The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser. — Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1847-12-14 00:00:00

TO CORRESPONDENTS. We have no knowledge of the points referred to by " B. A." We have endeavoured to procure the information requested by "I. 0. W.," but cannot obtain it with any degree of accuracy. "A subscriber" suggests that if trucks be placed between the the engine and the passenger carriages in railway trains for the prevention of loss of life, the trucks should be well wad ded with wool at the end, at least six feet deep. Mr. H. Boydell has requested us to state, with reference to the report of the proceedings at the Bankruptcy Court, that not a word was said to the best of his recollection of any ques tionable bill, that the accounts have been prepared by an accountant with great care, and that they are still believed to be correct. As to the extraction of leaves from the ledger, Mr. Boydell says that he has no wish to disguise the fact that they were cut some years ago by his then bookkeeper (who can be brought forward) in consequence of mistakes and erasures made by him. "Vigilans" seems to take rather a confined view of the present disturbances in Switzerland. We are quite ready to admit the impropriety of a recommendation from the British legis lature to refer the differences of that country to the pope, but it is with reference to the differences themselves that we are inclined to differ from our correspondent, who we think *ill find on a little closer investigation into the facts, that the following remark from a contemporary gives a tolerably cor rect version of the elements of the unfortunate dispute. "The contest is not one between Protestantism and Jesuitry. It is rather between the spirit of despotism aided by the councils of the Jesuits, and an unbridled or lawless spirit of Infidel democracy. The Federalists are - regarded with equal terror by the Romanists and the pious Protestants. The Fe deralists, in fact, too much resemble the revolutionists of France, who not only vowed destruction to Popery, but strove to root out Christianity also." The disturbance is, however, we fear, not at an end, whilst its consequences are looked to with much interest by every reflecting mind. It is always our wish to oblige our friends as far as possible, but we must decline to notice a work which we have never seen. Of course everybody is aware that the placards on the wall announce only the circulation of the Mercury on Friday. Our contemporary is prudently charyof alluding to his Tues day's paper, except on such an occasion as the presentation of an almanac, when, in order that as few as possible may be given away, he limits the distribution of it to a Tuesday. His more numerous customers, on a Friday, must bear this shab biness as they best may. A correspondent, "A. S. T.," has written to us, lauding highly the exertions of the private watchman who detected, during the past week, the robbery in South Castle-street. He in stances several clever detections of burglary, fires, &c., and thinks that some testimonial, or greater emolument, should be given to the individual alluded to. He certainly appears deserving of it. Artists do not usually "paint on both aides of the canvass." The phrase "looking at the bright side of the picture" does not apply to a painting, but to a picture of the mind or ima gination. Thus, when an individual is in trouble or difficulty, there is a bright side or a dark side,— the prospect of his getting over his trouble or failing to do so. Etbirpool &tanbarD. Yearly Subscription : In Advance, 15s. On Credit, 17s. THE LIVgRPOOL STANDARD. TUESDAY MORNING, DEC. 14, 1847. TO-MORROW (Wednesday) a Special Council will be held, to which the Dock Committee will sub mit their draught of the bill for the purchase of lands. and the construction of additional wet docks, and the erection of warehouses upon their quays. To the scheme itself and to the granting of the full powers required, we do not anticipate that any general objection will be raised, although, perhaps, Mr. Eyre Evans will oppose any further extension of dock space, contending that with his favourite warehouses surrounding our existing docks, such extension, and the expense to be thereby imposed upon the estate, will be rendered unnecessary. But, with respect to one point, we are of opinion not only that a strong opposition will be offered, but that it ought to be offered by the Council, as trustees of the interests of the burgesses at large. We refer to the omission of any clause imposing upon the Dock Committee's warehouses the same contribution to the rates of the town, which is paid by private owners of the same description of pro perty. _ _ _ We are not aware of the object of the Dock Committee in not, in the first instance, tendering in their bill, this concession to public opinion. The precedent has already been established by the insertion of a clause in a former bill, rendering the Albert warehouses liable to be rated ; and the principle, if sound in one case, is equally so in another. There is no reason why warehouses on one part of the dock estate should be taxed to wards our local burthens, and in another be free. We are about to permit our Dock Committee to appropriate a large plot of land, covered at present with valuable property, paying a large amount in rates ; and when it is not asked that we should be empowered to tax that portion of such property which will be covered with docks, or converted into open quay space, we