The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser. — Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1847-07-06 00:00:00

TO CORRESPONDENTS NIGEL is under considerat'on. We should like to receive this much valued correspondent's favours a little earlier in the wppt, We must repeat, that we cannot accept of communications where the writers' names do not appear. This applies to an article on Birkenhead matters, and a complaint sent us on the conduct of Some medical men. If the writer of the latter bas met with a black sheep, she may depend upon it he is an exception to the majority of the profession in Liverpool. We cannot malign such a body of men on anonymous authority. El)t libtrpool gsitanbarTi. Yearly Subscription : On Credit, 17s. In Advance, 15s. TUESDAY MORNING, JULY 6, 1847. THE question of the C rust undoubtedly ( ncy is one which .e the early attention of ssion, with a dissolution sloiely impen nothing can tance to the and indeed to every brans}: ) even it, that th ich coristituenci n, and Manch( 'rein The *sent to unsettle every ()the our mon deterred from 'eatly needed, b temporary derange: ,as not hesitated .eat interest and syste ed circumstances and principle - 8, which recent measures have brought about The operation, thus far, of the act of 1844 has been most injurious to the trading and industrial interests of the empire; and it is now manifest that it is totally unsuited to 'the present circumstances a population .1,1 rapidly; and io of ow added an increas ion we have just upon the foreign agriculturist for food. Yet we have a circulating medium, by which this commerce is carried on and our increasing millions are to be fed, which is fixed—which is contracted by the very circum stances which call for its expansion. If a deficient harvest compels us to import largely of food which, in the first instance, at least, must be paid for partly-in specie, we must withdraw from circula tion bank notes, and thus cripple commercial ope rations - because the act of 1844 allows the bank to issue only £14,000,000 sterling upon ordinary security, and compels the proprietors to find gold for every other million of paper which it issues. In years of abundant harvests we have gold flying into its coffers, and an extension of paper issues, which creates inflated prosperity, followed by con traction and its accompanying ruin. There is scarcely an influential commercial com munity in the kingdom, which is not prepared to protest against a continuance of this system. Lon don has protested against it, and is repeating its protest. Liverpool is equally decided upon the question. The Banking Interest, the ablest of our monied men, the soundest of our statesmen condemn - the measure of 1844. Well inforMed men in every country describe it as suicidal and unjust Sir Robert Peel is obstinately wedded to it ; and the present Whig Government dares not apparently move a step out of the leading strings in which he holds them. As an instance of the condemnation of the notion that an exclusively metallic currency, or one based upon the possession of gold, can meet the continually changing circum and its commerce at a dis- s of the coup quote -the following extract' from the ►1 Address of General Harrison, president nited States, December 1840. tance, ssr Inaugura of the aking it (the currency) exclusively me -11 intended, appears to me to be fraught consequences than any other scheme to the rights of the citizens) that has If any single scheme could produce at once that mutation of condition entrrp If there h, that is ( ecuntie a state of thinks Nr our fellow-citizens by their in are raised to the possession of measure better cal- culated than another to produce that state of things so much deprecated by all true republicans, by which the rich are daily adding to their hoards, and the poor sinking into penuary, it is an exclusive metallic currency. Or if there is a process by which the character of the country osity and nobleness and feeling may be destroyed 1 necessary toleration of usury, by the greaf an it is an exclusive metallic cum Take another authority, that of Mr. Cobden, as given before the committee of the House of Com- nons on Banks of Issue, in 1840 Are you of opinion that considerable injury has tsed to trade and commerce by the fluctuations in the issues of the Bank of England? . My opinion is that great evils have arisen to the trade and manufactures of the country from fluctuations in the currency. I believe great evils have been occasioned to the trade and manu factures of the country in 1836 and 1837, and the subse it period, by fluctuations in the currency ; greater —pecuniary, social, and moral—than by the direct of all the banks of issue since they were first bed in this country. establis, No man conversant with the question can deny, Is under which we are now labouring attributable to the working of the bill of 1844 ; and the author of that bill cannot say that its con sequences have not been distinctly predicted. The following passage, from an able article in Black wood's Magazine for the present month, shews that it was predicted by Mr. Alison two years ago : that the evi "We have already shown the manner in which Sir It. Peel was pleased to treat the respectful remonstrance of the English bankers, and the total variance of his finan cial views from those which were entertained by his ex and honoured parent. We now take leave to draw ention of our readers to a rather remarkable pas sage in Mr. Alison's late pamphlet, entitled " England in 1815 and 1845." We need hardly state our reasons for declining to criti cise that work. We agree entirely with the views enter tained by that eminent writer ; and we should be happy indeed, could we state our own arguments with a force and a precision at all commensurate with his. Sir Robert Peel, however, in the course of the year 1845, thought proper to make this pamphlet the subject of his remarks, and concluded, more alio, with a sneer at Mr. Alison, which, apart from its propriety, does not strike us as particularly clever. The point at issue was rather a trivial one ; for Sir Robert Peel, as usual, did not apply himself to the main body of the argument : he neither impeached fig facts nor the conclusions of Mr. Alison, but fastened upon an incidental point of no great value or importance. The attack, however, had this good effect, that it elicited a reply from Mr. Alison, in which he points out so distinctly the results of the restrictive measure, that we cannot do better than transfer an extract from his postscript to our pages. It is proper to observe, that this postscript was published two years ago, and we leave the public to judge RS, with t bullion and specie. It is the avowed ) base the circulation of the bank on n of its supporters has constitute the only If, therefore, the een repeatedly expressed that they de foundation of banking operation :lecie is drawn out by the hold( of note 'ho are de- 17s. 101 d. al-1-c Id, it follows, of course, that ust be .diminished in the amount. " Now, suppc escaped, occurs, vest, such as we have narrowly of a g hat, u. )ank, will bi and rapidly contracted heir own r in to be exchanged for specie, to buy foreign +l," ry remittances to foreign un- )t issue new ones beyond the for specie or bullion, t in exc they ire every day iosiL Foreign --- parts of th e coun t ry for reign 11- ;s inevitable, that their notes ;) in ail rapidly as the .sovereigt n ; the circulation inust - , at all If £10,000,000 of soverpip-n,i of notes -1'); 4' gold and issued on equired for the wants of the corn -11 not thereby be doubled, it will be ible to contemplat IS IL i tt the most erious apprehensions : should be established and Perpetuated by acts of parliament ? Does it not annul the best effects of a paper currency, that of having an elastic quality which causes it to expand when the metallic more place himself at our service. A