The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser. — Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1847-08-03 00:00:00

TO CORRESPONDENTS "J. J." ought certainly to have sent us his name We find that the rumour to which a correspe DARD gave cc Lyster, we belie t part in the ele froin doing so, The sugg estion of our correspondent in Windsor-street, thou; offered no doubt with the best intention, would not by a We have dealt elsewher gus." We may here 1, that we do not thi is surmise, that our cc servative Contemporary was - really more opposed to claims of Sir Digby Mackworth than to those of Sir Thi Birch or Mr. Cardwell We quite agree with that Sir Howard D atituei A Voter for 1 and Card. used by the John IV returned w event, hay Sir Digby t )uld havel Ribtrpoot &tanbarD. SuLseription : advance, On Credit, 17s TUESDAY IUG. 3, 1847 Yearly $ MORNING, WE must make the admission f whilst the Election for this borough. has 'rankly that terminated as we wished, the result has been precisely what we anticipated and foretold. From the first, we were satisfied that the attempt made by a section of the Conservative party to force upon the acceptance of the Electors a young nobleman utterly unfitted to represent this great commercial community, and holding besides views upon religious questions most di's : tasteful to the majority of the Electors, would bring about, what no other agency could effect, the return of the Whig candidate ; and we urged upon the influen tial members of the Conservative body to lay aside their divisions, rnd to unite their effort the return of Sir Digby Mackworth, with th gallant and respected member, Sir Howard Dou glas, as his colleague. In our publication of the 13th July, we placed these views on record thus : - _ "Not later than last week we confidently trusted, and expressed our heartfelt gratification, that Liverpool would still be enabled to emerge triumphantly from the efforts which "liberalism" has for years been making to possess itself of the representation of this loyal borough. The unanimous resolve of the leaders of the constitutional and protestant party to support their present tried and re spected member, Sir Howard Douglas, with Sir Dig, Mackworth as his colleague, afforded almost unlimited satisfaction to the great majority of the constituency. We have to-day, however to record, and to lament over, a step —the introduction of a third candidate, in the person of Lord John Manners, who must rely upon the Church and Constitutional party for support, and hence divide and weaken that party—which materially alters our prospects, and which, if persisted in, will inevitably result in defeat and disaster, which every true friend of the good old town must sincerely deplore." wrote the passage we were in d sense of our brother Conserva :e them to withdraw Lord John nite in once more tendering their old, tried and faithful member. to press, however, we learnt on r Howard had peremptorily de- author dined to accede to the prayer of the requisition which had been presented to him, stating, however, that he would have rejoiced if, by presenting him- self amongst t he mad have healed our differences The obstinate determination of the Manners party, however, to press their candidate, had satisfied Sir Howard that this object could not be effect ed ; and he had communicated to Mr. Cardwell that opinion, and that the field was open to him. Mr. Cardwell has himself placed this fact on record, and stated that had Sir Howard Douglas been a candidate, he should never have come forward to divide our strength ; and the conclusion to be drawn from the cireumatances is inevitable; that to the friends of Lord Jol6i, Manners alone we owe that split amongst our party which has led to the return of a Whit member. In the same publication, in which we expressed ourselves as above, appeared Mr. Cardwell's ad dress ; and, on the day of such publication, that gentleman appeared on'Change, and addressed the assembled merchants and electors. There was still time for the Conservative party to arrive at a con clusion, by which the defeat just experienced might have been avoided. It was, however, thrown away. On the dnescl was called by cir ich circular stating its ob ject to be to communi returned to th( to the members the iting him to aIIM-v himself to be put in'nomination. At that meeting the friends of Lord John Manners, evidently pre pared for the course to be taken, mustered strong in numbers, and, notwithstanding the protest of an influential majority present, many of whom left the meeting without voting, his lordship was adopted by the association as the candidate to be brought forward by them, in conjunction with Sir Digby Mackworth ; and a meeting of electors was called to be held in the Amphitheatre, at which both were to address the electors. Another hitch, however, took place in the pro ceedings, which might have informed the friends of Lord John how hopeless his case was. Sir Digby Mackworth refused, on principle, to be leagued with a candidate, to so many of whose principles, upon questions which he considered vital, he was widely opposed; and intimated that he could only consent to attend the meeting, or to appear as a candidate, on the distinct understanding that he and Lord John should not be in the most remote degree committed to each other; that no joint can vas should be made by them, and that each should have separate committees and separate canvassers. Was this stipulation carried out by the officers of the association and Lord John's friends ? certainly not. The placard calling the meeting at the Am- phitheatre, reasonably implied that such meeting was to promote their joint election.. There was no distinct explanation given at the meeting itself that they appealed independently to the electors that a quasi division of their central committees took place, Sir Digby's friends and his Lordship's occupying different rooms in the same building. But in many of the wards both committees sat together at the same place, and canvassed for the parties jointly. Their ward and other meetings were held in the same rooms, on the same evenings. The voting papers were directed by the same hand and delivered by the same person ; in fact, from first to last, Lord John Manners' friends stuck to Sir Digby Mackworth's skirts, traded upon his popularity, and hoped, no doubt, to be returned by the s split votes won from electors, who were unaware of the fact that a coalition had been repudiated. Had the honourable baronet had fair play : had he been allowed to occupy his real position before the electors, his return would have been assured, most probably, along with Mr. Cardwell, as under the circumstances every body knew that the return of the latter gentleman was morally certain. As it was, the bitterness displayed against Mr. Cardwell and his friends, drove some hundreds of his voters into the liberal camp : and thus accomplished the return of Sir Thomas Birch, to the exclusion of o discover upon what grounds thi Lord John Manners, and agains Sir Digby It is difficult battle on behalf of Sir Howard Douglas,who would certainlyhavestood and been returned with Sir Digby Mackworth, has been fought by the majority of his supporters. To a large portion of the mercantile body, to the ship owners, the shipwrights, to the colonial body, and to all who deprecate undue interference with the national industry, the claims of Sir Howard Douglas were infinitely superior to those of the Noble Lord. His experience alone ; putting out of view his long tried services, justified a preference in his behalf. True, his Lordship has the character of a literateur to of rural sports— strange recommendation to a commercial constitu- i.nd even a poet an ath has voted for sanatory improvements nof the toil of the people—in which Sir Howard Douglas is not behind aculars lIILIJ. There must, however, be something beyond this, which, at least, has operated upon the small party amongst the Conservatives, by whom his claims were pressed in preference to those of Sir Howard, at a time when the bulk of those gentlemen, who ultimately adopted his Lordship, were straining every nerve to induce the Honourable Baronet to come forward. Do we not find that something in his Lordship's peculiar religious opinfons ?