is not a time to separate, but rather to unite Protestants, both in and out of the establishment - , in one compact body ; and if they be so united, they will be found too strong for their opponents Yours, respeCtfully, A PROTESTANT DISSENTER. [The meeting to which our correspondent alludes will be open, we doubt not, to our correspondent and all other orthodox dissenters, who are as vitally interested in the contemplated measures as churchmen themselves; and we hope to see them display equal activity and perseve rance to that which they manifested in their opposition to the Factory Education Bill. if they are lukewarm now, how can they justify their ceaseless exertions then n 0- THE LETTER CARRIERS TO THE EDITOR OF THE LIVERPOOL STANDARD. SIR,--S0 the memorial of the Liverpool letter-carriers has failed in its object of procuring an advance of salary for their laborious duties, the Postmaster-General having declined, on inquiry, to concede its prayer. The stamp ers (only about six in number) have been raised to £7O per annum ; and I find that the Postmaster here, on re ceiving the memorial, fully signed, to be forwarded to London, implied, on expressing an opinion, that such would be the result ; but on announcing the answer to the body generally, it was rumoured, as a reason of the prayer being refused, that certain paragraphs in the public press had mainly contributed to this unfortunate issue. This surely cannot be the fact : and if you could believe for an instant that the authorities of the government have acted so extremely illiberal a part in the year 1845, the strongest reprobation of the public would be called forth ; but I have too high an opinion of the parties so charged to credit one iota of such statement. How the mercantile pub lic may applaud or condemn the economy they exercised towards a most useful and trustworthy body of men, I will not stop now to inq Are. That truly high-minded and patriotic gentleman, T. B. Horsfall, Esq., has uttered sentiments on this head that reflect the utmost credit upon his head and heart, senti ments which contrast strangely with those now uttered in that building on the site of the Old Dock. Having heard two sides of a grumbling matter on the event, I most respectfully solicit the aid of your columns in telling the plain honest truth of an individual against whom an undue share of rancour seems arising. The Hibernia ensign, who with his companions had eaten a sumptuous dinner and drank two bottles of wine each, exclaimed when the waiter brought in the reckon ing, "Blur an' ounds I this is always the most disagree able part of the cursed dinner." I will not entirely at tempt to account for the altercations and manners of a portion of the letter-carriers towards one of their col leagues, since the refusal came by some such rule ; suffice it to say, that the letter-carriers now exclaim against certain paragraphs which commented freely on the celebrated Christmas-boxes inquiry; but this I be lieve to be one of those wayward artifices that the nature of man will adopt in all such cases, it is to be the screen behind which to singly esconce themselves, the scape goat of that body, who wish to throw the blame on indi viduals only. I hope your kind sense of justice will yield this a place, and should any person have any prejudice created in his mind on these points, I would fain disabuse him of it, and take this means of doing so. lam, yours, &c w O'CONNELL v. THE PEOPLE OF ENGLAND TO THE EDITOR OF THE LIVERPOOL STANDARD. " For Daniel was an honourable" member. SIR,—If base ingratitude and unequalled lying will preclude a man's hopes of heaven, 1 fear all of Dan that will ever be there is his "registered vow." Fellow-countrymen, hear what the demagogue said - of you at the Repeal Association held in Dublin on Monday week last. Here it is, copied flow the Mercury:— " The English people had shown at all times an un dying hatred to his countrymen, and therefore he consi dered it fruitless to appeal to them for redress " Can his countrymen—even his warmest political ad mirers—read this without a blush for the man who could deliberately utter such an ungrounded, ungrateful false hood ? Do our Irish fellow-countrymen feel this to be the case in England? When was a demand made on our best feelings for the starving population of his well-fleeced country in vain ? Are not situations and appointments, from the lowest to the highest, filled with Irishmen ? Is it not a fact, clear as light from darkness, that in all English houses of business where an Irishman gains or has the control, you will seldom find an Englishman employed ? In Irish houses in England where do you find Englishmen engaged? Rarely—almost never! Now, sir, whatever may be snid of Scotch "c/Inism," it is nothing to Irish "exclusion," wherever it can be carried out. Take the middling and lower classes he has so often praised. Do they show by their conduct to their Irish brethren the feelings of " undying hatred ?" Let them answer; and let Englishmen remember his opinion of them, should he ever again pollute our shores, and that millions of his dp:tled countrymen will believe this libel because he said it Woodside, March, 