The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser. — Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1848-10-31 00:00:00

TO CORRESPONDENTS, A FRIEND." — The rumour is absurd. We have not, and never bad, the smallest notion of altering the day of our publication. We are too well satisfied with our present posi tion to think of change. We are again in receipt of a number of letters on the subject of the recent unfortunate affair at the Collegiate Ipstitution, but we cannot find room for even a selection of those written anonymously. As one correspondent has put the question to us pointedly, we can have no objection in stating as our opinion that both the reverend gentlemen were to blame, though much may be said for each of them. Probably, if the excellent explanatory letter of Mr. Nolan had been published earlier, much misconception would have been avoided ; and we expect that our readers, after perusing it, will agree with us in thinking that it places the circumstances connected with the affair in such a point of view as to lead to a hope that the unfortunate differences will now soon be brought to a happy termination. That they may be so is our warm desire. We were in error last week in stating that the proceedings of the Literary Society were arranged under the superintendence of Dr. Hume. We believe they were arranged, &c., by Dr. T. Inman, the talented secretary of the society. A paragraph about the tea-party at-Aintree was in type prior to the receipt of the manuscript report. A correspondent, writing on the subject of West Derby Ward, hopes that "the electors will disci iminate as heretofore, and support the candidate whose name and principles give some guarantee that he will worthily represent the constituency in the Council Chamber, and not only vote correctly on one or two questions of finance, but also reflect the moral and re- Iglizious principles of the constituency." Mr. Bourne is qua lified by position, character and education, by great commer cial experience, and by a sound judgment, to do honour to the eleCtors' chOice. We have no doubt that the "keeping" of the sth of November in the sense alluded to by " Jos" will be on Monday. . "Veritas" wishes a public meeting of the Manchester, Sheffield, and Lincolnshire Railway to be called, in order to • obtain a full account of the company's financial condition. The letter of "Obviate" requires more corrections than we could make in it, after its receipt only yesterday. We are requested to state that the Captain Hewitt alluded to in the Mercury, as having been implicated in a smuggling tran saction, was not Captain Hewitt, late commander of the steam-ship Britannia. Ebt Etberpool kotanbarb. THE LIVERPOOL STANDARD. TUESDAY MORNING, OCT. 31, 1848. THE election for municipal honours, which will take place to-morrow, are characterised by some peculiar features ; and with respect to several of the wards, cannot be regarded by ourselves without feelings of a painful nature. We regret the almost certain prospect which is before us of the loss of several most valuable members of the Conservative party, who have offended their constitutents, by their votes on the question of Water Supply, and rating the Dock and Corporate Estate. We fore saw and foretold that this would be the case; and the only conclusion, therefore, to which we can come is, that these gentlemen preferred acting up to their sincerely-entertained views in the Council- Chamber; and that they are satisfied, until these important questions are decided, to retire into pri vate life. In eight out of the sixteen wards there are, at present, the elements of a contest; but we do not expect to see above five or six carried to the poll. The Conservatives opposed for their votes on these questions are six, viz. :—Messrs. F. Shand, Ever ton ; J. Stewart, St. Peters ; Thomas Royden, Great George; West Derby, J. Plumpton ; and South Toxteth, Ambrose Lace. In addition Mr. C. W. Reade, Conservative, retires from Abercrom bie. The Whig-Radicals who are opposed on these questions are five, viz. :—William Rathhone, Vauxhall ; Eyre Evans, St. Paul's ; V. Hi gg i ns , Lime Street; W. Earle, St. Ann's ? and T. Lloyd, North Toxteth. Two of these come forward for different wards, viz.: W. Earle, for Abercrombie, and Mr. Lloyd for Great George. In another column will be found a tabular statement of the entire list. There are not many of the wards in which the comparative fitness cf the candidates can admit of dispute. In Everton Ward we conceive that, irre spective of his views as to the rating of the Dock and Corporate Estate, Mr. F. Shand ought, from the long and intimate connexion of his family with the commerce of our port, and with its numerous institutions, to be regarded ns, beyond a doubt, entitled to a renewal of the honour which he seeks. He has shown himself in the Council, as in his private capacity, a straightforward, intelligent, and honourable man of business. We are sorry that, upon certain points, he has not the wishes of his constituents; but as to his sincerity upon these points, his perfect disinterestedness, and his fitness on all other questions to represent the constituency, we have no mis-givings. Mr. Shand we know; Mr. Langsdale we do not know publicly ; and we had rather a thousand times trust men, whose opinions upon a few points we know to be opposed to us, than untried men, whose only recommendation is an accordance with us upon those particular points. We must not forget that there are other questions, besides these, in which we are deeply interested ; and that in these our " new loves" may disappoint us as egregiously as our old friends have done in those which happen to be the questions of the hour. With respect to Vauxhall Ward, we have every disposition to see Mr. Rathbone sent to the retire ment of a private station. We have no sympathy with this faded and very bitter gentleman. In St. Paul's we do not expect to see Mr. Eyre Evans appc a 7 at all. The question—" what interest have the Albert Docks paid ? " ought to upset him. Mr. Briscoe, the Conservative candidate, is a respectable and honourable tradesman. The new Whig-Radi cal philosopher, M`Guffie, is nobody, and will be nowhere. St. Peter's Ward, we must confess, it gives us great pain to see contested by two such men—both Conservatives. Mr. Ferguson we should be happy to see in the Council, as one of the best representatives of his class. But we had rather see him displace any other man than Mr. John Stewart, a gentleman whose talents and ex perience have served the town often, and which they would be justified in paying for, and may have to pay for, at a very high rate. Mr. Royden is also a gentleman of unflinching honesty, whom we can ill spare; and Mr. Ambrose Lace, as a lawyer and gentleman, of extensive and practical infor mation, will be grievously missed in the Council. His clearheadedness, legal knowledge, and un swerving honesty, ought to have induced his con stituents to overlook his obnoxious votes upon the two particular questions of the day. With respect to Mr. Wm. Earle, we can really spare him from the Council, replaced as he will be by an intelligent gentleman, in the person of Mr. Poole. We can dispense with buffoonery in the Council chamber. As to the other Whig-Radical homunculi, we are well rid of them also. The last of these to which we shall advert is Mr. R. M. Beckwith, the competitor of Mr. J. Bourne for West Derby. The former must go to school for a few years, and learn to write grammar, before he will be fit for the position to which his pothouse, or hothouse admirers, have taught him to aspire. In another column will be found a letter from the Rev. Dr. Nl'Neile, repeating his previously ex