The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser. — Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1848-05-09 00:00:00

TO CORRESPONDENII3. We have received a very pungent, and certainly pertinent, letter on the disgracetul state of Roe-street and Queen square. In the day-time one half of the limited space is occupied by itinerant hawkers, carters, &c., and at night by a still worse caste of society. The presence of a police . officer, says our correspondent, (irrespective of numerous i -letters to the chief constable,) s the exception rather than the rule.—This important thoroughfare should certainly be • better attended to. !1t tilnrpoot &tanbarb. TUESDAY MORNING, MAY 9, 1848 • Mn. John Mitchell, the redoubtable patriot, has turned out only dunghill after all. He has cut the repeal concern, pikes, pistols and all, for reasons which he promises to explain in good time ; but which, it is tolerably plain, consist in a strong dis like to the sort of physical force recently adminis iered to Mr. Smith O'Brien, at Limerick, or to any other sort of physical force than that which ex pends itself in rivers of printer's ink and braggart phillippics. Mr. Mitchell, for the second time, has pleaded, it is surmised successfully, to the criminal information levelled against him by the Irish Attorney-General. His fellow martyrs may stand the brunt if they choose ; may make the trial whe ther the Irish people will permit their sacred persons to be defiled by the touch of the law's officials. The patriot, par excellence, is anxious only to be befriended by the law's delay. He is ready to accept of any loop-hole of escape, to creep through any lucky chink left open for him, to dodge from hedge to hedge, from cover to cover, from quibble to quibble; and, in the mean time, he is bent upon earnin g the lenient consideration of government towards his past offences by a staid and orderly demeanour, and by keeping good com pany for the future. . Of course, we have always, in common with the bulk of the public, rated this man as more of the Bobadil than the hero, more of the charlatan than He was making a gocd thing of the doughty performances of his tongue and his pen. The United Irishman was a flourishing concern. Its the patriot ravings were eagerly devoured by gulled thousands; it was the general instructor in pike making and pike practice, vitriol throwing, the use of hand grenades, and broken soda water bottles—until danger threatened its bragging proprietor. For the first time the adage was then remembered that discretion is the better part part of valour. Pleas were safer weapons, in Mr. Mitchell's more pacific view of things, than pikes; and the atmosphere of any part of Ireland was preferable to that of Newgate, or even Kilmainham, not to mention the trouble of a trip to New Holland, and the unplea sant adjunct of a chain round one's leg during the requisite period of the sojourn there. Hence, pri marily, the patriot'spresent determination to eschew any further prating about physical force, and to escape from the company which he has so lately been keeping. We have said that " primarily" such were .Mr. Mitchell's motives for his changed course; and such prudence is adopted better late than never. But, alas ! a sad revelation has oozed out, which is calculated materially to lower the in our estimation. If there is any truth in the following letter,just made public, the patriot must henceforth occupy a position in the estimation of society very low indeed : TO JOHN MITCHEL L ESQ., EDITOR OF THE UNITED IRISHMAN " Tipperary Vindicator Office, Nenagh, May 2, 1848, Three o'clock, p.m. rmit me to ask, is it a fact that you have transmitted, or, as we say, given up,' to the Right Rev. Dr. Kennedy, a private letter, written in the confidence of editorial duty by me, some time ago, to you, enclosing you, for publication, a slip, containing an article which appeared in the Tipperary Vindicator, relative to his lordship's suspension of the Rev. Mr. Nolan, P.P. of Mpnsea ? It_ is singularly fortunate that . the letter in Sln,—B question was one which contained nothing of which I am either ashamed or which I can regret, and which might have been costed on every wall in Dublin for aught I caked ; but this only aggravates the crime against editorial security, of which lam assured you have been guilty. It was the first I ever addressed to you, and with this excep tion it will, I believe, be the last I ever shall. I wrote the same to other journals. It related to what I deemed an infringement on the legitimate privileges of the public press, and requested you to use your. discretion, if you thought proper, on the subject. I have heard this fact this moment, with dismay and surprise I cannot possibly describe. You, ' the hero,' par excellence, to do this ! I can scarcely believe that the editor of any public journal in Ireland could be guilty of such abindoned traitorism. Baseness of the kind has been hitherto unknown among us bf the ' Fourth Estate' in the country. But if this be really the fact, it is.tirne that the people of Ireland should know you well, and that they should act towards you and your teachers, and towards those also who aid and abet this indescribable turpitude, as such conduct pre-eminently merits. " The letter, I am told, was this day read at a meeting of the clergy of Killaloe, by the Right Rev. Dr. Kennedy. Of course, I repeat, it contains not one word which I should not have written under the circumstances. It may be new to you to learn that I had already sent a copy of the article which accompanied it to his lordship himself. I am, sir, your obedient servant, LENIHAN, "Editor and Proprietor of the Tipperary Vindicator." John Mitchell, the chivalrous—Mitchell who was " Mat to rush upon the Saxon bayonets—Mitchell who promised to "crash through the castle of Dtiblin"—Mitchell who denounced George Earl of Clarendon as her Majesty's butcher-general —a pitiful sneaking informer after all ! We can scarcely believe it. We can scarcely believe in such gratuitous turpitude; and must perforce wait for an,explanation of conduct so much called for under the circumstance of the utter absence of any tie which the Right Reverend Dr. Kennedy could have over the actions of a man not under spiritual subjection to the Church to which he belongs. In any case, we cannot but rejoice.over the evi- dent break up of the Faction, of which this worthy has been for some months past a prominent mem- ber: After the doings at Limerick, and the sorry spectacle displayed by his brother conspirators— after the beautiful specimen afforded. us of the har mony which is to succeed the sundering of the Saxon and the Celt in Ireland —they must possess a large amount of credulity who can-entertain the idea of such a people b e in g fit to be entrusted with the management of their own affairs, or fit for any thing else but a wholesale imitation of the cele brated contest of the two Kilkenny oats. THERE was a delightful unanimity in the Council on Wednesday, as to the popriety of the course .en by the Finance Committee, in asking an reased rental for their prnperty at Birkenhead ; not offer the slightest objection. vner, or steward, of a property, the committee had a perfect right to endeavour to )ve their rental, if, on cool - reflection, they t there was a prospect of success ; e satisfied _ c ,reatly question the wisdom of pressing at demand to the extremity •of a breach with tenants; and we cannot say that we are al d with the argument upon which t to be defended. It is per has been a large increase in population of Birkenhead since the period, eleven years ago, at which Messrs. Willoughby entered upon their first lease at a rental of E9Oce per annum ; but before arriving at the conclusion that the value of the ferry and hotel has increased in the ratio of to'9,*eti that ti the increase of population, there are a few circum stances to lie taken into our calculation. Eleven years ago, a large and valuable traffic was carried on with the mining and agricultural districts of 'north Wales by way of Birkenhead Ferry. At .ensive posting business was , hotel, to and from North Wales The opening of the Chester and lestroyed both these sources that time, too, an