1845. CIGAR. - - - THE GRANT TO MAYNOOTH TO THE EDITOR OF THE LIVERPOOL STANDARD. Sta,—l have been looking at your paper with some anxiety for the last few weeks, to learn if it was the inter lion of our leading Protestant gentlemen to protest against the intended increase of the grant to the popish College of Maynooth. I can assure you, sir, that the Protestant operatives are ready, and have been waiting to see if the clergy and gentlemen would take the lead; and the an nouncement in your last paper that such is their intention has given great satisfaction to many " good men and true." I trust that Liverpool, which has nobly done its duty in time past, and which stands so pre-eminent as a Protestant town, will not be backward at the present im portant crisis, but will make such a firm stand, and enter such an uncompromising protest, as shall awaken the lethargy of the nation, and make our rulers feel, that, however thankful we are for the improved condition of our country since they came into office, yet, still we have religion enough left to enter our earnest protest against the inconsistency of a professed Protestant nation endow ing a college for the education of a set of men, who, un less they be hypocrites, must ever be the enemies of our Queen, our religion, and our laws. I hope the intended meeting will be one worthy of the town, that there will be no hanging back, no disunion, no compromise, and that dissenters, who have such an objection to parliamentary grants, even to the Protestant religion, will shew their consistency, and join with church men in petitioning against any further grant to a system which they, in common with churchmen, believe to be anti-christian, anti-social, idolatrous, and soul-destroy ing. I trust Liverpool will set an example to the nation, which will be followed by every town and parish in the kingdom ; and that our rulers will be forced to feel that the religious feelings of the nation are not to be trifled with ; and that the candle which was lighted in England by our martyred forefathers at the Reformation, though burning but dimly, is not quite extinguished, that, though some have apostatised from the religion of their fathers. and others become cold and lukewarm, that the great mass of the people are still sound at heart, and are de termined, let others do as they may, to have " No peace with Rome !" I am, yours. &c., AN OPERATIVE PROTESTANT MONEY AND RAILWAY SPECULATION, The annexed remarks on the state of the Money Mar ket appear in the circular of one of the leading colonial brokers, in which it will be observed that a less gloomy view is taken of the consequences of the speculations in railways than is generally the case in the city : ".The demand for money during the last month has been considerable. The requisite deposits for new rail roads which it was neces , ary to complete in compliance with the Parliamentary regulations, amount fully to two millions ; of these about half a million has been invested in Exchequer Bills (which will account for the advance in the price of those securities), and to that extent, there.: fore, the circulation has not been diminished ; but the remainder being paid into the bank, remains temporarily dormant. The last payment, however, for these pur poses will soon be made, and so far the demand will ter minate for the present. Under ordinary circumstances, such a drain upon the market would have raised the rate of interest materially, but discounts for all commercial purposes have continued readily attainable at 24 to 3 per cent.; although on the Stock Exchange,for the merely spe culative operations in shares, &c., money has fetched from 7to 15 per cent. for short periods. The influence of the new Bank Bill is here again apparent, and certainly greatly to the public advantage, however it may affect individual interests. 'l' lie Bank of England, in its enlarged banking department, having fairly entered into competition with the dealers in Intl ey, has been lending largely at 24 per cent. ; and at the country branches increased facilities are about to be arranged. This new and formidable competition has caused lower rates to be taken in other quarters, and the Joint-Stock Banks have been lending at 2* for short pe riods. Thus, notwithstanding rather a straitened supply in Lombard-street, money from other sources has been so abundant, and so readily dispensed, that the price of it has been kept very moderate; and for this the trading community have certainly to thank Sir Robert Peel's new bill. After the passing of the bills now before parlia ment, the completion of the intended railways will cause a gradual absorption of money to the extent of £30,000,000 or £40,000.000, but will be extended over several years; and as the money will remain in the country, it will have an adverse effect upon the exchanges, while the projects themselves will be productive of great advantage to the various interests immediately brought into activity by them. The country, moreover, is now fairly sectioned and parcelled out (and profestional people satisfied), there can, therefore, be no further English schemes of great importance; and as the stimulus passes away, spe culation, it