pressed denial of the charge of having ever changed his views upon the subject of endowing the Roman Catholic priesthood ; or given expression, at any time, to sentiments which, unless misunderstood and tortured, could be construed into an admission of the kind. The question is, therefore, now, one of veracity between the reverend doctor and the Mail's informant and correspondent, "A." We would prefer, however, to treat it as one of misap prehension on the part of the latter; for although be chooses to write in incognito, it is no secret that the party is Mr. Henry Cleaver Chapman. a gen tleman whom we would not willingly see placed in a position of antagonism with an honoured digni tary of the Church to which he belongs, upon such a question. It is easy, and common, for men to run away with wrong impressions of the full extent of meaning to be attached to off-hand remarks used in private conversations; and it is very clear to us, and will be to all those whose minds are unbiassed by party hostility against the reverend doctor, that such has been the case in this instance. A PAMPHLET has just been published by Mr. T. Webster, Barrister, addressed to Mr. Bramley- Moore, as Chairman of the Liverpool Docks ; the object which the writer has in view is to depreciate in public estimation the security of our Docks, and to prove that— " The expenditure of the money required for reclaiming the waste land at Wallasey-pool would be a most profitable expenditure ; and if as the consequence of the creation of such valuable property for the Crown, unprofitable ex penditure on the opposite (Liverpool) shore were checked, the bondholders and annuitants of:the Liverpool Dock Estate, the commerce of the Mersey, and the public at large, would be participants in the benefit."—page 12. We give this extract to show the animus of the writer, and before we proceed to notice the pamph let further, we will just inform our readers in what capacity Nir. Webster appears before the public as the champion of Birkenhead, and in antagonism to the Liverpool Docks in particular, and Liverpool in general. Mr. Webster is a barrister, and has been engaged on the Birkenhead schemes from their commence ment., He was the appointed paid Chairman of the Birkenhead Docks, under the bill brought be fore Parliament last Session, but which bill was summarily ejected ; Mr. Webster thereby lost his paid chairmanship of £l5OO a-year, and is now thrown upon the world again to try to obtain a chairmanship elsewhere. Perhaps he has an eye to a coming vacancy ?—Before we recommend him, however, we must first ascertain his views on the rating question ! _ _ _ Mr. Webster's pamphlet is so full of inaccuracies, and his deductions are consequently so ridiculously absurd, that we should not have deemed them worthy of a passing notice, were it not for the manner in which a cotemporary has blazoned them forth to the world. Their existence will be ephe meral, and " like the baseless fabric of a vision, leave not a wreck behind." The leading feature of Mr. Webster's pamphlet, (as far as the Liverpool Docks are concerned,) is to prove that the income of the Liverpool Dock Es tate does not keep pace with the demands made on its resources, and that the money now in course of being expended will be unprofitably laid out, both as regards the estate and in promoting the interests of the commerce of the port. Now if there is one point more than another that " he who runs may read," it is the rapid and progressive increase of the port of Liverpool ;—its increase in tonnage al most passes belief, and the receipts would .have gone on pari passu, if the Dock Committee had not, as in duty bound, from time to time reduced the rates. At page 9, Mr. Webster says,— "The financial condition of the Liverpool Dock Estate at the time of the application for the Act for the Albert Dock, in 1841, when contrasted with the financial con dition of the estate at the present time, shows the natural consequences of the views which you have advanced. From the passing of the Albert Act (May 18, 1841,) to the 20th of June 1848, the bond debt has increased by no less a sum than £2,187,263 ; or at the rate of £312,406 per annum on the seven years; which, at the rate of £4 per cent. amounts to a permanent charge of more than £12,000 per annum as interest, the increase of revenue during the same period not amounting to £3OOO per annum." Nov, what is the answer to this ? Simply to quote the dock receipts on goods and tonnage only, and setting aside other sources of income : Receipts on Goods and Tonnage. 1841 X 175.506 8 5 1842 .. 177,231 15 5 1843 .. 188,286 2 1 T 844 .. 185,164 1 11 1845 .. .. 223,247 4 5 1846 .. 213,423 16 2 1847 .. . 244,435 14 7 This is surely a complete answer to Mr. Web ster's proposition. and for this to be fully appre ciated by our readers, we must remind them of the fact, that the Dock Committee, in 1845, reduced the tonnage dues on vessels trading to the eastward of the Cape of Good Hope from 2s. 3d. to ls, 6d. per ton—equivalent to 33 per cent. Mr. Webster is also aware (for he heard this himself given in evidence by Mr. Bramley-Moore) that the reductions in dock dues, from the year 1836 to the year 1846, amounted to the astounding sum of ONE MILLION FOUR HUNDRED THOU SAND POUNDS. Mr. Webster enlarges about our debt and in come ; but to show how little reliance can be placed on his figures, and how erroneous his con clusions must necessarily be, we may mention the fact, that he gives the gross amount of the dock debt, which includes very nearly a million sterling, for the Albert Dock and warehouses—but he forgets ( ?) to give us credit for a farthing of in come arising from this costly structure. There is a large amount omitted here by Mr. Webster alto gether. This forms, perhaps, the most unprofitable part of the Dock Estate, and, in this respect, may be worthy of the genius of the founder of it and of Gill-street Market. The income, nevertheless, of the Albert Warehouses must form an item of many thousands of pounds, and could not easily escape Mr. Wubster's notice, who professes to be ac quainted with all the " ins and outs of the Dock Estate." In allusion to the reduction made last year, of £40,000 per annum, Mr. Webster says,—(p. 10) " It is not one which ought to be relied on as capable of being re-imposed, seeing that it was confined to cotton, coal, iron, and salt, for which ample accommodation will ere long exist elsewhere, and was not a reduction ex tending over the general trade of the port." "Still harping on my daughter !" And such is Mr, Webster's benighted affection for the place of his chairmanship that be here forgets, or wilfully misrepresents facts—for there was a reduction be sides those on coal, cotton, salt, and iron, and a reduction which went to affect the general trade of the port, viz., a general reduction of the tonnage dues on shipping to a maximum rate of fifteen pence per ton, and the Dock Committee have the power to re-impose the former dues whenever they may think proper. `We now leave Mr. Webster, for the present, for the public to judge of him as a fair and impartial exponent of the affairs and interests of the Liver pool Dock Estate. We expected nothing better, — because we have often listened to Mr. Webster's spiteful and erroneous statements in parliamentary committees about the Liverpool Docks. The gist of the learned advocate's pamphlet amounts to this :—He wishes, if possible, to secure the timber trade for Birkenhead, and prevent it going to the North Shore. There are, however, two or three hindrances to its ever being carried over to Birkenhead, which we will name for his comfort. Ist. The Bill is passed, enabling the Dock Trustees to purchase the North Shore, and we be lieve the arrangements with Lord Derby are defi nitely concluded. 