The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser. — Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1844-12-31 00:00:00

TO CORRESPONDENTS. We are not disposed to retort on " A Friend to Uniformity" as we corn dive he deserves. Is he aware that by the 74th canon bishops are required " to wear in their journey's a priest's cloak, and to wear a plain nightcap of black sdk, satin, or velvet." When he can show us on his OWn principles any r a son why the hshops do not comply with this canon we may then attempt (no - great endeavour) to r. concile the usages and non observances which have so excited the wrath of our correspondent, with a firm and uncompromising attachment to the Church of England. We have received several communications on the so' ject cf erecting a church in this town for the celebration of div ne worship in the lrish language. As w:.• have already said, we shall be exceedingly glad to help forward so desirable an ob ject; but we fear the influence of the priests would be ex erted, and that very few of the poor Irish Romanists would avail themselves of the opportnuity of hearing a sermon iu their native tongue. We may suggest that a middle service in that language should be conduAed in one of the present churches; and we shall Le glad to see some influential parties set about it in good earnest. The fi st step should be the raising of a sum of money t'o defray the unavoPable expenses of carrying it out. Ely 'tbcrpooi gptaoat.b. TUESDAY MORAING, DEC. 31, ISA. The close of a year of successful enterprise im pels us to the performance of a grateful duty—the acknowledgment of the kindness and support which we have received, and continue to receive, at the hands of our friends. In the performance of this duty, we shall not permit ourselves to be betrayed into the indulgence of a boastful spirit. We shall not vaunt of prosperity which we do not enjoy, nor of influence which we do not possess. The test has been withdrawn by which the truth of such vaunts could be tried. The Government returns of the circulation and advertisements of the press of the country, are no longer issued ; and we shall not take advantage of that circumstance, and thereby incur the possible suspicion that we are anxious to claim a position amongst the journals of our town and county, to which we are not justly entitled. The rapid increase of our circulation, and the advertising favours of our friends, afford us, as men of business, the best proof which can be afforded, that the influence which we possess with the public is too fully felt and acknowledged to need from us more than the expression of our sincere thanks. How far we have merited the support which we have received, it is not for us to say. We have striven, however, to merit it, by rendering the LIVERPOOL STANDARD, to the best of our ability, a faithful and honest record of passing events, and by advocating in its columns those principles and measures, which we sincerely believe to be most conducive to the wellbeing of our fellow-townsmen and the public good. If we have not succeeded in our efforts—if we have come short of the expecta tions of some of our friends, or gone beyond the views and wishes of others, the fault has been one of judgment, for which we are sorry, and not of intention or unworthiness of motive. With respect to the future we make no professions, beyond that of a perseverance in the effort to ad vance the best interests of our town and of our country, and to abide, at all hazards, and under all circumstances, by those principles which we have hitherto prof( ssed, and which we feel to be those best calculated to advance the permanent happiness of our fellow men. We are going to perform uo miracles of ability or of liberality. We are neither going to issue any extraordinary statistical docu ments, for which the world is to be filled with rap tures of gratitude, or to supply our paper gratui tously "to all the hotels in Lancashire, to every commercial room in the kingdom, and to all the principal places of resort, public offices, &c., in the empire." The first great feat we leave to be per formed by a contemporary, whose opinion of his ca pacity for it is greater than our opinion of our own; and the second is happily unnecessary, inasmuch as the LIVERPOOL STANDARD is already supplied to most of the hotels in this and the surrounding counties, and to the newsrooms of all the leading towns in the empire. Our effort shall be only to advance its usefulness and circulation by every le gitimate means, and every legitimate sacrifice of time, labour, and means. With these remarks, and repeating the expression of our gratitude, we take our leave, wishing to each and all our readers " a happy new year," and to our fellow-townsmen and the country, a continu ance of that prosperity which has dawned upon them in the year now hastening to its close. For some time we have observed going on, in this town and other resorts of speculation, a trade which we know to be a most hazardous one to some of the parties engaged in it, and, generally speak ing, to those who have money and a standing in life to lose, and who are the least aware of the pos sible difficulties and losses, into which, without the exercise of great caution, they may be led, and the most anxious to act fairly and honestly. The trade to which we refer is that in the shares of the new rah way undertakings; and the parties, on whose account we fear danger and ultimate loss, are those to whom such shares have been originally allotted, or who in purchasing such shares have taken upon themselves the full responsibility of the original holders ; and we cannot reconcile it to our con science, as faithful journalists, any longer to forbear offering to them a few words of advice and caution upon the subject. The position of an individual to whom shares in any railway undertaking are allotted, is, from the first moment of the allotment, one of liability for, not only the deposit but, the whole amount of such shares, inasmuch as he binds himself to sign the parliamentary and subscribers' deeds for such amount, which on the passing of the act become a register of the shareholders. The existing practice is, on the deeds being so signed, to issue scrip to the parties, which forthwith become saleable in the sharemarket, passing from hand to hand, at pre miums or discounts varying daily and sometimes hourly. Having parted with his scrip, perhaps at a tempting profit, the original allottee and consequent signer of the proper deeds imagines that he has ac tually realized the money which he has put into his pocket, and that he is exonerated from all further interest or risk in the undertaking. Past expe rience, however, which in the fever of speculation is too apt to be forgotten, has feelingly assured thou sands that such is not the case. Such original al lottee, when selling and parting with his scrip, can not effect a legal transfer, and thus be relieved of his responsibility, in any undertaking for which an act of Parliament has not been obtained; and he remains still, to all intents and purposes, a share holder until such legal transfer is made. _ _ A practical instance will best show the result of neglecting, in such cases, the proper precautions. A B has had allotted to him fifty shares in some promising or well-puffed line of railway, and, having signed the usual deeds, receives his scrip, and sells such shares at a thumping premium to C D, of whose respectability and prudence he may or may not be assured. C D sells to E, who sells to F, and so on through the alphabet. In the meantime the Act of Parliament has been obtained, possibly on not such favourable terms as were originally an ticipated ; the rage for speculation subsides ; sales from hand to hand are no longer readily effectel ; further