The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser. — Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1850-06-04 00:00:00

TUESDAY MORNING, JUNE 4, 1850. ON Thursday next a meeting will be held in Liverpool, which, if directed aright, ought to exer cise an important influence upon the destinies of this country. A great commercial community, fo: whose exclusive benefit a selfish policy has been enacted, are about to meet, and express their con viction that such policy has been most unwise, and that the interests of every class are hound by ties which no legislation can sever. We are not disposed to prompt such a meeting, composed as we know it will be, of the elite of our fellow-coun trymen. Our more humble duty will be to direct its attention to a few facts, hearing upon the ques tion which will have to be discussed, the correct ness of which we defy the statisticians of the Board of Trade to impugn successfully. We were told by the advocates of free trade that the effect of that policy would he to increase our ex ports to those countries from which we drew our supplies of grain. This was to be an inevitable result; otherwise no advantage could accrue to us as a country. Let us see how far this expectation has been realized. The following table, which can be verified on the authority of Mr. Richard Burn, the compiler of the Commercial Glance, will show the comparative exports of the two years 1848 and 1849 to grain-growing and other countries : PRINTED AND PLAIN CALICOES EXPORTED FROM ENGLAND IN 1848 AND 1849, TO BRITISH POSSES SIONS, NOT BEING GRAIN-GROWING COUNTRIES :- 1848. 1849. Yards. Yards. 24.117,306 36,244,015 13,460,110 20,164,918 6,600,746 5,555,876 149,001,180 250,867,819 61,541,972 71,007,126 16,289,638 17,383,144 2,504,133 4,452,838 4,486,703 9,805,876 British West Indies Coast of Africa Cape of Good Hope India.. China.... Malta. Mauritius New Holland 278,001,788 415,481,612 The increase here is 137,479,824 yards, or 50 per cent. upon the exports of 1848. We come next to neutral countries, not being exporters of grain ; and the following is the result of the two years : EXPORTED TO NEUTRAL MARKETS. Brazil Laplata . Chili and Peru.. Columbia F. W. Indies Mexico.. Yards. Yards. 64,394,004 97,591,860 21,844,705 41,491,658 52,193,879 45,051,210 15,462,672 27,008,961 16,090,584 29,560,058 15,933,186 15,300,198 185,919,090 256,003,945 The total increase of exports, therefore, to coun tries not exporting grain is 207,561,670 yards ; and now let us see what is the increase to the countries, in favour of which we have opened the markets of Great Britain, and sacrificed our own industrious classes. We give the statement in a tabular form : EXPORTED TO CORN GROWING COUNTRIES IN B. N. America Belgium Denmark Egypt.... France. . . Gibraltar. . Hansa To wns Holland Naples, &c Prussia Portugal.. Russia.. Sweden. &c. Spain Sardinia Trieste Turkey U. States Hanover 1848. 1849. 16,917,048 20,494,008 1,580,123 3,469,583 1,438,620 2,634,857 15,186,326 15,807,194 1,900,114 3,25404 29,263,199 16.841,577 37,587,673 39,823,355 23,485,728 25,096.171 12,427,949 18,187,095 Y`t,JSJ 53,387,777 35,278,257 1,185,933 2,023,217 1,382,647 1,824,499 54 619 1,308,998 27,102,236 32,161,177 12,905,670 19,174,921 101,320,1 t 5 109.588,636 56,569.633 67,931,419 49,000 250,065 383,794,440 415,193,428 The increase to corn growing countries is here the paltry amount of 21,398,938 yards, whilst the increase to other countries is 207,561,679 yards, or tenfold ! We may draw some further information as to the value of our business as a free-trading country, from the following table of the-- COTTON MANUFACTURES EXPORTED TO GRAIN- EXPORTING COUNTRIES. 1848. 1849. •£ £ Printed Calicoes 2,715,054 3,416,370 Plain 2,810,708 3,213.885 Twist and Thread 4,821,456 5,964,413 Other Cotton Manu factures,.. 864,352 11,211,570 1,340,034 13,934,702 11,211,570 2,723,132 increase. The above £2,723,132 increase of exports will look well in Board of Trade Returns ; but we must see what the country ham paid for it. We give below a table showing the quantity of grain imported into England in 1848 and 1849, the average price of the two years, and the value which it may be assumed to have possessed : GRAIN IMPORTED INTO ENGLAND. 1848. 1849. Avge. .4' Avge. Price. Amnt. Qnty. Price. Amnt Wheat, qrs. 2477356 50/6 6255233 Barley „ 976292 31/6 1537659 Oats „ 930260 20/6 953516 Rye „ 59791 89000 Peas „ 187448 39/1 366304 Beans ~ 480701 36/9 883288 Ind.Crn „ 11782C3 33/ 1941039 Flour, cwt. 1733972 16/10 1459342 3872558 44/1 8535763 13E8692 27/9 1926820 1281509 17/3 1131999 241307 23/10 311688 236830 31/4 371033 453153 30/6 694108 2186196 30/ 3279159 3320200 14/2' 2351808 Oatmeal 6775 200001 Ind. Meal 96717 8/9 42313 40150 45000 102166 8/6 43420 6023926 qrs. t 1355C694 1837364 cwt. J 9662155 qrs. 1 18690798 3462516 cwt. 1 13550694 51401e4 To increase our exports of cotton goods, there fore, to the extent of £2,723,132, in the year 1849 as compared with 1848, we imported foreign grain— that is, we paid the farmer and labourer in other lands—no less a sun than £5,140,104 additional ! These few facts--and they are facts—ought to be enough for free traders of a moderate appetite to swallow. We shall, however, give our friends in the cotton manufacturing districts a few more, which tend to spew that, as regards " progress," they have gone a•head much less under the free trade system than previously. In the years 1844, '5, and '6, the exports of the leading cotton staples were as follow : CALICOES, PLAIN AND PnINTED, EXPORTED FROM ENGLAND IN THE YEARS 1844-5.6. Total Plain and Yards. Printed Yds. .. 569,677,792 .. 313,111,455-882,789,247 .. 613,138,645 .. 310,850,697-923,989,342 .. 612,839,181 .. 267,084,797-879,923,978 1844—Plain Calicoes. „ Printed „ 1845—Plain If • „ Printed „ 4846—Plain „ „ Printcd „ 2,686,72,567 For the three years succeeding the introduction of free trade we find the following result : CALICOES, PRINTED AND PLAIN, EXPORTED FROM ENGLAND IN THE YEARS 1847-8-9. Total Plain and Yards. Printed Yds. .. 488,044,682 287,384,903--775,429,585 .. 556,199,538 .. 301,515,780-857,715,313 .. 697,542,808 • . 389,136,181-1,086,678,989 1847—Plain Calicoes „ Printed „ 1848—Plain ,; , Printed „ 1849—Plain ~ Printed „ Total 1847, 8. and 9.. , Deduct 1844, 5, and 6, . 2,719,823,892 . 2,686,702,567 Increase—. 33,121, 325 which is little above 11 per cent. What, however, was the rate at which we were progressin g in previous years ? We give the materials for a so lution of the question : CALICOES, PRINTED AND PLAIN, EXPORTED IN 1841, TO CORRESPONDENTS. We should have been glad to have complied with the request of "A Liverpool Merchant," had not our constant practic , been to decline the publication of any letters already inserte. by our contemporaries. Eljt Eibrpool &tanbarb. 