The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser. — Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1845-01-21 00:00:00

THE LIVERPOOL STANDARD falls into the arena which blows up to tatters the last web woven by the wily machinator of sedition:— " Lord Heytesbnry presents his compliments to Arch bishop Murray, and begs to inform him that he has been instructed to give to him and to Archbishop Crolly the strongest assurance, on the part of the government, that there has never existed the slightest intention of entering into ANY NEGOCIATION with the Papal See upon the tulject of a Concordat!" Humiliating as all this must have been to the discomfited agitators, it was not the last drop in the cup which they were doomed to drink. They had sedulously endeavoured to excite, in the minds of the Romanist population of Ireland, a feeling of alienation, and almost of revengeful hate, against those members of the prelacy who had thrown off the yoke of agitation, and dared to pursue an inde pendent course of their own, in the matters of the Bequests Bill and the rescript of the Pope; and to some extent they had succeeded. They have just, however, had their eyes opened to the fact, that their influence is not so overwhelming as they have been in the habit of imagining, by the publication of a letter to Dr. Murray, signed by fifty-five Ca tholic clergymen, the spirit and determination of which may be estimated from the following para- graph : " A day of trouble has come upon us, and the spirit of evil, which is always lying in wait to destroy, has assaulted with unwonted fury the church of God which is in this diocese. The most unfounded and horrifying calumnies have been circulated among the people, as well against your grace as against some of your grace's clergy. At tempts have been made in many ways, both covertly and openly, to sow bitter dissension among the faithful, and to alienate their affections and their confidence from their lawful pastors, from the clergy who are appointed to in struct them, to feed them with the blood of Christ, and to watch over them, as having to render an account of their souls. Attempts have been made to everawe us into the adoption of particular opinions, and a particular line of conduct—to overawe us ty popular clamour, and by a dread of encountering what, it is well understood, we would of all things, next after the violation of our duty towards our bishop and the church. be most anxious to avoid—the indignation, the odium, the distrust of our beloved people—of our people in whose hearts we have hitherto lived, for whose salvation we have so often risked our lives at the bed of pestilence, and for whom, what ever may betide, we shall rejoice to risk our lives a thousand times again." No small portion of that cant and whine which Popery can put on at will when she wishes to appear in the guise of a persecuted saint, charac terises the language of this document; and it is especially conspicuous in the following portion of the concluding paragraph, which we quote for the resolution which it conveys And here is the true and only real source of prosperity to a country. Herd is the prosperity desired by us and those who argce with us—a pros perity which diffuses itself amongst all classes, and is not purchased for one class at the expense of another. Ask of any manufacturer, or artisan, who have been his best customers during the past year; and his answer will be, the consuming classes amongst our home population. The farmer has had a good season, because the cheapness of his produce has been made up for to him by the extra quantity he has had to dispose of. The labouring classes have been better consumers, because t dimi nished proportion of their earnings has been ab sorbed in the purchase of food ; whilst the commo dity they have to give in exchange—labour—has been in demand. So far, then, we go with the Mercury in his facts ; but we demur at once to the deduction which follows—viz., that " it is no longer a question how vastly the welfare of the people would be promoted by such a law as would permit—nay, secure—all the effects of a good harvest every year"—viz., by a repeal of the corn laws. Say that we should have, amongst those effects, cheap food for the people ; we should certainly not have all those effects, because we should not have prosperity of the agri cultural class, and their consequent ability to con• sume. We should not have our present excellent home trade; and this want would again operate upon the manufacturing labourer and employer as well. We might, possibly, have a little stimulation of our export trade. We might make a few returns for our imports of corn in manufactured goods. But no material increase of trade can be expected to arise from cheapening food by importation of foreign products—nothing to compensate us for the injury done to our home trade—until we begin to purchase it by the adoption of that process, which is the natural and contemplated result—viz., the cheapening of labour and of the cost of production. Here, we are aware, we shall be met with the assertion that the price of labour does not depend upon the price of food ; and the experience of the past year will be pointed to as containing abundant proof. But herein is the very fallacy which we mainly want to expcse. It will be said, " This year food has been cheap and abundant, whilst wages have been advancing and labour in demand." Granted. But the cheapness and abundance of food has been created by the bounty of Providence; the demand for labour, too, has been created by the bounty of Providence, in giving us good harvests at home and increased markets for our industry abroad. There is an essential difference between cheapness, thus created, and cheapness the result of extensive importation—between cheapness with a large agri cultural population flourishing, and able to consume and to employ, and cheapness with a ruined agri cultural population, neither able to consume nor to employ, and only eager to force its surplus hands into the market for manufacturing labour. The former is compatible with the welfare of the many; the latter, we feel assured, would prove a curse to the many rather than a blessing. We have entered into this brief explanation be cause we know not a fallacy more industriously put forward or more deceptive in its effects than the connexion sought to be established between cheap food, by itself, and prosperity such as has attended the industry of the nation during the past year. The subject, however, is not b e y o nd th e compre hension of the humblest of our readers who will examine it carefully, and divest their eyes of the dust which free trade philosophers would fain throw into them. Cheap food, the result of abun dance, like every other bounty bestowed upon a people by Providence, is for the good of all; whilst cheapness of every description, otherwise obtained, is only good for the few and ruinous to the many. We commend the subject to our readers for their reflection. The latter sorts we cannot average sufficiently to show the decrease, owing to difference of the mode adopted in classifying them. The per centage of decrease in price of the American may, probably, be nearly enough stated at 25 per cent., whilst that of East India is more. The following were the prices in the same weeks of some of the leading numbers of yarn, viz.:— 1843. ;844. Incr. Decr. - t -j ti. d. d. ' d. Common Seconds Water Twist, N 0.30 9 f 9 .. .. Best Seconds Do. 121 10 .. 24 Common Seconds Water Twist, N 0.40 121 121 .. .. Best Seconds Do. 15f 131 .. 24 Common Seconds Mule Twist, N 0.40 9 I 94 Best Seconds Do. 1111 10 .. 