2nd. The timber float at the north, and the yards for stowage will cover a space of nearly two hundred acres ; and cost, all complete, including the sea wall, about ss. per yard, or the equivalent of 3d. per yard annual rental. 3rd. The timber merchants will not remove to Birkenhead. 4th. The convenience of land and water carriage at the North Shore far exceed anything to be offered at Birkenhead. sth. The land at Birkenhead costs about 235. 4d. without foreshore or works; therefore 30s. may be taken as a moderate cost per yard with works, or the equivalent of ls. 6d. per yard annual rental. If Mr. Bramley-Moore has not seen Mr. Web ter's pamphlet, we commend it to his perusal ; and if we were in his place, we should "thank our enemy for having written a book." IN laying before our readers, last week, a docu ment purporting to be "Tract No. I. of the Liver pool Currency Reform Association," we expressly stated it to be very probable that we were prema ture in so doing. We conceived that the gentle men composing the Association might have safe guards and checks to bring forward, along with their principle ; yet we thought it advisable as soon as possible to give an opportunity for the discus sion of such principle, and to announce to our commercial readers the conclusion arrived at by the Association, that our existing monetary laws are bad in principle; and that a system, in their opinion, can be devised, free from the defects of the present, and, at the same time, resting upon a perfectly secure basis. We repeat this explanation here, in justice to the Association ; and now pro ceed to offer a few observations, in reply to an article in the Manchester Guardian condemnatory of the Association's views. Our contemporary sets out with the old bullion ist bugbear—the query " What is a pound ?" " Those of our readers," he says, " who have paid any attention to the discussions which have taken place be tween the supporters and the assailants of the present sys tem of currency, must be aware that the question has al most invariably turned upon the measure of value. " A pound, unless the phrase has reference to some tangible and valuable article, may mean anything or nothing at all ; —it may imply a value equal to that of twenty-three pen nyweights of gold ; or, like a Buenos Ayres paper dollar, or a French assignat, it may mean, according to circum stances, a sixteenth part of the original value, or a piece of waste paper, of no value at all. Sir Robert Peel, there fore, very properly called upon his opponents in the House of Commons to state what their pound sterling was ; but not one of them could give an intelligible answer to the challenge." Of course it is no fair imputation against the Liverpool Currency Reform Association, that none of the Parliamentary opponents of the great bul lionist doctor were able to give an intelligible an swer to his query. We never remember his having given one himself which was very satisfactory to us. It is easy to say that it is a certain fractional part of an ounce of gold, the price of which the Legislature has fixed ; but we know that the value, or purchasing power of this ounce of gold, it can not succeed in fixing. A while ago a hundred of these pounds would buy £lOO in Three per Cent. Consols : to-day eighty-six of the same pounds will secure to their owner the same amount as the result of the investment. " A pound," our con temporary says himself, " unless the phrase has reference to some tangible or valuable article, may mean anything, or nothing at all," Decidedly so; but wherein consists the value of gold? Adam Smith would tell him that such value consists, like that of all other commodities, in the amount of labour which it contains. Like theirs, too, its value as a purchasing power fluctuates in propor tion to its abundance and the demand for its pos session. As a measure of value, even, it fails, because we cannot fix its aggregate quantity, in the same way that we fix the yard with reference to an ascertained length, the circumference of the globe. We cannot ensure the entire stock availa ble for the exchange transactions of the world from either incrwise or decrease ; we cannot prevent its abstraction from our own country; and hence we cannot ensure its value remaining in any particular proportion to that of other commodities. The measure of value of a pound proposed by the Association has a degree of fixity which the present measure, gold, does not possess. We have a well-defined and fixed rate of interest, which the nation is hound to pay, upon a certain portion of the accumulated labour of the community; and we can practically fix the purchasing power of our currency upon this rate of interest, in the same way that we estimate the value of a farm, or a house, by the rent which it produces. An estate which cost £lO,OOO, and yields £3OO per annum interest upon the investment, may he considered an equivalent value for £lO,OOO in Three per Cent. Consols at par. Let the rent fall to £2OO per annum, and it becomes one-third less than an equivalent. The rate of interest which they pro duce determines the value both of the estate and of the national security, which is the basis pro posed of the new paper currency. Thus far we believe the Guardian is in possession of the nature of the Association's system. We shall, therefore, at once proceed to discuss the objections which he urges against it. His first is a doubt whether it could maintain the pound, permanently, at a cer tain purchasing power. He says : " In the first place, there is an obvious source of change in the fluctuations which may occur in the market prices of stock, from the greater or smaller degree of confidence in the stability of the government. Suppose some cause of alarm to arise in England, similar to those which now prevail in different parts of the continent, and the real exchangeable value of consols may sink in the proportion of 100 to 75. According to the Liverpool plan, the nomi nal price cannot alter; the stock must retrain at par; and the depreciation will consequently show itself in the exchangeable value of the paper money, which, as specified in the details of the plan, is to be always obtainable from government on deposit of the stock ; and the necessary consequence of such a change would be, an apparent ad vance of 25 per cent in the price of commodities, but a real depreciation of the currency to that extent, derang. ing all the exchanges with foreign countries, and throwing commercial undertakings of all kinds into unutterable confusion." • We deny this assumption. The proposed cur rency could not be depreciated ;—being a mortgage on the property of the country, it is clear that its value will always bear the same relation to that of the property whereon it is founded. With respect to the concluding portion of the quotation, we maintain, that in the event supposed by the Guar dian, under our present system, gold would imme diately disappear, and, instead of the appreciation he dreads under our proposed system, which could not occur, of 25 per cent. in the value of com modities, a depreciation of double or treble that amount would take place ; as it would then be found impossible to convert commodities into money on any terms : and the increased purchasing power of a pound would be thus turned against us, to the utter ruin of every class of traders, and the sacrifice of the realised property, or accumulated labour of the country, to the amount of hundreds of millions. To foreign exchanges the Guardian attaches too much importance. The Association maintains that it is impolitic to have a currency dependent