The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser. — Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1847-11-16 00:00:00

TO CORRESPONDENTS. We will bear in mind the hints s , pplied by "Great George street," but the publication of the letter now would do no good. If " Fidelis" has seen our payer for the last few weeks, he must have ob , e,•ved that we have done all we could to forward the object for which he t-o benevolently pleads. We would Otherwise have inserted his letter. eb: iLtlirtpool tanbarb. Yearly Nuloccription : In Atlvance, 15s. OR Credit:, TUESDAY MORNING, NOV. 16, 1847. We think it our duty to call the attention of the burgesses of the four wards for which elections are to be held on Wednesday, for the purpose of filling up the places of the four members of the Council recently chosen as aldermen, to the following para graph in the official notice issued by the Town clerk : "Those burgesses who, being enrolled on the burgess roll, 8.9 rated in respect of premises in Castle-street Ward, Great George Ward, Rode ey-street Wa rd , and Abercromby Ward, and also in respect of premises in any other ward, did; at the several ward elections, holden on the first day of November instant, select their warl by voting in any other ward, other than Castle-street, Great George, Rod ney-street, or Abercromby Ward respectively, will not be entitled to vote at any of the present elections." • Thus, a b •rgess having a double qualification, — say, in Castle-street and Everton,—who, on the Ist of November, voted in Everton, cannot, on Wednes day, vote in Castle-street Ward, or, during the legal existence of the present register, vote in any other ward except Everton, the one selected. This inter pretation of Section 44 of the Municipal Act, which regulates the right of parties having votes in two or more wards, was laid down in an opinion given by Sir Frederick Pollock. dated 28th October, 1840, upon a case furnished to him by the late Town clerk, and communicated by him to Mr. Penning ton, the solicitor for the Conservative Association, and Mr. J. G. Snowball, solicitor for the Reformers. It will have a considerable bearing upon the result of the elections in two of the wards—George's and Castle-strt et—on i'Ved.3cday, nether of them Navin; been cont.; stA on the Ist instant, and most -of the voters with double qualifications Laying most probably vottd in other wards. Mr. Bromley-Moore having of necessity vacated the chair of the Dock Committee, when his period of service as an Alderman had expired, and the Vice-ChairMan, Mr. W. Nicol, being similarly situated, it became doubtful whether these gen tlemen, if again elected, would choose to occupy such onerous and troublesome situations as those which they have so admirably occupied for the last four years. The Council acted wisely in re-electing both these gentlemen as Aldermen ; and they,will, no doubt, be again elected to the same offices as they have filled with so much credit to themselves and advantage to the town at large. Fearing, however, that the events of the last week might .render their acceptance of the Chair and Vice-Chair of the Dock Committee somewhat doubtful, a re quisition to each of them was placed in the Ex change News-room, and in the course of a few hours was signed by a great number of our most influential mercantile firms, of all shades and politics. We are happy to find, from the subjoined corres pondence, that we are not to lose the inestimable services of either Mr. Moore or Mr. Nicol, hut that both gentlemen have, in a frank and cordial manner, acceded to the wishes of so many of those who are most competent to appreciate their services. We subjoin the correspondence, which, we are sure, will be perused with pleasure by every one who can appreciate talf m and i tegrity, and who desires to see the Dcell Estate of Liverpool wielded by masterly hands. COPY.) Liverpool, 11th November, 1847 . . DEAR Slns,—We have been desired to present to you the enclosed requisition, signed in a very few hours by a great number of the most respectable Merchants, Ship Owners, and Brokers, in this town, and had time per mitted no doubt numbers more would have had great pleasure in joining in the request. We sincerely hope you will comply with their wishes, and beg to subscribe ourselves, Dear Sirs, most truly yours, (Signed) J. NELSON Woon. THOMAS CHILTON. To J. Bramley-Moore Esq. and William Nicol, Esq. (Cory.) Liverpool, 12th November, 1847. DEAR Stas,—l have to acknowledge your kind letter, addressed to myself and Mr. Nicol, accompanied by a requisition, signed by upwards of one hundred and fifty firms, composed of merchants, shipowners, and brokers, requesting that we would resume our respective positions at the Dock Committee, in the event of our being re elected. To such a requisition there can only be one answer : that of cheerful and ready compliance with a request signed by so many influential parties and kind friends. Permit me, through you, to thank the requisitors for this expression of confidence, and to assure them of my best endeavours to discharge the onerous duties of Dock Chairman to the best of my ability, with impartiality, and for the general benefit of the commerce of this great port. I beg also to thank you personally for your very friendly nd kind conduct on this and many other occasions. My friend, Mr. Nicol, speaks for himself, and I have the pleasure herewith to transmit you his answer. I have the honor to be, dear sirs, Your obliged and faithful servant, (Signed) J. BRAMLEY-MOORE. To John Nelson Wood and Thos. Chilton, Esqrs. (CoeY.) Liverpool. 12th November, 1847. DEAR SIRS,—The requisition which you have conveyed to Mr. Bramley-Moore and myself, bearing, as it does, the signatures of nearly all the most eminent merchants and shipowners of Liverpool, could not fail to be very gratifying to me. Any hesitation that I may have felt in resuming my seat in the Dock Committee, has arisen entirely from a belief that recent events, connected with the Council of the Borough, implied a want of confidence, in the minds of the trustees, of my capability to perform longer the duties of the trust to the satisfaction of the town. Such impres sion may have been erroneous, and it is, at all events, re moved by the very flattering communication which you have presented to me. I shall, in consequence, willingly place myself again at the disposal of the trustees for re election, if they see fit, to a seat in the Dock Committee ; and I am, _ _ _ Dear sirs, yours very faithfully, (Signed) WILLIAM NICOL. To John Nelson Wood and Thomas Chilton, Esqrs. For some years past we have laboured in the columns of the Liverpool Standard to impress upon the attention of successive administrations the in :justice and the tyranny of the coercive policy which has been adopted towards the West Indian body, and again and again we have reiterated the warn ing that, without some large modifications of that policy, the ruin of that body and the abandonment of our colonies were inevitable. The former of these results has been already, in a great measure, accomplished. The West Indian proprietary have year by year been drawing nearer and nearer to the state of bankruptcy predicted. Plantations, once productive of large profits to the cultivators, have ceased to give even the cost of the labour em ployed ; and many are already abandoned, or parcelled out as squatting grounds for the emanci pated and naturally indolent negro. A correspondent of the Daily News, in illustra