14- Common Seconds Do. N 0.60 121' 134 1 .. Best Seconds Do. 144 161 24 .. Common Seconds Do. No. 80 161 181 2 .. Best Seeonds Do. 1941 204 1 .. Thus, in the price of water twist, the extreme reduction is only 20 per cent., and in the common descriptions nothing ; whilst in the mule yarns, and especially in the finer counts, there is an actual and considerable advance ; and thi3 notwithstanding every description of cotton wool, with one insignifi cant exception, has declined in price. If these data are fairly taken, the spinners must, for the last year, have been realising tremendously on the average, although their gains were somewhat checked by speculation in the spring. A similar comparison of the prices of the different descriptions of cloth will show much the same result. For instance, the prices of 27 in. hand-loom printing cloths was, on the Ist of December, 1843, 4s. lid.; whilst, on the same date of 1844, it was 4s. 2d. : the price of 27 in. 66 reed power-loom printing cloths was, on the Ist of December, 1843, ss. 2d.; and on the same date of 1844 it was ss. 4id : a proof that the manufacturer of these staple articles has enjoyed his share of prosperity as well as the spinner. It is impossible not to feel gratification in contem plating such a state of things, more especially for the prospect of increased comforts which it holds out to the working classes of the manufacturing districts. We hear, however, too much of endea vours on every side to increase our power of pro duction—of too many new mills rising up throughout those, districts. There is no extent of demand which the superabundant capital in this country cannot, in a very brief period, reach, by the exten sion of machinery; and we fear, therefore, that, unless great caution is used, the very brightness of our present prospects may induce efforts to he made in this direction which may result ruinously to those who make them, and drive back the work ing population, now profitably employed, to suffering similar to that from which they have so recently emerged. " But whether or not the councils of the wicked shall continue to prevail, and the shafts of slander continue to be directed against you, we at least shall cling closely to you, and through you, as the connecting link, to the cen tre of Catholic unity. You are our bishop—we are your clergy. You will cling to the 'successor of Peter and Damasus ;' and we will cling to you. You are our pastor ; your voice we shall always lovingly hear. You are our good father, from whom we have never experienced a harsh word, or harsh exercise of authority : we are your children, and shall not leave your grey hairs, and your aged and anointed head, to be buffeted and spit upon. In the day of your suffering we shall suffer with you ; and, as the blessed Lawrence desired to follow his venerable bishop, Xyatus, to martyrdom, so, if even that trial should come upon you, we desire to share it with you." We await with anxiety the issue of this state of antagonism in the camp of the disturbers of Ireland and the enemies of Protestant liberties in that country. We would be amongst the first to depre cate the. propriety of any attempt being made, " by any misdirection" of the government of Great Britain, to bring about even peaceable and beneficial ends by practices which partake of the character of intrigue. We trust that nothing partaking of this character has been attempted in the present case; and rejoice, therefore, to see that there is a self adjusted limit beyond which even the agitation of an O'Connell cannot hurry even the benighted people over whose minds his sway is, unhappily, only despotic and dangerous. It is clear this limit has, at length, been found ; and we wait for the issue, whatever it may he—either the downfal of a demagogue's lawless influence, or the utter enslaving and degradation of the Romish priesthood of Ire land, which must be the issue of submission to his dictation. Appearances at present point to the former as the most likely alternative. \Ve are induced to give the following letter in this place, on account of the importance of the subject of which it treats : Having been a close observer, for some time past, of your jealous guardianship of the just rights of the good old town and trade of Liverpool against the occasional misrepresentati ns and one-sided views of our Manchester neighbours, through their influential organ, the Man chester Guardian, I venture to solicit a portion of your columns which shall be occupied in making a few calm and unruffled obserxations on the present question between the importers and consumers of cotton wool, which has already stirred up the troubled waters of that discontent of late so manifest in quarters where it was least expected. But to our business. First, the alleged grievances of the importers. It is acknowledged on all hands that the present open-handed, confiding, honourable plan of conducting the cotton trade has been abused ; but the abuses are of such a nature that an active, persevering man of business may always ob viate them by diligently following up his samples from time to time. This would prevent their being piled mountains high, or as the " Letter-writer" expressed it, locked up in some of the offices, to the detriment and prejudice of the holders. Against this grievance put forth by the merchant may be placed a very strong counteracting one by the consumer, viz. that of incessant submission to an offered price. All interested in the trade are conversant with, and have often been annoyed by. this tantalizing " nibble " system, bearing da'e with the introduction into the trade of in experienced and inefficient men, who have always the bow-string placed upon them by the merchants, with whom the system is in high favour—even to the prejudice of brokers of long experience and acknowledged skill in The state of parties in Ireland is at this moment their profession. If the new system be eventually carried one of a peculiar aspect, and to Mr. Daniel O'Connell out, adieu to " I'll submit your offer," it must be yea or one not to be contemplated with very pleasurable nay—prompt and decisive, take it or leave it—a n d thus set ahigher v al ue upont h e tal ent and judgment of the feeling. On the contrary, it seems to have wrought buyer. that wily personage into a state of fermentation and It has been truly said that no business on so large a perplexity which almost incapacitates him from scale was ever conducted so honourably and with so much moving forward or backward, to right or to left, to good feeling amongst the parties as in Cotton, no signing secure a place of temporary security, in which to ii, , f in contracts, s n bonds,o worci is taken no fur guarantees, eon t r our contracts l o t h the hag ex t ent the collect together his scattered senses, and prepare o f 5 and £lO,OOO, aid as to making a bad debt in Cotton x himself for the ruin which he sees threatening it is scarcely ever heard of—then why rashly break the success of his selfish and turbulent machi- through existing customs and turn upside-down the plan nations. of business which has answered so well—it will certainly bring into the trae a cl of d an m men who "The Repeal" was progressing to something will b e prowling d about ass for cheap ealers o I ts d w hich iddle the like a state of lethargy—was becoming " small by reta il t o the less opulent spinner at a small profit. y may degrees and beautifully less ;" and, by way of So much for the merchant. A. word or two for the creating a diversion to stir it up into renewed acti- consumer. His grievances are so m an y th a t be knows vity, the arch mendicant turned aside and indulged not to which he must give priority; u n fo r tu n ately for himself in a fling at those Roman Catholic prelates himself, he fancies every plan against his interest, and becomes furious in his declarations against what some of who had consented to aid in the working of the them term the "rascally broker." 