The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser. — Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1844-10-01 00:00:00

iltlYerpool gPtantiarb. TUESDAY MORAING, OCT. 1, 1844. We called public attention recently to the neglect of the comfort and convenience of the poorer classes of travellers, evinced in the regulations of the Grand Junction Railway. The return made to us has been our exclusion from the advertising favours (!) of this powerful company--several of which have since gone the round of the Liverpool papers, with the marked exception of the STANDARD—and the ill-will of some of its directors, whom we had a right to class amongst the number of our friends. The pecuniary portion of the sacrifice we did not care for, although we regretted to observe the littleness of mind which could prompt its infliction upon us. We were consoled, however, by the reflection that, in the altered regulations which immediately fol lowed our remarks, we had secured for a portion of our fellow-townsmen and fellow-countrymen, whose interests are too little regarded by railway projectors and managers, that accommodation, which they had a right to expect, and which it was no less the inte rest than the duty of the Grand Junction Company to afford. There is no longer thrown in the way of the poor travellers by this line those inconveniences and slights which, previously, rendered the journey from Liverpool to London by anything less expen sive than the first-class trains, an undertaking which no one, except in the utmost emergency, would venture upon. Since this submission of the Grand Junction Directors to the pressure of public opinion, another company (the Liverpool and Manchester) to whom we had also addressed remonstrances which we felt were called for, with respect to the extravagant rate of their fares, have consented to provide, for the poorer description of their travellers, the accommo dation of a third-class train, the charge for which, for the distance between Liverpool and Manchester, is to be 3s. for each passenger. So far, we are quite ready to say "well done," although we must wait to see that the promised boon is not one which is encumbered and in part neutralised by accompany ing inconveniencies. There still remains, however, the extravagant and extortionate charge of 7s. for the first-class carriages, which we have on former occasions denounced, and of which, we contend, the public are entitled to demand the reduction. This charge is, within a fraction, at the rate of 3d. a mile ; and, in the present flourishing condition of the company, its exaction ought not to be permitted, neither will it be permitted, by the public. A mere glance at the prices of the Liverpool and Manchester stock will suffice to shew the reasona bleness of our demand for reduced rates, putting the good policy of according it entirely out of the question. The £lOO shares, £lOO paid, are worth £206. ~ £5O do. £5O „ £lO2. „ £25 do. £25 „ 1) £5l. „ £4O do. to be called up to pay debt.. £36. Here then we have a nominal capital of £215 per share, of which only £175 is paid-up capital, worth in the market no less than £39s—or a clear profit of £220 upon each share of £175 ! Surely a body of proprietors, so favoured by circumstances—so eminently successful—are entitled to be called upon to pay some little deference to, and even to submit to some small sacrifice of their exorbitant profits for, the public convenience. But it may be well worth enquiry whether any sacrifice at all is involved in the reasonable reduc tion of the fares by this line. It is incontestably certain that, with the increased comfort to be given to the second-class passengers, by the new arrange ment, a large number of those previously using the first class only will be induced to travel by the se cond class, and save the 25., the difference between the two ; whilst there is nothing, or very little, to induCe those previously travelling by the blue car riages to leave them, where two shillings can be saved by using the same carriages under the name of the third class. The prospect at present is, that the first class, with all its cushioned carriages, and even added luxuries, will be comparatively deserted, whilst the hulk of the passengers will travel by the second and third classes (perhaps most by the last) at the reduced fares of ss. and 3s. We are convinced that the company might, pro fitably for themselves, have adopted a still lower and better-proportioned rate of fares than the one now resolved upon. Five shilling bears still the same ratio to seven shillings that they did a month ago ; and if two-fifths were all the difference in value between the first-class and the blue train then, there can be no greater difference now, the carriages in each train being the same. An intermediate price might have been fixed upon for the second class carriages, which would not have been complained of. The Company would have found the benefit of their mo deration and desire to consult the public conve nience, the increasing traffic between the two ter mini being quite sufficient, independently of the in crea e of travelling caused by low fares (of which the recent cheap trips are a strong proof), to warrant the ultimate success, in a pecuniary view, of such a submission, gracefully made, to the requirements and the advantage of the public. We leave the subject with these remarks, merely remi9ding the directors that the demand now made upon their consideration may, if slighted, assume a less reasonable and moderate form. There are other routes by which a line may be brought from Manchester to Liverpool than the existing one; and if we are not wrongly informed, there is a company, whose power the directors of the Liverpool and Manchester Railway have already felt, who are only waiting for the time to arrive for attempting the construction of such a line. In the present improved condition of the science of railway construction, such a competing project is not to be lightly hazarded. The recent proposal of Dr. Alaunsell, to hold a triennial session of the British Parliament in Dub lin, is, with all its absurdity, important, as indicat ing a feeling amongst the Conservative party in Ire land, which is anything but a pleasing object of contemplation. The time is not yet ripe for a step, by Irish loyalists, the whole length of repeal. The milder measure of a federal union has not, as yet, many adherents amongst the educated and Protes tant portion of the Irish people. It is plain, how ever, that there is a growing disposition to advance in the direction of the vaunted specifics for Ire land's maladies —a disposition to attribute a portion of those maladies to the want of legislation upon the spot, and to claim for Ireland a greater influence in the Constitution than she possesses or is entitled to receive; and if that feeling continues to progr ess , with as great rapidity as it h as done of late, the . time is perhaps not so far distant a s some politicians imagine, when the cry for Repeal of the Union, in stead of being an exclusively Popish watchword the cry of a faction aiming at religious domina tion over their Protestant fellow-countrymen—will be• come the cry of a nation. We regret the policy on the part of our brother Conservatives in Ireland, which is operating to bring about a consummation so much to be feared. We regret, more than all, the temper which ap pears to have dictated such policy, and which, if encouraged, will throw the loyal Protestants of that country into the hands of O'Connell and of Rome, to serve as blind instruments for working out their insidious designs. It is quite true that such men as Dr. Maunsell, Alderman Butt, and their associates in this new movement, have had infinite reason of late years to be dissatisfied with the acts of the legis lature as it exists. 