calls are looked forward to; and, as the result of some or all of these causes, the shares fall below par. Who, in this emergency, is, in the eye of the law, the shareholder ? To whom do the directors look for funds to carry on their under taking ? To him only who is registered. But he has sold his scrip ! True; but where is it ? and where is the party who is to take upon his shoulders the original holder's liability ? In too many cases of this description he is non est inventus, or, not being legally bound to accept of such liability, he refuses to come forward. _ _ It is the unpleasant and possibly ruinous predica ment 'here described which we wish our readers carefully to avoid. Many men, with the best inten tions, in such times as the present, take upon them aelves liabilities greater than their means will war rant,in the expectation that they can be readily absolved from them. In the majority of cases we have no doubt every thing will go on smoothly; but we know that there have been cases where such has not been the result, and we greatly fear that there will be again. Respectfully, therefore, we urge upon our readers the exercise of due caution. We have no wish to repress that legitimate speculation without which new railway undertakings cannot be got through their initiatory stages ; but le t those who incur liability in such speculation take care t hat , before they grasp at and count their profit as realised, th ey have assurance of being legally relieved from such liability at the earliest possible period. A few more hours will bring us to the termina tion of the year 1844 ; and before we take our final leave of it, we shall briefly glance over its claims to the remembrance, whether for good or for evil, of ourselves and of posterity. As a nation, we entered upon the present year with flattering prospects. Externally the position of Great Britain had never been more imposing. We were at peace with Europe. We had succeeded in settling differences which, for a lengthened pe riod, had embarrassed our relations with the United States. We had wiped off the stigma, cast upon our arms by recent disasters in the East; and added a vast empire, hitherto rigidly closed against all confidential intercourse with other nations, to our frLndship and commerce. We have not merely succeeded in maintaining that position By a firm and yet conciliatory policy, we have, during the past year, warded off a threatened rupture with France, without a stain upon our own honour or the honour of that country ; and are at this moment more firmly allied with all that is great and good amongst its fickle people, than at any period of our past history. We have shewn to the world that, by a course of highminded justice towards each other, the Governments of Great Britain and of France can afford to despise the querulous and factious efforts which are resorted to by unprinci pled men, to bring them into antagonism, and, thereby, to endanger the peace of Europe. With America we remain in amity, with few elements apparent, in that country, likely to disturb such amity; and in the East we have succeeded, by a wise forbearance in success, in consolidating our relations with the Chinese, and in developing the resou of that vast Indian empire which calls the Queenf this realm its Sovereign. Nor has the condition, or prospects, of the colo nies of Great Britain deteriorated during this year of a Conservative administration. The least flou rishing of these—our West Indian sugar colonies — are gradually recovering from the depression, cre ated by the scarcity of labour, arising from the Emancipation Act ; and, by a wise and liberal di rection of the powers, given by Government to the planters, to provide themselves with additional la bourers from other countries, whose surplus people may be disposed to voluntary emigration, the an cient prosperity of these noble possessions, so long the envy of the world, is, we trust, destined to be restored. Our Canadian possessions no longer present those appearances of a disposition to social disorganisation and outbreak against the authority of the mother country, which, a few years ago, dis turbed them and even our distant possessions at the Antipodes, in which so many of our industrious fellow-countrymen have seen their, at first too bril liant, anticipations disappointed, are recovering from the effects of past mismanagement of their finances, and, by the persevering energy of their British settlers, are becoming gradually more pros perous in their internal condition, and more valua ble, as markets and contributors of valuable pro ducts, to the British empire. On account of our external position, therefore, there is nothing for which we have to charge with blame the year which is now passing, whilst there is much which we must set down to its credit. Turn we then to an examination of our internal position. We need scarcely point to the increased prosper ity, which we have experienced during this year, in every department of trade and of industry—we need scarcely point to the improved financial posi tion of the nation—to shew that, internally, we have vastly progressed. Our agricultural position and prospects, too, are, we believe, at this moment placed upon as sound a basis as at any previous period of our history. The mutual relations of landlord and tenant, and the connection between the prosperity of the latter and the permanent inter ests of the former have become better understood and more extensively recognised. New and more scientific modes of culture are becoming extensively adopted, the owner and tiller of the soil lending their mutual aid ; and promise, at no distant period, to render the people of the country dependant upon the resources of their own lands, alone, for an am ple supply of the great staples of human food. A material fact, bearing upon our agricultural position, we may here notice incidentally, as having strikingly developed itself during this year. At the present moment three hundred sail of British vessels are reported to be loading, at one distant island, with fertilizing materials for our soil, thus affording prac tical proof of the intimate relation between the pros perity and increased enterprise of the agricultural community, and the prosperity of the British mer chant, shipowner, seaman, and artizan. We are compelled, however, to notice a few dark shades in the picture of our social position. The capital of the merchant;the manufacturer, and the agriculturist may be more productive at present than a short while ago; but, alas, we have not to congra tulate ourselves upon any improved condition of the masses whose labour contributes, with other causes, to that result. A temporary increase in wages may have here and there taken place; but, confessedly, that increase is only temporary in duration and limited to a few excessively stimulated branches of industry. Amidst the glitter of our prosperity—side by side with its magnificent evidences—we have still masses of ghastly suffering and privation, well calculated to startle us with a sense of the insecurity of the wealth flowing in upon us, and the insufficiency of the mere growth of such wealth in a nation to in crease the happiness of its people, or even to remove the pressure of want from their doors. Need we look further for the evidence of this sad fact than into our own streets and public institutions ? Or, for its evidence, so far as the nation is concerned, need we look further than to the growth and—alas ! under a Conservative administration !