The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser. — Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1844-03-26 00:00:00

TO CORRESPONDENTS. A. stamped supplement accompanies the S:ANDARD of to-day. Nothing but the extremely crowded state of our columns would have prevented the appearance of the letter of Ebenezer Jones, Esq., promised in our las,t. The same reason must plead for us, for apparent inattention to other correspondents. Our country sithscribers will, we hope, when they see the late intelligence in our Co:unins of to-day, excuse the late arnyal of the.r papers. CIRCULATION OF THE STANDARD. The issuing of the Government Newspaper Stamp Returns for the six months ending December 1843, a f fords us an opportunity of saying a few words with respect to our own position. We commenced our present plan of weekly publication at the com mencement of Ju!y last, up to which period our circulation had averaged little more than 1,000 per publication. In the first three months after such change, our circulation, according to these returns, rose to 1,500 per week. In the next three months, ending December 1843, we had reached, as the same returns testify, 2,000 per week, which makes up the number set down to us for the six months in the return. Our circulation for the first three months of 1844 will show a considerable fur ther increase. As it is, according to this return, we stand in circu lation above our Tuesday's contemporary, the Li verpool Times, upwards of a thousand copies each publication ; and above Gore's Advertiser 350, above the Mercantile Gazette 650, above the Journal 500, and the Chronicle* 700 copies, each Publication. This result, which is a change of our position from the occupation of nearly the lowest place amongst our contemporaries, is one highly flattering to us, and for which we feel most grateful to our friends and the public, and will encourage us in our exer tions for the attainment of a still greater measure of their approval. * One of the proprietors of the Chronicle has called upon us and stated that the actual average weekly consumption of the Chronicle during the half year has been 1940. Elie lkibirpool &tan Darb. TUESDAY MORNING, MARCH 26, 1814. On Monday evening the House of Com mons came to a decision, upon the subject of factory labour, worthy of a Christian legislature and a Christian nation. It declared that there should be a point beyond which manufacturing avarice should not barter the health, the morals, and the lives of the children of our poor, for gold. It limited in fine, the hours of labour in factories for children, male and female, between the ages of nine and thir teen, and for adult women, to ten working hours a day. Yet—alas !—scarcely has the news of this deed of humanity and justice reached the ears of the oppressed working people of Great Britain, — scarcely has time been afforded for the universal outpouring of gratitude which it had excited ; scarcely have the toilworn factory children had time to indulge in grateful anticipations of the boon so unexpectedly offered to it, than by the same House of Commons, the cup of promised happiness is dashed from their lips, and the poor factory workers are doomed once more to their old slavery—to the slow torture of those long and dreary hours of toil, which wither the youthful frame, and crush even the adult to premature senility and an early grave. And this—we blush as we record the fact—at the request, nay at the entreaty of a Conservative Ad ministration ! Yes, we blush to record the fact, that to the ob stinate perseverance of her Majesty's Conservative Ministry is entirely to be attributed the temporary failure of a wise and benificient effort to alleviate the toil of the children of our working population, and to restore woman in those districts to the duties and the comforts of the domestic hearth. We de plore this unfortunate course of action, for Sir Robert Peel's sake, and for that of the great in terests and institutions committed to his keeping, far more than for the sake of the measure which has been temporarily obstructed; for no power on earth can prevent the ultimate success of that mea sure. The people of England—the right-hearted and just people of England—have willed that the fetters shall be struck from the limbs of infancy ; that distorted frames, emaciated and rayless features, and minds barren of good, if not deeply impregnated with evil, shall no longer be characteristic of the producers of England's wealth. The voice of the church had nobly seconded the voice of an aroused people. A majority of the legislature had yielded with deference to demands so authoritatively urged —had laid aside for a time the jargon of the political economist and philosopher, and listened to the voice of the poor pleading for health and for life. Here there was an opportunity for a minister to win the love, the veneration of a grateful people ! Here was an opportunity of cementing together the affections of rich and poor, and of shewing that the interests and the prayers of the meanest are not beneath the notice of the legislature ! Here was an opportunity of leading the masses of the manufacturing districts, from the wilds of chartism and the mazes of imposture and infidel republican ism, to the foot of the throne, and teaching them to look up for protection to the legislature, and not the incendiary agitator, and for advice and solace in affliction to the church of their fatherland, and not to the novelties of fanaticism and the ever-varying doctrines of the conventicle. _ _ Yet such an opportunity Sir Robert Peel and Sir James Graham have resolutely and blindly thrown away; for we take it forgranted, after the virtual defeat which they sustained on Friday last, and their con tinued opposition to the counter proposition of Lord Ashley, that legislation upon the question will be abandoned by them altogether. They have crushed the excited hopes, and rejected the proffered affec tions and reverence, of hundreds of thousands of the most toilworn and the most oppressed of the working population of Great Britain; and to conci liate whom ? The " liberal" millocrats of the Anti . Corn-law League—the Cobdens and the Brights of the House of Commons—the Marshalls, the Brookses, and the Potters of the manufacturing districts ;—to gain a hollow support from a party who fear far less the consequences to themselves of the adoption by Sir Robert Peel of a just policy towards the labouring classes, than they chuckle to see that statesman assume a policy towards those classes which is calculated to sink him fearfully from the lofty position Which he has hitherto occu pied, and to strike from around his Government the strongest supports which a Government can have—the confidence and love of a grateful people. We will not insult our readers by noticing the arguments with which Sir Robert Peel and Sir James Graham attempt to justify their refusal to concede the boon sought by Lord Ashley and so vast a portion of the most influential supporters of Ministers, on behalf of the factory population. We know those arguments to be unsound—the fears put forward absurdly exaggerated ; but we shall not be gu ilty of the mockery of refuting either. The question involved is no longer one of mere political economy—not one to he decided by the sophistries of Malthus or ICl‘Culloch—not one with respect to which Chambers of Commerce or Anti-Corn-law Leagues are entitled to