'lt is true, and lamentable, that the prospects of the Irish Protestants are well nigh as dark as the former gentleman has painted them ; and that, of the only two of their cherished institu tions—their University ani their Established Church—no reflecting man will engage that the first " will not within a year he thrown as a sop to the monster of agitation," or that, this being effected, " their Church as a national establishment can survive." But it is weak and unworthy of these men, who have fought. so nobly through long years of menace and persecution for the maintenance of their Protestant institutions and of the British con flexion, to rush now, in a moment of passion and resentment—the result of expectations disappointed and trust abused—into a course so rash and unad vised as this proposal of a migratory Parliament, which can only tend to encourage the ulterior hopes of repealers and rebels, without conferring one ad vantage upon the great mass of their fellow coun trymen. It is to be deeply deplored that, by such men, a step should be taken which is already weakening the confidence and sympathy ever ex tended to them by the Protestants of England, and which, if followed up, must produce in their minds distrust and total alienation. We cannot bring ourselves to believe that Dr. Maunsell is himself seriously persuaded of the feasibility of his plan, or its real advantages to Ire land. He says that it is feasible, because it has been tried before—because Parliaments have been held " at Oxford, York, Trim, and even at the Borough of Swords." No doubt such things have been, and the - 4embers of such Parliaments have debated in the Steel cap and morion, breast plates and thigh plates, with sword in belt, and spur on heel; but a practice, the prompting solely or mainly of the necessity of the times, can scarcely be urged as a precedent for arloption now. The machinery of legislation now is too cumbrous to become ambula tory. A Prime Minister cannot carry about with him, either 'Whitehall or the Treasury; the Chan cellor cannot remove either the Bank or the Ex chequer ; the Board of Trade, the Horse Guards, the Admiralty, Somerset House, and the India House, are fixtures too inseparably connected with the daily working of Government to be dispensed with. Feasibility in the plan, therefore, there is none. And, with respect to its real advantages to the great mass of the people of Ireland, we must con fess that we are not at all satisfied ; and especially we are sceptical with respect to its advantages to Protestant interests in that country. Dr. Maunsell, indeed, tells us that the plan " could not render the condition of Irish Protestants worse than it is ;" that "it would enable Englishmen to learn, what they do not now know, the actual position of Protestants in Ireland"—assertions all of very questionable truth or probability. But the conclusion that with a British parliament sitting in Dublin, within hearing of the fulminations which weekly issue from the Concilia tion Hall, and within reach of the violence and in timidation of the mobs which form the staff of the great agitator, a greater weight " would be given" to Protestant interests by a government which has conceded so much to the pressure from without, we cannot believe at all. It is totally beyond the range of our powers of digestion. It may be very convenient to the lawyers of Dub lin to have, as Dr. Maunsell remarks, " the field of imperial parliamentary practice thrown open to them," to the physicians to have " filo squares of Dublin filled with wealthy patients," and to the taadesmen of Dublin " to have their profits and their business quadrupled." A few of these anticipated benefits might even stray beyond the liberties—in about the proportion of the half-pennyworth of bread to the two gallons of sack in Sir John Fal staff's Tavern Bill ;—an increased amount of the capital of Great Britain might even find its way into Ireland, as the result of this measure—if it would allay that agitation which alone prevents the intro duction of such capital ;—but, with such slender prospects of advantage to the empire, depending, too, upon so many "ifs," it is not at all likely that Great Britain can ever submit to a concession, fraught with such vast inconveniences to herself, and which Ireland has not the shadow of a title to ask for. Upon every ground, then, we deprecate this pro posal, and the temper in which we fear it is made. However ingenuity may gloss it over, it is a move ment in the direction of repeal, perilous to Ireland herself, and doubly so to the little that is left of her Protestant character. Let our loyal fellow-country men throw from them such idle crotchets ; let them rally once more around those institutions, which in times past they have so nobly defended; and they will not ultimately be deserted of help. Or should the worst even come : should the light of Protestant liberty for a brief period be permitted to be obscured in their native land : let it not be said that to protestant rashness and passion an issue so dis astrous must be attributable ! Let it not be sung of our bleeding and prostrate constitution ; by the Protestant Poet of an after day : _ _ _ " So the struck Eagle, stretched upon the plain, No more through rolling clouds to soar again, Viewed his own feather in the fatal dart, And winged the shaft that quivered in his heart; Keen were his pangs, but keener far to feel He nursed the pinion which impelled the steel; While the same pl mage that had warmed his nest, Drank the last life-drop of his bleeding breast 1" i n Let the rain fall,if it is the divine will ; but, how ever deeply implicated may be those of timid and time-serving statesmen, let our hands be clean ! We are compelled, much against our inclination, to return to the que tion new agitated between the Watch Committee and the Magistrates of our bo rough, which since our last has assumed a slightly changed aspect ; but we must first set ourselves right with respect to an alleged misstatement in our last. We there asserted, because we understood such to be the act, tha! - . the opinion of Mr. Crompton was upon a case submitted by the Magistrates, and therefore one which must have been satisfactory to Mr. Rushton. This representation was contradicted by our contemporaries the Mercury and the Journal; and by the former in these very polite terms, redo lent of anything but kid gloves and lavender water : "It is not true. We have already answered the question decidedly. The magistrates have neither pre pared, directed, nor seen any case intended to be submitted to counsel. The assertion is utterly false ;itisa -, in plain speech : that is, it is an assertion of the Orange Standard; this will be understood at once." After this emphatic and very " plain" contradiction, given in so gentlemanly a spirit, we were hound to conclude that we had been in error, and were fully prepared to retract our statement. It occurred to us, however, yesterday, after perusing the opinions of Messrs. tale and Crompton, (which, with those of Messrs. Jervis and Vaughan Williams, the Li verpool Journal had been " enabled by the kind courtesy of the Mayor" to give at length to the world,) that by an application to the proper quarter we might possibly be able to see the case upon which these new opinions, and especially a subsidiary one by Mr. Erle, which for the first time we noticed in the columns of the Journal, had been given. We applied, therefore, to a member of the Watch Com mittee ; and, to our great surprise, learned that we had been nearer the truth than we imagined with respect to the mode in which these opinions had been procured. Up to the moment of our applica tion, the 'Watch Committee had