is to be hoped, will disappear with it, and the general prosperity be ultimately advanced by these colos sal undertakings. Still it is to be borne in mind that there has been speculation in these securities beyond all legitimate enterprise. In French railroads, too, the operations in shares of competing companies (only one of which can obtain legal existence) are carried on to a great extent ; new schemes are daily announced with the most captivating pretensions, and fears naturally arise that the ultimate consequences of these baseless opera tions may give a serious check to confidence. DREADFUL SHIPWRECKS Accounts were received at Lloyd's, on Saturday, of the total loss of the Mellish, from China to London, which caused considerable uneasiness amongst the relatives of the survivors, and as some apprehension exists that the crew may be harshly treated by the Cochin Chinese, it will be some satisfaction to such persons to be informed, that in the case of the loss of the John Bannerman, from China to Bombay, about nine years since, totally lost on the N.W. prong of the Paracels, her crew, which arrived at a fishing village called Quin Hong, received at the hands of the Cochin Chinese considerable kindness, being clothed, fed, and furnished with a passage in a Cochin Chinese man-of-war to Singapore • and, more over, that the Emperor is particularly partial to the Eng lish, and that should he be informed of the arrival of the shipwrecked crew of the Mellish, which there is no reason to doubt, that every attention which the limited means of a poor and nearly uncivilised nation can afford will be rendered. It will also tend to allay the fears of those personally interested for the safety of friends or relatives to be further informed that in the case of the John Ban nerman, her crew were detained six weeks at Quin Hong, but unavoidably so, although in appearance at first un necessarily, but fully accounted for afterwards. His Majesty the Emperor of Cochin China also sent a French interpreter to communicate with the officers of the John Bannerman, and through him expressed his sympathy for the misfortunes of the officers and crew of that vessel. The following letter, from one of the officers on board the Mellish, gives some melancholy particulars of the sufferings of the crew. It is dated Padaran Bay, Nov. 16, ]B44: " Since writing you on the 13th instant, I have learnt with horror that the Cochin-Chinese authorities do not intend sending us to Singapore till the latter end of north-east monsoon, to enable their vessels to get easily back. There are some Chinamen about to sail from a place near to us, whom I have offered to reimburse if they will facilitate my getting away ; this they will not do, for fear of the Cochin government, and I cannot get permission from them. I fear sickness, or bad rice diet, and little or no clothing, if we are detained here so long, will leave very few to tell the tale ; under these circum- stances, pray do what you can to get a vessel sent for us from our government. We are eleven in all, wrecked on sth ult. on Paracels; landed here on the 27th, having lost half ship's company at the time and passage, not having tasted fresh water, except twice or thrice, for 22 days. We are now all but two in good health, and would walk, had we shoes, if the authorities would allow us ; but we are confined to one village by their orders, which is a filthy place. I manage, with one of my officers, to get among the Chinese for a better meal (their place is about two miles up the river) in the evening, “nd a cleaner mat to sleep on ; and I am fortunate in having saved a b'anket, which I smuggle away. The Chinese are ex ceedingly kind and hospitable. The Cochin-Chinese are the reverse, and filthy in the extreme •, there is no depen— dence to be placed in their faith. When we first arrived they promised to send us on to Singapore in 15 days." The following letter, dated Runnymede, off the Anda man Islands, Nov. 25, 1844, from Captain Doutty, of the Runnymede, referring to the loss of his own ship and also of the Briton, previously reported, has been received by the Secretary to Lloyd's : " I beg to state for your information, that on the 10th 11th, and 12th of this month, one of the most terrific hurricanes raged in this vicinity, perhaps ever experienced by man ; it was totally beyond description, which, after dismasting and rendering the ship an unmanageable wreck, with only one boat saved, threw us ashore on the above island, at one o'clock in the morning of the 12th, and, through the Providence of Almighty God, without the loss of life. At daybreak, we saw in shore, a large bark among the trees, which proved to be the Briton, of the Clyde, from Sydney to' Calcutta, with 311 soldiers, 34 women, and 51 children, with a crew of 36 men, boats all gone. The carpenters of both ships set to work on our boat, which has been raised two streaks, false keeled, and decked, and leaves this day for assistance. We are here in all 630 people,' short of provisionsland those more or less damaged. The water flows in at every tide, and everything is destroyed ; in fact, one-half of us have no, shoes, without a change of linen. No lives