The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser. — Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1848-12-05 00:00:00

With r Our own tas' t to ti profits ( n enemy vi ncoine t )ur farms paid no tly ab TO CORRESPONDENTS. We do not think that the letter relative to Sir Thomas Reade gives any additional information. We have rather provokingly mislaid an article relative to the N early closing movement, but we hope to find it for next week. We are quiteunable to answer the question of " A Ratepayer." We fully sympathise with the comp!aints of " 11l requited," and we may probably next week do something to forward his views. Mr. Crawford CURRENCY. W 'cr is too low:, landed over Mr. Taunton's letter to the pool Currency Reform Association. _ public of France is to be elected by the people, but the President of the Assembly is elected by that body. Cavaignec is at present acting as President of the Republic, pro tempore, and though others are in the field, the chief contest for that important post will be between him and Louis Napoleon. Several pieces of poet A . cornspondent, in complains , is -room being; closed at four ion when, as yesterday, there rot American and Canadian, ers on the placards issued by the of parties r_Teivinit out-door relief bitterly of the o'clock, especially on an occ were East and %Vest Indian We have received sever Select Vestry with li worded with st "I have beet f( the demand vu ninny poor nt - id t this n funds: receivir to eke c and, if you look greatly female n es of ret ve'ihOod should be held - up to t this, that informat requested to be r Parish-office?" ebr Etberpoot TUESDAY MORNING, DEC. UNDER the head g of "A new Budget," the Manchester Guardian gives us notice of some rumours, "to the effect that the honourable member for the West Riding of Yorkshire has prepared, and intends to submit to an early public meeting in Manchester, a scheMe of finance, by the adop tion of which the Government is to be enabled to save from ten to twelve millions in the national ex penditure." Our contemporary conjectures that this large saving is to he effected by a reduction of e of the army and navy; aric we perfectly agree with him that Brea . thus effected urnstances of Al strikes us Richard Cob- inteer Chan- uliar posi- )Igatin g- o or three ted the sav- expenditure the wonderful rce and in free trade that policy to even an in . The menu rendered able d aristocracy; lave effeete Rs besides thus far ne knows bet lucky a dc cellor of tion of t 1 grand sc as a mere bagatelle, compared w effects to be produced upon our c dustry by the adoption of his fa , policy. The prosperity to be cau was to have been such that taxat ed extent would sc facturing in to have been to buy I of the 1 to construct 1 the ra we know not what ma How little of all this la been fulfilled we all knms ter than the gr s, with tus to and to endure t affairs which I tion of his nostrum )den woul we hay .exults ( iue ra been ov too rani throut which po mystify t into t ]ial fund of their own pet .e of the hazy cloud e coinmu i.crushedt daily r it wil and a half per cent the next at twelve ate to thing; and cial A r the pre will not commanc most forcibly, in connexion with M den's thus assuming the ail( er, is t e man him - self, whilst pr )ns in o axes, but they are not correspondent says— always ►net fully, - knowing nit very were supported from the !eive how Is it not too bad that , n making a living by ur deepest sympathy, osity and unkind re res ?—and more than ncl communications [i sufferers, to the anbarD. 5, 1848 ratepayer making! railway property calculateu is the question leavour to gi n his pocket, 1 calicoes, 1 commercial n the adop- 's which iat we have ting capital t he will run with ek to Rious failur 1 in taxation annum in that market , currence of 1 the c y procurable .ature of bleb is that when the B way and interest, being and only ten )wners of for- of labour and eommoi We had this 1 do no s co mm er ine in Se mar ue or every c 'e it is of securities a s is put amount to at le Fin - an- n an enquiry little what at the best which b The nue :o an d f one set o: if comme he absurd ich - went out of the wa break up his table or chairs to perf of sinking fluctuation► whi the hard It is not of fiction; mas" this a.ders, with s ; and we rd into intelligibi h wha 1 working brethren to ponder deeply upon this state of things; to ask themselves how it is brought about, and whether it is in accordance with the laws of nature and of God. The essence of a so cial state is the dependence of one class upon another. The rich man wants the poor man's la bour. The p:)or man wants a portion of the rich man's superfluity. Both are willing and anxious to make the exchange; and why are they not able to make that exchange ? We give a case; and it is precisely that.- to a mistake with respect to which our present difficul ties are, in a great measure, attributed. We wish to improve the internal communications of our country; and railways we find the most eeoz nomical and rapid of transit. We have the mate rials at our command. We have land, stone, iron, timber, tools, food, and skilled labour ; and the owners of each are willing to devote them to the required purpose. Yet so simple a transaction our philosophers and statesmen cannot arrange; nod hence the land remains untouched, the stone re mains in the quarry, the iron in the mine, and the food in the warehouse or the shop. and the maker of pickaxes and spades, the bricklayer, the mason, the smith, and the navvy walk about our streets without the value of a meal in their pockets. We are told that we are suffering because we have invested too much of our floating capital in these railways; because we have converted to a useful object, and one by which the march of civili zation is promoted, too much iron, stone, timber, and human labour. How can this he the ease ? We have never yet felt a scarcity of any of these commodities. We have never experienced a want of iron, stone, timber, or labour to devote to other and ordinary purposes. Into whatever part of the country our railway works have been carried they have borne with them employment to the labourer and prosperity to all classes; and yet the labourer, we are told, is suffering from too much railway Again, we have pointed out to us the great , nrerintinn whinh hnci tnizAn : and here we approach to the key We may some of us have mis alue of such property. A. may . . be poorer to-day by half his fortune than he was yesterday ; but B. will have got the property of A. for half what it cost. As a nation we are n:) poorer than