never seen the opinions, except in the columns of the Journal; and at the hour of writing this, they have never had submitted to them the cases upon which they were taken, and which we are enab!ed, to state dis tinctly, were submitted with the Committee's consent, but with no further implication, to satisfy some doubts of the Town-Clerk himself, and an objection of Mr. Rushton that, in the former cases, the clause in the act (No. 77) upon which he mainly relied, had not been brought prominently enough before the notice of counsel. So far, then, there was prima facie ground for believing that the opinions were taken on behalf of the Magistrates ; and certainly something very like a right of ownership, on the part of the Magistrates, was exercised over them by the Mayor, in handing them over to the Journal for publication before they had been submitted to the Committee by whom it is alleged they were taken, and who, it seems, will have to pay for them. We leave to the Watch Committee to consider how far documents belonging to them have been, in this instance, legitimately used ; and proceed to. offer a few remarks upon the opinions themselves. In the first place, we cannot discover in any one of these opinions sufficient to lead us to entertain a serious doubt of the correctness of those previously taken. Mr. Erie's opinion is point blank in favor of the position take n by th e W a t c h Committee; and it is even strengthened by the replies to the subse quent queries put to him, and for the first time communicated to the 'Watch Committee through the columns of the Journal. The opinion of Mr. Crompton, with all its evident balancing and hesi tation, is not conclusively in favor of the point really at issue between the two bodies, the most material part of which was :—whether or not the Magistrates were correct in the course which they took, or would hwe been legally justified in dismis sing upon the mere refusal of the Policemen to leave the ()rang order. Mr. Crompton says that " the Justices, acting in the regular course and in due form, might have lawfully proceeded to adjudicate that the Constables in question were unfit for the duty of Constables by reason of their belonging to the societies in question;" and again—" I think that the clause (77) gives a jurisdiction to be exer cised by two Justices sitting in the case of alledged unfitness, and inquiring into such case en a legal manner." But was this ,course pursued, or is this the right contended for, by the Justices, or theirad vocates No ;to constitute a legal adjudication there must be an information on oath, an inquiry in a strict and legal form substantiated by evidence of unfitness; whereas, Mr. Rushton and his colleagues contend for the right to dismiss on their . caprice. The same remarks will apply to the opinions of Messrs. Jervis and Williams—(by what strange test, by the bye, the Town-clerk arrived at the de termination of consulting these gentlemen; we can nut make out)—the former of whose opinion our contemporary the Journal, somewhat unfairly, cuts into two disjointed fragments, omitting the most material portion, to strengthen his view of the case. It is urged that if Mr. Rushton's view of the in terpretation of the 77th clause (in opposition to that of better lawyers, who construe it in conjunction with the 80th, by which the powers of the magistrates are strictly confined to "conviction" of " any neglect of duty or of any disobedience of any lawful order") be not correct—if their power to dismiss he not a ca pricious power—the power of the Watch Committee must be equally restricted. Fortunately, however, it occurs that the Watch Committee claim no such unreasonable power, as conferred by the Act of Parliament; but take it under a portion of Article No. 12 of the " Conditions of Service," signed by every policeman on entering the force, which is as follows: " Each police constable is liable to immediate dismis sal for unfitness, negligence, or misconduct, without any cause being assigned." Here is the Watch Committee's position. They lose no useful power by the strictly legal and con stitutional interpretation of the act of Parliament. We trust we are now (lone with this question. In whatever way, or before whatever tribunal it may be decided, we are content to leave it to the ordinary and only proper course of abjudication. The Albion of yesterday contains an article upon proceedings alleged to have been taken by Mr. Parker, in order to secure his election for St. Anne's Ward, which, coming from a liberal journal ist, is really a gem in its way. It seems that it has been thought right by the conservative party in the ward to object to some twenty or thirty (the exact number is not stated) of the liberal Burgesses; and our very pure journalist, wiping out from his me mory the proceedings of his league and anti-mono poly friends, who are at this moment objecting to nine tenths of the Conservative Electors of the county, and a preponderating majority of the Con servative Burgesses of the town, holds up his hands in reprobation of this very improper practice when pursued, in self-defence, by an opponent party. Shocking of conservatives to do that upon good grounds, which a liberal may do with impunity upon no grounds at all! Upon one or two points of this astound►ng charge against Mr. Parker, a little more care on the part of our contemporary in ascertaining• facts, would have saved him from the perpetration of some need less impertinences. So far from Mr. Parker being so vastly anxious, as he is represented, to retain the dignity of a councillor, it was only after consider able urging that he consented again to offer him self, and then only upon the assurance that he wPs to be freed from all expence in the contest. Neither has Mr. Parker had anything to do personally with the objections, as is also stated by our contem porary, that gentleman having only returned to Liverpool on Saturday, from a fortnight's visit to the country. So much, therefore, for the veracity of the Albion's prompters on this occasion. We are confidently informed that Mr. Parker has not interfered in any manner with the proceedings preparatory to the election; he has not canvassed an elector, and, if re-elected, will be returned by as independent a constituency as any represented in the council chamber; and he certainly has done his duty to that constituency by sedulously watching over their interests, both in committees and at the meetings of the council. THE FUNDS: SATURDAY NIGHT.—The public secu rities were good to-day at advancing prices. Consols for money reaching 100 k to 4, and for the account, 1004- to 1. A purchase of £150,000 stock for the account by a Isading broker gave much impulse to business. Bank stock left off 2084 to 2094 ; Exchequer-bills 745. to 765. pm.; and India stock 289 to 290. In the foreign market the deal ings were limited, but prices were nevertheless very firm. Spanish Five per Cents. closed 234 to 244; the Three per Cents. 35 to 8 ; Portuguese 474 to 481 ; Peruvian 254 to 264 ; Mexican, 374 too; the Deferred 154 to 4; Dutch Two-and-a-Half per Cents., 624- to 4 ; the Five per Cents. 1001 to 101 ; Danish 89 to 90; Chilian 104 to 106; Co lumbian 144 to 4 ; Buenos Ayres 364 to 374 ; Brazilian 894 to 904 ; and Belgian 1034 to 1044. STRANGE AND OPPRESSIVE PRACTICE OF A " DE TECTIVE POLICE" FORCE.