requisition for this object lies at our office and at the usual places, for signature by the burgesses and electors. We need say no more. We never were in love with Liberalism. Even the flashy talent of Lord Brougham could never reconcile us to the heartlessness of the doctrines which are propounded by the school of politicians to which he belongs. The rental of the land, he told us whilst advocating the New Poor-law Bill, was in danger of beng eaten up by the pauperism of the agricultural labourer. "Be it so," every man of common feeling would exclaim, "if the renter of the land will not pay its cultivator as much in the shape of wages as will keep his de pendants from pauperism. Every man has a duty to perform to his fellow-man. The labourer has to toil—to win his bread by the sweat of his brow. The farmer and the landowner have to pay for that toil adequately. They have to see that the labourer can live, provided that he toil. It suited the views of the excessively liberal and philosophical, amongst whom Lord BROUGHAM may be numbered, to proclaim to the world a dif feren doctrine. Men were to be punished, although willing to work, whenever the landowner, the farmer, or the manufacturer, felt it convenient to refuse them the opportunity to work. The poor man was to be degraded for the rich man's selfish ness. His affections were to be outraged for the rich man's shortcomings in circumstances or in feeling. Poverty, in short, was made a crime ; and the unfortunate being labouring under suspi cion of poverty was to be treated worse than a convicted felon. The awakened good sense and charitable feeling of the country, however, was beginning to get the better of the - cold and heartless policy of the sup porters and authors of the new Poor Law. Lord Brougham, however, is imperturbable in his ad herence to the cruel provisions of his pet measure; and, in the debate upon the Amendment Bill the other night, perpetrated a remark which ought to crimson his cheek every time he reflects upon the subject. Speaking of the Bill in question, he said: " He considered that one of the greatest blots upon the bill now before them was the clause which had been intro duced into it in the other house, providing against the separation of married paupers above a prescribed age, and he tendered his respectful but hearty thanks to the Go vernment for having gallantly opposed that proposition." The certain age referred to was sixty years ! Lord Brougham thinks it wrong that poor infirm wretches of sixty years of age should not be torn from each other's companionship—that whom God has joined, man should not tear asunder. This is liberalism. Keep us from it ; for, if it is liberalism, it is not Christianity. Mr. Rushton being absent from the Bench yesterday, Thomas Booth and Wm. Dixon, Esqrs. presided at the Police Court. UNIVERSITY COLLEGE, LONDON.-At the examination on the Ist inst., our talented young townsman Robert G. Williams, son Mr. Williams, Basnett-street, was awarded the senior prize in Hebrew, together with certificates of of honour in the senior Latin, Greek, and Higher Mathe matical classes, and Comparative Grammar. We may remind our readers that this young gentleman who has so distinguished himself was educated at one of our most celebrated institutions in this town, and has distinguished himself year after year in every branch of his studies at College. ROBBERY AT WAVERTREE-ROAD.—John Murphey, a navie, was, yesterday, committed to the Sessions for dogging a gentleman, named Robinson, into a lonely part of the road to Wavertree, on Saturday night, and robbing him of 15s. The police cannot be too much on the alert just now to prevent street robberies, as they are becom ing very frequent. EXTRAORDINARY GROWTH OF CORN.—Some splendid specimens of the oat crop have been left at our office, which were grown in a field belonging to Mrs. Clegg of Higher Tranmere, and which promise a most prolific and early harvest. One of the specimens is 5 full-grown stems, bearing heavy heads of grain, and grown from one root ; the other is one stalk measuring 44 feet in height, and three-eights of an inch in the diameter of the bar rel. We counted the quantity of grains on this head and found that it contained the amazing number of 403: After this, who despairs of our having cheap markets ? CAUTION TO SERVANTS.—Mr. Thomas Brown, pub lican, yesterday appeared before the borough magistrates to prefer a charge of robbery against his servant girl-- Mary Livingston by name. It appeared that Mr. Brown and his wife had gone out on Sunday forenoon to take a walk, and that he had left £1 7s. 6d. in one of his trousers pockets ; but on his return, he found that 3s. 6d. of it bad been abstracted. On the prisoner's being taken into custody, she returned the money. She was ordered to be discharged having received a severe reprimand from the bench. T' MASTER PORTERS.—For a few days _ RE AUTHORISED past the walls of the town were placarded with an an nouncement to the effect that the Authorised Master Porters of Liverpool would hold a meeting .yesterday evening at 6 o'clock, in the Clarendon-rooms, for the transaction of important business. In consequence of this advertisement we last night sent our reporter ther fnr flip renal TIIII.IIIICO of rannrfincr #boir nrnnnetrlirtrra h he went there at the time appointed, six o'clock ted till seven, it turned out to — be a meeting not of _ the room CASE 1 Yesterday a young lad, well known in the Police-court, named Flannagan, was brought up and charged by another lad of most respectable ap pearance, with stabbing him with a knife on Saturday evening last. Robert Leeds, the lad in question, deposed ;wurds, and when in Lambert-street, he was met bq the prisoner and another lad, who commenced abusing. him. He en deavoured to make his escape, but could not do so for the violent abuse which he received. After he was knocked SHORT The prisoner was committed f EiTIVE SADLEI members of the Operative Sadlers' Association of this town, have issued a temperate and well written address to view of directing public attention to hours which they are obliged to work hops. They have, no doubt, been led d to the public in consequence of the ch has attended a similar effort on the part of Ind it is it be hoped that they will not be less the public with t the extremely for the baker 1. They asked for one hour's reduction a day, lling to work twelve hours. We understand Rrs have already agreed to accede the rest to the reasonable demand of their viorimen— should do so immediately. be intir Our contemporary the Mer- vs to correspondents lastFrid C.' is of opinio r representation in the succeed follows whatever is s Mercury that It uently too sudd .ies are past w , n at the t last night not know to the world must be in, when thousands Mercury's readers are in the benighted state cl cribed, and never get to know what is provided for their musement during the week until the end of it have mis people tl when v. ineir tavourite organ what treats they 1! We beg to suggest to these thousands of advisableness of consulting some other journal, emporary cannot afford them timely inform._ tion - . How is by - -the-bye, illeren;V; trolu'siYands"Clownli see his Tuesday's publication ? That would be in time, we should imagine ety to be ex according to the present system, being fully aware of the importance attached to the subject, which involves so large an amount of life and property ; but they respectfully submit that the qualifications named in the recommendatory paper do not embrace the duties required of persons commanding steam-vesssls, which differ materially from sailing vessels. They also state , that the' present board of examiners, (who are principally teachers of the theory of navigation, and not practically acquainted with steam vessels,) are not capable of judging of the quali fications requsite in the management. of steam-ships. They agree that parties commanding vessels' trading to foreigli countries should be well acquainted with the theory of navigation, with reference to lunar observations, chrono meters, single and double altitudes % &c., but add that such qualifications are not requisite in the coasting trade, particularly when the passage is short, or under 24 hours. They submit a list of qualifications which they consider requisite in any person having charge of a large steam ship ; and beg their lordships, if the memorialists sug gestions be approved of, to sanction, without delay. the appointment of skilled and competent Boards of Examiners at the principal steam ports. The qualifications which they point out appear to us to be so sensible and compre hensive, that we make no apology for inserting them at length : lst.