dictate oracularly. It is V one affecting the lives, the health, the physical and moral welfare, of more than half-a-million of our population, and, along with these, the security and peace of the nation itself ; and Sir Robert Peel and Sir James Graham may depend upon it, that any attempt of theirs to arrest its progress towards a settlement favourable to the cause of humanity and justice to the working classes, will be vain, if it may not even be dangerous. It is with sincere pleasure that we are able to con gratulate our fellow-townsmen upon the noble and manly course which has been taken upon this occa sion by the members for the borough of Liverpool. It is with pleasure that we accord to those members our full concurrence in the vote of thanks, which it will be seen by a reference to another column, they have already received from a numerous body of their constituents. Such a testimony of the feeling exist ing in this important seat of commerce ought as suredly not to be without its weight with the go vernment itself. It will be remembered by many of our readers, that in the course of the past year there was held a meeting of gentlemen who had long watched with interest the varied and indefatigable exertions of the Rev. Hugh WNeile in promoting the cause of true religion and the best interests of the country, espe cially in connexion with Scriptural education,—at which it was resolved, " that the time had arrived when some public testimonial should be given ex pressive of the high esteem in which he is held, and of the value attached to his eminent services." Having thus resolved, it became the duty of the committee appointed to carry the resolution into effect, to ascertain in what manner they could best do so in consonance with the feelings of the rev. gentleman. The result has been the foundation and endowment of one university exhibition for the Upper School of the Collegiate Institution, of this town, at a cost of £1,000; of two scholarships in the Middle School of the same Institution, at a cost of £5OO ; and of two in the Lower School, at a cost of £l5O. The Rev. H. M`Neile has thus manifested the strong feeling which he entertains towards the Collegiate schools, and furnished a noble example to the affluent, which we trust may be followed by many amongst them. The university exhibition in connexion with the Upper School will, no doubt, have the effect of drawing the attention of the rich towards that school; but we maintain that the scholarships so munifi cently founded for the Middle and Lower Schools are the best calculated to promote the true intentions of the founders of the Institution, viz., the educa tion of the children of the middle and lower classes; and we should be glad to see a few more endow ments therewith connected. We learn with great pleasure that a generous and philanthropic alderman has intimated his intention of permanently endow ing four scholarships in the Lower School. There will be thus six scholarships to be contended for by the pupils of that school. We hear froM all quar ters the most decided encomiums lavished upon the head master of this school for his judicious manage ment of it; and we have no doubt that in a very short time, when the advantages which it possesses become more generally known, its numbers—at present 320—will extend to at least 1,000, and the expectations of the founders of the Institution be realized. The directors, we learn, have been for some time turning their attention to the evening schoOlS,—a portion of the institution deserving of the greatest consideration,—with a view to render them as effi cient as possible for the instruction of the humbler classes. Several public spirited gentlemen have li berally subscribed towards the endowment of prizes for their encouragement, and there is every expec tation that the sum so raised will be materially in creased ; and when the preparations now making for the establishment of a lending library are com plete, we are confident that this department of the Institution will keep pace with the rest, and be the means of elevating the character of our working population not only in a literary and scientific, but also in a religious point of view. The masters of the Institution, with a laudable desire to increase the utility of the Institution, have founded another university exhibition in connexion with•the Upper School, the value of which will be £5O a-year, so that when the promised Gladstone and Canning exhibitions are added, which we be lieve will shortly be the case, there will be one uni versity exhibition to be annually competed for. The people of Liverpool may with reason begin to ask themselves the questions—" of what utiiity is a Select Vestry ? what else but sheer mockery is th e pretence, that the ratepayers of the parish have now any real share in the management of their own affairs ?" We have, it is true, a local act, which we flattered ourselves conferred upon the ratepayers the right of choosing their own officers, and admi nistering their own funds. We imagined that we were thus placed, in some degree, independent of the unconstitutional dictation of the triumvirate of Somerset House. But in all this we were mistaken. Our independence was a mere shadow; and at this moment, although we have the machinery for inde pendent action in our own hands, and wish to ad minister our affairs in a Conservative and Christian spirit, we are as effectually and as slavishly under the control of the Poor Law Commissioners as any unionised parish in England, and must submit to whatever they may dictate. A. signal instance of this degrading subjection is before us, in the case of Mr. Nightingall, upon which we commented last week. The mandate has I come down from the Commissioners that this gen tleman must resign, or that they —the Commissioners —will discharge him ! The very case which was got up against him has broken down of itself ; he stands purged of his imputed neglect in the eyes of the majority o' the vestry, the representatives of the ratepayers ; and yet he must resign or be dis charged, with a damaged character, and a constitu tion broken by the arduous character of his past services, at the dictation of an irresponsible body, who cannot be presumed to have any knowledge of the facts of the case beyond what they could ga th er at the one-sided enq uir y which they instituted, or such as may, from time to time, be conveyed to them privily by the enemies of their victim. The Vestry —certainly the best judges—are obviously satisfied that nothing has been done or neglected on the part of Mr. Nightingall to call for so severe a sentence as dismissal. That gentleman has with him, too, the sympathies of the bulk of his professional bre thren. But the Vestry are powerless. Public opi nion is powerless. A valuable servant of the public has offended one who regards himself as the proto gee of the Poor Law Commissioners. We invite the serious consideration of our readers to this state of things. Talk of the independence afforded by a local act ! We possess no such inde pendence. Talk of a liberal and Christian treat ment of our local poor by a Conservative vestry ! We are not at liberty to offer such treatment. Our poor are virtually in the hands of the Governor and the Somerset House trio ; liable to be dragooned, classified, dieted, and dosed at their arbitrary plea sure; whilst the Vestry—the representatives of the people of Liverpool—have only the privilege af- ..