—That your " Liberal" or Radical in politics is almost invariably tyrannical when invested with power, we have had opportunities of ob serving in our own locality ; but we never remembered a case more strongly evincing the rigid character of Radical despotism, than has just been attempted to be perpe trated by the Radical and Popish authorities of Dublin. At the usual meeting of the North Dublin Poor-law Union, a wretched looking man was introduced to solicit admission into the Workhouse as a pauper. From his own statement, corroborated by two of the '' d 'ective " police, who were in attendance, he bad been tu,., years ago convicted of a felony, and had been four times since im prisoned for being found out after sunset I This body of detective police, it transpirel, have the orders of their worthy and liberal masters, to meet and watch offenders on their coming out of prison at the expiration of their sentences; and if they find them out after sunset, they are to arrest them, upon which a month's imprisonment is awarded. Thus the poor fellow in question, who stated that his brothers, who were respectable, were wil ling to do for him, had been so constantly dogged by the police, that he dared not disgrace them by approaching their door. He was, he said, the first of his family who had been an outcast ; and, " gentlemen," he continued, piteously, "is it not cruel that an unfortunate man who once commits a crime should be thus hunted down like a wild beast ?" The Board censured strongly the system pursued ; and the man was admitted into the Workhouse as the only asylum left him save a felon's cell, the New Poor-law thus proving more humane than a Radical Municipal Corporation ! THANKSGIVING FOR THE LATE ABUNDANT HAR• VEST. — On Thursday next, as may be seen from an ad vertisement, the Rev. J. H. Stewart will have a special service at St. Bride's Church, for the purpose of return ing thanks to Almighty God for the late abundant har vest, after which, a collection a ill be made for the Female Orphan Asylum. The reverend gentleman has issued a very interesting address on the subject, in which, after noticing that during the Levitical dispensation, the feast of the ingathering of the harvest was to be observed every year, he says, "although these Levitical feasts were, as to their form, abolished, with the other parts of the legal ce remonies, their spirit is preserved in the Gospel." The New Testament deslares that the Lord "Lett not himself without witness, in that he did good, and gave us rain from Heaven, and fruitful seasons, filling our hearts with food and gla d ness ." There also, we are directed by Him, that is, by our Lord Jesus Christ, "to offer up the sacrifice of praise to God, continually giving thanks to his name." In the northern part of our island, and in some other Christian countries a day of thanksgiving is kept at the close of every harvest. Similar acknowledgments have been frequently made in our land. At this time such a day of public thanksgiving appear* peculiarly appropriate. It will be in your remembrance, that during the spring season there was an unusually long period of dry weather, a period, indeed, so long, that a drought, and a conse quent failure of 'our crops was apprehended. But, the . Lord in his tender mercy sent a gracious rain, softening the furrows, and blessing the springing corn; then follow ing these grateful showers with balmy zephyrs and "clear sunshine after rain," thus making "the earth blossom and bud," "filling our barns with plenty," and "crowning the year with his goodness." Nor has the Lord's boun teous hand stopped here. But whilst he has favoured us with an abundant harvest, he has in his gracious provi dence caused so happy a change in our commercial affairs ; that instead of that depression in trade, which, not long since threw out of employment such numbers of our ope ratives; now, our ports are crowded with ships and ves sels, our manufactories are in full work, and our industri ous poor find for the moat part a ready demand for their labor." THE LIVERPOOL SrANDABD. PLAN OF BIRKENHEAD. We have the pleasure to announce that we shall be enabled to present to our readers, GRATIS, with our publication of Eczn AY N IAT , the Bth October, day previous to that ap t pointed for the of the foundation-stone of the new Wallasey Docks) an elaborate PLAN OF THE TOWNSHIP OF BIRKENHEAD ; comprising the whole of the streets, built or projected, the parks of Claughton and Clifton, the new Docks, and the property as laid out for building under the new improvementact, di.stin guishing !he plots belonging to the various owners, corrected up to the latest period, and noting the sites for the present and intended churches and other public buildings. This plan, which is beautifully executed, will be struck of on fine paper, and, when framed, will form an inte resting and valuable picture, which ought to be possessed by every one interested in the prosperity of this rising locality. As our sale on that day will be very much increased, we shall be glad if our friends will favour us, as early as possible, with their advertisements, a goodly number of which we can already gratefully acknowledge. TO CORRESPONDENTS, Had the " Chairman of the Afternoon Tee-total Meeting" refrained from slandering " A Member of St. Thomas's Church," we would have given insertion to his letter. Why does " the Chairman" say "I unhesitatingly say his statements are altogether false, in reference to several fruit stalls being erected, - when our corre spondent never said that there were such fruit stalls erected. If, as our correspondent seems to imply, each person is to set up his own standard of what is " good" as that which is to be the crite rion of what is allowable on the sabbath, then can the Repeaters justify their monster meetings, and the Socialists their balls and ',wettings, on that holy day. Our temperance friend should bear in mind, that he who said "It is lawful to do good on the sabbath day," said, also, " Thou shalt not bear false witness against thy neighbour," and said, moreover, by his apostle, " Whatsoever is not of faith s sin." LIVERPOOL EXHIBITION OF PAINTINGS. We obtained a cursory view of the Annual Exhibition of the Liverpool Academy on Saturday, prior to its being opened to the public,—(yesterday when our time would not permit us to attend)—and from what we have already hastely seen, we are inclined to pronounce the collection en masse to be one of the best, if not the very best, that has yet courted public attention in that school of arr.— Toe pictures too, appear to us to be very judiciously and impartially arranged, and in this respect great credit is due to the committee, whose endeavours to do justice to all competitors for distinction is, on every such occasion difficult and onerous. Our space precludes us from enter ing into details for the present; hut we cannot do less than point out some of what we considered the most talented productions. Over the entrance door of the principal room, is a large picture, (No. 1,)—" Lady Jane Grey summoned to Ex ecution," by Leahy. The figures are as large as life.