The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser. — Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1844-01-09 00:00:00

TO CORRESPONDENTS. The letter of " Clio" was certainly scarcely fit for the printers' hands ; but we have unfortunately mislaid it. We have received for the oa'iler Libention Fund— From Mr. Thomas Ball. Whitechapel....l.7o 10 0 A few Friends at the Railway Eogine Works.. 0 8 6 Mr. Ezekiel Mason.. 'We have not, we regret to say, yet been able to discover • Mr. Rawlinson's letter. We regret this the more, as we think it would be of essential service, especially at the present moment. A corespondent wishes to learn, from some one versed in historical lore, on iv hat precise day King William 111. land , din Ire'ar:d. Sonic works state it to be on the sth of November (1688), hut the almanacks generally date the evetit on the 4.6. It is held by others that the vessel anchored nn the 4th, but that the royal landing did not take place until the following morning. "A Lover of Fair Dealing" wishes to know why " the balance of money collected tor the formation of the Junior Clob has not been returned to the subscribers." Our correspondent uses some rather severe expres sions in his letter, hut we !lupe that an insertion of his query will produce an authorised reply which will be Oatisfactory to hint. "A Constant header" is desirous of ascertaining, from the Directors of the Liverpool and Ma hchestet Railway, how the redecti: n of the XlO,OOO effected in the dis rhursements of the company, tor the halt . year ending January last, hid been accomplished; fur be says, "that rerhaps there might still be further deductions made." Had the writer furnished us with his name, we should have been glad to have inserted his commu nication. • kitterpotil Alanbatt. TUESDAY MOHAING, JAN. g, 1844 From the proceedings of the law officers of the Crown, and the traversers to the indictments for conspiracy in Ireland, which will he found in ano ther column, it will be seen that the question as to the legality of the repeal agitation is at length about to be set at rest. The government is evidently in earnest. The trials will commence on Monday next, the day originally appointed ; and already, amidst the blustering threats of the conspirators that an almost indefinite procrastination of the result is within their power, may be perceived the quailing of spirit with which they look upon their position —may be heard the initiatory howl which is to ring through the length. and breadth of Ireland when the law shall have told their doom. Thus far, the leading ground of complaint by the Radical organs is, that the Jaw officers of the Crown, in exercising their right of striking off the twelve names from the original panel of forty-eight, have struck off nine or ten Roman Catholics and pre sumed Repealers. It would, indeed, have been a marvel if they had not done so, remembering the energetic efforts made by the Repeal Association to swamp that panel with an influx of their own crea tures, and the open boasts indulged in that the starving-out system was to be successfully applied to the defeating of the ends of justice. But the traversers themselves had the right, as well as the Crown, of striking out twelve names ; and what was their selection ? Was a Liberal Protestant or a Roman Catholic amongst the twelve ? No ! The parties objected to by them were exclusively Con servatives ; and, so far as the fact could he ascer tained, the most independent and resolute Conser vatives upon the list. It may be objected, indeed, and no doubt much will be attempted to be made of the circumstance, that of the twenty-four names remaining on the panel, and from which a jury must be struck, the whole are Protestant; and, it may be, of Conserva tive principles. But what does this show beyond the fact that the wealth and respectability of the city of Dublin contains amid its ranks a proud predomi nance of loyalists and Protestants ? That such men will not return "a true verdict according to the evidence," upon these or any other trials, no candid man can doubt for a moment. 'We return again to the subject, upon which we remarked briefly in our last; viz. the depressed condition of the working women of England : and now, according to our promise, we propose to enter I more fully into its details, and the course to be I adopted for its alleviation. Its cure, alas, is beyond ' our hopes ! We have said already that to the intense selfish ness of our nature, and to the love of apparent " cheapness," which a false political philosophy has encouraged, is to be attributed the greater portion of the sufferings, which the female workers of the nation are doomed to undergo. Unhappily, there I can be no refutation of the fact. The gradual ope ration of these causes, and the corresponding depre ciation of the condition of the poor throughout the land, may be distinctly traced through the last five and-twenty years. Such depreciation has gone, ' step by step, with the growth of that system of reck less competition in trade, which our mania for cheap —as distinguished from good—commodities has originated. It has been aided by the influx of a struggling population into our large towns, in which the market for labour was already glutted ; and by the disposition of our puffing traders to resort—and indeed Eke necessity of their resorting—to those cen tral delaks of capital and surplus labour for their supplies of cheap goods. Beyond this, and tempted by the same cheapness, which abundant capital and the command of over-abundant labour tend to pro duce, those traders are brought to embark in the retailing of goods, quite opposed in their nature to those which it is their legitimate occupation to vend. Who hears, now, for instance, in our country towns, of straw bonnet making, millinery, and other exclu sively female avocations, occupying profitably the wives or the daughters of our working poor or mid dle classes ? The flash trader has a supply of all these articles, direct from London or Manchester, the production of the poor suffering Helots, who toil in garrets or cellars for the pittance which a whole sale house permits them to earn ; and, by pursuing the cutting system—viz. by selling articles at less than cost price, to draw custom for other articles — is enabled to undersell, and finally to ruin, the poor sempstresses who depend upon a fair profit for their bread. To what market go the thousands of dozens of shirts, collars, &c., weekly made by the starving females in the metropolis ? They deprive of the means of life thousands of poor females throughout the country t We heard last week of one large con cern in Manchester—supported, in all probability, b y so me bubble joint-stock bank—which produces weekly a thousand dozen of ladies' caps. How many dozen pair of hands does such a leviathan producer render idle ? And for what ends is all this misery created ? That a flash shop may puff its little hour ; a capitalist add some hundreds to his annual earnings, and that the giddy, the thought less—shall we not add the unfeeling ?