—the increased stringency of that accursed system which is fast winding its chain of tyranny and degradation around the poor of our land ? We need not ; it is thus virtually acknowledged by our rulers themselves; and we defy the most sanguine of the admirers of our existing prosperity—the most sanguine prophets of its continuance—to assure us that, unaided by other remedial circumstances, of which we see at present littletprospect, it will remove, permanently, even a fractional portion of that social disorganiza tion which we now witness and deplore. But, to expatiate further upon this subject is beyond our present task. We proceed, then, to another inquiry, viz. what has the past year effected towards promoting the se curity of the Protestant institutions of our country. The answer must again be unsatisfactory. We have been compelled to witness the further spread of a schism in our Established Church, and a movement of a large portion of its members towards the adop tion of the forms and the doctrines of Romanism ; and, further, we have been compelled to see this movement not only unrepressed by the heads of our Church, but encouraged by some of the most in fluential of those heads. We have been compelled to witness these things as the spontaneous acts of Churchmen themselves; but still more disastrous, in its tendency, has been the policy of the govern ment, in matters affecting the institutions and the established religion of the nation. We have seen that government, with the consent of Parliament, embark afr. sh in that fatal course of concession to popery and infidelity, the adoption of which by Con servative ministers in 1829, exiled their party from power for a period of more than ten years, and ele vated to the seats of government a faction whose " heavy blows and great discouragements," dealt against the Constitution and the Church of their country, have been so fearfully and so fatally felt. The national mind, too, has we fear been prepared for further similar concessions ; and we are proba bly doomed in the year which is coming to see the power of the present government, and the influence which it has acquired from the temporal prosperity which it has brought to the nation, employed to weaken the bulwarks of its strength, which are the Protestantism of its institutions and its people. • On these grounds, then, we are dissatisfied with the year which is hurryingito its close. We trust that in our anticipations of evil to come we may be mistaken; and that nothing but happy results from the events of this year may be in store for England. But when we witne=s the apathy of those, to whose voice it is given to direct the course of government towards a safe haven—when we see Conservatives hugging themselves in their worldly prosperity, and worshipping the man who, whilst satisfying their greed of gold, is aiming at the subversion of thier dearest liberties and the wreck of their most che rished institutions—a misgiving will creep over our minds that the glittering prosperity of this parting year is not destined to be all for good—that, like the enervating winter quarters of the soldiers of Hanni bal, it may only be the prelude to defeat and loss disastrous as theirs, by inducing a blind confidence in the statesmen who are pampering our senses by throwing treasure and luxury into our laps, whilst they are preparing to lead us to the destruction of what we ought to hold far more dear and of more lasting value th an mere g l eams o f w orldly sun shine, the fruit of revised tariffs or skilful finance. We repeat that wenaiieinerrOiinChese---fore- THE LIVERPOOL STANDARD bodings of ill. We trust we shall be so. But we must, nevertheless, insist that unless by Conserva tive watchfulness, in the year to come the evils which we have pointed to will assuredly be accele rated and ultimately descend upon our heads. We beg to call the attention of the authorities of our town to the ruffianly and disgraceful proceedings of a set of fellows who weekly desecrate the evenings of the Sabbath, by holding Repeal meetings, at which all kinds of uproarious brawls take place, in Paradise -street. If we have hitherto rightly under stood the genius of the British laws, such meetings as these are not such as are allowed by them in this Protestant country. Toleration to Popery we give-- toleration to dissent we give —we admit of the right of free discussion ; but political meetings held on the evenings of the Sabbath, at which money is raised for seditious purposes, and unseemly broils indulged in, are, assuredly, not amongst the things which ought to he permitted in the heart of a well ordered and loyal community; and we trust, for the sake of decency and good order, that they will be at once put down. We have, in another article, expressed our fears of the assaults meditated by Sir Robert Peel's Go vernment against the integrity of the Protestant institutions of our land ; and that the prosperity which, partly by the aid of his measures, has visited the commercial communities of the empire during the past year, will interfere to prevent any Conser vative opposition to those attacks, by which the permanence of an administration, so pregnant with benefits to the pockets of some of its supporters, may be endangered. Since writing the article, we have perceived the following paragraph, which ap peared in the Dublin Evening Mail of Friday last : " ANTI-TRINITA RIAN COL LEGES.—We believe we may now state with certainty that Sir James Graham, and that portion of the Cabinet which encourage every thing anti-Protestant in Ireland, have come to the resolution of founding two colleges—the one in Ulster, the other in Munster; Belfast and Cork being the localities fixed upon, in opposition to, if not in rivalry with Trinity College, Dublin. It is, we understand, decided upon, that these new establishments are to be founded and pro vided for by special charters and parliamentary grants, independent of all other funds ; and that for the present they are to have the power of granting degrees in medi cine, law, and arts ; and, of course, for the sake of old Ireland and Lillibolero, in music. For the present— mark for the present—the anti-Trinitarian Stinkomalees —the Back-lane Colleges revived—are not to have the power of granting degrees in divinity. This is a con cession for which we hope the Provost, Fellows, and Scholars of Trinity College will feel, as they ought to do, abundantly grateful." Surely such an announcement ought to excite every true friend of his Church, and of that noble institution to which the sister country, and even our own town, owes so greatly the spread of ‘Pro testant truth amongst us, to hurl their indignant reprobation against its authors. But no. A few of the honest operatives of the land may be induced to stand side by side with their clergy in opposition to such an attempt to endow Popery and Infidelity at the public cost; but the leading members of the Conservative body will hang back and crouch be neath the encroaching foot of utilitarianism, and the contempt of their more humble, yet more ho nest, labourers in the cause of the Constitution, exclaiming, as they cling to their fast-filling money bags, in the spirit of Horace's miser— " Populus me sibilat Ac mihi plaudo, simul ac contemplor Nummos in arcs I" May we ask of them for whom it is—to conciliate what faction it is—that Sir Robert Peel has resolved upon these outrages upon one of the noblest Pro testant Universities in the empire The character of that faction—alas it is almost too numerous and potent to be called by the name—is illustrated, far better than it could he by any description of ours, in the narrative, which will he found in another part of our paper, of the late infamous proceedings at the funeral of the Earl of Limerick. It is to con ciliate the offscourings of the Repeal and Popish parties that Sir Robert Peel consents to throw down the strongest Buttress, which stands between them and the preservation from ruin of the Established Protestant Church in Ireland ! It is to win the af fections (!) of men, whose Hates, handed down from father to son, through a period of nearly fifty years, have just developed themselves in a violation of the decencies which ought to attend the solemn rites of Christian burial of the meanest of their fellow-men, and a wolfish attempt to sacrafice to their fury even the insensate ashes of its illustrious object. The murderous rabble of Limerick demand " Secular Education"; a conservative administration are about to found for their use a University r We turn from the subject with sorrow and shame. THE FUNDS, SATURDAY NIGHT.