— Lady Jane is kneeling before a crucifix with uplifted eyes, and behind her are numerous attendants—her faithful ad herents, and the gruff armed officers and others who are to drag her to her death. The conception, drawing, arid colouring are all good, verifying the passage in Knight's History from which it is taken,—" In countenance no thing cast down, neither her eyes anything washed with tears, although her gentlewomen wonderfully wept. Handed from a kingdom to a scaffold, she suffered for the faults of others, having overcome all the frowns of adverse fortune by her constancy arid innocence." " Mount St. Michael," in Cornwall, (49,) by Stanfield, is a fine large sea view, with the remains of the wreck of a ship in the turbulent waters in the foreground, sur rounded by boats. The marine and land portions are both ably wrought nut. (By A. Elmore.) " Rienzi in the Forum," energetically addresing his followers, is another fine picture, which, we believe won the prize at the Royal Academy. The figures nod group ing are peculiarly striking, and the colouring chaste and admirable : " Then turn we to the latest tribune name. From her the thousand tyrants turn to thee, Redeemer of dark centuries of shame, — The friend of Petrarch—hope of Italy, Rienzi! last of Romans." Byron. " Entlymions s Dream," (21,) by our townsman W est cott, is worthy of his talents. It is a large and well fin,shed picture. " Windermere," (50,) and (53,) the " Head of Loch Lemond," are two beautiful small landscapes, by A. Hunt. " A Worrier Knight," of the olden time, by Etty, (with a turbanned figure behind,) is one of the finest produc tions in the rooms. The head, beard, and armour of the knight, are deeply shadowed, and the countenance strong ly characteristic of indomitable manhood and firmness of purpose. " The Madness of Hercules," (destrosing his wife and children,) by Patten, is highly artistic, and will doubtless add to the fame of that favourite painter. " Shrimping on the Sands of St. Michael" by E. W. Cooke, is a creditable effort, and forms a pleasing sea-view. " Dinner Time, in a Franciscan Convent at Florence," (209,) by S. A. Hunt. R.A., is a letting out of "the s!crets of the prison-house." The friars are devouring large basins of what may be supposed to be anything hut soup meagre, and each has allotted to him his large de canter of wine ! The figures and the perspective of the Refectory are well managed, as are the lights. Burrowdale, (22fi,) is a clever sketch, by Mrs. W. Burnett. No. 116, a Girl and Butterfly, by Miss E. Hunt. is also beautifully coloured, and both highly cre ditable to the fair artistes. Ansdell's picture of the " Board Room of the Blue Coat Hospital," attracts much admiration. The portraits art all striking likenesses, but there is rather a sameness (as we have before noticed) or rather an over ruddiness in the countenances. This time may suhdue. 143, 106, 62, 142, and 123. are all, we consider, well executed small pieces ; 177, a large sea-shore fishing scene, is also good. A cottage scene, 168, also struck us as meritorious, and 166, " moonlight." Poole. the author of the Plague Picture, exhibited last year, has treated us to another of his " horribles,"—the sacking of a Moorish town.—many of the figures lying about dying or dead, from famine. We took it for ano ther " plague," and though it exhibits great talent,—a plague take him, we say, for putting us to pain while we must admire genius! He has partly redeemed himself, however, by contributing a beautiful rural piece,—" a female crossing a river with a child on her back,"—very sweet, soft, and beautiful. Landseer has contributed one piece—the head and fore part of a deer-hound—with rough bristly-looking hair, very admirably executed. From Havell we observed N 05.76-303, a scene with a gipsy pasty, and another landscape, all bFautiful, espe cially in the fine thin blue haze of distance, and rays of sunlight, which this artist manages so exquisitely. No 275, a scene from Gil Blas, by T. M. Joy, is ex tremely happy in conception and execution. Christ at the tomb of Lazarus, (by another,) is a fine scriptural piece, as is one near it representing the lion, the lamb, &c.. in peaceful proximity. No. 264, a scene in a Kent ish Hop Ground, by Roods. is a fine spirited production. The Italian Boy, with his Guinea-pig, (238,) by, (we be lieve,) Gamberdella, is one of the clearest, round?st, and most pleasingly expressive portraits in the exhibition. There is a large picture of Jacob exhibiting the bloody garment, by Hurlstone, and a good scriptural piece, by Huggins, of this town. In the same room is a beautifully executed landscape, with anglers near a stream, (No. 340,) stated to be by J. B. Pim. Amongst the others of merit which we noticed are "`Wreck of a sloop," (44,) by E. W. Cooke ; 87, 97. Oysters, Nuts, &c.; 11, " The High land Lament," with a bag-piper, followed by mourners through a mountain pass, by H. Johnston ; 225, " Scene on the Nile," by Muller, &c. The Eglinetons and Col lingwood and Lee have all contributed fine pieces, but we cannot at present further particularize. There are many good portraits of natives of the town and others; including an excellent one of our excellent nautical friend Lieut. Parsons, R.N., by Beattie,—one of E. Rushton, Esq., another of Mrs. Jackson, of Birkinhead, and several others. We had not time to inspect the water-colour drawings, many of which, however, looked beautiful at a has'•y glance, and we can but add that the whole collection is wor. thy of the highest commendation, and ought to be visited by every person of taste in the town and neighbourhood. FEMALE ORPHAN ASYLUM. — This Evening the claims of this deserving Charity will be advocated in a Sermon at St. Michael's church, by the Hey. Hugh 111`Neile. The Mercury is mistaken in saying that " the Grand Master of the Orange Lodges sits as a member of the Watch Committee." The Grand Master of the Order is a nobleman of as high and illustrious rank as any which graces the British Peerage, and we may as well enlighten our contemporary a little further by saying that it is not Lord Kenyon who holds such office. COMMITMENT.L-Yesterday, at the Police Court, two girls, Margaret Smith and Margaret Evans, were charged with having stolen two shawls, the property of a Mrs. Jones. The complainant said that the prisoner Smith, who had lived in Greenland-street, had entered her ser vice on Thursday. and had left on the same day. The articles being missed, >he was searched for and appre hended, together with the other prisioner (Evans) who was supposed to have had something to do with pledging them. The latter, apparently a fine modest girl, told a very simple and affecting story, to the effect that the other girl had come to her when nn the eve of going to service, stating that she had absolutely nothing to eat; that to procure some money to relieve her necessities she had pledged her mother's shawl, and given her a shilling, on the faith of the other's promise that she would, on going to her place, find money to redeem it ; that her mother wanting the article before the prisoner made good her pro mise, she was obliged to take a blanket to pledge to redeem it, lest her mother should beat her, &c., and, finally, that she had no knowledge when she pledged the articles for the prisoner, to recover the blanket with part of the mo ney, that they were dishonestly come by. This prisoner received an excellent character from two parties in court, and Mr. Rushton stated, that he believed her story, and immediately discharged her. Her mother, a respectable woman, who was present, but not required to give evi dence, cried "Thank you, sir!" and immediately after.. wards fainted, and was carried out of court in that state. The prisoner Smith was committed for trial. THE CIVILIZATION OF THE INTERIOR OF AFRICA. — We noticed, some weeks ago, that Mr. Jamieson's steam-vessel, Ethiope, after having sailed for Africa, on a renewed attempt to establish commercial relations with the interior, by the Niger, had put back from stress of weather, but without injury. She sailed again about ten days ago, and, though too late for the Niger this season, will visit some of the other rivers on the coast. Notwith standing previous disasters to former expeditions, there are strong grounds to hope that this will eventually be crowned with success. Upon the discovery, by the Landors, in 1831, that the Niger, or Quorra, flowed into the Bight of Biafra, several Liverpool merchants sent out a vessel to prosecute trade up that river; but sickness so reduced the ship's company as to deter them from further proceedings. Mr. Jamieson, who was no party to this adventure, but who had acquainted himself with the geo graphical and commercial situation of the country deter mined to renew the enterprise on a limited scale. and, in 1840, the