on, and influenced by, foreign exchanges, —the palpable defect of the present system being its dependence upon so fickle a basis. Our contemporary proceeds : " But this, though an obvious and serious cause of disturbance, sinks into insignificance when compared with another defect which the plan involves. What is that "aggregate amount of accumulated capital and labour' which the Liverpool Association propose to erect into a standard of value. Is there anything in it at all resem bling the circumference of the earth, or the length of a pendulum vibrating seconds, or any other fixed and deter mined quantity or extension ? It is simply an obligation on the part of the British government to pay annually so many things called pounds sterling. Before we can esti mate its magnitude or its value, either now or at any future time, we must learn from some other source what a pound sterling really is. Instead of furnishing us with any standard for correcting the value of the currency when it is deranged by accidental causes, the funded debt constantly requires the aid of the currency to determine its own value. In this respect it differs entirely from the circumference of the earth. If the latter is once ascer tained, and the length of a statute mile is taken at some definite proportion—say one twenty-thousandth part of the whole circumference,—then, in case of doubt as to a departure from the standard measure of length, an ac curate re-measurement would correct the error, and re store the standard to its integrity ; but, in case of a de parture from the true measure of value,—if the paper cur rency should become depreciated five or ten per cent, — where is the corrective power of the standard proposed ? It would be just as wise, in case of an error in the stan dard bushel, to measure out a million quarters of corn for the pprpose of ascertaining the collective quantity by the standard, and then to measure them over again, for the purpose of determining the standard by the collective quantity,—as to settle the value of the debt by the pound sterling, and then try to correct the value of the pound sterling by the amount of the debt." _ _ The " aggregate amount of accumulated capital and labour" is a particular description of property adopted as a standard by which to measure the value of all other property, and consists of eight hundred millions of pounds, in the place of fourteen millions of stock and an uncertain quantity of gold. By this very admission, we may remark, of stock as a basis of his circulation, Sir Robert Peel admits the principle of the Association. A steady measure of value could be secured for the pound in account, uniformly fixed in the same relation to all property; for every pound of this funded property has been passed through the market, and admitted to account at its market value ; nor can it be justly altered without all other property being altered in the same ratio. The Guardian concludes : " We do not know that it is necessary to pursue much further the exposure of this chimera ; and we shall, there fore, only add that the Liverpool Currency Reform Asso ciation seem as if they were determined that the currency they suggest should not escape depreciation ; for they propose that government should always issue notes (we presume at par) on deposit of stock ; on which stock no dividend would be paid until the loan was repaid. As there are somewhere about 800 millions of English fun ded debt, we should have a tolerably large circulation of paper money, whenever the current rate of interest ex ceeded three per cent ; and prices of land and merchan dise would soon feel the effects of that supply. The as sociation appear to suppose that the abundance of paper money would lower the general rate of interest to three per cent or less. This is a very common error, but one which a very little inquiry would correct. The rate of interest was not low in France during the issue of as signats ' • nor has it been reduced in Buenos Ayres by that issue of paper money which has diminished the value of the dollar, from four shillings and two-pence, down to three-pence halfpenny. An excess of capita' will reduce the rate of interest ; and inconvertible currency in excess can diminish nothing but its own exchangeable value." In reply to the fear of our contemporary, on the score of an excess of the currency, we think that a little more consideration ought to satisfy him that such a circumstance cannot very well occur as a rule. When such excess is occasionally found to exist, the rate of discount will fall, until the cur rency is returned to the Bank, and reassumes the shape of Consols. We shall not have, as under our present system, money deposited at call with bankers, for one-and-a-half or two per cent, which has formed so fertile a source of wild speculation and undue credits, under our present system. The Association do not think, as alleged, that the rate of interest under their proposed system could fall below three per cent. And further, we may remind our contemporary that his reference to the depreciation of the French assignats and to the paper money of Buenos Ayres is out of place. Neither of these systems of currency had any solid basis or convertibility at all. Before we conclude we cannot restrain ourselves from adverting to the very uncalled-for tone in which our contemporary introduces his subject. " The presence of disease," he says, " in animal or vegetable substances generally proves favourable to the developement of parasite insects and fungous excrescences, by which the mischief is increased and disseminated. Social and political evils, too, appear to have a tendency of a similar kind, and, as sure as maggots breed in a piece of putrid flesh, or the Botritis attacks a diseased potato, so do currency nostrums originate and flourish in periods of commercial depression." Now all this talk of " parasite insects," " fungous excrescences," &c., is not only in bad taste, as applied to a body of gentlemen, quite as capable of forming a sound judgment on the currency question as the Guardian himself, and equally anxious for the real welfare of the country; but it is unfortunate as well, for if currency reformers be the things they are compared to, the country, under the excellent system of the bullionists, is clearly "the piece of putrid flesh" or " the rotten potato." The presence of social dis ease is admitted; and the regular physician has failed to subdue it. The universal pill, that was to cure every stage and every sort of disease—under whose operation the patient was to be neither too high nor too low, neither disposed to run his head against a wall nor jump into the fire—has resulted in producing alternately all these unhappy extremes; and it is little to be wondered at that we are, under these circumstances, inclined to fly to the unli censed doctor, or to take the examination of our case into our own hands. The monetary policy of Sir Robert Peel has obviously not fulfilled the ex pectations of its author. Under its operation, the Guardian admits that we have had " extravagant speculation," and " the collapse which follows it," which have scattered bankruptcy and ruin amongst all classes indiscriminately. Men will not submit to be held for ever in the cruel and torturing grasp of such a system, without the attempt to extricate themselves, for all the Burleigh-like shakes of the head of the Manchester Guardian, whose preten sions as an infallible authority on this question we are not at all disposed to admit. A contemporary of Saturday attacks, in a lengthy leader, the administration of the Dock Estate— why, at this particular period, we are unable to surmise. The whole policy of the Dock Committee, he