—The party must have been at sea at least ten years, and not less than three employed in steam, nor less than one year a first officer, or on probation with an experienced man. 2nd.—Must be able to read and write legibly, 3rd.—Must be a first-raga coasting sailor, well acquainted with the rocks, shoals, lights, soundings, and various sets of tides, on the lines he is usually employed upon, and to have a gene ral knowledge of most lines on which steamers are employed, and to be able to conduct his vessel as pilot, without depend_ . ing on others for assistance (as it f r e quen tly occurs th a t pil ots cannot be obtained.) 4th.—Should be able to produce first-rate testimonials as to character generally, sobriety in particular; must be cool, cautious, persevenng, and collected, i n th e discharge of his various duties. TO THE EDITOR OF THE LIVERPOOL STANDARD. Si a paragraph headed "Alarming Prevalence of Fe ver,'s in the Liverpool Chronicle of Saturday last, I perceived a statement announcing the deaths in St. Paul's and Exchange Wards to he 126 for the last week. As lam the registering officer for those two wards, which constitute the district of Dale-street, I conceive it-my imperative duty to the public to give this statement the most respectful contradiction ; and to say, that the deaths in both wards for the week alluded to only numbered 54, of which 26 only were cases of fever. I am, sir, your most obedient servant, EDWARD LOVATF, Regiserar. 41, Union-street, sth July, 1847. NEW RECOMMENDATION FOR A CANDIDATE.—The Mercury is very wrathful against Sir Digby Mackworth, and devotes to the, discussion of his claims part of a leading article and no less than three distinct paragraphs. The baronet is guilty of the several enormities of being a military man, of having distinguished himself whilst serving his country in the field, of having materially con tributed to preserve one of the leading ports of the king dom from being sacked by a mob, and of having done various other matters. Mercury's own candidate is much more favourably situated. No one can say of Sir Thomas Birch that he ever did anything, or said any thing. or wrote anything, to distinguish himself from the dullest and most commonplace of mankind. What he may have in him, to be developed hereafter, we know not. He may have talent sufficient to make a great statesman, or only just enough to discover that breakfast is ordina rily taken before dinner, or that people generally go up stairs to go to bed. The unexceptionableness of Sir Thomas's claim appears to be, that nobody knows what it is, or anything about him. GROWING CONVICTION OF CANDIDATES IN FAVOUR OF PROTESTANTISM. — Different men of liberal opinions are freely and explicitly stating their resolution to resist all further concession to Rome, of whatever kind, and under whatever pretence : and we are disposed to think such pledges are being given by some candidates from conviction of their necessity for the well-being of the country. Among these, we are inclined to think, is t o be ranked Mr. William Jackson, of Birkenhead, who is a candidate for Newcastle-under-Lyne. We would re commend our clerical friends connected with that borough to write to Mr. Jackson, as we are informed he will afford them, on this head, the most complete satisfaction. In other respects he is a suitable member. And little as we are disposed to join in the current abuse of Sir Robert Peel ; high as we regard his talents as a financier and statesman ; it is our earnest desire to keep him out of office; simply on this broad and clear ground, that under his Administration Popery is more likely to make further lodgment in the British Constitution, and to have greater facility given her for a complete triumph, than under any other political arrangement that is likely to arise. THE WEATHER AND THE CROPS.—With respect to Lancashire and Cheshire, we but repeat what appears in all the journals with reference to every county of the land we live in, when we say that the weather during . the past week has been most propitious for all growing crops, and that the country never presented a more promising ap pearance for an abundant and, we may add, an early harvest. Summer has visited us in real earnest, and the warm suns of the day have put vegetation to an almost fatiguing, stretch, which, however, has been counteracted by refreshing and invigorating dews in the night. On the first five days of the present month, the thermometer stood in the hottest part of the day, and in the shade, respectively at 71 deg., fig deg., 78 deg., and 75 deg., the last being yesterday. We are indebted for these statistics to Mr. Abrahafa, of Lord-street, who keeps a journal of the temperature, &c., for the government_ registration department. The heat on Sunday and yester day may be said to have been sultry; buttthe ground is so generally covered with luxuriant vegetable matter, that nothing like parching is observable. Great efforts have been made by dealers in grain to impress the public with the apprehension that the potato crop would be a dead failure, and that we had little to expect from other kind of edible produce, either at home or abroad. The pre dictions of these interested hoarders of grain, (for the purpose of bolstering up prices,) will, we trust, be utterly falsified. The potatoes, taking the whole breadth sown, never looked better. Slight disease may have here and there appeared, but potatoes were never without partial taint in this country in the most abundant years, and there is no ground for alarm at present. Wheat and oats will undoubtedly, unless we are overtaken by an unexpected unfavourable season at harvest time, yield above the average bulk, and all other field crops, with the exception of some barleys, are equally promising. The sun has been most favourable for haymaking, and much is already gathered in. The crop is generally heavy. Turnips and mangels are thriving, and all garden stuffs are prolific. It will be found by perusing another column of our paper, that the prospects of farmers in America and in Europe are equally propitious ; and that as a much greater breadth of corn and other agricultural seeds has been sown, the deficiency of last year will not b e m much a h felt , lar la rge even x t i e f nour The own foodpotatoes ma should rket ia s fail here afteralready receded from exorbitant prices , and we trust, that ere long, the necessaries of life will be tangible by tle , humblest a our industrious labourers : confidently to a s fsa y ail m see p or a fe t h ptr y i ,e e t i o ere spare teaotrnioma f so o , ai r stteil commodities; I F gad and dealers l extortedewr se look in c o oor undue oe who gains have, in l they \ revival of commercial prosperity from the happy change brought about by a benign Providence. IRELAND. — An account from Dublin, dated Ist instant, states—" Nothing can surpass the beauty of the weather; one month more of it, and the hay crop would be saved, the wheat well filled and hard, while the early potatoes would be placed beyond the reach of danger. The new supplies are pouring into the markets, and acceptable at the prices of ordinary years at this period. Fish and vegetables are also in benignant profusion in the Dublin sth.