Ethiope, Capt. Becroft, manned chiefly by Africans, was sent out. She reached the Niger, penetra'ed higher up than had yet been done, remained seven months in the river, and held friendly commercial intercouse with the natives. At liabbah, the largest town, Capt. 8., was paticularly well received, and the king, in taking leave of him, expressed a wish that he would return, and bring with him " some brass cannon for defending his town ; two sofa beds, and a large trunk." The expedition of the "African Civilization Society " followed in 1841 under Captain Trotter and Captain Allen ; and, from fever and want of a matured plan, was most disastrous. But for the aid of Captain Becroft, who rendered them every as sistance, the fatality would have been greater. The object of this expedition was to introduce an improved system of .agriculture and commerce, christianity and civilization. They proposed a model farm on a larger scale than that at Sierra Leone, at which they pointed ; ro as to induce a traffic in produce in place of in human beings. Mr. Jamieson came forward at the time with his views, which were different. His principle was that they should first show that there was a demand for the produce of the land, (without which no one would set about raising it,) and that the required commodities could be got in exchange for it. He also proved that there was no slave trade on the coast—our preventive force having broken it up, and that a commerce much more valuable, in palm oil, &c., had grown up in its place near the Niger, and chiefly with Liverpool. The society have virtually acknowledged their error by many of their leaders now supporting the plans of Mr. Jameison. On this subject the Scottish Guardian from which we condense some of these particulars) says, " Tbis is a gratifying testimony to the excellence of practical over theoretical views, and to the sound judgment and genuine philantht o py in which these (Mr. Jameison's) plans are conceive d. On reviewing the whole subject, we conside r it one 11 at well deserves the encouragement and support of evt ry benevolent man." CORRESPONDENCE. THE SAILING MACHINE TO THE EDITOR OF THE LIVERPOOL STANDARD. SIR,—I shall be extremely obliged by - your inserting the following correction of a trivial error or two in your recent notice of the model of a Sailing Carriage, now in possession of John Grantham, Esq., which is there stated to have been invented by Sir James Oxenden, of Sussex. The machine in question wa4 invented. by Sir Henry Oxenden, in Kent,--and by him used for very many years, both in Kent and elsewhere. Those which I have built myself, after the same model and plan in all respects, have been constantly used by me every summer, on some one or other of the large plains of England—including Newmarket—but never at Ascot. I am now building one of somewhat larger dimensions, which I expect will sail about forty miles an hour,—at which great pace, twenty seconds, or twenty-five seconds will suffice to bring her to a dead stand still. This I mention to shew the ease and safely with which she is managed. Up to sixty miles an hour there is no difficulty what ever in increasing the speed, but there is great difficulty in finding safe and ample sailing-ground for these high veldcities. Your insertion of this explanation will oblige Your obedient servant, G. CHICHESTER OXENDEN. September 28, 1844. TIIE CALOTYPE ART. TO THE EDITOR OF THE LIVERPOOL STANDARD. Stß,—ln your paper of the lOth current, a copy of which has just reached me at this place, where it has followed me from Edinburgh, I observe, in a flattering editorial notice of the exhibition at Mr. Grundy's, of a collection of sketches by means of the photogenic process zalled the calotype, that you have made the mistake of attributing the discovery of this art to Mr. Adamson, of St. Andrew's, by whose chemical manupulations, under my artistic superintendence, these sketches have been produced. The discovery of this very beautiful and most valuable art the world owes to an English gentleman—an eminent and well-known prosecutor of science—namely, Henry Fox Talbot, Esq., of Lacock Abbey. The dis covery, though vet very little known, is not so recent as you infer, being coeval with the sister art discovered in France by Daguerre. The art is secured to Mr. Talbot by patent, with whose approval it was first introduced into Edinburgh about a year and a half ago, by Mr. Adamson, who, for some time previous, as an amateur, had laboured, with some success, in improving its processes. Mr. Adamson and myself will feel obliged if, in your next paper, you will correct the mistake to which I have thus taken the liberty to direct your attention.—Yours, &c., D. 0. HILL. British Association, York, Sept. 28, 1844. [As regards the " mistake" alluded to we have merely to state that our authority as to the discovery was derived from Mr. Grundy's printed prospectus of the intended work, in which no mention whatever was made either of our correspondent's name, or that of Mr. Talbot. The mistake does not, therefore, lie with us, but we are obliged to our correspondent for his explanation.] SELF-SUPPORTING INSTITUTIONS. TO THE EDITOR OF THE LIVERPOOL STANDARD. Sra,—ln your remarks upon the Design of Self-sup porting Institutions there are, in consequence of the de sultory manner in which the subject was explained on the evening your reporter attended, some misconceptions as to my objects and views, which I shall be obliged by your permission to correct. In the first plac , I am endeavouring not to raise funds, but to excite attention to a general principle of economy, in the hope that others more competent, especially among the intelligent and enterprizing residents of Liverpool, so distinguished for the number and munificence of its be nevolent institutions, may form a better modificatio than that which has been devised, and issue a prospectus of their own. Neither is a " reconstruction of the fabric of society" one of nay objects, for that implies a previous dissolution, but 'liner to leave all the institutions of society undis turbed, and to form establi,hments of 300 families each, and composed of one class only. It would, indeed, be chimerical to attempt to amalga mate different classes almost as much opposed in habits and feelings to each other, as the inhabitants of civilized and uncivilized countries. When it is conceded that the design " might do for those who have been long destitute or unfortunate, such might there find a happy asylum," all is admitted that can be desired, for who should be first attended to but the destitute? and, I trust, that you will press upon your readers the urgent necessity of ex amining, and ultimately applying this practicable remedy. I should be quite willing to leave the " doctrine of non competition" to be decided by the test of experiment. Let two establishments be formed adopting professedly, as we have done before, the motives inculcated by reli gion. The love of God with all our hearts, and the love of our neighbours as ourselves; superadd in one of the establishments the s'imulus of competition, and there would soon be found less manicestations of talent, of genius, and even less of wealth and enterprize, than in that establishment recognizing and appealing to the more exalted motives only. For the sublime Epic of Milton, and for the Principia of Newton, we are indebted t 9 loftier aspirations than competition will ever excite.—l am, sir, your most obe dient servant, J. M. MORGAN. 