ex* carried on at ti %rid Chester s of the property, which WEts Maim I by the refusal Of the railway company, in defiance of their agreements, and even nal act of'parliament, to of a clau, carry a bran Again, it in ITeborne in mind that, when the population of Birkenhead was only 6000 persons, there were only two ferries in operation,—Messrs. Willoughby's and the Woodside. There was at that time a fair division of the business of the locality between the two ; and the rates both for casual passengers and for contractors were re munerative. There are now three ferries, and both the Monks' and Woodside are in the hands of powerful public bodies, who, for purposes of their own, have reduced the rates until they have almost cased to be remunerative. With respect to the Woodside Ferry, it is very doubtful whether it is not at this moment a losing concern. At all events it is certain that the receipts of last year show a large falling off, as compared with those of the preceding year; whilst, as com -fld with those of 1845, there is a deficiency more than £3,000 per annum. public, too, thit the increase or the locality is chiefly at the is accommodated by the Wood lso that the value of the Birken.. par which is stated at side Ferr head estate has been allowed to be materially injured by the formation of a canal, which has completely destroyed an anci e nt an d convenient road to the ferry for caits, cattle, &c., along the margin of Tranmere pool. It is too late however, now, to canvas the pru dence of the grounds, upon which the Finance Committee have acted in this matter. It is tolera bly certain that a false step has been made, an excellent tenant been lost to the corporation, and their property materially damaged in the estimation of the public. The Tranmere Ferry must, for the future, in the hands of the Messrs. Willoughby, abstract a large portion of the traffic from Birken head. The only question remaining to be solved is—what is to be done with the latter ferry ? It would be madness for the Liverpool Corporation to attempt carrying- it on themselves. That body has already quite sufficient on their hands, without distracting themselves with the comparatively petty 1 details of a ferry. The public would not like ,to see the chairman of the Finance Committee, or any other member of the council, superintending in person the transit of loads of furniture, milk cans, pigs, sheep, calves, barrels of flour, cheeses, &c., and without personal superintendence, few concerns are profitably conducted. The hotel, too, is de pendent upon the ferry, and ought to be in the same hands; and we should not like to see the corporation surveyor gauging the spirit casks once a week, counting the bedroom towels, or looking after the knives and forks and spoons, or the treasurer's clerk making out dinner bills. The en tire property must be let at once to the best tenant that can be found; or, if we may judge from what we have observed so far, it is likely to be a serious drain upon the corporate estate, instead of a source of income. FACT upon fact—disaster upon disaster—crowd upon us to show the enormous price which we have paid for the bubble, Free Trade. Last week, we had to record the progress of ruin in our West India colonies, and to point to the approaching issue of our suicidal legislation=the abandonment of their cultivation as British possessions, or their absorption, by the consent of the owners of their soil, by the first nation which shall offer them that paternal treatment which we have withdrawn from them. We have this day an additional evidence to offer, in the failure of the house of Messrs. Eccles-, Burnley, and Co., of Glasgow, one of the oldest, most respectable, and steady firms connected with our colonial trade. The circular addressed by these gentlemen to their friends, will be perused by a large portion of the public with feelings of indigna tion, mingled with sorrow, whilst the puritanical and sweet-lipped lovers of cheap sugar will doubt less regard the reverse which it records as a grate ful offering at the shrine of their pet "principle"— should we not rather say their all-engrossing self ishness ? We give the circular in question : " , 3rd M, 1848. " Sir,—lt is with deep regret Glasgow we inform yo u that we are under the necessity of suspending payments. A se questration has been sent for with our concurrence, and in a few days you will be requested to attend a meeting of our creditors. For upwards of half a century we have steadily followed our business of West India merchants, never engaging in speculations of any kind. Our assets chiefly consist of sugar estates in Trinidad and Demerara. These estates are in excellent condition, capable of mak ing large crops; but they have been rendered worse than unprofitable, and of no value, by acts of parliament—the worst of which being the Sugar Duty Act of- 1846 whereby slave-trade sugar was admitted to consumption in this country on terms which the British colonies are altogether unprepared to compete with. " We are, sir, your most obedient servants, • " ECCLES, BURNLEY AND CO. WM. AND JAMES ECCLES AND CO." Thus fares it with. the merchant capitalist, who has engaged in the cultivation of our. West Indian possessions, relying upon that long proverbial gOofl faith and honesty which the British governmeni have abandoned to appease the hypocritical cla mours of saints in drab and " Liberals" of every other shade. Is the case any better with respect to the condi tion and prospects of our East Indian cultivators ? It is not. Our commercial experience is telling us, day by day, that our magnificent East Indian em; pire is fast becoming worthless to us, under- the blighting influence of our newly adopted policy; A few years ago, we well remember a statement of Mr. Bramley-Moore, the Dock Chairman, a Bra zilian merch an t, th a t, if we wou ld t a k e t h e art i cle free of duty, the Brazils could afford to supply us with sugar, which could he economically applied as manure for our fields. The remark was true; hilt it has been proved so, with respect to an article which Mr. Bramley-Moore never contemplated, and which he would have been amongst the last to have submitted to the depreciation in value, at which it' has arrived: East India sugar—free labour sugar— the excellent commodity which pseudo philanthro pists vowed should alone sweeten their puddings, and pass down their delicate gullets, is purchase able at this moment at two shillings less per cent. than Peruvian guano ! So much for that portion of our question, which is affected by the humanity cant, in the first instance, and by the act of 1846 in the next. We have not been much more fortunate, how- ever, in that other portion of our policy which has not been so greatly—so glaringly—dictated by hypocrisy and selfishness. We persecuted to his ruin the West India sugar planter; we held him up as a sort of ogre to fright our babes. We painted him as a monster unfit to breathe the air of a free country ; taught our housekeepers to eschew the purchase of his commodities, and to rejoice in the privilege of being able to procure our sweets and candiments from countries untainted with slavery, even although at a somewhat higher cost. We tired, however, of our virtue. We found otir humanity oozing out at our finger ends, in the precise ratio at which the extra cost of our pounds of free labour sugar mounted up in our house-keeping accounts. We gave up, in fine, our pretence of virtue; and admitted the slaver to be our provider of sweets. The issue we have already seen in the ruin of the sugar cul tivators of both the Indies. Look, however, at the present state and the prospeCts of our commerce, in other commodities, with these countries. Rice is a staple of our East Indian possessions. Yet we have heard of a recent purchase of that article in Liverpool, where the price paid does not reach within eighteen pence pec ewt. of the freight. Nearly every other commodity of India is similarly depressed. The raw material of cotton is lower than it has ever been known ; and the recent sales of indigo in London were made at prices notoriously unremunerative to the cultivator. And mow, let us glance at the effect of this state of