—Should be well acquainted with the principle, as well as the working of the steam engine, and a good judge of cause and effect, with reference to the action of the engines, in order to avoid the serious damages so frequently occuring from want of experience in this branch of steam navigation. 6th.—Must be able to prick off courses, take cross bearings, and understand the nature and uses of charts generally. As the undoubted object of the Lords of the Council in the recommendatory address to masters, is to guaran tee to the commercial and voyaging public that security from loss of property and life which adequate talent, ex perience, and good conduct in commanders and mates can alone supply, we hope and trust that these reasonable suggestions will be sanctioned by their lordships, and acted upon as early as possible. Had such qualifications been required since steam navigation became so general, we should have been spared the pain of recording, over the last few years, many disasters, the result of incom pancy, or want of due care and caution ; and the confi dence of the public in steam-ships would have been more firmly established, for the benefit not only of the owners but of the public at large. There need be no "compulsory" examination, as all competent captains will willingly pre erit themselves for examination ; and we shall know in what light to regard those—few we imagine —who shall decline the test. IMPORTS OF FOOD INTO LIVERPOOL.—A walk through any of our docks, the northern docks especially, would strike a party who has not recently visited them with amazement. The quays are literally piled up with flour, grain of all kinds, rice, meal, and other articles of food, discharged from the American .and other vessels which line them. We regret to say, however, that there is not the evidence of a corresponding exportof British manufactures. A cargo of emigrants and ballast is the ruling one; the shipowner being anxious only to get back for more imports and the excellent freights which are being paid for food. CRICKET MATCH.—On Wednesday last, the 30th ult., a match was played between the St. Helen's club and the Olympus, of this town, on the ground of the latter, in Aigburth-road, in which the St. Helen's were defeated in one innings, with 100 runs to spare. The batting of the Olympus wrs decidedly superior, Mr. Ryall having scored 87, Mr. Williams 28, and others a round number, making a total of 206 ; while the St. Helen's, owing to the effective bowling of Messrs. Bright and Ryall, managed to get only 49 runs, and 17 byes and wide balls in their first innings, and 32 runs and 8 byes in their second, makin g a total of 106. The return match will be played at St. Helen's in a short time. HEALTH OF TOWNS.—During the last week, parties have been busy throughout the town in measuring all the ground —floors, back yards, &c., of the whole of th e p rem i ses i n the respective streets, for the information of the Health Committee. The questions arise, with respect to old buildings on valuable sites that have not area sufficient for due ventilation, whether the owners are to be required to pull down or condense their houses and enlarge their yards, or whether the committee will do this for them, or by merns of jack-screws extend their walls ? In lieu of, in most instances, the useless cost of such a survey, we would suggest that the act relating to new buildings should be rigidly enforced, and that the window-tax should be greatly reduced or entirely abrogated, so that the winds of heaven may pass freely through buildings densely packed. STREET ROBBERY.—A degraded looking character, named Robert Howlett, was yesterday brought up and charged with committing a violent assault and robbery on the person of one John Lee. The prosecutor stated that he went into a public house in Vauxhall-road on Saturday night to have a gill of ale, when he was followed by the prisoner and another man, the former of whom demanded a gill of the ale for himself and his friend. To this demand the prosecutor complied in the hope of getting rid of them, and left the house ; but he was followed from thence into Sawney-pope-street, and on into Fontenoy street, where the prisoner knocked him down with a "life preserver "or "colt," and disabled him. He then robbed him of 3s. 6d. in silver and copper. Shortly after which he was taken into custody. Committed for trial. iAatileu Chas. Howell was charged at the Police-court, by consta ble 296, with forcibly entering the dwelling-house of a uke-street, ant markets ; and throughout the country, famine, with its immediate consequences, has ceased to exist. Fever is among the exceptions, which, though widely prevalent, is not of a violent character. Belfast, strange to say, is the chief victim to fever. On Tuesday night, the fever pa tients in hospital amounted nearly to 2,000, and half that ) their own houses. Camp tents amongst which knives, and other effect stealing various o a meerohum pipc The constable " in stating the :toman priest,) rerusea to come rorwara ana prosecute, and there fore he could only prove one branch of the case. It ap peared that the constable heard of a robbery about half past 8 o'clock on Saturday night, and on going up Duke street about half an hour afterwards, he saw the prisoner going into the kitchen of a man named Cronan, where he was found. Mrs. Hughes, on being examined. stated Jeen .e the town, a course which has been adopted in various other districts, on the recom mendation of the Central Board of Health." STEALING WATCHES.—A female named Wilson, was yesterday committed for three months for stealing a watch from the person of a foreign seaman named Nichols ; and also a cigar manufacturer. that the parties who robbed her house must have entered by the back door at an early hour on Sunday morning, as the servants had been late in going to bed the night previous. She identified the property stolen, when the • f• A • ROBBERY IN PRESTON-STREET.—Yesterday, at the Borough-court, three prisoners named Peter Mack, Eliza beth Singleton, and Ann Morris, were committed fo r t r i a l by the magistrates, for robbing a young man named Joseph Jones, of the sum of ss. 6d., on Saturday night last. STEALING.—A A SUSPICIOUS CHARACTER.—The neighbourhood of Mill-street has long been infested by a set of irregular and disorderly characters, and scarcely a night passes without the perpetration of some daring act of street robbery being committed in that locality. One of this genus, named William Parr, was brougnt up and charged by constable Wilson as being one of a gang of thieves who were the terror of the neighbourhood. From Wilson's statement it appeared that, on Saturday night last, a " knock down" robbery had been committed, and that whilst in quest of the perpetrators of it, he found the prisoner—one whom he knew to be a dangerous character, and therefore ar rested him, with the view of tracing the robbery, in which, however, he failed. The prisoner stated that he worked in the employment of Mr. Gooldson, of Chatham -street and that he had nothing to do with the robbery in question Mr. Parkinson said the prisoner had been often before court, but had never been convicted. He was accordit discharged with a severe caution. LEIGH HUNT.—An amateur. perf 9 rn2am Charles Dickens, Douglas Jerold young, but well-known offender was again brought up and charged by Robert Crooks, greengrocer, with pilfering from his shop some potatoes, gooseberries, and other articles. The offence having been fully proved, the prisoner was committed for three months. STEALING A WATCH.—A cigar maker, late of Rich mond-row, named William H. Harrison, was, yesterday, committed for two months, for stealing a watch, the pro perty of Atho Wilhelm Orland, of the ship Newville, now lying in the Queen's Dock. ZOOLOGICAL GARDENS.