15, .Rodney-street, Liverpool, September 28, 1844. [We assure our benevolent and polite correspondent :,hat, our reporter had no intention to misrepresent his views, and that be stands corrected on the points alluded to. He was, however, drawn into the belief that the ob ject was eventually, if not now, to raise funds for a model institution, from the conversation that took place relative to the funds required, &c.,—of which a sort of prospectus appears in our correspondent's pamphlet,—and it appears to us of little consequence whether the money be raised in shares, by his individual exertions, or the office of doing so fall into the hands of some of our townsmen. In the hasty paragraph of our reporter, the words "reconstruc tion of the fabric of society," should properly have been substituted by " 'reformation' of society;" but the alter ation is, we think, of trivial moment. The principle is everything. This, our correspondent would, he says, ap ply to "one class only ;" and this, we presume, is the rural class, in districts remote from towns; but our cor respondent must be reminded, that, on a question being put to him as to the practicability of his plan as regarded seafaring men and others, he expressed an opinion that it would be equally applicable to fishing coasts or villages. We have the misfortune still to differ from him on his advocacy of " non-competition ;" but we repeat that, lamenting the existing evils of society, we should re joice to see one institution on his plan fairly put io the test ; even with (as he proposes) one class. Even with such a circumscribed latitude as this, we had so much doubt of its success, and, at the same time, so strong an assurance of his open-hearted and truly philanthropic views, that we should exceedingly regret his adventuring any large amount of his means in such a speculation.—Edit. Standard.] TO THE EDITOR OF THE LIVERPOOL STANDARD, Sea,-1 beg to trouble you with the following remarks respecting a nuisance attending the arrival of the Boston and New York steamers, v.hich, I feel confident, might be done away with, if the inhabitants of the town and neighbourhood would only come to a resolution shewing their entire disapprobation of it. Between twelve and one o'clock this morning, I was awoke by the roaring of cannon, and the windows being nearly forced out of their frames ; in a minute or two the report was repeated, which, to me, sounded louder than the loudest clap of thunder I had ever heard, I remem• bered that the Great Western was due, and concluded it must be her, which proved to be the case, and to the best of my knowledge the noise was repeated six times, at intervals of two to three minutes; on crossing the water, on my way to business, I named the subject to several gentlemen, who, nearly without an exception, said that they and their families had been disturbed, and lost several hours of rest. In cases of sickness, I feel sure, the consequences might be very serious. If there were any object to be gained by the continuance of such a tuisance, it would be another matter, but whilst the steamers arrive so punctually, and are regularly telegraphed, 1 do think exhibiting the usual blue lights and sky rockets as they come round the Fort, ought to be sufficient to have steamers, jarvies, hotel omnibuses, in readiness. It is an evil which has grown up since steamers first crossed the Atlantic, and it it be not now put a stop to, it will increase; as our friends on the otherside the Atlantic are building steamers to run between this and New York. I feel confident if a few of the leading inhabit ants of the good old town would represent the matter to the wcrthy chief magistrate, that he would take steps to present its recurrence. 1 don't wish to make the slighest reflection upon the commander or any of his officers, being perfectly aware that they only did in this instance what they considered customary. The Hibernia, which arrived late on Satur day night, was also the cause of much annoyance. Your obedient servant, ALPHA. CA eshire, 30th September, 1844. ROYAL MERSEY YACHT CL1311.--We learn that the Monthly Meeting of this Club will be held . this evening, and gentlemen, who were proposed, as memb ers, i at the last w hen a meeting, B al and a list of our townsmen, lot y w iz il :_ l take The p ß l i a g c h e t fo H r o t o h . e Lfoolrldowliinsoruionbtlesmaenn don M. P. • Sir Howard Douglas, M. P. ; Sir William t ; birty names, who will, no Massey Stanley, Bart., Hooton Hall; Walter Griffith, the Club renders it imperative that every gentleman pro. amountingdE u cl b, ell aa i g b b e t no I unanimously laump ' Anglesey arda o f . elected. posed should be balloted for on his becoming a member. A DETERMINED MAN. — The patient perseverance of some of those who have come determined to see the Queen, is at once ludicrous and affect ing. One n an in particular, a few days ago, took his post on the roadside, opposite the grand entrance, and there bivouacked for about 12 hours at a stretch, with no other amusement than noticing the passers by, or observing the periodical ,ol ether , had come saeew as ss c hange in the relief of the guard, wh ose t i me o f wa t c h fell so far short ot his own. Nothin g cou ld , h owever, di dlke, took out his bread and cheese, an d a ll owe d observa tionveexrete lal him ennd t f r r veir o e m r we sshhio:fpetnuhtreptoossoegv.oe Sovereign g e t i o l co he y took till lt his at It to s a h see, on the rewarded, as perseverance is alwals sure to be , t by two she went and returned from her afternoon drive of that day.—Scotch paper. Oct. 1, 1844. LATEST FROM THE RIVER PLATE. IBy the arrival of the Danish barque, Sara Johanna, Wittleren, at Falmouth, we hive papers and advices from IBuenos Ayres and Laplata, the latter to the Ist of August. There is no allusion in these to the rumour circulated here I of the assistance said to be provided by the Imperial Go vernment to Monte Video, and the reported relation of Rosas may be treated as equally fallacious. The follow ing letter, dated Buenos Ayres, July 26th, the day before the vessel's sailing from that port, appeared in the Times of yesterday.— " By the packet which sailed a few days since we sent you a newspaper of this city, which contained a kind of declaration of the caus,s of complaint which this Govern ment has against that of Brazil. The publication is not in an official form, but everybody here knows that noth ing poli ical can be published without the express consent of the Governor, and that almost all political articles are published by his order. This declaration will, however , be of no importance, if General Paz, and the officers who embarked at Monte Video with him, do not commence fresh hostilities against the Government either by attack ing Oribe from the Brazilian frontier, or by passing through the Brazilian territory to the province of Corri entes. and there joining the enemies of General Roses. " Should the Brazilian Government permit either of these things, serious consequences may follow, but we in cline to think General liosas will hesitate about declaring war against Brazil, for the result would be most serious and fatal to him. Thus far the question has had but a slight effect on the price of specie, which is the best cri terion of public feeling here. " It is not unlikely Monte Videdwill soon fall into the hands of Oribe, for want and misery are very great there, viz., in the city which under Rivera's Government, be fore 1843, was the most flourishing city in all South America without any exception. " Should the Brazils get into a war with Buenes Ayres, it would probably ultimately lead to the free navigation of the rivers Parana and Unaguay through the interference of England and France." 