have, at least, a right to stipulate that for the buildings which they erect upon it they should pay in proportion to the burthens borne by tho3e who will be called upon to enter into com petition with them. It may be that there is some point of form involved, which prevents the committee, from themselves, offering such a clause, It is so very obvious, however, that the burgesses will insist upon it, and that Parliament will grant a demand so reasonable, that we cannot believe that either the Dock Committee or the Council can think of offering any hindrance to its being made a part of their bill. The proper course, would, therefore, be to concede the point at once ; and not to throw upon either the public estate, or the ratepayers the intolerable expense of an opposition in committee. We believe, in fact, that such a course will be adopted. THE effect of our free-trade policy, if carried out, in determining the fate of our West Indian colonies, is, no longer a question for speculation. F urn i s h whatever facilities for immigration we may; give to the planter a supply of labour, procured and paid for by the government of the mother country ; the aid thus afforded is only prospective, and will not tempt the present race of proprietors to continue the cultivation of the soil, with the certainty before them, for some years to come, of a ruinous sacrifice upon every crop which they raise and bring to market. We have now before us a report of an important meeting of planters, held on the 30th October, in the parish of Metcalfe, Jamaica, by the speakers at which this fact is fully established. " From my experience in the management of estates in this quarter, (remarked the first speaker at the meeting in question, Mr. Westmoreland) I am satisfied it costs us not less than 255. per cwt. on good estates to produce sugar, all charges included, excepting interest of capital. Now the Gazette price of sugar by the last packet was 255. 10d., exclusive of duty ; if, then, you deduct from this the cost of freight, insurance, and other charges, which amount to Bs. per cwt., it will give us a nett value of 17s. 10d. for what under favourable circumstances it costs us 255. to produce. It is therefore very plain that to go on with the cultivation of sugar must involve a certain loss-- besides there is every probability of its value being more depreciated, when the product of the additional properties, which have been settled in the slave colonies since the equalisation of the duties is brought into the market." How manyyearsmust elapse before the planter can be enabled to cheapen the cost of production 7s. 2d. per cwt., or 30 per cent., besides meeting the further deterioration in price which will take place when the foreign producer has brought a largely-increased quantity of land into cultivation, we need scarcely inquire. Still less need we glance at the fact that such reduction of the cost of production must, in a great measure, be relieved by a reduction of the wages of the free labourer, and the lowering of his social position and comforts to something near the level of the slave labourer, with whose products he has to compete. To the professing friends of the negro, this consideration has always operated powerfully as an argument against any interference with the supply of labour to these colonies. The planter has been accused of selfishness in seeking cheaper labour. It has been said of him that he wished to reduce the condition of the free negro to that of serfdom ; to drag him from his plot of garden ground to toil continuously amongst the sugar canes as an inevitable necessity of his lot. The introduction of an increased quantity of African labour was utterly to change the face of society in that negro's paradise, which British humanity had created ; to check the progress of cultivation in our colonies, and to deprive the negro population of all but the bare name of freemen. Yet our free-trade policy, which compels that population to embark in a struggle of competition with the slave labour of foreign countries, renders inevitable the course, against which the supporters of emancipation have all along been protesting, unless, indeed, it is decided that the attempt to raise tropical produce with free labour is to be abandoned. And, more over, the fact is fully appreciated by the coloured population of our colonies themselves. At the meeting to which we have referred, a number of the labourers are stated to have been present, and to have taken a considerable interest in the pro ceedings ; and one of them, we find, spoke upon the question in language, whose plain practical common sense' is sufficient to overturn all the ignorant assumptions of our theorists and mock philan thropists. We make no apology for quoting his remarks. entire : " Mr. Smart (a respectable black inhabitant) next spoke.