1842, AND 1843. Total Plain and Printed Yds. 1841—Plain Calicoes „ Printed „ 1842—Plain „ Printed ~ 1843 —Plain „ .. .. Printed „ .. ... , 1,926,481,735 Thus we had in the three years extending from 1347 to 1849—three free trade years—an increase in our exports of cotton manufactures of 33,121,325 yards only; whereas, in the three years from 1844 i n 1846, we exceeded the exports of the preceding three years by, in round numbers, six hundre nd sixty millions of yards—or twenty -fold ! That the effect of our recent legislation has been to advantage the foreigner at the expense of the British working man it would be very easy to demonstrate. We shall, however, content ourselves here with sheaving the extent to which, during the past year; the United States have benefitted by their trade with this country. The following table gives the exports, in money value, of a few leading manufactures to America, for the years 1848 and 1849 : Increase TIE LIVIRPO years; yet the consumpt:On has been rapidly in- creasing, In 1839 we worked up 15,644 bales of American cotton per wed(; in 1849 we worked 24,648 bales, being an increase of 9,044 bales, or nearly 58 tier cent. With two excellent crops in succession—one the largest on record—we are at the American planter's mercy. During the greater part of this period we have seen our supplies from other sources gradually diminishing, whilst Ameri ca herself has doubled her consumption of raw material. In 1838-9 her consumption was esti mated at 300,000 hales ' • for 1848-9 it was esti mated at 520,000, and is rapidly increasing. America can shut us up at any moment. One turn of the fiscal screw, or a misunderstanding" with our precious foreign secretary, will do the business. The concluding remarks of the Guardian are a little ridiculous. He says : ry "The exports of grain and flour from the United States, and especially from the valley of the Mississippi, have greatly declined ; and the state of the present stocks in the cotton growing districts will be tolerably well un derstood from a statement of current prices in New Or leans. 'We have now lying before us a New Orleans Price Current, of the 4th of May, from which we learn that choice marks of flour were selling at 6 dols. 25c. to 6 dole. 50c., or from 265. to 275. Id. sterling per barrel ; that is, from 23. to 2s. 6d. higher than the highest quota tions in Liverpool. This state of facts certainly does not indicate any increase in the cultivation of grain ; and we feel satisfied that the editor of the Liverpool Standard must refer the decrease in the production of cotton to some other cause if he means to convince the public of the accuracy of his views." Pray, what has the price of flour at New Orleans on the 4th of May to do with the question ? About as much as the price of cabbages or turnips. The breadth of land devoted to the growth of Indian corn would be more germane to the matter. To conclude—may we ask of our contemporary, is he sincerely in earnest in his willingness to resort to legislation for the purpose of procuring an increased supply of cotton ? It can be accomplished if required. We have only to grant to our own West Indian colonies permission to provide them selves with a supply of free labour, sufficient to enable them to till their fertile soil—to withdraw those absurd and harassing restrictions and inter ferences between the master and the labourer, which a hypocritical philanthropy has dictated—and the spinners in Lancashire will in five years from this time be provided with a supply of cotton of the most valuable description, sufficient to enable them to laugh at all the vapouring of brother Jonathan, as well as at blights. inundations, and the other calamities which the American cotton plant is heir to. Let our contemporary set himself to advocate such a course. It will confer infinitely more bene fit upon his Manchester friends than volumes of objurgation directed against the proceedings of planters and speculators in America, Liverpool, or elsewhere. The ,Guardian may depend upon it that these parties know well their power ; and will exer cise it regardless of every consideration except their own advantage. WE were startled yesterday to observe in the placard of a paper, rather notorious as connected with Irish rebel politics, the line, in large letters, "THE MURDER OF SMITH O'BRIEN." Involun tarily, we Were induced to refer to the paper itself, (the Dublin Nation,) in search of news so extraor dinary ; and we were not disappointed. The fact is broadly announced by our contemporary,—not, however, that actual violence has been perpetrated, or that blood has been shed, but that " they are killing Smith O'Brien by slow murder in Maria Island" ; and the excitable people of Ireland are, it seems too evident, to be worked up to frenzy, and plunged into outrage for his rescue. The representations made with respect to O'Brien's treatment are, indeed, such as, if true, disgrace us as a nation. Such treatment as that to which he is said to be subjected could not be tole rated for an hour by any Christian community; and hence we are driven to the conclusion that the whole story is only an extravagant romance. It is said that O'Brien " is caged in the closest solitary confinement. His food is scanty and loathsome. He has no comforts, no attendance. He never sees the face, or hears the voice, of a friend. He is denied the common requisites of decency : for months he has not been allowed a change of rai ment, or permitted to cleanse his dress ;" and more, to the same purport, follows. His condition is compared to that of "a chained reptile ;" and the author of all these atrocities is said to be the Governor of Maria Island,—an official whose bru. tality has earned for him the title of the black serpent' ! Our contemporary intersperses his some what ejaculatory narrative of the various forms of oppression, which he alleges to be systematically directed against Mr. O'Brien, with earnest appeals to his influential friends to interfere in his behalf, and to Irishmen, of all classes, to do something— to agitate, or rebel, or perform some other feat—to procure an amelioration of his condition. We are utterly at a loss to make out what amount of truth there is in this story—whether it is a fabrication altogether, or Mr. O'Brien has been committing some act of insubordination and is, in reality, under restraint ; and we do really think that some explanation from government should be given upon the subject. It is melancholy to think of the consequences of another ebullition of dissa tisfied spirit in Ireland, at a moment when it is so imperatively necessary that all classes should pull together for their common salvation ; and, to avert such an evil, the incendiary spirits who are ever ready for turmoil and disorder, should be unmasked at once, if what they convert into food for agita tion is a slander upon the Colonial Government. The concluding paragraph of the effusion of our contemporary is sufficient to explain what we mean : •‘ We hear, indeed, that the Queen of England comes to Ireland again this summer—comes for the ovation which monarchs love from petted slaves. But we warn her and her ministers that surely as she sets foot on Irish soil, while O'Brien is thus tortured and degraded, so surely, wherever she turns, shall his name be thundered in her ears as a malediction. So surely shall his blood be flouted in her face. 60 This promise we will see fulfilled." Such atrocious language must be put a stop to either by the strong arm of authority, or by such an exposure of the untruth of his charges as will draw down contempt upon their utterer. The Atlantic's departure from this port on Wednesday took place with great eclat. Vast crowds lined the piers which stretch along the river ; salutes were fired from the Canada and returned with all honour by the Atlantic. A very elegant musical invention has been introduced into Liverpool by Mr. Smith, music dealer, of Lord street, from the manufactory of Messrs. Collard and Collard. As an ornament and as an instrument nothing could be more suitable to the cottage orne6 or country residence. THE WEATHER.