—The amount of business transacted at the Stock Exchange to-day was limited, and prices scarcely so well supported as yester day. The final quotation of Consols for the account this afternoon was 1001 to ; Bank Stock left off 210 to 211 ; Exchequer Bills 625. to 645. pm. ; Three per Cents. Re duced 1001 to ; Three and a Quarter per Cents 1033 to 1; and India Bonds 775. to 795. pm. In the foreign stock and share markets the jobbers, in the absence of more profitable occupation, were employed in arranging their half-monthly accounts, which will be finally settled on Monday. Although several of the speculative securi ties have shown a good deal of fluctuation, it is to be hoped we shall have to record no defaulters. The value of cash for accommodation in these markets ranges from 5 per cent. and upwards, and lower rates perhaps may with some parties be accepted, where security is of the first character. Spanish Five per Cents. closed 271 to A ; the Three per Cents. 38 to 1; Russian 119 to 120: Pe ruvian 29i to pi ; Portuguese 60 to 61; Mexican 36# to #; the Deferred 16+ to 1; Dutch Two and a Half per Cents. 641 to ; the Five per Cents. 99 to 1; Danish 89 to 90; Columbian 141 to 1; Chillan 100 to 102; Buenos Ayres 39 to 41 ; Brazilian 883 to 8n ; and Belgian 102 to 103. ACCIDENT TO THE VENERABLE ARCHDEACON CL &EKE. —During morning service at Eastham, on Sunday last, an accident, we are happy to say not of a serious nature, occurred to this venerable divine. The Rev. Archdeacon was proceeding from his pew to assist in the Communion service, when, it is supposed, his foot caught the edge of the bass matting of a step in the aisle, and he fell pros trate upon the floor. At first it was imagined that the accident was the result of a fit, and considerable commo tion was excited, numbers of the congregation rushing from their pews to assist the venerable gentleman ; but we believe the cause was as above stated. A considerable suffusion of blood from the face flowed down over his ca nonicals, which were further saturated by the water sprin kled upon him to restore consciousness ; and after a short time he was led into the vestry, after which the service pro ceeded. From enquiries made subsequently, we learn, that although unable for some time to leave the vestry, the archdeacon was not materially injured, although severely shaken. The rev. gentleman is, we learn, in his 84th year. THE LETTER CARRIERS.—We are gratified to learn that the memorial of this body has at length received at tention in the proper channel, and that certain inquiries have been set on foot, preparatory, we hope, to the prayer of the memorial being, in some degree, complied with. But we must confess that we were much surprised to learn that one main inquiry was, how much each postman rea lised, annually, by what are termed " Christmas Boxes." To make this uncertain and fluctuating contingency a con nected link of consideration in their salaries, appears ri diculous, if not paltry, since the amount will vary, ac cording to temper and circumstances, and, in many dis tricts, be too trifling for any one to notice. An import. ant branch of our public revenue ought not to parley upon such trivial casualties; and it is not perfectly consonant with that good faith that ought to be held with the public, to make calculations upon their freedom of heart and friendly dispositions, as an excuse for withholding a full and regular salary to the real working branches of the Post-office department; nay, it will appear in the public eye something in the shape of an additional tax imposed by the head department. We say, do the handsome thing at once, by conceding such addition to their wages as the merits of the case will clearly warrant, and not conde scend to pauperize their servants by expectancies of so frivolous and changeable a nature as " Christmas Boxes." DANGEROUS FOG.—Yesterday morning, and throughout the day, a dense fog set in in this town and neighbour hood, so that gas was required in the public offices and places of business. At some periods an object could not be distinctly seen across the main streets, and the omni buses and other vehicles had to proceed with caution. On the river the vapour was generally still more thick, and passed in successive clouds along the water, so that vessels were frequently not to be distinguished beyond a few yards. The ferry steamers had, as might be expected, to keep a sharp look-out, and were frequently in no little danger of collision. During nearly the whole day, the vessels at anchor in the stream, those on their way, and also the floating landing stages, kept up a constant ringing of bells, gongs, &c., to avert accidents ; but, so far as we can yet learn, nothing serious occurred. The wind, which on Sunday prevailed from the southward and eastward, ranged, during the fog, from south to about west. —lt may be remarked, as rather extraordinary in this part of the country at least, that the fog was not continu ous to any great degree in any particular locality, but changed alternately in a short time from dense to thin ; so that at one time, at the same place, the blue sky was " almost" seen in patches above and the sun " shining" but with diminished lustre ; at another time the whole sky was obscured, and the sun, if not entirely hid, re sembled a ball of crimson colour. From the same cause, (the successive clouds of fog,) the higher masts of proxi mate vessels in the river were distinctly seen over the ap parent smoke, and in the next minute their hulls only. One or two slight collisions took place in the river but no material damage was done. THE EXETER INNOVATIONS. The accounts of the past week from Devonshire and Cornwall show that the concession recently made by the Bishop of Exeter came not at all too soon. The jour nals published in those counties are filled with the pro ceedings taken, or about to be taken, by various bodies of the laity to arrest the threatened innovations. In the city of Exeter, on Friday last, a requisition was pre sented to the Mayor, by a deputation headed by John Bacon, Esq., from 1852 Protestant laymen of the Estab lished Church, requesting him to call a public meeting of the inhabitants of the city of Exeter, when his worship at once acceded to their request, and appointed the meet ing to be held at the Guildhall, on Thursday next. The requisition declares the object of the meeting to be " to address and petition our most Gracious Queen on the present state and danger of the Protestant Church." We observe, too, that in their preliminary proceedings the requi,itionists treat the concession of the surplice as a trivial matter, and as by no means in itself satisfactory. Meanwhile, the two parishes in that city, in addition to those which had previously met—St. Pancras and St. Peirock—have assembled, and passed their respective re solutions as unanimously and with as much determination as any of their neighbours. Simultaneously, too, in all the leading towns of the diocese similar steps are being taken. At Southrnolton, on Thursday list, a public meeting was held in the Market House, the churchwarden in the chair, and Whigs and Conservatives uniting cordially on this topic, a petition to both houses of parliament was pro posed