things upon the people of the Manufacturing Districts—the most prominent advocates of the policy by which it has been produced. It is a well known fact that India, for example, has no precious metals, in which to pay us for her imports of British manufactures. She has her produce as her only means of payment. It is preposterous -there fore, to expect her to buy, when her exports in return only arrive in the British market to be sac rificed. And she will not buy from us under present circumstances. We have the assurance of one of the first East India agents in this country that the interchange of commodities, between the East Indies and Great Britain, must absolutely cease, for so long as the present range of prices of pro duce is preserved. No man in his senses can believe anything else—can believe, for instance, that the proprietor of a Rice plantation can buy British goods, with his rice only worth the cost of freight ; or that the sugar planter can buy goods with his sugarrated lower than manure. There is but one result to come, as the alternative between the retention and loss of Indiaas aconsumer ; and that is the realisation of a great reduction in the cost of British manufacture, to bring them to a level with the cost of the produce, which is now available as an exchange. Are our manufacturing neighbours, in Manchester and elsewhere, prepared to submit to the pruning process which' will be required for this purpose ? If they are not, they ought to be ; or they must give up the trade of India, for the present at least. They must be prepared to give as much capital and labour in the shape of manufactured goods, and to deliver those goods in India, for the same amount as the East Indian cultivator netts for his sugar, his rice, and his indigo, sold in our mar kets ; or give up the trade. How much will the duped population of this country, and by the manufacturing operatives especially, be thus made to pay for their pound of sugar ?—their cheap sugar" fotsooth ! NAUTILUS SCREW STEAM-SHIP. — The Nautilus, which sailed from hence on the afternoon of the 17th ultimo for Constantinople, arrived at Gibraltar at three o'clock on the morning of the 25th same month, thus making h er passage to Gibraltar in 7 days 12 hours, and after encoun tering very bad weather, with contrary winds for the first three days. THE LIVERPOOL STANDARD. COURT OF BANKRUPTCY.-YESTERDAY. Monday Evening. The past week evidences a further progression to im provement, and with a better trade, every description of public securities having attained higher prices than have been realised for many previous weeks. The only draw backs of any importance are the extensive failures in Scotland, more especially that of Messrs. Eccles, Burn ley, and Co., West India merchants, of Glasgow, as shewing the abiding effects of the Sugar Duty Act of 1846 upon the commercial relations of Great Britain and her colonies. The prospect of a peaceable termination of the Danish war, by the intervention of England, the favourable auspices under which the French National As sembly has opened, together with the fine weather and quietude at home, have effected a restoration of confidence which we hope to see not only permanent but progressive. Consols have risen again this week, and r e ac h e d 84* on Wednesday ; since thn they have ranged rather lower, but on Saturday were steady, and experienced an advance of a quarter per cent., the effect of the further large di minution of £349,675 in the bullion of the Bank having been counteracted, probably, by the extensive insurances known to have been made on account of anticipated supplies from Russia. The first quotation of Consols, both for money and for time, was 831 to and they closed at 831 to k. The business of the day was chiefly in con nexion with arrangements for the settlement to-morrow. While we were writing, important news arrived from Rome, to the effect that, unless the Pope concedes to the wishes of his people, by declaring war against Austria, a provisional government will be appointed. Whatever the Pope's answer may be, it is possible that the feature of the war may be entirely changed by this proceeding, and we anxiously await the result of his deliberations, which he will have to communicate on the expiry of 24 hours from the time of the demand being made. The SHARE MARKET of the week has been again uni formly good, without hardly a momentary decline. Prices have steadily advanced, and considerable purchases have been made daily by a good description of buyers. Prices at the close last night were higher than for some time. MR. SPENCER AND THE WATER QUESTION. London Stock, 132 . 4 ; Midland, 102 4. TO THE EDITOR OF THE LIVERPOOL STANDARD. The advance .n the price of COTTON noticed in our last SIR,-I noticed the extracts of a letter from Mr. Thos. publication, consequent on the extensive demand on Mon- Spencer published in last week's STANDARD, on the day, has scarcely been supported during the week ; the quality of our Liverpool water. daily business has been more moderate, and with a less Mr. Spencer, in his attempt to excite groundless alarm animated market, buyers have found greater facilities in in the public mind, states that our water is contaminated, making their purchases, which, in most cases, have been in its passage through the earth, by the solution of certain effected on more advantageous terms. On Saturday, the chemical ingredients used for agricultural purposes, the sales amounted to 4,500 bales, 500 for export, prices re principal part of which he has enumerated being nitrate maining steady. TO-DAY there has been a good attend of soda, sulphate of ammonia, phosphate of lime, and ance of spinners (chiefly of the smaller class), the market guano. Mr. Spencer, in theorising on this subject, seems opening with a steady but not animated demand. The to have lost sight of the fact, that farmers only itse these sales are estimated at about 5,000 bales, mostly in the substances as food for the growing crops., and that as they common and middling qualities of American, which con are penexesive, they take good care to economise them as tinue very firm in price. The market by no means over much possible by applying them to the land only at weightetrwith quantity. 500 bales for export.-The re such times as the plants are ready to consume them ;so ceipts of Cotton into the ports of the United States conti that but a very small quantity is carried away by the water nue to increase : they are 1,683,137 bags by the last ad when it sinks into the rock. If he refers to Dr. Playfair's vices, being 232,212 above the receipts of the corres analysis of our water, he will find this view completely pond ing period last year ; and the stocks in the interior towns borne out by the entire absence of all the above-named are about 70,000 bags beyond last year at the same time: substances. the same character still prevails as to the growth in the Mr. Spencer likewise imagines that the drainage water different sections of the United States, viz., a great in of dwellings contaminates our supply, and he therefore crease in the New Orleans district, and a great decrease in lays great stress upon the pernicious quality of the organic Georgia and South Carolina. impurities usually present in water of that description. The business done in Foreign Wool. this week has These he characterises as very difficult to detect, in the been on a very limited scale, which may in some measure ordinary mode of chemical analysis. Here Mr. Spencer be attributed to London colonial sales which commenced is in error ; for though the nature of the impurities can- on Thursday last : those already sold have gone lower than not readily be ascertained by the chemist, yet the presence last February sales. Alpaca is dull.-Imports of Scotch of them is easily detected. If, therefore, we find, as is for the week, 30; previously, 5429; total, 5459: Foreign, the case, that neither organic matter, nor the accompany- previously, 22,621. are ing ammoniacal in sal usually present in drainage water, great COLONIAL MARKETS.