—l feel extremely sorry to see how we are getting on. Some time ago we were much better off ; but since the price of sugar has been reduced, we have Suffered great loss; everybody feels it—the labourers themselves. If sugar and coffee do not bring a good price, we shall not be able to get on. The proprietors will say to the labourers, in consequence of the reduction in sugar, we are not able to pay you what we were in the habit of pay ing ; your wages must be reduced ; consequently the shop keepers will feel it. I am feeling it already. It is ve-•y wrong in the government of England to call upon us to work as cheap as slaves. It is not just that the people of Cuba should be laughing at us ; and we must by word do all in our power to tell the government what we are suffering. lam glad to see so many of the labourers pre sent. Every one of us must feel deeply interested, and I do hope that the people of England will assist us." We are perfectly aware of the jeers and scorn with which the prayer of these our fellow-country men for protection, will be met by a portion of the British parliament and the British public. They will be told that it is impossible to go back to a policy so unfashionable as that which fosters the industry of our own people, and prohibits that of the foreigner; that they must meet-the competition to which they are subjected by increased energy, improved modes of culture, and better machinery. The planter will be urged to become resident upon his property, and to economise his expenditure. But the answer to all this dogmatic philosophy is, that the reduction to he accomplished of one-third of the cost of the article produced is utterly beyond the reach of the means possessed by the planter, and inconsistent with the state of society existing, or which can be found in our colonies. We can not exact from a race of freemen, in a soil where the necessaries of life are raised with a minimum amount of exertion, the same continuous labour which the lash exacts from the Cuban or Brazilian slave, until we have made the supply of that labour a drug ; and then our tardy remedy of immigration will cease to be effective. It is to a comparatively high rate of wages that we must trust for any great influx of Africans into our West Indian colonies. Withdraw this temptation, and the African will remain upon his own soil, surrounded with his na tive barbarism. Human nature is the.,same under whatever skin we find it, and it has been the cha racteristic of human nature in all ages of the world to be averse to change of country without the prospect of bettering its lot. What the West Indian planter asks is not at all so unreasonable a request as it will doubtless be called by the free trade legislators of Great Britain. He asks for " protection" indeed, and the term is an unpopular one. But it is protection from a monopoly which is demanded. He says to us— " You have surrounded me with restrictions, and cast upon me burthens, which, you are powerless to enforce upon my foreign competitor. The re sult is that you give him a monopoly in your mar kets." He asks us only to afford him a prospect of being able to compete on fair terms, and shows us convincingly that we have framed the scale of our fiscal policy so as to shut him out from that prospect. He takes, moreover, a higher ground than this, and reminds us of the national hypocrisy which has made him its victim. Upon this part of the subject we cannot resist quoting the eloquent appeal of Dr. Clarke, one of the speakers of the Metcalfe meeting : " If," says Dr. Clarke, " it were a question purely of free-trade in the fair acceptation of the term—that is of the free interchange of commodities between people all obtaining their goods by the same honest means, or with out any obvious dishonesty, we might be contented to confine our views to those resources, and others of an in ternal nature. But our position is such that unhappily they do not touch the fatal wrong which has laid us pros trate. There is an antecedent—there is a paramount consideration, which even with abundant labour and capital, and with ample resources, must be guaranteed not less to whole communitks, before they can lay their account with any profit-upon mere honest industry, and that consideration is PROTECTION AGAINST CRIME. Slavery is robbery : robbery of human life ; and before we can pursue our honest cultivation with any prospect of suc cess, we must look for a defence against this robbery. We obtain our labour and pay for it under the sanction of legal obligation and moral principle—we recognise as civilized beings their claims, and exercise our calling under their just restraint, and under the severe but just tax which in a thinly-populated country they impose upon us : and Government forces us to do this. Is it an un reasonable purpose,' or is it a reasonable expectation of ours, to ask that the power which denounced and prohi bited the crime of Slavery on our parts should protect us against that crime at the hands of others ? Is it right, or is it not right, that the State—thepaternal State— which has stripped us of our weapons of labour, on the ground that they were cruel and unjust, should forthwith turn us out unarmed and naked to an unequal contest with others in full possession of taeir weapons, equally cruel and unjust and exercised by them with ten-fold cruelty and injustice? Is it consistent with national honesty, with sound policy, or with the common principles of right and justice, that Slavery, denounced by you as guilt—prohibited by you here as guilt—should in foreign colonies, and for exchequer purposes, be by you suborned to our ruin ?" We really know not with what arguments such an appeal as this to the justice of the nation can be met. Assuredly, if ever there was a case in which the princidle of free trade might with propriety be departed from—if ever there was a class which should be excepted from its general application— these are to be found in the British West Indies. Should parliament persevere in subjecting the plan ter and the free labourer to the cruel competition to which they are now subjected—should the nation thus doom to destruction property worth millions, and