says, has been wrong; but the strangest com plaint is contained in the following paragraph "Our general readers are perhaps not aware that in the present year the Dock Committee have remitted dues to the amount of £40,000 upon goods, Mark the words— " upon goods," for this relinquishment of dues is no benefit to the shipowner, but it is a considerable one to the foreign importer, and the Manchester and Yorkshire manufacturer. The free traders seem to take a delight in beggaring themselves—in throwing every advantage which this port, or the country at large possesses—away." We repeat, with our contemporary,—"Mark the words—upon goods ;" and we add the question,— Upon what goods ? The reduction was principally confined to the articles of cotton, coal, iron, and salt—the great feeders of the commerce of the port, and the principal sources of employment to the shipowner. The proximity of the salt of Cheshire, the coal of Lancashire, and the iron of Wales and Staffordshire has ever been amongst the greatest means of attracting shipping to our river. One or other, or all, form a portion of nearly every outward cargo; whilst cotton is acknowledged to be our leading staple, and to have aided mainly in placing us in the pre-eminent position which we occupy. If it is not an advantage to the shipowners of Liver pool that the port charges on these articles should be made as light as possible, we really do not know what would be an advantage. We shall next be told, perhaps, that cheap canals and railways, to bring the adjacent minerals to our quays, and to transport cotton and other produce into the interior, are no boons to the shipowners and merchants of Liverpool, and only benefit "the foreign importer and the Manchester and Yorkshire manufacturer." ANOTHER HINT TO THE WATER COMMITTEE. The Manchester Guardian, of Wednesday last, con tains the following additional notification, which we re commend for digestion by the advocates of the Rivington Pike Scheme : " We understand that the total cost of raising the water at Gorton, by means of the Cornish engine new working there, from a great depth, from the red sandstone, is exceedingly small. His stated that, including interest of money expended in the boring and putting down the' engine, wages, fuel, &0., the cost of raising one thousand gallons of water by this powerful steam-engine pump, is no more than five-eighths of a penny." Here is cheapness at any rate. This quantity, taking 20 gallons per day per head to be the proper supply, would suffice for fifty days, and seven times the quantity would be a year's supply. Manchester therefore, it is shewn by this calculation, can provide water to its community at the rate of *id. per individual per year. Will Rivington be able to do this ? THE MERCURY'S CURRENCY DTSCOVERIES. A correspondent of the Mercury has just delivered himself of the following pieces of wisdom, which almost entitle him to the office at present held by that great cur rency sage, Sir Charles Wood. He says, " hold it quite reasonable to make money of gold, because it• is incapable of fructuation in quantity or quality (!)". How the Bank people must have been gulling us all along ! Their weekly returns should be voted an imposition on the public. It never fluctuates in quantity ; and it is a libel upon it to suppose that it ever goes to the Continent and America to buy corn. But it has another excellent pecu liarity as a circulating medium—" An ounce of gold is always equal to an ounce of gold." (! !) So is a brick al ways equal to a brick, provided one of the said bricks is not a Bath brick ; and a hat equal to a hat, provided one of the said hats is not without a crown. We submit that the Chancellor of the Exchequer, the next time he is in want of money, should select these two articles. They would be peculiarly appropriate for a loan to Ireland. We give another of his discoveries. He says : " You express a wish to have a definition of money, and you certainly . seem to stand in need of one, when you affirm that money is the certificate of wealth.' If wealth could be ob tained upon certificates, I Should never feel the want of it again, so long as I lived. I would certify the first house I met with to my baker, a ship or two to my butcher, and I should soon be surrounded with abundance of prog. But money—instead of being the certificate or testimony that wealth exists somewhere —is itself wealth. Few that commodity, whether corn, salt, leather, soap, copper, silver, or gold, which a whole people choose to receive in exchange for every thing else they have, is money." This beats Adam Smith, M'Culloch, the Economist, and cockfighting hollow. Nothing, except spite and ma fioe, can possibly keep the writer out of the cabinet. OPPRESSION UNDER THE WEIGHTS AND MEASURES ACT. We had an occasion recently to remark upon the indis criminate severity with which this act is wielded against the trading community ; and, in so doing, adduced two instances. We have now one before us, which affords a further striking instance of the want of discretion, accompanied by something very like a disposition to entrap respectable parties with which the corporate officials exercise the very large power placed in their hands. On the last hearing day, a respectable tradesman connected with one of the first and most honourable American pas senger houses, was summoned for having in his possession two defective weights. The circumstances we learn were as follows :—Tho party is an American, recently arrived in this country ;- and has been only three and a half months engaged in business. He purchased the weights in question, new,. from a respectable hardware shop ; and conceived that, being new, they must be correct. When waited upon by the inspector, and informed that some of the weights in question were deficient, he at once offered to send half of them to be adjusted; not being able to spare the whole at once, and asked to have pointed out the deficient ones; but this we are assured was refused. The half, i'idiscriminately taken, were sent to the office ; and, before they were returned, another visit was paid to him, and the deficient weights found amongst the half that had been left. The information was laid, and the party fined five shillings. We really do consider this a gross hardship. The in spector might, in the first instance, have selected all the bad weights for adjustment; and under the circumstances that the party was doing all that he could—short of closing his establishment, to wait the convenience of the adjust ment office—no information ought in fairness to have been laid. Had the facts been stated to the bench, we are sure no punishment would have been inflicted, the worst por tion of which, and which honourable men dread most, is the stigma conveyed by the publication of their names, without explanation, in the public papers. But unfortu nately, as in the present case, most persons are diffident in explaining themselves in a public court. It would be well if the bench would consider this fact in giving their decisions ; and exercise some little discrimination in the case of parties not likely to be wilfully offending. More over, the officers themselves should be a little less hasty, and anxious to be seen busy. If the weights and mea sures office has been neglected in time past, it is hard that the present generation of traders should be made to suffer for that neglect. We may suggest also the question— why are parties allowed to sell weights not adjusted, and thus to mislead parties not i nformed as to the law. Nearly thirty lives were sacrificed on Saturday by an explosion at a pit on Cleator Moor, within three miles of Whitehaven , belonging to the Herm elite Minin g Campany. CHURCH MISSIONARY SOCIETY.