tion of this fact—no very great friend certainly to colonial interests—after referring to an article on the West India interest, furnishes the following statement : " An account of sales of six hogsheads and two tierces tof sugar, handed me by a merchant a few days ago, gave me the following results : Duty to government Nett proceeds A similar sale of one hogshead gave— For the government duty Nett proceeds giving a proportion in each instance of two-fifths to the government, and of three to the proprietor of the estate ; with this difference only, that the government receives the cash : the proprietor has immediately to hand it over to others, to defray the cost of production. The balance sheet, therefore, of a West Indian estate, of £5OOO per annum, will be as follows : Proceeds of estate.. Duty to government Cost of production £5B 16 6 91 0 4 45000 0 0 £2OOO 0 0 3000 0 0 - 5000 0 0 Balance for the proprietor 0 0 0 From which it appears that government derives a revenue of £2OOO per annum from an estate which gives its owner nothing." The coming of the latter result is now evident to, and admitted by, even that party, the carrying out of whose arrogantly dictated measures has pro duced the evil by which it is being caused. The last pound weight which breaks the camel's back has been laid on by the policy which withdrew from the West Indian planter the small remnant of protection which he possessed, in the exclusion from our markets, of sugar, the production of slave labour; and without some prompt interference of the home government to neutralise or to balance that step, the fate of these valuable colonies is now sealed. We ask ou behelf of the Weet Lithe, bony, for no concession injurious to the' interests ;of the British consumer. It was for a clear stage lind no favour that we interceded. The parlianient of Great Britain, in deference to the feeling of ihorror —real or affected—which was professed by °a large mass of the people towards the existence of slavery in these colonies, thought proper to emancipate the negro labourers by whom the cultivation of the sugar cane and of other tropical products was envied on. The planter was told that, with free men as his labourers, he would he enabled to coin-. pete successfully with the slave states of The world; . that free labour would be found the cheapest labour; and that, as the result of its adoption in our colonies, the slave would cease to be dragged from his home or to he held in bondage. But the men who uttered these predictions were theorists, taking the negro character from the representations of interested men, or flippant tourists, or from a still worse authority—the mendacious statements of such authorities as the Anti-Slavery Reportek The experienced planter knew better. lie was aware of the natural indolence of the negro; that, left.to himself, he would perform the minimum quantity of work required to enable him to purchase cloth ing and implements, a few weeks in the year suf ficing to enable him to raise food in that prolific chine. The correctness of these conclusions was soon apparent. Field labourers were speedily- not to be procured, the emancipated negro only work ing when he pleased and-for what wages he pleased. The canes grew, and ripened ; but the planter was condemned to see them rotting in the ground, for want of the hands to reap them, which he could not procure. In this emergency he implored of the home government, since he was to restrict himself to free labour, to enable him to secure the ineces sary supply, by encouraging voluntary immigration of the African race from their own continent to share in the blessings of that freedom and civilisa tion which theorists and the , exclusively humane boasted that they had ensured for the population of this black paradise. How was this reasonable prayer answered ? By an outcry from every quarter of the empire inwhich a coterie of sentimentalists, or a platform orator, with the necessary quantity of tears and simulated groans for the fate of " the unhappy negro race," could be found. The project was regarded as an attempt to restore the system of slavery by a side wind ;as a kind of legitimatized slave trade. Visi ons of crimps, of horrid slave-captains, and of de coys were held up before the eyes of the tender hearted public. Missionaries and the agents of the anti-West Indian interests in those colonies wrote home doleful predictions to congenial parties in the mother country; and meddling whiff magistrates— the perpetual blisters with which the government of the day had saddled the unfortunate planters, as an acompaniment to the emancipation act—de nounced the measure as an encroachment upon the right of the free negro to work when he pleased, and to set his own price upon his work. The re sult was a resolute denial of the boon sought. A succeeding administration opened its eyes partially to the justice of the planter's claim, 6.nd to the ruinous effect which was being produced upon the former prosperity of the colonies by the scarcity of labour existing. A half and-half measure was devised, accompanied by checks and counter checks, which rendered it almost totally unavailable to the planter. A dribbling immigration was directed to the colonies, of captured and liberated slaves, dis solute Kroomen from Sierra Leone, and Coolies from East India, not a tenth part sufficient to sup ply the places of the negroes yearly withdrawing from field labour to become squatters in the bush. Side by side with this insufficient concession came measures directed against the unfortunate pro prietors, already pressed to the earth with accumu lated expences of cultivation and local imposts. The West India planter we were told then, as we have lately been told, was a gouty ill-conditioned old gentleman, grumbling in his counting-house in the city over his decreasing income, whilst he . allows the bulk of the produce of his plantations to be eat up with interest of mortgages, and dis honest overseers. He must be driven to reside upon his property; to superintend personally his manufacture; to adopt new and improved modes of cultivation : in short, to resort to those curative efforts for the removal of existing evils, which no body seems to be so familiar with, and so feeble in suggesting, as your politico-economical doctors— ycur philosophers who can talk and write learnedly upon every subject and matter under the sun, and are perfectly familiar with everybody's business. The sovereign remedy proposed was a little stimu lating competition; and straightway the home legislature invited the already half ruined West Indians, in the language of the memorandum of the acting committee of planters and proprietors, , to "compete with possessions of the East India Company, enjoying the advantage of the cheapest free labour in the world, their trade with foreign nations being at the same time free from the re strictions imposed on the West India colonies." After a few years of this unprofitable struggle they were called upon further to compete with "every country having the semblance of freedom, while they were themselves prohibited from endeavouring to procure an accession of suitable labourers ;" and at length the distinction between free labour and slave labour is swept away altogether. The simu lated humanity and virtue of the nation have taken flight; and we find that saints as well as sinners can lick their lips after muscovado or molasses, whether it has been produced by free British subjects, .or by slaves toiling beneath the