before. The railway is of the same public utility as before. But it will not sell for so much of the conventional representative of value, money ; and here is the pinching point of our difficulties, so far as railways are concerned. A., havir vested a temporary surplus of, say £lOOO, in a railway, requires it back again for his ordinary business. In the meantime, however, we have had a monetary panic ; and as the result, his £lOOO is only worth £5OO in the same conventional article, money, and, to some extent, in commodities. Hence A. cannot pay his Christmas bills so readily; and, perhaps, may have to discharge a servant, or to limit his business operations, which in the ordinary nature of things would lead to the increase of a neighbour's, who has been more fortunate g But, what was the cause of the monetary panic ? What is the nature of the myste rious operation by which half of A.'s £lOOO has unding new been lost? We will ene planation, which shall be int doing so. it may appear to any of our readers that we are stating matters which are well known to them, we must remind them that we are appealing to parties who are not so well informed. Wh en A.. the earth so — it then, invested his £lOOO in, say London and North- western Stock. at £2OO per share, and paying ten per cent. dividends, the return which he could have had for that money, placed at call in his banker's hands_ nr emninveri in the disennnt mArlzpt WA R 21 per cent. The railway was, there fore, even at £2OO per share, his But when A. had to sell, money was worth 10 to 121 per cent. interest in the discount market ; and the security which only returned 10 per cent. on £lOO, became worth something less than the amount—£loowhich then would produce £lO per But how did it o _ currency—a mere vehicle for transferr commodities from one man's hand to another—had ank of Eng- land parts with a few millions of gold, she is com pelled to withdraw from circulation the same number of millions in paper, thus withholding from the community the vehicle in question, by which es for commodities is effected gold last year to pay for our heavy imports of breadstuffs, and a the consequent contraction of our which we have been e _ Ind industry of the country, and in the five hundred - millions sterling townsmen to reflect neon e state of things. existing in a nation sts of its advancement in civilization. not the difficult one which it is .stanrl If any of our readers had a pair of boots which additional mile he had to walk, every time arm that necessary operation, he would speedily arrive at some correct notions of this very complicated WANT OF CURRENCY. NOT WANT OF CAPITAL THE CAUSE OF LOW PRICES. arice of month of Novem- of discount by the BOnk which "iols, it will be observed, have as in t half of eve e no harves eased to yield welcome one, Ti lot of capital, determines price ,bundance to of interest determ ities. But the ae fact that, ur-' er the operation of thi )un tri h ith currency at a , neral want of c sing out of the recent commercial crash, caused by the ,bility of the Bank to afford us any curs ency at all, ex. Our contemporary f Consols wi 3es on to contrast the rise in the the position of railway property. unfortunate railways ! W ly our c n that there is t New York, a superb new DID NEW PACKET-SHIP line of r 1 lists, y one d )1v to d ffea as rt us fr avour to pu or e -" Under " and the r .eeper v n of the ra; :d inst., Ci TUE STANDARD, PROPOSED INCREASE OF LANDING ACCOM MODATION FOR THE SEACOMBE, EGRE AIONI, AND NEW BRIGHTON, AND THE LARGE STEAMERS. The want of a convenient landing for the large and other steamers has long been a subject of complaint; and we pointed attention last week to the danger which results from their coming to the steps and landing stage at present used by the Seacombe aed Egremont boats. Since we wrote another accident has occurred, from the same cause as those previously noticed, by which the life of a cler gyman was nearly sacrificed. the particulars of which will be found in another column. We are happy to find, that at length the attention of the public is being directed to the want in question, and that it is about to be urged upon our local authorities; for, independent of the ad mitted fact, that our northern ferries, to the most delight ful and salubrious portion of the hundreds of Wirral, are wretchedly provided for, there ought surely to be some d,,ference paid to the claims of such companies as the Dublin, the Glasgow, and the owners of other large Irish and coasting steamers. We have been favoured during the week with a private view of a model, constructed by Mr. John Grantham, C.E., of a proposed new landing stage, to be laid down at the Prince's Pier, by which the want referred to will be supplied. The model in question is to be brought be fore a meeting of the Polytechnic Society, on Thursday next, at which his worsiip the Mayor has consented to be present. In the meantime, a brief description of it may not be uninteresting to our readers. It is proposed by Mr. Grantham to lay down a stage four hundred feet in length, and a little narrower than the large stage, and built as a neatly flat bottomed ship, at the south end of the Prince's pier, one extremity of which will be placed nearly opposite to the southern corner of the present Egremont basin. The mGoring proposed consists of spring cables, or transverse chains from both ends crossing each other within its own length, and thus not interfering with the navigation of the river, except as preventing vessels running between the stage and the pier. It will be further kept off by iron booms. The ferry steamers will be accommodated at the southern end ; and at the north end, iron stauncheons, fourteen feet high. will be placed for the accommodation of the large steamers. The height of the deck will he the same as that of the present small stage, which is found to he most convenient for the ferry boats ; and, for the large steamers moveable gatigways will be provided of the various heights required. The stage will be approached by a b►idge of a very neat construction, to run from about half way between the Egrement basin and the presea Scacombe steps, transversely to the centre of the stage, by which a greater length of way will be secured, and a less incline than t!iat of the bridges at the George's landing stage. The ap- proach fro►n the pier is most convenient; and the turn, end of the stage is equally easy. Each end will be at tached with hinges, thus acconimodatitu the bridge to the rise and fall of the tide. It is conceived by experienced lus constructed, will allbrd the most complete accommodation possible for luggage to or from Cheshire, or elsewhere. One very material advantage to be derived from the adoption of the plan will be the removal of the present Egremont stage, which is felt to be a dangerous obstruc tion to vessels coming into or going out of the George's Basin. It may be found necessary to fill up entirely the present Egremont Basin, which will no longer be required, except for fishing and other boats, and thus to secure an uninterrupted line of pier from Prince's Basin. This proposal, however, is entirely distinct from that of the landing stage. le stage THE ASSIZES, The special winter assize for the southern division of this county will be opened at Liverpool, on Monday next, before Mr. Boron Alderson and Mr. Justice Erle. The calendar, in a numerical point of view is very heavy, there being already not less than 154 prisoners for trial. 