—Do we find nothing in the bitter hostility with which an ultra section of his Lordship's supporters regard the Pro testant party, and sneer at and revile its leaders ? Bear in mind that Sir Howard Douglas is a consis tent and firm Protestant ; that Sir Digby Mackworth was brou ghtforward on expressly Protestant ,9,Toun ds • On the other hand, remember that Lord John Man. ners has lost the representation of Newark, as we may not unreasonably surmise, because his anti- Protestant views are opposed to those of the high minded and sincere Protestant, the Duke of N ew - grounds, and to gratify what specific feeling, his Lordship was introduced to the Protestant Conser vative electors of Liverpool—to split the party up • cm since it refnspri fn nrnc:fratp itcelf t of the Tractarians, to hand over a portion borough to the Liberal tation of the of the represe It calm°. of succes to Ct We a d that from the commencement 111 S 10: own me slightest chance We doubt much love 1000 votes being able tc he support of the Roman hose views his own too nearly approach told by the illercuru that, but poll, that party, .._ ..te effort to keep y at all hazards, would have polled for for his sorry on on tt Sir D For the part which we ourselves have taken in this contest, we have no apologies to make. It may be said that, along with the candidate of our choice, we coupled a member of a party against many of whose acts we have been found in active hostility. We did so ; and we explained our rea sons, and still maintain them to be sound. We had offered to us Sir Digby Mackworth and a Free Trade Conservative, a Liberal" or a Tractarian ; his colleague . We preferred the Conservative ree Trader to either of the two left us for choice. suit of the election has seated a Whig, ith a Conservative Free Trader as his colleague, and unseated Sir Digby Mackworth, with whom our feelings were most strongly bound up, with the friends of Lord John Manners, we repeat, the blame of the issue rests. We observe that v rv,—his lordship's accused by a contempo- in the course he offensiveness of which presented him, by quoting and commenting upon his " boyish opinions." Certainly, there are some persons into whose life the state of boyhood extends very far ; and his lordship must be one of those The c arliest of the opinions in question were promulgated by his lordship in 1843, and we presume he was not quite a boy then, in the ordi nary sense of the term. Ample opportunity, how ver, has been offered to his lordship to repudiate q.nd to tell us what are the virile _ +lpir stead. If those opinions, he has not seized upon the opportunity, the blame is none of ours. Our contemporary seems very sore at beingassured, by the fact of his candidate be ing at the foot of the poll, how small an amount of influence he wields in the town; and we do not, therefore, wonder at his scolding, or the very lame charges which he rakes up to fling at other parties. WE have before us two remarkable and valuable pamphlets upon that most important subject, the currency question ;—remarkable as pointing out the past operation of our present system upon the industry and the social condition of the country, and most valuable as containing, in addition to the views of the writer, a mass of statistical data, which to our minds clearly prove the correctness of those iews. The first of these in the order of publica ntly—for although both the pamphlets the present is the fourth d enlarged—is entitled "England tion, appa bear the imprint 184 in 1815 and l& or a Sufficient Tonetary Famine of 1847 : al a Contracted Currency. By 5, and th Archibald Alison, F.R.S.E., Author of the History of Europe, during the French Revolution." The second is entitled Free Trade and a Fettered Currency," by the same distinguished Author. In endeavouring to lay before our readers the sub stance of Mr. Alison's views, we shall deal first with the pamphlet " England in 1815 and 1845." Mr. Alison traces the progress of the Nation from 1793, which commenced with an amount of Commercial distress, at that time unparalelled by 'any previous distress either in intensity or dura tion, which was only relieved by an extensive loan by government to the trading classes, and which terminated in the dreadful monetary crisis and run upon the bank, and mutiny in the Fleet in 1797, which brought the nation to the brink of ruin, and forced upon the government the necessity of sus pending cash payments. During these four year's our external position had been equally disastrous, defeat, with one exception—the Victory of Howe meeting us on every side. The history of the next eighteen years of the war, from 1897 to 1815, is well known, Victory crowned our arms in every contest by sea and land. The despot of Europe was hurled to the dust ; and from the position of the most distracted and depressed of nations Great Britain rose to a pinacle of glory and power, which she had never before occupied. Her colours en circled the globe. Her flag was paramount in every sea. Nor had her industrial and social progress failed to keep pace with her naval and military progress. Her agriculture, commerce and manu factures had increased amazingly in extent and prosperity; her exports, imports and tonnage had doubled since the war began; and notwithstand ing some temporary distress experienced by the operative population, especially in the years 1810 and 1811, their average condition had been one of prosperity. Her yearly revenue from taxation had risen from £21,000,000, in 1796, to £72,000,000 in 1815 ; and in 1814 and 1815 the nation had borne, without exhausting either our capital or resources, the enormous drain of £117,000,000 of taxation in each year. The comparative lightness with which this burthen was felt is proved by the fact that the loan of 1844 was raised at £4 11s. 6d. per cent., or lower than at the commencement of the war, although that loan was to the amount Of £35,000,000 and the population was only eighteen millions, or just two thirds of what it is now. The arrival of peace, and the sudden contraction of the war expenditure, necessarily caused great temporary distress, which was aggravated by the disbanding of above 300,000 men, who were thus thrown upon the country without means or employ ment, and by the effects of a commercial crisis, which took place especially in our e.