- ~. ~;.. `• ~ •. THE LIVERPOOL STANDARD forded them of looking on, and drawing upon the pockets of their townsmen for the expenditure which they witness. THE FUNDS—SATURDAY NIGHT.—The funds have been steady to-day without much business, and prices, generally speaking, are fairly supported. At the close of the market Consols for money and the account were quoted 984 sellers; Exchequer-bills, 68s. to 70s. premium:; and New Three-and-a-Half per Cents., 1024 to 1. Bank Stock for the opening is quoted 200 to 201 ; and India Stock, 294 to 295. In the foreign securities operations were exceedingly limited, but the prices of the speculative stocks are nevertheless rather better than yesterday. Mexican Actives left off 351 to 361 ; the Deferred, 151 to I ; Spanish Five 'per Cents., 254. to 1 ; the Three per Celts., 351 to 36 ; D u t c h w o-and-a-Half per Cents., 574 to IL • the Five per Cents., 1011 to 102 ; Danish, 88 to 89 ; ' dolombian, 141 to 1; Chilian, 104 to 106 ; Buenos Ayres, 371 to 381; Brazilian, 82 to 84 ; Belgian, 104 to 105 ; Portuguese, 451 to 461 ; and Peruvian, 301 to 31. The Rev. Hugh M'Neile is announced to preside at the half-yearly meeting of the Toxteth Operative Protestant Association this evening. ALTERATIONS IN THE FIRE BILL.—A special meeting of the Council will be held, at the Town-hall, to-day, on the Liverpool Fire Prevention Amendment Bill, now before Parliament. The effect of the proposed amend ments will be, , to relax several of the provisions which have been found to press too stringently on the commer cial community. THE QUEEN STEAMER.—This boat, built by J. Laird, Esq., to ply from the Woodside Ferry, made several ex peritnental trips on the river on Thursday, and fully an swered the expectations of those interested in her. She sails fast, has commodious accommodation, and will, no doubt, make the trip across the river in less time than it has hitherto been done. The Liverpool and Manchester, Grand Junction, and Newcastle and Carlisle Hallways, either have memorialised, or are about to memorialise, the Board of Trade for the purpose of having an inspection of the different projected lines of railway into Scotland. The object is to fix on that line likely to be most conducive to the general interests of the public. MR. NIGHTINGALL.—At the meeting of the Select Vestry, held on Tuesday last, a letter was read from the Poor-law Commissioners, in which the board were di rected to call upon Mr. Nightingall, surgeon of the work house, to resign his situation; but we understand that Mr. Nightingall forwarded a letter to the Commissioners, by the mail of Tuesday night, stating additional particu lars arising out of the late inquiry, and calling for a fur ther investigation. THE EARL OF HARROW.ftr.—The London papers last week contained statements respecting the health of the Earl of Harrowby (Lord Sandon's father) pointing at a fatal termination. We are glad to perceive, however, that his lordship is recovering. The Times says, " Though the Earl of Harrowby has been confined to the house for some days by a severe cough, the indisposition is passing away, and there is every reason to hope his lordship will shortly be restored to his usual state of health." LIVERPOOL DOCK BiLr..—The promoters of the Bir kenhead Dock Bill now before Parliament, being actively engaged in obtaining signatures against the Liverpool Dock Extension, in which it is asserted " that several of the Proprietors of the Harrington Dock Company are members of the Liverpool Dock Committee," we have authority to deny the assertion, and to state that no mem ber of the Dock Committee is either a proprietor of, or holds any interest in the stock of the Harrington Dock Company. FATAL ACCIDENT IN PEMBROKE-PLACE.—On Satur day last, about ten in the morning, as a young woman, named Elizabeth Norris, daughter of a respectable farmer, at Tarbock, was getting out of a shandry, in Pembroke place, while on her way to Gill-street Market, her foot slipped from the step of the machine at the back so that she fell to the ground, and (lamentable to say) a very heavily laden cart that was coming up at the time passed over the middle of her body. She was immediately con veyed to the Infirmary, but such were the injuries she had sustained that she died soon after. ELLESMERE PORT.-It was lately announced that this property was being purchased by Lord Francis Egerton, but the statement was afterwards denied in many of the provincial papers, as wholly unfounded. We can now state, without fear of contradiction, that his lordship was in actual treaty for the property, (not by purchase, cer tainly, but on lease,) and that the entire management of the Ellesmere dock, with the transit of goods to and from Liverpool, are come under his lordship's control. The terms are, we believe, a lease of fourteen years, or to terminate previously on a notice of two years. POLICE COURT, FRIDAY.—TWO persons, named Wil liams and Bingham, were committed for three months, and another person, named Smith, for seven days, on suspicion of shoplifting. One of the same gang, named Thomas Newsham, was committed for trial, on a charge of stealing a firkin of butter from the shopdoor of Mr. Reynolds, grocer, 73, Scotland-road. Patrick M'Cartney and Robert Hitcbmough were fined, the former 40s. and the latter 205.. for assaulting a police-officer. James Lovett was committed for two months for stealing a quantity of wheat from the warehouses of the Duke of Bridgewater's trustees. Three publicans were fined 405., 205., and 40s. each, and five were acquitted. One beer seller was acquitted, and five were fined, three 505., one 60s, and another 20s. TESTIMONIAL TO MR. R. BROOKE.—Such of the Liverpool professional gentlemen as are both solicitors and notaries have recently presented to our townsmen Mr. R. Brooke, a massive and verv'handsome silver salver, highly creditable to the workmanship and taste of Messrs. Word ley and Mayer, in acknowledgment of his exertion, during his practice of almost thirty years, in support of the re spectability of the profession, and of his services in pro moting the passing of an act of Parliament of the last session, relating to their rights and privileges. The fol lowing is a copy of the inscription :—" The notaries of Liverpool present this testimonial to Richard Brooke, Esq., one of the oldest members of their body, to express their acknowledgment of the fidelity and skill with which he has, for a number of years past, watched over and pro moted their interests. 10th October, 1843." EXTENSIVE FRAUD.—The recorder was engaged during the whole of Friday in trying a case, in which a middle aged man, named John Mulholland, was charged with having feloniously obtained colours, varnishes, &c. to the amount of £B5, from Messrs. Challoner and Co., of Derby. It appeared from the evidence, that the prisoner acted as a sort of commission agent at Liverpool, that he ordered the colours and varnishes to be sent to fictitious firms here, and that on their arrival, he disposed of them to pawnbrokers and other parties, receiving and never re mitting the money. The case for the prosecution was conducted by Mr. Blair and Mr. Harden, and the defence by Mr. James. The prisoner, although indicted for having obtained goods to the amount only of £B5, had in reality fraudulently obtained others to the amount of £350 in all. No witnesses were called for the defence ; and at the close of the recorder's charge, tha jury convicted the prisoner. The prisoner was sentenced to transportation for seven years. EMBEZZLEMENT.