have been lost in either case except one man, who attempted to swim ashore." A letter has reached Manilla, from the commander of the Premier, which left Hong-Kong for Bally Badong on the 22d June last, for rice, with a considerable quantity of copper cash on board, mentioning that the Premier had been wrecked on the 25th July, on Pulo Panjang (east coast of Borneo), and that the commander and the whole of the crew were captive. The Sultan of Barn took the comMander, six 'Europeans, and six lascars ; and the Rajah of Baloongan as his share had 16 lascars. The commander attempted to escape with the six Europeans, but was retaken and placed under the care of the brother of the Sultan, at a small distance from the six lascars of his party. He writes (11th September) that the Rajah had promised to favour his escape that night, furnishing him with arms and ammunition to fight his wry to Coti River. The Sultan was disposed to murder him unless be ransomed the crew. The six lascars were purchased from the Sultan by a Soloo trader, and taken to that island, where they were ransomed by Com, Wyndham, of the Velocipede, for 100 dollars each, and they reached Manilla by that vessel on the 30th ult. They state that the commander set fire to the vessel to prevent her falling into the hands of the pirates. Sir Edward Belcher meant to leave Manilla on the 10th instant to proceed to the relief of the remainder of the shipwrecked persons. If not successful, he will move on to Coti river, and eventually to Macassar, to arrange matters with the Dutch authorities for the ulti mate ransom of these people, and in all probability take Singapore on his route back to Manilla. Ile requests the co-operation of the government here at Coti, and her Majesty's steamer Driver accordingly sailed on Monday last for that quarter. Sir Edward further mentions that a schooner with a cargo worth MOW dollars was cut off near Manilla kfrom Batangas) just before his arrival, and that accounts from Sooloo stated a brig to have been cut off ; an officer and four men of the French corvette Sabine had been killed at or near Samboangan by the pirates, and that these seas were much infested by the pirates generally. SHIP LAUNCHES THE " LA HORI3 On Saturday a fine ship of this name was launched from the building-yard of Mr. Peter Cato, near the south-west corner of the Brunswick Dock. The day being fine, the attendance was numerous and respectable, including a considerable number of ladies. The vessel, which is the property of Mr. Cato, and partly of her commander, Captain Burt, is of the following dimensions :—Length of keel for measurement, 119 ft. 7 in. ; breadth, 29 ft. 7 in. ; depth of hold, 19 ft. 4 in. ; burthen, old measurement, 474 tons—new ditto. 535 tons. She is of a fine model for a merchant vessel, and though adapted to carry a large cargo, has every appearance of turning out a fast sailer, as well as an excellent sea-boat. She has a full forecastle and poop, with a handsome figure-head of a chief of La hore, in the martial costume of that territory ; also quar ter galleries. Her timbers are of English oak ; she is planked with East India teak ; her lower and upper deck fastenings are altogether of copper, and her knees all of iron,—so that she will rank A 1 at Lloyd's fcr twelve years. The vessel, as well as the yard, was gaily deco rated with flags. Shortly after eleven o'clock, all being in readiness, and the tide having reached its height, the usual words were given, and the instant the daggers were down, she moved onwards on the ways, received her name in spirited style from Miss Cato, the daughter f the owner, and, gathering speed as she proceeded, glided beautifully and majestically into her destined element, amidst the enthusiastic cheers of the assembled spectators, which were heartily responded to by hundreds on her decks. She sat like a duck in the water, and a on comparatively light draught for her bulk and weight of materiAs, and, we doubt not, will, under her well-known and experienced commander, fully realise all the anticipations entertained of her. She was afterwards tugged into the Brunswick Dock, where she was much admired for her symmetry and general workmanlike finish. Before leaving the yard we observed several substantial new buildings and addi tions, including a shed for a ten-horse steam-engine,— Mr. Cato having determined to add iron-shipbuilding to his former business, the demand for vessels of that now approved material being on the increase. After the launch, the greater portion of the company retired to a large room in one of the new buildings, and sat down to a splendid cold collation, and wines, laid out on two long tables, and admirably served. Mr. Cato oc cupied the chair; Mr. Houghton was the vice-chair, and both were graced by the presence of many ladies. After the viands had been done ample justice to, the Chairman proposed " Success to the Lahore,' just launched," and he trusted that she would be as successful as the ship which Capt. Burt had formerly commanded, in which case she would become a valuable property. This, we need scarcely say, was drank with veil great ap plause. _ The Rev. Mr. HAMPTON, who had said grace, said