—The past week has been most pro pitious for vegetation ; fine showers over some days, fol lowed latterly by clear, warm, sunny weather, at times approaching to sultry, especially on Sunday and yester day. The thermometer has occasionally stood as high as 74 in the shade. The country looks beautiful, but - after the heat.a little more rain would be beneficial. CRICKET MATCH.—On Saturday, a game was played between the Edge-hill Cricket Club and the Second Eleven of the Olympus Club, on the picturesque ground of the latter, in the Prince's Park. This is the first match that the Edge-hill Club has played, and the result augurs most favourably for its future career , On both sides the playing was considered remarkably good. The Edge-hill Club was victorious, with four wickets to go down. In the two innings the Olympus scored 130, and the Edge-hill 131. INTERESTING RACE.—During the past week there have been two outward departures from this port, and one from the west coast of Ireland, to the United States • namely. the United States mail steamer Atlantic, which sailed hence, on Wednesday, with some seventy passengers, for New York ; the British and North American royal mail steam-ship Canada, Captain Harrison, which left the river on Saturday for Halifax and Boston ; and the steam-ship Viceroy, which left Galway for New York; on Saturday. Much excitement exists with regard to the passages of these steam-ships; and bets are current tint the Canada's accounts will reach New York in anticipa tion of those carried out by the Atlantic and Viceroy. It is anticipated that the Atlantic will reach New York on the 11th instant; that the Canada will touch at Halifax on the 10th, whence her news will be transmitted to New York by telegraph ; and that the Viceroy may possibly arrive at that port on or about the 12th or 13th instant. CHAMBER OF COMMERCE.—The monthly meeting of the Council was held yesterday, T. B. Horafall, Esq., president, in the chair, when a letter was read from Mr. F. Boult, on the " encouragement for smuggling and dishonesty offered by our present revenue system : ' the subject was referred to a standing committee on customs' regulations and restrictions. Communications were also read, from the East India and China Association, on Indian navigation ; from J. M. Myers on porterage rates ; from G. Beaumont, on locomotive machinery ; and from Mr. G. Withers, with a present of books, for which a vote of thanks was passed. The President stated the proceedings of the committee on the mercantile marine bill ; and it was arranged, in accordance with a sugges tion from the Board of Trade, that he and Mr. Rankin should proceed to London as a deputation on the subject. The day for the general meeting of the Chamber was postponed, to give time for the Council to lay before the members the result of the interview at the Board of Trade. Mr. Heath's motion—" that the Chamber should subscribe for two copies of Mr. Levi's work on Com mercial Law"—was adopted. •L STANDAID. PROTECTION TO BRITISH INDUSTRY AND CAPITAL. GREAT MEETING, IN LIVERPOOL, OF THE SHIPPING, COLONIAL, AGRICULTURAL, AND TRADING INTERESTS. The arrangements for the great Demonstration which is to take place in Liverpool, on Thursday next, in favour of Protection to British Industry and Capital, are progressing most satisfactorily; and we may already venture to predict that it will far surpass in importance and interest any assembly ever held in this town. From the first mooting of the intention of holding such a meeting, the Com mittee of Management have been absolutely over whelmed with the abundance of the support which has been tendered to them; and, if any circumstance can occur to mar the pleasure of the day's proceed ings, it will arise from the difficulty- which they will have in selecting from amongst the array of talent and rank which will be present on the occa sion the speakers who are to address them, and the fact that no building can be found in the town large enough to accommodate a tithe of the num ber of persons who would otherwise have attended. The list of noblemen and gentlemen who have consented to have their names placed upon the General Committee, and thus sanctioned the pur pose of the meeting, has day by day received large additions; and the number who have expressed their intention to attend are very great—indeed, too great to enable us to give anything like a list. Amongst these, however, a few of the most prominent names, may be selected at random : The Right Hon. the Earl o: Wilton, (chairman) The Right Hon. the Earl o Lonsliale The Right Hon. the Earl Glengall Viscount Mandeville His Grace the Duke of Mon• trose The Right Hon. Lord Redes• dale The Right Hon. Lord Skel• mersdale The Right Hon. the Earl o: Stanhope Sir R. Pigot, Bart., 111. P Hon. C. H. Stanley, M P EXPORTED TO UNITED STATES. 1848 1849 1849 Plain calicoes £212,107 260,324 48,217 Printed „ Bilk Linen Woollen 1,627,321 1.936,782 309,461 Twist and Thread.... 93,574 145,215 51,641 Other Cotton Manfrs 251,043 331,001 79,958 £3,591,085 4,651,224 1,060,139 The increase here, it will be seen, was little over a million sterling. Yet in the latter of these years we paid the United States no less than three mil lions and a half sterling additional price for our supply of cotton ! The following ‘vere the respec tive imports and prices for the two years : IMPORTED FROM UNITED STATES. lbs. d. Cotton wool, 1849... 6-10,535,130 at 54- 14,012,362 /I 1848 592,775,983 at 44- 10,497,116 Increase in 1849.. £3,515,246 We have done this, too, whilst stimulating by our imports of bread stuffs, the agriculture of the American farmer, and ruining our own. Nor is the worst told. We have enabled the United States to increase very largely their domestic manufactures; and now find them amongst the most powerful of our competitors, as exporters of cotton goods to foreign countries. In low yarns and heavy cloths the American manufacturer beats us already in every foreign market ; and in our Eastern posses. sions and China, is making rapid strides towards a complete supremacy. As a proof of this fact we quote the following from the circular of an Ameri can house recently established at Shanghae : "American yarn has found its way to Shanghae; and, though inferior to British, can be bought cheaper in the low numbers, and is found by the Chinese to answer their purpose." The same cir cular contains the following table, from which it may be seen that whilst the tonnage of America in the eastern seas is steadily increasing, that of Great Britain is retrograding : VESSELS INWARDS TO CANTON AND SHANGHAE IN 1847 AND 1848. American. British. 1847. 1848. 1847. 1848, Canton Ships.. 60 I 67 221 I 171 Shanghae...... 20 I 17 I 75 I 76 293 247 80 84 Increase of American.. 4 ships. Decrease of British.. 