-There h a s b een activity to be found our water, the fair concl is that in the Sugar market since Thursday last, and the sales are our present supply receives no contamination from this very considerable at a further i m p rovemen t in prices : the source : indeed, it is difficult to understand how it should, grocers and refiners continue to purchase freely, and have seeing that water of this description is in general carefully taken 220 hhds. West India, 5,000 bags Bengal, 300 mats conveyed away to the sea by sewers in the towns, and in Mauritius, and 6,000 bags Manilla.-There is rather more the country by ditches, brooks, and rivers. inquiry for Rum : a few .parcels have been sold at a reduc - Mr. Spencer, in trying to magnify the obnoxious nature tion of ld. to 2d. per gallon.-Saltpetre is again lower : of organic impurities, states that, " compared with these, 500 bags 31 8 refraction fetched 295. 6d. per cwt.-The market for Tea the last few days has been much firmer, mineral impurities are but trifling." The inhabitants of this town, lam sure, will feel much obliged to Mr. Spen- and there is more disposition to buy at previous prices. car for informing them of this fact, as it goes to sh ow -The London markets continue to present signs of im how excellent the water is with which we are at present provement, and the transactions thi s wee k have again suppli ed, w hen compared with the proposed soft water been on an extended scale. Confidence s e e m s gra d u ally from Rivington Pike and Bolton Moors. This water, gaining ground, and th e buyers for home consumption before it can be collected. must inevitably wash the sur- have shown more inclin a ti on t o enter into negotiations, face of a large tract of country, which, having scattered and have purchased somewhat freely. In the sugar mar over it plenty of decomposing vegetable matter, the excre- ket especially there has been considerable activity, the ments of birds and beasts, the defunct bodies of reptiles, biddings at the sales have generally been animated, and and myriads of insects, w ill, by the time it reaches this an advance of 6d. to Is. per cw t. h as b een es t a bli s h e d. town, hold in solution a pretty fair proportion of " subtle There has been more animation this week in the mar and " dangerous" organic impurities. ket for Scotch Pig 'Roar ; 'prices have an upward ten- Mr. Spencer has a tolerable clear idea respecting the • dency, and may be quot e d 44 5 . f or m i xe d num b ers at porosity of the sandstone. He, therefore, indulges him- Glasgow-cash. self in a strain of sarcastic imagery, at the expense of There has been a fair demand for IRISH Butter during those who are not equally enlightened. .He is very happy the week ; but the arrivals being mo r e th a n su ffi c i en t t o in his reference to the schoolmaster abroad," and the, meet it, prices have gradually receded, an d on S a t ur d a y cleverness of the " boys" at our institutions. sales could not be effected at the, following reduced quota- Mr. Spencer, however, in stating that common salt is t i ons, - for Waterford, (new) 98s. to 100 s. ; Carrick (new), one of the " main ingredients" which cause hardness in Ioos. ; Cork Dry Thirds, 925. Bacon : Long Middles water, has shown that he himself is not groundedly learned (free from bone), , 565. to 60s. ; Short Middles (ditto), in chemistry. I must, therefore, request that he will 58s. to 60s. Lard : Fine Keg, 545. to 565.-Arrivals for immediately see after the "schoolmaster," or some of the th e wee k end i ng this day: Butter, 4422 firkins, 826 crocks; " boys" referred to, and that he will ask them whether B acon, 142 bales; Hams, 6 hhds; Lard, 6 ti erces ,l26k egs . chloride of sodium, being an alkaline salt, cannot harden A good business has been transacted in AMERICAN' water ? It appears that he has yet to learn that the ge- LARD since our last, and prices have been maintained. neral cause of hardness in w ater ar i se s from th e presenCe 350 tierces, 2,611 barrels, 1,000 kegs, and 560 pails, were of salts of lime and magnesia. I am, sir, your obedient b roug h t f orward at the public sale on Tuesday, nearly the servant, CHEMICUS. whole of which found buyers. There was also a sale of Liverpool, 6th May, 1848. Bacon on • Tuesday, at which full prices were realized, the demand for, this article being on the increase. Good Hams, in salt, maintain their full value. Beef steadily supports former rates. Fine parcels of " prime mess" Pork command the highest quotation, in consequence of the scarcity of the article ; but there is less demand for Strips. The late imports of Cheese have been of.mid dlMg quality, and have sold at 40s. to 445. ; fine-would readily command 525. The current rates are :- Cheese-(duty paid)-Fine, 48s to 52s per cwt. ; middling, 43s to 465; ordinary, 37s to 425. Beef-U.S., (free)-Prime mess, per tree. 3041 b., 85s to 92s 6d; ordinary, 168 to 83s, old 60s to 68s; extra, India, family, &t., 97s to 105 s; ditto, per half-barrel, 30s to 35s ;-mess, per barrel, 2001 b., 505 to 56s ; ordinary, 40s to 465, old 36s to 40s; prime, 34s to 365. Pork- U.S., (free)-Prime mess, per barrel, 2001 b., 55s to 725, old 48s to 565; prime, 40s to 455, 'old 35s to 40s; mess, family mess, &c., 55s to 60s, old 48s to 525. Bacon-(free)-Eastern, 50s to 54s ; western, 37s to 52s ; shoulders, old 22s to 26s per cwt. Hams-Dried, (duty paid,) old 20s to 50s per cwt.; in salt, (free,) 38s to 465, old 26s to 325. Lard-(free)-Fine, in kegs 42s to 455, in barrels 42s to 458 per cwt.; ordinary to middling, 36s to 38s ; inferior, and grease, -308 to 355. Butter-Grease, (free,) 40s to 45s per cwt. Pilot Biscuit, 155 to 20s per cwt. Our CORN market has been moderately steady since Friday ; if anything, prices are rather on the wane, with the exception of Indian corn and 'meal, of which our ex ports to Ireland this week have been exceedingly large, (7,100 qrs. of the former and 600 bales of the latter hav ing been forwarded on Friday and Saturday), and the ar rivals only moderate ; consequently it is not quite so easy to purchase to-day as on Friday. The English markets for 'Wheat at the close of the week were rather depressed ; the Irish markets, on the contrary, were a little on the advance ; in other articles there is no material change to note. The weather is very favourable at present for all kinds of crops, and the showers of last night and this morning must have operated very beneficially. We quote the following observations from the monthly circular of Messrs. Joseph and Charles Sturge, of Birmingham :- " Although during almost the whole of the p as t mon th we have had ungenial weather for the crops on the ground, with a succession of rain at short intervals to an extent which is very rare at this season of the year, particularly after the quantity which fell in the previous month, and the Wheats on all the wet soils have assumed a yellow and unhealthy appearance, yet our farmers continue to supply the markets freely, and the imports having been unex pectedly large into London, we have scarcely any improve ment in the value of this grain since we issued our l as t Monthly Circular. The last ?our days the weather has become finer and more settled, with a higher barometer ; and though this -may lessen the supplies from the close occupation in finishing the sowing of Spring Corn, which has been greatly retarded, and in many cases quite sus pended,. by the wet weather, yet such is the general indis position to hold any stock by our millers, that nothing but the actual consumption exceeding the supply is likely to produce any material effect upon our prices. The low price of bread, compared with meat and other food, tends materially to increase the consumption of the former, and as the high relative value of Wheat in America has almost stopped supplies either of Wheat or Flour from that quarter, and the quotations from the Baltic offer no margin for imports except of- the finest qualities, we cannot look for any considerable arrivals into Gloucester except from the 'Black Sea ; and though at the present rates of freight and duty, it might be imported from thence without loss, few will probably be disposed to ship from so great a distance to meet the uncertainty of another harvest. As usual, we have ground on which to form any correct estimate of the quantity of Wheat remaining in the hands