‘stern ports, owing to the inability of the impoverished Euro pean states, to purchase the large quantity of goods which we poured into their markets. Yet upon the whole, the years from 1815 to 1817 were pros perous, notwithstanding two bad harvests occurring in succession; and in proof of this, although the income-tax was repealed during the period, along with the war malt taxes, producing together above £18,000,000 a year, the annual surplus applied to the reduction of the debt amounted to £10,000,000, exclusive of sums applied to the redemption of exchequer bills and other financial operations. In 1819, it is well known that Sir Robert Peel's Currency Bill became the law of the land ; and from that time to 1844, Mr. Alison remarks " The empire exhibited the most extraordinary spectacle which the world has ever witnessed." We may sum it up briefly as follows :—Our popula tion had increased from 20,600,000 in 1819, to 28_000.000 in I ports in the same period from £30,000,000 to £70,000,000; our ex ports from £44,000,000 to £130,000,000 ; and our shipping from 2,350,000 tons to 3,900,000 tons. Our agriculture had similarly progressed, whilst our importations had steadily declined from the commencement of the century, until, previous to the six successive bad seasons commencing in 1836, it had sunk to 400,000 quarters on the average of the five preceding years, being scarcely one-hun dred-and-twentieth part of the consumption of men and animals, which Mr. Alison rates at above 60,000,000 quarters. And he adds— " What is most extradrdinary of all, the returns of the income tax, when laid on even in the year 1842, a period of severe and unprecedented commercial depression, proved the existence, in Great Britain alone, of £200,000,000 of annual income of persons enjoying £l5O per annum each • of which immense sum about £150,000,000 was from the fruits of realised capital, either in land or other desirable investment. It is probable that such an accumulation of wealth never existed before in any single state, not even in Rome in the state of its highest splendour." Yet never was a period in which financial em barrassment was more felt by the Government and more sufferings by the people ; and this increased until the nation was extricated only by the re imposition, during the thirtieth year of peace, of the War Income-Tax. The sinking fund had also been abandoned during the period ; and at length, in six years of peace, we had added £11,000,000 sterling to the national debt. Mr. Alison sums up this por tion of his remarks by the following statement : " The nation, during the latter years of the war, pros pered, and experienced ge nera l we ll b e i ng under an annual taxation of £72,000,000, drawn from eighteen millions of souls : in the latter years of the peace, it has with the utmost difficulty drawn £50,000,000, from a THE LIVERPOOL STANDARIi. population of twenty-seven millions. Wages in the former period were high, employment abundant, the working classes prosperous, with an export of British and colonial produce of from X 45,000,000 to £50,000,000 annually : in the latter, wages were in many trades low, employment difficult, suffering general, with an annual exportation of £120,000,000 to £130,000,000. " But extraordinary and apparently inexplicable as these facts are, they are yet exceeded in marvel by the details of our social and economical state, during this period of un paralleled increaf in ou- —case material resources. It may safely be affirmed that the anxiety and distress which were felt during that brilliant period of national growth have never been surpassed, at least in a state possessing the external mark of prosperity. It is well known to what straits the Bank of England has been reduced on two different occasions in that period. In December, 1825, it was, as all the world knows, in very great diffi culties. We were, as Mr. Huskisson said, within twenty-four hours of barter.' In November, 1839, the stock of specie was reduced to £2,800,000, and the bank was under the necessity of negotiating ' a loan of £10,000,000 sterling from the Bank of France. There can be no impropriety in mentioning these facts, which are universally known, regarding that magnificent establishment, which now has above £15,000,000 of , bullion and specie accumulated in its coffers. The dis tress among the mercantile classes for years after the dreadful crisis of December, 1825—0 f the agricultural interest during the low prices from 1832 to 1835, and of the whole commercial community from 1837 to 1842, was extreme. Wages sank during these disastrous periods, in the manufacturing districts, so low, that they barely suf ficed with the great bulk of workers, especially females, for the support of existence. Serious insurrections broke out in 1820 and 1842, both in England and Scotland, ostensibly for political purposes, but mainly occasioned by the general distress among the manufacturing opera tives, as was decisively proved by their entire extinction when labour again received a remunerating turn. Farming capital in the agricultural districts was, during their distress, everywhere grievously abridged—in many places totally annihilated. Ireland during the whole period has been in a state of smothered insurrection.; and for the last four years has convulsed the country by the fierce demand for the repeal of the Union, which was only prevented from breaking out into open rebellion by the continued presence in that island of thirty thousand armed men, between the regular forces and armed police. The manufacturing districts of Scotland were involved, during the same period, in such distress, that in 1837 the mortality in Glasgow was 1 in 22; in 1842, 1 in 30; and in the latter year 32,000 persons took typhus fever in that city, and the deaths were upwards of 10,000, out of a popu lation not exceeding, at that period, 280,000 souls. Thelate Poor-law Commission has accumulated evidence proving to demonstration the existence of severe and unheard-of distress among the poor of all parts of Scotland, gene rally esteemed, and in some respects with reason, the best-conditioned part of the empire. The Poor-law Com mission for Ireland has shown that there are in that fertile land no less than 2,300,000 persons in a state of almost permanent destitution. The heart sickens at the proofs, numerous and incontrovertible, which the parliamentary reports for the last ten years have accumulated, of wide spread and often long-enduring suffering among the labouring poor in England. " While wealth was increasing to an unparalleled extent among the commercial classes, suffering and distress as generally ensued among the rural inhabitants ; and the multitude of ruined fortunes among them rendered it certain that at no distant period the old race of landed proprietors would, with the exception of a few magnates, be all rooted out, and their place supplied by a new set of pur chasers from the commercial towns. While population was advancing with unparallelled strides in the manufacturing districts, pauperism even more than kept pace with it in all ; and the extraordinary fact has now been revealed by statistical researches that, in an age of unbounded wealth, and general and long-continued peace, a seventh part of the whole inhabitants of the British islands are in a state of destitution, or painfully supported by legal relief. While all attempts even to pay off the National Debt have been abandoned by government, and the prin ciple openly proclaimed by the Prime Minister, that any surplus of revenue above expenditure must, to relieve the necessities of the country, be applied to the reduction of taxation, without a thought to the reduction of the debt, the Home Secretary has announced the not less alarming fact, that since the peace above two hundred millions sterling, or a fourth of the National Debt, has been raised for the relief of the poor in England alone. While the returns of the Income-tax have demonstrated that seventy thousand persons in Great Britain possess among them an annual revenue of two hundred millions a-year, or about £2,300 each on an average, the melancholy tact has been revealed, by the result of attempts to increase the national revenue by means of indirect taxation, that that source of income can no longer be relied on ; and in a time of profound, and at the close of a period of long continued peace, it has become indispensable to recur to an assessment on property and direct taxation, as it was in Rome in the decaying days of the empire." The progress of crime increased, pari passu, with this inflated