49 „ Yet whilst our enterprising transatlantic neigh bours are thus stealing on our track, and, by the transfer of a portion of their commercial energies to the waters of the Pacific and the site of their golden stores, will shortly be in the possession of the means of competing with us on terms of in creased advantage, statesmen in this country—men even who regard our cotton manufacture as one of the leading sources of the country's strength—com placently assure us of the safety of our position, and boast that our superiority as a manufacturing country cannot he shaken. We shall indulge in no lengthened comments upon the few facts which we have above placed before our readers ; but content ourselves with commending them especially to the careful and candid consideration of those who will, on Thurs day next, be called upon to review and remark upon the nation's position under our present policy. They are not the doctored facts of sta ticians—not mere figures of arithmetic—but facts which are capable of being verified by practical men of business, and which carry with them their own tale like that material leaf in a nation's, as of an individual's ledger, which contains the record of profit and loss. Apart from ail consideration of the injury inflicted upon the agricultural portion of the community by our one-sided system of free trade, they prove, and we are prepared to maintain, that we have been of late wantonly sacrificing the commercial interests of this country, which in our selfishness we sought to advance by the robbery of other interests ; and that our condition as a com mercial people is one of rapid and ruinous deca dence. THE Manchester Guardian has discovered a mare's nest in the following paragraph, which he quotes from our last publication : " The failure of last year's cotton crop, and the proba bility of a deficiency in the season now before us, are Minified facts, Our manufacturing population must be content to suspend working for two or three days in the week, until some fresh source of supply is opened to the world. Nor has this dilemma come upon us without full warning having been given. It was foretold, as one of the consequences of opening the markets of Great Britain to the grain growing states of America, that the cultiva tion of this indispensable staple would be neglected, and that -we should shortly find ourselves at the mercy of one of our most powerful rivals for the means of employing our industrious population. The historian who pens the events which have occurred in the present generation, will record it as one of the most signal instances of human fatuity that we neglected to provide in time for such an emergency." The italics are his own, and are introduced we pre sume to bring into stronger relief his own views as to the cause of our present scarcity of cotton, viz., that it is " due to unfavourable weather and its con sequences—to .killing. frosts in spring, to heavy rains and wide-spread inundations in summer, and to the ravages of Insects, promoted by excessive humidity." Very wittily he urges that, upon our theory, we are suffering from "a deficiency . by act of parliament ;" and, taking comfort from the idea, expresses the readiness with which he would re verse our recent policy in order to procure an abun dance of that necessary staple. We beg leave, however, to reiterate our assertion, that the culti vation of the cotton crop has been neglected during the past few years, " as one of the consequences of opening the markets of Great Britain to the grain growing States of America ;" and, we may add, of our free trade policy generally. We have been looking for cheap grain, cheap sugar, cheap coffee and other commodities, and wantonly neglected to provide for the great increase anticipated in the consumption of cotton fabrics as the result of our new fiscal system. The Guardian reminds us as a fact strongly con demnatory of our argument, that "in 1839-40 the crop amounted to 2,177,835 bales, which in the following year sunk to 1,634,946 bales, a diminu tion of very nearly .25 percent. Again, in 1844-5, the crop amounted to 2,394,503 bales, but declined in the following year to 2.100,537 and in the next year after that (namely, in 1846-7,) to 1,778,651 bales, a decrease, as compared with 1844-5 of 211 per cent. If the present crop should reach, as ex pected, 2,100,000 bales, the falling off as compared with last year, will be about 23 per cent." In each of these cases of falling off, the cause, he says has been " unfavourable weather." Such an assertion at least requires proof; and we have before us the strong fact, that during . fhe . period over which our contemporary's figures extend, and whilst the pro duce of the cotton cultivation has made no apparent progress, we have received from the United States an unprecedented supply 'of grain of all kinds, more especially Indian Corn, at very extravagant rates. And what is still more remarkable, the largest quantities were received and the highest prices paid coincidently with deficient crops of cotton. With respect to the abundant crop of 1849, it must be borne in mind that in the preced ing year the consumption of Indian meal had fallen off, and prices so far declined as to diminish the temptation for its growth. All this quibbling of our contemporary, however, about dates and coin cidences is highly absurd. He knows well enough that the farmer, like the manufacturer, will always produce whatever pays hitt best ; that a low price of cotton is generally followed by a decreased growth, and vice versa ; that when a country can exchange more commodities than one for its im ports, it will cease •to be very anxious for the growth of that one, by replanting and other re sources adopted to repair the effects of unfavorable weather. What we urge most strongly against the manu facturing community is that they have neglected to provide an abundant supply of the raw material upon which they depend for the subsistence of their operative population, and have, at the same time, by their free-trade measures, rendered the countries from which they daw their supplies, independent of the cultivation. Upon the Guardi an's own showing no material progress has been made in the growth of cotton during the past ten • Captain H. Vyse, M.P Sir Wm. Worslev Bart. R. Howard Professor Butt Lord John Manners, ALP Marquis of Granby Viscount Barrington Lord Burghley - Lord Bagot Sir Robert Conliffe, Bart Sir Andrew sorbet Lord de Tabley Sir Howard Douglas Sir Philip de Grey Malpas Egerton, Bart. Viscount Guernsey Earl of Eg,lintoun _ _ The Right Hon. the Earl ofiSir T. G;Hesketh, Bart SandwiCh Sir H. B. Hoghton, Bart The Right Hon. Earl Talbot. Sir John Hall, Bart The Right Hon. the Earl ofiSir John Kingston James, Bt Tyrconnell &c. &c. It is as yet uncertain whether the Duke of Rich mond will be well enough to attend ; and the Marquis of Downshire we believe is prevented by some family affliction. In addition delegates will attend from the fol lowing amongst other county and branch pro tectionist societies, viz. :—lpswich, Boroughbridge, Amersham, Polesworth, Haddington, N. 8., North Nottingham, Boston, Lincolnshire, (5 representa tives) ; Stafford, (six) ; Ripon, Devon, and Exeter, Last Kent, Huntingdon, (fifteen); Oswestry, Wor cester society and branches, Caistor, Lincolnshire, Rumford, Bridgenorth, Scottish Protection Society, East