The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser. — Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1847-10-26 00:00:00

TO CORRESPONDENTS. • Sever:!: n,ust stand over. vA:' , pm' ,:4-itaiibarb• ,übtvrip.ion : 1;1 255. I;qt Credit, I. I ( i 'li~~ r~. ~ TWINING, OCT. 26, 1847. THE eventt_ , he past week have staggered even r those who incs- sanguinely etomised us that the _,cloud was passing away. L s now almost uni versally fickn. , e•ged that .‘crust is not over; - that the cornli , k communi::. left by the almost ,'eriminal aptuhy Goverrmee to shift for them selves, rtri througll al , the severity of `whieh has never been paraLeit:(7 within memory, and which , e)! - tMect not the leviathan - speculator - - only— not th,ee. souses who 7 reproached with having - exten , led 'heir ope.ralin. beyond the limits of their ca;:ifelL hoot the hurniq , tradesman its Well, who haS not so <coned ; who iw.3 neither dabbled in eett , m or in railway ':;hares or in scrip. It , floes not ev! , . e) here. The mechanic and the labourer, vch- •1 for his daily' wage, must endure alike with periori in staiion. Already. we hear increasli: lounCE ments of suspension of the productive indu yof the co nary, by which thou sands must intO:ably be depeived of employment and of bread ; and 11.:i ,- Ss some prompt measure of relief is • sneedily . 46l,..ted, the prospect is before us of a winter of anarchy and, for the working classes, of actual famiy,f. In the worst stages of most human difficulties - there is to he (I'r3ecrned a tertei,ation soineWhere. 41.0wever long IL. vista of evil lirough which we .have to pass, there is a light, though it be a distant one, which :Thews where we May hope to emerge into the sunshine. At preSent, however, we see no such indications of a. period being_ put to the coun try's sufferings. The superlatively wise philoso phers, who have embarked us in cur present course, are themselves unable to chew as a gleam of hope of-extrication. All that they tell us,dn reply to our appeals for help, is that we nrlst struggle on with out a - deviation to the high' or to the left; and that however manta those whom they have impelled upon that struggle may fall down by the way,, ulti mately a few may battle to the end. But they . cannot convince us that whilst the banker, the 'merchant, and the manufacturer are thus groping their way to a termination of their monetary diffi -cultieS, the million& willing to foil, and anxious to be fed and clothed, will be content to watch the experiment and starve in quietness: They cannot • tell, us how the Government itself can exist with a . . deficient revenue long enough to, be'enabled to -witness the result. It is easy to say to individual - sufferers you must pay the penalty of your miscal culation.; you .must forfeit a portion of your pro :p"erty. to secure the rest ; you: must realize your corn,.your 'cotton, your railway 'stock, and other descriptions of convertible property, and cease to :import until the drain upon the country is met by the increased amount of imports.; but it is not uite so easy to inform us how goods are to be pro duced and paid for without money ; how pro ierty is to be converted without buyers, or how hands, • are to be made to work without mouths being kr may not be uninstructive to examine a few of ;the recipes which are proposed to us in lieu of the only =real cure, the retracing of the policy by the party whose crotchets have brought us into • our present .dilemma. " Stop the Railway Expenditure" ex claim some of those parties. Well, what will that • step effect ? It will throw probably a million labourers, artizans, miners, workers in iron, &c., into a state of compulsory idleness.; deprive them of the power of consuming the grain of the farmer and the importer, of buying the goods of the ma nufacturer, or the prodnce of our Coloniei or of the forein ' ner. It would involve the merchant, who has 'stocks of these commodities, stored up, in ruin ; decrease the trade of the shopkeeper; and strike off a few,millions per annum from the national revenue. " Wait until our gold comes back"_ is the cry of another set of people. But how long are we to wait for such an issue? When we stop our pro duction of exportable commodities ; stop our mills and our mines, we ensure the continuance of an adverse rate of exchange and take the very course by which our gold will be prevented from returning to us. The instant that we resume our commercial and industrial activity, so as to enable us to export, we begin to consume in greater quantity imported products. We spend in short as much as we can,. or a little more, until having inoreased our produc ing power to its full capability, we are hurried on to a crisis like the present, in which we find our Circulating medium insufficient for the required magnitude of our transactions. There does it seems exist another source of relief. it is understood that the Chancellor of the Ex chequer is looking forward to an investment by the Emperor of Russia of three millions sterling in the British Funds. By selling to that monarch the public securities at 80 per cent., the Bank of En gland is to be released from its- present inability to' accommodate the commerce of the empire. A 'host Inimiliating admission for a British statesman it is that this is the only staff upon which he has to. lean! It is however not at all an improbable sort Of speculation on his Majest y 's part. Consols at 80 per Cent., which may in a few months be once mores worth go per cent., leave a fair margin of profit for the royal speculator . But it woud be . . quite as well if such a personage as Sir Charles Wood, would condescend to lay aside his preten sions to infallibility; and, candidly confessing that he knoWs as much about the commerce and the currency of the country as he knows of Sanscrit, allow its interests to be relieved without the Emperor dipping his hands into our pockets.. TILE Budget of the present Whig Ministry, if its members hang together long enough to produce one, will Undoubtedly be a very ingenious affair, We presume that some attempt will be made to regulate our expenditure with the national revenue; and as cutting down expenditure is,by no means ap:operatidn in favor with Whiggery, some novel expedient must be found for increasing the pro ductiveness of the sources from which that expen diture is supplied. At present our Customs and Excise, our Stamps and Taxes are in a lethargic state. A population, of which a large portion is un employed cannot consume largely, A Commerce, which is almost suspended, does not require the ordinary supply of stamps to carry on its trans actions. Even an Income Tax, with all its inqui sitorial racks and screws, cannot drag money much loilger from merchants and traders, whose balance is on the wrong side of the account. There is no hAppy windfall, however, to be expected from China, or elsewhere, and we dare not in the pre sent condition of European affairs economise one shilling of the cost of maintaining the efficiency of the army and navy. What then is to be the de vice by which the income of the country, already showing symptoms of proving by next Easter three orrfour millions sterling below its expenditure, is to be patched up, and that awful stumbling-block, which trips up Whig ministers a deficiency— avoided ? • , Borrowing will not do just now. We should be paving off, instead of increasing, the amount of the national indebtedness. A few months ago we heard a good deal of some further carrying out of . the measures of free trade—some further removal of duties on foreign products; . but as that course in itself involves a sacrifice instead of an increase of income, we presume that at present it cannot be thought of, although nothing is more popular with the many-headed multitude, whom