—of both sexes, m a y save a mere trifle in articles of usefulness or finery, and be able to boast of imaginary " bar gains," whilst they pay an amount, more than equal to their fancied saving, in the shape of a poor's rate, to support the victims of their senseless avarice ! We would have our fel l o w - countrywomen to dis courage this irregular tra f fic of the retailer. Let them reflect that his " ten thousand dozen of straw bonnets bought for cash," and all that sort of thing —the clearing out of the old stock of some whole sale warehouse—or the hundred dozen of stays (soiled) " to be sold at 50 per cent. below cost price," are only baits thrown out to lure them to the pur chase of other articles. And yet for no profit—as a mere pretext to enable him to boast of his cheap ness—the puffing trader is perhaps consigning to idleness for a season the needles of a hundred poor families, and at the same time permanently reducing the remuneration of their future industry. But there are other circumstances contributing to produce the wretchedness which we deplore amongst our industrious female population. Our public in ' stitutions, we fear, are not guiltless in this matter. Three weeks or a month ago we brought before our readers the case of a wretched woman, w ho had died in St. Pancras workhotase, having, almost to the last day of her life, employed herself within its walls in shirt -making, fOr which the munificent authori ties allowed her the sum of—A FARTHING EACH ! Y s : in a Christian country—under a Conservative government (!)—a knot of heartless parish functiona ries are enabled, by the stringency of a diabolical system of poor laws, to draw around the wretched pauper the string of famine so tight, that she sub mits to a paltry farthing of remuneration for a day's labour, to earn as much as will purchase a few spent tea-leaves ! And whilst this screw is being applied— whilst this farthing is being doled out—what is the ' working of the " system, so far as the poor out of doors are concerned Why, this. By the reply of these same commissioners, to a letter addressed to them upon the subject, by the Poor-law Commis sioners, we are informed that for the last twelve years they have been in the habit of employing their female poor in the making of slop shirts, for which they have been in the habit of receiving, from some wholesale slopse}ler, the sum of 2s. per dozen, or twopence per shirt (!), out of which they magnani mously allowed the poor workers a farthing ! / They saved by this Course, for the benefit of the rich rate-payers of the streets and squares of St. Pancras—for the benefit of peers of the realm, rvern berg of Perliament, bankers, barristers, lawyers, and a flourishing shopocracy, seven farthings for each shirt made by the labour of the fingers of these poor destitute females. Oh r "liberal" humanity ! where is thy blush? The working, then, of this system, so far as regards the poor beyond the doors of a workhouse, is simply this :—lt drives them within its doors I The hard hearted usurer, who can get a parish to contract to do his work for so miserable a remuneration,. is not likely to give more to the poor sempstress out of doors. What reeks he for the fact that she Cannot live upon the pittance which he offers-her ? Shu can go to the workhouse, and there labour for him.- The very authorities most interested in the enabling of their poor to live by the work of their fingers, have themselves, in effect, fixed the maximu'm reward of labour; and that too at a price which entails misery upon the labourer ! St. Pancras, and nearly every other metropolitan union, have thus soMltheir poor to the Jewish slopseller ; and what wond.,r that famine, prostitution, child-murder, and profligacy, abound beneath the very eyes of England's ariSto- - cracy, and in the very seat of its wealth, or that the country is inundated with crime, and its industrious, rural, and town populations are involved in misery and poverty,--the effects of a forced competition with the cheap productions of these masses of op- , pressed and depreciated labour t Well, indeed—when we contemplate such ruin and wretchedness, wrought by ou- own selfishness and folly—might we address to the thoughtless and unthinking of our fellow-beings the appeal of the inimitable Hood, in a poem which ought to be immortal " Oh ! men with sisters dear r Oh ! men with mothers and, wives ! It is not linen you're wearing out,. But human creatures' lives. Stitch—stitch—stitch, In poverty, hunger, and dirt ; Sewing at once, with a double thread; A SHROUD AS WELL AS A SHIRT !" But is it only in workhcruses—beneath the cold, worldly eyes of the officials of Somerset House, and " liberal" hoards of guardians and vestrymen—that these atrocities are committed For the sake of human nature, would we could say "Yes!" But we cannot. Our very charities are tainted by such practices. Our Magdalene institutions—our peni tentiaries—our orphan asylums,—these, too, are operating to deteriorate the condition of the la bourer, and to favour the prevalent mania for " cheapness." We have, perhaps, in these no con tracts with Jew slopsellers—no shirt-making for a farthing or for twopence even; but we have cheap sewing, knitting, washing, and other labour for " lady patronesses," " committee-women," and " yearly subscribers." Many and many a guinea —we refer not to the charities of our own town, of whose working we do not know sufficient; hut to charitable institutions in general, and we shall be happy to hear that our own are amongst the excep tions—many a guinea, paraded before the world as the gift of charity, is, in a truly worldly sense, well upended And little does the poor penitent out cast, or the bereaved orphan know, when they are plying their busy needle upon the fine linen or em broidery of their humane female protectors, and be stowing upon their work the fruit of many a ma ternal lesson—recalling, perhaps, the memory of many a past hour of virtue and happiness—that they are contributing to drive others to the same vicious paths and the same unprotected wretched ness, from which they have been themselves hap pily released ! Little do they know that the meagre remuneration for which their lady-patronesses vend their labour to " very dear friends," or enjoy them themselves, is to be made the maximum remunera tion with which other women, otherwise unsup ported, are to buffet with the world, and maintain, in the paths of virtue themselves, and perhaps fami lies dependant upon them. This should not be. In charitable institutions, at least, it should not, un less we are bent upon making charity itself an empty bubble, and professing humanity a bye-word. We are quite ready to acknowledge that such in stitutions