'Tis a t r ite saying, --.. " Bequests Bill." Dr. Murray and his coadjutors " honour among thieves, " ' and much as he may declare The publication (by his son) of the excellent were not, however, to be driven from their position against them, the characters and principles of the cotton okers of l will bear scrutiny. " Commercial Glance" which, under the able b y t h e l ega l cunn i ng o f O'C onne ll or the ru ffi anly br h Te y ear theyrlB3 had dceLivep rtainly fin d several of them jobbing, f e authorship of the late John Burn, of Manchester, t h reats o f hi s mo b s. Th ey saw i n t h e act i tse lf an reward confidencerd in tlie loss w o n f i ei their was moneypre. was for so many years regarded as the test of the ac k now l e d gmen t, i n some d egree, o f t h e i r ran k in as well w hich well as in the loss of h progress of Great Britain in cotton manufacture, the Church to which they are attached, and believed viously reposed in them ; and even now, it is a common enables us now to lay before our readers a few data, that its provisions might be worked with real advan- observ.tion, that any deviation from what was formerly by which they may be enabled to arrive at a tole- tage to the mass of their fellow-countrymen. The considered straightforward and impartial conduct, is prac rably fair conclusion as to the extent of the prosperity agitator and his subservient priesthood and laity tised chiefly by those who have come from the rnanufactu orifngthdaitstirniteetrse,stand are, therefore, supposed to be jealous which has happily visited this great staple branch of growled and bullied ; the Roman Catholic prelates industry within the past year. remained firm ; and in the hottest of the hubbub a Mr. Editor—you will find in cotton a great mountain The total consumption of cotton in England and bolt fell amongst the contending parties, in the form i- in labour ;it will bring forth a mouse; 'tis all sound and Scotland, as shown by Mr. Burn, has been, for th of a rescript from the Pope, which strengthened fury, and will end in smoke. The proposed system could year 1844, 1,427,422 bags, against 1,378,734 in materially the latter, whilst it literally scorched the not be carried out even provided all were to become wag ents. The tra d is f two ret ma to 1843; or per week, 27,988 in 1844, against 27,034 t ur b u l en t h ear t s an d o bd ura t e consc i ences o f the be illin confined to a dozen firms, o and, u nt i l holders can in 1843 ; giving a gross increase of 48,688 bags, or former. be controlled in the disposal of their favours, buyers of 954 bags per week. The total quantity of yarn His Holiness expressed his disgustful reprehen- will not and cannot congregate by 30's and 40's in spun in 1844 has been 445,577,4801h5., against sion of the proceedings of a large portion of the Irish the sale rooms of heavy sellers.—Much more on this 437,5'39,44111)5. in 1843 ; showing an increase this priesthood, and exhorted and enjoined them to point might be added, but I have already encroached too year of 7,988,0391b5. This is not a large increase, abstain from further mixing themselves up in secular much on your space, and next week you may 'perhaps being little more than one a half per cent, upon the matters , and to devote OLD CO I TON-BROKER. whole quantity spun ; but it must be borne in mind their religious duties and the inculcation of peace The following reply to the letter of Mr. Duck that we had an increase of 92,000,000 bales in and obedience amongst their flocks. The whole worth, in another column, was agreed to at a meeting 1843 over the preceding year 1842. legion of disturbers, priestly and lay, were forthwith held yesterday afternoon, at the office of Messrs. The disposal of this quantity of yarn, deducting up in arms to resist an alleged interference by the Wrigley and Sons • the portion spun in Scotland, 35,582,3881b5, of the h ea d of their church with secular matters—their - " disposal of which we have no data, appears t o h av e secu l a r matt e r s . " The rescript is uncanonical, and T o Willi am St uart, E sq., President o f t h e American been as follows :—We have exported lbs. o f no effect," bawled the arch dema g o gue ;"It i s .— Liverpool, 20th January, 1845 . amber of Commerce. In manufactured goods leave to address the merchants im- In yarn . 130,101,903 sedition;" "It has been procured through machi- D porters of cotton through you, in reply to Mr. Hugh serious In thread.. 2 , 731 ,0 39 nat i ons carr i e d on a t th e V a ti can by an agent o f the uckworth's letters of the 27th ultimo which they adopt and make the basis of th e ver y • s' charge now con- Peel administration, and is to be followed by a Con- templated i n th e cus t om of buying a t a u nd selling cotton in 323,362,810 cordat which will bind the Romish Church of this market—a charge we deem highly injurious to the con .. 322,841,410 Ireland in fetters to the government," was the cry sumer, and of worse than no advantage to the merchant of the spouters and scribes of the Liberal and Mr. Duckworth's co mmun i cat i on c l as ses the customs Showing an increase of.. of the trade, which he considers detrimental to the 521,400 Repeal factions on both sides of the channel. sellers, thus : in favour of the year 1844, or not more than one- Dr. Crolly, to whom it had been addressed, replied Firstly.—The selling broker giving up to the buying sixth per cent. by publishing the document, and proving its broker possession of the original samples. The money value, however, of the exports of the canonical character. It circulated in an English Secondly.—The delay caused by his so doing, and the two years shows a very different result. Of course, dress throughout Ireland. Its denunciations of the e impossibility of showi ng an y l o t o f co tt on to the whole of it is not to be supposed that this can be ascertained t ur b u l e nce of the priesthood, and the declaration of Th i rdly .— The buyersirdly h Teimpossibility attending the n in d c o r n e h d e a y . present custom with perfect accuracy for either year; but the prin- th e S ov ereign Pontiff that such turbulence was dis- of keepi ng th e samples entir andl the consequent disad ciple upon which both are calculated by Mr. Burn graceful and should cease, went abroad amongst vantage to the seller. being the same, the comparison will be close upon Fourthly.—The usage ( f re-sampling the cotton after two that rrer under the flocks of these reverend gentry ; and the agitator the truth, In 1844, then, we find the value of was straightway exhibited cringing at the feet of the pugohwaset,haen first matters. And on each he enloargeers— cotton e x ported in manufactured goods, yarn, and spiritual heads of his church, whom he had reviled, cotton. ' He insists n n t d i e r r ely ti to th r e e m se o n d t e s o y f ste ff m i t r i i l g e thread, estimated at £20,500,949; against, in 1843, and acknowledging the perfectly canonical character seller has not a fair and open mark l e e t, P because the buying £18,668,257 ; showing an increase in value, duringl of the document which he had just previously de- broker goes round the market at half-past nine in the 1844, of £1,832,492, or upwards of 10 per cent. I dared invalid. But the cry was still, "The morning, collects into his own office all the samples on over the value of the preceding year. This increase, Concordat;" th e fever of the rabble was still sought w holesale,and retain s them for two hours, sometimes for the moreover, has occurred notwithstanding a mate- 'to be kept up by the representation that the Pope This d , day intended r) (i e p t o r i v conveyt h e s t eLl e e f c impressionom p eti ti that o any rially decreased cost of the raw material, but for himself was about to sell Roman Catholic Ireland one buyer retains for two or ore hou rs the offer of lots which, supposing the quantity of manufactured