Suffolk, Bridgewater, Brigg, Grimsby, Alford, Caistor, Doncaster, Wiltshire, Brigg and Barton, Northamptonshire, Uxbridge, North Wilts, Mont gomeryshire, (six representatives); Wolverhampton, (seven) ; Essex, (eight) ; Sleaford, Herts, Eccleshall, Lincoln and Lindsey, Banbury, (eight); Ellesmere district (twenty-three) ; Rutland, Epworth, Ando ver, Berkshire; and about 140 of the yeomanry of Lord de Tabley will represent North Cheshire. In addition to the above, the mercantile and trading interests of Liverpool will present a power ful and influential phalanx; and we shall, no doubt, see present as many of our industrious classes as can obtain admission, anxious to express their disgust and disappointment at the fraudulent representations, by which a one-sided Free Trade was forced upon their acceptance. We may men tion, as one instance of the importance with which the meeting is regarded, the fact, that an applica tion was made to the committee for a thousand tickets of admission, for the masters and mates of the shipping at present in the port. We shall have an opportunity in our next of making a few comments upon the proceedings, and the addresses of the various speakers, whom, in the present incomplete state of the arrangements, we are unable to name. In the mean time, we venture to prophecy that the Free Trade oracles throughout the country will, by this demonstration of commercial Liverpool, above all others, be driven to make the tardy admission, that a re-action has already set in, and that the country is coming to its proper senses upon the subject of their boasted panacea for all ills—cheapness. The Literary and Philosophical Society of this town contemplate inviting the British Association to hold its sittings in Liverpool next year. Thirteen years have elapsed since the society assembled in this town. Five bales of cotton have been recently received in Liverpool from Natal. It is described as a clean, bright yellow cotton, very fine and silky in the staple, and ex ceedingly good quality. It is worth 81d, per lb., and is principally adapted for fine numbers. On Sunday two sermons were preached at Preston by the Rev. T. Robinson, incumbent of St. Bartholomew's, in this town, in aid of the Church Missionary Association, and on the following day the same reverend gentleman delivered an excellent speech at a numerous meeting for the same object. LIVERPOOL, CROSBY, AND SOUTHPORT RAILWAY.— This northern safety-valve of Liverpool is being rapidly proceeded with, and is expected to be opened about the Ist of August. The permanent way at the Kirkdale end is laid for some distance, and the bridges are in a forward state on the whole line. Our readers will be glad to learn, that the Reverend Alexander Crummell, the African clergyman who created so favourable an impression in this town about twelve months ago, occupied a very flattering position at the re cent Cambridge examinations. In classics he was sixth in a class of fourteen, at Queen's College, having only been engaged in the study a little more than a year, while his competitors have been thus occupiei probably all their lives. . _ BT. MATTHEW'S SEHOOLS.—We perceive that on Sunday next, two sermons will be preached in St. Mat thew's- Church in aid of the schools attached to that church. It is extremely desirable that a strong effort should be made on this occasion to increase the school fund, as the children still receive their education under the church, which should be continued no longer. We hope to see a suitable building erected ere long. deta c h e d from the church. assical COLLEGIATE INSTITIITION.—In addition to the c honours enumerated elsewhere and conferred at Ox ford on gentlemen educated at these excellent schools, we perceive that R. H. Hart, (son of 'William Hart, Esq., of Spring Hill, Blackburn,) who was so fortunate as to obtain the Egerton Scholarship at Christmas 1848, and the M`Neile exhibition at midsummer 1349, had last week awarded to him a scholarship at Emmanuel College Cambridge. Such a series of brilliant successes is rarely attendant on so comparatively young an establishment, as our collegiate schools, and attests the excellent system of tuition and discipline adopted at the institution. SLAVE-GROWN SUGAR.—On Friday, among those who voted with Sir E. Buxton for a protection to colonial against slave-grown sugar, were E, Cardwell, J. Bailey, Marquis of Blandford, B. D'lsraeli, W. E. Gladstone, H. Goulburn, Marquis of Granby, T. Greene, J. Heald, Sid ney Herbert, J. Hornby, Lord Mandeville, Lord J. Man ners, F. O'Connor, Col. Thompson, Col. Peel, G. San nars, J. Sanders, Hon. E, Stanley, R. Stephenson, Sir F. Thesiger, and J. Tollemache. In the tninority of 234, were Sir T. B. Birch, W. Brown, A. Henry, J. Heywood, J. Bright, Sir R. Peel, R. Cobden, J. E. Denison, W. Ewart, Sir J. Graham, Lord R. Grosvenor:L. Heyworth, T. Thorneley, and Sir J. Walmsley. No fewer than twenty-six supporters of Sir Robert Peel voted for the motion, as did twelve Whigs. On Sunday last a sermon was preached by the Rev. W. Rawson, at Christ Church, Waterloo, on the occasion of the death of the Rev. Charles Graham Jones, the late incumbent, and in the evening a sermon was preached by the Rev. John Jones, at St. Andrew's Church, with a similar view of improving the melancholy event. The prayers, on the latter occasion, were read by the Rev. Herbert Jones, and the Rev. Ambrose Jones, brothers of the deceased ; and two other brothers, the Rev. Edward Jones, and the Rev. William Henry Jones, were present in the church. We understand the Rev. Ambrose Jones was ordained deacon last Trinity Sunday, by the Bishop of Chester, and is appointed the curate to St. Andrew's Church, in the place of the Rev. Henry Slater, who has accepted a curacy in the county of Durham. INQUESTS YESTERDAY.—On view of the body of George Trafford Newman, a child twelve months old. On Friday the parents of deceased arrived in this town, from Hull. Same night deceased went to bed with the servant girl of the family, (his aunt,) and another child was in the bed. On Saturday morning, when the servant awoke, she found the deceased close to hp., and quite dead. Verdict, " Overlain."—On Felix Riley, aged 65, residing in Crosby-street. He went to bed well on Sat urday night, but on Sunday morning wasstruck with some inward complaint, and died almost immediately.