prosperity of the capitalist, interspersed with periods of revulsion and suffering amongst the commercial classes, on the one hand, and steady deterioration of the condition of the landowner, the farmer, the operative and labourer, on the other. According to Mr. Porter's Parliamentary Tables, the following were the total Committals for Serious Crime in Great Britain and Ireland, and the popu- lation, in- Total, THE WOOL MARKET (From Messrs. Greame and Co.'s Circular of August 2.) There has been a fair amount of business done during the last month, and prices are fully supported ; the excite ment always attending a general election has, how ever, for the last ten days, materially interfered with business operations generally. Considerable sales are re ported in Russia and Turkey Wools, Donskoi Fleece, 7d. to 74. East India Wools are much inquired for, parti cularly the better kinds, both white and yellow, which may be quoted at 4d. to 4d.. higher. In Peruvian Wools about 2000 bales washed have been sold at 8d to 10d., part taken for export. For Alpaca we have had a good de mand, and considerable sales have been made of the best assortments, both in white and colours, at full prices. In Irish Wools a large dusiness has been done at our quota tions. Not much of the New Clip Scotch Wool has come to hand yet, and the business of the month has been to a limited extent. Public sales, Australian, are fixed to commence here on the sth, and in London on the 12th. Since our last monthly report, provisions have again fallen materially in price, and, as the weather continues to be everything that can be desired for the harvest, we may, we think, reasonably expect that alarm caused by the famine prices that have ruled so long will pass away, and with restored confidence bring about a more healthy state of trade. TOTAL IMPORT OF SHEEP'S WOOL TO THE UNITED KING DOM, FROM THE IST JANUARY TO THE IST JULY, 1846 AND 1847. July Ist, 1846.—Colonial do. Foreign 57,878 75,613 133,491 Bales. July Ist, 1847.—Colonial do. Foreign 57,573 62,226 119,799 Bales FINE SAMPLE OF. THIS YEAR'S WHEAT.---A bunch of wheat in the ear may be seen in our office window, which in quality exceeds any which we have met with for many harvests past. Some of the ears are 6 inches in length, remarkably well filled ; and most of the stems are 6 feet high, thus giving us assurance at once of an excel lent crop of grain and plenty of straw. The sample is grown by Mr. Brookfield, of Aigburth. CAUTION.—A gentleman, residing at Egremont, on Saturday evening last, purchased a quantity of fruit, &c., in St. John's Market, and engaged a decent looking boy whom he met there to accompany him to the boat. Turning round accidentally, however, in Lord-street, to read a statement of the polling, his carrier and his mar keting vanished, and were not seen again. People should always employ in such matters some one they know, or a carrier who wears the market badge ASSAULT ON A POLICE-OFFICER At the Police-court, yesterday, a man named Charles Rice was charged with violently assaulting a police-officer on Saturday night, during a riot and disturbance at the end of' Porter-street, which complainant and some of his comrades were endea- vouring to quell. Four witnesses were called for the de fence, who attempted to show that the prisoner was not the man ; but the other evidence satisfied the mind of the magistrate, and the prisoner was fined £5, or in de fault to be imprisoned. and he was further required to find bail, himse af in £l5, and two sureties in £lO each ROBBING A DROVER.-At the Police Court yesterday, a woman, named Ann Cosgrove, was charged with rob bing a cattle dealer, named Arthur M'Kewin, of money to the amount of £75., in notes and gold. The com plainant had put the money into a bag in his breast, and being overcome with drink, went to a lodging house in Pownall Square, to lie down. The prisoner was there. Information was given, and the prisoner was traced to a house of ill fame in Johnson Street, and upon her was found. not the money. but a copper Dutch coin which was amongst it, and which was identified by the com plainant. She was committed for trial. . r ,, hush POOR.—No returns are now made of the arrivals of emigrants from Ireland, but they do not exceed those usual at harvest time. The number applying for relief diminishes daily, and the temporary hospitals are in a fair way of being restored to their original and more ap propriate purposes. It is considered desirable to furnish facilities for the removal to Ireland to all who apply for it, and are now chargeable to the parish funds ; but in many instances that have occurred this week the apph- been searehec coaled in their c The removals continue to average one hundred per day. - THE REV. MOSES MAROOLIOUTH.—we understand that the incumbent of the parish of Glasnevin, near Dublin, the principal editor of the works to be published by the Philo-Hebraic Society, as well as of that interest ing periodical the Star of Jacob, is.about to leave for the east on some important mission of inquiry and research into the state of Christians, Jews, Turks, Infidels, and heretics. From what we know of.the reverend gentle man, we have every reason to anticipate much interesting and instructive information respecting th a t part of the world and its inhabitants, as he is - by - far the most quali fied person for such an expedition, being correctly con veasant with the languages,_ customs, and manners neces sary for so important and cOiiiiirehensive en enterprise. 8,284; total population, 15,800,000 20.600,000 28,885; 56,605; 27,300,000 As a remarkable feature of the above state of things, it is to be observed that capital has been daily acquiring greater power over industry; and that large capital is crushing small capital, however industry combined with the latter may endeavour to sustain the pressure. As a mode of protecting the small struggling masses of capital against the large masses, the co-operative or joint stock system has sprung up, as exemplified in our railway com panies, banking companies, &c. The growth of this system and its success, Mr. Alison thinks, may in time produce an evil of no small magnitude. Already the sway of our railway and other com panies have become a very formidable interest in the state, superior to the East and West Indian and shipping interests put together, and exercising out of doors powers, to which those of the feudal system were very inferior, Besides, the resource, adopted originally to protect small capital has de feated its own purpose, such companies now, directed as they are by a few energetic individuals operate in precisely the same way to depress small individual capital, as the large individual capital complained of. Connected also with the subject are the changes which have taken place in the relative proportions of town population and rural counties population ; and the extraordinary inequality which is being produced in the various sections of the working classes, some of whom are still in a position of moderate comfort, whilst others are reduced to a state of continual struggle against actual pauper ism. In the latter class the increase during the last twenty years has been fearful ; and their phy sical condition, closely packed as they are in the worst and most filthy parts of all our great towns, imbibing vice from constant association with vice and disease from daily contact with it, and from the habits which engender it, is one of the most alarming features of the present times. After remarking that some parties attribute the decline in the condition of the people generally, and the difficulty experienced in supplying the exchequer to imprudent remission of taxes, in which argu ment he is not