of our farmers, and we have not sufficient data even to risk an opinion upon it ; but we think it is now mostly in the possession of those who will be greatly influenced in bringing it forward by the appearance of the growing crops. The most recent quotations from some of the foreign shipping ports are low enough to leave a margin for importation, although owing to the unsettled state of Europe they are very uncertain, and the mode of payment difficult." The sales by auction last week tested the TIMBER market, for although considerable quantities of Pine, Oak, Staves, &c. were offered, the business resulting was but trifling, and generally exhibited' a further decline in the value of American Woods. Of the Quebec yellow pine offered none was sold, but of a cargo of Miramichi sold, 131 logs brought 141 d. to 141 d., and the remainder only 12d. per foot. 100 logs of Quebec red pine were sold at 18d. to 181 d., and 179 logs elm at 161 d. to 161 d. per foot, and by private 3000 feet at 18d. per foot. Of the Quebec yellow deals, second and third quality, about 1600 pieces were sold at £9 per standard, and last Friday about 40 standard, second quality floated, at £lO per standard ; and 1000 pieces thin spruce battens at 11d. per foot. Of Quebec Oak, 4500 feet' good quality were sold at from ls. 9411. to 2s. lid. per foot, and these comprise all the public operations in colonial woods. Of Baltic Woods a p small cargo of common Dantzic timber was sold at 17-id.er foot average, and 8 standard St. Petersburg redwood deals at £l6 10s. per standard, and a few Swedish at £l2 per standard. Privately the several qualities of Dantzic timber have been sold at from 174-d. to 194 d. per foot. Deck planks at 3.41. per foot, and lathwood at £1 per foot long per fathom. Pitch Pine offered by auction early in the week was not sold, but on Friday a cargo from Sayan nah was sold at'from ls. 6d. to 2s. 21(1., or 18d. 7-16 per foot average, and four pitch pine masts at from 2s. 6d. to 2s. 9d. per foot calliper. Middling pitch pine planks, say 152, were sold at 2-id. per foot of 2 inches. Mahogany.- The sales last week were well attended, but the averages yielded are disappointing to importers, and evidence that the general depression in the wood trade has at length effectually reached this branch. Honduras, to the extent of 151,914 feet, sale measurement, was sold at 3d. 15.32 per foot average, being nearly all ship-building wood, and GENERAL TRADE REPORT. IN RE H. HOLLIS. (Before Mr. Commissioner Perry.) The bankrupt in this case, formerly a tea dealer in this town, appeared before the court on his adjourned last exa mination. —Mr. Peacock, solicitor, opposed the bankrupt on behalf of Messrs. Steains, Rowley and Co., tea mer chants, and Mr. Duckworth, coffee merchant ; Mr. Daven port, solicitor, appeared for the bankrupt. The hearing of the case had been adjourned from the 28th of April, in order that the bankrupt might account for the heavy losses which he appeared to have sustained in his trade. In the balance sheet, the debts of the bankrupt were set down at £5,000, and his assets at £1,300. His losses from Oc tober 1845 to 1848 he set down at £1,700. The bank rupt represented that the gross profits upon his trade were ten per cent., and estimated them by that per centage at £5,400, from October 1845 to 1848. The ground of oppo sition against the bankrupt was, that the profits in the tea trade were from 20 to 30 per cent., and that he ought, therefore, to have accounted for upwards of £ll,OOO in stead of £s,ooo.—The bankrupt underwent a very length ened examination by Mr. Peacock in reference to his affairs, in the course of which he stated that be was un able to give any more explanatory statement than what was put forward in his balance sheet.—Mr. Peacock then very ably addressed the court, and asked the court to re fuse the bankrupt's passing his examination.—His Honor agreed with Mr. Peacock, that the statement by the bank rupt was very unsatisfactory. The profits in the trade were clearly more than 10 per cent., and he ought to have accounted for more. He should adjourn the case sine die. —Mr. Davenport applied to the court not to adjourn the hearing of the case sine die, but to name a day for,a fur ther hearing.—His Honor declined to do so. The exa mination had been adjourned to give the bankrupt an op portunity of giving a more satisfactory explanation of his affairs. In the examination just concluded, he had not given such explanation, and he must therefore adjourn the examination sine die.—The Court gave the bankrupt his protection for one month. PIKE DEALING. — Michael Guilfoile, a cooper, has been convicted at the Thurles (county of Tipperary) Quarter Sessions for having a pike in his possession, intended for sale. The weapon was made with two prongs, according to the instructions lately printed in the United Irishman. The prisoner was sentenced to twelve months' imprison ment, with hard labour. FRA TERNIZATION.—The black eyes and broken ribs, and pistol shots of Limerick, have ended in a declaration of fraternity, put forth on Saturday with great parade in all the Repeal journals, except the United Irishman. The address is signed by, amongst others, Dr. Miley, Dr. Gray, W. S. O'Brien, J. O'Connell, C. G. Duffy, T. F. Meagher, and T. M. Ray, and exhorts the repealers to peace and forbearance. LODGERS DAMAGING FURNITURE, &c.—At the Police court, yesterday, Joseph Rawson and his wife Jane, were charged by Mr. Benjamin Cartledge, of the Nottingham Arms Inn, Salthouse-dock, with having wantonly da maged the furniture, paintings, and wall paper of the apartments in which they lodged, the amount of such da mage being estimated at £3 12s. The prisoners, it ap peared, had been staying at the prosecutor's house for six weeks, and upon his preventing their removal of their luggage to evade payment of his claim, the damage com plained of was committed. Mr. Rushton ordered a sepa rate conviction to be made out ag ' tinst the prisoners, dividing the fine between them, butrendering each liable to the costs. On Friday, Mr. J. W. Davidson, of this town, was ad mitted a member of the Royal College of Surgeons. COMPARATIVE COST OF INQUESTS IN LONDON AND LIVERPOOL.—It appears from official documents that in London, from the Ist January to the 10th of March of the present year, the inquests were as follows : By Mr. Wakley, 225 cases,—at a cost of £676 17 0 „ Mr. Baker, 236 „ 796 4, 4 „ Mr. Bedford, 52 „ 159 19 2 513 cases £1,633 0 6 A fraction above £3 in each 'case, and this does not in clude the fees of the respective coroners.—ln Liverpool under the old system, which is now superseded, there were during the whole of the last year (1847) 678 cases, at a cost, including the coroner's fees of £1 6s. Bd. in each case, of £2,419. CABIN PASSENGERS PER THE PACKET-SHIP YORK SHIRE, CAPT. D. G. BAILEY.—From New York to Li verpool ;—Abraham Bell, from New York ; Miss Mary C. Bell, ditto ; Wm, Bell, ditto ; Miss A. Rankin. Brook lyn. New York • Miss A. Rankin, ditto ; Mr. Clement Heerdts, New York ; Mr. Heerdts, ditto ; W. H. Good rich, from Newhaven ; Rev. Edward Strang, Newhaven ; S. Penniman Luds, New York ; Busch, New York ; L. B. Hanks, Hartford ; Mr. Strahlheim, New York ; Mr. Mutzcnbeken, Mr. Amsmck, Hamburg ; Mr. M'Colly, Lancaster, Pennsylvania Mr. H. B. Waddilow, Liver- Pool ; Mr. Inman, New York ; Mr. John Morton, Belfast. Simon Pinelly, St. Louis ; W. S. McCammon, Cincinati, Ohio ; Mrs. M. A. Mullen, ditto ; Mr. M. Widele, New York ; G. C. Tallmadge, ditto ; James Stuart, ditto. Spoke ship, Gaster, in lat. 50, and long. 10, bound to Bremen, on the evening of sth. Spoke ship, Oriental, on the evening of the 7th, bound to Liverpool. The Yorkshire left New York on the 17th ult., and arrived here yesterday morning, after a passage of 20 days. EFFECTS OF THE " GAGGING" ACT.