Whiggery wor hips, than such reductions.. The common sense course seems to be in any opposite direction: If our present customs' rates upon the amount• of consi:mption which we may look forward to for the next twelvemonths are unequal to provide us, with the required income they must he raised, or a new element of taxation be found. The same re mark anplice, to the Excise, with .the difference only, that ra'isinfr the impost upon native produc tions—as malt, British spirits, &c., cannot be thought of by any man in his senses. The Stamp Duty is sufficiently high already; the Assessed Tdxes already too burthensome and impolitic be sides; and the proposal, now, to raise the rate of poStage, in the hope of drawing a revenue from that department, would draw down upon its pro poser the ire of every epistolary young lady and gentleman in the United Kingdom. The Income and Property Tax, then, is our last resource. We must double that, or extend its application to persons with an income of under a hundred and • My pounds per annum ; or, but for the dislike of our political economists to its very name, we might even have it regulated upon the principle of a sliding scale. We can imagine some little hesitation of manner in the worthy Chancellor of the Exchequer—a little abatement of his usual flippancy and self-satis faction—whilst announcing, at the conclusion of the first year of Free Trade in Corn, the existence of the necessity of increasing the Taxation of the Country. Of course he will have reasons " plenty as blackberries " to urge, as having brought about this sad contretemps. There will be the effect of the Potatoe rot, although that is a little worn out. He - may, perhaps, read a lecture, after the manner of The Times, to the merchants - of Liverpool, ac cusing them of over-speculating, and importing too largely; and if no twinge of memory reminds hini that such very Increase of importations was calcu lated upon to take place., as the result of free-trade measures, and to diffuse universal prosperity over the country, he will ride off on this topic in tri umphant style. We shall be told of the Railways', too, attempted too rapidly to be constructed ; and much - excellent indignation may he directed against 'directors, provisional committee-men, solicitors, secretaries, and shareholders, unless the worth gentleman is pulled Up short in his diatribe by question from Mr. Hudson, or some other Railway representative, how much further our consumption of Foreign commodities, and consequently of the Revenue derived from them would have been decreased, had the mouths of some five hundred thousand navvies and their families, and of - the numerous other classes dependent upon Railway formation been closed ? or he is asked by the representative of some manufacturing community what he considers has been the effect upon the home trade for. our manufactures, of all these families having been enabled to 'clothe themselved in something better than the rags of an Irish peasant, or the scanty covering of an English ditcher. The most perplexing topic, however, with which Sir Charles will have to deal, will he the fact of our decreasinr , exports of manufactured goods in the face of largely increased exports; the closed . mills and the idle machinery and labour of Man chester and Stockport, Leeds and Huddersfield contemporary with the increased ability of the foreigner to consume our goods. Where is the realization of the glowing picture drawn of the universal exchange of commodities, which was to be the result of Free Trade—of the Manchester weaver giving his labour to the Polish, the Rus sian, or the American farmer, in payment for their cheap breadstuffs ? It has not been realized ; and it would probably puzzle wiser people than Sir Charles Wood to tell us when it is likely to 'be realized. It will perhaps not occur to the mind of the honl hart., 'unless his opinions shall have - Undergone some very material alteration in the interval, that one great reason why the glowing picture has not been realized,—why the mills of Manchester and Leeds are not in full work, why manufacturers are not exporting goods to foreign markets, why the operative is not employed, not consuming, and not creating revenue,—is that the . merchant, or the agent, is not able to procure discount for the bills, remitted in payment of such goods, except upoji terms which sweep away all, chances of profit from , such transactions. We hope that some provincial Member — Mr. Brown could do it very satisfa c t or ily* —will inform him of the numberless orders from foreign markets, which have been compelled to • remain unexecuted from this cause. Any manu .facturing member could assure him that it is not •from any want of capital that exports are not made —that imports are not paid for in goods instead of in bullion ;—for the goods are already in existence and paid for, a drug in the heaped up warehouses of Manchester and other towns—but solely because the medium for effecting the exchange is not in ex istence, or is too costly to be employed. That the Government can ever weather over , . such a financial expose, we have not the slightest expectation. They must give way to other men, who are not so obstinately wedded to a theoretical measure, which has broken down in working. They must go out, leaving the stigma fixed upon their name of having permitted the revenue once more to fall into deficiency. Yet, except for their obsti nate rejection of counsel, the stigma in question cannot fairly be attached to them. They have fallen into a trap cunningly baited for them. On the two successive occasions on which they have re cently held office, the ,periodical revulsion of corn- mercial and Monetary affairs has taken place. The cycle contrived by Sir Robert Peel's Currency Bills has shown its dark side towards them. That most astute tactician knows well what is required to make it revolve with a quickened motion—how its axis is to he oiled and the bright side to be again resented to us;. and he will be under no delicacy in applying the remedy, whenever he can secure the helui in his hands, and in appropriating to himself the honour of having restored again the credit and the revenue of the country. WITH some degree of sorrow, although it is " reqUired" from us " a's an act of justice," we give insertion to the following letter addressed to us by the Rev. Cecil Wray, Incumbent of St. Martin's. It is painful to us to see a.gentleman occupying, like Mr. Wray, the positidn of a clergy man of Christ's Church, descending, had even the tone of our rem - arks been such as to furnish an excuse for so doing, to language so unworthy of his sacred office as that contained in the letter in question. We are, however, willing, so far as we are ourselves concerned, to waive all notice of the unseemly and undeserved acerbity of language, in which we are addressed; to set it down as an ebul lition of temper, which the rev. gentleman has no doubt before this .time regretted. We had pre pared a reply to the various points into which the rev, gentleman has chosen to divide his - general charge of "falsehood " against us, but which the pressure upon our space, this day, has reluctantly compelled us to withdraw. We shall, however, be able to find room for the article in our next ; and, in the meantime, we request our readers to re peruse the article in our last, which has given rise to Mr. Wray's attack upon us, and to say whether his letter meets any assertion which we have made. ST. MARTIN'S CHURCH. TO THE EDITOR OF THE LIVERPOOL STANDARD. Stn,—l have been advised to require you, as an act of justice, to publish a contradiction of a number of false statements which you have thought proper to make against me in one of your leading articles of Tuesday last ; and I only consent to take any notice of