lash of the Cuban or Brazilian driver. We are at the climax of our grand experiment ; and after all we find ourselves only in possession, as the result of all the sacrifices which we have made, of ruined colonies, a free negro population relapsing into barbarism, and the accursed traffic in human flesh carried on with an increased vigour in every country, from which we have made, and are incurring, such costly sacrifices of life and treasure to drive it away. - At the last hour, and only when the British Go vernment is called upon to contemplate the prospect of the abandonment of these noble colonies, the prayer, which the planters of the West Indies have been urging for the last ten years, is about to be granted. It has been discovered at last, by the employment of a Government steamer to cruise along the shores of Africa upon which the slave trade is not carried on, that immigration from that country is only checked by the want of the means of transit, and by the absurd restrictions which our ill-timed philanthropy has imposed. A hardy race of labourers is to be found on the Kroo Coast, fit ted for the climate of our colonies, and anxious to exchange their present lot of semi-barbarism for the civilized condition of the free labourers of the British West Indies; and the Colonial office has issued permission to the proprietors of freight sliips for the purpose of transporting those labourers to our colonial possessions. We hope that the con cession thus made does not come too late. We much fear that it has; and trust that the legisla ture, now that the demands of our Colonists are recognized as having been just, will take such steps as will encourage and enable them to accept the tardy boon granted. It must take some time to enable the planters to secure the quantity of addi tional labour required ; and, in the mean time, it must be borne in mind that their industry and en terprise are unremunerating. The Colonist has not brought himself into this position by his own act. His fate has been cruelly forced upon him ; and it would be only wise and righteous in the legislature of a great nation to extend towards those, whom they have oppressed and ruined, a measure of fair protection, until the means used to bring back their forfeited prosperity have had time to produce their anticipated fruits. Mr. Alderman James Lawrence, the respected chairman of the Markets Committee, has been of late made the subject of several scurrilous articles in the columns of a contemporary of Saturday. The man who, like Mr. Lawrence, discharges the duties reposed in him by the public, with the sole view to the public welfare, is almost certain to in cur the displeasure of clamourous officials, men who look only with a favourable eye on those mem-, hers of the Council who promise to increase their emoluments. Mr. Lawrence is none of these, and hence . the splenetic effusions alluded to. Mr. Law rende has earned for himself, amongst men of all parties, the character of one of the ablest, most im partial, and by far the most zealous and indefatig able member, not only of the Markets Committee, but of the Watch Committee. The public suffered a severe loss when his invaluable services were withdrawn from the latter committee. The selection made of four gentlemen from the Council Chamber for the office of Alderman has created vacancies in four of the wards—viz. ' Great Gutlllo3, Itudi.oy-41:ea, Abezeromby, and Cattle street, the election of members for which will take place on Wednesday next. One of these wards— Castle-street—will in all probability he uncontested, Mr. George Holt, to all appearance, being likely to walk over the course. This ward, it will be remem bered, has always been in Whig hands, having been very seldom contested by the Conservative party; and it speaks something of the truly liberal feeling of the Conservative majority in the Council, that they selected the late memberfor the ward, although a Whig, but of very inobtrusive politics, for the Alderman's chair, well knowing that another Whig member would, as a matter of certainty, be returned as his successor. We shall look in vain for a similar tribute to genuine worth, irrespective of politics, from the Whig-Radical faction. In the other three wards a contest will take place. In Great George Ward the candidates named are Mr. Thomas Dover, on the Conservative interest, and Mr. J. Rogers by the Whig party, who are put ting forward, however, a claim on behalf of their candidate., and stating it boldly, in their can vass, that an understanding has been come to by influential persons in the ward, that he is to be supported by 'men of both parties on the no-politics principle. We entertain, ourselves, a very poor opinion of the genuineness of Whig professions with respect to their entertaining such a principle. It is one of those garments, which they are ready enough to put on when a point can be gained by adopting it ; but which they.ordinarily throw away whenever the political weather warrants them in venturing upon more decided clothing. In the present case, no such understanding, as to politics being laid aside, exists in the Ward; and, if it did even exist, the Conservatives have as good, and indeed an infinitely better, candidate in hand than their opponents. Mr. Rogers is no .doubt a.highly-respectable man. In what is Mr. Dover inferior to him in this respect ? Take up the question, as to which of the two is most likely to strive for the economization of the funds of the ratepayers, and Mr. Dover has the call over his opponent. He is one of the largest ratepayers in the town, He is possessed of great experience, both in local affairs, and in the commerce of the port; and is, besides, a Man possessed of talent, and willing and able to bestow a large amount of his leisure upon the performance of the duties of the position to which he aspires. We have no doubt that the burgesses will he told, as of a fact to his disparagement, that Mr. Dover is a warehouse-owner; and the amour pro pre of the shopkeepers and tradesmen of the ward will be flattered by their being reminded that Mr. Rogers is a tradesman. Let us examine the perti nence of the objection to the one and the recom mendation of the other. Mr. Dover, we grant, is a warehouse-owner. He has contended against the principle that the private property of his fellow townsmen should he deteriorated, so long as they pay rates, and thus decrease the burthens of the shopkeeper and the householder, by the erection of warehouses on the dock quays, managed by a public body, and which warehouses pay no rates. He has objected to the Dock Committee becoming their own porters, their own carters, their own coopers, and thus carrying on various important businesses within the borough, without contributing to the general burthens. This ought certainly not to be a bar to Mr. Dover's claims upon the constituency of the ward. Again, with respect to the claim of Mr. Rogers, as a tradesman, is Mr. Dover any less ? Is he not, besides, a large employer of tradesmen. and of the operative and other classes, by whom tradesmen and shopkeepers live ? This objection to him cannot be held as valid by the enlightened portion of the ward ; and with every respect, there fore, to his opponent,. we must urge the claim of Mr. Dover as more allied with the general interests of the burgesses of the ward than his are. In Rodney-street Ward the candidates are Mr. Qeorge Booker, Conservative, and Mr. Lewin, on the Whig-Radical interest. With respect to the fitness of the