are not always capable of being self-sup ported. Besides, industrious avocations must be carried on in these establishments, for the employ ment and training in industry of those contained in them. But let these avocations, so far as the public out of door are concerned, be fairly paid for, at least to the institution itself, and their price not made, as at present, the convenient pretext for the selfish to screw down the remuneration of the independent labour which they employ. Genuine charity should spurn to profit by its own exercise ; and when we reflect upon the tendency which attempts so made must have upon the open market for labour, it is , surely a mockery to attempt the training, in indus- try and virtue, of those whom we affect to patronize, when the certainty is before us that, when they come forth from beneath our protection, to struggle with the world, they cannot live by the avocations which we have taught them! The subject is not exhausted ; but for the presen' we must now pause. If anything could reconcile us to the conversion of such bodies, as the Select Vestry of this parish, into debating societies, by the admission to their meetings of reporters for the public press, it would undoubtedly he the fact that their proceedings are given by some member, from time to time, to the public, in a garbled shape, through the medium of partisan organs. From some such pimping autho rity, we have now before us the proceedings of the meeting un Tuesday last—the wr itt e n Vestry at speeches of Messrs. Urquhart and Thorneley of course given verbatim from the copies read upon the occasion, and those of other gentlemen with such interpolations and suppressions, doubtless, as suited the purpose of the amateur reporter. From such reports, one-sided as they are, and untrustworthy, the public derive all the information which they can derive, of workhouse management; and upon the Mercury's statements, therefore, we are compelled to base the few remarks which we shall offer upon the proceedings of Tuesday's meeting. The first subject which we shall notice, as given in this one-sided report, is the question as to the improvement and enlargement of the workhouse. We are told by a gentleman, who moved the amend ment, to the effect that a new workhouss should be constructed; and by that talkative, or rather speech reading gentleman, Mr. Urquhart, that by the sale of the present site as building ground, so large a sum would be realised, as to require less from the parish funds for a new building than will be required for the alterations proposed. Of course we have no proof of this. We have not sufficientc onfidence in the persons in question to give an opinion upon the subject. We have no wish to see the authorities of the parish dragged into bastile erecting, or to fur nish to' the Poor-law Commissioners, aided by , a vestry of Urquharts; the pretext which would be afforded by the possession of a building large enough, for submitting to "the workhouse test" the 3600 destitute beings, who now receive out-door re lief from the funds of the rate-payers. We would rather have the limited capabilities of our workhouse remain a bar to the' efforts of " Liberalism" to apply the screw to our working poor, than furnish fresh weapons of oppression —increased facilities for the working out of the murderous principle* of the atrocious system of Somerset House. Throughout the whole proceeding of tile junt , - of busy radicals, who have wriggled themselves into a share in the management of parish affairs, we can' distinctly trace a' disposition to bring the poor of Liverpool under the merciless tyranny of the Poor-law COm missioners ;. and with all our might we shall oppose the arrival of a consummation so pregnant with added misery and degradation at , our suffering fellow -townsmen. The nett. subject Brought before us is the pro , posal of Urquhart to permit the' delivery of temperance' lectures at the `Workhouse,• What a mockery would this be, practically, to a' large por tion of the poor beings confined there The tem- perance of a parish pauper, whose most exciting drink is gruel, must needs be sufficiently exemplary ! Such a being has no £5OO to• throw away under its excitement Bat there are eorne, doubtless, within the walls of a workhouse who• may, at some future day, revisit the world as its free denizens; amd to these, habits of sobriety would he a great good,-and lessons - of sobriety might tend to' foster such habits. But from whom should those lessons flow ? The Workhouse enjoys fie •services -of. a-chaplain, quite able to impart them to all those• to-whom they can; be of service, without the impressed "aid of lecturers ; voluntary or hired. We are told, indeed,.as something.quite conclusive as to the propriety of teetotal lectures,. that the gen tleman by whom they are propased ,- to be given is al churchman. We believe- heis. He may have his pe culiar crotchets, however; upon the subject.; and it is scarcely concealed that he has. Whether this be the case or not, however, is,. in our opinion; little to the purpose. The object of Mr. Urquhart, we are con vinced, is not that these. particular rectures should bedelivered, but that they should be delivered by anyone rather than the chaplain: It is against that gentleman's authority, as the spiritual guide of - the inmates of the Workhousey that the factious efforts of 114 r, Urquhart are dill-e.t.a_ And ...Lie particular lecturing permitted, where, pray, is- the limit at which our very enlightened parish dignitary will stop in his progress ? Will the next exhibition be a lecture .by Father Matthew, or an Anti-corn-law or Chartist harangue, by some other equally cele brated authority ? The concluding piece in , these select vestry per formances was the very high-minded (I!) opposition offered 'by the Radical clique to the re-election of Mr. N-ightingall as house surgeon. The very au- thoritias of Somerset-house had acknowledged the extenuating circumstances in the case of this gentle man—had: virtually admitted that the memory of twenty years' active services should not be taken as grounds of a harsh and vindictive sentence. The entire medical profession had recognised his great experience and talent in the treatment of such dis— eases.. as are most prevalent within the walls of a workhouse. But what can appeast, the malignity of Whig-Radicalism when once aroused ? What hope of peace, or decency of temper and deportment, or of charity, can there be in an assembly to seats in which vain men, with brazen faces and empty heads, have unhappily been elevated ? The parishioners must get rid of this rabid clique.; and we trust they_ will do so at no distant period. We have givan in another column a report .of the proceedings of two League meetings, recently held in Toxteth-cark, at both of which the " Liberal " party were sgnally defeated ; , The latter of these we have given at some