by Earl Fortescue, and an address to the Queen was moved by Lord Ebrington, both of which were unani mously adopted. At Newton Abbott, the meeting took place on Tuesday last, and it was resolved, without a dissentient voice, to petition the throne to take measures " to arrest the spirit of innovation now so unhappily prevalent." A similar meeting was held in the parish of Charles, Plymouth, the churchwarden presiding ; and the resolu tions adopted declare " the determination of the parishio ners to retire from every church in which the innovations shall be attempted." At East Teignmouth, the meeting, " assembled in ves try, and afterwards adjourned to the Court House, in consequence of the very full attendance "—resolved, " That this meeting protests against the bishop of this diocese issuing an order to his clergy on a point upon which there is a question as to its legality; and which his lordship acknowledges requires complicated inquiry to ascertain." " That these resolutions emanate from a congregation greatly opposed to dissent, and sincerely attached to the Church of England ; and who deeply feel being com pelled to oppose themselves to the orders or wishes of their diocesan." At Tiverton, on Thursday, a meeting, held in St. Peter's Church, the churchwarden in the chair, resolved to address a humble petition to her Majesty, praying her gracious interposition. At Clist Hydon, also on Thursday last, a meeting was held, with the churchwarden in the chair, resolved unanimously, 4 I" That as lovers of peace and unity in the Establish ment, this meeting most strongly deprecates the injustice of one diocese being compelled to observe certain forms and practices sanctioned by the general usage of the Church." West Teignmouth was to meet on Saturday last, and Shaldon on Friday. Torquay, also, and Devonport, met on Friday, but we have teen no report of the proceedings. In Cornwall the same spirit is exending itself. Already we observe one meeting held at Truro, and several others announced in various parts of the county. It is quite clear, therefore, that bad not the order for the surplice been withdrawn, a collision of some fearful kind must have taken place. Some clergymen would have resisted the bishop's order; their churches would have been crowded, and all the others deserted. Then if the bishop had endeavoured to enforce his order, a law suit must have followed, in which either be must have been defeated or if he had succeeded, the irritated people would have rushed into dissent by hundreds. GRAND JUNCTION RAILWAY. At one o'clock yesterday, an adjourned meeting of the proprietors in the Grand Junction Railway Company was held in the Cotton Sales-room, Exchange-buildings, the object of which was to receive a statement from the directors relative to the expected termination of the pend ing differences with the London and Birmingham Railway Company. The meeting was very numerously attended. JOHN Moss, Esq., Chairman of the Board, having taken the chair, read the following address :—Gentlemen, although I regret that yon have had the trouble of assem bling again so soon after your late meeting, I am happy to say there is no occasion to detain you now for any con siderable time, nor have I to bring before you any un pleasant subject. (Hear, and cheers.) The directors think they may with confidence say, that the present state of their relations with the London and Birmingham board is such as to leave a reasonable hope that a permanent arrangement, beneficial alike to the public and to the two companies, can be made at an early period, though none such has yet been concluded. The unanimous recom mendation of the board,. therefore, under these circum stances, is, that all discussion should be avoided at present. (Hear, hear.) I may remind you that the ordinary half-yearly meeting of the company will take on Saturday, the Ist of February. Although the direc tors cannot now anticipate any such necessity, the board have requested me to say, that, if iu the meantime it be comes necessary to concur in measures for the protection of the company's fair interests, they will not hesitate (relying upon the ultimate support of their constituents) to take, on their own responsibility, all such proceedings as they may think desirable. It is not the wish of the directors to adjourn this meeting, except sine die, but rather dissolve this meeting, and wait for the meeting of the Ist of February, before which, I hope, all will be concluded satisfactorily with the London and Birming ham Company. The meeting having intimated their approbation of this course, Mr. Moss added that it was his most: anxious wish, and he should endeavour to bring about an arrange • meat with the London and Birmingham board. Under present circumstances he would, therefore, merely move that the meeting adjourn sine die. The motion was carried by acclamation and the proceed ings terminated. The Albion states that Mr. J. Langan will be a candidate for Vauxhall Ward at the next election. The splendid new transatlantic steam-ship Cambria sails hence, on Saturday next, for Halifax and Boston. A vacancy has been, occasioned for Pitt-street Ward by the death of William Fawcett, Esq., whose death is announced in our obituary. GuANO.—The Minister of Commerce has addressed a circular to all the Chambers of Commerce, announcing that the Spanish government has ordered that the manure called guano should be admitted into Spanish ports duty free under the flag of whatever nation. SHIPWRECK AND HUMANE SOCIETY.—This excellent society presented, yesterday, their medal to Mr. R. W. Walker, for exertions in saving the lives of two persons from drowning, off Woodside pier, a few weeks since. Inspector Savage also rendered important service on the same occasion. The Grand Jury at the recent sessions called the atten tion of the magistrates to the nuisance of horns' blowing in the public streets by omnibus attendants and others, whereby the lives of her Majesty's subjects on horseback and in carriages are endangered.—[We should like if the Grand Jury at the next sessions would turn their atten tion to the " nuisance" of people being run over, in some of our streets, by omnibuses and other carriages coming upon people passing, without such a note of preparation as a horn affords. Really we are getting a little too fearful of having the tympanum of our ears disturbed, or the soft tread of our feet upon our Turkey carpets broken in upon by vulgar sounds ! Such of " her Majes ty's subjects on horseback," as have seats so frail, should either give a little less corn to their steeds or get inside. —En. L. S.] SATURDAY EVENING CONCERTS.—The friends of the Saturday evening concerts a-d literary entertainments, for the amusement and improvement of the working clas ses, gave a grand tea party, at the Music-hall, on Satur day evening last, which was well attended. In the absence of Mr. Wm. Rathbone, the chair was taken by Jr.D John Smith : tea, coffee, and cakes were plentifully supplied by Mr. Hiles, confectioner, of Parker-street. After this repast, Mrs. Weare delivered an interesting lecture on the advantage of female education, and a variety of pleasing songs. glees, &c., were sung by Miss Whitnall, Miss Joseph, Mr. Hornby, and Miss Manton. Robertson Ghidstone, Esq., sent a letter enclosing £5 towards the funds. A letter was also read from R. Rathbone, Esq., enclosing £1 ls., and another from Christopher Rawdon, Esq., enclosing £2 2s. The writers of both expressed their approbation of the objects of the committee. The company separated about ten o'clock, highly pleased with the good fare, and the intellectual recreation of the even ing. QUEEN'S COUNTY.—BARBAROUS MURDER.