former gentleman, who, we may mention, is a brother of the respected, repre sentative of West Derby Ward, Mr. Josias Booker — there can be no dispute. Mr. George Booker, as a West India merchant of long standing, is pos sessed of great mercantile experience, combined With an intimate knowledge of the local affairs of the ward, in which he is a resident. What may be Mr. Lewin's claims upon the Liberal electors, be yond his respectability and his L lolitics, we are not aware. In Abercromby Ward, Mr. It. Cardwell Gardiner, at the request of a numerous body of electors, an nounced himself a candidate a little after the va cancy occurred, and none can doubt his fitness for the honour sought to be conferred upon him. We believe that he has been frequently before so soli cited; and that lie only consented to come forward in this instance on the understanding that no other gentleman of his party was prepared to be put in nomination. THE ARCHBISHOPRIC OF YORK. The Times of yesterday says :—" We believe we may set at rest the speculations which have been raised by the vacancy in the See of York, by announcing that Dr. Musgrave, the Bishop of Hereford, is to be the new Archbishop, and that he is to be replaced in his present See by Dr. Hampden, Regius Professor of Divinity at Oxford." The Times of course condemns both appoint ments, the latter especially, but we think that our readers will not regret to see Dr. Hampden's elevation to the episcopal bench. In addition to his professorship, he is a Canon of Christ Church, and Principal of St. Mary Hall, Oxford. He has also been one of the celebrated Bampton Lecturers. Several years since great bitterness was excited in the University against him for alleged heresy, but his appointment to the Regius Professorship could not be disturbed, though the University enacted an irregular sort of censure which has been removed in a recent professional statute. The water colour painting of the Rev. Dr. M'Neile will we understand remain on view another week at Mr. Bur land's rooms. We strongly recommend the friends of the reverend gentleman to see it. We understand that Mr. J. Bramley-Moore left town yesterday on a visit for a few days to the Earl of Elles mere, at Worsley Hall, in compliance with a polite invi tation received from his lordship. Yesterday men were employed taking down some build ings near the Salthouse Dock, at the bottom of Charlotte place; being the commencement of the demolition of buildings necessary for the completion of the new Wap ping Docks. _ _ The annual sermon on behalf of the funds of the Blue Coat School was preached on Sunday, at St. Peter's Church, by Rector Campbell, when the collection amounted to £B4 6s. The newly-elected Mayor (T. B. Horsfall, Esq.) attended, in compliance with the usual custom. On Friday last, Mr. George Stansfield Deane, Park road, operated upon a respectable maiden lady, for the removal of a scirrhous tumour of the breast. The opera tion was skilfully performed, whilst the patient was under the influence of the ether vapour. We understand that three clergymen, in connection with the Church Missionary Association, sailed from this port last week for India. On Monday morning the Sac rament was administered, at St. Luke's Church, to these self-denying missionaries, and to nearly twenty of our local clergy, and a considerable number of laymen. MANCHESTER.—Messrs. Swainson and Birchwood's bankruptcy was superseded at the first meeting of credi tors, on Friday last. Their estate shewed nearly one hundred shillings for every pound of their debts, and it was understood that the legal proceedings had been allowed to arrive at a fiat purely through neglect. CAUTION TO FARMERS.—As a respectable farmer, Mr. John Rimmer, of The Bronk, Formby, was returning from this town, on Saturday last, he was attacked by two men, near the new Catholic Chapel. Little Crosby, and robbed of £5. A number of carts were not many yards before him on the road, but owing to the noise they made his cries for assistance were not heard. He received no personal injury. LIVERPOOL SUNDAY-SCHOOL INSTITUTE.—Our read ers will perceive by our advertising columns, that a class for the study of psalmody has been established by the above institute, and meets in Pembroke Chapel, on Tu esday evenings. We understand that nearly three hun dred Sunday-school teachers and others have joined this class; and we doubt not that success will attend this laudable attempt to improve an important part of public worship. WHAT HAS BECOME OF THE COBDEN FUND ?—The Manchester Courier, very properly, we think, persists in asking for a reply to this question. The great apostle of free trade has now been in his own country and in the chief seat of his agitating labours for several weeks. H e has visited not only the Exchange, "where merchants most do congregate," but the rooms of the Anti-Corn-Law League as well. Yet we hear of no public meeting of his quondam admirers to present him with the meed of recom pense awarded to him—no statement, even, of the amount which he may expect to reap. It is hinted broadly that repudiation on a large scale may be expected, if it has not already taken place ; that many liberal promises to pay remain promises only still; that, in short, too many of the subscribers- to the Cobden Testimonial Fund may be included amongst the suspended firms; yet no denial of the imputation is ventured upon. We trust, for the honour of the free-traders, that the insinuations with respect to their want of honour, in slighting their former leader, are not deserved. It would not be wonderful, however, if a movement, conceived in folly, should tenni mite with n display of shabbiness. TftE LIVERPOOL STANDARD. ACCOUNTS RELATING TO TRADE AND NAVIGATION. A parliamentary return has just been published, con taining an account of the imports of the principal articles of foreign and colonial merchandise ' and of the consump tion of such articles in the month ended 10th October last, and in the nine months ended on that day, compared with the imports and consumption in the corresponding periods of 1843 and 1845. The foilwing are some of the items : lmports in the Month. 1845: 1846. 1847. 5,920 25,605. 35,460 Cattle Cheese (cwts.) 29,359 41,459 40,942 Coffee (lb s.) Of British possessions.. 2,841,330 3,450,102 7,537,653 Foreign • 4,047,059 6,029,808 2,566,389 Corn (qrs.) Wheat 117,349 79.394 404.627 Flour (cwts) Indian meal (cwts.) Indian corn (cwts.) Rye meal (cwts.) .. None. 13 215.897 Rice (cwts.) 46,816 61,097 156,424 Hams (cwts.) - 803 778 Palm Oil (cwt:.) 26,460 39,980 68,129 Sugar, unrefined (cwts.) British possessions in America Mauritius • 51,885 100.859 83,648 East Indies 125,033 106,328 152,582 Foreign None 93,184 245,408 Molasses Sugar, refined 56,079 4,805 6,511 Tea (lbs.) 6,322,804 3,918.466 3,141,191 Tobacco, unin au ufactd Citron Wool The declared value of our exports for the articles enu merated in the return was, in the month of October, 1845, £5,323,553 ; 1846, £5,177,389 : 1847, £4,665,409. During the nine months ended 10th October, 1845, there were belonging to the United Kingdom and depen dencies, entered inwards, 11,650 ships, with a tonnage of 2,710,378; in 1846. 