a population which, cherished by paternal legislation, might be made the most potent instru mentality in human hands of civilizing and spread ing the blessings of Christianity over an entire continent—should it wilfully abandon one of the most noble efforts of philanthropy on record—the British nation will deserve to be branded through out all time as having been guilty of hypocrisy more glaring thaii has ever before been exhibited to the world. We may withdraw our cruisers from the pestilential coast of Africa, strip off our boasted garb of humanity, and stand up in our true charac tet of a people willing, for selfish saving, to sacrifice " the freedom of man for the freedom of trade." IN introducing to our readers the following ex cellent petition of the ministers and members of St. Jude's congregation, praying the legislature to refrain from passing a bill for the admission of Jews to the privilege of sitting in Parliament and legislating for this Protestant and Christian realm, it was not our purpose to have done more than in timate to our readers the fact that similar peti tions are about being adopted by the members of other congregations. A few remarks, however, upon the bill in question, which appeared in the Liverpool Albion of yesterday, afford us an oppor tunity of saying a few words upon the subject. But first we give a copy of the petition itself : To the Honourable the Commons of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland in Parliament assembled. The humble petition of the undersigned, Ministers and Members of the congregation of Saint Jude's Church, in the town of Liverpool, SIIEWETII, That your petitioners rejoice to know that Christianity is as yet, professedly at least, part and parcel of the law of England. Your petitioners can recognise no force in the argu ment which urges, that, because some steps have been taken in a direction which they deem injurious, therefore it has ceased to be wrong to take a still further and more fatal step in the same direction. Your petitioners have no sympathy with those who de sire what is called the separation of Church and State; and they perceive that by the admission of Jews to the Legislature of the country, the advocates of such separa tion would have an additional ground of appeal on the more palpable absurdity of so mixed an assembly legis lating for the Church. And even if your petitioners looked upon the, separation of Church and State as a good, they could not advocate what they deem an evil, in order that good might come of it. Your petitioners deem the admission of Jews into Par liament an evil, because it will proclaim to the country that our rulers consider Christianity unnecessary for a' legislator : it will thus encourage the people to consider Christianity unnecessary for manufacturer or merchant, for landlord or tenant, for master or pervant, and thereby disparage the Holy. Scriptures, offend Almighty God, and seriously disturb the peace and good order of society. Your petitioners therefore pray that your honourable house will continue to require all your members to profess " the true faith of a Christian." And your petitioners will ever pray,' &c., &c. . • In this ably-drawn up document we have clearly set forth the principle upon which a large portion of this Christian people object to the admission of Jews into the legislature—" Christianity is as yet, professedly at least, parcel of the law of England." The connexion of the Church of England with the State is equally part and parcel of that law ; and the admission into Parliament of a body of men, who are opposed not only to Christianity, but as well to the connexion in question, tends to strengthen the hands of those who are seeking the separation of Church and State, and at the same time to proclaim to the country that our rulers con sider Christianity unnecessary for a legislator, or to be professed by us in the other relations of so ciety. Our contemporary, however, urges, as a valid ground of granting the concession, that— " We allow them to b e mayors, sheriff s, aldermen, common council-men. We permit them to elect mem bers of Parliament, and then, by by a mos t inexplicable p we comm an d a h a lt, an d inconsistency, U themselves el ec t e d." will and ni no y t steri suff n e u r a th i e n m co to We can see many good and sufficient reasons for commanding this halt. One, however, is sufficient, viz., the fact that Parliament has to legislate for the religious institutions of a Christian people; and the Jew believes Christianity to be a fable and Christ himself an impostor. We have already established the necessity of a limit to the conces sion of civil privileges somewhere. We give the Atheist the protection of the laws.. We allow him to vote for members of Parliament, and tolerate him in the possession of other civil rights. But we deny to him the right to give his evidence in a witness box in cases either involving the security of life or of property. We grant our contemporary the truth of all that he says as to the respectability of the great body of the Jewish people, both in Liverpool and elsewhere. We know them to be charitable to their own peo ple ; and that many of them contribute munifi cently to our leading philanthropic institutions, irrespective of any consideration as to the creed of those to be benefitted by them. We know them to be clever, respectable, and intelligent. But that is not the point. The question is, first, are the Jews aggrieved by not being admitted to the privi lege