62 of whom, however, are charged with political offences. _ _ There are charged with the capital ofie9ce of murder 7, (six of thpAo beinv fnr mtirdprin, rinlinotnnn Ttrirrht of Ashton-under-Lyne,) manslaughter: 5, rape 3, burglary 17, stabbing 13, bigamy 7, forgery 6, robbery from person Bohorse-stealing 1, sheep-stealing 5, night poaching 5, mint cases 11, concealing birth 1. stealing post letter 1, making a false register 1; (Mr. Chubb, the registrar, who has continued in custo( y since his committal,,) " conspi_ racy",—such is the general charge against the whole of the political offenders,-62. In one murder ease a young man, named James Kelly, stands charged with having cut the throat of his sweetheart, at Heaton Norris, in Sep_ — 'le le sad details will be yet fresh in the me- The following are the names of the :ember rnory ofbur readers parties charged with the murder of Bright :—Joseph Rat cliff, Joseph Constantine, Thomas Kenworthy, Jonathan Walker, Wm. Winterbottom, and James Stott. A second and minor count in the indictment charges these prisoners, in case of acquittal on the capital charge, with conspiracy. It is arranged that the trials of the political offenders shall be taken first. Of the sixty-two charged wit ten are Liveapool Confederates, twenty-eight conspiracy lrem Manchester. and the twenty finir - others are from Ashton. It is thought that the trial of the tcn Liverpool Young Irelanders will take place on Tuesday, the 12th instant, and many interesting facts, showing the designs of the leagued Confederates here, will doubtlessly he elicited. The names of those in custody are, Joseph Cuddy, cabinet-maker; Matthew Somers, (formerly a provision-dealer, in Hurst-street;) Francis O'Donnell, surgeon ; Edward Murphy, clerk ; Robert Hopper, joiner, Birkenhead;. and a youth named James O'Brien. There are four out on bail: Martin Boshill, cashier in a mer- chant's offi, West ; and A STAPLE TRADE LEAVING US The following paragraph, which we copy from the Sheffield Times, discloses to us a rather alarming feature in the position of the nation : HAT IS TO BECOME OF SHEFFIELD? is a c uestion of of reflection in the mindi of all Who really, as they profess. feel an interest in the welfare of their town. Independently of the temporary stagnation of commerce. the staple trade is fast leaving Nheffield. There is a sad want of capital in the town, which arises, in a great measure, from the fact that any man with a few pounds in his pocket can start as manufac turer; and he almost necessarily consumes his capital as fast can calcu o a certainty on the return of two, ew trade alone will us." duction of a !" Where is tgoing to ?. Its cutlers have no capital —no enterprise brariches of trade We fancy that we can trace it in part to the very policy which Slaffield, above all other towns, by the return to Parliament of her Wards and Parkers, has been most were in the enjoymen free trade has smitten these colonies, and the woodman's axe is no longer busy in their forests as of old. The West Indies were their customers; and they are ruined. The other markets, and the competition of the hungry artizans of Birmingham has done the rest. We are sorry for the fate of this once enterprising town. The reputation of its cutlery is as old as the Heptarchy, when "a Sheffield whittle" was the sportsman's companion in our primeval woods. Although now furnished with railway communi cations to every market its decay has commenced, and a lay see it the centre of a mass of pauperism. Id Times informs us that "a new trade alone " but where, he must tell us, is a new trade to few year The Sheffi can save it be found ? the whole very boisterous, with frequer some fine intervals were experienced wailed almost exclusively from the sional breeze from the S. and S.W The wind has pre with an occa- The air, for the most part, has been very humid, and at times very cold, but there has been no freezing. We have nothing new to notice in reference to the crops. TOWN COUNCIL MEETING.—The usual monthly meet ing will be held to-morrow. The Finance Committee recommend the purchase of one or two more steam-boats for Birkenhead Ferry. The Dock Committee proceedings comprise the agreement for the purchase from Lord Derby and the election of the of the land at fh Dock Chairman proceed- Solomon report. The Mayor's communications com prise—Resolution of the justices of the borough relative to the new gaol and house of correction for the borough. Memorial from the operative porters of Liverpool, praying the Council to tare steps to repeal so much of the 9th and 10th Victoria, cap. 109, as relates to the present system of to 1 master porterage. The following motions will be sub nf I LP.. AT- TL-a LIVERPOOL DECEMBER SESSIONS The sessions of the peace for the trial of prisoners con fined in 'the Borough House of Correction, commenced yesterday, before Gilbert Henderson, Esq., the Recorder. The ealerdar contained the names of 106 prisoners charged with felony, and 12 charged with misdemeanour. Of the whole number (118) it appears 18 can read imperfectly ; 41 can read and write imperfectly ; 52 can neither read nor write ; and 7 only can read and wr it e well. The following gentlemen were sworn to constitute THE GRAND JURY : Henry Jenkins, merchant, Gorec-piazzas, Foreman, Robert Coleman Crosbie, merchant, Cook-street, Charles Fairclough, cotton broker, Lower Castle-street, John Finch, jun., iron merchant, Rumford-place, Charles Groves, merchant, 8, Goree-piazzas, Wm: Lindsay, merchant, New-quay, Thos. Marshall Myers, accountant, Exchange-alley, East, Charles Wm. Newman, cotton broker, Hackin's-hey, Wm. Rotherham, merchant, Exchange-street East, Samuel F. Symonds, wine merchant, Lower