he felt called upon to justify himself, as a clergyman, for being present at the feast. Christ and his disciples had attended a feast on a proper occasion, and a clergyman, he thought, might well attend a meeting at which mem bers of his congregation attended, that he might ask a blessing on the proceedings. They bad just witnessed the launch of a noble vessel, which was destined to bring va luable commodities from distant countries ; but no success would attend the enterprise unless the blessing of the Lord were vouchsafed upon it. He begged to propose the health of Mr. Cato, which required but few words to announce it. He had known for several years that gentleman, in private life, as an exemplary man, and also as an attend ant at his church, and he therefore proposed health and success to him and the Lahore, and to all who were con nected with him. The toast was drunk with three times three. _ 1.• ,•,• . The CHAIRMAN said he felt exceedingly obliged for the compliment conveyed, though he could not say he de served all that had been said by his rev. friend. He had tried, and would still try, to do all that was right between man and man. With regard to shipbuilding he conceived that it ought to be encouraged, as it gave employment to a number of trades, and tended to increase the national wealth ; but he regretted to say the Corporation did not encourage it as they ought. He concluded by expressing his heartfelt wishes for the health and prosperity of all around him.—A gentleman at the head of the second table (whose name we did not ascertain) proposed "the health and success of Captain Burt"—then necessarily absent. This was drunk with great applause. Mr. Lockett returned thanks on behalf of Captain Burt, whom he had long known as a gentleman of the greatest correctness, integrity, and perseverance, and proposed the health of Mrs. Burt, which was received with equal applause. The health of Captain Cook, manager of the Pilots' Committee followed, and was warmly received. — Captain Cook ably replied to the compliment paid through him to the committee. The Chairman then gave the health of Mr. Bland, a venerable gentleman present, who had been his kind friend and adviser in early life. and to whom he should ever entertain a debt of gratitude.—Mr. Blaiid in returning thanks, said he had been a ship builder in the town for 45 years, and from long habit was still fond of seeing a launch, and he believed should be so to the end of his days. He hoped they would live to wit ness many other launches from the same yard.—The healths of Miss Cato and that of the ladies were separately drunk. Mr. Locket ably replied to the first, and the Rev. Mr. Hampton in an able and facetious address to the second. The rev. gentleman's health being then drunk, he again addressed the assemblage in eloquent and suitable terms—expressing a hope that no festivity at a ship-launch would hereafter take place in Liverpool, without being graced by the presence of the ladies. The CHAIRMAN then, in complimentary terms, gave the health of a gentleman present who had done much for iron ship-building, and who had been the means of put ting into his hands the building of an iron ship—Mr. John Grantham. (Great applause.) Mr. GRANTHAM. in returning thanks, said be felt great pleasure at being allowed an opportunity of introducing to the attention of the large party there assembled a sub ject with which his name had been identified for several years, viz., the subject of iron ship-building. There might be some present who might feel that this question clashed with their interests. He hoped it was not so, as it was quite clear from the case before them that the bene fit might be extended to timber ship-builders. The build ing in which they were now met had just been cons'racted by Mr. Cato, in consequence of his having given his atten tion to iron ship-building, and he had already received an order from an extensive Company in this town for an iron steamer, to be built under his (Mr. Grantham's) di rections, and be hoped it would be their good fortune to meet again at the launch of this vessel and he should have it in his power to say that the work had been satis factorily completed,—this he had no doubt of if matters proceeded as well as they had up to that period. Mr. Grantham then proceeded to make some remarks on the importance of this question in a national point of view— the steady demand it would occasion for iron, and for the employment of our people ; that in this material there could be no competition from foreign countries present ships were principally built. He alluded to fact that government had given orders for some very lar d , iron steamers, and also observed on the remarkable case of the Vanguard, lately run on shore near Cork. He had been employed by the underwriters to survey her, and be described her as being the most remarkable and conclu sive instance yet known of the great strength of iron vessels. _ _ The ladies about this time retired, as did a number of the gentlemen, but many remained and kept up the fes tive enjoyments of the day with great glee and enthusi asm for some hours afterwards. Amongst the toasts drunk were " the Wooden Walls of