11.834 ships, with 2,646,585 tonnage; and in 1847, 13,813, with 3,081,752 tonnage. Of vessels employed in the coasting trade between Great Britain and Ireland, there were entered inwards in the month ending 10th October, 1845, 960 ships, wi , h a tonnage of 138,097 ; in 1846, 927 ships, with a tonnage of 147.173; and in 18-17, 675 ships, with a tonnage of 128,612. Of these vessels cleared outwards during the same period, in 1845, between Great Britain and Ireland, there were 1,953 ships, with 207,973 tonnage; in 1846, 2,143 ships, with 231,484 tonnage; in 1847, 1,547 ships, with 190,197 tonnage. RODNEY-STREET WARD. Mr. George Booker, a West India merchant, a gen tleman of the first respectability, is a candidate for the representation of this ward, in the place of Mr. J. N. Wood, who has been elevated to the dignity of Alderman. He is brother to Josias Booker, the esteemed member for West Derby, and is in every .sense admirably qualified for the trust which he seeks at th , .3 hands of the electors. It is somewhat remark able that. the so-called " liberals" have, in the worst imaginable taste, fudged up, in opposition to him, Mr. James Lewin, who was rejected on the day of the last mu nicipal election in a manner so significant of the popular feeling, that no men but themselves would have again ad ventured to tempt the suffrages of the electors in any ward in the town, and especially in one in which the vacancy had previously been proposed to be filled by a gentleman so eminently well qualified. But it imports not! Mr. Lewin will, we surmise, be again signally defeated. ABERCROMBY WARD. A very full meeting of the Conservative Committee of this ward was held last night, several new members, as well as gen tlemen from other wards, being present. The utmost confi dence and enthusiasm prevailed, every one-being determined to use every exertion to secure Mr. Gardner's election. Mr. T. T. GLAZEBROOK said, that being present, he could not omit the opportunity of say in". a few words in support of his friend, Mr. Gardner, whom he had known for above twenty years. He knew Mr. Gardner both as a man of business and as a politician, and he could speak with the utmost respect of him in all the varied relations of life. A placard had been pi ced upon the walls, in which Mr. Earle—(laughter)—called upon the electors to entrust their interests to a man of business; but he thought the electors would find it a difficult matter to select an individual who was more completely a man of busi ness than Mr. Gardner; his business was not only of great extent but it was of such a nature as to enable him to acquire a knowledge of the details and minutiae of business. Some idea of the extent in which Mr. Gardner Was engaged in busi ness, might be formed from the fact that he paid into the funds of the country, through the Customs, not less than .'50,000- a-year. He was also a zealous and consistent churchman, and if we looked to his past conduct we should find that no occa sion had ever offered which he had not improved to the utmost of his power. Mr. GARDNER, who was received with much applause, said that he appreciated highly the compliments that had been paid him by Mr. Glazebrook , and if they elected him he feared much that he should scarcely fulfil their expectations but they should find he would endeavour to act in such a mariner as not to lose the confidence which they were desirous of re posing in him. He had no doubt from what he had heard of the return of the canvass, that they would he successful, not withstanding the singular opposition which had been got up against them. The meeting then separated amidst much applause. DRAWING BY THE LATE MR. DERBY. FROM LANDSEER'S CELEBRATED PICTURE OF THE " RETURN FROM DEER STALKING-CROSS ING THE BRIDGE." We have been favoured by Mr. Grundy with a view of the above exquisite drawing from a picture, which we cannot but regard as one of Mr. Landseer's most pleasing compositions. The artist, Mr. Derby, has been frequently employed in preparing copies (in water colours) of Mr. Landseer's works, for the use of the engravers; and, in the present instance has produced a work of infinite merit in itself. The original, by Landseer, is the property of the Marquis of Lansdow_. ; and the drawing was made by Mr. Derby, because the noble owner, naturally, was un willing to spare so fine a work of the artist for the period —nearly four years—which the engraver was employed in producing the beautiful print, now exhibited by Mr. Grundy, along with the copy. The subject is a fine one—full of beautiful and pictu resque effect. In the foreground is the bridge, over which the deer stalkers are returning in victorious fashion, and laden with the trophies of the hunters craft. At the foot of the bridge, on the left of the picture, a piper is " blawin' his chanter," accompanied by a boy and two hounds leading the cavalcade. Two shaggy white ponies —exquisite specimens of Landseer—occupy the centre, each having a noble deer slung on his back, accompanied by hounds and keepers. On the right of the picture is a party of reapers resting, with the sheaves of the gleaners near them ; and a keeper with his guns and two dogs stop ping to hold talk. The distance is occupied with moun tain lake scenery, painted in the artist's best manner. The whole forms a most beautiful composition, full of life and character ; and the details are admirably finished. In particular we may direct the attention of our readers to the two ponies before mentioned, to the noble animal h s l o u w n e g v a e e r r , o t s o s s o e n l e e c t o ft the e p m o r , t a i n o s t o w i t i le dogs. ilehples e l u t s is iin d o i s ffi t . cult , The engraving from and conveying fully its spirit and charact er. is r a o n the l i ineen p g i r c a t v u i r , e , w ve h r ic , h be i a s ut b i y full- . y ex ecuted ORIGINAL PICTURE OF THE " OTTER AND SALMON," BY EDWIN LANDSEER, R.A. This is a fine characteristic picture of this celebrated ar tist; and formed one of the collection of modern paint ings presented by Mr. Vernon to the National Gallery. The otter, especially the head, is most effectively painted ; and the salmon is one of Mr. Landseer's masterpieces. Messrs. Grundy have also a most spirited engraving of this painting on view at their establishment. OUR LOCAL. BANKS. The directors of the banking establishments in Liver pool which had suspended payment have decided upon the measures they definitely purpose to pursue. The Royal Bank have called (as will be seen by the advertisement) a meeting of the shareholders, and are prepared to re-open the establishment on the Ist of next month. We congratulate all immediately concerned, and the town at large, on this result. Some wholesome changes are to be made in the deed of settlement, and in other departments. The London Agency will in future be the Joint Stock Bank. We believe that upwards of £120,000 in amount of the preference shares have already been taken up. The North - and South Wales Bank will, it is confidently stated, be re-opened in a short time. A meeting of the proprietors is to be called in the meantime, for the Ist of December, to take steps towards that object. The deposi tors have already almost unanimously accepted of the terms proposed by the bank,—which partake of the nature of those proposed by the Royal Bank. The Liverpool Banking Company may also be expected soon to resume. The capital of the bank remains un touched. On the 10th instant a meeting of the directors took place, when it was agreed that a call of £2 per share should be made, payable on the 20th December, and that a meeting of the proprietors be held on the 30th instant, when, it is probable, the re-opening will be determined upon. A statement of the affairs of the Company is offi cially published. From this we condense the following :-- The