Castle-street, Richard Withers, share broker, Royal Bank Buildings, Henry Curry, broker, Rumford-place, L. IL Bally, 21, Exchange Buildings, T. B. Blythe, merchant, Rumford-street, J B. Cooper, broker, Rumford -street, Robert Higgin, merchant, Rumford-place, Wm. Moore, merchant, Chapel-street, R. A. McFie, sugar refiner, Bachelor-street, James Livesey, cotton broker, Rumford-place, J. T. W. Leylsnd, merchant, Exchange-street East, S. Taylor Hobson, gentleman, Catherine-street. ----- The proclamatiOn against vice and immorality having been read, The RECORDER addressed the Grand Jury. He said that, though six weeks had not quite elapsed since the last sitting of the court, the juries of the borough were called upon again to discharge heavy duties. I find in my calendar (which is more complete than the printed list) the names of 128 prisoners for trial. He remarked that there was an enormous increase in the number of female offenders. Out of 103 names in the present list, 49, or nearly one half, were women, the number being nearly double the usual average. The evil was increasing in this town, and be found, by a careful examination of the prison returns, that there was no town in the kingdom where the sex was more degraded, and so steeped in crime. This was the more painful, inasmuch as it was an evil to a great extent beyond the controul of the court ; for, what improvement could be hoped for in such cha racters by imprisonment in a gaol in which there was no means of separate confinement. And what amendment could be hoped for in the punishment of such persons, when it was known that their places were filled up by new corners from Ireland ? This was an evil'which would, he feared, continue in the town, until as was probabie, some experiment were mad t- - to arrest it. He thought some controul should be put upon that class of women ; that they should be so restrained that their number would be reduced ; arid that some degree of punishment should be inflicted upon those who harboured them. With regard to the other cases in the calendar—he might remark that the offences of picking pockets, stealing lead, &c., from warehouses, carters carting away stolen property—he had latterly punished such offenders with severity, including corporal punishment. The Grand Jury would find, by the calendar, that the severity of the court had been followed by good results, as there were few or any of these classes of crime. It was certainly something, if they could not reduce the number of crimes, that they could decerase their atrocity. The cases were generally of a light de scription ; but there was one case of o'itaining money from a burial society, on pretence of the death of a child. On reading the depositions, he was struck with the great facilities with which the names of children could be en tered in such societies' books ; and knowing, as he did, what had recently transpired in a court of justice, and what had taken place elsewhere, he did hope that parlia ment would interfere, and would take such measures as would prevent the strong temptations offered to parents by these societies, which gave them a pecuniary interest in the death of their children. The system had, in some instances, led to the greatest crimes He tho would be well if some pla►► were adopted by which the parents would receive no share of the money, or by which the societies only would attend to the burial of the chil dren. He made these remarks generally, without in the slightest degree impugning the conduct of those whom he brought before them in the case alluded to. He con cluded by saying that the Grand Jury were perfectly competent to the law affecting the cases that would be laid before them, and also to judge of the facts: With these sentiments he dismissed them to the discharge of their duties. Several true bills baying been found, the trials pro- seeded A FEW MORE NUTS FOR THE BULLIONISTS TO CRACK. " The Construction of Railways has been the !ause of the present national suffering." Yet we have in reality been increasing the national ca- pital by creating a mass of property, which will_ pay, on whilst it contributes incalculably to the developement of the resources of the country and to the convenience and cheapness of locomotion, both for passengers, merchan- we have been converting land, much of which is scarcely worth the cost of cultiVation, into highly remunerative lines of road ; And whilst some hundreds of thousands of tone of iron have been extracted from the bowels of the earth, to pay No. 2.—" The conversion, by means of the railways, of floating into fixed capital, is the cause of the present national distress." W hot is " floating capital" but money currency ; which is either deposited at your bankers, bringing in a small per centage of interest, locked up in your till, or employed in your ordinary business ? _ _ _ _ _ You don't bury this "floating capital," in the shape of bank notes or gold, in tunnels or embankments. It is not abstracted from circulation ; but pays the " navvy" to-day, goes to the baker, or the beer shop keeper to-morrow, and into the bank at the end of the week. It is " floating capital" all the while. The same sort of conversion of floating into fixed capi. tal takes place when a man buys a house, a mill, an es- tate, a horse, or a new but we never heard of any eating national distress ! No. 3.—Anomalous results of the causes of national distress above - pleaded, From three to five hundred agricultural labourers earn- • union workhouses, converted into "navvies" earning 20s. a week, spending that sum with the butcher, the baker, the grocer, &c., and yet causing national distress ! Miners,. smiths, artizans, &c., receiving a similar ac- yet causing nationa distress Money in more active circulation, and a large portion of the community with increased means of consuming ; and yet the manufacturer and the merchant selling their increased custom of the well-paid navvies ; and ( landowner, who has got a hundred pounds an acre. railway proprietors for a worth only one pound,—none of w hom ever held a share in any line, suffering because I), E, and F have been en gaged in converting capital at their bankers, paving only 2} per cent., or consols paying 3 per cent., into railway property, which will pay ten per cent. ! _ . .. G, idiennporarywa'ni of currency. selling the ten thou- to a so Loyd, or some other bullionist, for seven thousand fi hundred pounds ! A depreciation of ten property of th value of the entire ^-r £5.000.000.000 sterner, because £30,000,000 in euci,L.,y have to be paid within the year in the shape of railway calls, which will be expended in labour and commodities, to create addi- week alter It has been so paid ! No. 4.