—The publication of the Dublin Nation and United Irishman of Saturday supplies very satisfactory evidence of the working qualities of the Crown and Government Security Act. Instead of the ordinary:measure of substantial treason, there is but a beggarly account of " sound and fury, signifying nothing,". in both one and the other of these patriotic prints. The United Irishman, indeed, appears with only half its usual number of pages, owing to the refusal of proprietors of large printing machines to - mix themselves in the concerns of Mr, Mitchell. This circumstance must ; however, have been felt as a relief by that gentleman, as he has been Ma nifestly sore pressed to fill even half of his space with mat ter that should- have somewhat of the sound of sedition, and yet none of its felonious reality. In the leading arti cle it is announced, 'not as heretofore, that either Leid Clarendon or John Mitchell must succumb, but with a lamentable attempt at irony,' that John Mitchell is waiting for Lord' Clarendon to begin the rebellion, and when rib does, J. - M. will be at him with great fury. This is. very ' washy stuff coming after the brave words of that day fortnight ; but even this weak infusion of sedition is too strong for the stomachs of Mr. Mitchell's colleagues, if we may judge from the tone of a letter which Mr. Mitchell addresses to "the Committee of the Irish Confederrtion," and in which he expresses his wish that his name may be taken from the books of the Confederation. Lip then says,—" Into the reasons which have induced niCto take this step, I will not enter further than to say, that the differences on some important questions of national policy which, you are aware, have long existed between Mr. Smith O'Brien and myself have, at length, come to that point which makes it necessary, in Mr. O'Brien's opinion, that one or the other of us should leave the Irish Confederation." He states that he will give his warm support to all the active measures projected by the Council, and adds,—" For the National Council I mean speedily to offer myself, as a can didate, and on the roll of the National Guard mine is the third name." Nor is the Nation less cautious than the United Irishman —now, as it would seem a corporation sole. The number of this day contains not a word about pikes, or vitriol, or driving the Saxon into 'the sea, but; instead, has columns of lamentation over the catastrophe of Mr. William Smith O'Brien. 9789 feet larger sized at 6d. per foot average. The stock in first hands, is comprised in 161,112 feet. St. Domingo : a cargo from the city was sold at an average of 130. per foot, say 11gd. per foot for logs, and at 15d. 3-16 per foot for curls. A cargo from Gonaives was sold at 6d 5-32 per foot average. The stock in first hands consists of 81,680 feet sale measure, of which 31,237 feet are logs, all city wood. Cuba : 129 logs were sold at sd. 29-32 per foot average, and 23 logs at sd. 1-16 per foot average, with drawing from the sales 102 logs, and an entire cargo. Ha vana Cedar was dull of sale. 23 logs only selling at from 4Ad. to sd. per foot. Pencil, of middling quality only, was brought forward, and 12 logs sold at 13d. per foot. The stock of good quality is quite exhausted. Bahia Rosewood only, was offered, and 127 planks sold at from £6 10s. to £8 per ton ; 10 planks at £lO per ton, and 22 at £9 ss. per ton. Cocuswood, of middling quality, was sold at £4 10s. per ton, but two good parcels were withdrawn. Tulipwood.-1 ton was sold at £2O 10s. per ton. Brown Ebony.—A few pieces were sold at £4 15s. per ton. Lancewood Spars.-500 of fair quality were sold at from 3s. 9d. to 4s. each, 50 very large at 6s. each, and 50 large but middling at 3s. each. Greenheart.---The last sale by private is of 120 logs, at 4s. per foot. The return from the Bank of England for the week ending the 29th of April shews that the amount of notes in circulation is £18,603,075, being a decrease of £158,790 ; and the stock of bullion in both departmentsis Xi 2,878,666, showing a decrease of £349,675, when compared with the preceding return. A dividend of 6s. in the pound has been declared on the estate of Messrs. Rougement, Brothers, payable on Wednesday. The failure of the mercantile house of Messrs. Shaw and Caffray, whose liabilities are said to range between £60,000 and £70,000, was announced in London on Friday, arising out of the previous suspension of the manufacturing firms of Messrs. Legs, Masson, and Co., flax-spinners, and A. Hadden and Co., worsted spinners, each possessing esta blishments in London and Aberdeen, whose aggregate lia bilities are estimated at from £400,000 to £600,000. Their stock of goods on hand is said to be very large, and a great number of operatives will be thrown out of employment by their stoppage. The National Bank of Scotland, the Town and County B an k, an d th e N ort h o f Scotland Bank ing Company are understood to be the principal creditors. The failure of the West India firm of Messrs. Eccles, Burnley, and Co. of Glasgow, chiefly engaged in business with Trinidad, was announced on Thursday, which they attribute in their circular to the late shifting and fatal acts of the legislature in relation to the sugar question. The subjoined extract from De Gordover's Mercantile Intelligencer will give the latest information of the West Indian Markets : " The business transacted during the past fortnight was of the same character as that which has for some time past been in operation here. Not the slightest speculative tendency is observable ; the very little confidence afloat deterring the importers from forcing their commodities en the trade, while the second hands are as warp in laying in their supplies as the precarious condition of the times now appears to demand. In fact our business has dwindled to one of a purely retail nature. The absence of means—the stringency of the money market—the general abandon ment of estates, and consequent withdrawal of large weekly sums from circulation among the labouring classes, have all tended to produce this effect. A sensible diminution is also apparent in that which may be considered the legi timate retail business. Very many of the small places of business which formerly drove a lucrative and extensive trade, have been deprived, by the want of money among the labouring classes, of the principal source of their pros perity. This is another among the many evidences of our retrogression and decline; and it is found that the num ber of shops has become too large, that the inhabitants generally have not the means to purchase so many even of the bare necessaries of life as they were, until within a few years back, in a position to do,—in short, that late events are fast reducing this once thriving and wealthy community to a state of comparative pauperism and dis tress." In the Amsterdam accounts received to-day it is stated that Dutch and Russian stocks were in demand at impro ved quotations. • By the Belgian advices, we learn that the inhabitants of Leige and Luxembourg have petitioned the Government for a loan, to carry on the works of the canal connecting the Meuse and the Moselle. The Three per Cents. closed on the Paris Bourse on Saturday at 46f. 75c. ; the Five per Cents, 69f. LATEST INTELLIGENCE. • (By EXPRESS.) MONEY MARKET—YESTERDAY. Public Securities have not fluctuated much to-day, the ex treme price of Consols having been , sn and 84. LONDON CORN MARKET.—YESTERDAY. The supplies of all sorts of British grain during the past week were moderate, and the show of samples of Wheat from the near counties was small this morning, nevertheless, the trade ruled dull, at a decline of is. to 2s. per quarter. Foreign Wheat was in only limited request, at a reduction of Is. per quarter upon the quotations of Monday last. Barley was in short supply, and quite as dear. The receipts of Oats during the week have been scanty; factors were enabled to obtain Gd. to Is. per quarter more money. Beans, both- English and Foreign, were rather easier to purchase, whilst Peas, being scarce, were Is. per quarter dearer. GROSS ASSAULT.—Yesterday Mr. Rushton fined a man named Richard Sharples, a lodging-house keeper in Gerard-street, £5, and a woman living in the same house 205., for a violent and unprovoked assault on a married female, lodging in the house. The mail prisoner threw the complainant down and kicked her. She also lost some of her hair in the mele. LIVERPOOL HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY.—The mem bers of the above useful association for the promotion of horticultural science held last night at the Clarendon rooms, North John-street their usual monthly meeting, which was numerously attended. The specimens of plants produced were very choice. The prize was awarded to Messrs. Davies, for the best Erica Haitnelli, the other competitors receiving the society's certificates. MRS. BUTLER'S READINGS FROM SHAKSPEARE.--The thinking classes of the community nave been experiencing a most exquisite treat in these delightful readings, and we are sure that they will look back to the evenings which they have recently spent at the Collegiate Institution in connexion with them, with no little pleasure. O n Thurs day evening Mrs. B utler terminates the series with the tragedy of Hamlet, and as she is to sail for New York on Saturday, in the Hibernia, no other opportnnity of hear inghear- _ her can be enjoyed. MRS. PARKES'S LAST CLUB. SUBSCRIPTION.—It will. be seen by an advertisement in our paper to-day, that Mrs. Parkes's subscription comes off on the 29th instant. Exeter-hall, London, is fixed upon as the place of allot ment. A glance at the detailed prospectus will show the advantages presented by clubs. Eighty thousand guineas' worth of plates and paintings are thus purchased for se venteen thousand guineas ; and it is so arranged that each subscriber of £1 10s. ensures a print worth at least one half more than that sum, while he has every probability of obtaining the Great Bowyer Bible, valued at 3,000 guineas. OPENING OF THE ZOOLOGICAL GARDENS.—We beg to direct the attention of our readers to the advertisement,. containing a description of the magnificent spectacle which is prepared for them for the present season, by the enterprising proprietor of our Zoological Gardens. "In deviating from the beaten track—in forsaking the arti ficial panaramas of Europe for the more noble and gigantic scenery of the New - World—Messrs. Atkins have judged wisely ; and, when we remind, our friends that, unlike most caterers for the entertainment of the public, these gentlemen never promise what they do not intend or cannot perform, we give them sufficient warrant for a great treat on Monday next, and during the gala season. EXTRAORDINARY ARRIVAL OF VESSELS.—Oar noble river and its outward channels have for some days pre sented a Most striking appearance, , from the vast number of vessel's in motion or at anchor, chiefly inward bound. On Sunday, the arrival of vessels- from foreign parts, and nearly all of large tonnage, was not fewer than fifty-four —chiefly' ships, and yesterday about thirty. At the Sloyne, off the Rock, and in various parts of the river, whole fleets of fine British and American ships have been at anchor waiting to be docked—many of them resem bling frigates in size and appearance. Compared with our estuary on such• occasions, that " dull ditch," the Thames,' may "hide its dimini s h e d h ea d . " Besides the vessels alluded to, no fewer than 170 coasters arrived - on Sunday and yesterday. THE NEW UNITARIAN CHAPEL IN HOPE -STREET. — The foundatiod-stone of this new place of worship is to be laid this day, and we have seen at the shop of Mr. Flower, in Renshaw-street, the silver trowel with which the ma sonic portion of the ceremony is to be performed. It is of the. usual and workmanlike form of the real working trowel, with the rounded handle, and not, as is too usual, formed into an embossed or perforated fish-knife. In this respect Mr. Flower has exhibited the best possible taste ; for a trowel ought to be a trowel. It is of silver through out. The handle is finely engraved ; the hilt is ornamented with chased scroll-work, and the upper side of the blade, which contains the inscription, is surrounded with Gothic scroll-work. The workmanship is at once substantial and elegant, and the whole reflects much credit on the talented manufacturer. ' May 9,1545. THE NEW REGULATIONS AFFECTING TUB CORONER'S COURT. At the close of the business in this Court, the Coroner, Mr. Curry, in dismissing the jury, ar, s t.. , whom had served for years, took occasion to address tne.T_ not as jurymen, but as citizens and loyal subjects, al! new law framed by the Common Council affecting to!! Court ; and which he said would come into operation.,ool Monday (yesterday). It was, he said, the duty of tx *, them to accord with the requirements of the law, an d give to every new legal measure the fairest possible u - w a ' t From the oldest period he could recollect, the jurors A coroner's inquests received one shilling each, for es case that came under their consideration. When be W ad elected to the office of coroner, that allowance was r , on Saturcla d y, to one shilling and sixpence, and considering the they had to perform, he did not thi n k th a t amount T .. much. The change in the regul a ti ons o f th a t court orlP_ nated, he believed, with one or two, or perhaPs t br r. members of the Council ; but he deemed it would be ink' dious to allude to individuals, for they, no doubt..a conscientiously, though in this case he certainly ( lid pe t agree with the m as t o th e policy of the new law: Ile„,, pecially disagreed w ith t h e doing away with the Wilts, of jurors. The new system, too, was to pay to a vrit.W t h whatever were his station in life, only one shilling. regard to rich men h e did not care much for this ena n g i : but to a poor man, earning by his hard labour, say be a-day, the case was widely different ; for he wo uld Le compelled to attend, an d must go home to his '' .. f,4 4 and children after, it may be, a detention from e work of a whol e d ay w i th but one shilling to 175 them, in place of th ree , w hi ch he would otherwise 117. : earned. This lie considered was a grea t bards 1 t The juror, with a ll hi s responsibilities and his powers,e considered had e ven as much to do as himself, and he not see why they should not be, in some degree , ,..e munerated for the tro u bl e an d loss of time. With resra to picking up b o di es i n the river, a rule was laid dol l s one allowance to be given if a body were picked up 111 as calm, and anoth er if i n a storm. The jurisdiction 0 reward in these cases was taken from him, and he Pre' sumed he must be careful to ascertain p er sonallY tie peculiar stale of themeather. The coroner ' s court wa lll4 ' under the new law, be an itinerant court—now at Kirkan then at Toxteth-park, and then at other outskirts , l a central districts, in one day. New juries would hav e be got in each district. The system would e ntail gr'"'", io • additional trouble on himself, and also on the ber i ;: without, as he conceived, any advantage to the Pt l ";t There was another important point. The proceedings.`", inquests ought to go forth to the public, and he:mu_st7"t that the reporters for the press had hitherto done a ll could be expected—ever attending to any suggesticas . remarks of his th a t wen t to f orward the cause of 101,Ambilc justice. But how was it now. The court would be a " Will-o'-the-Wisp."The reporters would have hunt him out as they best could. The coroner then Pa l ': a high compliment to the ability and intelligence of jury. The foreman of the jury, Mr. John Owens, then, 5 11 , behalf of hims e lf an d co l leagues, acknowledged the mo d. ness and urbanity of the coroner on all occasions. Adr, The first inquests un d er t h e new law will be held to-uli one of them i s a h osp i tal case, and the other a cas e suicide. ALL SAINTS' MsTatar.—We are very much. gratified to learn that the minister of the above important locality has arranged that, on Sunday next, the 14th instant, two sermons (D.V.) will be preached in the temporary church, Beau-street, out of Fox-street, in behalf of the schools connected therewith, and to relieve him of a heavy burden of a debt consequent on the late alterations for public worship •being held there until the new church is ready. The advocates who have come forward to, aid the Rev. H. Marlen, are the Rev. F. Parry and the Rev. J. H. Jones. Though we feel assured their influence will happily tend to attract many persons, yet the room being of such small dimensions will admit of but few, comparative to the great object in hand : so that if there be others of our readers anxious to testify their desire to help in alleviating the beloved and indefatigable pastor of the district, they can do so by sending to his residence, 29, Sackville-street, Everton, or any little contribution to our office. THE WEATHER, &c.