to the British minister. At this crisis a document of cottons to the exclusion of all other buyers is untrue, Total Against in 1843 It is true the buying broker goes round the market in the morning to collect samples of all the lots likely to suit his friends wants. It is his duty to do so ; and business is facilitated thereby. In brisk markets especially he com monly finds his industry closely confined to this mere collection, for on receiving a small part only of the sam ples of a lot with the warning that it is " first come, fiat served," he is told the selling broker cannot fix a price, but if such an one is offered, it shall he submitted to the owner's consideration. Your system of " submitting" causes much delay, for most frequently half an hour, and sometimes an hour and more elapses before the mer chants decision is given. You would do well to ask your selves if much of the delay in returning samples, of which you complain, is not fairly attributable to this cause. Mr. Duckworth next maintains the impossibility of keeping the samples entire under the present custom, the conse quent disadvantage to the seller, and, he adds, that many disputes arise from this cause. That it is impossible to keep samples entire, we allow. They are drawn in order to be examined. No efficient examination can be made without some mutilation. With the buyer must rest the amount o examination each set of samples requires. Tnere can be no dispute on this head. The point is, would the mutilation of samples be greater under the pro posed than it is under tne present system ? We say it would, because the buyer w , nl4 - 1 be continually placed in different lights, and surrot tided by circumstances advert to a speedy decision. Lastly.—lt is asserted that the system of re-sampling by the buyer is grossly abused, that the re-samples are taken seldom for the purpose of testing the correctness of the selling samples, almost invariably for the buying brokers profit alone. In reply, we assure you our invariable custom is to compare the re-drawn with the selling samples. We are ignorant of any abuse of the practice of re-sampling. You are aware that the question of charging the buyer with the re-samples, and so leaving it optional with him to check the sellers samples on the spot or elsewhere, now or a month hence, or of inviting him to make the bar gain, so far a closed one immediately, was fully discussed some time ago, and that your resolution in favour of al lowing re-samples to the extent of 2 oz. per bale was adopted, you have exercised your right of charging for any excess over this weight it is universally acknowledged, and any abuse that does exist can only be through your own negligence. Yet with the advantage we at present enjoy, and care fully avail ourselves of, that of testing the honesty of the sellers samples, Mr.Duckworth admits that some selling brokers are notorious for exposing fslse samples. In what position, let us ask, would the buyer be, aye and the merchant too, were the check of re-sampling taken from us? We may venture to assert that the dishonest samples would not be less numerous,—we believe that the disputes which are alleged to arise out of the samples being completely spoiled owe their origin entirely to their dishonesty. We challenge investigation into the truth of all we have advanced. John Wrigley and Sons, Wm. Bower and Son, James Stock and Son, Eason and Barry, Godfrey Barns ley, and S na, Worthington and Cunningham, Wil liam Bright, Montefiore Joseph, S. Marshall Bulley, Livesey and Thorpe, Joseph Eccles and Co., _ _ Samuel Jowett, Thos. Posthiewaite, James Mellor. A DISINTERESTED HINT FOR THE NEXT WHIG MINISTRY.--WANTED A BISHOP RICK ! Our contemporary, the Albion, has made a discovery. "Many people," he says, "now tbink"—by-the-bye, extraordinary thinkers they must be; such as are only to be met amongst the thinking nvn who luxuriate with the wild fowls amongst the fens of Lincolnshire—" many people now think that the whigs are again on the eve of taking office"—the kind condescending creatures !—and the editor himself thinks such an eve, which we think will be a long one, a most auspicious time for delivering himself of a little grave advice to those said kind whigs, and of reminding them not to forget to think,in their ela tion, of a very particular and dear friend of his own—so particularly near and dear, that it is said they are in the habit occasionally of forgetting their separate identities. But we must let our brother speak for himself, or we shall never get to the matter before us. " If the whigs, as many people now think, are again on the eve of taking office, let them beware of the manner in which they best'w their patronage, whether in church or state. Of the former we would speak especially to-day. Of the number of bishops and the host of clergy preferred by the Melbourne administration, by far the greater num ber have renounced the liberal opinions which they pro fessed before they had secured their promotion. Indeed, at the present moment, with the exceptions of the Bishops of Durham, Peterborough, Worcester, and Norwich, and the Rev. .1. Aspinall, the rector of Althorpe, Lin colnshire, we should be exceedingly puzzled to lay our hand upon any of the ecclesiastical body preferred by Lord Melbourne and his colleagues who have remained true and faithful to those liberal opinions for which they were prexionsly remarkable. We trust that the whig leaders will ponder over these things, and whenever they are again in power, "look well before they leap," and be quite sure of their men before they promote them. It is much more foolish than magnanimous to put arms into the hands of our enemies." _ _ There my Lords Melbourne and John Russell! Only " the Bishops of Durham, Peterborough, Worcester, and Norwich—AND the Rev. James Aspinall, the Rector of Althorpe, Lincolnshire"—out of all your appointments, have " remained true and faithful to those liberal opinions for which they were remarkable." A truly remarkable fact worthy to be pondered over. Perhaps you never knew how remarkably and actually true the lastmentioned Reverend gentleman has been to you, and to himself ; but with such an assurance before you from an authority so perfectly acquainted with all his doings and thinkings in your behalf, we cannot see how you can hesitate—how you need "to look before you lean"—(a fenny expression) when merit is thus murmuring its own praises beneath your very feet, and craving for the first mitre in your gift. " Ponder over these things," my Lords. Behebdomadally thinking, as he thinks himself, of this Rev. Rector's de servings ; and what awful mistakes you will escape !- NICE COMPANY FOR AN ENGLISH DIVINE.—A Ro man Catholic bookselling firm last week announced, by placard on the walls of our town, the forthcoming publi cation of "A History of the Anglo-Saxon Church, by Doctor Lingard," " Mores Catholici," a " History of Ireland, by O'Neill Daunt," and the " Lives of the Fnglish Saints"—all, of course, thoroughly Popish pub lications ; and intimated, in addition, that they were pre pared to supply, as agents, " The Ideal of a Ct , ristian Church. by the Rev. H. G. Ward," and " Saint Ambrose on Holy Virginity"! Mr. Ward must be proud of the position which he, a fellow of Balliol College, thus evi dently holds in the estimation of Romanists, when his writings are thus prominently put forward as worthy of the patronage and the study of Roman Catholics. THE GRAND PROTESTANT ASSOCIATION OF LOYAL ORANGEMEN.