—This popular place of amuse ment—to the credit of its proprietors, who cater for the public with such liberality—is drawing the support of all parties. The prOgramme for this week is a rich one. Independently of the usual entertainments, on Wednes- Madame Warton gives a performance for the benefit r corps dramatique. On Thursday, a splendid gala le held by the order of Odd-fellows, who will exhi eir splendid paraphernalia; and, on Saturday, the nd other literary cha: Je opened by arrangement with the pro iturday Evening Concerts, the charge An extra display of fireworks gardens are to I moters of the S being reduced to sixpence racters are to appear, will take place in last week of the present month. The p dedicated to Mr. Leigh Hunt. _The foil( Se given on the occasion *rom a letter, written by Mr. Dickens to a gent CONCERT -HALL, LORD NELSON-STREET.--OR Satur day and yesterday vocal and instrumental concerts were given in this hall by Mrs. Sunderland, Mr. Ryalls, Signor Sapio, and Mr. Goodall, pupil of De Beriot ; Mr. Rohner presiding at the piano-forte. They went off well ; and the various artistes were received by a discriminating audi ence with hearty applause. Where all was good, it is difficult to select what to praise. Mr. Goodall's " Ke molo on a theme of Beethoven." however, deserves to be ng of a this town, trea dect that tin, You will, per_. haps, be aware be - fore reading thi lovernment, in recognition of Mr. Leigh Hunt's literary success, has just granted him a pension of £2OO a-year. This most gene rous and worthy act of a liberal administration relieves the gentlemen associated in the proposed performance for Mr. Hunt's benefit from the necessity of acting in London inasmuch as the large receipts expected at Covent-garden Theatre are no longer necessary to his support and com fort. But we do not propose -to relinquish the intended vonrocoan+o+irvn in T .itresynnni and Mane.hPster. noticed. The piece is one of immense difficulty, and has always been considered as one which no other violinist except Vieuxtemps could master. Mr. Goodall, however, ....2 ill JLIIV ca 'Av.,. .... % ' went through triumphantly. We need not say that Mrs. reasons which render them still exceedingly desirable and Sunderland's singing was beautiful throughout. Mr. I useful." Active preparations the performaeee interesting. are already on foot to render Ryall's "Mother , he's going away ? " , first night. was the gem of the VOLly, all VI IJIIG luau icayrk.uaunity, praying min moose re solutions which were intended to be submitted to the house might not be carried into effect. He begged leave to state his opinion, that the petitioners were the best judges of such a measure. He would add, also, that al though they were intimately connected with all that con cerned the welfare of the country, the most experienced men, and the best qualified from their connexion with our manufactures and commerce, yet they had not been exa mined by the committee ; he hoped, therefore, that be fore a measure so destructive of the commercial interests of the country was passed (and when he said that, hon. members would conclude every other interest to be com bined with those, and to go along with them), the house would pause awhile in order to collect that information which they so particularly wanted. In looking at the re ports which had been published on the subject, he must say, that the witnesses were not men likely to give any information to government, not men acquainted with the state of the country ; the last men who should have been questioned, if government wanted to arrive at the merits of the case. In attending, lately, a meeting in London, he begged it might be understood, that that was the only one he was ever interested in, except the meeting of 1797, and the latter one was considered of consequence enough to have, saved the country. If then, that was a meeting which deserved the attention of the house, he hoped the present one which originated this petition would be con sidered as equally entitled to it. He happened, on that occasion, however, to be in company with some whom he could not but deem the best friends of their country ; but he should not do justice to two persons who attended there, Messrs. Hunt and Wooler, if he did not say that they behaved in a manner the least disorderly in the world, which he attributed to their new and singular alli ance with his majesty's ministers, for they supported the measure in question: they inveighed against any attempt at deferring the period of resuming cash payments. He must confess that the circumstances so new of these men being supporters of the administration constituted the outline of a very good caricature. To see the noble lord and his honourable friends on the one hand, Messrs. Hunt and Wooler on the other, united in their attempt to pull down the mighty fabric erected by the immortal Pitt, was at once ludicrous and painful. He would implore the House to pause before any rash step was taken which might forward such an attempt. He really thought the resolutions were of a very extraordinary character. It was true that he should have to oppose a very near and dear relation. But while it was his own sentiment that he had a duty to perform, he respected those who did theirs, and who considered them to be pa ramount. The gentlemen who opposed him at the meet ing of which he had spoken, were rather indignant at his mentioning the name of Mr. Pitt. His own impression was certainly a strong one in his favour ; he always thought him the first man in the country. All of us had some , bias ; and he should not quarrel with those who preferred some other name. He well remembered, when that near and dear relation was only a child, he observed to some friends who were standing near him, that the man who discharged his duty to his country in the manner in which. Mr. Pitt had, did most to be admired, and was to be imi tated; and he thought at that moment, if his own life and that of his near relation should be spared, he would one day present him to his country, to follow in the same path. It was very natural that such should be his wishes, al though those who did their duty might at once be con tented with their conduct. He was well satisfied that the head and heart of that relation were in their right place, and that though he had deviated a little from the path of propriety, in this instance, he would soon be restored to it. He had entered more largely into the subject than he had intended ; any other observation he should reserve to a future opportunity, and concluded by moving that the petition be brought up." CORK ELECTION.—The repealer has won the day. The gross poll at the close on Saturday was, for Dr. Power, 831, and for Mr. Leader 550, being a majority for the former of 281. The election was to fill the place of the late Daniel O'Connell, for the county. It is stated that Mr. Leader resigned on finding himself so far behind, — the term allowed for the election not having expired. We were mistaken in supposing that the constituency of Cork after losine , their champion, wanted a " Leader." It appears they only wanted " Power." The election is available merely as a feeler for the county, and will prob ably supercede a contest at the great struggle after the dissolution of the present House of Commons. LONDON DocKs.—A dividend at the rate of 5 per cent. per annum was declared on Friday for the half-year end. ing May 31, at the meeting of the directors and proprie tors, held at the Company's house, in Prince's-street. Mr. J. D. Powles, the secretary, read the report of re ceipts expenditure, &c. The income of the company for the six months, to May 31, was £198,626 lls. 5d., against £191,246 12s. 7d. . in the corresponding period of 1846. The expenditure for the six months was £108,114 3s. Bd., being about £lO,OOO more than to May, 1846, owing to the payment of additional taxes, &c. The number of loaded vessels which entered the docks during the six months was 548, of 150,570 tons. For the half year to May 31, 1846, the number of ships was 593, and the tonnage 142,533 tons. The stock of goods in the London Dock warehouses on May 31st last was 103,106 tons, or about 2,000 tons less than at the corresponding date of 1846. CHARGE OF OBTAINING 12,000 WORTH OF BILLS UNDER FRAUDULENT PRETENCES, FROM PRINCE NA POLEON BONAPARTE.