disposed to coincide, as accounting for the change which has taken place, Mr. Alison thus sums up the second chapter of his pamphlet : " That some great and overpowering cause has para lysed the financial resources of the country during the last five-and-twenty years, to which it formerly was a stran ger, is evident from the following consideration. The sum raised by taxes in the year 1815 was £72,000,000 ; and the population of the empire was at that period about eighteen millions. Deducting the property and war malt taxes, which were repealed in 1816, and amounted to £18,000,000, there remains £54,000,000 raised at that pe riod, by indirect taxes, on eighteen millions of inhabitants. These eighteen millions have now swelled to twenty-eight millions in the present year ; and if none of the taxes had been repealed, and the resources of the empire, as mea sured by money, had continued unimpaired, these twenty eight millions should now have produced, at the same rate per head, £80,000,000 a-year of income. But the re sources of the empire, as proved by its exports, imports, and shipping, have increased in that time not fifty, but above a hundred per cent. ; the exports alone, which were then £51,000,000, being now £130,000,000, and our im ports, which were then £32,000,000, having now risen to £70,000,000. There cannot be a doubt, therefore, that had no extraneous cause intervened, the exports of the na tion having more than doubled, the imports doubled, and the population advanced a half, the revenue raised by taxes, supposing the rate of taxation to haveremainedunchanged, should have been at present at least £00,000,000 yearly. Is there any man supposes it possible, by an effort, to raise such a sum at this time from the empire, when, with the aid of a fine harvest, prosperous commerce, and the income-tax, the revenue raised in 1843 was only £56,000.000 ? It was evidently impossible, situated as the country has been for the last twenty-five years, to have kept on the large indirect taxation existing at the peace, and under which the nation throve and prospered during the war." The vie hich Mr. Alison entertains as having ~..._ ..._ __range and disastrous state of things we shall endeavour to give, with a portion of his statistics in our next. We shall content ourselves now, by stating his opinion to be that the root of all the evil is a contracted currency, ca use d b y th e attempt of Sir Robert Peel to base it upon gold at a fixed mint price. The doleful lament of the Mail over the defeat of Lord John Manners is really very funny. Our contemporary begins by expressing, as a set-off against his regret at that event, the "consolation" which he has, that it has "for ever put an end •to the Conservative Association," and "prostrated bigotry and intolerance in the dust. That the Noble Lord," he adds, " and Sir Digby Mackworth Would both have been returned if there had been any union or fair dealing on the part of Sir Digby's senseless friends, there can be no doubt." The de feat, moreover, is owing in part to "the paltry prejudices and remarkable ignorance of. Sir Digby Mackworth," and in part to the " bigotry and arrogance, and, we might add, the bad and unchari table feeling and conduct of Messrs. Thomas Berry Horsfall, Francis Shand, Samuel Hohne, and -John Lawrence." What follows is so rich in absurdity that we give it verbatim : " These personages were leading members of the Con servative Association, and they were bound in honour and common honesty to support the candidates recommended by that body (!) They refused to do this. They talked with unbounded insolence (! !) of their conscience and their principles, as if no other gentleman could have a conscience or principles different from theirs ; and boasted that they had four thousand staunch supporters, chiefly Orangemen, who would vote for their low church candi date, and no other, on the day of the election. This idle boast has now been exposed, and their arrogance openly punished, and at this punishment, which they so richly deserved, we heartily rejoice." We shall not insult the four gentlemen, here singled out for abuse, by any defence of ours. Their character is known to their fellow townsmen. We shall content ourselves by asking our irate contemporary a few plain questions upon the re marks generally, which we have quoted. First, does not our contemporary think that they would be " senseless" people altogether, who would sub mit to be dragooned or dragged into " any union " in support of a candidate, whose organ charac terizes themselves as "bigoted and intolerent," and their candidate as having " paltry preju judices and remarkable ignorance ? ' It would have been " charitable indeed of Sir Digby Mack worth's friends , but not very sensible, to assist poor Lord John Manners out of the cruel dilemma into which his own friends had deluded him ; but will the Mail tell us how, out of the few plumpers recorded for Lord John Manners he could have re turned the obligation ? His lordship recorded the surprising number of 2,413 votes, including splits ; and nine-tenths of the plumpers recorded for him were those of persons most bitterly opposed to Sir Digby's principles and party. Whether it was an "idle boast," which the Mail talks about, that Sir Digby had "four thousand staunch supporters, chiefly Orangemen," is best ascertained by the fact that he polled 4089 votes, the majority of them plumpers. The splits from Sir Digby were prin cipally those of parties, many of them Orangemen, induced to vote for Lord John partly through mis understanding, and partly upon the question of the Navigation Laws. Take away those splits from Lord John Manners's miserable minority of 2413 votes, and his position on the poll would have been ridiculous indeed ! " We," says the Mail, " offered to suppress our opposition to the disqualifications of Sir Digby Mackworth, and cordially give him our second votes, if they would stretch their Consciences ! waive their Hypocrisy ! ! and—recipocrate," How magnanimous I Was it the Conscience stretching, the Hypocrisy waiving (on both sides we presume), or the Votes, which were to be reciprocated ? If the latter, the reciprocation would have been rather a losing one to Sir Digby. "Mr. John Lawrence, of Great George Ward," our contemporary com plains, " refused or neglected to send out Lord:John Manners' cards." More honour to him as a con sistent man, when the candidate for whom he was working had distinctly refused to have any con nection with Lord John Manners, as our contem porary himself very well knows. But we cannot follow this ridiculous and laugh able tirade. We can imagine our contemporary indeed to have been laughing himself as he wrote it, and to have laughed ever since. As for the portion of his columns which he has devoted to our selves and a contemporary, we shall merely cull out a few of their literary objugatory elegancies for the admiration—we trust not the imitation—of the noble lord and the gentlemen of his party, who selected the Mail as their champion in the late contest. Here they are : "The now deg;aded Standard, and the con temptible and puritanical Courier." " Most paltry lies" " Low quibbles." " Cockney vermin." "Low and vindictive hirelings." " Clerical incendiaries." " Mean spirit of disgusting malignity," &c., &c. His imputation to us of interested motives—of being influenced by any well understood pressure from without—in the course which we have felt it our duty to pursue, we can well afford to disre gard. It is absurd, and were we disposed to adopt our contemporary's vocabulary, we might give it a worse name. SIR DIGBY MACKWORTH TO THE EDITOR OF THE LIVERPOOL STANDARD. Now that the election is over, and Sir Digby defeated, I beg leave to