—We are glad to be enabled to say, that on Tuesday last, the deputations from the Loyal Orange In stitution, and the Grand Protestant Confederation of Loyal Orangemen, met at Newton, when every prelimi nary arangement for the amalgamation of the two bodies (now composed of nearly 20,000 proverbially loyal men), was made to the satisfaction of all parties. The rules were revised and amended, and an address to the British public was agreed to, which we trust will go far to disabuse the minds of some of our friends with regard to the prin ciples of Orangeism, against which there is still too much mistaken prejudice, arising altogether from a want of in formation or from an attachment to less constitutional doctrines. After the close of the business, the deputa tions sat down to a most excellent dinner, at the Horse and Jockey, and after drinking all the loyal and constitu tional toasts belonging to the order, separated at an early hour, by the trains to various parts of the kingdom. THE FUNDS : SATURDAY NIGHT.—The English se curities have remained exceedingly steady to-day, al though the amount of business done was limited. Scarcely any alteration took place in the value of the leading stocks, which were in most cases quoted the same as yesterday. Consols for money left off 1001 to 1; for the account, 100-1 to 3; Exchequer Ellis, 595. to 61s. premium; Bank Stock, 211 to 212; India Stock, 287 to 289; Three per Cents. Reduced, 1001 to I ; Three and a Quarter per Cents., 104 k to ; and India Bonds, 755. to 775. pre mium. The foreign market was little disturbed by the course of dealing, few speculative bargains being entered into. The final quotations were—Spanish Five per Cents., 271 do -r• the Three per Cents., 381 to 4; Russian 119 to 120; 'Peruvian, 271 to 283; Portuguese, 59 to 60 ; Mexican 341 to ; the Deferred, 151 to ; Dutch Two and a half per Cents. 631 to 1; the Five per Cents., 99 to ; Danish, 89 to 90; Colombian, 144 to 4; Chilian, 100 to 102; Brazilian, 89 to 90; Buenos Ayres, 39 to 41 ; and Belgian, 1011 to 1021. The Welch Calvinistic Methodists of this town and neighbourhood bale raised nearly five thousand pounds to pay off the debt on their chapels. ST. JAMES'S CHURCH.—The project for enlarging this church on the plan originally fixed, has been abandoned ; but it is det• rrnined to effect a considerable increase of accommodation in the building, without any extension of the present walls. The Rev. H. J. Hindle) , has been appointed curate of the church. ST. SAVIOUR'S CHURCH.—On Wednesday evening The CHAIRMAN replied that it was £lOl additional now, which had gone in interest and in a small loss upon the flower shows. Dr. WINSTANLEY asked how far the bank were satis fied to let their money remain ? The CHAIRMAN replied that they seemed perfectly sa tisfied. They allowed £250 to remain at three per cent., and for the balance they charged five per cent. At one time they were anxious the debt should be paid off. The TREASURER added that the bank had wished some portion to be paid off; and he had received an additional loan of .£5O which he paid to them. The CHAIRMAN observed that it was extremely desira ble that gentlemen should advance to the gardens money on the principle of loan ; they would get three per cent. for it, whilst it would be a great help to the gardens. DR. WINSTANLEY suggested that it might be possible, upon a memorial being presented, to obtain an addition to the annual grant of .£lOO from the Corporation ; and a conversation ensued upon the subject, in the course of which the general feeling appeared to be, that any such application would prove useless, whilst it would endanger the existing grant. It was observed by Dr. Winstanley, that the argument might be used, that unless the grant were increased the gardens would be closed; on which the CHAIRMAN stated that the gardens certainly could not go do beyond the period at which the loans were re payable, namely, at the end of five years, unless there was a great increase in the number of subscribers. The conversation on this matter having terminated, the trea surer's accounts were passed. Mr. Hugh Hornby was elected president for the ensu ing year ; and the committee was appointed for that pe riod. On the motion for a vote of thanks to the donors of plants, the CHAIRMAN in reply to some questions stated that there had not been so many presents as usual, but rather a considerable falling off. The funds had not al lowed purchases of plants to be made to any extent whatever, a circumstance that made it additionally im portant ►hat the committee should receive some gratui tously from gentlemen who had connexions abroad. He believed that a great many rare plants were likely to come from China, and gentlemen engaged in trade to that country might have it in their power to assist the garden materially. The sale of plants during the year had not produced £5, and they could not expect anything from this source without going into a considerable outlay, the result of which was very questionable. The motion was then carried. The other resolutions, which were all of a routine cha racter, except one, declaring the forfeiture of 28 shares, were carried unanimously ; and the meeting, which occu pied about half an hour, was then dissolved. SCOTCH PIG-IRON TRADE. (From the Mining Journal.) Total produce in 1844 ••• • • Exported from Scotland direct to foreign ports Ditto from Liverpool to ditto .. 33,000 Stock on hand here 31st Dec., about . 55,000 Used for home consumption. 219,000-346,200 tons. The average price for the twelve months was £2 16s. per ton delivered at Glasgow; the lowest number of furnaces in operation at any period during the year was 51, and the greatest 70—being the number at present in blast. last the Rev. Hugh M'Neile preached a sermon in this church, when a collection was made in aid of the funds ; and, on Sunday, sermons were also preached by the Rev. Wray R. Hunt, minister of the church, and the Rev. W. M. Falloon, and collections made for the same object. The collections amounted to the handsome sum of £55. CAUTION TO OWNERS OF EMPTY HOUSES.—TWO youths (whose names we did not ascertain) were yesterday charged before Mr. Rushton with being found in an un occupied house in Roscommon-street, with a light, on Sunday night. On one of them the police-officer who discovered them found a bunch of house keys. They were not known—declined to say anything—and were committed to gaol for three months. INQUESTS YESTERDAY.—On view of the body of Richard Warbrick. apprentice on board the William Fisher, who was killed on Saturday in consequence of fall ing into the hold of that vessel.—On the body of Thomas Roberts, (aged 31) of the barque Clydesdale, now in the Brunswick dock. On Sunday week, while the vessel was on her passage from lchaboe, and about two hundred miles from this port, deceased, at 9 at night, enquired if the cook had seen a boy named Jackson, and the reply being in the negative, he remarked that he was lost, add ing that he had been washed overboard by a sea that had struck the vessel, and that he himself had hurt his breast against the bulwarks. Deceased worked a short time afterwards : he then took to his bed, and died just as the ship came to an anchor in the Mersey. Every day's experience proves that the buyer has not an exclusive offer even for ten minites. The seller offers the same lot to many buyers at the same time; and at a trifling cost in samples (2 oz. per bale) can do so to all. With hi m the rule is, " first come, first served ;" and so uncourteously, so]rigorously is this practice carried out, that there is just ground, we think, for the many and strong remonstrances urged by the consumers against it. Practically, the buyer has not the exclusive offer of a lot of cotton one moment after he leaves the seller's counter. TO CORRESPONDENTS an" unfortunate got mislaid until for a long ars that Dr N and Ear Ir ri, performing series of years at the Eye his share of the operations three days weekl We have been compelled, by the pressure of advertisements and several late articles of news, to omit an article upon the Dock Warehouses, our account of the Anti —Monopoly Meet ins, and