— On James Bolton, aged 13. Deceased was playing, on Friday, in Blenheim-street, about an empty cart, in which were sonic children, causing it to sway alternately from end to end, when he got under it, and one end falling upon him, he was so much inj ure d th at h e di e d Sunday deceased was out at the shortly afterwards. " Accidental." —On William John c iCna Waterloo y a , te a r g l e o d o 16, D0 Dock. On a ship boy on board the T r y p h ena , l y i ng end of the gaff, clearing the flag, when he accidentally fell, and lighted on the deck of the next vessel with such violence as to produce fracture of the skull, of which he died in two hours. "Accidental." NEW VESSEL ON MR. JORDAN'S PRINCIPLE OF AN IRON FRAME AND WOODEN PLANK ING. We briefly noticed, some time ago, a beautiful model of a ship on the patent principle of Mr. Jordan, shown and explained at a meeting of the Royal Mersey Yacht Club, and which attracted much interest and attention. Several questions were on that occasion put by gentlemen present, as to the mode of fastening, &c. ; and the probabilities of the wood and iron combined involving decay of the one and corrosion of the other; and the comparative cost of adopting the plan as compared with a wholly iron, or with what is called a wooden ship. The representatives of Mr. Jordan, (who was not present,) explained the whole to the satisfaction of many present; though, as in all novel ties, others entertained a doubt, only to be removed by the practical test of a regular vessel of adequate scale built upon the principle. We are glad to say that this experiment will very shortly be made, Mr. Jordan having since received an order for the building of a schooner upon this principle, from our respected and enterprising towns man, Mr. Josias Booker. This vessel is now nearly com pleted, by Mr. Jordan himself, at his new building yard, near what was called the Herculaneum Dock, at the south extremity of the town. Before noticing her particularly, we may remind our readers, that it was stated at the meet ing alluded to, that the cost would be a large per cent age (say 30) under that of a first-rate wooden ship,—the saving being in the substitution (as compared with such ship,) of the iron ribs, &c., for an English oak frame of well-grown and duly curved timber, which it is now diffi cult to find at almost any price. As compared with an entirely iron vessel, Mr. Jordan is also of opinion that his plan possesses several advantages in greater buoyancy, and a saving from the great cost of plating, riveting, &c. Time will tell all, and whatever the result may be (and we hope and trust it will be successful,) it involves a great national desideratum in the opinion of not a few of our nautical men, who deem that,—the navigation laws being now abrogated,—something new must be struck out to enable us fairly to compete with foreign nations in the great and vital department of ship-building. The vessel under review, though small, is handsomely moulded in every point, and is evidently of great strength. She is literally " as strong as wood and iron can make her." Her length, including a slight fore-rake, is about 50 feet, and she has ample beam and bearings. She ad measures little over 40 tons, but will carry 55 tons of dead weight. Nevertheless, her fine bottom and extremities will render her a fast vessel. The ribs are of strong angle iron, like those of an entirely iron vessel. The keel, stem, and stern-post are of wood, and the vessel outwardly will, when closed in, present the precise appearance of a wooden vessel. The planking, now finished to about the bilges, is of American elm. Above the bilges she will be planked with teakwood. The two kinds of wood named aie se lected as amalgamating best with iron, without injury to either material .; and green-heart, as well as other easily attainable woods, may be used in large vessels with equal advantage. Two streaks of green heart will probably be introduced in the top sides of the vessel, which will be coppered. The garhoard streak planks are four inches in thickness ; those above gradually decreasing. The keel plate (above the wooden keel) forms a strong double ridged kelson, and is continued into an iron apron for ward, and an inner stern-post abaft. Two water ways are cut on the interior of the garboard streak, .close to the kelson, and running under the iron ribs, so that the bilge water has free access to the well. The manner in which the iron work of the kelson, apron, and inner stern-post, are secured to the wooden keel, stem and stern-post, is most ingenious, the combination giving greater strengh than is possessed by ordinary vessels. The plank, or wood-ends, both fore and aft, are secured by a double row of bolts—one run ning up the iron work which is made precisely to fit the sheer of the plank : and the other up the wood-work, finishing as in a wooden-ship, and thus forming a double security against " starting." The planks all along are firmly secured to the flat part of the iron ribs by bolts, with heads, terminating inwardly bynuts screwed on to their extremities. These bolts are all coated with gutta percha. Theheads arecountersunk into the planking to some depth ; the cavity in the timber thus formed to be afterwards filled up with guile percha, so that the vessel may be coppered without the composition nails coming into con tact with the iron. Where but-ends occur in the plank ing, (and in this vessel there are very few,) the manner of securing them, and maintaining a good strong flush joint, even between the ribs, is simple and ingenious. On the inside, over where the but-ends meet, is placed an oblong square plate of iron, transversely with the vessel, covering the seam of the buts, and extending across a part of each plank above and below. This plate is screwed down with bolts and screws at each side, over the buts, and also to e p d l a e n cl k t - s b a e t a m i tss a e r n e d a s l of r e o a n t s e a c s u a r r i e t y a i l s l thus t a w t o t a n r e o d x m a T t h e the fastenings; and such is the stability of the whole frame, (with wooden ribbons here and there while the building goes on,) that the thick planks stated are with great facility and celerity bent into their places, without (as was supposed by some who saw the model) at all dis turbing the ribs, or the accurate contour of the vessel, The deck will be of pine. There is an iron stringer all round under the deck, peculiarly placed inside the tops of the ribs, so that the deck stancheons may be inserted between it and the outer skin without, as in common iron vessels, perforating any of the iron-work. It is intended by Mr. Jordan to fill in the spaces be tween the ribs with asphaltum, which is prepared in square sheets of considerable thickness, so as to be readily inserted and secured by the action of heat. This substance is sufficiently elastic to withstand any vibration or movement of the vessel's hull, and will prevent corro sion of the iron and leakage of the seams of the planking. It will also serve as ballast without interfering with avail able stowage room, and it will form bridges of support between the ribs. The keel of this vessel was laid so lately as the Ist of May, and she will be ready for launching early next week. The vessel is intended to run, with passengers and goods, from place to place on the coast, and on the inland waters of Demerara ; and such is the confidence of her owner in her strength and capabilities that, we learn, he would not hesitate to take his passage in her to that colony, in which he possesses estates, and where he pur poses to become a resident for a short time, to pursue an improved principle of cultivating cotton for our home market, so as to render us less dependant for that article upon the United States. She will be handsomely rigged as a clipper schooner. We are informed that several nautical men and shipbuilders, who have before doubted the practicability of constructing a vessel upon this new principle of great strength and great durability, ha v e, on seeing and examining her, either relaxed or abandoned their former opinions. COMMERCIAL AND MONETARY REPORT. Monday Night. The accounts from the Continent are of a