Old Engl;rnd," and afterwards a new toast, and one-which, it was remarked by a gentleman present, would probably become a natio nal one, " The Iron Walls of New England," " The Liverpool Press," which was respond , d to by tiler( po ter of the STANDARD, &c., &c. The health of individuals present was also drunk, and elicited able addresses in reply. Captein Burt, who had returned from the ship; expressed his gratitude for the manner in which his health had been drunk in his absence, in brief but most appro: priate and manly terms. Amongst the speakers Called forth by the compliments paid to them, were Mr. Ogden, Mr. Clay, Mr. Parry, and others; and the afternoon was spent in a most agreeable manner, all present being highly delighted with the attention and urbanity of their worthy entertainer. "THE BELLAIRS On Saturday last we had the pleasure of witnessing the launch of the fine ship Bellairs, from the building-yard of Messrs. Robert Clarke and Sons, in Etna-street. The morning was a beautiful one ' • and eleven o'clock having been fixed for her making her first appearance upon her future element, a large concourse of ladies and gentlemen. friends of the owners and builders and of the firm, after one of whose partners she was named, were assembled upon a platform erected at the vessel's bows to witness the ceremony. A number of gentlemen were also on board the vessel herself, prepared to accompany her in her descent from the stocks, and the neighbouring yards, quays, &c., were crowded with anxious spectators. The signal having been given a little after eleven o'clock, the sister of one of the firm of Peel, Bellairs and Co. of she was christened in the usual form by Miss Bellairs, Manchester, a bottle of wine being broken against her bows ; and, the last stay having been knocked away, she glided beautifully into the water amidst the cheers of the spectators, . replied to again and again by the party on board. When in the river she was taken in tow by two steamers, by whom she was conveyed to the graving dock, where she:will be fitted up for the East, in which seas she is intended to trade. The length of the " Bellairs" aloft is 119 feet 6-10ths ; her beam 30 feet 3 inches ; her depth 20 feet, and her tonnage 609 tons 5-100ths. She contains 55,327 cubic feet of space; and was admitted by very competent judges present to be a splendid model, and capable of car rying a very large cargo. After the launch a very excel lent dejeuner was given to the party present, by the build ers and owners of the vessel, Messrs. Robert Clarke and Sons, in a large room over the building yard, and com municating with the temporary stage erected for spectators, the walls of which were covered with canvass and tastefully decorated for the occasion. The viands and wines were furnished by Mr. Horne, of the Mersey Hotel, and, we need not say, were first-rate in quality, and abundant in quantity. About 200 ladies and gentlemen,! we should say, were partakers. The chair was occupied by William Peel, Esq., of Liverpool and Manchester, from whose Calcutta partner, Mr. Bellairs, the vessel was named, and to whose house in the East she is to trade, under the able command of Captain Webb, late of the Winifred. The vice-chair was filled by Robert Clarke, Esq., the senior partner in the house of Messrs. Clarke and Sons, the builders and owners of the ship. A mueber of toasts appropriate to the occasion were given and responded to, and the hilarity of the day was kept up until the depar ture of the ladies, about two o'clock, when the greater part of the company separated, delighted with the pro ceedings. THE PROPOSED SUGAR DUTIES, TO THE CHANCELLOR OF THE EXCHEQUER Dear Sir,—l am now very old, and retired from busi ness ; therefore, as concerns the commercial interests of the country, I am comparatively a looker-on, yet I cannot help feeling it still as a duty, when subjects involving great national interests are under consideration, such as I have been long accustomed to consider and attend to in the course of my mercantile life, involving many im portant subjects, to endeavour to point out such conse quences as my experience induces me to believe may be expected to follow from the changes now contemplated, if carried into effect. I have always been accustomed to consider our sugar colonies and possessions as important sources from which a considerable portion of the strength and wealth of the country has been derived, held to be well-deserving and entitled to protection and encouragement ; to you who know them well, it is unnecessary I should say more than endeavour to draw your attention at the present moment to the facts connected with the changes now under the consideration of Parliament ; these changes, though not proposed to be made permanent in the present session, yet being meant to be preliminary for that object, appear on that account, if possible, to call for the more serious When the reduction was niade last session in the duties on foreign sugar for the object of admitting them'to com petition here, I humbly remonstrated through the public press, and pointed out the injurious consequences to be expected to follow to the interests of British planters