—On Saturday a young man of very respectable appearance was brought before Mr. Rushton on a charge of having embezzled about £2O, the propert! of the merchants to whom he was apprenticed. It ap peared that on the Bth of January, he was given £75 with directions to pay duty at the Custom-house and dock and town-dues on 145 bales of cotton wool, imported from New Orleans, and that, on his return, he handed 13s. Sd. in change to the cashier, and a paper in which it was stated that those charges had amounted to £74 6s. 4d. On the 15th instant he was given a further sum to pay duty, dock and town-dues, on 269 bales of cotton wool, imported also from New Orleans, and he brought back a paper stating that those charges had amounted to £135 Os. 24. On the 31-4 of January, he was given £4 I6s. sd. to pay a post entry on the first parcel. Within the last few days it was ascertained that he had never paid the amount of the post-entry, and that he had not ac counted for upwards of £6 of the moneys he had re ceived to make the payments on account of the first entries. He seemed deeply affected at the disgrace he had brought upon himself and his family, who are very respectable, and was committed for trial at the sessions. THE FIRE IN BOLD-STREET.—We have inserted a paragraph in our supplement on the fire in the premises of Mr. Clay in Bold-street, taken from Gore's Adverti ser, and which we naturally considered to be correct. We have since learned, however. that it is inaccurate in several particulars, the principal of which only we have now time to correct. Mr. Keane, it appears who first discovered the fire, went back from the stair-case to alarm Mr. Smith and the servant girl, but did not find, as stated, Mr. Smith on the landing. Mr. Todd was not the only person who witnessed the fearful descent of the parties from the upper windows, and endeavoured to use means to assist in breaking their fall. The girl (according to his own account) fell across his shoulder, which broke her fall ; she had both arms but s li g htl y b urnt, an d i s now nearly quite recovered, the burning being but slight and external. Mr. Perkins and Mr. Todd, who live together, immediately gave up their beds to the two sufferers. In the course of the day Mr. Perkins begged they might not be removed, and sent the keys of his wine cellar, so that they might be provided with what was necessary. No thing indeed could exceed his kindness in every way. Mr. Keane fell on a young man, who though at first apparently much hurt sustained no contusion, and was soon " himself again." After the fire had been subdued, a £5 note and three sovereigns were missed from the waistcoat pocket of Mr. Keane, which was in his bed room at the time. In the same pocket with the money was his watch which was afterwards received from Mr. Hewitt of the fire police who had received it from one of the men engaged at the fire. Mr Keane had that night been at a meeting of the Philharmonic Society and on returning at a rather late hour, looked over great part of the premises before he retired, and found all apparently, into the An enormous quantity of water was thrown the upper part of the premises by the engines, so that when it found egress it rushed down like a cataract. Teere was we learn a fire e n gine on the premises of the Apothecaries Hall, close being, which is worked by steam ; but though the steam was observed to be up at the time, it was, from some cause or other, not put into operation, The gentle man who made his way to Preesons-row was not, as stated a relation of Mr. Smith, but only a friend. Mr. Perkins (whose great exertions appear to have been overlooked,) even ran up to his own bed-room for the blankets to sire the parties who were about to jump out, from severe in jury, and shouted to them to wait ; but the fire became so intense and alarming near them ' that they leapt out before he co u ld return. We should add that Mr. Max well, of the fire offices was one of the first on the spot, and through hi s exert i ons much va l ua bl e p ro perty in the shop was saved by removal. There are several other inaccuracies and omissions in this paragraph, but we have not, owing to a press of matter room to notice them. PROCEEDINGS IN PARLIAMENT. (Continuel fron first page of Supplement.) HOUSE OF COMMONS.—FRIDAY, The Factories Bill was proceeded with in committee, and an am?,ndinent was moved by Mr. TATTON EGERTON, with the view of exempting silk factories from the opera tion of the bill, it being a comparatively light and healthy employment. Sir JAMES GRAHAM objected to omitting silk factories altogether from the bill, but said he had introduced certain modifications by which the lighter processes of the manu facture would not be subjected to the same provisions as other factory employment. After some discussion, the amendment was withdrawn. On the eighth clause being proposed, Lord ASHLEY moved his amendment, that the word " ten " be substituted for the word " twelve." He had brought this question before the house upon the broad principles of justice and humanity, and did not believe it would lead to a reduction of wages, for in 1836, when he went through the manufacturing districts, he found that the operatives were receiving as much for eight hours' labour as they had formerly been in the habit of receiving for twelve hours ; but even if this were the result, the operatives were themselves willing to submit to an abate ment of their wages with a view of receiving the ad ditional time for their improvement ; nor could this be esteemed such a misfortune if Mr. M. Gibson was correct as to the high wages the operatives were now receiving. The noble lord called upon the government and upon the house to recollect that the question had been for thirteen years growing to its present magnitude, and he warned them against the danger of disappointing the long-cherished hopes of the operatives, and of lessening themselves in the estimation of the public, by rescinding the vote they had already agreed to. Sir W. CLAY opposed the motion, contending that the whole evil of this erroneous legislation would fall upon the operatives whom it professed to serve. Mr. M. MILNES thought the proceeding undignified on the part of the government in taking advantages of chance contingencies to endeavour to overturn the solemn decision of the house. Ile reminded the house of the fact, that the delegates of the operatives of Yorkshire and Lan cashire had issued an address, stating that they had ex amined paragraph by paragraph the whole of Lord Ashley's speech, and could vouch, from their own experience, for the correctness of every statement. Mr. CARDWELL was opposed to the proposition of Lord Ashley. Every derangement of labour caused additional : improvements in machinery, which called forth an increase of infant labour in lieu of that of adults. They should, however, beware of encouraging foreign competition, by legislating on short-sighted principles of humanity. Al ready Belgium had English machinery, but was in want of capital. If, however, we continued to legislate too much between the employer and the employed, we might find ere long that British capital would be as abundant in Belgium as British machinery. Lord JOHN M ANNERS gave his unhesitating support to the proposition of Lord Asley, asserting that