length, as both parties—and especially the League hireling—were allowed a fair hearing; and on account, moreover, of the Radical press having burked the proceedings, owing, no doubt, to their having, entirely failed in their antici, pated result—the alienation from the cause of Con servati,Sm of the Protestant operatives of the Park, We shall not content ourselves, however, with merely recording these proceedings. We feel hound,. in addition,. to draw attention to the disgraceful tone In which one of our Radical contemporaries. has thought proper to allude to the conduct, and to asperse the character, of some of the gentlemen who have moved in opposition to these insidious attempts to intrude League principles and League doctrines in quarters where they were not welcome,, and, in deed, most unwished for, We need scarcely say that the paper to which we allude as having given vent to its usual and odious personality against a political opponent, is the Liverpool Mercury. A gentleman—Dr. Harbord— whose services to the Conservative cause in the Park are beyond all praise, had, at the first meeting referred to, exercised the influence which he pos sesses in that district, for the very justifiable purpose of protecting his operative brethren from the insidi ous approaches of the League and their lying hire lings. For so doing, this gentleman has been at tacked, in their peculiarly gross and offensive style, by the gentlemen who conduct the Mercury ; and in their publication of Friday week last the gentlemen in question very kindly suggested that his friends should take care of " the poor doctor," as a person incapable of taking care of himself—as a kind of political lunatic ! We need scarcely say here, to Conservative readers, that Dr. Harbord is, in cha racter and standing with his fellow-townsmen, very far above the scribblers of the Mercury ; and that their paltry attempts to injure him are but the wretchedly abortive attempts of animals "sans eyes -- sans teeth—sans every thing"—save length of ears—to annoy those to whom in every respect they are ridiculously and consciously inferior. We scarcely know that we should have referred to the sayings of the Mercury, except for the put= pose of reading to Conservatives a useful lesson. At the last of the meetings, which we have reported, Dr. Harbord referred to the fact, that only in the previous week he had given an advertisement to the Mercury, and that, nevertheless, he had been se lected as the object of virulent abuse by that jour nal, for which he acknowledged that he was rightly served. That Dr. Harbord had the slightest notion of any political or personal favour to be derived from the giving of his advertisement to the Mercury we do not believe. He is too fearless a Conserva tive to make the attempt to silence a political oppo nent by such means. But the lesson to the Con servative public is apropos. That public FEEDS that journal ; and their reward is the increased virus and the increased circulation which they thus give to its lying and spiteful calumniations. But we have something more than this to say to the Conservatives of Liverpool. We have to ask them how long they will leave the voice of the Con servatism of Liverpool to be expressed by the Pro testant operatives of our borough ? Our aristocratic party rely upon these poor, but honest and faithful men, in their hours of difficulty. Do they support them ? Do they encourage them in their loyalty ? They do not this adequately. They leave these " good lads " to battle for the'mselves; and we tell them this fact, that such conduct must no longer be pursued, unless it is wished that Radicalism should ride rampant in our borough, over that Conservative strength for which we have hitherto been " the observed of all observers." We must support our operative Conservatism, which is the strength of our bcyrottga; or cease to occupy our present posi tion as the only truly Conservative large• constitu ency in thn united kingdom ! MR. OASTEER, THE MERCURY, AND OrR SELVES. A lying organ' Ditty do injury to the best of causes,-if uncontradicted in its• falSehoods; and, on this account alone, we feel ourselves impelled to recur to the charges with which the Mercury has endeavoured to thwart the efforts at present making for the release from his con finement of the persecuted Richard Oastler. In the 'first instance, then, let - us,, in the performance of our task, place ourselves, as-well as' Mr.. °wider, correctly before the public. The Mercury volunteerea,.-or was - prompted, to bring 'weharge against Mr.Omtler—never fairly enunciated— connected with some supposed delinquency of that gen tleman, in the matter of a' colliery rented by Messrs. Rawson, Cousin, and Co.,- from • Mr.• Thornhill. We stated that we would inqniro into the matter ; and we did st inquire. We did inquire.' We learned nothing as the result of such inouiry. Mr. Oastler's committee had nothing to communicate.• What they did'know they did communicate. But when all that they , knew was communicated, and it amounted to nothing,. we were asked by' the Mercury whether. we had written, to Messrs:-Rawson and Co. themselves ! - We had net done so. We pled,;ed ourselves to do so. , We should have thought it downright impertinence to do so And, moreover; we were not furnished by the Mercury- with the address< of these gentlemen,. other than that they were lessees -of " certain coal-mines belonging. to Me. Thornhill." • This is all the information which,we - have received from the Mercury to this day: • Well, so 'far 'as relates to the coal-mints in question,. that transaction was referred to in a letter from -Mr.. Oastler, contained in our last publication, -and is-tho roughly explained in our publication this day. Btrt what was the reply 'of the Mercury, on Friday Oh ! that was 9w4 - the matter referred to! Well, 'after - this, impertinent or • not impertinent, we decided to write to the gentlemenabove-named, their address having:been , furnished as by a party who was accidentally in Liver-- ppol on Thursday last. We felt the difficulty - of meeting a charge, when that charge was nob defined, -and when our opponent was so shifty. We wrote accordingly to Messrs. Rawson;. and , to that letter. we have, as yet, received no reply. - Should we do so early in the week, weshall hand the letter to our contemporary, in -time for his Friday'S paper ; and should we not, perhaps he will let us know , to what transaction he does refer, that Mr. ()ostler himself may give us an explanation,. if the Mercury or Messrs. Rawson cannot. We shall not keep on firing - in. the dirk, at so cowardly an assassin as our contemporary, There is one- thing which must. strike every reader,- . connected witk,thi. matter. _why oannnt the Merezza - y, state•his charge,,:,:f he has one to state ? Does he fear an action for libel P' We can almcst absolve him from that fear. Richard Oastler would, 'scorn to tread upon 22t ch,a worm f. STREET ROBBER:T.