your remarks under a protest that I do not consider myself amenable to you for my conduct, or for the manner in which divine worship is solemnised- in St. Martin's Church. • I shall content myself by simply denying the truth of all and each of the charges you have brought against me, reserving proofs and explanations for those parties who have some. right to require them, and who know how to treat my office at least with common decency, if not with respect. _ _ _ Pirst, then, I deny that I have been guilty of the dishonesty of robbing the Corporation of their property. On the contrary, I maintain that the property in St. Martin's Church has, by the late alterations, been greatly improved and rendered more valuable. Secondly,—l deny that I have destroyed twelve pews from which a rental of £4O was produced. So far from it, the same occupants continue to pay the rental, and have volunteered to pay an increased sum for the en larged accommodation now offered, and for the privilege of kneeling, of which they were before deprived by the narrowness of the pews. Thirdly,—l deny that there has been any "misapplica tion of the public funds." About £6O was voted for im proving the kneeling accommodation, and it was applied to this objects Fourthly,—l deny that I havd defrauded the poor of their rights by "curtailing their free sittings." On the contrary, I have largely added to the space formerly occupied by the labonrinc , clasfles, who have now more ample accommodation, and this in a better situation than is afforded in any other church in Liverpool. Fiftl4.—ldeny that the " alterations were made with outdue authority." On the contrary we had the authority of a - resolution of the Church Expenditure Committee, which the chairman subsequently assured us would sanction the widening of the peA's, and the consequent diminution ,of their number. The surveyor was not troubled in the matter simply because the terms of the resolution placed the superintendence in the church wardens. Sixthly.—/ dm!' that it is my custom to preach upon forms . and ceremonies ; or that I preached on this subject on Sunday week. _ Seventfill-7 deny, also, that the notice given on the same days had anything to do with " alterations in the services," as you suppose ; or, again, that the services are "unacceptable to the congregation." These seven false charges I distinctly and emphatically deny As to the last, it is sufficiently known that .St. martin's congregation appreciate the devotional character of our choral service, and they are not a little scandalized that spies should be sent among them, to mock where they ought to pray, and turn our sacred rites into ridicule. To the £6O given by the corporation, they have freely added about £5OO more of their own to provide chancel screens of carved oak, and a painted window which is an ornament to the town, and they reasonably think that some credit is due to them for thus improving and beau tifying the church. Moreover, they have raised no less a sum than £1,700 to supply National Infant and Com mercial Schools for their wretchedly poor district, and these schools are attached to St. Martin's Church for ever to be a blessing to the neighbourhood. Nor are they now maintained without great exertions, the salaries alone paid to teachers being .C. 301.) a.year. All these things come from the " empty pews" of our deserted church: It must at least be admitted that we are respectable in our poverty.: and possibly we may yet survive the unre.: kitting malice and unscrupulous attacks of " religious " newspapers. I am your obedient servant, CECIL WRAY, Incumbent of St. Martin's. MORE PAUPER IMMIGRATION FROM IRELAND. We noticed last week the increasing influx of paupers from the sister island, and remarked that those now arriving were of the worst class, and never likely, if indeed willing, to become a self-supporting population. This week we have to notice a further arrival of 1723 men, 935 women, and 475 children—in all 3133 persons, which make up the number, from the Ist to the 24th, of 11,772 persons, against 10,369; the total arrivals in all September. A still worse feature than any which we have hitherto noticed, we learn from Mr. Dowling, our head constable, attends the present immigra tion: Not only are the bulk of them of the most confirmed description of paupers, ragged, filthy, and half starved, but from the. moment of their arrival, the women and children especially, commence the practice of petty pilfer.: ing around our docks and in our streets. They surround the carts and waggons, laden with cotton, or make their way to the bales as they are landed on the quays, or are hoisted into the warehouses, in such swarms, end with such determination, that it is found impossible to prevent portions of the contents being abstracted ; and it is lament able to find that such booty, notwithstanding the recent restrictive regulations, is received by some of the marine store-keepers. They are still more eager in their attempts upon any thing in the shape of food—wheat, Indian corn, &c. ; and as it is well known how large a portion of the warehousemen of the town and the porters about our docks are Irish, the public will not be surprised to learn that, in many instances they are rather encouraged than suppressed by these parties in their depredations. The police, we understand, with all their vigilance—and how active that vigilance is, may be judged from the fact that fourteen parties were brought up last week by one officer —cannot, efficiently protect the vast masses of property scattered over our fourteen miles of lineal dock space, or, in course of transit through our streets, from such an in vasion of pilferers ; and how to get rid of them it is not not easy to see ; for they do not as last year, present themselves to receive - relief, and thus enable us to send them back to their own country. To a number of those brought up on Saturday at the Police-court, Mr. Rushton put the question whether they were wishful to be sent back to their own country. In every case, how-: , ever, an evasive answer was returned ; and the magistrate sent them to gaol for a month, intimating his determina ' thin to continue this course at the risk of filling our pri sons, if steps were not taken to remove this nuisance and cruel burthen bpon the inhabitants oftlie borough. That to the bulk of the prisoners thus committed, im prisonment in a gaol is no punishment, may be inferred from the fact that, as fast as they. have been released , hitherto, they' have rushed to the commission of some: petty crime to entitle them to a few week's more of the! comfortable lodging and good food which any one of. our .gaols affords, compared with .the wretchedness to which they have been accustomed. The women, we are assured, seem to think their quarters quite enviable ; the only punishment to which they object being the necessity of performing the necessary ablutions insisted upon ! Un fortunately we possess no means in our borough prison of either classifying them, or setting them to any labour of a character and severity to make confinement distasteful to a class proverbially lazy, confirmed in filthiness, and satisfied with any lot which affords a supply of merely animal wants. COLLISiON'LAST NIGHT OWING TO THE TEMPESTUOUS WIND, The fine packet-ship Brooklyn, of Boston, lying oppo site the Prince's Pier, was run foul of by the New York ship, Patrick Henry, and her bowsprit and mainstay completely carried away. Some little anxiety was,mani fested yesterday for the safety of the Brooklyn, a tug boat being required to keep :ler up to her moorings, from the swell of the tide and the force of the wind, which from the top of her mainstay must ultimately have car ried away her masts. Fortunately, from the exertion used, she was conveyed to a place of safety. THE CUSTOMS' REVENUE OF THE PORT OF LIVERPOOL. The Customs' Revenue of Liverpool for the quarter ended 10th October, again exhibits a decrease as com pared with the corresponding quarter of last year, as might have been anticipated in the present unfavourable position of commercial and monetary affairs. The re ceipts for the two years were as follows :- 1846. 