amount of paid-up capital is £111,650, to which being added the reserved fund of £22,723, the con tingency accounts, interest, &c. (£7,634), the total amounts to £142,008. The Assets iu cash and bills ; amounts due to the bank from current accounts, premises, interest, &c., are £215,010. The Liabilities upon bills in circulation and in hand are £321,276, but with good bills; amount owing to current and deposit accounts, and proprietors' divi dends not called for, reduces the estimated liabilities to £91.768. so that the estimated surplus is £123;242. There is an amount of £22,729 due by parties who have suspended payment, and taking into consideration solvent indorsers and other circumstances, the loss is estimated at £8,060. Stringent measures have, iu some instances, been resorted to, to enforce the payment of accounts due. In the Court of Common Pleas on Saturday, Messrs. Leader and Cock, musical publishers, obtained a verdict of 40s. against Mr. Purday, in the same business, for an alleged piracy of a song, with an accompanyment, called " Pestal." The defendant has leave to move for a non.. suit on a point of law, THE NEW MEMBER FOR SCOTLAND WARD. The Mercury seems desirous of making it appear, by insinuation—the weapon he employs in default of facts— that a slight has been passed by the Council upon Mr. Woodruff, (member for Scotland Ward,) by his not being elected to serve on a large number of committees. As usual, however, truth is against our contemporary ; and truth he cannot controvert, ingenious as may be his " weak inventions." Mr. Woodruff is a member of the Markets Committee ; and was elected to serve on the Watch Committee, and also on the Court of Requests Committee. He was, moreover, solicited to become a member of the Education Committee. A higher meed of honour could scarcely be bestowed upon a newly-inducted member of the civic body, and we may state that Mr. Woodruff feels ,more than gratified by the compliment thus conveyed to him,—albeit the Mercury's object evidently was, by his insidious remarks, to excite in that gentleman's tame! a feeling of unmerited neglect,—an attempt which he has too much manhood and good sense not to repudiate. Mr. Woodruff, on account of his engagements as a member of the Select Vestry, (in which capacity he has won " golden opinions from all sorts of men",) declined to become a member of the Education Committee. The Watch Committee is not yet fully formed ; and, as Was stated by the Tcwn-clerk, there was no necessity for the Court of Requests Committee,—the busine-s of that tribunal having merged into the present County • Court. The compliment paid to Mr. W. was nevertheless equal on the part of the Council—these explanations not then having been given. The Mercury, too, endeavours, insidiously, to make it appear that Mr. Woodruff owed his election to the Council mainly to extensive " treating." This is another subterfuge of an ingenious and, happily, defeated tbe. Nothing of the kind took place ; and it the Mercury would learn the secret of that gentleman's suceess, he will find it i❑ the general merits of the candidate, which secured to him the unbought and unsolicited exertions of an able and active body of canvassers, as well as the good-will of a large and influential number of the electors and inhabit ants of this district. The mighty offence taken by our contemporary is, that, though Mr. Woodruff is not of parry, he gives strong promise of becoming a most effi cient and useful member of the Council. A HOPEFUL PEOPLE. Amongst the most important of the means by which the peasantry of Ireland were to be regenerated, and enabled to add to their resources and to the wealth of their country, was the encouraging and development of her sea fisheries. We ourselves pointed, along with others, frequently to the fact that, whilst Scotland derived a large revenue from the industry of her peasantry in gathering in for human use the food which the ocean bore in such abundance to her shore, Ireland, blest with equal if not greater abun dance of such available food, contained a peasantry who never stretched forth a hand, or worked an oar, to help themselves to such food or to the wea lth derivable from its capture. _ . It was urged, as an excuse for the indolence, or want of enterixise, that the peasantry of the latter country were unprovided with the necessary means ; that their boats, their nets and lines were of miserable quality ; and that money was not in their possession to repair or renew them. An effort was,made by Government, and by private sub scriptions, to furnish the aid required. Yet what was the result ? The following remarks of the Lord Lieutenant of Ireland, in reply to a memorial, in which further assistance was prayed for, gives a tolerably sufficient explanation : " His Excellency observed, that allusion had been made in the memorial to the subject of the fisheries ; that, as regarded this question he was greatly disheartened ; that he had come to Ireland with the hope and expectation of being able to promote this branch of industry, but that. he was completely disappointed ; that, in the pres e nt y ear , when the boats and year of the fishermen were redeemed from the pawn-offices, in many instances the parties would not yo to sea unless they were fed, and, when sun plied with food they, took no fish. He then instanced the example of Scotland, which riot only supplied many parts of the continent to the amount of £150,000, but received from Ireland each year £170,000 for fish alone, and the peopk in this country allowing such a store of wealth to pass by this coast untaken. One million was expended on the Irish fisheries with no advantage or return to the nation, though there were several curing stations estab lished." We may cite another witness—a correspondent of the London Times—which goes to prove that the peasantry of Ireland cannot be brought to work in their own country, however good the prospect of remuneration, if they can be supplied in idleness upon the merest competency. The writer says _ _ _ "Again, at Dingle, which is the principal fishing town on that coast, there are about fifty small boats of one sort and another, with from six to eight men depending for subsistence on the working of each boat. In the first week of September I spent three days at Dingle—the two first days were stormy, and the boats did not go out ; the third was as fine a day for fishing as any in the year, and the mackarel and pilchards were reported, by vessels that had seen the shoals in and about the bay, to be very abundant. " To my great surprise I observed that no more than twelve boats had gone out that morning, and on investi gating the cause I found it to be strictly and solely the following :--Being Saturday, a double allowance of soup was to b distributed ; there was also an expectation of a gratuitous distribution of meal; and it being a regulation that the application for the soup and meal should be made in person, the day's fishing was thus sacrificed." Of course, " the day's fishing was sacrificed." It is infinitely more to the taste of the Irish peasant to sit by his wretched hut, or to 101 l upon a gate or a rail, smoking his dudeen, or discussing the question of repeal with an equally lazy neighbour, whilst waiting for the eleemosy nary dole of soup or meal, than to work in any shape. It is infinitely less laborious to plant a rood of land with potatoes, and to watch them grow. until they are fit to be dug up for the day's meal, than to plough and drain for the purpose of raising a better kind cf crop. Attempt to encourage him in habits of increased exertion, and your reward is disappointment and disgust at the ingratitude with which your effort is met. Coerce him, and your re ward is probably a bullet from behind a hedge. Yet, in all probability, as soon as parliament meets, the ears of the industrious people of Great Britain will be stunned with clamourous appeals for this very people, who thus resolutely refuse to be made self-dependent and happy. The reply ought to a resolute and stern " No." FATAL ACClDENT.