—What ought to have beon the effect of the E tension of our railway system. prosperity of the labourer, the shopkeeper .ealized rig only from two to —still capital—pay- by the Conversion of capital prod three per cent. into railway property ing from five to ten per cent. ro. s.—The real cause of the depreciation, not only of railways but of every description of property, includ- t the tim activity of the indu;try_and the enter ilereased . . , the Governor's speech, was voted. . The Jamaica Despatch gives the expenditure and ex ports of the colony for 1848, from which it appears that the former amounts 0 £403,000, and the exports are than the expenditure; or, in head worth £lO, they have to pay £ll in tas The Demerara crop was estimated at 40,000 ho, against £200.000 expenses.—A ;commercial letter from Demerera says, " The fatal effects of the ' stoppage of the supplies' is already making itself felt and understood. Within 10 days after the expiry of the Tariff of Duties there had been a loss of kr65,000 upon imports thrown into the market in eonseouenee of there twiny no duty : 11 : I leviable, an amount cc This loss has been tritnsf arise of the country LATEST FROM AMERICA. ARRIVAL OF THE STEAM-SHIP AMERICA , The Royal Mail Steam-ship America, Captain Leitch, arrived here yesterday about noon, from New York and Halifax. She left the former port on the 22nd ult., and Halifax on the 24th. She has brought fifty-four passen gers, amongst whom is Mr. J. L. Clarke, who is a bearer of despatches. The Steam-ship Acadia arrived at Boston on the 18th ult. The demand for exchange for remittance by the stea mer was not very active. The best bills on London were done at 81 to 81. _ . A severe snow storm visited Boston and the neighbour hood on the 20th. The trains on the railroads were much detained, and the snow was two feet deep on a level. The official returns of the Presidential election bad not yet been received from all the States, but of course there is no doubt of General Taylor's return. The following is the official vote for the state of New York, as compared with the election of 1844. Taylor.. Cass Van Buren 218,551 Clay .. 114,592 Polk.. 120,519 Birney 232,482 237,588 15,812 On the 21st ult. there was celebrated by a splendid din ner, at Irving House, New York, the triumphant election of General Taylor to the Presidency. The affair was at tended by over two hundred gentlemen, with several vi sitors from other States, all composed principally of those persons who have aided more or less zealously in General Taylor's election. The new propeller steam-tug-boat Dragon was burnt to the water's edge at Philadelphia, on the 19th ult. The loss is S'lB,ooo. The fire originated in the furnace-room, the door of the furnace having been forced open by the blower. We learn from Yucatan that Yascaba has been reco vered by the government troops from the Indians with little fighting. The place had been totally destroyed by the Indians while in their possession. A letter dated Boston, Nov. 21st, says, " the schooner Olive, Capt. Oliver. from New Brunswick, bound for Boston, went ashore during a gale yesterday, on Nantucket beach, and all hands perished. Two of the bodies were washed ashore this morning. The British brig Anglo- American, from Nova Scotia, is ashore on " Outer Breuster." Her rudder has come ashore, but nothing is known of the fate of the crew. The steamer Bay State was disabled off New Haven last night. Her passengers were taken off by the Cornelius Vanderbilt." List of passengers :—From New York—Colonel Tho mas, lady, two children, and nurse, Mrs. Featherston haugh and daughter, Mr. H. S. Taylor and lady, Mr. George Wright and lady, Mrs. Myers, Madame L. de Gonzaga, Lieut. Tyssen, R.N., and servant, Lieut. Har per, R.N., General A. Danny, Dr. Tobin, Dim Francisco Castillon. Mr. G. T. Woodrooffe, Mr. J. A. Woodrooffe, Mr. James G. Warts, Mr. John Foster, Mr. Richard Patrick, Mr. M. Connaly, Mr. Grant, Mr. Hawkswortb, Mr. J. B. Mearris, jun., Mr. Mearris, Mr. F. Focke, Mr. T. Kumff, Mr. March, Mr. Samuel Haskill, Mr. P. L. Ronalds. Mr. Hitchcock, Mr. Charles F. Shaw, Mr. Curtis, Mr. M. Blain, Mr. Paterson, Mr. Alex. J. Ha milton, Mr. H. Brown, Mr. William Smith, Mr. Coghill, Mr. B. Adgimian, Mr. J. Le Clark, bearer of despatches,. Mr. J. H. Phipps, Mr. Barry, Mr. William Campbell, Mr. Lewis Mansergh, Mr. M`Farlane, Mr. Geo. Taylor, Captain John N. Gittins, Rev. Martin P. Parks. From Halifax—Mr. Lewis Bliss. cline, in some cases, on yesterday's rates. A sale of fancy Genessee was made on terms stated below. There was no change in Southern. Wheat was hardly so firm. Sales of Genessee and Western were made on terms stated. below. Corn was lower by about one cent per bushel, with moderate sales. Meal remained the same. There was no change in rye or oats. The weather was more moderate, which lessened the fears of a speedy closing of the canal. Prime pork firm, with further sales at yesterday's prices; mess remained the same. Beef continued firm. Sales of lard were made on terms stated below. Groceries continued quiet, and sales light. For a re- . . already very'reduced stock. Prices are fully 4c. up on the steamer's news, and repeated parcels sold establish an advance of iths on good grades, especially Gulph Cotton. We now quote— Middling Good Middling Middling Fair Fair Fully Fair Good Fair Uplands. 5i a 6 6k a 6j 6# a 64 64 a 6§- N. Orleans 63 a 64 63 a 6k 64 a 6& 7 a7l 71 a 71, 7i a 8 6i a 7 3000 ditto, Stock, 16,0110 hales ; on sa The following are the mov compared with last Increase lents of cotton for this season, Stock& on 'eceipts. Gt. Britain. For. Ports. Shp.board 397.546 16!).990 231.796 236,530 .grports to .141.586 70,247 60,579 25,554 —l,OOO barrels flour were engaged for Liverpool, 3. Beef in tierces at 4/, and 40 toso FREIGHTS in an American ship, at tons cheese at 30, BUFFALO, Nov. 21, 1849 The flour market continues flan, with 41'4 62.1. In wheat there were sales of 10,000 bushels, ityluding Chicago, at 77c., and good Ohio at 91c. In freights there is an active business doing, without change in rates. ALBANY, Nov. 21, 1848. Receipts within the past 24 hours.