—On Friday, Prince Napoleon Louis Bonaparte attended to prefer a charge against Charles Pollard, gentleman, of No. 10, Exeter-street, Strand, for having obtained from him, under false pretences, two bills of exchange £l,OOO each. His Highness wished to defer the charge until he had an opportunity of obtaining the professional advice of his solicitor. Mr. Hardwick said, before he could remand the prisoner, he must have some statement on which to act. His Highness said—On the 14th of June, the prisoner called on him at his apartments, in King-street, St. James's, and stated he was a money-lender. After some conversation, th e . pri soner induced him to give £2,000, in two of L T:2 each, into his hands, for the purpos e of getting discou nted. The prisoner, w oeld s g a n t the te sbaimllse,thi time, sa id, ' brit i g le h ( i l tn n h e e e Napo leon) money on the following day. He signed the bills. The prisoner called the next day to say he could not bring the money that day, but he would the day after. Since that period he had neither seen the bills nor the prisoner. The bills in question were drawn by the prisoner, who, at the first interview, was provided with stamps. The Prince stated that Messrs. Bush and Co., his solicitors, were in. posses sion of letters which would throw a complete light on the transaction; and he should wish to defer the imperfect explanation he could give until a future day.—Mr. Hard wick appointed next day to go into the charge. THE GREAT BRITAIN. —TYRELLA, WEDNESDAY, JUNE 30.—The weather for the last few days has been remarkably fine, and the wind light, consequently the tides have at length ebbed out sufficiently to allow all the work outside and inside the ship to be proceeded with, but the boxes not being all up, and none of them having been filled, no attempt has been made to raise her higher ; the springs did not rise to the calculated height. By the next springs, it appears by the progress made, fourteen boxes being in places, and two more on the move, that their power will be tested. The small spars have been rapidly disappearit b yr from off the breakwater, and are used up as shores to the upright bulks, or the boxes them selves ; and many have, under Mr. Bremner's direction, been brought down to the rock, in a line of. four or five yards—abreast of the engines, remarkably close together— between and beyond the boxes, spars, thereabout, to which they are attached by a stout beech tree, resting on the top, and abreast of them smaller ones, and about six feet high. This, at first. gave an idea they were intended to sustain the spars against the sea, should a sudden gale come on from the southward ; -but Captain Claxton kindly ex plained-to us that they were intended for a fulcrum, on which the large spars of the breakwater were to rest with the butts under the bilge keel, at an angle of 45 degree i at th - 'hese tree. anc _--..e upper ends cf these trees weights were either to be suspended, or ballast laid on stages--=it is presumed in bags, so as to act like ballast-levers. The large spars of the breakwateo were, a good many of them, taken down yesterday, and a dozen or two are being placed to day on this fulcrum ; as they are more than 50 feet long, and as the butts will touch the ship at about seven or eight feet from the fulcrum, the leverage wi great, it is said, equal to 200 tons, and as a set of American elm bulks are being braced together on the strand for a similar purpose, at the stem of the ship, propably the power will be doubled, while the 20 boxes, it is said, will be good for 800 or 1000 tons. An officer of the Royal Engineers, whose name we could not learn, came down to the ship with Captain Claxton on Monday, and passed some hours on the foundation of the breakwater, and and afterwards in the ship. Yesterday he was to be seen taking notes and making measurements with Mr. Brem ner and Captain Claxton ; he is still here. Since my last communication nothing could be much worse, as far as the ebbing of the tides went, for the . operations. For remove the remaining portion of the breakwater could not work upon it ; and Mr. Crew, the head man of the smiths or boiler-makers, said he had not been able to do any thing further inside ; all hands, however, since Monday 3eem to have had their hands full, and are mal-' most of the smooth water crease, if one may judge _ing the The interest seems to in. of carriazes the coming springs (about ten or twelve days hence,) it i$ not likely to fall off. A large lot of stones has been col-. lected to place under her, after the plan adopted by Capt. Claxton, which has succeeded, in keeping her up, nearly five feet. It is sa id Mr. Bremner has contrived a very ingenious mode of assisting this operation, but I have not been abb4 to learn the process ; by my next I hope to do so, as al; connected with the, ship are obliging, and comngaiicativec—NetiTY. TelegraYh• PORTUGAL. LATEST FROM OPORTO.—The Queen's authority has been fully established at and near Lisbon. The prisoners taken by the British forces have in great numbers volun teered into the royal service. The rest are sent to their homes. The Government had issued a decree to the mer chants in expectation of raising a loan on payment of the duties at Oporto, but money was very scarce. The har vest is promising. There is no fruit for shipment. The ships Royal Tar, Mindello, Oporto, and Eighth of July, captured in the employ of the insurgents, were all given up, and are now recommissioned by the Portuguese Go vernment. The Spaniards under General Concha were virtually in possession of Oporto. The English residents are respected and protected at Oporto. At Vigo the English ships which have been detained by blockade were about to sail on the 30th ult., for Oporto. currency is contracted, and so obviate the ruinous and lasting effects of such temporary diminution on general credit ? Is it surprising, when such is the law, that the mercantile classes watch the sky; that rain for a month in autumn gives a serious shock to credit, and that stock of all kinds rises or falls with the barometer ! The Banker's Act of 1844 should be styled—' An Act for the more effectual transferring of panics from agriculture to commerce, and for perpetuating commercial catastrophies in Great Britain.' " _ When we compare the events predicted in this remark- EXAMINATIONS OF MASTERS AND MATES OF VESSELS. We all along entertained considerable doubt as to the general and efficient operation of tluvact,sought for some time ago, requiring masters and niates of vessels to sub ject themselves to examination as 'td 'nautical qualifica tions ; our impression (in whiclionycny practical seamen concur) being, that replies to - the - series of questions to be put might, for' the most part, be prepared catechisti cally, or by rote, without being dictated by experience, and that thus a very superficial knowledge of sailing tactics, or spherical and astronomical calculation, might enable a candidate to pass muster. We further opine that no series of questions, however framed, would ade quately prove aptitude in practice in managing a vessel, entering or leaving a difficult port, or in handling her scientifically and mechanically, under the multitudinous and often difficult emergencies attendant upon a seafaring life,—of the possession of which, notliing short of seeing the parties themselves direct or effect,, on board, can convey a satisfactory assurance. The contemplated com pulsory act was withdrawn, as being obnoxious to men of long standing and experience in the profession, on whose fitness it unjustly inferred a mortifying doubt; and in its place the Lords of Privy Council for Trade have issued a paper ." recommending' masters and mates to pass an examination, as a voluntary act, in , order to obtain certi ficates, of the several degrees or classes to be awarded. It appears, however, that neither the amount of qualifica tions required, as pointed' out, nor the constitution of the Boards of Examiners, are 'such as to elicit, or prove, the ability of aspirants in many most important points con nected with steam navigation.; so that the ordeal, though creditably passed, leaves masters of steamers short of that honourable distinction to which a successful examination, stimulate him in seeking to renew a connexion on the peculiar points applicable almost exclusively to their calling, would entitl e th em . ' Many masters of which he had already volunta r ily reso l ve d t o c l ose . 