offer a few brief remarks concerning his defeat, and to state some causes which mainly accelerated his downfall. We all know that some persons vote according to principle; others according to whim or caprice, and that many others are actuated by baser motives. There are some voters who would not, on any account, (if they could avoid it,) leave it in the power of any person to say to them, after the election, that they had voted for the losing party. They wish to vote with the stronger party, so that they may afterwards boast that their side has won the day. The necessity, therefore, of showing STRENGTH early on the polling day must be sufficiently ob vious. Well, indeed, did Mr. Cardwell finish his address at the Music-hall, in Bold-street, when he said, " Gentlemen, you who intend to favour me with your suffrages will do me a double favour by voting EARLY." So they did, and the result showed that he was right. His coaches (and he had lots of them) were seen dashing along every street at all hours of the polling ' so that even the display of his hired vehicles was enough to inspire confidence in his cause, and to weaken the ardour of those who had intended to vote for any of the weaker parties. The same observations will nearly apply to Sir Thos. Birch; in whose favour, moreover, a most active canvass was carried on, whilst but very few were solicited to vote for Sir Rigby. The following facts, however, will throw some light on this subject. _ At ten o'clock there were at the booth in Stanhope. street, fifteen of Mr. Cardwell's coaches, and only three of Sir Digby's In Toxteth-park, some of Sir Digby's canvassers consisted of boys, between sixteen and eighteen years of age 1 At the booth in Lyceum-place, some electors who had given plumpers to Sir Digby, being unable to get any refreshment at his expense, were taken by Sir Thomas's canvassers into the Brunswick Hotel, Hanover-street, where they were sumptu ously regaled. And last, though not least, there was a small slip of paper, with lithographic writing on it, sent with Sir Digby's voting cards, from the Roscoe-street Committee, requesting the elec tors in his favour to —what ? To come early? No : but to attend at different hours of the day. Thus, those whose sur name commenced with any of the letters from A to D, both included, were to poll between eight and nine o'clock; and so on with the other letters of the alphabet, dividing the time of Rolling between eight and four o'clock into eight distinct pe riods of voting, so that a certain number only should vote in each hour. And all this was done, as stated on the paper, to prevent confusion! Now, was this the way in which Cardwell and Birch acted? No: their motto was, Go EARLY TO THE POLL. Really, Sir Digby's friends would have served his cause much better if they had requested all who intended to vote for him to do so at eight o'clock if convenient, or as soon as possible after that hour. There have been many serious mistakes and oversights on the part of Sir Digby's friends, hut all of them of course un intentional, as his friends were too staunch in their principles not to heartily desire his triumphant return ; but I mention these facts, which have come under my own observation, merely to show that Sir Digby's non-election is no proof of the want of Protestant and Conservative principles in Liverpool, as the Radical press would lead the world to believe; but that his failure is to be chiefly attributed to the want of a little tact and management on the part of his supporters—a tact and ma nagement in which the friends of some of his supporters were deeply versed, and which they did not fail to exercise to the aggrandisement of their respective candidates, and to the dis comfiture of Sir Digby Mackworth.—Yours, &c., PROTESTANS, SCRIPTURAL POLITICS, TO THE EDITOR OF THE LIVERPOOL STANDARD. SIR S Will some one of your numerous readers answer me this question, for it is a daily, hourly, puzzle to me :—in what way do our new members and those who, with them, deprecate so much what they call "mixing up religion with politics,"— who make even a war-cry of exclaiming against it.—apply, or rather escape, the application of this text, to mention no others, "whether ye eat or drink, or whatever ye do, do all to the glory of God"? If this does not involve religion with every mortal action, what can be conceived so to do ? To be consis tent,—and I here address the many, too many, Churchmen among them,—such persons ought to be found leagued with the staunch opponents of " Church and State," for on no other ground, except the duty of "mixing up religion with our poli tics," as a nation, can their union, and the existence of a state church, be demonstrated to be either necessary or useful. Some people little consider what they give up when they thus thoughtlessly abandon a principle. Acts and principles may be, and too often are, at variance, but no sound argument against the having a thing rightly to use can be drawn from even the gro....3est actual abuse of it. For what purpose, then, I would ask, hold our bishops their seats in Parliament, ex cept that they may season with the salt of divine truth the otherwise merely secular debates of human expediency? Grant, even, that they fulfil not this duty, still, this principle, and this alone, defends them where they are, and keeps them, whether we see IT clearly or not, before our eyes as a nation, in their true position. Were not this purpose to be answered. and were it not a principle of duty to mix up religion with politics," surely the end of giving glory to God would be much better answered by them elsewhere. To be brief. If, then, such be our duty in all that we do, and if the bible be our counsellor along the course of that duty, who shall say where we ought to stop, and prohibit our adviser from accompanying us further? One admits the benefit of his counsels at church' or chapel, another there not only seeks his direction but en courages his influence over his family; a third permits him to follow him to his shop or counting-house, and is not even ashamed of his companionship as he walks the public streets, but one and all testify either indifference or ingratitude, who, professing themselves christians, seek not alike his approval and support, on the committee, at the hustings, in the senate. Mr. Editor, I know from whom I borrow, but I name not his name lest this feeble tribute to truth should be regarded as offered solely to him, but I do not hesitate to say that, after this, you, whether you admit this avowal into your columns, or not, as partaking in this too common apprehension, will not doubt me when I say that, from my soul, I admire the noble, dignified, straightforward conduct of the man whom once Protestant Liverpool, to her everlasting shame, has just rejected! What a contrast I am, sir, yours respectfully, PHILALETHES. We understand that the new church, dedicated to St. Simon, in Gloucester street, will be opened on the 25th instant, when it is expected that sermons will be preached by the Rev. Rector Brooks, and the Rev. Dr. .I\i'Neile. ROBBERY FROM THE PERSON.—At the Police Court yesterday, a woman, named Fanny Keeley, was com mitted for trial, for robbing a man of 355., which she had abstracted from his pocket. The Quarter Sessions for this borough will commence on Friday next. They are fixed, we presume, so soon after the last sessions in order to effect a gaol delivery be fore the next assizes. ASSAULT.—A man, named Michael Ryan, was yester day fined 40s. and costs, (or to be imprisoned twenty-one days,) for a violent and threatening attack upon an officer, who had gone to defendant's place, under due authority, to demand an amount due for rent. The prisoner was also required to find bail to keep the peace. RATHER A BOLD ROBBERY.