1847. July August .... 324,263 Sep. £1,016,383 £871,570 Showing a deficiency on the quarter ended 10th October of £144,813. The total receipts of the three quarters from Jan. sth have been in 1846, £2,754,308 ; and in 1847, 0n1Y'£2,497,809. The deficiency on the 9 months is, there= fore £256,499. In the April quarter we had an increase of £46,638 over the corresponding quarter of 1846. llence the falling off in the last two quarters has been £303,137. We had also an increase of about £70,000 in the quarter ended Jan. sth, 1847, which reduces the year's deficiency to £186,409 ; bUt at the same time shews that the last two quarters have decreased £373,137. In the quarterly return of the revenue for the kingdom published in our last, the receipts for the year exhibited an increase of £267,224. There was, however, a decrease on the quarter ended Oct. 10th of £374,108. Assuming the deficiency for the kingdom during the past two quar ters to have been growing in the same ratio as the dcfi 'ciency in Liverpool, we may expect to see the next yearly statement for the four quarters shewing, instead of a small increase, made' up by the greater productiveness of the January and April quarters, a large deficiency • we fear, unless some great alteration takes place immediately in the state of our commercial affairs, of something approach ing to a million. - CHOLER 4.--We - regret to state that a letter was received yesterday, by a medical gentleman at Birkenhead, an ,. nouneing that a soldier died at Dublin on Saturday of Asiatic choler?. EVERTON WARD.—Last night a very enthusiastic meet ing of the electors of this ward was held at Halliday's Coffee-house, at, which resolutions were unanimously passed, pledging the meeting to use every exertion to so- I cure Mr. G. G. Hornby's election. The. chairman, Mr. Kerford, stated•that no such meeting of electors or com mittee of the ward, to withdraw Mr. Hornby, as stated in the Mail, had been held. Mr. Stone said that he - wished it - to go forth to the public, that since he , had made in- I quiries as to the cause of Mr. Hornby's separation from .Great George Ward, he was very desirous of withdrawing all objection to Mr. Hornby, and he was now very much in favour of Mr. Hornby. A QUESTION FOR ONE LEARNED IN THE LAWS OF CHANCE.—A very interesting question may be started with respect to the money withdrawn last week from the banks,—viz.,.how much of it will ever find its way back again, and escape being stopped in transitu ? The yielding disposition of tender fathers and husbands will have to be calculated, and their ability ascertained to withstand such solicitations as the following :—" Pa, do buy Jemima and myself new dresses, now that you've been so fortunate as to get your money from that horrid bank ;" " Pa, I saw such a love of a shaw l a t Scurfields ;" or, "My dear, I'm sure we might treat ourselves with a new carpet for the drawing-room," &c., &c. The acti-' vity of the light - fingered - fraternity, together with the natural tendency of pocket-books to slip from the owners' pockets, (an occurrence which, very provokingly, almost always happens at a time when something valuable is in them.) ought also to be considered. We suspect that the result would prove that it would have been rather wiser in all parties to let their deposits remain where they were, snd allowing interest to be accruing, than to have them übmitted either to' the domestic or other process of attenuation, with the risk, besides, of their disappearing altogether.. THE WEATHER.—Daring the past week the _weather was rather broken, but occasionally favourable for field operations, and the sowing of wheat has been. proceeded with. A considerable breadth of land on both sides of the. Mersey yet, however, remains to receive• the seed. On Saturday night a very heavy shower' of rain mingled with rain fell. in the neighbourhood—wind strong from the northward. Sunday morning was tine ; but the af . ternoon squally with rain, and about four o'clock we had a heavy downfal of rain and hail proceeded by thundeid, and accompanied by squalls from the nortlf. west. The night was somewhat stormy throughout, but the moon generally bright. 'Yesterday was a fine dry day. The farmers are busy getting up their turnips,,which in this quarter are a fair but not very heavy crop: We had full . moon on Saturday, and have since had very 'high tides—. yesterday twenty.feet four inches by the almanack, (the highest of the year, with the exception of that. of the 26th of September) and it probably rose high from the pressure of a strong N. W. wind. The Irish Channel has been very rough for some days, so that not a .few iiarties, have been deterred _frprn crossing. The weather . is, however, seasonable, and we have heard of no damage on shore, or in the outward approaches to the harbour. SAD.RESULT OF THE CIIANOn OF THE. TirdEs.—The porter of the Liverpool Stock R7schange is said to be ex cessively affected , by the wearisomeness of his .posi tion. A year or two' ago there .was some fun going on. Mery . was something •steirit.stirring-in the very Babel-like inharmoniousness of the sounds, which reached him at his pollboutside the door, at the close of morning or afternoon meeting. Cries of " Buy Great Westerns"—"Sell Dover quarters"— " Buy Dutch Rhenish"—" Seven and a half premium" —" Any Royal Assurance ?"—" oldham"- - . - ‘ Bur— " Two and a Half"—" Diddlesex"—" Junctions"— "Great Direct"—"Circumbenclibusm—" Squawbash"— " A hundred"—with ever and anon a peal of laughter, as some merry speculator bonnetted a member, or split his coat up to the collar, broke cheerily upon his ear. At present, however, it is a Monotonous " Sell"—" Sell"-- " Sell"—from the beginning to the end of the list—a " Sell" altogether, and no buyers. The dreariest part of the infliction is the occasional horrible effort of some mem ber to get up a laugh, which seems to freeze in his throat ; and it is little less distressing to his feeling to witness the attempts of the various members to stop the growing elongation of their faces, and to look cheerful, as they emerge from the room without a transaction pencilled in their books. We would suggest to the members to fur nish the poor fellow with something to amuse himself when on duty.. An occasional game of leap frog in the area, with some of .the junior *members, would, perhaps, enliven his spirits and theirs as well. WHAT MERCHANTS AND TRADESMEN MUST DO FOR, THEMSELVES, AND THE PUBLIC FOR BOTH. We communicated in, our last the unsuccessful result of the applieation for aid• made to Government and to the Bank by the deputation from the Royal. Bank. Since then another deputation, accompanied by the Mayor, appointed to make an appeal to the authorities on behalf of the inte rests of the commercial community at large, has had an interview with the Premier, the Chancellor of the Exche quer;and Mr. Labouchere, the result of which tends only to satisfy us that these Ministers are determined to adhere strictly to the provisions of the present law, and to leave the whole commercial and social fabric of the country to be prostrated in the dust, as they must inevitably be, unless some favourable circumstances occur to mitigate the present pressure. We have been relieved, it is true i from considerable uneasiness by'the assistance afforded by the bank to Messrs. Littledale and Co. ; and, some san guine persons have thence• drawn rather unwarrantable conclusions as to the