most satisfac tory nature ; the peaceful disposition of all parties is becoming daily more developed, and, as far as our own diplomatic relations are concerned, we have got out of a bungling business better than might 'nave been expected. In consequence of this auspicious state of affairs, the mar ket for public securities on Saturday was exceedingly firm for a considerable period; but some silly rumours about the recall of the Russian ambassador, supposed to have originated in the vicinity of the Paris Bourse, checked the rise in prices, and Consols, which were done at 961, receded to 961 It will be seen by our latest intelligence that the bubble has not ye'; exploded. We have again the satisfaction to report a further con siderableL .bitlmpleoiaoeae2ersiarintktsdi eoleoeosrianutnndlsacio:ataiBawientin,nmoadfidGotds:ph;trt favourable . ao o thuahn v egotred e yari increasingmw:tbsteol ree improvement ro t tadnel ienerenfirnassddtetsml confidence fnrinoernoueorSsnmt Stock t a hsoo r a3ci e fvki td :N ero lleheaaa6xanrlospdk experienced arataudi, and vdi w ndan e i tnet t hhsc h desee daL a ds n oeofprei urno i dot n i ngshi: change.pc description oi T nn h to e hfe g bp e ue n sr e im r n a ea l sns t e tone of doing,oo of the th t h h a e e s advance. As might have been expected one or two of the bears have been swept away by the advance. The mar ket to-day is steady, closing a little less buoyant than at the opening, and a large business has been done at the quotations, which we annex :—Leeds Fifths, 92 11/3 d. ; Liverpool and Crosby, sd. ; London Stock, 107, 61, ; Ditto, 1-shares, 1/3 p par 1/3 kd ; C quarters, 5/8 p ; Midland Stock, 37-; Ditto 2-shares, 26 k d; Dovers, old, 15 ; Newcastl e p re f., 6 s d ; Dutch Rhenish, 2 8/9 ; Fire and Life, 1 16/3 p. We find from a table published in the monthly circular of Messrs. A. F. and D. Mackay, that there is a falling off in the import of Timber this year, compared with the last ; and the circular further states that,—" The advance in prices so eagerly sought by holders and others, has not been realised, but on the contrary, owing in a great mea sure to the large quantity of old Timber, &c., held for years, being forced upon the market at low rates, has had its effect in bringing down the price of the fresher de scriptions, even below the current rates at the close of the import in February last, which the sales will show. Should the import this• season be restricted, bet ter prices will be paid ; but if large quantities of Timber and Deals continuo to arrive, regardless of the consumption, as in former years,,then it would be unreasonable to ex pect other than exceedingly low rates." There has been a good demand for Sugar since the publication of the Brokers' Oreular, and although we do not hear of any sales, higher prices have been asked, and there is more doing in Molasses. Some inferior Havana Molasses were sold on Saturday at 155., and some Barba does at 175., which is an advance of ls. on late prices. That mad expedition, of which we gave notice last week, has sailed for Pine Island, according to the last received accounts, to the extent of 10,000 men, from which point it is intended to make the descent upon Cuba. This in telligence has caused several holders here to ask higher prices, and in some cases to withdraw their Sugar altoge ther from the market. In fact, the probability of a gene ral self-emancipation of the slaves is a topic of general conversation, and parties interested are anxiously awaiting the further information expected by the next steamer. The step taken by the Cuban invaders is quite indepen dent of the government of the United States, who have determined, if possible, to arrest their progress in transit; but, of course, as they are out of the American territory, this will be found a veil difficult task. Be this as it may, if the project of invasion should be carried to a successful issue, it will be more in favour of West India property than any other circumstance which could possibly occur. In the Tea market, a good inquiry exists for commou Congous, and very few can be had under 10d. per lb. In Rice there is little doing ; and the fine weather has so far influenced its value, that it has nearly gone back to pre vious low prices. We have to report a sale of Jute, of 1000 bales, which went off with spirit, at firm prices ; this article is attracting considerable attention at present, as its applicability is becoming more extended. There have been no transactions worthy of note in our rum market this week. Brandies are without variation ; transactions, however, are very limited, but the deliveries both for duty and exportation are large, and must shortly act upon the stock of wince ; a fair butinees has been J~n~.: , ,~ unfortunate 1 theaeolireMlYngtrrpoyce. ohl Bliss,wn o. opinions efi re d . ileTgilill----t--- req .‘' iQ eg dein, and low priced ports are in gre a ~ holders check operations. positionM i i s t t h o caik:s evincedoontinuanbcyteustfop fse,ceinicadetentdr i n e ntrr i acdo fi encso e ur7: vi es_ ..er s thg e ts .. ? Friday, has remained quiet, Sc o a l i , sequence to notice in prices. 11 I g e tho ialst hand, are not pressing sellers, an n diag ' come again rather higher, a correspo _„00v; expect, will be evinced at our market Corn being only in very moderate d I j l l, WO. ports tolerably large, rather lower P,.. 11 ', ( 010 cepted. We imported very little gi.d r , avii, verpool, either coastwise or from frets fib last to the close of the week, except malt, Beans from Egypt, and 2,000 barrels tio„,,f sqcunrspm.ppllryinshdeiaasanbconcmnoternlt3o?cohbooaienfidgy.rsf.TrNaciplylv,ltmle,eehh9deipcaritlinnni_iiigef7ilPaili,iirimo__lgre jsoo ,of ; , The sales of Cotton have COntira 'WI since Friday ; but as holders still cO O O alio . market, prices have not advancedliPLood tions. On Saturday the sales Were estimated,, N a b v i a l I d o e o s 2 l , , hoincludingp ol more, t6.oeon Egyptian, and 1,200 Surats, (500 on ', J .', 4000 on speculation and for ex p?rt. 4,0 0 i amount to 12,000 bales, includinglna'vas, Egyptian, and 2,000 Surat ; also, 2,w'' , 1 0°1 Durinm the last week considerable 5, _,.. t0 have taken place, at prices rather in taT t u ti , £4 17s. 6d. S , c f o .o tc .b h . , At the sale of East' India, on the 30th %gide/ slight advance obtained On the lowerigo torpg better descriptions went off for pre oboati;go TClnl H rtnuahi i rms g iprrh l n i dib,c l rse a kst,r n s2,s d ,f;ofr h . at a .h v be e . wabteenGekni Glasgow; ending a t ra ther 3rd instant is scarcely angßyuirrvaealcivilisa,'tiabeoj—oll''nialisP4ll°6;°/'' since 4 our last report. Scotch rig fl olesi Churchs i t ad i o i n , h. te ß ooga f pur E uoo t rnn a cg t hi l aoaln s f 01......:La::1,,...,,vv5naedi THE was evinced Irish Bacon 64nse.wi;: ehirb The panic in the Irish butter marketib the 10 in our last, has subsided • and althrLderftri the early part of the week continuee•A7oo_,o toantedlll Saturday a fair amount of business : i t s os irry tlEreafeoabe t tsgln l ehtt , e c t e o 1 e t b h rea tc ei: ::::::::cb r' ad, litli:;111:4'4 ins quotations (landed) :—aterfo i a pl o t , Henry a a el n n L b d oce i , fine, 00' gßß 7 u o Eno s itNiey,. ; :m l.4 tAno i in m .oed e yaco r y i a c na k nt , d3 4 3 6 , : . oll:: : o