—During the week we have had some delightful weather, which has already done much to redeem the previous backwardness of vegetation. Wed nesday, Thursday, and Friday were fine summer days, especially the last, when the thermometer stood in the shade at about 70°, a high temperature for this time of the year. The wind has since been variable, and some— times coldish. The ground and roads became very dry, but yesterday norning before and after dawn, we had some refreshing showers, and the country assumed a brighter verdure. The husbandman still, however, longs for more moisture, and appearancesare in his behalf. The Wheats have somewhat improved, but still show a yellow tinge in some fields, which is not over promising. Others have partially failed here and there, being bare on the ground, and some apprehensions are entertained of the devasta tion of the wire worm, which we hope will net be realized. The grasses have improved, but are short of water to feed them. The gardens look beautiful, and there is a good show for fruit. LATEST FOREIGN AND COLONIAL. 1 00 ENTRANCE OF THE PRUSSIA N TROOPS DENMA Intelligence has arri ve d of the crossing the Da n , i t frontier by th e Prussian troops, ' who ent ere d Jutlan d 6 o'clock in the morning of the 2nd instant, at Konigs near Kolding. Th e report of a Russian envoy h a ving arrived in the P russ i an camp is confirmed : he was ac companied by a Hanoverian officer. atThaemtebluerggpthhat a Analtonnil frigateaishasno ostifiwedtocrtohiseiaougthor ities of H 3d inst., between Heligoland and the Elbe, an d t ba several vessels we re d e t a i ne d b y her during the day. Danish blockade is increasing in severity every hour. REPORTED R EVOLT AT ST. PETERSBURG AND MOS.AIi, COW.—The Colo gne G azette of the 4th contains gence froth Warsaw, dated April 20th, stating that 11 5 1 litary revolt had b ro k en out amongst the g uards in te g Petersburgh, and a popular one in Moscow. It is e ta g .. that there are nu merous cases of desertion from the ~„ sian army in Poland. It appears that the province s °, Volhynia and P o d o li a are only awaiting a favourable Io ment to raise the s t an d ar d of revolt, and that even t b Jewish inhabit an t s are very friendly to the cause of nationality. Ar 6 STATE OF PAR TS .—Th e pr i nc i pal streets of ,44 crowded late into the night as well as by day. A eel l e . agitation of course prevails ;. and the evening paPers' 4 tailing the proceedings of the Assembly, are eag e- o f bought at very advanced prices, and read by the light A the shops and the gas l amps b y individuals and growrol; along the Boulevards. On Friday great quan titi e s of ID en blouse, and of th e l ower classes, were parading ' r e middle space of the s t ree t i n some disorder. They we looked upon askance, and heard to whisper OIL. nually, "Is it for to-night, then ?" These words evi ri dently proved th a t th e popu l at i on of Paris expects a '9° evement of the vi o l en t u lt ras sooner or later. T h e ° „ w question seems, i n th e o pi n i on o f the public at presen t, tO be " When ?" That it will not take place at all,—that has been overawed by th e att i tude of the majority,—seems to be the opinion only of an optionist few. A FREAK OF AIITHORITY.—" The following,"'says the Journal des Debats, "is one of the many strange acts o the authorities whi c h hi story will have to record on th e occasion of the last elections :—` Whereas Citizen Duit i .! Judge of the Tribunal of First Instance of Villafra u ng7 c : has questioned th e gran d eur and stability of the l i f i c ' t ions• we have thought p roper to supersede him in his f a " (Signed) JoLY, the Commissioner-General at Toulouse. LORIOUS FRANCE" AND WISE TIPPERA• Tipperary, of cours e , canno t b e called t h e Athens , o Ireland. Its p easan t ry are not generally repu t e d to the most enlightened of the Irish people. Otherwise sir: following extra c t f rom an address just presented fr°7,, Borrisoleigh, i n th e county of Tipperary, to the Fren; nation, and published by the Minister of the Interior, 1 21 7; have been regarded by that functionary as a piece a 0 bitter sarcasm : Glorious France I You have been the asylum of o ur exil e A the retreat of our clergy. You have received our soldiers in t o ranks of your army. You have welcomed and protected no countrymen —you have opened your arms to them—You I ' o 4 o extended to us your 'sympathies —you have given to us i,,-„a tears and your blood ; and when, a short tithe since, Ire The appeared to wish to engage in contest with her oppressors,,L of your most illustrious citizens, Ledru Rollin. offered ta"! land the support of France. Be assured, therefore, that never shall we forget the proofs you have given lls of nur sY m P a a nu er Never shall promises or menaces induce us to raise our b against you, our old associate, our eternal friend." the MinistFranceer ofth,tee exnd h Interior e willer mpathl recollect colleet.t li g peculiar way co culi v a r r se in which towards the poor Irish workmen, whom her people, in eir selfishness of their revolutionary frenzy, drove from ',r e i t employment, refusing th em even t i me to pac k . up 1.' 1 , 4 1 6 household goods, th e i r clothes, or to draw their lira savings from the b an k s i n which they were deposited we doubt whether one in a thousand of the men 0 perary are at all informed upon the subject. Mel only in " glorious F rance " a people happy after their 0 . 1 ; fashion; rejoicing in turbulence bloodshed, and civil st l l. o Glorious France an d wise Tipperary Verily ye worthy of each 9ther. • clfr The Clare and L ong f or d estates of the Duke of —lithe ingham have been sold at a great sacrifice.. For but Westmeath e s t a t es on l y one lot was sought after, " was bought in. ce' MELANCHOLY DISTRESS . —At Marylebone 13 ° - li 0 ,5 office, on Saturday, Lydi a T ra l ey, an interesting 31°.,„it woman, was charged with having attempted to des t ner herself by strangulati on . It appeared that the Pri s° to was found lying in the road by Mornington-crescen t, .j all appearances lifeless, with a white handkerchief 0:1;3 tight round her throat ; her - mouth was covered with Ol e and her face was quit e black. She was removed to r e st station-house, where she re co vered, and expressed a be regret at having made the attempt upon. her life. th i ar ds ing questioned, s h e sta t e d , t h at she had lived for 'Ow to a of two years with a gentleman, who had deserted bero left her in a starvi ng con di t i on.. h She had written t o s od several'times, but could g e t no answer; s h e h a d not li'theo anything for three d a y s , an d h a d pawned all her c'foula to procure food. Th e mag i s t rate di rected that she s'assi be sent to prison for a short time r in order that he r d o pe" might be inquired i n to, an d that something might' for her relief. , LIVERPOOL - CATTLE. MARKET.—MA' 6 tra4 We have bad rather a large supply of stock. O e vabe ra rather dull for middling d escrip ti ons of stock. The nu at market-1,922-13easts; 4,772 Sheep. TIDE AB T. MORN. lEV.ENO.I HORTLE.) h. m. ft. in. Tuesday... 9k 3,1 p 3.4& 14 8 Wednesday.lo 419 454 12 7 Thursday ..11 530 6, 9 11 10 Friday ....12 647 7, 25 11 7 Saturday ...13 8 0 828 12' 3 rot Sunday.....l4 854 9' 17 12 11 3d S u ilaY aft Monday.... 15 938 10 34 13 11 ARRIED. t OW ilbiS On the 2nd instant, at M St Nicholas Church, MN lof - WHITE, skipwrtht, to Miss MARY ANN AvARDA ,-- ' tows . ~....e t , DIED. _. r d.s,,, g r On the 7th instant, at her residence Great ile"ii e r a lein JANE, relict of the late Mr. WILLIAM BUTTON, a cbrio o c l , and distressing illness, which she endured with tree long $ll fortitude. She was universally respected, and will be deservedly deplored. LIVERPOOL : TUESDAY, MAY 9, 1848- ~, PRINTED AND PUBLIRDED T EVERY . TUESDAY M 0 It f4 Asold By JOSHUA FLETCHER LACE, of 53, Grove street, LEONARD ADDISON, of 14, Great Orforcl-stree nd At No. 4, ST. GEORGE'S CRESCENT, LIv",r i , ( 1 ) ;t0 0 ; Orders for Advertisements received by Messrs. 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