a a 'eat number of parag Ztberpoot ,4)tatftlarb. TUESDAY MO RAING, JAN. 21, 1845 We are not in the habit of devoting our space to the task of exposing the ignorance and conceit of the Liverpool Mercury. We must, however, this week take a passage from our contemporary as a text, upon which we may ground a few remarks in tended to blow up a fallacy, in which he and his friends of the Anti-Monopoly Association are just now indulging. Here is the passage in question : " When it is see❑ how amazingly improved is the con dition of our industrious population in consequence of the late good harvest—the bounty of Pr evidence, by render ing food plentiful, having defeated the main design of the corn law, which is to render it scarce—it is no longer a question how vastly the welfare of the people would be promoted by such laws as would permit—nay, secure — ell the effects of a good harvest every year. For a crowded population, inhabiting a limited territory, this can only be effected by unlimited intercourse with all nations. Such intercourse it is the object of the Anti-Monopoly Association of Liverpool to open to the skill and industry of our countrymen," &c., &c. Now, just analyse this, sentence by sentence, and examine the deductions made from the facts stated ! First, we find that the condition of our industrious population is " amazingly improved in consequence of the late good harvest—the bounty of Providence." We have had no " excellent Anti-Corn-law wea ther ;" but the earth has given us of its abundance, its fruits in season. We have had no extensive impor tation of foreign corn to stimulate our exports ; and yet our export trade has been an extended and a profitable trade. We have had no cheapened pro duction, as the wished-for result of cheaper food; and yet our foreign commerce has extended itself, in despite of the repeated assertions of those philo sophers who have contended that, without such cheapened production, we could not compete with the foreign producer. We have had. in short, that cheapness which is alone worth having—cheapness afforded is by the bounty of Providence, and which, unlike cheapness produced by extensive importa tion, is not incompatible with remunerating profit to the producer and his ability to become a valuable consumer. products exported to have been the same, the increase in value would have approached, if it would I not even have exceeded, four millions sterling. The conclusions deducible from these figures are most satisfactory. It is clear, from the small in crease in the weight of yarn spun this year, com pared with the large increase in the value of that yarn when exported, that a great change for the better has taken place in the quality of our ship ments; or, in other words, that we have sent to foreign markets goods upon which a greater amount of labour and skill has been employed than in former years. This we find to he the case on exa mining the carefully-detailed tables given us by Mr. Burn, in which the character and descrip tion of our exports can be seen at a glance. Thus, we find that our exports of cotton yarn exhibit this year a falling off to the extent of 19,112,514!h5., which is abundantly made up for by the increased shipments of finished fabrics. Our exports of cotton thread show an increase of 136,7001b5.; our exports of plain calicoes this year have been 569,677,792 yards; against 520,941,635 yards in 1843, and 366,040,519 yards in 1842 ' • an increase in the year of 69 million yards, and in the two years of above two hundred million yards : equal to two-thirds of the trade in 1842 ! The exports of printed and dyed calicoes, which had been nearly stationary during the previous four years, have increased upwards of one-fifth in 1844 ; and similar results may be observed of several of the minor fabrics. In addition to these favourable results, we find, from Mr. Burn's average of the price of cotton goods exported, that a higher rate has been generally charged this year; and, hearing in mind that this has taken place notwithstanding a very reduced cost of the raw material, we are warranted in coming to the conclusion that the quality of our exports of cotton generally has been of a superior description. In order to test the degree of prosperity and of profit realised by the spinner and the manufacturer, we turn to the tables of the comparative prices of the raw material and the manufactured articles (yarn, and hand and power-loom cloth) during the two years : and first, with respect to the article of yarn. _ The following were the prices of the most exten sively used descriptions of cotton in the last weeks of 1843 and 1844, respectively, viz : IM3 Uplands 141 to 6 4i 71 Orleans Alabama Mobile Tennessee 14i - 6 Surat 1 Madras I Decrease I 1844. in 11-A I. d. d. d. 3i to 4i 1 3 —511 i 41 _ 6 { 4 - 4i l 21 - 31 2i - 501 - LIVERPOOL BOTANIC GARDENS Yesterday, at one o'clock, the annual meeting of the proprietors of the Botanic Gardens was held in the Cla rendon Rooms, for the usual purposes. The attendance was very meagre. W. Reynolds, Esq., M.D. chairman of the committee presided. The CHAIRMAN opened the business of the meeting by reading the following report : REPORT OF THE COMMITTEE OF THE BOTANIC GARDEN. -1844. In conformity with Law 10, the Committee beg to lay before you a report of their proceedings during the past year. There are many circumstances on which they feel themselves justified in congratulating the proprietors, although on the almost vital one of the financial resources of the garden, its position is unfortunately in no respect improved. As, however, the treasurer will present his statem , mt of Accounts to the meeting, and as the subject has been repeatedly pressed on the notice of the proprie tors, your Committee will only further remark that there are at the present time several causes of expenditure which are not of a permanent nature. The Horticultural Exhibitions were as attractive as in the previous year, and many of the plants and fruits, of fered for show, were of great value, rarity, and beauty. The attendance was numerous, and the Exhibitions were pronounced by competent judges to he of the highest order, and well calculated not only to gratify the visitors, but essentially to forward the objects for which the gar dens were founded. The expenditure attending the Ex hibitions, chiefly on account of premiums, has slightly exceeded the receipts, but the difference is more than com pensated by the sale of annual tickets, the purchase of which was doubtless in a great measure induced by the attraction of the Flower Shows. Such exhibitions have an obvious tendency to encourage horticultural skill and science, and to extend the reputation of the garden— and the proprietors, with their families, have a valuable additional privilege placed within their reach. Under these circumstances, and it being most important that persons intending to exhibit should have timely notice, the Committee feel confident that the meeting will sanc tion their having already announced to the public that three Exhibitions will take place in the present year—the amount of premiums not exceeding that authorised at the last Annual Meeting. _ _ _ Si❑ce the last report the arrangement of the plants in Natural Orders for the purpose of facilitating reference to any particular Genus or Species, and for the cultivation of scientific Horticulture and Botany, has made consi derable advance, and, through the judicious directions of the Curator, has much beautified and improved the ap pearance of the Garden. The labelling of.the plants, on the improved system, is steadily carried on, and much progress has been made, but its completion will necessarily occupy much time, as there are in the garden about four hundred species of trees, shrubs, and herbaceous plants, which require new labels. Your Committee