disposition of that body generally towards the commercial world. In relieving the firm in question the bank has merely secured to itself an excellent and legitimate account, which any private or joint-stock bank would have, been glad to have received had it been in possession of funds in' sufficient amount to conduct it satisfactorily. All these concurrent circumstances justify us in coming to the conclusion that we may expect neither aid nor sympathy in our sufferings from Government, and that,' to use the language of the writer of the city article of the London Times—almost a semi-official authority—we must be satisfied " to let things return to their proper channel —to that steady course of pressure which, during the whole of the present year, would never have been inter rupted but for the bad banking of the Bank, and which must go on until it has entirely crushed the Railway mania and these people" (who ?) " know their fate." In plainer language, we are to submit, for a period not very intelligibly defined, to a pressure which narrowing the streams of commerce, and decreasing daily the produc tive industry of 'the country, spreads insolvency and pauperism over the face of the land. Let us see, then, what resources we possess to protect ourselves, and those dependent upon us, from at least the extreme of suffering, which such an ordeal might involve. In the first place, it is clear that prudent men will, as far as possible, avoid entering into new engagements, beyond the immediate necessities of the time. For exam ple, that this country, we are told, was to have become a kind of store-house for grain and other commodities which other countries produce beyond their own wants, and we may shortly expect to see the bread stuffs of the Ameri can continent and of Europe pouring into our ports. As, however, our working population are to be put upon short commons, and our own harvest has been more than an average one, we cannot consume those imported bread stuffs. As little can we afford to advance upon and store them in our granaries, so long as the banks discount only such short-dated paper as may be almost regarded as cash; and the foreign importer must therefore be told when he arrives to , trip anchor , and carry his cargoes to other markets, whose merchants are more .fortunately circum stanced. It will be quite as much as , is likely to be in our power if we can receive the produce furnished us by our colonists, or such imports as are sent in remittance for British goods,- or, in which British merchants or the foreign connections are interested. We are quite aware that from this process of contrac tion much mischief may ensue amongst our working po pulation and the small traders in our towns. To some extent, however, this may be prevented by the establish ment of a little confidence amongst ourselves, and for bearance one towards another. Let the deposits, which have been withdrawn from our banks, and are now hoarded and lying useless in private heads, be restored ; and those establishments thus enabled to supply the legitimate wants of the trading community. The extent of the re lief,which might thus be afforded, it is of course impossi ble to estimate very closely. But it is probable that in Liverpool alone, if such deposits were returned, and the banks could be assured against the recurrence of the in discriminating panic, which has compelled them to hold in their coffers so large an amount of specie and bank notes to meet. it, something very near a million sterling might be set free, and.the means furnished to avast num ber of perfectly solvent tradesmen to fulfil with their neighbours their mutual engagements. Especially, in such a crisis as the present, it ought to be regarded as a bounden duty by all who are in possession of the means, to strain every nerve to pay promptly those whose claims, because of the apparent insignificance of their amount, and partly from habit and thoughtlessness, have been accustomed to be postponed. Many an in dustrious tradesman, with means sufficient for the conduct of his business, is, at this moment, at a loss to know whence the money is to come for the payment of the next Saturday's wages to his work-people ; and is pre medititing a reduction of his establishment, or, possibly, distressing the humbler classes of his customers, rather than offend, by asking for their long overdue accounts, those to whom their prompt payment is not an object worthy of notice. We know of nothing that would diffuse a greater amount of comfort abroad amongst our indus trious working people, and tradesmen, than a prompt attention at the present time, by the affluent, to the claims of these cla sea upon their sympathy. STATE CiF DUSINESS IN LTVETtPOOL DEPRECIATED PRICES OF THE PROPERTY OF . THE COUNTRY DURING THE PRESENT YEAR'. We propose here to endeavour to convey to our readers an idea of the extent of the depreciation which has taken place in the property of the country since the commencement of the present year; and of the sacrifices which must have been made by its owners of all-classes. To do this it will not be necessary for us to take more than a few leading staples, the prices of which we shall give at three periods, the first week in the year, the first week in July, and the middle of October. We might have carried it down to the past week ; but under the circumstances of the local excitement prevailing, in addition to the general pressure, and the transactions having been in , ignificant at very irregular prices, the result would have been scarcely a fair one. PRICES OF THE FOLLOWING ARTICLES OF PRODUCE IN THE FIRST WEEKS OF JAN., JULY, AND OCT. (From the Liverpool Brokers' Circular.) Jan. 1 July 2. Articles COFFEE, per cwt. in bond Jamaica good fine & ord middling • go( d middling Brazil ordinary mid. to fine mid. Corrox per lb. Boweds. fair to good fair 71-d 7yd /7,11 /7i New Orleans do 7l 8 Mt /71 Sea Islands do l5 16 /16 /18 FLoun per 1961b5. U. S. new, x duty Do. sour ...... 30/1 32/1 29/ 30/ Canadian new 34/ 36/ 30/ 34/ WHEAT, Eng. red p. 701bs 45/ 55/ 58 65 70 90 27 30 42 60 Oct. 15. 50/ 63/- 65/ 85/ 65/ 85/ 28/ 33/ 42/ 70/ 40/ 50/ 55/ 80/ 55/ 80/ 28/ 33/ , 42/ 70/ / 5 1 . / 5 1 / 6 k / 6 1 /12/ /141 26/ 27/ 21/ 22/ 25/ 25/6 x duty. • Canada. Foreign OIL Palm per ton. Pale Seal Galipoli SUGAR, Brit. Plan., p cwt. Muscovado middling.. good .... Mauritius brown .. good & fine yellow E.I. Bengal low to mid. good to fine yellow Manilla, duty paid.... Havannah yellow, d 0... Brazil yellow, d 0... 9/3 10/ 9/6 10/6 1 7/6 8/4 8/9 10/ 8/9 10/ I 6/ 7/ 7/10 10/ 8/ 11/3 4/ 8/6 770/ 780/ 740/ 750/ 600/ 620/ nominal 540/ 550/ 560/ 960/ 970/ 920/ 920/ 940/ 960/ 46/ 48/ 1. 39/6 42/6 37/6 40/ 49/ 51/ 43/6 45/6 41/ 43/ 42/ 43/ 36/ 38/ 33/ 35/ 48/ 52/ 42/ 47/ • 40/ 45/ 44/ 46/ 41/ 43/ 36/ 40/ 50/ 52/ 44/ 45/ 46/6 48/ 43/ 47/ 40/ 43/ 37/ 40/ 48/ 54/ , 44/ 47/ 43/ 46/ 45/ 48/: 42/ 45/ 40/ 42/ PRICES OF LEADING RAIL" VAY STOCK IN THE FOLLOWING S OF 1847. MONTH THE LIVERPOOL STANDARD. 'VESTE n DAY. The gloom and anxiety which hung over our commer cial community during the greater part of last week, ap peared towards the close to be decreasing ; and the ac counts from Manchester, in particular, were of a decidedly more favourable character on Saturday. The official an nouncement yesterday of the stoppage of the North and South Wales Bank, which we have noticed elsewhere, once more revived the feeling of uneasiness amongst com-. I. mercial classes ; for, although the Bank in question. is not one which has a very large business in Liverpool, ex- , cept amongst tradesman connected with the Principality, ' the slightest thing suffices to check confidence, at a time like the present. The announcement of the failure of the Union Bank of Calcutta has also added to ; the prevailing panic ; and until the bearing of that failure, and.of the stoppage of the firm of Scott, Bell, and C0.,,0f London, upon our community is more fully ascertained, ;it is scarcely prudent to speculate upon the contingencies' lwhich may ensue. In the meantime the small amount of business which :was transacted yesterday was done on most unfavourable terms for the sellers. Our usual correspondent writes of the cotton market as follows : " CorroN MARKET, GCT. 25.