from tile admission of foreign clayed sugars on the same terms with muscovados; fortunately circumstances have hitherto preven►ed, by natural causes, the serious com mencement of these measures, though now near at hand. I was well aware of their superior qualities, and the ad vantages they possess over muscovados, the sugars of our West India colonies being at present wholly of the last description, whilst those of the foreign free-labour pos sessions are nearly all clayed or made of a similar quality by other processes. You are aware that these foreign sugars are, in point of fact, partially refined, that thereby many of them are much improved in colour, and all greatly so in strength of grain and dryness, so at when finally refined here, they yield from 15 to 25 per cent. more than rnuscovados do. These processes require a great increase of labour, which the foreign planters possess most abundantly on extremely low terms, whilst the British planters have been without, since emancipation took place, whilst every effort has been made and no expense they could afford spared, on their part, to obtain it, but hitherto in vain ; they there fore have and continue to suffer both from the want of people and the consequent high rate of wages they are unavoidably compelled to pay, which I do not believe I do overrate when I state them still to be three times in amount those paid in the free-labour islands of Java and These facts place it not only beyond the means or power of the British planter to raise the quality end condition of the sugar by claying them or otherwise, but from the deficiency in labour, particularly in British Guiana, Jamaica, and Trinidad, they are sometimes unable to cut and carry their canes to their mills when ripe, when, by the delay, the quality is much deteriorated. In conse quence, these sugars in most of our colonies are inferfor in strength, colour, and dryness to what they were pre vious to emancipation, and I rep: t tc. say, I believe un avoidably so. _ _ — _ _ The differential duty of 10s., now reduced to 92. 4d., proposed for their protection, might be sufficient for that Purpose, notwithstanding these disadvantages, (as every possible means of economy are, I bevy, now practised,) were it applied bond fide to similar q , alities, but when they are to be so to such as are superior, and that contain from 15 to 25 per cent. more saccharine matter to be con verted into refined sugar, against which muscovados yield only a similar quantity of treacle, with a small quantity of soft inferior sugar called "bastards," both of very small comparative value, fully one-half of the protection intended to . be given will be lost, the gain by the refined being worth 4d. per pound, that by treacle and bastards not above 2d., being a gain to the foreigner of 2d., which on an average produce of 181 b. is equal to Gs. per cwt., reducing the protection to 3s. 4d. in place of 9s. 4d. . That advance in the price of such sugars the refiners here will readily pay, when by these means the British planter being so placed must be pressed down by a hopeless com petition, which will, if persevered in, cause him, in my opinion, eventually to sink under. In order to obviate or diminish those disadvantages, you propose to lay an additional duty of 4s. Bd. per cwt, on all foreign white clayed 'sugars, or such as are of simi lar quality and value ; and it is to show the great in adequacy of this m, asare to its object that I thus take the liberty of addressing you. By the means of abundant and cheap labour the foreign free-labour planters possess the power of improving the colour and quality of their sugars, both or either, to such a degree as they may desire—for consumption in refining here the strength of the grain and dryness is more im portant than the colour. I therefore venture to assert that they, being aware of this fact, will prepare their sugars for this mark, t of a colour classing lower than white, yet of strength of grain and dryness that will con tain so great an increase proportion of saccharine matter as to be of nearly the same intrinsic value to the refiner. yet such as not being white must be admitted for con sumption at the lower differential duty of 9s. 4d. per cwt., and thus defeat the object you have in view, of affording a given protection to the sugars of both our East and West India .possessions. To meet this - it may now be practicable to do so, I humbly venture to suggest that -in place of one duty on foreign white clayeds, which in worling will be found next to nominal, there should be two—viz., one on white, as now proposed, of either 4s. Sd. or 45., and a second on all other clayed su gars, or of similar qualities. but being such as were not white, of 2s. 4d. or 25., which would include those that would possess mote or less of the advantages I have stated, and to that extent only afford protection to Bri-, tish sugars. As regards British clayed sugars, or such as are similar softer from m and theiro improvingp f a lower oo in eesrs quality w process of strength manufacture ; tli o in quality, to maintain y o ur principle comparatively, con sistently with this change of me a s ures, two classes would also