—At the police-court yesterday, a man named James Welsh was charged with robbing an old man named. Riclhird Riley of his watch. The com plainant said that ors Sunday evening he was going. along Ilighfield-streetwhero the prisoner , came up, knocked him down, arid having drawn his watchilrom his fobs„ made off. lie had also lost his hat. It was-proved that the priso ner afterwards.srent to a public-house, and cared for ale to treat those wishin, tendering focit, as he hail no money. the watch. fl also gave a hat to a man present, and being suspected - was given into . custody. The watch and hat were identified, and the prisoner was committed for RESIGNATION or MR. WattrTY.—lt wilt, no doubt,. surprise,cnarrp,of our readers to learn that. Mr. Whitty,. who has fille4.the situation of chief constable of this lao-. rough, since the passing of the Municipal Reform with so much. credit to himself and satisfaction to the public, hag resigned his onerous and responsible post.. This, we believe, . he has been induc e d to do i n conse quence of the harassing andthaz -it-dons nature of his du ties, his attention to which. has, ,for some time, been preying upon his health. We understand that MT. Whitty intends devoting himself agai n t o lit erary pur suits.—Mereury.—[TheWateh Committee, in accepting Mr. Whitty's resignation, have passed an unanimous-re solution expressive of " the high sense they entertain of the valuable services rendered by him .during the aeriod he has held the office of head constable of the bore - 4h ; and that in ; the performance of his arduous duties, the zeal, energy, and ability displayed by. him were not more conspicuous than his carrif6rin discretion and judgment, combining, in a peculiar degree, decision of conduct with the utmost courtesy and forbearance." It is said that Mr. Whitty intends again to be, connected with the journal' whose t ditorship he relinquished to become bead constable.] TuE FUNDS: SATURDAY NlgUT.—The satisfaction expressed in the city at the revenge return is greater than has been known 14r some time. past, the tact that the greatest increase on the quarter is shown by the item of Customs being d-erned very important. Had the appear ance of prosperity • been kept-, up by the extraordinary action of the inowne-tax alone, there would, have been less cause for congratulation, but now we have the signs of a substantial improvement. The announcement in yesterday's Gazette of the application of the fourth part of £908.500 (she surplus. shown in the October balance , sheet) to the purchase of stock and exchequer-bills is likewise interesting. The.ditninntion of the national debt by this process is indeed very small, but even a beg;nning is satisfactory. The stock markets did not close till four o'clock this afternoon, in consequence. of its being the first day for private transfer in the English securities, which itureased business,. and induced,the brnk directors not to shut their bonksbefore lialf-mst, two.. At the con clusion of dealings, quotations, gem,rally speaking, were . pretty steady, and did not materially vary from those be fore noted. Consols f , r money and account left off 978 ex. div.; Three per Cents. Redeced. 971 t 0,98 Three and-a-Half- per Cents. Reduced, 1628 to i; New. Three and-a-Half per Cents., 101 k to. 4 ex. div. Long An nuities, 12i; Bank Stock, 186 to 187 ; India Stock, 272 to , 274 ex. div.; Exchequer-bills, 675. to 695.. premium ; and India Bonds, 795. to 81s. premium. THE INFIRMARY. -- The annual meeting of the sub scribers of this noble institution was herd in. the Board room of that establishment yesterday morning, and was attended by some of the stanchest friends of the charity, which we regret to say, t.hough having indubitable and primary claims on the support of the public, has not for some time past, received that pecuniagy support to which: it is so eminently entitled. Edward Gibbon, Esq., oc cupied the chair, and the secretary read an abstract of the accounts, from which it appeared that the binds had con siderably fallen off during the last year, though several handsome donations had been given. It appeared that the inmates of the asylum, who had last year numbered 39, had this year increased to 59. On thanks being voted to the Rev. R. Davies, who hes for 14 years ad ministered spiritual and moral instruction to the inmates with an assiduity and success beyond all praise, that gen tleman addressed the meeting at some length, showing in performed were a very affecting manner the benefits that had resulted from th e though dissemination pastoral of duties divine o b truths e amongst rfor m e t d h e in mates,e onerous and beset with considerable difficulties, most of the patients being of the poorer and uneducated classes. He had instituted additional services, a. which, with but slight exceptions, the greatest attention was paid by the hearers, and he had reason to believe that many who had contracted vicious habits, had been reclaimed. The good eff-ct of such aaministrations had also been grati'yingly evidenced even amongst the unfortunate inmates of the asylum—so that not one was now under restraint. He thanked those present for the kindness he had ever re ceived at their hands, and alluded especially to the worthy chairman, who had for many many years been a firm friend of the establishment. We refer our readers to the advertisement of the proceedings in another column, arid shall probably next wet k furnish some interesting &tails for the information f the su from a statement—cot yet ftiL Y b , cr i bers. o,e t A ublic. generally, eoared b an y d the b.oard— THE LIVERPOOL STANnArtii. WHIG-RADICALISM, PAINTED BY" ITSELF The Liverpool Mercury of Friday last contains so naive a statement of the probable doings in the next session, and the present feelings of the Whig-radical party, that we cannot refrain from giving it verbatim t o the world. Here is the precious morceau „ . . . " It is not to be supposed that the parliamentary va cation has been passed in inactivity, or that the Anti corn-law League's new agitation has not given a smart shock to the political parties who, but for it, would have willingly relapsed into the repose of routine. To the whig aristocratic leaders it would doubtless have been more agreeable to have worked Ireland as an instrument to eject Sir Robert Peel, without stirring too deeply the more personal matter of the corn laws ; but Lord Spen cer's declaration on the one hand, and that of the Irish repealers on the other, have driven them, against their will, to deliberate seriously upon taking some decided line of policy, in the full belief that the future fate of their party will depend upon their conduct at the opening of parliament." Let the reader direct his attention, for a moment, to the words which we have marked in Italics. First, "it would have been more agreeable " to the whig aristo cratic leaders "to have worked Ireland as an instrument to eject Sir Robert Peel !" Poor Ireland ! The aris tocratic Whig party would fain have had thee, like some poi ker of thy own rearing, under its arm, and " worked" thee—squeezed thee like the bellows of a bagpipe pinched thy delicate ears—until thy sweet howlings and spasmodic struggles should have frighted and finally eject ed from office Sir Robert Peel's ministry ! " WORKED IRELAND !" Oh, rare ! good Mercury," roar again !" The aristocratic whigs, however, have not had their "working" propensities gratified. Lord Spencer, the League, and Daniel O'Connell have baulked their wished for exertions in this, their favourite, line of practice. These fell marplots—Mercurius ipse lortitur—" have driven them (the whig aristocratic leaders) against their will to deliberate upon taking some decided line of policy, (which, it seems, they never yet pursted , ,) in Me full belief that Me fiaure fate"—of what ?