—A good demand for cotton to-day, but only in small parcels ; consumers have no confidence even in present rates being maintained, and are not anxious buyers. 2,500 bales sold at last week's prices. Holders meet the market freely, and submit to a daily loss of about £7,000 in money." The feeling amongst our corn merchants yesterday was affected in some measure by the suspension of the. North 'and South Wales Bank; but the princiPal circumstance which induced a tendency to submit to easier terms was the circumstance of most of the advices from the country markets bringing notice of declining rates. Of course Monday is not a day in which much actual business is done ; but the tone of the trade on that day frequently affords a very fair criterion; from which to judge of the feeling of the market at its opening. We are not in a position to announce any definite in formation as to the Royal Bank or the Liverpool Banking Company. The latter still keeps open for the transaction of all business except the payment of checks ; and the Directors of the Royal are still hopeful of procuring sup plies sufficient to enable them again to open their doors. Birk., Lan., & Cheshire Chester and Birkenhead Eastern Counties... , Edinburgh and Glasgow-I Great North of England Great Western London and N. Western London and. 8. Western Midland Northern and Eastern South Eastern and Dover • York and North Midland FOREIGN. Dutch Rhenish Paris and Orleans ..... Paris and Rouen BANKS. Bank of L'pool, pd. £124-! Borough Bank „ 10 Commercial „ 10 L'pool Banking Co. 10 M. and L. District 10 N. and S. Wales „ 10 Royal Bank „ 500 Union Bank „ 10 Jan. 1 June 1. 4 44- 34 4 (2-1 pd.) (54- Pd•) 50 51 42 422 23 231 19* 20 77 78 ..69 71 237 239 232 234 128 130 113 115 195 197 174 . • 176 63 64 64* 651: ,129 131 .119 121 174 76 60 62 . 40 41 36.1 361 92 94 85 86 Oct. 1. 11 1i (61 pd.) 35 - } 36 16 161 50 51 220 222 '9B 100 1511 1531 56 57 111 113 59 GO 29 291 (x div.) ilto Stock 41 51- 4k 4a (6 pd.) 481 491481 49 35 36.37 38 22 21 (7 pd.) • 47. 48 36 361 23 231 201 201 20 2Ol 111 111 101 101' 94 92 171 181 16 16 141 154- 91 101 11 .111 91 10 131 13 121 12-4 12 .121 9 9 8 81- 88 81 805 815 810 820 770 780 121 'l3 111 111 94- 91 SCOTLAND WARD.-MEETING OF THE FRIENDS OF MR. WOODRUFF. Yesterday evening, a very numerous meeting of the friends of Mr. Woodruff. the Conservative Candidate for Scotland Ward, (in opposition to Mr. Thompson,) was held in the large room of " The Travellers' Rest Inn," Scotland-road, fOr the purpose of hearing Mr. W. explain to them the principles upon which he proposed to act, and of forwarding his election at the approaching contest. Air. THOMAS HODGSON was called to the Chair, and having explained the object of the meeting, pronounced a high eulogium on the public character and good offices in the Select Vestry, &c., of the candidate, whom he intro duced, and who was received with loud cheers. Mr. WOODRUFF said he was sensible that he was not Possessed of the full abilities to discharge his duties as their representative, and he would not have come forward but for the solicitations of many of his brother tradesmen, and, others in the ward; in which he had spent the greater part of his life. He alluded to the paving, lighting, and cleansing of the town, and to the sanatory bill recently obtained by the Corporation, and said he should support all measures relating thereto, that were not marked by extravagant expenditure. Due economy was at all times requisite, but especially at present, when the ratepayers were so much pressed. He had received great encourage ment in his canvas, and he trusted that being a resident of the ward, and consequently deeply interested in its prosperity, would be an additional recommendation in his behalf. Should they not deem him worthy of being their representative, he should, with the same feelings for the ward, retire within his domestic circle.—(Loud cheers.) The CH AIRMAN having stated that the ' candidate would answer any questions, several were put to him. Ist. Whether he would vote for Mr. T. B. Horsfall, if he were proposed as mayor. , 2nd. Whether he would vote for the opening of the Corporation schools for ;secular education, irrespective of religion. 3rd. Whether he was favourable to the admission to the schools of the clergy men of the several denominations to which the children belonged. To the first, he answered that he would vote for the man as mayor whom he considered would best pro mote the interests .of the town at large ; to the second, ." Decidedly no !" and to the third, " Certainly ! They had as good right as any of the burgesses." He was well received; and one of his strongest interrogators expressed himself perfectly satisfied with his-replies. A resolution was unanimously passed, acknowledging him a reformer of all real abuses, and a fit per - son to repre sent the ward ; and another pledging those present zea lously to support him. Mr. JAMES HOLME, being called upon by the chairman, spoke at considerable length on behalf of the candidate, noticing several large improvements that might be made in the town, and pointing to the candidate as having shown, by his conduct in the Vestry, that he was a prac tical man, of good common sense views, who would be a great acquisition to the Council in Promoting the welfare of the ward and the town at large. They wanted working, sensible men, and no addition oC , prators. Votes of thanks were passed to the Chairman and Mr. Holme, amidst enthusiastic applause. Three cheer; were given for the candidate, to which he feelingly replied, and all seemed to be prepared to give him their best support on Monday next. The meeting was the most enthusiastic of the ward meetings that have yet been held. The Bishop of London is said to be quite incapacitate for public duty, by an attack of paralysis. SUSPENSION OF A NEWCASTLE BANK.--The suspen sion of the Newcastle Union Joint-Stock Bank was an nounced on Thursday afternoon. The institution, it ap pears, opened at the usual hour, and business was continued until the arrival of the south mail, when the following was posted on the door :—" The Union Bank ing Company, in consequence of theeifficulty in the ob taining discount, are under the painful necessity of sus pending payment." Much excitement is said to prevail. The Union Bank was established 11 years back, with a paid-up capital of £152,400, and not many months ago its shares, on which £5 were paid, were at £8 to 10. .The number of partners is 505. An unfavourable liquidation is expected, large advances, it is alleged, having been made on collieries and other property of that description. As in the other cases of Joint-stock bank suspensions which have just occurred, its London agents (Barnett and Co.) are entirely untouched by the event. LILLIPUTION EXPRESS ENGINE.—On Saturday, an experimental trial took place upon the. Eastern Counties Railway, to test the powers of a small locomotive engine of a novel description, designed. and constructed by Mr. Samuel, resident engineer of the Eastern Counties line. It is of two-horse power, runs upon four wheels, requires no tender, and not only carries sufficient fuel and water for its own consumption within the smallest possible dimensions, but is also capable of conveying seven,persons (besides the engineer and stoker) in the afterpart, which resembles an open Irish car. The total weight of this little locomotive !bijou is 22 cwt., its extreme length, in cluding boiler, Irish car, and all, is only 12 feet 6 inches, and the height from the rails to the floor of the engine is not more than one foot. At one time, the rate of travel ling was 43 miles per hour. It will be very useful for newspaper expresses, as, owing to the small consumption of coal, the company can afford to run the engine at one fourth the present charge for expresses: WHAT WILL MINISTERS DO FOR COMMERCE ?