'first-class s c te a aT i v ti e l s e els, in. order that this deficiency may The electors of Liverpool have, therefore, a grace teslibsieedulticeaiprpreerciTstl, accord ingly and a grateful task to perform, which no mere ingl s y up c p on le template memorialising subject ; and their appeal (the Lads of which ps n deputation, however respectable, can accomplish. ,e on ha th ve We have to ask of our respected member the sacri- obtained) is highly honourable to themselves, as, in place flee of a few more years of his valued services ; of aiming at the avoidance of an examination on essential points, invites a more strict an d en l arge d' sp h ere o f and there are—there ought to be—few of his f r i en d s e who will not be anxious to pay him so well deserved ualifications applicable to themselves q They express their willingness and .anx; able passage with those which h'ave actuailyaen — pTace —when we reflect that a bad harvest has occurred, and that our gold has been drained, our paper circulation con tracted, and the screw put on—we think there are few commercial men in the country who will not agree with us in wishing that Sir Robert Peel had really accepted Mr. Allison "as the philosopher w h o i s t o i nstruct us on the currency." We trust that this question will receive from the constituencies throughout the country the attention ich its im IT has not hitherto been publicly announced, that a requisition, signed by the electors, is re quired as one of the inducements for our respected representative, Sir Howard Douglas, to offer him- self again as a candidate for Liverpool. Sir Howard, it is well known, withdrew his pretensions to represent Liverpool from a wish to ret ire into y, as a soldier vious active services for his count and for this town as a meml)er, warranted such a step. The closing years of such a man —may they be many and happy !—are valuable ; and no object of ambition, or emolunient, can be supposed to Tlll LIVERPOOL STANDARD. POPERY UNCHANGED. There is just now an infinite amount of laudation be stowed upon the present Pope, on account, however, mainly, of his liberal policy in state matters. The follow ing extract from his•encyclical letter will prove that in spi ritual matters.he differs little from the most blinded of his predecessors : " But in order that our most merciful God may the more readily incline his ear to our prayers, and may grant that which we implore, let us ever have recourse to the intercession of the most holy mother of God, the imma culate Virgin Mary, our sweetest mother, our mediatrix, our advocate, our surest hope, and firmest reliance, than whose patronage nothing is more potent, nothing more effectual with God. In noticing this paragraph, the Church of England Quarterly remarks : " Here we have the mariolatry of the modern Church of Rome most ' unflinchingly' asserted. St. Paul in deed (i. Tim. ii. 5.) says that `there is one mediatoß be tween God and man.' As an inspired apostle of Jesus Christ, it may be supposed that he knew something about this doctrine : but no, says Pius IX in the plenitude of his usurped infallibility, ' the immaculate Virgin Mary' is • our mediatßix, than whose patronage NOTHING IS MORE POTENT, NOTHING MORE EFFECTUAL WITH Gon.' !! ! What saint Luke said of ancient Athens (Acts xvii. IG.)_ is eqiially true of modern Rome.. The city' is WHOLLY given to idolatry :' and it is well known to every observant traveller who has visited that city, that ' where the system of the Roman communion is acted upon, the worship of the Virgin Mary has almost super seded that of the Holy Trinity :' while 'in Italy the Virgin Mary, in the popular apprehension, is a great dressed up doll, and our Lord Jesus Christ, a great baby seated in her lap, and under the tutelage of his mother.' " As the Encyglical Letter is translated and published under the sanction of the Romish titular bishop of Olena, who calls himself vicar apostolic of the London district, it has received every authorisation which can give it weight in the eyes of English Romanists : and it fur nishes additional evidence (if any such were wanting,) that the modern Church of Rome is as unchanged in her doctrinal errors, as she is unchangeably an idolatrous Church, whatever pseudo-liberals may assert or insinnate to the contrary." THE FEVER, SPEECH OF THE LATE SIR R. PEEL, BART., MAY 24, 1819, On presenting petition of Merchants, Bankers, Traders, and others of London infavonr of Restriction on Cash Payments, and against the Bill of 1816. The following, which we extract from a pamphlet, pub lished by Simpkin, Marshall and Co., may be interesting in the present crisis : " Sir Robert Peel said, that he now stood in a situation which he had never experienced before, although he had sat in that house forty years. Tht petition which he was about to submit to the house was from a body of men entitled to the first consideration—a body of men who, in the time of public distress and pecuniary want, were the very'first to come forward and relieve the government. He should wish to call to the recollection of some mem bers who, he believed, now heard him, whether they did not remember a meeting of the merchants and bankers called in 1797 ? At that time the Bank Restriction Act was projected, and could not have passed if that very meeting of the merchants, manufacturers, &c. had not expressed themselves strongly in its favour. He begged the house would pay particular attention to the petition which he now held in his baud. It was one of no common character, but that of a great and important I LATEST INTELLIGENCE: (BY EXPRESS.) LONDON CORN MARKET.-YESTERDAY The weather has become most splendid for the growing crops, which, combined with the abundant arrivals of foreign Wheat, Oats, and Beans, had the effect of depressing still more the value of these articles, and the buyers continuing to act oa the reserve, the trade is almost paralysed. English Wheat, although short in supply, met a dull sale, at a further reduction of about Bs. per qr. Foreign was freely offered at a similar decline, and only a limited business resulted. Barley, Malt, Peas, and Beans 3s. to 4s. lower. Oats are 2s. to 3s. cheaper, and merely retail sales effected. To wn-made flour ss. per sack, and American 3s. per barrel No demand for inferior Indian corn; but floating cargoes is fair request where quality can be relied on. SMITHFIELD CATTLE MARKET.