—Flour, 18,S00 bbls. ; wheat, 4,500 bushels; corn, 13,000 do. ; barley, 8,300. The :et for f our is without change WEST INDIA MAILS The steam ship Clyde day with the usual West In rrived at Southampton on Sun 'ia mails. She left Jamaica The Jamaica House of Legislature was opened on the 27th October by Sir Charles Grey, with the usual formalities. In the speech delivered on that occasion by his Excellency, 1.J.16/131114 IS/1 11.1 C Zl/11 ell and rum, with the reductions effected in the wages of la- bourers in Jamaica, would have juQtified the supposition that the prospects of the sugar planters for the next twelve months would be improved, were it not for the increased advances, v operateC as an immediate and worse blow upon resic proprietors than even the competition of foreign produce. His Excellency then recommended the adoption of a sound system of mutual credit and exchange, by which the culti vators should receive, on moderate and beneficial terms, the pecuniary assistance absolutely necessary for produc tion and manufacture. To effect this desirable object his Excellency recommended peace amongst the inhabitants and the cultivation of kindly feelings, awl the cessation of The Governor further iced the House to obsery and foster any disposition of the mother country to afford as3istance, and to accept of loans from Great Britain, at moderate interest, in the way provided for by act 11th and 1 to the saving from the consumers of im the planters; at the .n her dry" good likewise ov ports to the producers of export same time Barbadoes is pouri which, free of duty duty-paid goods of t the market!' he merchant the crops INDIA by( We have reeei Calcutta, Oct from M tie over- s thus received ; and Bombay, Thore is no news yet of any effective movement as re gards the operations on the north-west frontier of India, nor does it appear probable that we shall hear of anything decisive until, at least, another month. Shere Singh slipped away with his force from Mooltan _ _ first contemplated by General Whish on this body, but was desisted from on sufficient grounds as it appears, Dec. 5,184 g. of strength in the Punjaub, and it serves to explain the fact, which otherwise we should have to regret, that General Whish had not at once been supplied, as regards the northern line of frontier, with any considerable rein forcement. Our authorities in Western India, on their part, we are told, had determined for some time past that only a gene ral and combined movement should be made by the troop , of the Western Presidency, and the effective division then on the march might be expected at the seat of war coinci dentally wail the arrival of ~he main body under Lord Gough. There were adviees that the head-quarters of the Bombay division had arrived at Sukkur. One detachment, with some artillery, had already left Roree. The Rifle Brigade. under Brigadier Dundas, whose movements up wards from Kurrachee had been so long spoken of, was in motion on the Indus, and, with the European regiments of the division, might be expected to reach Ulmer Scinde at the end of October. It was Expected that Jacob's Scinde Horse would cross the frontier immediately on the arrival of the first detachment from Roree above alluded to. and they would proceed together to the camp of Gene ral Whish. TRADE AND COMMERCE The monthly Accounts relating to Trade and Naviga tion continue to tell awkward tales. What a pity that the Manchester Chamber of Commerce cannot suppress them► as " inconvenient and unnecessary." —as they have dons the " weekly return of unemployed hands in the borough of Manchester." The general character of the facts revealed in these ac counts, is that of incre sing imports, and decreasing ex ports. We will give a few samples, being the results of the first ten months of 1848. compared with the first tea months of 1846. To begin with some of the Imports 1846 184 ff. Oxen Sheep Bacon, cwts 1,668 193,21 6 ' Butter, cwts. 199,231 239.80 f Cheese, cwts 242,452 319,519' Wheat, quarters Barley, quarters Oats, quarters Beans, quarters 206.666 411.87 8 Gloves, pairs 2,029,642 2,652,64 9 Pork, salt, cwt Silks or satin, broad 111.418 2G0,632 Silk ribbons ... . Gauze ribbons 29.109 46,901 Velvet ribbons 12.441 35,085 Wines, French, gall 345,908 572.717 Now, let us turn to the other side, and see what have been some of the Exports. 1846. 1848. Cotton Manufactures. £14,808,324 £13.466,746 Cotton Yarn 6;802.391 4,789,537 Earthenware 678.897 694.606 Glass Cutlery and Hardware__ 1,828;872 1,524,682 Leather, wrought & unwrot. 286,387 223,318 Linen Manufactures Linen Yarn Silk Manufactures Woollen Manufacture's THE LATE IBRAHIM. PASHA Ibrahim Pasha has left only three sons living—Ahmed Bey, born in 1825; Ishmael Bey, born in 1830, both pur ning their studies in Paris; and Mustapha Bey, born in 832, at present in Ibrahim Pasha was buried with military honours, but with little ceremony, on the day of his death, in Mehemet Ali's family tomb, in the vicinity of Citiro. Selim Pasha has gone to the Upper Country to see that order and tran quillity are maintained there, arid during the temporary absence of Abbas, Said Pasha assumed the authority in Cairo. Abbas Pasha, who succeeds Ibrahim in-the government of the country, was born in Arabia, in 1813. He is the son of Toussoon Pasha, Mehemet Ali's second son, who in the year 1816, and his right to the 'roin his being at present the elde3t a I succession arises CHARITY BALL AT A.INTREE.—The charity ball at the Grand Stand, Aintree, under the patronage of the Earl and Countess of Sefton, will take place in the Large Room, on Wednesday, the 13th instant. It is fully expected that the attendance will be numerous, and that the affair wia be at once brilliant and delightful. STREET ACCIDENT.—On the night of the 25th of last month, a man named John Moony, aged 54, was crossing Parliament -street, when a cart coming down, went over him. Whether he h a d f a ll en d own b e f ore the cart came up or was knocked down there is no proof. He died on Saturday. IrAPHAEL'S ALMANAC. Thi s p ro ph e t . . messenger, ucti last year contained such a singular prediction—since verified—of the revolution in France, is now published for next year. It contains many new predictions as to the weather, political commotions, &c., which are interesting to the curious. There is also much valuable information ,s.: in addition of a miscellaneous kiwi. P.. . a._ v• terday, an elderly man, named Robert Rushton, who had his head bandaged up, preferred a charge against a rough looking young man, named Robert Beggs, for having violently assaulted him. The prisoner is a carter, and was employed by the complainant in that capacity. He was at wcrk on 6aturday, and complainant paid his wages to his wife. Prisoner next day came to his masters, and on his-refusing him money, he struck complainant, and in a scuffle which ensued, actually bit off a great part of his (complainant's) ear. _ The surgeon who hadAiressed the wound, said that about half the ear was torn or bitten ler was committed for trill IARGE OF STEALIN WEARING APPARF Yester- day, at the volic -court, a female named Ann Smith, and her daughter, a young girl, were c of having stolen a quantity of clot were founC 3 !flitted on a charge 3, &e., the property some tea, & the property of box or case, containing, amongst other It was proved th.t the kettle-holder was Mr. Arthur Littlejohn, of Bold-szreet, ners of the other articles were Mr. Mac- and Mr. Sillitoe, tea d LIVERPOOL INDUSTRIAL SCHOOL SOCIETY.