—At twelve o'clock yes terday, two men, dressed in barragan, entered the office of Mr. Sorley, Castle Street. One of them seized the boy, who was in the office, and held his mouth, threaten ing to kill him if he made an alarm, while the other made off with about lls. in silver, which was lying on the desk. APPLICATIONS FOR LICENSES.—We learn that no fewer than two hundred and fifteen applications for licenses for public houses have been handed in to the ma gistrates. It is scarcely to be supposed that more than a very few of these will be granted. The licensing session will take place on the 30th 0r ... 315t of the present month. THE LATE MR. FELL..—We are sorry to hear that the fifty pounds, voted by the Guardians of the West Derby Union, to the widow of the late Mr. Fell, has been finally disallowed by the district auditor. We are glad to learn, however, that the subscription, which was in part pro ceeded with, for the benefit of Mrs. Fell, will be actively resumed • and we trust that the wealthy classes resident in the West Derby district will not be found wanting when the call of the widow of the medical practitioner, who first fell a victim to Typhus, in connexion with the recent influx of Irish paupers, is brought before their sympathetic consideration. ASSAULTS ON P OLI CE OFFICERS. — At the police court yesterday, several charges were preferred against different parties, of violent assaults upon police officers, particularly in the districts chiefly inhabited by the Irish. Four pri soners—Patrick Gallaghan, James Mahoney, Ellen Nl' Cormick, and Mary Long—were charged with having, on Sunday morning week, during a riot in Great Crosshall street, assaulted and struck with stones, mud, &c., several of the officers while in the execution of their duty. The case being made out, the two male prisoners were each fined £5, and required to find securities, or be imprisoned ; and the two women were fined in 20s. each. Several others were brought up on similar charges, and were similarly dealt with, Mr. Rushton remarking that, in some locali ties, the officers clearly stood in danger of their lives ; and that the court was determined, in all such cases, to protect the police, and severely punish the offenders. . . OBTAINING GOODS' ON FALSE PRETENCES.—At the Police-court, yesterday, a stupid-looking boy, named John Costello, was charged with this offence. It appeared that the prisoner had over the whole period between the 10th February and the 27th ultimo, gone from time to time to the shop of Mr. Philips, baker, Copperas-hill, and Otained a quantity of bread, (generally three loaves at once,) which he represented to be for the Rev. Dr. Booth, of Netherfield-road, who, he said, had sent him. As the rev. gentleman's account was handed in only at the end of each six months, the fraud was not detected until a few days ago. The bread procured by the boy was of the value of £4 15s. 2d. He had previously been employed by Dr. Booth in the menial capacity of brushing shoes, cleaning knives, &c. The case was proved against him, and he was committed for trial at the sessions. of our ingenious nautical townsman Mr. Winspear (of the firm of Winspear, Hyde, and Co., boiler-makers, &c., Victoria-road,) have been carried out, under his own superintendence, to improve this landing-place ; and that -- wb: ' ' .. , (1 so long. " hung fire," was ye ,ae new stage, terday found to work to admiration. The stage is ptilled up and down to meet the steam-boats, by means of a strong endless chain, passing through a huge iron block slip is, however, to be yet a little further prolonged in stone-work, so that the block may be fixed yet further out, and steamers may land and embark their passengers at all times (without requiring a small boat for that purpose) and have plenty of water to spare. The advantage to the numerous and growing population of Egremont, Liscard Wallasey. &c., will be obvious. The chn;fl an immense iron drum, at ti _ _ .e top of the plane, worked by an engine of eighteen horse power. THE CROPS. — We have to report another week of the finest possible summer weather for the advancement of the crops in the surrounding districts—warm and sunny alinost through, followed nightly by a fine clear ripening moon. Sunday was " the day of days." The sky was unobscured by a cloud ; light airs of wind only prevailed on the heights, whilst in the hollows there was scarcely a breath ; and the temperature, with an ardent sun ap proached, and occasionally equalled, tl•-• the tropic- v — ' - - neat and oats have already become yellow, - nd, excepting on the colder soils, much of it will be cut within ten days. The hay is nearly all stacked, that re maining out being generally over ripe ; so that if the owners should be overtaken by rain, they have themselves to blame. Barley, turnips—and, indeed, all field crops— are also most promising. Fine new potatoes have been abundantly brought to market, and on Saturday were sold, in many parts of the town, at the greatly reduced price of 3s. per measure of 901bs. So much of the bugbear of the disease. The late sorts will be very large. Vegetables of all kinds are proportionablz abundant, cheap, and we may 111 qiumLy. vv C Ilatt some Illle Lam day morning, which will do great good after the drought, especially to turnips and other green crops. The day Ang. 3, 1547. INDIA. BY EXPRESS FROM MARSEILLES We have received by our ordinary semi-monthly courier from Marseilles our despatches in anticipation of the Overland Mail from Bombay, of the 20th of June. The intelligence thus received is of considerable interest. It is the more so as two attempts to send letters from Bombay to Europe, rid Madras, had failed. The expres 9 from Bombay was robbed on the Bhore Ghaut, on the 3rd of June ; and a second express, of the sth of June, arrived too late in Madras for the Bentinck steamer, oe her voyage from Calcutta to Suez. From the Punjaub we learn that an exchange of terri tory had been effected between Gholab Singh and the Lahore Government. The territory given up by Gholab consists of certain mountain (Hazareh) districts, the chiefs of which were by no means inclined to submit to his rule. He had obtained a slice of territory called the Kurree Kurreealee. Gholai had taken up his residence at Cashmere, and appeared to wish to be called the Maha rajah of Cashmere, rather than of Jamoo. He had received Colonel Steinbach into his service. His system of taxation was not calculated to render his government popular. In Lahore there had been talk of a conspiracy, the de tails of which are not exactly known. Its object was said to be to avenge the insults received by the Ranee (Queen-Mother) on Tej Singh. Runjoor Singh (the Chief Justice of Lahore) having been dismissed, had threatened to excite a fanatical war ; but the British officers were on the alert. A rumour was in circulation that some serious disturbances might be expected in La hore after the next Dessera. At Peshawur, the return of Sultan Mahommed Khan, which was effected by the in fluence of the English, had produced the best impression on the inhabitants, and even on the neighbouring Affghan tribes, the chiefs of which had proposed terms of friend ship and alliance. Major Lawrence, who acts for the Governor-General at Peshawur, had ordered Aspar Singh , the late Governor, to return to Lahore. From Affghanistan there is now news of importance. Dhost Mahommed, having settled the disputes in the neighbourhood of Jellalabad, had returned to Cabul. Hi s son Hyder Khan, had been appointed Governor on the frontier near the Khyber pass. The death of the late, Wuzeer, Akhbar Kh an , h a d b roug ht a b ou t a cessa ti o n 01 hostilities in that part