—We have great plea. sure in presenting the gratifying intelligence to the friends of missions, that the Rev. H. Powell, who was formerly a missionary in Ceylon, will preach in St. Simon's Church, on Thursday evening next. The society's quarterly paper, issued at Christmas, contained a view of Mr. Powell's Church when at Baddagame, the locality where for seven years he laboured in his master's cause. Mr. Powell, since his return home, has been appointed Association Secretary for the North Western District of England, and wherever he has preached or spoken his missionary in formation has been most deeply interesting. TESTIMONIAL TO THE Rry. W. F. HANDCOCK.—On Wednesday last, an elegant purse containing nearly forty sovereigns was presented by the congregation of St. Mary's, Birkenhead, to the Rev. W. Fraser Handcock, on the occasion of his leaving the curacy. The presenta tion took place at the Abbey, the residence of the Rev. Andrew Knox. Owing to the very limited space of time between the announcement of the rev. gentleman's in tended departure and its actually taking place, it was found impossible to communicate with many who would doubtless have been anxious to join in a token of respect for one whose unwearied zeal and devotion to his minis terial duties, and in promoting the welfare of the poor, deserve to be ever remembered m the neighbourhood. DR. APNEILE AND THE ENDOWMENT OF ROMANISM. TO THE EDITOR OF THE LIVERPOOL STANDARD. Sir,—l was too busy last week to attend to the Mail, but I now perceive that notwithstanding my distinct de nial, he persists in ascribing to me what I altogether repu diate, and endeavours to corroborate the charge by circumstantial evidence derived from reports of conversa tions in private society. I will not pretend to be able to recall or recite the very words which I have used in conversation upon the sub ject of Romish Endowment ; and, although I am not addicted, at least not intentionally, to indistinctness, I will not deny that my words, on some such occasions, may have been open to misunderstanding ; when I said that if our statesmen determined on endowing the Roman Catholic priests, they should at the same time, and on their own principles, do their utmost to liberate the Roman Catholic people from priestly tyranny ; when I have shewn what that utmost would be; or when T have supposed the endowment made, and with the best imagi nable securities ; for the express purpose, however, of shewing further, that even then it could not be conducive to the peace of the country, or the liberty (whether civil or religious,) of the Roman Catholic population. Nay, I am bound to admit, while I lament, that I must have given some ground for some such misunderstanding. But of one thing I am quite clear—namely, that I never changed, no, not for an hour, from the opinion and the conviction, that Romanism is idolatry, that the national endowment of Romanism would be a national sin, which no circumstances could justify, and that even as a matter of state policy it could never be made to work prosperously. As to the words ascribed to me by A, in the Mail of Saturday week, all I can do is to assert, seriously and deliberately, that I never used them. lam quite sure I never used them. The notion of " catching liberal votes" was never present to my mind till I read the words in the Mail. What T said to Ain the street had reference to a testimonial to Lord George Bentinck, and no connexion whatever with the endowment question. Here the issue admits of no umpire, and the public must decide upon the relative amount of confidence to be placed in the veracity of the respective parties. I might leave the matter here without risk ; but there is one point on which it may be tested, and, considering the treatment I have received, I must not scruple to avail myself of it. The first report of Ato the Mail contained the " confident statement," which we were assured would not have been given bad it not been received from " a trustworthy quarter," that I had been in correspondence upon this subject with Sir ROBERT INGT.is, and that he was a consenting party to the proposed scheme with the proposed conditions. Here are the words " It is confidently stated, that Dr. I\l`Neile has been in corres " pondence with Sir Robert Inglis on this vexed subject, and " that the latter at least is willing to advocate, or to acquiesce " in, the state payment of the Roman Catholic clergy, PRO " VIDED, the law will at the same time confer on the Irish " laity, Roman Catholic as well as Protestant, the same cede " siastical rights and privileges as the members of the Anglican "Church in this country enjoy; namely, churching of women " and burial, as inalienable legal rights. We give this latest "on dit as we receive it. We should not give it, unless we had " received it from 4 trustworthy quarter, not likely to commu " nicate it to us, unless it had some foundation."' I denied this amongst other things in my letter of the 12th inst. ; here, therefore, A. and I were at issue. Which of us told the truth ? Which ? Sir Robert Inglis can de cide. Ile has decided. I had not had any communica tion with him of any sort, since I last met him in the spring of 1847. When he saw my letter in the London oFtanclard, he wrote to thank me for rescuing his name from the calumny, and added these words which r now gladly transcribe "You are most fully justified in stating that I have changed " no opinion which I ever entertained or expressed on that sub " ject. My principle is contained in one sentence—' I must " never voluntarily and knowingly pay any man to teach any " error.'" What now shall we call the trustworthy reporter to the Mail ? The Mail calls him " a witness of unquestion able honour." As the Mail seems fond of mingling a little poetry with his controversy, neither he nor his " honourable witness" can reasonably object to the repe tition in this place of one of his recent quotations t " The'only amaranthine flower on earth Is virtue—the only during substance Truth." They must not be allowed to escape under cover of the attempt made in a subsequent number of the Mail to get rid of this part of the fiction. That attempt was thus worded : "It appears thatthis day fortnight a paragraph appeared in "the Mail stating that the Rev. Dr. M'Neile had become fa vourable to some plan of endowment fcir the Roman Catholic "priesthood in Ireland. That Sir Robert Harry Inglis's name " was mixed up with the statement appears to have been amis .. fed..., hot in eV Mn ;mrebrfeffneo whnteveir in the onntroverny. " We sincerely regret that it was, for we have long been of opi nion that that name renders no lustre - to any good cause, in " asmuch as it belongs to a gentleman whose insoluble and im " penetrable obtuseness of intellect is an unfortunate obstacle "in the way of all rational improvement." A part of the original report appears to have been a mistake, but is of no importance whatever in the contro versy ! To me, and I doubt not to many, it will appear to be of this much importance, that it proves the reporter to have been anything but trustworthy. But why volunteer, as above, to separate it from the remainder of the report ? Because it was capable of refutation by a third party, while the remainder could be refuted only by me. It was clumsily conceived, and awkwardly retracted; affording another happy illustration of how difficult it is to make fiction pass for truth. Should the Mail attempt NOW to deny that this part of the " confident statement" was sup plied by " A.," and thus inform us that he derived his whole paragraph from "two witnesses of unquestionable honor :" the date and circumstances of such a denial will be quite