it was pre posterous to suppose that there could be any weight in the argument that the commercial prosperity of England could be dependent upon the circumstance as to whether women or children should work ten or twelve hours in the day. Mr. WARD freely admitted that in a moral as well as social point of view ten hours' labour was better than twelve; but he was still justified in opposing the limited time without any imputation on his feelings of humanity, when it was remembered that in the consideration of this question was involved an export trade of no less than forty millions. The fact was that we were overridden oy an im perious necessity, which forbade such theoretical experi ments. Sir R. INGLis said that this question was in one re spect extraordinary, for it was a proposition of the go vernment supported by ordinary opponents of that government, while some 99 of its ordinary supporters were now arrayed against it. He had no doubt that the triumph of his noble friend (Lord Ashley) on Monday would lead to ultimate success, whether Sir R. Peel, Lord John Russell, or Lord Ashley should be the leaders of that house. Mr. C. BULLER, in supporting Lord Ashley's amend ment, admitted that it would be a departure from the ancient principles of legislation ; but he was prepared to apply new principles of legislation to a new social state ; for it would scarcely be denied that the old system pro ceeded too much upon the principle of leaving the people to shift for themselves. The hon. member referred to the reports in circulation as to the probability of the amend ment, if carried, leading to a repeal of the corn law, and called upon hon. members who had voted in favour of that amendment, not to hold out to the people of England, by rescinding that vote, that they were willing to sacrifice every principle and every feeling of humanity in order to uphold that law. Mr. COLL TT moved the adjournment of the debate. Mr. T. DicoMBE called upon the government not to divide agaiiis the adjournment without favouring the house with some declaration of the reasons why they called upon the house to rescind its vote of Monday night. He believed the hearts and hopes of the operatives through out the kingdom were fixed upon the success of the amendment. _ _ _ .__. . Sir JAMES GRAHAM said he would have willingly ac ceded to this amendment if he really thought it would benefit the operatives of the kingdom, but considering all the circumstances, he had not the slightest hesitation in again taking the senseof the committee upon the division of Monday, which had more or less taken him by surprise. The right hon. baronet entered at some length into the question, adducing information with which he had been furnished since the former debate to prove that the amend ment would be injurious to all and destructive to some branches of our manufactures. _ Mr. COLLETT withdrew his motion of adjournment. Mr. BECKETT and Mr. ALDAM severally stated that the manufacturers of Leeds, though opposed to Lord Ashley's amendment, were in favour of an eleven hours bill. After some further discussion, the committee divided, and the original motion (twelve hours) was lost by a majority of 186 to 183. The committee again divided upon Lord Ashley's amendment, which was also lost by a majority of 188 to 181. Sir JAMES GRAHAM then said he would take time until Monday to consider what course he would pursue. Lord ASHLEY declared that although defeated now he should still continue to persevere, until he should, with God's blessing, ultimately succeed. USEFUL SUGGESTION. TO THE EDITOR OF THE LIVERPOOL STANDARD. MY DEAR SIR,—I have often upbraided myself for not putting into practice, a simple plan, which has long oc curred to me, as being most efficacious for the preservation of life, in the event of fire occuring in your dwelling house, and in such portions of it as to preclude the possibility of those inmates who are lodging in the upper rooms from effecting their escape by the stairs. The late occurrence in Bold-street, when two individuals were urged from necessity to precipitate themselves from the windows, induced me immediately to reflect upon the cul pability of my tardiness, and as promptly to put my sug gestion into effect. It is simply this, to have a piece of cordage (Manilla or white rope, as being free from any smell of tar) of sufficient thickness to bear a man's weight of sufficient length to reach from the highest room to the ground, made fast with a loop to the lower part of the bed-post, and to be notted at the distance of a yard from each other, in order to render it easier to hold. This may be coiled up and put out of sight under the bed ; should it never be required to be used, be grateful and thank God for it; and the expense of such a provision against danger can be of little consideration, costing something like sixpence per pound weight ' • should it unfortunately be necessary to use it, it can readily be uncoiled, thrown out of the window, and thus an easy and safe egress can be afforded, and the value of such an aid will then be es timated at its " weight in gold." It has also occurred to me, that every engine, or a certain number of firemen in each ward, should be provided with a light coil of cordage, and a small line (fishing line) with a bullet fastened at the end, and on the alarm of fire. proceed directly to the spot, and should any inmates in the upper rooms be unable to descend the stairs, the bullet, with the small line attached to it, might be thrown into a window, and the larger rope drawn up, and directions given to make it fast to some heavy piece of furniture in the room, and thus the pent up persons might be enabled to effect their escape, from a death at which humanity recoils with feelings of the ut most horror. I have been astonished to learn that there are no " fire escapes" attached to the fire establishment of police here, as in London ;—these are portable machines, and can readily, by lads even, be brought at once to the scene of action. It would not be too much to expect from a place like Liverpool ~ so subject to sudden fires, that there should be one or two of these useful apparatuses placed in every ward. At all events the simple suggestion which I have thrown out, is at the command of any one to obtain, and the security and freedom. from alarm, which the possession of them, a few yards of rope, will afford, will, I think, be of itself, an ample return for the trifling outlay. S. K. ADVERTISEMENT EXTRAORDINARY. Wanted some Radical alarmers, With lungs and chest to bear fatigue, To play the part of tenant farmers At all the meetings of the League. If they for cash are not too greedy, Engagements they may soon command; And if their clothes are rather seedy, There is a wardrobe close at hand. Against the Corn Laws to inveigh Will be the duty—not a hard 'un— Apply—'twixt twelve and two each day, At the theatre, Covent-garden. It will be seen by an advertisement in another column that Mr. Clapham has commenced as a tailor, in addition to his drapery establishment in Tarleton-street. The principle on which he conducts his business is such as must give the greatest satisfaction. SCOTCH BREAD AND SCOTCH BAKERS have long in England been held in high repute, and from what we have seen, we think that Mr. Gibbons, whose advertisement appears in to-days paper, excells amongst his countrymen. His biscuits—which comprise many sorts little known to the English—are