—About four o'clock on the 20th instant, a boy who happened to be cutting switches in the plantation at Levelly, near Rathdowney, discovered the body of a man who had been brutally murdered. There were five cuts on the head, and on the right side was the appearance of two stabs in flicted by a bayonet or some other sharp instrament. The murdesed man, upon examination, was found to be John Dillon, of Rathdowney ; and it was the opinion of medical gentlemen who attended that he must have been five or six hours dead when discovered. John Dillon was up wards of 70 years of age, and a respectable man. It seems he had a rent charge.on some land held by his nephews, also named Dillon, which being allowed to run in arrear, he had them served with an ejectment process, that was to be tried at Abbeyleix Quarter Sessions on the 28th in stant. In consequence of an arrangement proposed by his nephews, James and Robert Dillon, for the settlement of the differences between them, the old man left home for Levelly at about half-past eleven o'clock ; and the next account we have of him is that of finding his body as al ready mentioned. It is supposed that the nephews plan ned the murder, and that in order to facilitate their dia bolical intentions, they beguiled their unsuspecting victim to the spot where the tragedy was enacted. On Saturday an inquest was held on the body at Rathdowney, and a verdict of " Wilful murder" was returned against some person or persons unknown ; and that James and Robert Dillon were aiding and conspiring in the same. Robert Dillon was arrested on the evening of the murder; there were recent marks of blood on his trousers. In account ing for himself, he equivocated very much, and his state ment could not be sustained by facts. James Dillon has absconded. The Government has offered, through the hands of Mr. T. Cannon, resident magistrate, Mary borough, a reward of £BO for the discovery of the mur derer.—Leinster Express. DARTMOUTH ELECTION. At four o'clock on Friday the Mayor took his seat at the hustins, and declared Mr. Somes duly elected Mem• ber of Parliament for Dartmouth. By the official poll• book the numbers were— Mr. Joseph Somes. .. Mr. G. Moffatt Being market-day, the concourse of persons assembled far outnumbered those who attended the nomination. There were from 3,000 to 5,000 present. Mr. Somes expressed his heartfelt thanks for the honour conferred, and assured them that, as member for the borough, he should make no distinction among his constituents, whether they were Tory, Whig, or Radical. Having no personal considerations to swerve him, he had but one object in view—the interest of the town ; and any influence he might now obtain with Her Majesty's Go vernment should be used for the benefit of his consti tuents. (Loud and prolonged cheers.) Mr. Moffatt said, that the result of the poll would give his opponent only a temporary triumph. He knew well the means by which the election was carried. When addressing the electors yesterday he had a majority of promises. (Laughter.) Apart from other proofs, there was a strong moral proof in the fact that many voters who had been Liberals for 10, 20, and 30 years, on this occa sion voted for the tory candidate. He further stated that he knew the election had been carried by bribery. At this announcement, Winsor, a journeyman builder, leaped on the reporters' desk in front of the hustings, and advancing to the Whig booth challenged one of the committee with having tempted him with three months' work if he would vote for Mr. Moffatt. (Cries of Chalker, Chalker !. bribery, bribery !") A general meWe followed, during which it was arranged that neither Mr. Moffat nor Mr. Somes should again address the meeting. ' The successful candidate proposed a vote of thanks to the Mayor, which was seconded by Mr. Moffatt and car ried with three cheers, each party retiring with their friends. The defeat of Mr. Moffat is eminently a defeat of the " Anti-Corn-Law League"—a defeat, too, of a nature always the most damaging, for it was not on the part of the Conservatives a seat retained, but a seat wrested from the enemy. Mr. Somes. the successful candidate, pre vented the possibility of glossing over the real terms of the combat. "I declare to you," said he, " that I bezieve the Anti-Corn-Law League to be the greatest enemies to the middle and working classes." The gentleman hold ing this opinion—himself largely engaged in commercial pursuits—has been chosen by the majority of the electors of Dartmouth as their representative, to express such opinion, if need be, in Parliament. Such is the practical comment on Mr. Cobden's boast of carrying the elections, and Mr. Bright's declaration, " We are winning now !" THE INTENDED RAILWAYS. (From yesterday's Times.) There is a perfect fever of excitement among all parties connected with the formation of new lines of railway as to what view may be taken of their respective pretensions in the reports concerning them to Parliament, now so nearly about to recommence its sittings. Whatever the result may be, as it is impossible that the whole of them should go up with a favourable view of the case, and as many of them must be rejected altogether, fluctuations in the nominal price of these schemes must inevitably ensue at about that period. Hence it is particularly incumbent on those gentlemen who exercise this preliminary trust, that they do not suffer the slightest intimation to escape of any decision at which they may have arrived. since ad vantage could hardly fail to be taken of it by the parties who obtain such knowledge, and it would be equivalent to giving them the benefit of playing with loaded dice. This hint is thrown out without any idea that such a trust is likely to be knowingly betrayed, but to put the board more upon their guard, since a mere look, or the refusal to answer an impertinent question, might perhaps produce the same result as a plain communication. Among the many contrivances that rivalsbip has en gendered in the late competition for new lines of railway, one or. two are mentioned by a correspondent, which savour more of the tricks of election agents than of the honest conduct of men of business and persons deserving the confidence of the public. In one instance it is stated that the type of a printer was purchased by an active member of one company, with the intention, and with the result, of preventing the publication, in compliance with the standing orders of the House of Commons, of an important document of a rival company. In another in stance the directors of a branch line of railway were timely apprized of the intended perfidy of one of their officers, and they succeeded at the last hour in preventing him from earning his bribe. Indeed, other cases are cited, but as they lead into libellous matter, it of course would be imprudent specially to refer to them. However, it may be as well to give a seasonable hint to the Board of Trade, not wholly to depend upon and make selection from the plans of those companies which may have complied with the standing orders in all particulars, but to make inquiries, and as certain whether other routes are not in some districts chalked out, which if the social and progressing condition of the public had been properly considered, would have been matured, and found worthy of sanction, had it net been for the underhand and dishonest trickery of parties who, on assumed respectability, were intrusted with their developement. The Board of Trade, as the newly con stituted Government tribunal, is now looked upon in the light of a court of appeal in these matters; and though it can hardly be expected that the decision of the commis sioners appointed to investigate the claims of the nume rous plans presented will give general satisfaction, still the exhibition of a desire to make themselves acquainted with the real merits of the late rail, ay movement, as con nected not only with extensions, but also with recently projected lines, c annot ;fail at least to give them a better position, both as regards future operations and the opinion of impartial observers. [ADVERTISEMENT.] THE GIPSIES' RETURN TO LIVERPOOL! ! Joyful Intelligence—Twelfth Night—Cupid's Alliance— Combination of Prophecies—Prognostications of the Twelve Gipsies—Unequalled Chances for the Old and Young, Grave and Gay, Romantic and Melancholy ! ! —Extraordinary attraction !! !