sufficient to stamp it with its-real value. In the light to be derived from this specimen altogether, I revert to the " relative amount of confidence to be placed in the veracity of the respective parties." I am,. Sir, your obedient servant, HUGH M'NEILE. Aigburth)3oth October, 1848. THE NEXT MAYOR. The question has been pressed upon us from various quarters as to who is to be Chief Magistrate of Liverpool for the ensuing year. We really thought that this was very well settled ; and that our excellent Dock Chairman, Mr. J. Bramley-Moore, had well earned the honor, and that it, would be unanimously accorded to him. Last year, it will be remembered, his claim was only postponed by two adverse votes ; and when the high standing of his competitor, the present worthy chief magistrate, is borne in mind, added to the fact that the heat engendered by a recently concluded parliamentary election, in which the Conservative party were split into two sections, had scarcely subsided, we have little fear of his election on the present occasion. Mr. Bramley-Moore's claims may well rest upon their merits. He has been an invaluable citizen, as Chairman of our Dock Committee, for the interests of which Trust he has laboured early and late; and from the high appreciation in which he is held, not only in Liverpool, but as a public man in every circle where Liverpool interests are subjects of discussion—and they may now be regarded almost as national interests— his election to the office of chief magistrate will be deemed scarcely more as a tribute of honour to himself than an act of gratitude by his fellow-townsmen towards one who has wisely and well studied to advance their permanent interests. THE MUNICIPAL . ELECTION. —MEETING OP THE FEIENDS OF Mn. THOMAS WAGSTAFF. — Lest night, a numerous meeting of the friends of Mr. Wagstaff, can didate for Great George's Ward, was held at Mr. Jones's, the White Lion, Great George's-place, There were pre sent Messrs. John Lawrence, Alderman Cooper, Joseph Harrison, William Wagstaff, Charles Callis, Edmund Rimmer, Thomas Hardiker, Robert Taylor, John Man sell, John Bolton, Thomas Wall, and a number of other gentlemen. Mr. John Lawrence was called to the chair. He rejoiced to see so goodly a meeting, and had to an nounce that the canvass had been most successful, and augured almost a certainty of the return of their candi date. There were only about thirty voters of whom re turns had not been made. The names of these were read, and respective gentlemen present undertook to visit them. Several of them were stated to be favourable to Mr. Wag staff, but had not been found, being absent on business. There were (said the chairman) 234 distinctpromises for Mr. Wagstaff and 141 to Mr. Lloyd, and 34 who had not been seen, giving a clear majority of 59 to Mr. W. Mr Cooper after some approved suggestions as to the working of the election, on the eventful day, adverted in strong te r ms to the extravagant expenditure of the Corporation ; the . immense sum of £8 ,500 last year for poor-rates, which they ought to have in their hands, &c. He said that the Corporate body could no longer withstand public opinion as regarded economy of the local funds, provided the burgesses be true to themselves ; Liverpool, he added, ought, if properly governed, to be the cheapest port for shipping, and the cheapest town to live in throughout the kingdom. Mr. Collis, Mr. Taylor, and a number of other gentlemen addressed the meeting at some length : all was enthusiasm, and measures were agreed to with a view to send Mr. Wagstaff triumphantly into the Council. A burgess stated that he had ascertained, from indis putable authority, that Mr. Lloyd would not pledge him self, to those who had applied to him, to the rating of the docks. but that he would consider the question. After a friendly and enthusiastic discussion, the meettng separated. Boz's JUBA. — The inimitable Juba immortalized by Boz, and the only youth of colour that has ever visited this country for the purpose of delineating negro life and character, will appear next week at the Theatre Royal, The company with which he is connected are seven in number. Oct. 31, 1848. THE JUBILEE OF THE CHURCH MISSIONARY SOCIETY. Active measures have been already taken throughout the country for the due observance of this occasion. It ill pleasing to know that the commemoration, which hes, been announced for the Ist of Nove m b er (t o - morrow ) low the days immediately preceding and following that date, has received the warm approval and co-operation of many of the heads of the church. On the Ist of N o v, the Archbishop of Canterbury has consented to preach at tbe, Church of St. Ann, Blackfriars, Lo n d on , w h ere th e an nual sermons were delivered for the first seventeen years after the society was established ; the Bish o p o f L on d o n wil` preach on the same day at St. George's, Bloomsbury ; the Bishop of Oxford in Oxford Cathedral ; the Bishop to Winchester in 'Winchester Cathedral ; the Bishop of Here' ford in Hereford ; and the Bishop of Lincoln takes the chair in Lincoln on the 2nd of Nov., at a Jubilee meeting. The Archbishop of York will preach at York, and preside at a Jubilee meeting. The Bishop of Ch es t er w ill Preach el the Cathedral on the Ist November, and will preside at meeting on the same evening. The Bishop of Lichfield preaches in Lichfield ; and the Bishop of Ripon, in Ripon Cathedral, on the Ist Nov. ; the Bishop of Durban preaches in Durham, and presides at the Jubilee meeting' to be held in that place, on the Ist of November. In this town we are glad to find that becoming efforts have been made to celebrate the Jubilee with proper. solemnity and effect. To-mo rrow morning the Sacrament of the Lord's Supper will be administered, and on Thurs day evening sermons will be preached in most of the churches of the town ; and on Monday evening next ih° Lord Bishop of the diocese will preside at a public meeting in the Collegiate Institution, when, no doubt, a late assembly will be present, to show their unceasing attacu mentto the Church Missionary Society, which was educated, by such men as Venn, Scott, a n d P ra tt. I t was en d o w!, by such men as Wilberforce, Th orn t on , an d G rant . And it has now for its councillors and bosom friends, such Wel l as its most Rev. Vice-Patron, the Archbishop of Canter' bury ; its Right Hon. President, the Earl of Chichester; and its Honorary Secretary, the Rev. H. Venn. A special fund has been commenced in the metropoli s for the purpose of increasing the revenue of the sacietP and we are glad to see that several thousand pounds have been subscribed. One lady, Miss Jane Cook, of Chelten ham, has contributed a donatio n o f no l ess than £1,1900, to be devoted to the missions in China. May we be per; mitted to see the hopes of that devotedly attached Menu of the society, the Rev. E. Bickersteth, realised, when 116 says, in an address lately published, " Is it too much 0 hope that- an extra sum of double the year's incoo B (X 200,000) may be raised, for the very important objects suggested by the committee. It may serve to realise the communion of saints, to think that, before the auspiciouS day dawns upon us, the sun will haverisen in the far east, and shone upon some even in China, the latest of the missions of the society, where little companies will be gathered together in the name of the Lord—that India and Ceylon will next swell the chorus with their numerous bands of native Christians, all taught to sing the same nor song, though in various tongues (the Bengalee, Hindeet Teloogoo, Tamul, Singhalese, Malayalim, Mahratta) -- that East Africa, with its as yet lisping babes in Christ—. Egypt, Smyrna, and Syra, the scanty representatives of the ancient Arabic and Greek tongues—the newly disc (/ ' vered tribes of West Africa at Abbeokouta will swell the strains. And then the full concert of voicel from the elder brethren of Great Britain, th roug h ou t t h e varle t° associations of our land. The n , as th e sun comp l e t e s /I, circuit, the hearty voices o f lib era t e d Africans, mat% " free indeed by the ear ly an d f ear f u l l a b ours of Or e society"—soon to be responded to a cross th e wide/Vial% by their kindred race, the e manc ip a t e d l a b ourers (3_,,f West Indies, and from the free w an d erers o f North-Ali America. Then, when the shades of e ven i ng h ave cle„,l the lips of the eastern tribes, ere y e t th e song has.cpc.