equal to any we have ever seen, and as we are assured they will keep at sea, they are worthy the inspection of captains—particularly for cabin use. In addition to the many talented musical professors al ready resident in the town, we perceive the Mr. Ware of Der Frieschutz celebrity, purposes giving lessons in the several branches of musical science. We understand his pianoforte playing is the school of John Cramer—both having been pupils at the same time of the celebrated Muzio Clementi. And, as John Cramer is not onlym structing but delightinc , the elite' of Paris by his classical and chaste style of pla ying,' we doubt not, by the real lovers of harmony in Liverpool, Mr. Ware will be equally appreciated, while his masterly accompaniment on the violin cannot fail to give finish to those availing them selves of the advantage. IRE Ti AND. A little girl was burned to death at Blarney-lane, Cork, on Saturday, whilst lighting papers in the tire, Edward Gower, a private in the 30th regiment, stationed in Cork, was accidentally killed in a pugilistic encounter with a comrade, named Peter Hoey, on Friday. MELANCHOLY ACCIDENT. Intelligence arrived on Saturday morning that the lady of Tuthill, Esq,, of Rapla, and the sister of Judge Jackson, was found out side the house quite dead. She had fallen out of an upper window of her husband's residence, situate about two miles from Nenagh. At Mayo assizes bills of indictment for a conspiracy to burn the Achill Protestant colony and the house of the Rev. E. Nangle, were ignored by the grand jury ; but the accused were tried for administering an unlawful oath to Francis Al' Hugh to engage in the plot and to keep it secret. The jury were discharged without finding a ver dict. It appears that Dr. Montgomery, of Belfast, is now holding, as a teacher of the Arian heresy, a comfortable manse, and a glebe, we believe of twenty-four acres, de dicated by the original donor for the support of the ortho dox faith. This cruel act of misapplication of the funds dedicated to the perpetuity of truth, to its overthrow, Dr. Montgomery is perpetrating ; and what he has the assu rance to request of the government, is the introduction of a bill to permit him, and others similarly circum stanced, to continue to hold this property, and which the law, in its ordinary course, is about to return to its legiti mate and true owners !—Record.—The bill has since been brought in. BLASTING WITH THE AID OF ELECTRICITY.—The first experiment, on a large scale, made in Ireland, to blast with the aid of electricity, was tried on Saturday last at Knockmaroon-bill, in the Phoenix Park, Dublin. The spot selected for the interesting operation consisted of an immense bank of earth, about a quarter of a mile in su perficial surface ; 4,5001 b weight of powder was consumed. The necessary arrangements having been made, the im mense hill rose slowly, as if by magic, with a rumbling noise, and shortly after the entire mound removed itselt into the hollow beneath, amidst the plaudits of the crowd, who cheered Captain Larcolm, the engineer under whose superintendence the experiment was conducted. The place where the hill had been is completely level, so per fect was the success of the experiment.—. Dublin paper. MELANCHOLY CASE OF HYDROPHOBIA.-011 the 22d of last month a fine boy of the name of James Martin, 14 years old, was bitten by a young dog he had been rearing. The circumstance was passed over as a mere trifle until Sunday about noon, when the malady manifested itself in all its horrors. The state of the poor sufferer was melan choly in the extreme until Tuesiby evening last, when death put a period to his agonies. Dr. Foley attended him during the night of Monday, and contributed much to allay the paroxysms. He was visited on Tuesday by the other medical gentlemen of the town, but it was manifest that his final sufferings were fast approaching. What renders the circumstance still more melancholy is, that five more of the family, including the father, were bit by the same dog.—Clare Journal. MALICIOUS INJURIES.—ALTAR DENUNCIATIONS.— Joseph Cavanagh claimed four pounds for his house and furniture maliciously burned in the parish of Clough Prior. The claimant deposed that he was in Nenagh prosecuting when the injury was done. Mr. T. G. Stoney, one of the magistrates attending that sessions, said there was some doubt of the malice in this case, until one of the parties opposing the presentiment said Cavanagh had been denounced by his priest from the altar ; upon hear. ing this he (Mr. Stoney) said, that recollecting that a short time previously a man had been murdered after he was denounced from the altar, he had no doubt of this burning being maliciously done, and that it resulted from the circumstance of his being anathematised. There were no less than seventeen presentments for malicious out rages in the barony of Lower Ormond.—Nenagh Guar dian. MURDERS IN IRELAND.—At the Tullamore Assizes, Thomas Dowling was found guilty of'the murder of Mr. Gatchell, and was sentenced to be hanged. When the prisoner heard the sentence pronounced, he declared, in a strong and clear voice, that he was wholly innocent of the murder of Mr. Gatchell. He knew he was to die, and he was perfectly prepared to meet his fate. And then, turn ing to the jury -box, be said—" Gentlemen, if the same degree of mercy be shown to you in another world that you have shown me in this, I can tell you that you will have little to hope for." At Castlebar, sentence of death has been passed on James Fabey, who had been convicted of wilful murder. The 20th of April was named by Baron Lefroy as the day of execution. At Carrickfergus, John Cordery, a private in the 66th Regiment has been found guilty and sentenced to be hanged, for shooting Serjeant Wm. Dodd, of the same regiment, on the 29th February last. DISGUSTING DEPRAVITY.—Amongst the prisoners for trial in the county, is a monk from the neighbourhood of Youghal, charged with the violation of a child, aged eleven years, described as ricketty, and subject to epilepsy. The child was taken to the monk to be charmed, her parents believing that he had the power of relieving her of her in firmities. .She was left with the monk, and subsequently taken away. The following day she was again to undergo the charm, as it was called, and was about being.parried to the monk when she refused, and appeared uneasy at the idea of returning. The mother, suspecting that some thing was wrong, questioned the child, who gave to her parent a disgusting detail of what had taken place on the previous day. The poor mother was shocked at the hor rid narrative, and in the anguish of the moment proceeded to her confessor, the priest, and related her story. The priest very properly directed her to go at once to a magis trate, and prefer informations against the delinquent for the crime. The woman did as she was directed—the monk was arrested, and he now lies in the county jail to await his trial. The offence was committed at the beginning of this month.—Cork Paper. UNIVERSITY 4• CLERICAL NEWS. OXFORD, THURSDAY.—In a convocation held this day, the Rev. Archibald Boyd, M.A., of Trinity College, Dub lin, was admitted ad eundem. In a Congregation held at the same time time, the following degrees were con ferred :—Masters of Arts.—William Mordaunt Edward Milner, Christ Church ; Rev. Thomas Aubert Magdalen Hall ; Rev. Joseph Christian Moore, Edmund Hall •, Rev. William Henry Stokes, Wadham •, Rev. Fre derick William Robertson, Brasenose. Bachelor of Arts.