—P li. OD I GIO U S TWELFTH-NIGHT CAKE, weighing the enormous weight of ONE TON, or 2,240 POUNDS WEIGHT ! Y !—Twelve solid Gold Rings—Forewarn ing of the Gipsies ! !—Love's Decreer! `• Love rules the court, the camp, the grove, And men below, and saints above, Fos love is Heaven, and Heaven is love." MONDAY, January 6th, 1845, being the Twelfth and last night for the celebration of the Christmas festivities, FEENY BROTHERS have the honour of announcing a similar magnificent treat as that which they last season gave to the lovers of "old customs", the practice of which had not been followed in Liverpool for eleven hundred years, since• the Gipsies first made their appearance in this country, entitled FORTUNE'S FROLIC; The Bill containing the 12 prognostications. N.B.—A copy of the Gipsies' Bill will be given to any person calling/ or sending for it to the Dublin Confec tionary Establishments, 20, Berry-street, or 126, St. James's-street. FEENY BROTHERS, Proprietors. The gigantic Cake will be built at the central branch of the Dublin Confectionery Establishment, 20, Berry street, where the Public can view it TO -MORROW, (Wednesday,) the Ist of January. Orders for portions of the Cake will be also received at FEENY BROTHERS', 126, St. James's -street, where a grand supply of small Twelfth Night Cakes will be ready. ear It is respectfully requested that Carriages will draw up in Berry-street, with the horses' beads towards St. Luke's Church, and pass on by Bold-street, through Colquitt-street, by Seel-street, again into Berry-street, to take up, where the police will attend to ensure regularity. PLAN OF THE LIVERPOOL DOCKS.—The LIVERPOOL STANDARD has furnished its subscribers with another of those ingenious and admirable specimens of typographi cal skill, in a Map of the Liverpool Docks, which cannot fail to be admired by all classes of readers, but can only be fully appreciated by those who are practically conver sant with the almost insurmountable difficulties which have heretofore beset the compositor in his attemi is to form such like specimens of typographical ingenuity.— Blackburn Standard. CHRIST CHURCH.—On Thursday evening last, a con gregational tea-party was held in the school-room. Chris tian-street, with a view to promote that social feeling and general good-will so peculiarly suited to the festive season of Christmas. The incumbent and assistant ministers of Christ Church were present, and several other clergymen kindly took part in the arrangements of the evening. So numerous was the attendance that every seat was occupied, and many of the congregation, who had delayed applying for tickets, were disappointed in obtaining admittance. Grace was sung by the choir before and after tea, when the tables were cleared away, and the business of the evening began. The Rev. Fielding Ould commenced by observing, that it was the first time he had ever attended a meeting of the kind ; that the object of such meetings was twofold, first, to promote sociality among the mem bers of a congregation ; and secondly, to afford a good op portunity for alluding to matters of detail not exactly suited to the dignity of the p u lpit. H e th en mentioned one or two points rel a ti ng t o Ch r i s t Ch urc h, referring just hearers for a fuller accou n t t o a p amp hl e t be had printed, as an '' Address to the congregation for 1845." After announcing what the arrangements were for the evening, he concluded by calling on the Rev. A. Hume, who, shortly, but f orc ibly, p resse d upon the meeting the advantages of connecting Christ Church National Schools with the Collegiate Institution, by means of a yearly ex hibition. Short reports were then made by one of the curates on the state of the v ar i ous c h ar itable institutions supported by the congregation, on each of which addresses were delivered by the Revs. W. Butler, B. Marshall, and E. Wolfenden. Between these addresses intervals were allowed for conversation, during which the whole party crowded round a few tables at the upper end of the room laid out with fancy-work, kindly contributed by ladies for the benefit of the schools and local charities. At half past nine, after a closing address by the Rev. F. O u ld, th e greater part of those present retired, highly gratified with all they had seen and heard. We cannot but notice the manner in which the fine school-room was decorated for the occasion. Although truly the commonest materials were made use of, the ladies' committee transformed them by the magic wand of taste into every form and variety of graceful ornament. Flags and banners waved from the windows, and p an nelled the bare wall s w i t h their glittering colours ; garlands of rich evergreens hung in festoons from the ceiling, and were wreathed lightly along the sides of the room ; and the fancy -work was laid out in stalls tastefully curtained in, and a d orne d w i t h t w i n i ng garlands of Christmas holly and laurestinus. We under stand that the tea-tabl es were supplied by Mr. H arr i s , confectioner, Clarence -street. Dec. 31, 1844. AMERICAN COTTON MARKETS. By the Caledonia steamer, whose arrival from Bosto n and Halifax we have noticed' elsewhere, we have received the usual circular of Messrs. Wright and Lewin, of NO York, dated Dec. 14, a copy of which we subjoin. The Cotton Market in this City, since the date of our Circular of 30th ultimo, presents no new feature, the siness done has been to a fair extent, and prices have im perceptibly given way, until our quotations are an id to to a lc. lower than those of that day. The total sales since Ist December, amount to 12,000 bales, a fair pro portion of which has been taken by our Manufacturers; the remainder for England and France. Some shipments to Liverpool have also been made from first hands. Th e English accounts to 19th November did not reach a until the morning of the 9th instant, and failed to produce any change in the views of purchasers, or to arrest the drooping tendency of the market. The stock of Cotton unsold now in the city, is reduced quite low, being esti' mated at 15,000. In our circular of 28th October, ne stated that the staple of the new crop was very deficient —we are now enabled to say, that it appears the earl) , pickings only were inferior, the staple of the more recent receipts being much better, and superior in length and strength to last year's crop. We have noticed in Mobile Cottons particularly this feature, and are of opinion that in Liverpool less difference in price will be made between it and New Orleans Cotton, than has been the case for the last year or two. The sales yesterday were about 700 bales, the market closing with more firmness and steadier prices. FREIGHTS.—At the date of our last Circular, ship owners were endeavouring to obtain an advance on cot ton to Liverpoool, and were asking id. for square; ship pers being unwilling to pay this, a pause ensued, and finally 11-32 d. was accepted for some few parcels ; 5-16 d. soon after becoming the current rate, considerable cot ton was engaged. For the past few days little has been done, id. being again asked, and 11-32. offered. EXCHANGES.