—of their country P Oh, no ! "In the full belief that the future fate of THEIR PARTY (!) depends upon their conduct at the opening of parliament ! " Never mind their country ! never mind: its prostrate industry ! Heed not ' the cry of its working, poor " The decided line' of policy," to be taken up , by aristocratic whigs at the com mencement of the coming session, has nothing to do with these. Whiggery is going to' Sump Jim Crow, to join the Anti-corn-law League, or to do some other desperate thing ; but it will jump amd do the desperate only for ITS PARTY ! Oh, rare ! good Mercury---but that it might "create wild laughter 'neath the ribs of death"—we should implore thee to "roar again!" Seriously, reader, this is a very amusing and instruc tive confession. After this, why' need we care what aristocratic whigs or any other whigs may do, when their object is so distinctly avowed to , the world—as PARTY, PARTY 7 They would sell their country to its worst enemy; plunge it into anarch and oonfusion, and finally sell their own souls for—PARTY r SAILING DIRECTIONS FROM. POINT LYNAS T() LIVERPOOL, BY COMMANDER H. M: DBNHAM, P.N., F.R.S. A handiome octavo volume under this-title, with the • addition of " charts, coast-views, river sections, tidal courses; arid:tide gauge table, for navigang the D c and Mersey;-inctuding the latest alterations," has' just made its appearance, and cannot fail to be highly aeceptable to corn manderrof vesselit„ and more especially t 6 thfise who are strangers to our port. The gallant and' experienced author, it' will be generally known, was employed for a series of years, from 1833, in making a sovey,• with sextant and lead-line,- of the outward banlis, - •and the channels leading to the Mersey and the Dee ; and had the honour at an early period of his labours, of so demon strafing the advantages of the new, or " Victoria`-Chan nel" as a half-tide entrance,, that at art early period of his , labours, all doubt and speculation were laid aside, and it , was immediately lighted and beaconed, and has sineebeen of the utmost'value to our'shippmg. Prom his Tong and careful survey has emanated the present volume; in4he preface to whieli he throws out a number of suggestions for further improvemerr, perfec•irrg, and preservatiim at' en adequate depth of this second highway to our harbour, including screutpi/C-beacons-, screw, pile refuge fabrtM• constant dredging at points liable frac% deposits to become shoal, &c. These more immediate-, invite the serious consideration of the conservators-of the navigation of oar' port, and, so fray as we can jiadge, appear to be dictated by sound judgment and a due appreciation of their inth portance. We have as yet been enabittl only to dip into the body of this voltime, which is replete with useful rections, laid ddwn in so clear and readily accessible a manner, that "lie who sails may read." His grand ob.:; ject in this work' will, we doubt not,. be arl•ieved— • namely, " to bring the stranger, who may he driven up, and have missed the pilot-hoatsi into port -anchorage, with chart and hook, by night as well ars day." Prefixed to the work, which is typographically- exceedingly well rot up, is a chart of Liverpool' Bay,, with the channels, banks, beacons. &e outwards; -the Mersey up to East ham; and the Die to WfOstyn—the soundings minutely marked throughout.. This chart- presents;-ill' the changes, corrected to the cl,,se of 1813. The coast views are very numerous and distort • and there is net outline chart of tit, relative peal - relines• of the lights Arf *tin nev•iwettinnr. be tween Liverpool', Ang'esea, Dublin, the Tale of Man, &c. The directions apply to all circumstances and ex igencies, and to assist in reference, there are varied page titles, and marginal notes. The book, indeed', should be added to the library, large or small, of every ship-master. Messrs. Phillips and Sons, together with , their full qua drille band, performed several sets of quadrilles, waltzes, &at., to the satisfaction of the whole company, last Tues day evening, at Sir John Gerards, Newhall. ST. THOMAS ' S-SCHOOL, TOXTETHPARK;.—OD Thurs day last the children in these schools, amounting to nearly three hundred, were entertained with tea and buns in the school-room attached to St. James' Church which had been kindly granted by the Rev. H. Hampton, the in cumbent. In the evening a number of the congregation of St. Thomas's assembled in Ihe same room and partook of 'ea, &c. with the Rev. Mr.- Butler, their pastor, when very gratifying reports of the. state of the schools and district were read by the visitors. Mr. Butler and other clergymen addressed the meeting. The progress of these schools has been extremely:satisfactory, and the neat ap• pearance and orderly behaviour of the children reflected great credit on those who superintend them.. FEMALE ORPHAN ASYLUM.—It will he observed by our advertisement columns-that on Sunday next St. John the Evangelist's Church, in Hope-street, is to he re. opened, on which occasion sermons are to be preached on behalf of this popu'ur Institution. The church which nas been closed for the purpose of making alterations, is fitted up in a style of great neatness and convenience. An interesting circumstance connected with this Church and the Female Orphan Asylum cannot , he too extensively promulgated, as exhibiting beneficence of no ordinary character. An arrangement has been made with the proprietor of the Church, by, Henry. Winch, Esq„ by which, after making provision for the necessary expenses, the profits are to be appropriated to the use and benefit of the Asylum. In this .benevolent design he is joined by the Rev. Thomas. Macgill, who gratuitously takes charge of the Church,and will be the evening preacher We understand the tents of the pews are arranged on a mostrreasonable scale.., and we cannot doubt that a large and respectable congregation will be speedily colt cted. Added to the comfort which they are certain to acquire they will enjoy the additional satisfaction of contributing to the support of an asylum sheltering and instructing the ppor girl bereft of care and affection. A SECOND DELTH FROM BURNING AT THE GREAT FIRE IN BARRINGTON-STREET —An inquest was held yesterday, before Mr. Curry, the borough coroner, on view of the body of Hugh Series. Robert Edwards, a labourer, residing in Mathew-street, said he knew the, deceased, who was 21 years old. Witness and dece as ed both worked at Messrs. 