—Thomas Tristem Spry Carlyon, Christ Church. The Bishop of Worcester consecrated the new district chapel at Whittington, near Worcester, on Tuesday last. The Bishop of Hereford has consented to preach at the one hundred and forty-third anniversary of the Society for the Propagation of the Gospel in Foreign Parts, which will be held at St. Paul's, on May 2d. CONVERSION OF SCOTT MURRAY, ESQ., M.P., FOR BUCKS, TO THE ROMAN CATHOLIC FAITH.—OXFORD, MARCH 15.—A sensation has been produced in the uni versity by letters received among the Tractarians from Rome, with information that Scott Murray, Esq., 8.A., of Christ Church, has just conformed iu that capital to the Ron3ish faith. UNION OF THE DIOCESES OF ST. ASAPH AND BAN GOR.—A meeting of the nobility, gentry, clergy, free holders. and the inhabitants of the county of Flint, con vened upon requisition, by the High Sheriff, Sir Richard Puleston, Bart., was held in the County Hall, Mold, at noon on Thursday last, "for the purpose of petitioning the legislature for a repeal of that part of the act passed in the 6th and 7th years of the reign of his late Majesty William the Fourth, providing for the union of the sees of St Asaph and Bangor.' The meeting was very nu merously attended. The High Sheriff presided ; and the meeting was addressed by Mr. J. Wynne Eyton, Mr. E. Pemberton, Mr. R. J. Moystn, Dr. Richardson, Arch deacon Clough, the Rev. Lloyd Wynne, and several others ; after which a petition was unanimously adopted for pre sentation to the Houses of Parliament. This document expressed the deep sorrow and continued alarm with which the meeting regarded the act of Parliament by which the ancient sees of St. Asaph and Bangor were to be united in one diocese ; that in consequence of the ex tent of the two dioceses, the impediments to communica tion between the bishop and his clergy, and the actual amount and rapid increase of population in North Wales requiring additional churches and a greater number of ministers, and the peculiar circumstances of the church at the present time, which demanded a closer and more vigilant superintendence, the petitioners considered the proposed union as highly injurious, and calculated to im pair the efficiency and lower the dignity of the established church in the northern part of the principality : that the established church had been from time immemorial en dowed by the piety of our forefathers with funds so lemny dedicated to the maintenance and diffusion of re ligious instruction in North Wales, and it was inconsist ent with the interests of religion and the demands of justice to divert those funds for the benefit of other and more opulent districts : that it was admitted that the episcopal revenues, now unappropriated, in the hands of the ecclesiastical commissioners were sufficient to form an immediate provision for the bishopric of Manchester, without resorting to the destruction of an ancient see, and therefore there was no reason for delaying the appoint menta of a bishop to that populous district : that it was great inconsistency to lessen the number of Bishops in North Wales, whilst the importance of the episcopal office was admitted in the establishment of new sees in our colonies ; that the church in North Wales possessed no overplus funds available for the benefit of remote districts, and that all the income which could be obtained from its ecclesiastical revenues, consistently with the pre servation of our present episcopal institutions, would be required to augment the poorer livings, and maintain the ministers of those churches which had been recently erected, or which might hereafter be erected in that part of the country. Tile petition closed with praying for a repeal of the obnoxious act ; and, further, that provision might be made, that any ecclesiastical revenues derived from the suppressio n of sinecures might, in the first in stance, be appropriated to supply the spiritual wan t s o f the parishes from whence they arose, and, se con dly, t o m n e e n w ta c t h io u n ro o h f es th in e pNooorrtehr N b ‘ e ra n i e e fi s c .— es A an ro d e t tn he or e i n a d l endow ment to the Archbishop o f Canterbury , interference to obt a i n a repeal The usual thank s were t h en voted to the High for his conduct in th e c h a i r, and the proceedings requesting of the act in alsot qhms h hes e eensrta a tai ic u f fdootgofni active . terminated. THE Comm—We understand that arrangements have been made for the court to leave town about Wednesday or Thursday (the 3d or 4th proximo,) for Windsor Castle, and that her Majesty will return to Buckingham Palace about the 14th or 16th. This day, (Tuesday,) his Royal Highness Prince George of Cambridge will complete his 25th year. It is calculated that by the new arrangements that are taking place in the Queen's household, there will be an annual saving of not less than £2s,ooo.—Court Journal. March 26, 1841. THE TEN HOURS' BILL. At a meeting of the Loyal Orangemen of Liverpool, represented in district by the respective masters of war rants, held at the Commercial Hall, on Friday evening last, the 22d inst., the following resolutions were unani mously agreed to lst.—" That we view with considerable satisfaction the improved feeling manifested in the House of Common s in favour of the resolution, brought forward by that noble champion of the working classes, Lord Ashley, for re ducing the working hours of the distressed factory opera tives. 2d.—" That we desire to record our respectful , but hearty thanks, to our representatives, Lord Sandon an Sir Howard Douglas, for their independent and truly Christian 18th votes in the House of Commons, on the 18t inst., in support of Lord Ashley's resolution. 3d.—" That the Deputy Grand Master be respectfully requested to convey the foregoing resolutions to L ord Sandon and Sir Howard Douglas." THE BERMUDAS.—Captain Matthew, late member for Shaftesbury, is appointed Governor of the Bermudas. YORKSHIRE PROTECTIVE SOCIETY.—The subscrlP; tions to the Yorkshire Protective Society amoun t t £7,683 10s. 4d. A bill is before parliament for making a new suspensiott bridge across the Thames, from Church-street, Larabeta, to Market-street, Westminster.. BUCKINGHAM PALACE.—The King of the Belgians 14 expected to arrive this day (Tuesday) on a visit to ta` t Queen. His Majesty will be accompanied by his aug ls consort. THE FACTORY BILL.—The Morning Herald of Yeti day hints that it was not improbable that ministers wok last night propose a compromise of an eleven hours' clause in the factory bill. WILLIAM EWART, ESQ.—Amongst the five g entlenal whose strange votes against both propositions submitted in the recent factory debates reduced Friday night's pr!: ceedings in the House of Commons to a mere nullity', se''' no less a personage than Mr. William Ewart. There is a report in circulation that it is the intent!!! of her Most Gracious Majesty the Queen, some day early part of next week, to make a similar excursion_n the Isle of Wight CO that made by his Royal Highne" Prince Albert on Monday last. The average stock of bullion held by the Bank of Eit land for the four weeks ending the 2d of March is state' to be £16,011,000, being an increase of £531,000, el compared with the preceding month, and an increase° £5,027,000, as compared with the same period last Yea r ' FIRST ARRIVAL IN THE CLYDE OF GUANO FRO AFRICA.