—We are glad to find that a strong effort is now making to extend the number of ragged schools in this town, to which the half-clothed and ill-fed children of our struggling poor 11 attempt steeped in to reclaim the hundreds of ih;;e ' ciiiisr;;wii i;norance, and with vice and improvident their eyes in their own wretched home streets, and almost thrust into crime. a prospectus of a society. for the prom daily before , are cast upon our We have before us 3 observe that his 3n of this object, chairman, ex-officio, supported by an influential commit tee, and with a very active secretary in Mr. Hubback ; vat interest le meantime, we invite ev fart taittee at lerance of an object so beneficial Chas. Cotesworth, ESQ.. Esq. ; T. D. Anderson, Esq., i CURIOUS SEAMAN'S CASE. Capt. Grant Amongst the corn and T. B. Horsfall, ;reasurer. Two seamen, who had of, we believe, rare occurrence, the shipping of foreign for British seamen. Capt. Grant said that the ship sailed from Liverpool for Bonny on the 17th July last. Two seamen were s'aipped on board the vessel by Mr. Hodson, jun., as British seamen, and they produced register tickets. After the ship had been out a few days, the captain found that both the men were foreigners, and that one of them could not speak a word of English. He had, however, no fault to find with them, and had no objection to pay them ;s were produ id he knew the twc Williams and Collins said that young Mr seamen who called themselv Collins, who speaks some En. Hodson told them that they must pass said, was a grave one there were two men lodging n were two seamen, whose names were Collins and Williams, and it was probable that the tickets had been stolen from Hodson time to prove this, or to explai other way if case until this day METEOROLOG' BY Mit. C. H. CHADB Daily iDir Humidity MI F a ll Noon. I _ Sax. jMi postponed the further healing of the registering Difference of of thermometer Wet l and Dry Rain.lNroon.l Wind 3 ILT at IF POSIT MP Patron last nic. Theatr Cups yr to all ciated. Door C I R TH . Loisse Horse by M. Galler On Fl Doo comm ie said. Yet wit he whc zan have tie mar 'eci by t hearth his de he dun ha loor, ;steps never e lowest; anc increase ha ' le fruits of 1 been as effeci pond our reach as if one of God' ents 1 To our humbler, working, fellow itcldress ourseli ffenial ilso; and ask th lopeles )n, they are comfortl "here are many; y t the hands wb to fashion thes - e articles are imernpl materials which enter into their col drug in the hands of their producer How do they explain this anamoly with food in abundance around them whilst so many are willing to wort anxious to possess the product and to give ti in return ? V on of any for- Er thE I come, and ached from h - undreds — of s and firelt )an has been ation of past ur and of the ly plaeed be- t judg- nuntrymen we r why, at this 3 and almost , h are skilled ,ved, and the sition are a sor importers this hunger, this idleness, and so many their labour, vv e ask of our , n being 1800 for s for 800 steer ABLE COMPLIMENT.-TILE cing the appointment of Mr. 'norship of British Guiana, in very innocentl nt cannot. therefore, be attri- Our contemporaryevi- , nee of political favodritisni here General ride, by hieh the preser in making its appointment At the COuncil meeting to will submit a motion for the Council baths, at George's Pier, in inunity . :" If this step can be loin in the riiht direction, and ss be seconded by all who desire fore the health of the inhabitants port, acquainted with the r, would certainly not say that we shness in the construction of addi- Mr. Eyre Evans and other For full, to our late Dock Chairman has been hoisted at every dock in our port, except the Albert Dock, and including the new north docks; and even the Albert Dock is inconveniently crowded, and (very hand in it actively engaged. In addition, we have at least 20,000 tons of shipping lying in tae river at anchor, and large vessels coming up every tide, not one of which, until we have a change of wind, and . a large number go to sea, ran get into dock. We could do ju - st now with an increase of accommodation at least equal to that provided by the four north docks recently opened, highest bidder, he giving satisfactory security to keep the ferry worked by steam-boats. That, if no bidder comes forward, the Corporation cease to work the ferry; that the steamer " Fanny" be sold by auction to the highest bidder ; that the ferry be thrown open to all steam or other boats,—the Corporation to maintain the right of ferry by employing one row boat to go over once a day. By Mr. Councillor Harbord—That it be an instruction to the Watch Committee to furnish a return of all cases of nui- sances, and other matters connected with the Sanitary Act, reported by the police to the borough engineer, medical officer, building surveyor, and inspector of nui sances, from the first January last to the present time. By Mr. Councillor Harbord—To rescind so much of the resolution of the Council of the 16th of August last as directs the Water Committee to take immediate measures for proceeding with the construction of the new works, Water Works Acf, 1847," and to move that it be an in struction to the Water Committee to stay all proceedings with reference to such new works until a report on the special matters of income and expenditure, now referred to and under the consideration of the Financial sub-Com mittee of the Water Committee, and also a report on the cha .rges contained in the Liverpool Mercury, and now under investigation, shall be received by the Council. By Mr. Councillor Woodruff—That it be an instruction to the chairman of every committee to report to each monthly meeting of the Council. the names of members of the committee of which he is chairman who have been absent at any meeting of the committee, or any sub-committee thereof, during the preceding month ; and also to report to the Council at the first meeting in October, in each year, a summary of the attendance of members during the preceding twelve months. By Mr. Councillor Parker— That it be an