13ranckers' sugar-house. Last. Thursday week they went to.work in the morning in the same room, arid during breakfast time, which was about twenty minutes past eight o'clock, an alarm of fire was given. They. were. in what is, called the " piece -room," which is in the sixth story. Deceased was close to wit ness. Witneas ran down stairs directly, and on getting on to an iron, bridge that went over the boilers, heard the deceased speak to him, saying—" Oh, Robert, I our badly burnt ; what will tdo ?•" The room was full of striPke. Witness made his escape, and saw nothing inorenf the deceasectun•il Saturday night last, when he saw him in the hospital, and he was dying. He died in a few minutes after. -.Robert Roberts, a labourer, with whom. the de ceased lived in Mathew-street, and who also worked at the sugar-house, said . that he was at work there on that morning, and hc-ard. an alarm of fire. His. house was just opposite the , gate. He ran out directly into the sugar house yard, and saw the deceased on the. iron bridge leading over the boilers. He went up to him and carried ty h o e f in s i m il o - k rl . him down, and. took him home directly. He was severely burnt from his head down to his middle. He was soon after taken to the Northern Hospital. Witness afterwards saw him there„—Mr. John Frederick Behn, foreman to Messrs. Drawler, said he had gone to breakfast in the house. adjoining the premises; he heard an alarm of fire given, and directly after smoke and. afterwards flames fire originated.— burst out from where the boilers, were. Witness saw nothing of the deceased. Before he went to breakfast the place appeared all safe. Ile could not tell how the was on the premises, and when he heard the cry of fire, out, t o of a C n u a s n to d m g s o , t r ,: r k j e l a m e e l s oi. lE t: ° r y t ie le keys, which he gave The fire m , which was full of smoke. He had appeared to have originated there, and there was a great s h o lin tue , one came c n a e me we a , l7 t d Witness ran up stairs to save his quantity books and paper,, - but was met by a great blaze of are, He saw and was o bliged to return. then several of the and opened the stove door. men in t the to let them not the keys at time a hammer at one of the entones, and handed it to the men inside through a window. When he went for the ham mer he met the last warless carrying the deceased out a f te r the whole building was enveloped Soon flames. The men e ,caped through means of the hammer, with which they broke off the staples and lock of the mill room door. Witness said he had not the slig htest idea hos the fire originated —Mr. Parker, house-surgeon the . Northern Hospit a l, sai d t h at the deceased, when brought to the hospital, was severely burnt, u not, t it w , at first supposed. dangerously. Every thing done for him, # u'r he died on Fa , (inlay, in consequeic ,7 :4 the burning. The jury returned a verdict to the effect ti a' II e building catielit fire from some cam e unknown, and lbw the deceased was d 11 acc4 enta I?urnt, and died from the injuries he received • Jan. 9, 18146 JUVENILE MEND! CANCY IN LIVERPOOL• We detest, as cordially as need be, that cold-blooded philosophy which would c l ose th e h ear t s an d t h e h an d s of Englishmen to the appeals of suffering humanity, and which teaches that the extent of a man's charitable contributions to the supplying of the wants of his fellow-man should be the amount of his poor's rate. We are not prepared tO say the provisions of the law, as regards mendicancPt should be strained so tightly that the authorities who ad' minister it should resemble, in their harsh watchfulness, the paid officials of " mendicity associations," and repress entirely the supplications of casual want to the ready nand and the open purse of those who are willing to obey the divine injunctions to remember the poor and the afflicted , But there is a limit to the extent to which we would calif the forbearance of the law, and classes of objects to whom we would apply its strictest provisions. The sturdy beg' gars, who pester every passer by for money to lavish is low debauchery • the impostors who o ff en d our eyes b y the exhibition of self-caused deformity or pretended bodili, affliction ; these sh ou ld b e swept from our streets, and would be so swept from them, if our police would do their duty, and must be, unless access is to be denied (to peace• able and timid people) to our markets and our public thoroughfares, in which they abound to such an extent 0 to constitute an intolerable nuisance. There is one kind of mendicancy, however, which WO are bound to suppress rigorously, if we would be just and humane to the wretched objects by whom it is pursued , We allude to juvenile mendicancy —to infant mendicancl. Let the reader, on any evening, between dusk and mid' night, and in any weather, visit some of our leading tho' roughfares, and especially the neighbou?hoods of the prin. , cipal theatres and other places of amusement, and, u n less accustomed to the sight, he must be shocked by the num' ber and wretchedness of the tattered children, who dog the steps of the passers by, to importune them for contri butions. Or let him watch the same description of children in their nightly rounds, from tavern to tavern, tO pick up a few halfpence, by singing and other acquire ments suited to the tastes of frequenters of tap-rooms, and then let him ask himsc. , ,ll—is it real charity, or even hu manity, towards these children to encourage the vagabond life which they lead Who are the parties who drive them to these demoralizing practices ? Is it by their own choice, or for their own emolu men t, th a t infants- of tender years, half clad and half starved, brave the extremity of the winter's cold and the midnight storni—shiver in the most exposed localities, or ran barefoot upon the hard pavements ? For a solatiOn of these questions, folios" home the little outcasts to' the wretched dens, where a brutalized father, or a half starved and wholly dissolute mother, waits to receive the scanty rewards of their raid" night wanderings. There is-the' source from which ems. , nates the stream of pollution.' which defiles our streets . ; and which provides for the law to punish, a race of pick' pockets ar d depredators, of every kind and every degree of crime. 