have much pleasure in stating that the working classes continue to appreciate the principle of the free admission days. The TREASURER (Mr. Anthony) then read a detailed statement of bis accounts, from which it appeared that the income of the gardens during the past year bad amounted to £7Ol 14s. 4d., whilst the expenses were £7OB ss. 6d., leaving a balance due to the treasurer of £6 lls. 2d. On the subject of the debt it appeared that there remained due to the Bank of Liverpool £477 ls. lld ; upon loans of £2,570 ; and to the treasurer £3B Ils. ; making in the whole £3045 12s. Ild. Dr. WINSTANLEY inquired what was thedifference be tween the debt now and at the corresponding period last year. IRON TRADE-ENGLAND AND FRANCE While the English Government has of late years been gradually liberating our Iron trade from every sort of restriction, the French have been hedging in theirs with every imaginable sort of fiscal protection. Mark the results. In 1841 the quantity of coal raised in this coun try was at least ten times the quantity raised in France ; and in the same year four tons of iron were made in this country for every ton made in France. The coal con sumed in the iron. works alone of Great Britain rather more than doubled the whole quantity of coal raised in France. In England the average quantity of coal raised within the year by each person employed in coal mines was 253 tons; in France, it was only 116 tons. In France, 47,800 persons were employed in producing one fourth the quantity of iron produced in Great Britain by 42,400. The prices of iron to the consumer in France are from 100 to 250 per cent. higher than in England. France has not even succeeded in making herself inde pendent of foreign supplies ; the quantity of coal im ported in 1841 was within a trifle of half the quantity raised ; and nearly 50,000 tons of British iron was im ported—pig iron being subject to a duty of £3 2s. 6d., and plates, bars, and rods, to a duty varying from £8 7s. 4d. to £l6 14s. 9d. A greater number of vessels arrived at Runcorn during the last year than at any former period, by nearly 300. The second of the course of lectures now delivering at St. Andrew's Church will be preached this evening. The subject is, "The Christian in communion with God." James Anderson, charged with attempting to poison his wife and family, at Manchester, has been committed for trial at the next assizes in this town. The Commissioners of Customs have extended the eight days to fourteen for ascertaining the deficiency of corn warehoused. SAD DEATH.—On Sunday week, a woman at Birken head, named Ormsby, was found dead in bed, having been suffocated when in a state of drunkenness. The building known as the Nelson•street Assembly Rooms has been purchased by Mr. Edward Finch for £4,000. The members of the Liverpool Festival Choral Society are about to hold their performances in it. We believe that fourteen vessels are advertised to sail from Liverpool for China, against seven at this date last year. This shows that the Chinese treaty works well. There is also a slight increase in the ships laid on for Cal cutta. RUNCORN.—The inspectors of lighting and watching have chosen Mr. John Wright as t heir chairman for the ensuing year. Richard Richardson, of the Manchester detective police force, was appointed v , tchtnan, with a salary of £7O a year, and the dwelling-house now occupied by Mr. Hardy, constable; and, in order to secure his services for the township alone, he is to be appointed a constable also. A special meeting of the Council will be held to-mor row, to consider the bill for amending certain powers in the existing Dock Acts. Alderman Hodgson has given notice of the following motion, which will be taken into consideration :—" That it be referred to the Lighting Com mittee to consider and rep.ot whether it is desirable that the Council should purchase the powers and privileges, rights and interests, now vested in the Liverpool Gas Light Company, and in the Liverpool New Gas and Coke Company." KIRKDALE EPIPHANY SESSIONS. —The Epiphany Quarter Sessions for this county commenced on Wednes day last, at the Court-house, Kirkdale. The Reverend Jonathan Brooks officiated in his usual capacity as chair man to the bench of magistrates. The calendar is re markably light, there being only fifty prisoners for trial : forty-five for felony, and five for misdemeanors, &c. None of the offences appear to be of a very serious or aggravated character. The chairman alluded to the de crease of crime generally , as evidenced in the few pri soners in the gaol, and he attributed this favourable state of things to the cheapness of provisions and the increase of the means of employment. The CAM brought for ward were unimportant. The Albrighton hounds will meet on Thursday, the 23d, at Longford ; Saturday, the 25th, at the Kennels— each day at half-past ten o'clock. Sir W. W. Wynn's hounds will meet To-morrow, (Wednesday,) the 22d, at Wvunstay ; Friday, the 24th, at Crew-green; Saturday, the 25th, at Hanmer—each day at half-past ten o'clock. Sir W. M. Stanley's hounds will meet to-morrow (Wednesday), the 22d, at Mollington Hall ; on Saturday next, the 25th, at Arrow Hall.—at eleven Sir Job n Barrow has retired from the office of Second Secretary to the Admiralty, after a service of 41 years, and is succeeded by Capt. W. A. B. Hamilton. On Saturday Sir C. F. Williams, one of the Commis sioners of Bankruptcy for the London district, died of an affection of the helm FIRES.—From two o'clock on Saturday morning, till the same hour on Sunday, no fewer than four fires oc curred in the metropolis. There appears to have been no truth in the reported death of the Emperor of Russia. Letters received from St. Petersburgh, dated Jan. Ist, make no mention of Hs Majesty's illness. DR. WOLFF.—ST. PETERSBURGH, JAN. 9.—We have received positive information that Dr. Wolff, who has arrived ay Teher a n, f rom B o kh ara , w ill return home by way of Russii and St. Petersburgh. We hope to see him here very shortly. A deputation from the Shrewsbury, Oswestry, and Chester Junction Railway, consisting of Mr. Wardell, Mr. Brown, Mr. Roy, and Mr. Williams, directors; Mr. Robertson, engineer; Mr. Kelsall, solicitor, and Mr. Ellicombe, had an interview with the Earl of Dal housie on Friday. GEOLOGICAL CURIOSITT.—A piece of bass, from, the coat mines of Messrs. Bournes & Robinson, exhibiting the. fossil remains of a variety of shell fish, has been presented to the Collegiate Institution by Peter Bourne, Esq., where it may be seen by the curious in such matters,upon application at the Secretary's office. STEALING FROM A SHOP.—A young man, named James Burns, was yesterday sent for trial for stealing a number of handkerchiefs, value 7s. 6d., from the shop of Mr. Gressier, No. 1, Great Charlotte-street. The pri soner was seen taking them, and, the alarm being given, he was pursued and captured, with the articles in his possession, near the Amphitheatre. GRAND CONCERTS.—The two concerts advertised for next Friday evening and Saturday morning, at the Music hall, can be rightly characterised as " grand." The presence of Thalberg alone should entitle them to that appellation. Messrs. Hime and Sons, Church.street, who are ever on the alert to procure the most splendid instruments, will have on sale the piano on which Thal berg will, at these concerts, display his extraordinary powers. It is, we learn, one of the most exquisite pieces of mechanical skill ever produced. SARAH FREEMAN.