lo : lo, , e btd d dies, free from bone (new); and ci 7 13 ' ant Amrrican Bacon meets a g00i,./._1.061,t0 111fierie.total, 1392. , the lei tTavgißtt hn:orhrhaiaorpeaerttusoyolrarutniennosohnhpdetvftapeACsovsiedotn,ießffhrdllhTrrdgtoeienltaehsffeuinlouatrilloctrhssldl be 0 f AI' P 1. r t i e ' HOUSE 19/ o ---- ~i,t;jl;;,/' (Before the Lord Chief Justice., ift. i Alderson, Mr. Justice Patteg ° ' ole' i' ..0 05 i sri/i QUEEN V. THE REV. MOO ,. . c le , f , The defendant in this case voi: " i i t f 0 1 0 i i, our a with sary previous to the solemnization ken to tr twhdtn_ a i heab n i i egetdj d yher cceo t won o etuiuetno t rrn h sfse eus e fiuf fiot n anonnnfsn a efidesi t hee u irans r nt e aangi o re. ege f a,aul t prosecutedsamhonwenedan isarguments, s saw, had cl 0005 ii e n i soi l wis ; i ecsso oti ti l ..of i 9 7 r to: F. ' rh eddoefwf l e i e e anmsd a iaa p ini p ert e n; a tfo l uft , tisai d eirli. fia c °°t ' e o be 1 main points, he said, upon wllich e, meets were. first, that if there ireen-iihlf; a amloastdoamnamvaadileedahismuffiseclifeonft se d t e e ala r ; ; .,. e l : : I with whom was Mr. 04 , a des, d b cl u ent t rt sttfesaiunirgiesnnaatEi. refusal, shoh s )a ats t ena n nebpl t d ool l er i rin w ri e .sothsg a euo f es s v 7 , n - ici c d f sbu °c : ri l a u t c e bi l i n l l e i uoil"i,artc9itsgsc'oeu e t irte i b reo,; e l t reerite ,P r ot ° ,o l o;o 4 # 5 OO l- 4 5, atphn9erd:3rotnphainsroe was administer having, and that been t c h o e n r fl e:::: P harm sf6 fl 0,0 cio cient impediment Church, epd to the Liturgy, the very nature of La was justified illy:0 Englandtf r riim i e n the t le . arned counsel observed, peculiarly SO in the . 0 $1 , _ „ o rti ~ ib o joined together e grace in .ta u r„ ; so" ( in holy matrunon, a ss it at. could no 0 rf 0 jr, ti . • longer be considered aerf • bt o ', oi reli • . religious act; or " an excellent 01 '0 a de gtv i ica., In which no person ought to iO ve tile - true. e• mg unless theY brought to it a fetrione ill with regard to f • h and Cli o Ou r " ir ole l sit i the ' the r -'0 ion the view which he took , e ;. e d in 61 ~o t quoted, the Church would be 10'1— ;„ suP , r Mr. 'cement. I l es . fl iOn .1 .Crompton having been f opt t ilr, conviction, a 0 ,M, The Court intimated ~,, as 0 . , to tecl • tha t dent' maan°,lbe technical objections of the dair'A'a or ""p f tlia" , was not proof of a sufficient te 1 , 1 ,1 - 00 0.1 ,i be ° ;Iv ried, and that the indictment o''', • 6 1 ha' ; ,. ice - , were legally entitled b inn con •frt t and accordingly directedto ethat the a OO i re 1 ,1 r quashed. ~., The Attorney-General, who 5 0 ,, t to c• - „` siV i iv of the Crown, a pplied to the cow a c lerg o o j , t s t h u e u r i dr nv ge eg dy ds , , i t itn li th il e a r db ra e t er ii isti n, ca , : i : t s' t brd ° ; t e r :o i s d p.t ot hu bC ;r e e e 6 a Preuitobll'ect upon the general question, whether been tel pelled pelled to marry parties who had ne t cl i c l t The Chief-Justice said the CO' o4 sary to do so. jO 4 Conviction quashed accordingly •;1 4 ,1 ----=-----'"------------ te' ' ~ tri_ .4l l l . o l o 1 0 At Galway the steam-ship lriCerl4 ter P . ticiY intense w excitemen" 4 . f has created an was celArated as a holiday. te s l)l / ote 41 Ili fan e 0 , . On Wednesday, six West 1 0 ,,, n ° ore g o" years ago, were well worth £2oo,"'""' aft leil' a sl at Glasgow, for .., ,50 • £ 9 2 0 ong tie Lord Brougham has written to str e ed o s ili employment. Baron Bru royal commission to inquire into the 60 1 ,0,0 1 of Oxford and Cambridge• at the 'do r On Thursday, a fire took Ple, ce ,, a roP, er t 1 0) Cotton Works, Bristol, by wl" c " . c l 3 °•`- I f 4 was destroyed. Two thousand he n 00 ° 0 . rt am bas - , 0 0l fo toP no and was at Viscountess Pahnerst° f lye ld. nrt 0 .p The Observer states that the reps,— t .,) 0 1 .) is a fiction from beginning to en,a•g o jorVpr It is said that Lord Gough an° orarY O P / proposed in convocation for the ho,ilealot / of Civil Law, to be conferred u pon 1 ° ~a 0, . the Russia n 'a s a°lYe ° 'l commemoration on June 12. ,4 0 0 gT e , tb, 0 The Inverness Courier statestbi, Css k t e aslo 4 that her Majesty's visit to Dully of Slit' e tscl / seat in the north of the fail s t e slie t j, postponed. Her Majesty id n ° 41 nd seassn. 5 9 '44 eell V' 9 ( i ? A lady-like female aged betrr, for „pee ail • to a c 'le Pd.' Chambers, is in custody in Lond°ll' cev t ' .0 , ir names of a number of parties . ao . o n ,o amounts. She has obtained con% ho s Aad:ll9. for them. Amongst the naives s° rf A ir the Rev. C. Randolph, signature she has used to acceptanacet aits of I f if o s, IRISH RAILWAYS.--GOVerdine d o ll ...„gtd giving further aid to the censtritc_ ietwrip! The Exchequer Lean Commissioners • ,,,, n. o f Jati cw ' o r P f to the directors of the Belfast so t' ao n th e 13 ,tOM they • intend advancing them 0 p, nn 00 3 ; • ''a fror at five per cent. interest, .w 0..--, c orn 4 ,e , , £15,000 or £20,030 should it be r _ , v eil of constructing the suggested bralg%v Op NARROW ESCAPE.--011 Thursi6l;oB,o.l Thomas Lang, of Bristol, was proc o . f t be b l/ Kira p Lances ..--2ects°l,oOdifeter:.. St. Ives, when about two-thirds,roppaPs• A Hayle sands his horse euddonly di sap jumped from his seat, and with 113";.beoalud, ;el ud by c listY . in struggling to terra firma, a •. t a men, why witnessed the acciden''acaecl• 0 ,/ his carriage sinking rapidly in the_ r i,% dif#4 o 9 /1 The reconsideration of th e , I . as 01.'f041/ Great North of England pur l ; the iv. ,,, and carriage were subsequen into at the recent special rneetlog .i.ort, el't", and Berwick Company, and thetrebeton.A resolutions founded upon that c i, 1t c r r si,,Y r verbal amendments, was carried. ba . .,,,o , the proceedings that Mr. Hudson the r ein I A account of £50,000 claimed, en_specteincetiol it was added, might be shortly t . ____,kt a r o t • . DEPRECIATION OF Paorralriowee o pe, c b 'y , ley on Saturday, Mr Ward, a bP ii o f a l, il ln ,3 fof . that on the previous day a Pe r a ti la 14e 1 , 5 5 0 . 1 0 ,,,t 0t man, belonging to a gentlemS,,,ooo, otbero/gi time ago would have fetched that, the ° A tic ° li To this Mr. Ferranti addell, no t reit , , elir passenger told him he had i , hr ee ) Petersburg for £l2O, and that L. have received £7OO. tl_y reuestio reo . 113:144 4 LivEarrios ii 1, 4 vi TU E S DAY, J u ( 0 0 0 /IV *Tv O s ' NI '" pRINTED A. lir ofes_sl yi EVE R y T f.. 1 ES I3 A Os , fork, ' " Acs, e t Or , .4e By JOSHUA FLETCH L Rif,4 Gres , i . k i p , 1 LEONARD ADDISON los'ls`", ~.' lei At No. 4, ST. GECIOR'S . ve d 14 01.e11Y4 Irders - for Advertisements rel er s ou so ie; 61' ‘, Co., Warwick-square; BabancerY" lare'ell,:,,,'o',l Deacon, Walbrook ; Iteynell, , gioellitcll.4r ,„ci Birchin-lane •, Joseph ThoMate'reet; ;: CP e ePlef 1 den Hammond, 27, Loruhant, Lowe, „vs/AO court, Fleet-street; Lewis an;icofferbili; Viii hill; at the London Commerei C o ol t ii P' vr, j at tba Jerusalem Goff . house, , F,00,, O p Or e-",, r th sin s vpub' 1,0 ; house, Paternoster-roW; ~0 p a rson ;, v , 4t ree, J ., house, Thread ton ; ~,,,e , Q 0 oiet olerol r ter; on ; H C a l a r d rec,lip, gitcl. J. London; Johnston and C0.,1:',;,,, 10,500,srielsit Exchange-street, and C. 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