instruction to the Finance Committee to give the regular notice to the tenant of St. George's Baths, with a view to obtaining possession thereof as soon as practicable, in order that the same may be placed under the management of the Health Committee, and be appro priated for the benefit of all classes of the community. led Zia .w York, it A. VERY I bided to volitical favouritism dently f govern met obtain posses rder that the sai )f all el the premi Mr. Park of the town caviller: It BAT I , it wilt t will don namely, that the 'attack would an increased amount of money, or currency, was req to conduct its trai of exchanges—currency—was withdrawn, in accordance with the provisions of the act of 1841, because the com modity, Gold, had gone out of the country temporarily to pay for corn. We had thus—to use a parallel case--to measure 1000 yards of cloth per hour with a less number of yard sticks than we usually require to measure 100 yards; to weigh in a given time 10001bs. of tea with the same pair of scales with which we usually weigh 1001bs. ; and, as the natural result, every body bidding against his neighbour for the loan of the yard stick and the scales, the holder of either could exact his own terms. And the mischief was increased by the anomalous provision of the act in question, which makes the yard stick and the scales —or the pound of gold—themselves actual values, as compared with those of commodities, instead of being, what they ought to be, only measures of value. We believe that Mr. Councillor Poole will be proposed at the Council meeting to-morrow as a member of the Dock Committee in the room of Mr. J. Bramley Moo re . TOMB OF THE REV. J. H. FORSYTH.—Over the grave in which, in the month of July last, were deposited the remains of the Rev. 'John Hamilton Forsyth, in the north-west corner of the parish churchyard of this town, an altar-tomb has just been raised. It bears the follow ing inscription :—" Sacred to the memory of the Rev. John Hamilton Forsyth, second son of Thomas Forsyth, Esq., of Liverpool, for six years curate of this parish. He fell asleep in Jesus, June 25, 1848, aged 32 years." " He exhorted them all, that with purpose of heart they would cleave unto the Lord, for he was a good man, and full of the Holy Ghost and of faith."—Acts xi., 23, 24. The style is a gothic of chaste design, and every part of the work is strictly in keeping. The material of the tomb is Painswick stone. It rests on a moulded plinth, having a base of freestone. The four sides of the tomb are ornamented with sculptured paneling of proportionate dimensions, containing effectively disposed quatrefoils.— Bristol paper. part, a lack of the neces, ary cavalry force to insui kit one Orders have appeared, dated " Simla, October 1:] from the Commander-in-Chief of India, constituti force of some 30,000 men, to be designated " the Punjaub," and of which Lord Gough inte diately to take the command in person Irmy of .ed ima The intelligence, as regards if generally, shows but too clearly lately acquired territory is v and that the machinations against our authority some time past, directed on a combined r of the us part the results of which are likely yet to develope themselves to a greater extent, .although happily the checks the Sikhs have received, and our vigilance round Lahore, have much marred their plans: A rumour which had been prevalent for some time, that Chuttur Singh and Shere Singh were playing a game ultimately to result in a combinel move- ment and attack on the capital, wotddapor by the latest advices to have been well founded, intelligence having reached Lahore that Chuttur Singh's forces were approach ing in the vicinity of Wuzeerbad ; and we are told that Sir F. Currie considered the intelligence sufficiently au -rale to induce him to call for reinforcements from Fe the.— rozepore, consisting of Colonel Godby's Brigade ( o f one. European and two Native regiments) , with the Fer oze p ore Brigade of five regiments of cavalry, with horse artillery, which had crossed the river in readiness for operations, and at the same time to recall, with similar instructions, Brigadier Eckford's Brigade, (of two Native regiments and two companies of artillery) then on the march to reinforce the camp of General Whish. At that time Shere Singh had advanced on the other side to Sirdarpor e , some 30 m il es from Mooltan. The probability that a coup might be made on the capital from some direction by the Sikhs in arms appears to have been entertained throughout by the Resi dent at. Lahore, whose chief object it has been to secure the safe occupation of that and the two other chief poiats 281 29'94 29'83 55 49 29 29'90 29'68- 55 46 30, 29'96 I 29'87 47 41 11 29'64 , 2934 I 45 43 -o '9l -- 49 42 o'o2 Sw. 55'48 0'44 i w. 52-44 *l4 w. 45 37 o'ls ,w.bys 42 38 0'42 I w THE WEATHER.—Nov. 28th: bright; squalls; night, light rain.-20th : n.m., fine; p.m., heavy ram.-30th: a.m., fine; p.m., showers and squalls.—Dec. Ist: light rain and wind; night, clear.-2nd showers of hail, with squalls.-3rd: a.m., Clouded; p.m., rain.-4th: a.m., light rain; p.m., fair. REGISTER OF LAST MONTH. —Pressure; max. 30.54; min., 29.05 ; average, 29.71.24.—Temperature : max., 55 ; min., 38; average, 45.40.—Humidity : max. difference, ; min. 1 ; aver age, 2 deg.—Rain during the month, 2 in 45. Temperature at Everton, max., 55; min., 39; average 43.40. SHIPPING INTELLIGENCE. MONDAY, DECEMBER 4.—Wind S.W ARRlVED. —America. (steamer,) Leitch, from New York; sailed 22nd Nov.—Constantine, from New Orleans—Keepsake t Gray, and Constance, fr,m Montreal—E Z, Hartshorn, and John R. Skiddy, Luce, from New York. SAILED.—EmiIy, Anderson, for Cape of Good Hope. Creamore, Kemp, from Paraiba, at this port; sailed 31st Oct. Left the Proteus loading for this port. Saw the Runny mede going in, from Pernambuco, to load. Euphemia, Kendall, hence at Montreal. Ocean, Huddart, hence at Quebec. Cambria, (steamer,) Harrison. hence at Halifax 22nd Nov. Acadia, (steamer,) Stone, hence at Bostnn 19th Nov. HALIFAX, 25th Nov.—The Favourite, Wylie, from Montreal and Quebec to Liverpool, put into Sydney, C.B. 14th Nor., considerably strained, and with part of her cargo thrown over board, having been on her beam ends and must discharge. OFF HOLYHEAD . at 3 P.M., Sarah Sands, (screw-steamer.),__ LIVERPOOL TUESDAY, DEC 5, 1848 PRINTED AND PUBLISHED EVERY TUESDAY MORNING, By JOSHUA FLETCHER LACE, of 53, Grove street, ani LEONARD ADDISON, of 14, Great Orford-street, At No. 4, ST. Gooses's CEIMENT 4 LIYSAPOIII4, T and Rol Ti' B 6 EVE the " a LE Seat' ins] Th cept( Penn and ' page. Live on P elite Pros Blag