—The Times of yesterday contains a curious article, from which' we extract the following. Our contemporary does not seem to write as if his opinions 'were official ; but that -- is his usual custom :" Notwithstanding the multitude of project§ for reforming the currency, and the quantity of talk with which they are recommended, there is only one question really before the public. It is conceivable, though we believe most improbable, that a moderate addi tion should be made to the £14,000,000 formin_g the in convertible basis of the Bank of England issue. Undoubt edly there are many who shrink with proper horror from a return to the depreciated - paper of the war currency, and who would never give up the principle of using only such notes as are the actual and efficient representatives of gold ; but who, nevertheless, have such confidence in the credi t of the country as to think that the above step would not violate this principle. They think that the country, even now, could bear an inconvertible circulation of Bank of England paper to the amount of £16,000,000 as well as £14,000,000; and that, in point of fact. this addition to the liabilities of the bank would not entail the probability of a run for its gold. Should the proposition ever come to be seriously extertained, and gain more influential ad herents than it boasts of at present, there would then be some scope for variety of opinion as to the manner in which this increase of circulation should be effected. Such a change would certainly require some additional security for the public credit, and would also justify a change of hands. So large an addition to the resources and influ ence of the bank would not be universally palatable. Dis missing, however, these subsidiary questions, we will sim ply put the question of two or three millions of paper lent to the commerce of the nation," . LATEST INTELLIGENCE. (BY EXPRESS LONDON CORN MARKET.—YESTERDAY. The best-conditioned parcels of English Wheat met a fair demand at about Friday's prices, being 2s. per quarter under the quotations of last Monday; but damp samples were taken slowly at a greater reduction. A moderate sale was experienced for Foreign Wheat at la. to 2s. per quarter below the currency of last week; factors on the whole showed much firmness under the existing monetary, pressnre, and there were no forced sales at this day's market.; Town-made Flour was unaltered in value, and ship marks 0 1 good quality were not offered lower ; but on foreign a deciin• of ls. per barrel was submitted to, and the sales made were quite as irregular as the qualities were various. Choice malting Barley brought nea-ly as much money,- but secondary sorts were Is per qr, cheaper, whilst grinding samplee brought full prices. • There was a fair steady demand for good Oats, at fully . a.S much money, but'other sorts were t a k en s l ow ly a t qu it e as high rates. Malt was not in so good demand, the buyers requiring some reduction in price, which for good qualities the seller§ were not disposed-to accept. Beans were suite, and fully as dear. MONEY MARKET-YESTERDAY. After the usual hour for closing the Stock Exchange on Satur day, the Consols ran up to 81i, and this morning they opened at per cent. advance upon that price, being done at 82 ; they declined to sit, and are now quoted at 821. 1n the foreign market prices are rather better. In the share market price are better. The`follovving are the quotations : ENOLISEL—Bank Stock, 181 4; Reduced Three per Cents.. 80 1 ; Three per Cent. Consols. 81 ; Three-and-a-Quarter per Cents., 81 ; Long Annuities, 8 3-16 ; India Stock, 221 0; India Bonds 40 51 dis. Exchecpter-bills, £1.003, 235. 275. (D s ' Coqsols Three per Cent. for Account, 82k. IMPORTANT RESOLUTION OF THE BANK OF ENGLAND. We have been favoured by the authorities of the Bank of England with the following copy of a letter addressed to the Governor and Deputy-Governor by the first Lor d of the Treasury and the Chancellor of the Exchequer Downing-street, October 25, 184 7 : 4 Gentlemen,--Her Majesty's government have see p ' the greatest regret the pressu re whi c h h as exist - ea 10V 90ne weeks upon the commercial interests of the country, Eau' that this pressure has been aggravated by a want of that confidence which is necessary for carrying on the ordinarl . dealings of trade. They have been in hopes that the check given to trans• actions of a speculative character, the transfer of capital from other,countries, the influx of bullion, and the feel ing which a knowledge of these circumstances might have been expected to produce. would have removed the pre veiling distrust. They were encouraged in this expectation by the speed!' ' cessation of a similar state of feeling in the month:of April last. Theg hopes have, however, been disappointed, and her, Majesty's government have come to the conclusion that the time has arrived when they oug It to attempt, by some extraordinary and temporary measure, to restore confi dence to the mercantile and manufacturing community, For this purpose they recommend to the Directors of the Bank of England, in the present emergency , to en large the amount of their discounts and advances, upon approved security ; but that, in order to retain this aope ration within reason a bl e limits, a high rate of inteit should be charged. In present circumstances they wok suggest that the rate of interest should not be less than per cent. If this course should lead to any infringement of the, existing law, her Majesty's government will be prepare' to propose to parliament, on its meeting, a Bill of Indem nity. They will rely upon the discretion of the directors ti reduce as soon as possible the amount of their notes, any extraordinary issues should take place, within the limits prescribed by law. Her Itlajesty's Government are of opinion that ant extra profit derived from this measure should be carried r to the account of the public, but the precise mode 0 1 doing so must, be left to future arrangement. Her Majesty's Government are not insensible of tli 6 evil of any departure from the law which has placed the currency of this country upon a sound basis ; but tiler feel confident, that in the present circumstances, the measure which they have proposed may be safely adopteclt and that, at the same time, the main provisions of th a law and the vital principle of preserving the controver" tibility of the bank may be fairly maintained.—We have the honour to be, gentlemen, your obedient humble servants, (Signed) . JOHN RUSSELL. CHAS. WOOD. The Governor and Deputy Governor of the Bank of England. Resolved,-1 hat this Court do accede to the recom mendation contained in the letter from the F i t, Lord of the Treasury and the Chancellor Of t n E o x r c h a n e q d u r, Deputycl ate d G ov this er i ts r y , o a f n t dh the d a r n e k s s o e f d E t n o g fa th: d , G w o h v i e cb r'' has just been read. That the minimum rate of discount on bills nSkffrilr : more than 95 days to run be 8 per cent. Stocic That advances be made on Bills of Exchange, on „, ms , Exchequer Bills, and other approved Securities, in sum of not less than £2OOO, and for periods to be fixed by L Governors, at the rate of 8 per cent per annum. (Copy of reply.) Bank of England, Oct. 1847. Gentlemen.