—This depraved creature, commit— ted at Bridgewater, Somersetshire, for the murder of her mother, brother, husband, and two children, is suspected of further similar crimes. At the close of the inquests on Saturday, the Coroner said—" I am afraid 1 shall have further occasion for your services, although I have no wish for any more cases of poisoning. I have a letter from highly respectable persons, the statements made in which are very alarming—namely, that five other deaths have occurred in this parish very recently, and all of them in one family. They were all children, two of whom died on the same day, and were buried in the same grave, on , the day or the day after their death ; and it is also stated to me in that letter—l do not know how far it may be true—that the woman Sarah Freeman was in the constant habit of visiting at that house." FALLING OF THREE Nzw HOIvSES.—On Thursday night last, about ten o'clock, three new and unfinished houses in Upper Canning -street fell with a tremendous crash, the walls carrying nearly the whole of the joists, floors, &c., into the cellar, and smashing the timber into comparatively small pieces. The buildings were of four stories in height, of brick, and formed the eastern end of a new row of houses on the south side of the street. Luckily, no one was by at the late hour stated ; had the fall happened in the day-time, several lives would, no doubt, have been lost. We find that the lower, or cellar portion of the walls, up to the datum level, was roughly built of broken pieces of soft free-stone, called " nob bling," and so imperfectly put together as to be inade quate to support the superincumbent weight, rising to an elevation of 46 feet. The walls were but 9 inches (or only brick length) in thickness, which is sadly short for buildings of that size. The buildings are upon what was formerly Moss-lake Field, in which the unbroken ground is yet a black mess to a depth of two to three feet. The foundations, however, were sunk below this to apparentlY a stratum of soft sand-stone, and the probability is that the houses gave way from the cause assigned. Jan. 21, 1845. SOUTHERN AND TOXTETH HOSPITAL. The annual meeting of the subscribers of this institu tion was held yesterday, in the Board room, J. B. Yates, Esq., the president, in the chair. From the treasurers account it appeared that the amount of donations received in the course of the year was £778 lls. 11- d; subscrip tions, £930 14s. 6d. ; collections at churches and chapels, £287 17s. 5 d. ; and from foreigners, £4O 3s. The in stitution, according to last years report, was about £4OO in debt, and though several alterations and repairs in the building, amounting to £7OO, have been made during the past year, the committee have reduced the debt to about £l9O. The report stated that the utility of the institution has become more apparent every day, and the extensive and commodious building, at first thought too large for the neighbourhood, has been almost always occupied. There were 62 beds in the institution. 2,025 Patients had been treated during the year; of these 1,499 were out-patients and 526 in-patients ; 1,377 of the cases were cases of ex ternal violence, and 648 medical and surgical cases. The number of patients in the institution on the 31st of December, 1844, was 26. Admitted from Ist January, 1844, to Ist January, 1845, 521 ; of these 447 were cured or relieved. Died 30; remaining in the hospital Ist January, 1845, 44. The number of patients had greatly increased during the last year and from the medical report, a larger number of danger ous cases than heretofore bad occurred—nevertheless fewer operations had been resorted to, and the number of deaths diminished something less than 6 per cent. The poor in the neighbourhood were grateful for the prompt attention given to their cases at the institution. It was a pleasing part of the committee's duty to bear witness to the readiness with which the public had r, sponded to the call made upon them on behalf of the needful charity, nor was it less incumbent upon them to express their gratitude to the Lord Bishop and Clergy of the Diocese, and to the dissenting ministers, who had made appeals from their pulpits on behalf of the institution, by which means its benefits had become extensively known and appreciated. Great difficulties had surrounded the institution, and all the efforts which had been made by its friends to obviate them would have proved inefficient, but for the most rigid economy in the internal arrangements. The report then stated that an outlay of many hundred pounds would ere long be required for erecting new wards over one or both wings, together with an exterior plat form, or ambulatory, where the convalescent patients might enjoy air and exercise, and concluded by calling upon its supporters to enable the cotrimit7ee to carry out the efficiency of the institution, by liberal contributions to its funds. The resolutions passed at the meeting will be found in our advertising columns. THE CHASE The Cheshire hounds will meet To-morrow, (Wrdnea day,) the 22d, at Mere ; Thursday, the 23d, at Davenham ; Saturday, the 25th, at Davenport-hall ; Monday, the 27t0, at Sutton Pinfold ; Wednesday, the 29th, at Dutton Heath ; Thursday, the 30th, at Highway-side ; Saturday, February Ist, at Booth-lane—each day at half-past ten o'clock. SHIPPING INTELLIGENCE MONDAY, JANUARY 20.—Wind worth, fresh ARRIVIM—Brutus garthen, ftom Smyrna— Wyvern, from Lisbon. SAILNI).—Nelson Village, Glllies, for Savannah —Sa arak, Turley, for Philadelphia—Monarch, Brown, for St. Lucia—Har monie, Schaebling, for Rotterdam—Scotland, Thompson, fo r Mobile—and Albert, Murray, for Rio Janeiro. —. from lehaboe Bosphorus, Trill; —Parequet, Sewell, from Genoa—an'' Mary Elizabeth, Thom, hence at Demerara Mohrwk, Jordeion, from Ichaboe, at Falmouth Dunmore, Gillespie, and Ninian Lindsey, from Ichaboe, at The Nile, for New York, has put back, leaky Mary Hannah, Brown, from Trade Town, (Africa,) at thi s port; sailed 3'lll Nov. Left there the brig Ranger. The se' Crusader, from Liverpool, was totally lost at Grand Baton, pre' vious to 3rd Nov.; crew saved WARREN POINT, Jan. 19.—The Frolic, M'Leary, from pool to Dordt, was totally lost yesterday morning in Dundrtl. - Bay ; crew saved. VEsseLs SPOKEN.—Thetis, for Pernambuco, 26th Nov. . 1° lat. 6N, long. 25 W ; Edward, Cuthbertson, hence for Mobile off the Salteers ; Wilson, from Icha , ioe, 23rd Dec. in lat. 2'l long. 32 W ; Chamoise, to Dordt, in long. 34 W ; Alarm, fr°,, — Ichaboe, to Cork, 17th Dec. in lat. 18 N. long. 23 W ; Perf from Ichaboe to Cork, 24th Dec. in lat. 80 N, long. 35 W ; Idare hence to Honduras, 6th Jan, in lat. 40 N, L ng. 16 W TELEGRAPH OFFICE, JANUARY 20. Wind at Holyhead North. fresh gale in the morning, N•- 7.7 • strong breeze at noon, N.W. moderate gale in the evening. __,, Off Holyhead at 3 p.m., No. 265, Hobert Finnie, Bk from " Off the port at 2 pm.. 1 schooner. LIVERPOOL COTTON MARKET, JAN. 20. A very good demand to-day. Cotton is freely shewn, .10 can be bought at last week's prices. It is said that some li t e r" profit can now be realized by the importers, which was na t , " o done since this time in ' 4 4. The sales are 70W bales, all to , trade. LIVERPOOL CATTLE MARKET, JAN. 20. The supply of Cattle at market to-day has been much the 5a,..;( as last week. Beef sid to 6d per lb ; Mutton a little high say from 64d to 6itd per lb. 4 LIVERPOOL PROVISION MARKET, JAN 20 :0 There is a most palpable flatness in our Butter market t week, and prices are decidedly lower. Speculators are va t i ove, o 0 anxious to realize ; still there is a general expressed opifl that the market must end high. In Provisions nothing still' Bacon is much as last quoted. NORTH HAI MARKET, JANUARY 20 AGRICULTURAL PRODUCE s. d. s. (1. Hay, old 2 , ..011 ® 1 1 Potatoes, 71) 901 b. new - 9 I Clover 9 1 0 Short-tops .. 1 9 Green ditto Straw, Wheat 0 5 0 6 Cattle Oat 0 5 0 6 Turnips , 19. ten 23 0 Bar:ey s. d. s• LIVERPOOL: TUESDAY, JANUARY 21, 1845. PRINTED AND PUBLISHED EVERY TUESDAY MORNIN°' BY JOSHUA FLETCHER LACE, of 53,Grove-street,*— LEONARD ADDISON, of 14, Great Orford-street, At N0.4 1 5T,41101001 Cum Liviisreofr•