—The brig Challenger is at the Broomiele! loaded with this new manure, and has attracted much at tention. The quality has been analysed, and found to P 9 excellent.—Glasgow Guardian. DR. WOLFF'S Missiosr.—Captain Grover has /leafa from Dr. Wolff, Tabriz, Jan. 19, where he had been 10 . six days, and was on the eve of leaving. A Persian E°. l :, - , chant had declared that our countrymen were in pm': twelve months ago ; and that the missionary expresses' favourable hope, founded on this testimony. fo THE STEAM-SHIP GREAT BRITAIN.—The directors the Bristol Docks have declined to alter the dock-ga tes so as to admit of the egress of this mammoth steam-ship to her proper elemeut, and in consequence she will WO_ to be uplifted by caissone or iron tanks, so as to clear Oa dock walls in her passage through the narrow expanse. The Dublin Evening Mail, of Wednesday last, stn te6 ' „/ that Sir Robert Peel had determined that the patronage„ the Irish Church should only be bestowed on those cle' gymen who are favourable to the national system of en't cation in Ireland. The Standard says this assertion untrue. Two seats are vacant—Hastings -and Christchur ch. Mr. Planta retired from the former owing to ill health' Musgrave Briscoe, Esq., stands on the conservative int,e; rest ; and is to be opposed by Mr. R. R. R. Moore, t", leaguer. We have not heard the reason of Sir Georg' Rose's retirement from Christchurch. OUR NOBLE REPRESENTATIVES.—We have node% elsewhere the independent votes given by Lord Sandon Sir Howard Douglas, in favour of Lord Ashley's motiop. on Monday night. We are gratified to find that both tOt'e, honourable gentlemen were at their posts on Friday and on two occasio ns rec o r d e d th e i r v ot es ag ainst innu'' ters, and in favour of the interests of humanity. A deputation on the wool duties, from LiverPo ° , Leeds, Bradford, Halifax, Dewsbury, and the NI„, Riding of Yorkshire, had an i n t erv i ew w i t h Si r R. re. t, ` on Saturday, at his official residence in D ow ning-strt f The deputation were accompani e d by L or d S a ndoet Howard Douglas, the Hon. J. S. Wortley, Mr. Cher ie Wood, Mr. Beckett Denison, Mr. Beckett, Mr. Stans field, Mr. Protheroe, and Mr. Aldam. His Royal Highness Count d'Aquila embarked at SI; ples for the Brazils at the end of last month, and sliorTs after his arrival there his marriage with Princess Dov h , , 0 L Januaria, sister to the Emperor of the Brazils, i s to solemnised. Count Aquila will permanently reside st,t, Janeiro, and in addition to large estates which the f.:d peror will present him with, receive the title of IniPe'l= Highness. nrge MURDER.—At the York Assizes, on Friday , po Lowther and Matthew Pearson were indicted for tboeflhe ful murder of John Mott, the bead gamekeePer,lun t, at Marquis of Normanby, on the 29th of Jarman' found the parish of Lyth, in the North Riding. Th wh eiffearli ed Lowther guilty, and acquitted Pearson. ,_4',.„, 01 1 LO judge (Baron R o lf e ) Resee d sentence of aeat',A ther, and the other prisoner was discharge Of A GREAT FACT."—A Preston c o rresp th o e on dent Morning Herald, alluding to th e su b scr ib ers in that to to the League Fund, state s th a t th e re l a tive respecta bt, • and influence of the firms may in some degree be eti s. mated by the horse-power used in their manufactorisers. The power used by the Leaguers (exclusive of l‘lel e j Horrocks, Miller, and Co. the firm of which are dri ers ' in opinion, is 160 hotwes ; the power of the Anti-Leg :1 0) (also exclusive of Messrs. Horrocks, Miller a nd t.; is 1306 horses. The above facts speak for themselves. The MEETING IN FAVOUR OF THE CORN-LAWS• members of the Denbighshire and Flintshire Agricultn..eh Society held a general meeti ng a t the Black Lion 1 1 °1 0 % in Mold, on Thursday l as t, f or th e p ur p os e of petitilir, parliament against any alteration in the corn-laws. , th e J. Wyne Eyton, pre s id en t o f th e soc i e ty, o ccupied chair, and speeches were d e li vere d aga i ns t t h e proceedl, and objects of the Anti- corn -l aw L eague , th e chairto„ t 4, the high sheriff Sir. Robert H. G un liff e , M r . Turner, ill s Hicklin and several others. P e titi ons i n accordance tint object of the meeting were unanimously adopted. 0 0 BRISTOL BANKRUPTCY COURT.—Several CStateSsfia sidered to have been wound up for years past, are n°.. 11 11 course of investigation, and creditors who had eal i i i ,io( forgotten their claims have been surprised on rec e t i t leo notices from the official assignees of their being etbor? to dividends. In the case of Walter Jacks (against `. p ee l ' the commission was issued upwards of forty years ' - „Tal" a dividend was declared on the Gth instant, on debts r i ,t ed to the amount of nearly £70,000. We learn t° o3 o dividend of at least 4s. in the pound will in a shor t , be declared on the estate of John Wood, a ba rl o k i v er inia - Cardiff, in which the last proceedings before the c 1827.-, sioners took place so long since as the year Bristol Journal. ~ --Th e GREAT WESTERN STEAM-SHIP COMPI 3 - .' , : 1 , 03 this p el mP state anY of w a t s h things i n at the r 1 ' IT ° :: a 7 n s. n i u d a . l ra rr ee o ti t n h g e o i f m t p h expenditure b beef been only £25,573 45.3 d. ; the receipts for 1812 have b, e o only £30,830 Si. 2d., while the expenditure was £2B , ; v te j Thursday, asrntaotuesntmedu ctiol theo: 3this 40i receiptss6tooosif.)e4tdha.etrGaibnreudatettahe; a Western good for ea l l close attention to expenditure ; hut the directors beli e p o still more to the c i rcumstance of Liverpool having tithe the ren d ezvous for their' business this side el' e r Atlantic. A dividend of £2 10s. per share, or ' 1 , 3 e il cent. on the o r i g i na l cost, or 9. 1 " per cent. on the fed 4O costs of the G rea t Western,- free of income tax - andNs'eiesstiorny,of theiro neplNaveheist till another declared. tile r FRANCE.—The French ministry has achieved ane_,, e On Tuesday evening, the chamber of deputies canl e ' l , s final division on the secret service money bill, wpost e o s th t e h r em ses i s n io g n aj o e f t th all e d ch s al af l e ' l4' 77; majority appeared, in favour of the ministry, of 56. . 0 ,51 Y the majority would be in favour of ministers was prev 0 . .,,, 0 1 1 expected, but the amount of that majority has come rg , the public by surprise, and has put the friends o f oef Guizot into great spirits. It makes the division of 0 0 0 importance, that both parties agreed to take the vote., rot this subject as one of confidence in ministers, oi'cer therefore, the best test of their respective strength.. th e tainly the cabinet has no reason to be dissatisfied "s Oll result of the struggle. Wei Am ERI CA . —By the packet- s hi p O x f or d , w hi c h arr i " at this port on Friday, we have received New York etbe to the 3d current, two days later than those brought l 'iictr steamer. They are c hi e fl y occup i e d w i t h further Pa„` ,0 0 ' lars about th e exp l os i on of the gun onboard the Pritnil The cotton market was quiet, and nothing doing. belief was that the crop, although much below that of 0,00 season, would be an average one. It was estimate(Logl there would be several hundred thousand bales inore ht was originally ca l cu lated upon. The O x ford brouZ,lV, ven cabin and twenty-five cabin passe ng ers, inclual,qo , C. Mac rae , S co tl an d ; R ev . M. 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