—We have the honour to acknowledge yob letter of this day's date, which we have submitted to Or Court of Directors, and we enclose a copy of the resolt•-•* tion, and - We have the honour to be, Sirs, your most obedient servants', (Signed) JAMES MORRIS, Governor. ' • H. J. PRECOTT, Deputy-Governor. To the First• Lord of the Treasury and the Chancellor of the Exchequer. The Marquis. and Marchioness of Salisbury have ar rived at Hatfield House, Herts. Sir Robert H. Inglis, Bart., M.P., and Lady Inglis have arrived in Brussels from a tour in Germany. William Henry Barber, the attorney for Joshua Piet- 4 cher, in the celebrated "Emma Stack" will forgery ca se has received a conditional pardon. He is free to go to any - part of the" world, except the United Kingdom. But this is thought to be only a precursive step to an uncon ditional pardon. STOPPAGE OF THE NORTH AND SOUTH WALES BANK. It is with the very greatest regret that we have this week to announce the suspension of the North and South Wales Bank. This is altogether owing to the injudicious con duct of these who, rushing for their deposits, are only seriously increasing the disastrous effects of the present commercial panic, and are the means of causing serious burt and annoyance to those who have more confidence and consideration. We are informed that statements to the prejudice of the bank were industriously circulated, . last week, throughout the whole of North and South Wales, and that the apparent confirmation of them by a , paragraph which appeared in the London Express, of Friday, caused such a feeling in the districts alluded to as resulted in a simultaneous rush upon the deposits of the bank throughout the principality, and compelled the au thorities of the concern to determine upon a suspension, ,an event which is formally announced to the creditors I and others in the following manner :- 1 " North and South Wales Bank, " Liverpool, 25th October, 1847. , " A most cruel and groundless report, which got into circulation in the principality early last week, has caused a run upon the deposits of this bank of that magnitude which, in the present restricted state of the money mar ket, it is impossible to meet. The directors, therefore, are under the pairiful necessity of suspending the opera tions of the bank. . . " In the meantime the directors beg to assure the cre ditors of the bank that every exertion will be made to liquidate the i r claims •at the earliest possible period; arid that no apprehension need be entertained of any ultimate loss on the part of the creditors." Meanwhile those who can surmount the temporary em barrassments necessarily consequent on such • an event have not the slightest reason to, be alarmed. We leain 'from gbod authority, that the bank is, notwithstanding the temporary. 'derangement of its affairs, arising from the causes above alluded to, really in a very sound and good condition. • . We understand that the directors met yesterday, brit we believe that no definite step was resolved onl indeed, it will he at once perceived; that as the 'branches of the bank are twenty-one- in . number, some little ,time :may elapse before the directors are able to make public the result of their deliberations. The affairs of the branch were, we are informed, considered very satisfactory ; and I whilst we can new assure all the creditors of a eomplete liquidation of their claims, we hope next week to announce a resumption of its payments. LIME-STREET WAED.—Mr. J. A. Picton has come forward for this ward in opposition to Mr. J. B. L!oyd, the present member, who is again a candidate, and whom we hope to see returned. . Mr. Fonblanque' for many years connected with the weekly press, has been appointed to the office in the Statistical Department of the Board of Trade, vacant led by the promotion of Mr. Porter to the place formerly til by Mr. Lefevre. 'BOILER EXPLOSION.—On the morning of Thursday last a fearful boiler explosion, by which four persons we re killed and a. number, severely injured, took place at the New Hay Mills, near Two• Bridges, about two miles from the town of Rochdale, the property of Mr. Samuel Berry, a woollen manufacturer. . . Oct. 26, ISO._ SHIPPING INTELLIGEI,TCE.- MONDAY, 25th Ocron ER.—Wind f ro m --- ARRlVED.Lancaster, from Bahia—Finland, Brown, .., New Orleans—Tar, from Philadelphia—Bona lies, and Milli_ cete, Hunter, (sailed Ist October,) from Quehec—ThornleYs from Black Sea—Duke of Wellington, M`Lean, from Honda's! —Unicorn, Thain, from St. John, N. 8.; sailed sth Oct.—and Flirt, Poustic, from Antigua. • • A large timber-laden ship, waterlogged, with close-reefed maintopsail set, and ensign union down, apparently newly abandoned, and with " Virginius" on the stern, was passed on , 11th October, in lat. 42, long. 42, by the Duke of Wellington', arrived here.—Mem.—The ship Virginius cleared at Quebe' 11th Sept., for this port. The Brooklyn, for Calcutta, must return into dock, having lost her head and boWsprit, by collision with the Patrick Henry . ' for New York. The latter did pot sustain any damage. LIVERPOOL CATTLE MARKET, OcT. 25. We have had a smaller supply of all kinds of stock at oar • market to-day than of late, the whole or nearly so of inferior quality, which was sold at fully our late statement. „,. BIRTH. 0 On the 23rd instant, the Lady of WILLIAM COLT 3 Esq., Hamilton-square, Birkenhead, of a son. SALLE AU MANGER PUBLIQUE. CAFE FRANCAIS ET RESTAURANT' CLAYTON-SQUARE. BILL OF FARE, THIS DAY, (TUESDAY.) ' Soups.—Hare, Mock Turtle, Mutton Broth, Julienne. Fisn.—Stewed Eels, Soles, Cod and Oyster Sauce, Whiting' , „• One o'Clocic.—Brained Rump Beef, Spanish Onions, Roast . Goose, Saddle of Mutton. Two o'Clock.—Boiled Turkey and Tongue, Celery Sauce, liar' ricot Mutton. Three o'Ciock.—Rump Steak and Kidney Pie, Fricassee of • Chicken, Minced Veal. Pour o'Clock.—Roast Beef, Boiled Rabbits and Onions, yeal Olives, and Tomato ..• - ',auce. Fire o'Clock.—Boiled. Leg of Mutton, Roast Pork, Soutie of Beef. Six o'ClOck.,--Juggedf: N ai v : E e_ D ,r N w ouu a s s r t so 3 .A l l u , t . ton, Cotelettes, Sc. Sweets, as usual. - •• Julienne, Ox Tail zz Mulliwataury, Hare. Haddocks, Soles, Cod and Oysters, Whitings. Odle o'clock.—Boiled Rdund Beef, Roast Turkey and Sausages Veal and Ham Pie. Two o'clock.—Haunch Mutton, Veal Olives, Boiled Rabbit moll Onions, Minced Beef. Three o'clock.—.—itoast Pork, Pigeon Pie, Harricot Mutton. Four o'clock.—Boiled Leg of Mutton, Roast Goose, &c. Five o'clock.—Roast Beef, Cot elettes, &e. Six o'cloek.—Venigon Vasty, Roast Hare. A DINNER OF SOUP, JOINT, CELERY, AND CHEESE:, FOR EIGHTEENPENCE !! Half-pint of fine .Amontillado Sherry, or full-flavoured Fort, Is. ; Pint, 2s. ; Quart, 4s. Cup of Coffee, 4d. ; witliToast or Muffin, Gd. Plain Tea or Coffee, Is. Ladies will find the Restaurant a most respeetalale . House call at for Refreshnient. LONDON OYSTERS received daily, 75. per Barrel, or 4a. per Score. The acknowledged superiority of the London OysterS, re the difficulty of obtaining them regularly even in this g, commercial town, has induced the Proprietor to arrange wi t s one of the first Fishmongers of Billingsgate, from whom Il* daily receives AN ABUNDANT SUPPLY OF THE NATIVES; but, as all the Liverpool Journals have eulogised them, Mr. x , submits their recommendation rather than his own "A dish of the finest oySters we ever remember to Lave seen or tasted. We can honestly recommend them."—Mercur.V: " We can safely vouch for their fine condition and excellent flavour. Better cannot certainly be had in London or else , where."—Standard. A PRIVATE ROOM FOIL DINNER PARTIES. ' LIVERPOOL: TUESDAY, OCT. 26, 1847. PRINTED AND PUBLISHED EVERY TUESDAY MORNINGS By JOSHUA FLETCHER LACE, of 53, Grove street, and• LEONARD ADDISON, of 14, Great Orford-street, At No. 4, ST, GRoaog's CRESCENT, LIVERPOOL. . 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