—Yesterday morning, a man who was employed in one of the Albert Dock warehouses, accidentally fell through one of the hatchways through the floor• in the interior of the building, and was killed on the spot. DEATH BY BURNING. —On Saturday evening last, Catharine Yates, a child four years-and-a-half old, re siding with her parents in Eden-street, was left in the house with two young children. One of the latter lighted a piece of paper, which ignited the clothes of the deceased, and she ran in a burning state to a neighbours house. The flames were extinguished, but deceased died on the following day. A FEMALE DROWNED.—On Saturday night a young woman named Elizabeth Barton, wife of William Barton, toy-maker, St. Andrew-street, fell into George's Dock tt G oa u k t eg , no a n ot d ou t w Nvo o fo s o d tdi r is o ei w dwe n a, ed taet;rd. S -;71 Deceased,e. was not rot l e h f left home wr,ei loefa t r h un e m n, t s wi a las e a she nightfin was e looking person, and her body presented the appearance of wax-work. _ ART UNION DRAWING. - Yesterday, at the Concert hall, Lord Nelson-street, the drawing for the celebrated painting of "Charity" by Vandyke, took place. The sub scribers consisted of 20,000, at Is. each, and a person holding ten shares was entitled by the published condi tions, to an engraving of the original. Mr. Bach, of Bir kenhead was appointed chairman, and the drawing was conducted by that gentleman. After 334 numbers had been thrown, the lucky prize came up. answering to the number 514 C, held by James Pickles, Esq., of Manches ter. The picture is valued at £lOOO. POLICE COURT.—There were yesterday from 173 to 174 prisoners brought up at this court on charges, in cluding drunkenness ; but the cases were nearly all of minorimportance, with the exception of one noticed elsewhere. A young man, whose name we did not learn, was charged with being drunk and disorderly in Church-. street and its neighbourhood, on Saturday night, by officers 88 and 660. He, however, showed by himself and a witness, that he had been ordered home by. officer 88, who had called him a " prig," &c., and that being in dignant, and found again in Whitechapel by the same officer, and No. 660, he was taken by the latter to the head constable's office, the officer expecting that he would be recognized as a bad character. This not being proved, he was taken to the main bridewell on the other charge. Mr. Rushton said there had been evidently something wrong in the language used by the officers, and discharged the prisoner. A man, named William Mitchell, keeper of a boarding-house, was charged, yesterday, at the Police-court, with uttering four base halfcrowns to a fe male, named Jane Mack, next door to his premises, to whom he sent them to be changed. He stated that se veral men came in wanting refreshment, that each as they went on, getting a shilling's worth at a time, paid him half-a-crown, and that he was not aware they were bad. The evidence being unsatisfactory, as against him, he was remanded. THE ROBBERY OF BANK NOTES, &C., FROM A LADY OF CHESHIRE.—The case of the robbery, or supposed robbery, of Mrs. Mary Mathison, of Capenhurst Hall, which is near the Sutton railway station, on the Birken head and Cheshire railway, having been handed over by the Birkenhead magistrates to the jurisdiction of the Liverpool magistrates, the prisoners, John Burgess and William Mitchell, were yesterday brought up for exami nation before Mr. Rushton. Mr. Rushton said after hearing all the evidence, that the "recent possession" of the £lOO note, or the £5O one was on the part of Mitchell. Burgess had not, according to evidence, been in recent possession, and was therefore so far cleared. But, fortu nately for the ends of justice, though the notes had n o t been traced to Burgess, their were c ircumstances which led him (Mr. R.) to the opinion that he was an accessary after the fact, by counselling and comfortin g th e ot h er. He should therefore commit them both for trial, unless Mr. Fosbrook could show good cause to the contrary in Burgess's case.—Mr. Fosbrook said under the circum stances he was inclined to leave the case as it stood for the present.—Mr. Rushton then committed Mitchell for stealing the money (upwards £150), and Burgess for being an accessary after the fact, both to be tried at the quarter sessions. He remarked that it was rather hard that this county should be put to the cost and trouble of the pro secution ; but as part of the transaction occurred in Liver pool, he pyesumed the magistrates were bound in law to take cognizance of the case. It remains to be remarked that the prosecutrix could not swear at what time of the day, or in what locality—here or in Cheshire—she was despoiled of, or lost the money. There was no evidence of the actual theft, but it remains for the prisoners, and especially Mitchell, to sliew whence it was got, otherwise the infexeuce against them will be obvious, Nov. 16, 1547. I, A T EST INTEL LIG ENC E. (BY EXPREBS ) LONDON CORN MARKET.-YES . TERDAY, Much of the English Wheat being in poor condition, our millers took it slowly at a decl ne of 2s. per onarter on the cur rency of last Monday for the best samples, and about 3s. Pe t quarter for inferior, vpi:st for foreign only a retail demand isted at Is to 2s. per quarter lower rates. Flour was unaltered in value. Choice malting barley brought nearly as much money, b ut natwithstr.nding the small quantity on sale, trade on.tbe whole was dull, and for middling and inferior qualities Is. to 2s. Pe r quarterreduction was submitted to; but grinding samples and foreign brought former terms. Malt was dull, - tinTgeneral'y offered Is. to 2s. per qr. belolf the rurreoey of last week. Beans werk. sold without anvjnaterial variation in value. Peas were Is. to 2s. per qr. cheaper. owing to the mild ope weather, and more pressimr sellers of foreign. There was a rood.steady demand for a!! fine Oats, a t the, quotations of this day se'nnight ; o th er sor t s were d u ll, an' the turn cheaper. SMITHFIELD CATTLE MARKET.-YESTERDAY. A few of the very nrimest.9cots sold at ss. per 81h. ; but ql mare general figure for the best beef WAS 4s. Ind. per 81b. the close of the market scarcely any of the beasts remained sold. The mutton trade was firm, and, in some instances, the WI old Downs—which w ere unusus li y Fenrce--sold 2d. P e „ t lb., being a sli g ht a d vance on the currenc i es obta i ne d Monday last. In all breeds of Sheep a good business lc' doing. at very full prices. The Veal trade was in a sluggish state, at barely stational./ prices. Prime small Porkers were in steady request, at fully previoll/ quotations. MONEY MARKET—YESTERDAY. Bank Stock, Is 7 9, Reduced Three per Cents., 83} ; ik ree „ per Cent. Consols, g; Three-anfi-a-Quarter per Cent s. 84 ; Long Annuities, F# ; India Stork, 23a 33; ExclietlP' bills, 1 dis. 2 pm. ; Consols Three! er Cent. for Acct., s-a The men on the Hindl e y section of the Liverpool an d Bury Railway have been discharged from employment. 