—YESTERDAY. For the time of year, the arrivals of Beasts from our own grazing districts were tolerably good. Although there were several well-made-un dr nv p. this kwas EM Elle compliiin, not without cause, that the 1.111: U outcners Beasts " die " badly.. Notwithstanding the weather was unfavourable to slaughter ing, the Beef trade, owing to the increased attendance of both town and country buyers, was steady, at prices fully equal to, -•-- - "ling quotable beyond, those obtained on this day The primest Scots were disposed of at from ss. to is. 2d. per 81b. se'nnight There was a fair supply of Lambs on show, yet the trade was firm at last week's currencies. The highest value of the best Down qualities was Os. per 81b. Calves, the numbers of which were but molerate, moved off slowly at about stationary prices. In Pigs next to nothing was doing, at late rates. LATEST FOREIGN AND COLONIAL. SPAIN Accounts from Madricito7th ultimo state that the government intended shortly to suppress all custom-houses through the interior of the country. A small column of troops had been detached from the garrison of Madrid in pursuit of a band of insurgents, who traversed with impu nity several districts of the province of Toledo. The Bar celona papers state that the Cabecilla party has mustered 200 men to give battle to the Queen's troops, but they were defeated by even a smaller force. 3Rly 6, 1847. CAPE OF GOOD HOPE By the arrival of one of her Majesty's ships at Ports mouth, on the 3rd instant, we learn that Sir Henry Pot finger intended wintering on the frontier. The Caffres still continued their predatory incursions. ROLLS' COURT-SATITRDAY, jITLIr 3 THE ATTORNEY-GENERAL V. THE CORPORATION OF CHESTER Mr. Turner and Mr. Blunt, for the plaintiff, moved for an injunction to restrain the defendants, the mayor, alder men and burgesses of the city of Chester, from receiving any further part of the rents of the charity estates in the cause; for a receiver; and also for payment of £1633 2s. 4d., admitted by their answer to be in their hands. The in formation stated the foundation of a hospital in Chester, consisting of three priests, two to say mass i n th e c h urc h, and the third in the chapel, and thirteen poor brethren, and it prayed to have it ascertained what the rents of the charity estate consisted of; for a declaration of the court that the whole of the estates belonged to and were held by the defendants in trust for the charity, for the delivery of the' possession of the estates and title deeds : for an account ,of all moneys received by the defendants in re spect of the estates or from sales of any part thereof ; and for a declaration of the court that the defendants were bound to make good what upon taking the accounts should be found due. The cause was heard in March, 1842, when the Master of the Rolls made a decree, declaring that all lands granted to the defendants as the possessors of the hospital were subject to the trusts of the charity without prejudice to the question whether the corporation in re spect of the grant of the office of Master were entitled to any portion of the rents, and directing a reference to in quire what the property belonging to the charity consisted of, and the Master was to approve of a scheme for its ap plication. The corporation had applied the rents and profits of the estates as if they had been part of the borough fund. Mr. Kindersley, for the defendants, said, they recog nized the rents to be arising from part of the charity lands; but it still remained to be found what portion of the said sum of £1,633 2s. 4d. belonged to the defendants as part of the funds of the corpo ra ti on . Th e h osp i ta l itself was a corporation. Lord Langdale made an order for appointing a receiver, and for the corporation to pay the sum, admitted by their answer, into court on or before the 30th inst. In the House of Lords, on Saturday, the Militia Ballot Suspension Bill and the Corn, &c., Importation Bill se verally passed through Committee. The Lord-Lieutenant and the Countess of Clarendon, and suite arrived from this port at Kingstown early ort the morning of Saturday last, and immediately repaired to Phoenix Park. Upon the railway now being formed to connect the val ley of the Neckar with the Danube upwards of a thousand women and girls are labouring as navvies." A large number are also employed on the Prague and Dresden railway-works. By a decree of the Austrian Government any employ( of a railway causing an accident by negligence, is liable to from five to ten years' imprisonment ; if the accident be very serious, with from ten to twenty years ; and if death be caused death is the punishment. LAST WORDS OF LORD RUSSELL ON THE SCAFFOLD. —I did believe, and do still, that Popery is breaking in upon this nation, and those who advance it will stop at nothing to carry on their designs • and I am heartily sorry that many Protestants give their helping hand to it. WEST INDIA PINES.—The Trinity Yacht, Captain Hounsell, has arrived in twenty-five days from the West Indies, consigned to Keeling and Hunt, bringing an entire cargo consisting of the enormous quantity of 35,000 pines, avepsosertiogrn growing i t n h g e sis:ajy rn tuhl e lesyl b sT: e si i tlT : O g iins b stw r oc o hot y hTc g ehL h Ae t tffNi o ieDe n cy th w e ere de o e n k g o in f a t u h y e planted.—Times of yesterday. that statement, the h da a Tt s eu t d a ß k E e d n Qinv L bE ag uErN g g a h' n from the Marquis of Abercorn for Qu t e h en e shooting season. The lodge stands on the margin of Loch Laggan, at Ardvreckie. The court will remain there from the beginning of Au gu st t o the beginning of September. Her Majesty; it is understood, will visit Inverness on her way to Dunrobin, the second week in September, coming down the Caledonian canal from Fort William. BANQUET AT GRAY'S-INN.—On Thursday last, the benchers of the Hon. Society of Gray's-inn gave a sump tuous entertainment in their old hall to the benchers of the other inns of court. The number that sat down to dinner amounted to 86, including Lord Brougham, Lord Campbell, the Vice-Chancellor of England, Sir E. Sugden, the Right Hon. C. Wynn, the Right Hon. Sir E. Ryan, the Hon. Sir R. Comyn, and the Attorney and Solicitor- General. The Right Hon. Sir H. Jenner Fust, Treasurer of Gray's-inn, presided on the occasion, being supported on his right by Lord Brougham, and on his left by Lord Campbell. The dinner was of the most rechercel quality,. and the wines and dessert of the choicest description. After the Queen's health had been proposed and drunk with the greatest loyalty, the health of Sir H. Jenner Fust was proposed by Lord Brougham in an eulogistic speech, in which he thanked him, in the name of himself and the other guests, for the splendid repast that had been provided for them. Sir H. Jenner Fust then returned thanks, and the company shortly after separated. THE QUARTER'S REVENUE.—The accounts are nearly made up, but we have not yet received an official copy. We may state, however, that there will be (according to a London contemporary), an increase on the revenue of of the quarter, as compared with the corresponding quar ter of last year. The amounts received on account of Excise Duties, Stamps, Post-office, Taxes, and Income tax exceed the amounts received from the sources in the , quarter" ending July sth, 1846. The Customs revenue, when made up to the sth instant, will probably be not much over or under the amount received from that item in the corresponding quarter of last year. In the miscel laneous receipts there will be a large falling off, compared with the July quarter of last year, in consequence of the sums received in 1846 from China, which amounted to about half a million in that quarter, and of which nothing has been received in the quarter now just ending. This will greatly reduce the increase in the other branches, if it wholly swamp it. P" rile usual regular taxes have been as productive as usual, DIED On the 3rd instant, FRANVE7SANN, infant daughter of Mr JOHN ECCLES, Walton Breck-road. LIVERPOOL: TUESDAY, JULY 6, 1847. PRINTED AND PUBLISHED EVERY TUESDAY MORNING , By JOSHUA FLETCHER LACE of 53, Grove street, and LEONARD ADDISON, of 14, Great Orford-street, At No. 4, ST. GEORGE'S CRESCENT, LIVERPOOL.. Orders for Advertisements received by Messrs. 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