be required. The fine and whit e s u ga rs of Bengal being e r infe rior, nfe n a I' o r,a b r gradually esuot f weak ness, to foreign clayed, but, from their supe r io r co l our and dryness, they bring compar ativel y high prices, bei ng used for mixing before they are sol d t o the consumer, with the lower brown but stronge r q ualities of We st India erY grain , a e s oPer su perior colour, serious an d alarr g difficulty, as far as muscovados. I feel satisfied that if such a classification were to be adopted your Custom-house officers would be at no loss to identify the sugar of each class, from the marked fea tures that attend the manufacture of each. I understand there is good reason to expect that the supply of West India sugar, from the hitherto very fa vourable seasons they have had, will increase over that of 1844 about 20,000 tons, that of the Mauritius is expected to yield 10,000, and the continent of India 10,000 more, in all about 40,000. The supply of the last year has ex ceeded the consumption, as the stock on band is now larger than it was at this time last year; therefore, sup nos;ng the additional supply of_ foreign should not exceed 20,000 tons, to that extent, without in early and very in creased consumption, expected by many to be produced by the purposed reduction in price, a large surplus will remain over, when the excess pressed on the market must reduce the price of British to the lowest point at which the foreign planter can possibly afford to sell his sugars; it, therefore, follows, the greater the encouragement giaen to him, the lower that price will be, he, at the same time, having every other market open to him, as whilst the British grower is without any other Pardon the unavoidable length of this communication, and give me credit for the motives that influence me it making it; being, with the most sincere respect, My dear Sir, faithful present JOHN GLADSTONI Carlton-gardens, Thursday tnorni 'arch 6 PRICE OF TEA IN 1680.--The persons of quality, that a small par( tea is by accident fallen into the hands of a private per son to be sold; but that none may be disappointed, the lowest price is 30s. a pound, and not any to be sold un der a pound weight, for which they arc desired to bring a convenient box. Enquire at !Mr. Thomas Eagle' " - King's Head, in St. James's-warke Dec. 16, 1680 give notice to London Gazelle PROGRESS OF MANUF ICTURCS•—In 1784 the total, official value of the exports of British produce and manu factures from Great Britain was £11,255,057 ; in 1843, the official value was £117,574,563, and the declared value £51,932,996. Increase an the latter, 361 per cent. From 1776 to 1780, the average annual import of cotton wool into Great Britain was 6,766,6131 b. ; in 1843 the quantity entered for consumption in the United Kingdom was 585,909,1811b5.. Increase, 8549 per cent. The offi cial value of cotton goods exported from Great Britain was £355,060, in 1780 ; in 1843, the official value was £82,165,291, and the declared value £23,443,039. In crease, 23,045 per cent. on the official, and 6,503 per cent. on the declared value. The import of foreign sheep's wool was 2,478,3321b5. in 1781 : in 1843, the quantity of foreign and colonial wool entered for con sumption, in the United Kingdom was 48,656,8201b5. The export of woollen manufactures, however, bore no proportion to this. From 1781 to 1787, the official de tails of the woollen exports from Creat Britain averaged £3,544,160 a-year ; in 1843, the official value was £8,,847,648, and the declared value £7,532,781. The linen maunfacture of Great Britain was estimated, in .1 7 e2, as being of the total yearly value of £2,640,000; in 1843, Mr. M'Culloch estimates it. including Ireland, as of the value of £10,000,000 or £12,000,000. We do not specify the silk manufacture, because that is less depen denton, and indebted to the factory system, than any of the'other trades. The increase of population in the dis tricts where manufactures chiefly prevail, and where all the improvements abridging human labour have been in full operation, is among the most remarkable of t he facts which we have to adduce. Lancashire contained 296.400 inhabitants in 1750, and 1,667,054 in 1841. increase, 461 per cent. in ninety-one pears, The West Riding of Yorkshire contained 565,282 inhabitants in 1801, and 1,154,104 in 1841. Increase, 105 per cent. in iorty years. Lanarkshire contained 146,699 inhabitants in 1801, and 26,972 i❑ 1811. Increase, 191 per cent. in forty years. Th.. , parish of Manchester contained 41,032 inhabitants in 1774, and 353,390 in 1841. Increase, 762 per cent. its sixty-seven years. Glasgow contained 28,300 inhabitants inhabitants in 1763, and 274,533 in 1811. Increase s ct il l 3 r e , 6e r , 00a16s crease, n i nl n: B l 6 l l a 7 b p i t : e i l o t r a , i ci,tensndi seventy-eight :n sion lB l f:())llrt,yi years.del s a 4 r 1 5 1 5 . 2, t-)4 Leeds per cent. in sixty-one years. The population of England and )86 in 1770, and 10,071,757 in 41. ~-, 8.814 171, or 122 p"r cent. in sever , years, of which by very far the largest propor•ti ales was 7,227 I acres !ontaine the inanufacturin Quarterly Review and commercial districts ~~s~[ ~~!.,;