4 Mr. Cobden will, it is said, sit for West Yorkshire, an Mr. Alderman Kershaw is to be brought forward tO stir ceed him at. Stockport. Messrs. Gundry's bank at Bridport has stopnecl ment. The debts are of moderate amount, and the !m u, dation is not likely to prove an unfavourable one. A verdict of " wilful murder" has been returned. at Gravesend, by a coroner's jury, against a man of th• name of Fisher, for the murder of his wife, by adnaillls" tering to her poison in some gruel. that Th a e s ir j es a t t 7 i n t Westm eat h hp lipolice, who Guardian ti c v u e rr i e n n assassins of Major Mahon, was shot on Thursday last' The rumour, however, requires confirmation. be A journal called The 7'elegraph is announced to published in London, daily, at twelve o'clock ; it will t u exclusively devoted to publishing the news received by to t electric telegraph. The price will be threepence. Whilst the poor-law guardians of the Nenagh tioi °l/ were sitting last week, in the board-room, about 300 able', bodied men and women forced open the gate, and rustl e "! towards the workhouse. They were exceedingly violer!,, and threatened the guardians with personal injury, but tlar arrival of a strong body of police quellei the disturbs DENA ITLTERS OF POOR-RATE.—The guardians of tD Enniskillen Union have caused advertisements to be pu bs s c e y ar t / a fo r r eP t ° h rt e lished in the local papers, setting forth, in the full blaze ° A print, the names of defaulting rate-pavers in five elector: divisions. Among the " repudiators" are the Rev. J. Porter, Mr. James Landrum, the Rev. Mr. Gressoilf Captain E. Archdall, Mr. 11. Maguire, and Mr. J. 1 naghan, all of whom are particularized as being of the " la ndlord ." ENGLISH AND-FRENCH CONSOLS.—It 19 instructive t ° remark, that although the debt of France is not to b e . compared to our own, and alth oug h th e pu bli c sec uritie s in that country have been b u t s li g htl y a&cted - by n , difficulties, yet the high-water mark of the French Fan' is still below the low-w a t er mar k o f C onso l s . The'" , is a difference of 'about 14 per cent. between Sir Marie! Wood's Irish loan of last spring and M. Dumon's Fren ch loan of this autumn ; and ev en a t a momen t o f une xamP l , pressure our stocks had not sunk to the ra t e a t which to 9 FrenCh Government has replenished its Treasury. MEETINGS OF CREDITORS FOR LIVERPO Ho ° T) :, Nov. 12 15, Thomas Davies (proof a nd div.) 16, Stephen Owen (2nd) Ditto, 12 16, George Hadfield (audit) 17, Thomas Hill (proof and div.) Date, 1 1 17, Joseph Smith (proof and div.) 17, James 'Waddell (Ist) Ditto, it .19, Patrick Kevan (2ndl D i t to, ii 19, Edward Rogers (audit) 19, James White (audit) Ditto, 4 __l2- 19, Barnard Brothers (audit) o p i i t t t t . o i , 3 19, Alexander Smith ( Ditto, audit) 19, Adams and Banks(andit) 27, Thomas Sleddon (audit) 9', Carter and Baines (Ist) ::3, Charles Williams (Ist) 4 . . Ditto, 23, Wilson Jones (Ist) . 11 23, Robert Williams (Ist) 23, Robert Wright Roberts (audit) 23, John Hughes, (2nd) Ditto, 23, M`Conkey and Howie (proof and div.) Ditto, 1 7'3, Frederick Berner (proof and div.) 24, Peter Leicester (proof and div.) 26, Howard Horsley (2nd) 26, Andrew Leighton (Ind) 26, James Stout (proof and div.) 26, James Jones (proof and tits.) Ditto. ' 26, Wiliam Hadfield (Ist) Ditto, ii i 2 26, George and Ralph Cappar (Ist) SHIPPING INTELLIGENCE. MONDAY. 15th NOVEMBER.—Wind W.S.W. frogAßßlVED.—Carolina, from Iceland—Cuimberland, Lass, Taganrog—South Durham, Ayre, from Girgenti—Wm. W ar from Quebec—Argent. 111 an, from Ga'atz. SAlLED.—Sovereign, Perritt, Monte Video. Brothers, King, hence for Halifax, at Cove, out 40 days, wit h loss of her lower masts. topmasts, &c., and making water. , A barque, without any cutwater, with a narrow white stre?"f and with all her sails blown out of the bolt ropes, was seen IY l°, too Bth Nov., in lat. 48, long. 15, and a heavy gale from N.N."' , by the Laurina, arrived here. LIVERPOOL CATTLE MARKET. Nov. 15. „, r The supply of stock at our market to-day has been than last week, and the quality, generally, very inferior, vvit!o numerous attendance of customers, the whole or nearly so Su at a little advance in price from our last statement. LIVERPOOL COTTON MARKET, Nov. 15. , A fair demand has been experienced to-day from con sume who purchase more freely. The sales to-day are 5,000 bales,:i. prices /rd. per lb. dearer than on Friday last. 1000 taken w export. LIVERPOOL WOOL MARKET, Nov. 15. There has been a better feeling in our market this week, It as yet we; Scotch,hai voeonrola2nsSda; previouslye, st i or r e e p t r oh t u . issl t e n tai p ir ;r l4) t . s ,e3...6 f a:6 total, t e la)01: week i4tr:4t,sal Foreign.—Smyrna, 161 ; Bombay, 793 ;. Trieste, 221 ; WeS . 62,737.C3a5t, 6 DlED.—Yesterday, the 15th instant, aired two years, MARY, the third daughter of WILLIAM LEEVERS, Jun., Iso, St. James'-street. FASHIONABLE RESTAURANT, CLAYTON-SQUARE. BILL OF FARE, THIS DAY, (TvEsoAv.) Is of the most recherche description. Soups, including Turtle and a variety of others. FISH, according to the market supply. de' From,One o'clock till Seven.—Joints and Po u lt r y of every , scription are served with despatch and oil, Roast and Boiled Beef, Saddles and Hauncb rfi r of Mutton, Boiled Leg of Mutton and COCA Sauce, Roast Turkey, Boiled Rabbits as Onion Sauce, Le. Petit Patty, and vatic ) Cotelettes, and Entrees to Order. Sweets, &c. BILL OF FARE, TO-MORROW, (WEDNESDAY.) Soups.—Oyster, Mulligatawney, Mutton Broth, Mock 'rue' Game in great variety, served in twenty minutes. ce , Fish,—Haddock, Whitings, Soles, Cod-fish & Oyster-sau ce' One o'clock—Rump of Beef brained, Harricot Sauce ; Rot: Fowls and Sausages, Veal and Ham Pie, Mutto n Cutlew' a la soubise. Two o'clock—Saddle of Mutton, Currie of Rabbit, Veal Cutlet' Italienned. Three o'clock—Roast Goose, Harricot of Mutton, Rump Step Pie. Four o'clock—Boiled Necks of M u tt on an d C aper Saucy Stewed Rump Steaks. Fire o'clock—Calf Hearts, Roast, with Tomato Sauce, Ois ter Pattes, Cotlettes, &c. Six o'clock—Roast Beef, Poultry, &c. Sweets as usual. A DINNER OF F S O O R U P E , J G O H I T N E T E , N C p E E L N E c R E Y I , I I A AND CHEESS' Half-pint of fine Am. ; Pint, 2s. ; Quart, 4s. Amontillado Sherry, or full-flavoured Port' 18 Cup of Coffee, 4d. ; with Toast or Muffin, 6(1. Plain Tea or Coffee, Is. Ladies will find the Restaurant a most respectable Rouse i f call at for Refreshment. LONDON OYSTERS received daily, 7s. per Barrel, or Is. 44 1 ' per Score. The acknowledged superiority of the London Oysters, a n t the difficulty of obtaining them regularly ev en i n this "Vg commercial town, has induced the Proprietor to arrange ' vvi ,` h one of the first Fishmongers of Billings ga t e, f rom whom "'", daily receives AN ABUNDANT SUPPLY OF THE NATIVES ; • but, as all the Liverpool Journals h ave eulog i sed them, Mr. ,* submits their recommendation rather than his own. "A dish of the finest oysters we ever remember to have or tasted. We can honestly recommend them."—Mercurfi; " We can safely vouc h for their fine condition and excellew flavour. Better cannot certainly be had in London or el se. where." — Standard. A PRIVATE ROOM FOR DINNER PARTIES. _ LIVERPOOL : TUESDAY, NOV. 16, 1847. PRINTED AND PUBLISHED EVERY TUESDAY MORNING' By JOSHUA FLETCHER LACE, of 53, Grove street, alio' LEONARD ADDISON, of 14, Great Orford-street, At No. 4, ST. 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