of Affghanistan, and there was 11 chance of peace - during the lifetime of the old DhoSt- He had allowed agents from the Governor-General to take up their stations, under the name of news-writers, at various places in his dominions. In Scinde the utmost tranquillity prevailed. The trade by the Indus was likely to obtain soon a remarkable in crease, for the Bombay authorities had, by orders of the Supreme Government, issued a notification declaring that goods coming by way of Scinde shall be admitted free,. into Bombay. This is a great advantage to the trade of the Indus. Sir C. Napier was at Kurrachee. The Governor-General was at Simla, where he intended to remain during the rainy season. Lord and Lady Gone' were also there. The robber Dhongur had recommenced his depreda' tions ; he had plundered some caravans. The disturbances which were lately apprehended in the Deccau had passed over. in consequence of the Nizara's havinc , given up for the time his intrigues, arrangements had been made, by establishing a bank at Hyderabad/ and by opening a loan, to make provisions for the wants of the treasury. In the Gosmoor country fresh distur bances had broken out ; the infuriated fanatics were agate in arms, and had offered up more human sacrifices. Mr- Grant, of the Bengal Civil Service, had been ordered to examine into the grounds of the disputes between Briga dier Dyce and the other officers employed in pacifying these districts. The efforts made by Akhbar Khan to induce the Schah of Persia to enter into a Moslem war rgainst the British in the east had failed. The Cajar Sovereign of Persia told Akhbar's emissaries, on hearing them state the object of their mission, that he placed no confidence either in the Affghans or in their promises. Some fanc iful rumours had been cu rren t re l a ti ve t o th e i n terference o Russia, but nothing certain was known on the subject. The governor-general was about to send a political mission to the capital of Thibet, in order to open peaceful relations with the government of the grand Lama at Lassa. . The reduction of the British troops in India is spoken of. Six regiments of her Majesty's army were, as it was reported, to be sent to Europe at the close of this year. 40,000 sepoys had been removed from the army within the last six months, which diminution, together with that of the Royal regiments, will lighten the burdens of the Indian finances. The Five per Cent. Loan still continued open , but as it was already at a disgount, very little was then being subscribed to it. No later intelligence from China was known in Bom bay than that which came by the last mail. The death of Sir„ David Pollock, the Chief-Justice of Bombay, is quoted as an example which ought to deter elderly gentlemen from trying a tropical climate_ Sir E. Perry has since discharged the duties of the S u preme, Court to the satisfaction of all parties ; he is expec ted to succeed as Chief-Justice, to which his legal knout" ledge and his experience of India fully entitle him. The Governor and Commander-in-Chief of Bombay were at Poona, where they intended to remain during the rains. The monsoon had set in at Bombay with an unusua l fall of rain ' • of which about 25 inches had fallen before the 19th of June. In a postscript, dated the 20th of June, our correS° pondent states that the steamer was delayed for nearly 2 4 " hours in consequence of the non-arrival of the Goveray.' despatch from Poona. The only point of political importance to which our correspondent alludes is the state of Hyderabad, in the Deccan. Violence and bloodshed were the order of the day there. The troops called the Rohilias, whom Gener l , ll Frazer had endeavoured to induce to leave the Niza° l s country, were returning by degrees to it. They 'ger e implicated in several gang robberies, and ordered toll deported. They came near the cantonment, quarrell_.e" amongst themselves, when Hassein-ood-Deen Khan ' ol ' killed ; his assassin was cut to pieces. Letters from Dinopore mention that the cholera w e l ravaging her Majesty's 98th Regiment ; 64 persons di l in the month of May ; there were 170 in the hospivl" daily. A fire broke out in the fort at Bombay in the evening °f the 19th of June, which consumed the British Hotel, ti building well known, in one of the principal thoroughfare' MDLE. RACHEL.—We see by the London papers, that this great actress has played Virginie, in the tragedY' of that name, with great success. Her Majesty the Queen Dowager returned to her rest deuce, Bushby House, Bushby Park, at half-past 0' o'clock on Saturday afternoon, from a visit to her majesti at Osborne, Isle of Wight. It is intended immediately to establish an electric tel between all the fire-engine stations in London, 0 that when a fire breaks out information of the fact cal / instantaneously be communicated to all the stations its reaching one of them. SUMMARY OF GOODWOOD RACES. — TotaI number of races, 38 ; won by favourites, 14 ; won by non-favourites, 17 ; even betting and forfeits, 7 ; horses entered, 643; horsessubscriptions, The railway i a l r w t . a e y d , ca 1152205 , 9 0. for 3 5; TotalAugust moneyam amountoui vg n e t n o , f xt s lo t o k 2 e i s , £26 , 140 ; far as they h ave b een announced to the presBe9nget?m, eas• February and August are the lowest months, _ b u t the present total exceeds th a t o f F e b ruar y b y near ly half million. The aggregate of this year's calls now amount s to £29,293,702, giving a monthly average of £.3,661,7 12. STEALING FROM A SHOP.—A boy, named John Tiirtter' was yesterday charged, before Mr. Rushton, with steali ll ,' from the shop of Mr. Winstall, of Byrom-street, thrr e pairs of shoes. It appeared that he cut them from place where they were hanging while making a pretena a purchase, and made off with them. He was pursued, 0 ; 1 , 4 apprehended in Great Crosshall-street. Committed " trial at the sessions. THEFT OP PALM OlL.—Yesterday, at the Polic e . i ; court, a man, named Bryan Fallon, was charged W 1 stealing fram the brig Rapid, lying in the Salthouse Doeg ; about 281 b. of palm oil, with which be was followed to t 1 shop of Mr. Beattie, tallow-chandler, where he had ..” 15 ) laid it down, (intending, no doubt, to offer it for eal_!,a when he was apprehended. The charge was proved the prisoner was committed to gaol for four months. ~r t STEALING FROM THE PERSON.—At the Police-e 0 "' 1 ,; yesterday, a loose woman named Bridget Foran, 111 , charged with robbing on Sunday night, a foolish teb°, named John Lewis, of his watch, value $.7. He gaver" formation to the police, who succeeded in apprehend-0)v ; the prisoner in a house in Garden-lane. She was asleep when found, and on being roused, the watch dropped fr om her person. She was committed for trial at the sessions A BOY DROWNED.—An inquest was yesterday b e : o before Mr. Curry, on view of the body of Stalker, aged five years. William Wilson, a t'slneo. spinner, who works at his trade in Brick-field, London Road, where there is a pit, said, that on Satur e ?„, morning, having heard that a boy had fallen into tf, l , water, he dived into the pool, and brought up the deceas'-o who was quite dead. A surgeon was called, b u t of 5, avail. The father of the deceased is a tea-porter, retd ing in Newsham Street ; and it appeared that d e eetly. had gone with another little boy to catch jack sharito the pit, and that when getting up the bank to 'e he fell backw,,,i. drownec On the 18th ultimo, Mrs. ROBERT STEEL, of Great H°., l ul on the 23rd, Mr. ROBERT STEEL, husba' LYDIA, relict o her Majesty's C LIVERPOOL : TUESDAY, AUG. 3 PRINTED AND PUBLIS EVERY TUESDAY By JOSHUA FLETCHER LACE, of I LEONARD ADDISON, of 14, Gre At No. 4, ST. 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