7 P.M. Since writing the foregoing the Peterel packet, Lieut. Creser, from the Braz;ls, has hove in sight off the Mana cles, and is now working into port. The Peterel's ar rival will solve the question about the commercial treaty, which has been so anxiously alluded to of late in the papers, in connexion with the Peterel's presumed deten tion at Rio foritscompletion. There remained 68 merchant vessels in port at Buenos Ayres, 18 of which were British, and only 2 were un chartered. The price of doubloons 224 dollars. The rate cents per d o ll ar .. The weather con- Fran o c f e, e 3 x 9 ch t a o nz 3 e 9 3 to 3 13-16 p ence upon E ng land : on 4 1 con tinued dry and fine. SPAlN.—lnformation was received at Perpignan on the 22nd, that a revolutionary movement hld been ma d e at Carthagena : th•it similar movements were disclve e d is many parts of Catalonia : that the authorities had taken measures to quppress them : and that the Directors of the Posts, the Director of Customs, and one of the Judges of Mataro had been arrested. The subscription for the Manchester Parks has now reached £21,000. GLOUCESTER MUSICAL FESTIVAL.—The receipts at this festival last week amounted to £530, being £3 less than the sum received at a similar festivity in 1841. The barque Winscales, of this port, a. rived off Fal mouth on Saturday [tight and landed a mail from Rio de Janiero. WEST RIDING NEGISTRATION.—The Conservatives are triumphing gloriously at the Registration Courts for West Yorkshire. Up to Thursday night they bad a clear gain of fifty-one. INVITATION TO LOUIS PHILIPPE.—His worship the Mayor has endeavoured to procure Liverpool the honour of a visit from Louis Philippe by inviting his Majesty to a dinner at the Town•hall. • NEW VILLAGE OF STANLEY.—The inhabitants of the rapidly increlsing neighbourhood near St. Anne's Church, We-t Derby, have given the name of " Stanley" to their improving locality. GRATIFYING TESTIMONIAL.—A handsome service of silver plate, weighFg 605 ounces, has been presented to E. H. Phillips,. Esq., of Pontypoool for services rendered by him in the Bankruptcy of the Ebbw Vale Iron Works, in winding up the affairs. MR. LATHAM'S TRIPE SUPPERS.—We call the at tention of our readers to Mr. Latham's advertisement of the resumption of these suppers, which last season gave such great satisfaction. We can assure them that Mr. L. does not do things by halves, but on the contrary, when he provides tripe, provides something to assist it. A sermon was preached on Sunday last in St. John's Church, by the Rev. Mr. Falloon, in behalf of the Church of England School Society, after which a collec tion was made amounting to .£26 3s 5d., inclusive of £5 --being a donation from the Rev. Jas. Heyworth, nephew of the late lamented Jas. Hepworth, of Everton, Esq. Tom THnms.—The General has been received at his levees during the week, with such unequivocal applause, that he has announced his intention of prolonging his stay for six nights longer, which will enable our fellow towns-men and towns-women to pay him another visit. If there are any who have not seen the " little darling, as the ladies call him, they must not lose this, perhaps their last opportunity. We can assure them they will not regret the visit. THEATRE-ROYAL.—Madlle. Fanny Ellsler and her talented companions concluded their engagement on Fri day evening ; and last night John Parry, the amu ing Buffo singer, who joined the Theatre during the week, took his benefit. The regular company is now reinforced by the services of that old favorite of the Liverpool public. Mr. Baker, and are playing a succession of Standard Tragedy and Comedy. To-morrow, it will be seen, the Patrician's daughter will be performed for the first time at this Theatre. MR. ANDERSON'S GROUP OF STATUES.—The group of figures cut in free-stone, Ly Mr. Anderson, the self taught Scottish statuary, and illustrative of a most inter esting pass3ge in Burns's poem of " The Cottar's S our day Night," continue to attract much attention ; and those who have a taste for this high branch of art, will lose a treat if they fail to inspect them. They consist of six principal figures, male and female, and also an intent a nd two dogs, all as large as life. The attitudes are trituratt the countenances most expressive, and the whole a perfect emhodyment of the purpose and meining of the hard. In the details, even of the drapery, they are so accurately wrought out as to excite I , urprise, that, in a material comparatively so rude. an effect so striking and characteristic of virtuous rural life could be achieved. We would fain dilate, but are restrained, for want of space, until another occasion. Mr. A previously exhibited to our town his " Fatty and Meg," his " Tam o' Shutter." &c. ; but in the present group he outshines all his former productions. CHARGE OF EMBEZZLEMENT.—At the Police-court , yesterday, a youngish man, named John Nish, was charged before Mr. Rushton with having appropriated sundry sums, the property of his employer. Mr. Thomas Col lins, corn-factor, Brunswick-street, stated that the pri soner had been in his service, as a clerk, for six or seven months, but that he had discharged him about six weeks ago. The prisoner's business was to receive money dur ing his (Mr. Collins') absence, and to hand it over to hint on his return, when he was out of town. He was also authorised to collect debts in the town, and regularly to account for the same. It was at length found that he had received a sum which he had not paid over; and, after being apprehended, other amounts were, it appeared, un accounted for,—the payments and his receipts being sworn to by the clerks of the respective parties. He had called upon them in the name of Mr. Collins, and received from Messrs. Richardson Brothers and Co., commission mer chants, £lO 10s. 4d.; from Messrs. Archer, Daly, a nd Co., 17s. 10d. ; from Messrs. Blain and Co., £1 Ils. 4d.; from Mr. T. Scott, £1 18s Od., and other sums, at various times, from the Bth of March to July, and had not paid the amounts over. The prisoner, on being apprehended, and told the charge against him, said to the officer (Greaves)—" It is a bad job for me ; I wish I were dead.'' He was committed for vial at the seacions. LIVERPOOL CATTLE MARKET, SEPT. 30. We have had a heavy supply of ail kinds of stock at market to-day, the greatest portion of second rate quslity, whi h n'e t with dull sale. A numerous attendance of buyers. Beef 5d tO .sid ; Mutton 'id to fid. LIVERPOOL PROVISION MARKE'f, SEer. 30. There has bi en a good deal of excitement in our Butter Mat' ket during the last week, in consequence of an influential house in the trade having bought every thing good that was off, red. Prices are lully 2s. to s per cwt. higher. The sellers of CO , pickled Butter are few in number, and we note adance in price of the article of about 3s. per evrt.—'lhe government con; tract of beef and pork is taken at a high price ; and the stock cn Irish provisions be•e being but small, ho!ders have becon e flrN in demanding an advance of 2s. 6d. per tc.•. and brl. in the price of both these articles —Bacon is held at an increase la price of about 3s. per cwt. LIVERPOOL COTTON MARKET, SEPT. 30. 5 Thro gho t the whole of last week the Cotton market vc . a almost inanimate ; Friday and Saturday, however. there %.. c . a, more inquiry. and a firmer tone about it. The a rrivalA of t h e two steamers (as noticed elsewhere) h as cause d no chang er 7 therwi,e than that holders sho w th e i r Poc k s more f re ely thf last week, and buyers to-day have done busineis more to th . . minds than of late. 5 nu hal es h ave b een so ld en ti re ly to co,nes stutters. All seem to think that the accounts from the St` lL will tend to keep prices stem y. NORTH HAY MARKET, SEPTEMBER 30. AGRICULTURAL PRODUCE. s. d. s. d. Potatoes, pyulb.s. d. -• 9 Flay, old 2lb .. 10 @ 1 o Cups 1 7 8 new Clover Green ditto - Vetches 0 —0 0 Red Rogers.. 0 0 „ - 0 0 Straw, Wheat 0 33 0 43 i Turuips4. ton 25 0 Oat 0 33 0 44 LIVERPOOL: TUESDAY, OCTOBER 1, 1844. 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