—In Exchange there has been a moderate business doing without much variation in price. We re fer to table above for quotations. In Charleston, for the week ending 30th November, the sales of cotton amounted to 12,600 bales. Prices in the early part of the week were an a. lower than the quotations given in our last, which was regained on the receipt of Liverpool dates to sth November, per Britan nia. For the week ending 7th• December, the quotationS remain the same, but. in consequ..mce of an advance in freights, holders were compelled to accept rather easier terms, the sales amounted to 8,100 bales. Freights to Liverpool had advanced to Id. In Savannah, prior to the Liverpool accounts to sth Nov. being received, the better descriptions of cotton de clined to lc. to *c. They afterwards were held firmer, but holders were not able to get any advance, the sales for the week ending 30th Nov. were 3,700 bales. During the week ending 7th Dec., the market was dull and fur ther declined per lb.—the sales amounted to 7,150 bales. Freigts have also advanced from 7-16 for square, and id. for round, 9.16 d. for square and round, and a far ther advance is demanded, In Mobile, for the week ending 23d November, the sales were 4,200 bales, at a decline of lc. and for that ending 30th Nov. 6,500 bales, at a further decline of as ic. Market heavy, from recent large receipts. Freights have advanced from 4d. per lb. to 17-32 d. per lb. In New Orleans, the sales from 20th to 23d Nov. were 7,800 bales, without change in price from our quotations on 30th Nov. For the week ending 30th ult. the sales amounted to 22,700 bales, at a decline of ic. to 4-c. The Liverpool accounts to sth Nov., per Britannia, reached that market on Ist Dec., and caused a better enquiry ; the sales from 30th Nov. to 4th Dec. amounted to 15,000 bales, without further change in price. Freights to Liver pool had advanced to id. It has now been finally arranged for her Majesty to proceed to the splendid seat of his Grace of Buckingham, on Wednesday, the 15th of January. The distance from Paris to Rotten, eighty-two mites, was accomplished by the Morning Herald's express with the King of the French's speech, exclusive of stoppages, in ninety minutes. It is understood that the Rev. Frederick Anson, bro ther of Mr. George E. Anson, Prince Albert's private secretary, will be the new canon of Windsor, in the place of the late Hon. and Rev. Mr. Stopford. PROB4I3LE ELECTION AT BRADFORD.—II is intimated by our Bradford contemporary that Mr. Hardy is likely to resign his seat, owing to his late serious attack of ill ness, and that his son, Mr. Gathorn Hardy. will probably be a candidate for the vacant seat.—Leeds Mercury. Tme BOARD OF TRADE AND RAILWAYS.—We hear that the decision of the Board of Trade will be given early' in the ensuing week in respect of the western and eastern lines of projected railways brought before them. We understand that as yet they have not entered upon an investigation of the northern lines.—Railroad Record. • SEASONHBLE RELIEF.—The Society for Relieving Destitution in the Metropolis has placed the sum of £lOO with each of the resident incumbents of Bethnal-green parish during this inclement season. Relief of a very ex tensive nature in coals,'bread, and potatoes, and a season able donation of blankets, was distributed for Christmas throughout the whole of the district. EFFECTS OF INNOVATION.—As a proof of the state to which Mr. Blunt has brought matters at Helston, on Sunday morning last the three galleries of the church con tained but one adult person besides the organist, although capable of containing 250; and yet the bishop says that such menus the curate of Helston are not the least suc cessful of the labourers in Christ's vineyard.—West Briton. THE IRON TAM:M.—It affords us muchpleasure to be able to state that this important branch of our mane ac• tures is in the most thriving condition which its best friends could wish. We noted an increase of 10s. r ton on 'manufactured iron in the early part of this ra , nth. On Friday the usual preliminary meeting of iron-masters was held at Dudley, in order to fix the prices of iron for the ensuing quarter-day, when a further increase of 101., per ton was agreed upon. REPRESENTATION OF TlPPERARY.—Archdeacon Laf fan's nominee has refused to swallow the bait, probably conceiving that, as the present parliament must die a natural death in the course of a couple of years, the honour of a seat would be too dearly purchased even at the small cost of (say) £2OOO. The Nation pleads ill health as an apology for the Hon. Mr, Hutchinson 's refusal to stand for the county. Under the circumstances, and as the next favourite, Mr. George Ryan, of Inch, has not stomach to bolt the Repeal test, there is yet hope in store for a scion of the house of Derrynane. The Oxford Chronicle of Saturday contains a descrip tion by a correspondent of some alterations and observ ances in the Church of St. Peter-le-Bailey, which was re-opened on Sunday week, after being closed for some time, in order to make the changes. The pews have given way to open seats, a new and large dipping-font is placed just within the door, the walls are covered with texts arranged to form creases, a large cross and gold or silver.gilt candlesticks decorate the altar, the text, " Except ye eat my flesh and drink my blood" is in scribed over the altar. On Sunday week, at the request of the curate, the Rev. W. B. Heathcote, the congrega tion arranged themselves so as to separate the sexes. The alterations are said to have been made at Mr. Heatheote'S expense. SHIPPING INTELLIGENCE. MONDAY. DECEMBER 30.—Wind S.S.E. ARRlVED.—Serafin, Caldiz, from Havana—Joh❑ Campbell. from Old Calabar ; sailed loth Oct. and from Fernando Po 27th October—Triton, from Cork—Palmerston, Coster, from Mon treal—and James Edward, Webster, from Charleston. Off the Port.—Southerner, for New York, putting back leaky —Saghalien, from Hong Kong—Ambassador, Sim, and Cathe ine, from Ichaboe—and Susan, from Bonny. Independence, for New York, has put back, leaky Jane Prowse, from Mexico and Valparaiso, at Crookhaven Cumberland, Power, from Pernambuco, at Cove ; sailed 12th November Ann, Storey; Supply - , Mackey, and Euclid, Davidson, from Ichaboe, at ditto Mary Jones, hence at Pernambuco Falmouth Packet of October, at ditto Mandarin, Hutchinson, hence at Charleston Alice Jane, hence at Vera Cruz Elerslie, Pagan, from Vera Cruz, at Laguira LIVERPOOL. CATTLE MARKET, DEC. 30. We have had the largest supply of Cattle at market to-dar than for some time of late, which met with dull sale, at kavie r prices. Beef, 5d to 6d; Mutton, Sid to 6d. LIVERPOOL COTTON MARKET, Dgc. 30. The business in Cotton throughout the whole of last week was large, though the demand moderated on Saturday, and to day, only 5,000 bales have been sold, Derhaps in some measur e owing to the dense fog which caused occasional suspension 0' business, from the impossibility of distingu shing colours. Th e accounts by the packet arrived yesterday, are not of an excitiop nature, so that there is no new feature to notice i n to -day business. Prices are fully supported, and rule gener ally d Pe' lb higher than they did this day week. Speculators have gel in with the trade, but seem now pre tty we ll sa ti s fi e d t o l e ave' to the consumers. LIVERPOOL PROVISION MARKET, DEC. 3 Ous market is kept very bare of good,—indeed of all descriP tions of Butter, and prices appear to harden every wcck. consumption of the manufacturing districts is immense' a good augury I Still, but little doing in pickled B u tt e r, and of currency is unaltered. An opinion prevails, that the pr ice 0 1 Irish Provh-ions will be well upheld this season ; in consequence of a great likelihood of there being very diminished suPPl ie ! from the other side of the Atlantic. In Bacon, we hear of 13 '; brisk operation as yet ; —though it is looked u p on with rath e r an eye of f vour by speculators. 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