1 A. striking instance of the horrible . effects of this kind of mendicancy has been mentioned to us by a friend, as' having come under his observation , during the past week. , A half idiotic little boy was observed; by him at a corner of a , street bargaining earnestly with , tier' parties for a hati)enny, , and he was induced to ask the particulars of his occupatioiss and his parentage. The wretched little being'had acquired —at some of the Fow theatres and con cert rooms, no doubt, with which our town lateßy abound ed—tlit'Words, the tunes, and the necessary grimaces, for singio r g, what are known by th e name o f " n i gger melo dies,' which he' doled out at the rate of three far a half penny.. For this purpose, he was nightly turned lotto the streets br his mother, and generally remained out of doors until two off* th'rer o'clock in themorning A's the'elimax of the cruelty, thus practised upon him, he was proided with a B'/011 box T from which he took plentifiil. perches from time to time, as he described it, " to keep , him , from sleeping?' What, we ask, must be the sufferings of such a life ? What must be the horrible depravity', or priva tion, or both; which could lead a mother thus to devote to certain ruins her wretched cffspr b ? This species of mendicancy ought promptly to-be pat down; and we'appeal to the Watch Committee to de their duty by its suppression. We ask for no punishment of the poor chil&ett themselves, but rather for their ptiblee;-• lion from the profligate parents who devote them to de , sr ruction ; and , this a strict prevention of the practice; and the making of a few examples, will effect. We are requested to caution• the public against a serof: nsen who are going -about the streets in the evening :and. stripping children of their clothes. We understand that Dr. R.. Hibbert Taylor, Percy street, has been appointed one- of the medical officers of the school for the Deaf and Dumb, in the room of Mr. Neill resigned. SURGEON TO TIZB WORKHOURE.—At the last meeting., of the select vestry, ,Afi•. Nightingall, who had retired' fi-owv this office, but subsequently,had expressed a wish td ` be reinstated, was reappointed by the board, in compli-• anew with the request of-the poor-law commissioners. - - The Observer states that, up to 'a late hour on Saturday, - no final determination hid been come to at the Home Office; on the case of , the unhappy men now under sentence of death for the murder of Lord Derby's game keeper. Sr.. Luis's CHURCH..--The Rev. William Mulleneux, Who has fora short time held the curacy of Bebbington, has been appointed incumbent of St.. Luke's Church, Liverpool, on the presentation of the patron, Sir Joshua Wa I mirky. (lb AD,RILLE PARTIZS.—In another column will be found an advertisement of Mr. Parker's band. At this season, when balls are so numerous,. it would he_well for :nose "'no neve tneir management; as•welt as private par ties, ttp secure Mr. Parker's services,. as the celebrity and talent he is known to possess arc such as cannot fail to :lye the highest satisfaction. STREDT THEFT.—A youth-. named George Dudson, was, on Saturday, charged before Mr. Rushton with having, on the previous-day, stolen a chair from a cart !end of furniture, at the door of Mr. Morgan's, Imperial Hotel,.St. John's-lane. He was seen to take it, in broad day,' and- walk away with. it down by the wall of St. John's ChOreb-yard. He was committed for triaL A SSAX.LT AND CUTTING CASE.—Three men, Michael Corkin, John Kenna, and Patrick Gilligan,. were, yester day, charged, by a keeperof a disorderly house in John son -street, with fnrcibly entering his cellar on Saturday night, demanding drink, and severely; assaulting him ; one of them with a clasp=knife having, cut off the tip of his, nose, and inflicted twa other wounds on his face. The case was proved, and they were committed for trial at sessions. NOTICES TO COktItESPOIDETS. , correspondent who signs C.A.P. enquires whether, if a person leaves his seat temporarily in the Pit of the Theatre, he can demand to have it given '24) tO him on his-return. We say no, lie cannot do this in the Pit ; and we saw an instance a few evenings ago, where a party was retused to have his seat so restored to him in the Boxes of the Liver Theatre. Aliereury never borrows—oh, no Ha borrowed, neverthe less, in his last, without acknowledgment, a leading paragraph from the Lit eqmal Times, upon the subject of the condemned criminals at Kirkdale. We could point ou about 2,) similar larcenies in every paper. - which he publishes LIVERPOOL PROVISION MARKET, JAN. 8. An appearance of severe weather a day or two after the pub lication of our last circular, added to accounts of advanced rates • ;n the Irish markets, caused a temporary, firmness in the Butter trade here. The atmosphere has, however,. become \strangely mild, for the season of the year, and the market has agar be come perfectly mesmerised,. We may mention that fine fresh Parcels of Butter are scarce,.and for such•the. price is supported; but for midd ing sorts, (with which we are completely inun- • daterl,) it is difficult to give a nuotation. Under such circum stances, therefore, we deem it safe to call the prices from 7ss to 625. per cwt. for the finest Kilkenny:, &c., down to indifferent, Newry. Pickled Butter is, yet at 6: s. to 675. per cwt. for , seconds. Prime Beef as last noted. Pork is rather iooking up. and Bacon is more thought of. Foreign provisions (except the very-best Beef, not much enquired after: LIVERPOOL COLONIAL. MARKET, JAN. 5. Sugar.—There has been a fair demand, and the s nles are 550 birds. 8.P., and 1,600 bags Bengal, at full prices. No sales in Mauritius.—Foreiga.—Tbe sales of.the week are 50 cases brown , Bahia, at 15s 6d per cwt. from lhe , quay, 110 boxes white and.. brown Havana, and 50 brls. Laguira. in public sale. with all faults. too casks of Demerara Molasses have been sold at 235 per cwt.—Coffee. Th,e sales this week are quite unimportant, consisting merely of 70 bags uenang and na bags Brazil., at the quotations —lOO bags Cocoa sold at the reduced quotations; 50.0 bags Black PaPPer ba.3.4d la lb.—No sales of Ginger or Pimento.—The only sales of, Rice are a few tierces Carrolitnk and 600 bags damaged Bengal,—Nothingdoue in Rux.. LIVERPOOL.HAY AND POTATOE MARKET',, J&NCAL Y 8. Potatoes, s. d. s. d. Hay, old 2t5, 0 6®a 10 .. cPiunp., 6-- 1 Clover .. Pink-eyes 2 ; 0— 2 2 new ...... o *• 0 0— 0 fl short-tops 1 4. 1 66 Stravr,Whent..o 4, 0 4t Cattle Turnips, v. tca 17 6 —l9 0 Batley .... 0 0— 0 0 Carrots 26 0 —3O 0 Manglewurxlo 23 a —23 6 DAYS. TIDE TABLE. m j ug Evx. --------- 1 11 1 3U 1 50 2 11 2 31 2 53 317 344 4 10 4 41 5 13 5 52 63u 711 Tuesday 9 Wednes, Thurs.,. 1,1 Friday,. 12 Saturdayl3 Sunday, 14 Motulay 15 REIGIITI ROLYILATS, ETC. i 48m 1 7 10 Mars sets 9h 48 even. 1 7 5. Venus sets 6h 5m even. 16 7 Hillary Term begins. 15 11 Saturn sets 5h 30rn ev. 14 g Cam. 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