- away from the lips of the mother churches of Great 1 3 r y tain, the New Zealander will prolong the universal agile° with the manly but softened tones of that noble race' Thus for a double day—" from the going forth of the sun from the end of the heaven, and his circuit unto the end' of it"—for twenty-four hours th e J u bil ee note w ill u prolonged. THE LIVERPOOL. ADDRESS TO THE DT.JO OF PORTLAND. The following acknowledgement of the Address. Condolence, transmitted to the Duk e o f P or tl an d, 1111 " been received by the Chairman of the Meeting : " Welbeck, Oct. 21st, 184: " have had the honor to receive the Address, vitti you have transmitted to me; from the Live r po o l C ons tit u tiow Association. "I beg you to assure them on my behalf, that I am Yell sensible of their kindness in honoring me with that cominwfi cation, and that the sentiments it coneys, contain the b" and only consolation for the calamity which has befallen family, and, as I may add on their authority, the public. " I have the honor to be. Sir, ''Your most obedient servant, "SCOTT PORTLAND. "Edmund Molyneux, Esq.,,Chairman of the erpool Constitutional Aosociation.,, POLICE COURT. Y r-- _ ESTERMY. CHARGE OF FORGERY.—A young man, formerly einploYe d by Messrs. Shackleton and Co., solicitors, was remanded on charge of forging a cheque (purporting to be from that firlt, on Heywot d's bank for -t3O, and a second on another Po rt ; for.W2o. He confessed that he had received the money for th, first cheque, .elO of which he had sent to Manchester to Me e a bet, and £l7 were found upon him. THEFT OF CLOTHES.—A woman named Jane Regan NO committed for trial on a charge of having stolen, on Saturdsg from the premises of John Cropper, Esq, Everton-road, ax muslin cravats and a night dress. INDECENT CONDUCT IN A CHURCH.—A man narnedWai ll ,: wright was charged by the sexton of St. Paul' s Ch urc h, Prince.: Park, with having, during divine service o n S un d ay afterneOff gobinto the gallery in a state of intoxication, anti. tne,.., att.' using improper language, and dashing a hymn-book from 0 5 place to another, threatening, on being ejected, to return some, other day and set fire to the building ! The prisoner a dmitted that he was in liquor. He was fined ss. and costs, and required to find sureties to keep the peace or to be imprisoned two months. LATEST FROM THE BRAZILS. The Penguin packet arrived on Saturday from Rio de Janeiro with dates to the 20th September. Business at Rio was wretchedly dull, and the demer e for manufactured goods at a dead stand.—E x . 23 to ' Some election riots had taken place, and attempts at bar' ricades with seditious cries, excited some alarm. 01 patroles had been put on, and especially at the corner 2, the principal streets. The government continued fitly . D their endeavours to put a stop to the slave t ra d e , a nd succeeded in materially checking this abominable traffic' Freights to Channel 355. to 40s. Pernambuco dates are to the 29th September. Ex he r° was 23 to 23k. Freights 11-16 d. per lb. to Id. for cotton s 60s. for hides, 455. for sugar in bags, to Liverpool, 453., t ,f 50s. Channel, 555. to 60q. C on ti nen t, 45 5. t o 50 s. pr inr Little more had been doing in Manchester goods, the u e ; mand for which, particularly for staple ar ti c l es , was r athe better than it had been. At Bahia on the 26th the rate of Exchange was 245.t025g° The Attorney-General is stated to have allowed the Writs of Error relative to the State sonvicts. On Friday, a great number of persons were fined f or having deficient weights•and measures. We understand that by the kind permission o f th e Dock Trustees, the Mariners' Church will be lighted U 0 on Thursday evening, during the celebration i n th a t Ow of the Church Missionary Society's Jubilee. tie Messrs. Busby, coach-proprietors, of this town, b made to the Night Asylum a donation of 205., t,„ g amount of fines levied on the men in thei r e m ploy f o r misconduct. The Camberwell-green brewery was destroyed by 614 on Saturday. The loss is up war d s o f £3,000. A c l er k the employ of the owners of the b rewer y, w h o h a d bee o accused of embezzlement, has been arrested on suspiel ° of having set fire to the premises. ti CHRIST CHURCH SCHOOLS.—After se rmons preac- he i i at Christ Church, on Sunday, by the Rev. Fielding 0" 1 , and the Rev. Thos. Nolan, on behalf of, these valuato schools, the sum of £42 10s. was collected. We rer i f that the depression of the times, and the circumstance the recently appointed Bishop of the Diocese preaching, l , o the immediate neighbourhood, tended to diminish '" amount which would otherwise have been received. THE MILLION AT THE CHINESE COLLECTION. -MA proprietor of this very valuable and unique collection ""-,, expressed his desire that th e masses o f the town, its opel'ci tives and others, should have an opportunity o frord.e,, them of visiting it at an a d m i ss i on so low asto be availa b le to the humbler classes. The wish is in itself both larrell: ble and generous, a n d we d ou bt not w ill b e very amply responded to by thous an d s ere i ts d oors are c l ose d pre" . ous to its removal to Manchester. METEOROLOGICAL REGISTER, BY MR. C. H. CHADBURN, 71, LORD-STREET. „4., ATMOSPHERIC r+l Daily Direc- tTi . 4 Temperature' tion 4 in Humidity at Fall of ag, Pressure at shade by self- Noon. Wind ,40 Nine Six registering Diffe rence o f of at thermometer _ ( ' 9 Wet and Dry Rain. Noon. ,% * 2 a.m. p.m. Max. Min. b u lb . rt In. In. Deg. Deg. ' Deg. In. • - - 7- 1 45 24 29'36 ; 29'46 52 49 -- s ,. 2 4 1 25 29'38 , 29'58 52 45 1 5 i 24 % 26 29'67 ; 29'80 52 45 2 ?4S 27 29'41 : 29'55 55 46. I E.S.S• 5 30 28 2 9'28' 29'44 55 43: 3 1 ,s- 50 29 —1 a 0 30; 29'47 { 29'54 i 1 0.85 s. s. E. :1..." ...-.! THE WEATHI rain ; night, cl light squalls.-2 morning, light s] light ditto. ER.-24th : morning and night, nun. . 0 lear.-26th : fine.-27th : heavy showers 4 D ; 28th: light rain; night, heavy rain lower, bright, and clear.-30th heavy shor LIVERPOOL AGRICI MARKET, Oe a. d. s. d. e 7® 0 9 Potatoes, v 90Ib. O si 0 S Kemps O 6 0 8 Pink Kyes 4 0— O 0— 0 0 Cups O 0— 0 0 Cattle 1 0— O 3 0 34 Turnips, 4) ton lB 0— O 21— 0 34 Manglewurzel 0 2 0 2i anure 4 0 fLTURAL PRODUCE 'OBER 28, 1848. s. d. IN (1, 4 4 6 4 4 6 i 1 21 a 0 64 Hay, old, 20/b blew Clover Ditto, Green Vetches Straw, Wheat Oat Barley LIVERPOOL CATTLE MARKET—YEsTERDAI' O , We have had a large supply of all kinds of Stock at our SO ket to-day, and the greater number of inferior quality. .A, 550 number of inferior left unsold. Prices on the whole mu quoted at last week's statement. BIRTH. On the 28th instant, the lady of the Rev. Dr. D. J. roC 4 Seacombe, of a daughter. MARRIED. On the 29th instant, at St. Thomas's-in-the-Fields, Toatetle' park, Mr. EDWARD PHELPS, of Tenby, second mate 0 1 , ship Clifton, to GRACE, youngest daughter of the late PIP LOGAN, Redcross-street. LIVERPOOL: TUESDAY, OCT. 31, 1848. 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