of sitting in a legislature which makes laws for a Christian church; and, secondly, is it safe or right on the part of a Christian people to ad mit them to such privilege ? The fact urged by the A?bion that they are too few in number to do harm is mere trifling. We are not at all disposed to doubt that the step taken by the Watch Committee in resigning into the hands of the head constable the appointment and absolute control of the police force, has been determined upon by them in the full confidence that in so doing they were promoting the public advantage, and securing the more efficient working of the force. At the same time we much regret that we cannot ourselves arrive at the same conclu sion. To us it appears somewhat at war with the premises on which it is grounded. The effect and the cause stand apart. There is a haste, too, and a mystery about the whole proceeding, which induce a fear that it has received much too little consider ation. It is urged that of late the police, as a body, have decreased in their efficiency, Why have they so decreased ? No doubt there are many causes from which such a body may have become, as it has been said to have become, demoralised. The high rate of wages which the class of able-bodied men, such as are required for the service, have been re ceiving during the last few years may have caused the best charactered amongst them to be drafted off to other employments, and deterred equally qualified individuals from offering themselves to supply' their places, We believe that, to a consi derable extent, this has been the case. There may, too, have been something faulty in the system upon which they have been of late controlled. The former of these causes can only be met by offering increased inducements to good men. The latter possible cause affords rather a subject for inquiry than for the withdrawal of the control of the daily board s and vesting almost absolute control in the head constable. We want to see it clearly made out that Mr. Dowling's energies have been at all checked by the interference of the Watch Commit tee. We want to discover what regulations of his the committee have upset; what scheme of im proved supervision he has proposed which they have refused to adopt ; what ground there is for the assumption that he will be able to effect alone what he has been unable to effect in conjunction with a daily board. It is not sufficient to tell us that the police in Manchester and Birmingham are under the sole management and control of the respective head constables of those towns. There may have been special reasons for so placing them. The Watch Committee in both may have been unable to devote the necessary amount of leisure to the assistance of the head constable ; but in Liver pool we are not in that predicament. We have a body of gentlemen residing in various wards of the town, engaged in its leading businesses, acquainted with local details and local requirements, and capable, day by day, of offering to the head con stable valuable suggestions and information ; and we protest, we cannot see why that officer should seek to be deprived of their active co-operation. It may be an object to Mr. Dowling to pick and appoint his own men; to punish his own men, or reward them by promotion; but we have certainly never heard that suggestions of his, with respect to such appointments have been lightly treated by the committee, or that his efforts to improve the morale of the force have been obstructed by the committee's introduction of had materials to work with. Obvious enough it is that there has been defective management or imperfect superintendence some where. The men have been too much their own masters ; but why, we are not informed. Perhaps the staff of inspectors and superintendents has been too limited, or they have imperfectly performed their duty; but we cannot discover what additional op portunities of seeing that such duty is strictly attended to will be afforded to the head constable by the change proposed, . The hours devoted by him to attendance upon the committee may indeed be a slight tax upon his time; but we should ima gine that the same attendance at the office will have to be given to receive the reports of the various superior officers, and to investigate the truth of complaints ; and, moreover, the hours in the fore noon thus employed are not those in which it is most desirable that the head constable should be engaged in visiting the different divisions of the town, and personally seeing that both inspectors, superintendents, and their men, are doing their duty. There is ample time left for all this ; and we are not aware that in the bestowal of that time the Board has ever been an obstruction. It is much to be questioned whether the moral influence of the head constable over his men will be increased by his increase of absolute power over their appointment and control. We suspect that it will be decreased; that good men will not feel their position improved by being subject to the orders of an individual instead of to the sense of justice of a board. What is to prevent imputations of favour itism being made ? What is to satisfy the force that merit in \ one member is overlooked, whilst it is rewarded in another? What, moreover, is there to assure the public, a daily board being discontinued, that Mr. Dowling himself is devoting sufficient of his own time to the duties of his office, and is not trusting too much to the delegated authority placed in the hands of inspectors and superintendents ? We must contend that it would have been infi nitely more satisfactory to the community to have had a strict inquiry instituted into the causes of police inefficiency, than to have to take it for granted that such inefficiency can only be removed by the adoption of a new pattern imported from Birming ham or Manchester. We know that, along with the existence of a daily board, we have had in Liver pool an efficient police force ; and we want to know why we cannot have one now. We have had it when party spirit ran high both in the Watch Com mittee, the Council, and the town at large ; we have had it when we were compelled to work with and to bring into .shape very rude materials. Surely what has been done with the same machinery may be done again, without our venturing upon a novel experiment, which may very possibly result in failure, and increase the disorganization of which L we complain. The leading oracle of Free Trade--Mr. Richard Cobden—has at length spoken out with respect to the non-realization of his previously expressed pro phecies, as to the effects of Free Trade upon the welfare of the manufacturing community; and it is happy for him that he has chosen to do so in addressing the Free-trade gulls of Stockport, rather than the British public in the proper place, where such an apologetic effusion should have been ad dressed—viz., in the British House of Commons. What would have been the reception in the latter place of the clap-traps which he has ventured upon in the latter enlightened borough ? A few extracts from his speech may serve to satisfy our readers : " Our opponents," he says, " tell us that we have had free trade, and it has not answered ; but I say we have had thirty years of monopoly, and have not got free trade yet. Further, it is said that free trade in corn has caused those disasters to the trade of the district which we have at the present time to lament. Why, we have not had free trade in corn yet ; we have only been passing through a transition state ; we have not got through the three years we were to have had of the fag end of monopoly, and have not yet had trial of our principles at all." Why, one of these principles was that, for our increased imports of breadstuffs, we should have increased exports of manufactured goods. Has this promise been fulfilled ? Certainly not. Oh but, remarks our philosopher, " we have not had Free Trade in corn, yet." We have certainly i had corn imported duty free; and, if that s not free-trade, what is it ? "We have only b. en pass.. ing through a transition state," he says ; and eer , tainly a sad transition state it has been for the British merchant, the weaver, the spinner, and the manufacturer. Keep us from such "transition states." - Mr. Cobden tells us that " he never dealt in prophecies," but he " possibly might have told the working men that with free trade in corn we should have American flour at 1 d. per lb." He might also have said that "we' should have more mills and more employment, more houses, more car riages" !—(for the manufacturer, of course)— " more churches and chapels." Has either of these prophecies been fulfilled ? Neither. The farmer, he says, has not been ruined. Why ? Because American flour has not been selling at it'd. per lb.; and the farmer has been able, by the price which he has been receiving, and because we have not yet had free trade, to buy from the manu facturer, and to employ the labourer. Without the home trade, where would have been the manu facturing interest at this moment? But the leading excuse of the charlatan is that he has not had cheap Cotton. That material however was as cheap to him as the rest of the world, except to the producer ; and everybody told him. that the producer would keep back that com modity from the British Manufacturer, Spinner, and Weaver for 'himself. Then we have the pota toe rot dwelt upon ; but all this time in forgetful ness of the promise that the more we bought of the foreigner the more he would buy from us. We have the railways too flung in our face ; but why not construct more railways as well as more mills, more houses, and more carriages ? The wind-up of this lame and impotent story is the assertion that we may save £1r,000,000 a-year in the expenses of the army. the navy, and the ordnance. We could save infinitely more by withdrawing the sub sidies granted in various ways to such shallow empirics as Mr. Richard Cobden. THE PURCHASE OF THE* WATER COMPANIES The proceedings in this case since our last have not been of much importance ; on Friday an agreement wIP made with the Harrington Company and the Corporation for postponing further proceedings until after the sth of January, 1848. By this arrangement the Water Company will be enabled to prepare their balance sheet for 1847. The Accountant appointed by the Arbitrator, intends proceeding with the examination of the Bootle Company's books and accounts to-morrow, (Wednesday.) And we believe Mr. Stephenson will visit Liverpool in a few days, for the purpose of making a personal survey of the Works of both Companies. Under these circumstances the award will probably not be made until the middle of next month. THE CO TTON MARKET. There was yesterday a very moderate demand from consumers, and the sales did not exceed 3000 bales, with out any change in prices. It would' seem as if we had got to the lowest point, for it is understood that offers for large parcels have been refused as low, which looks like holders making a stand. The imports are light, and likely to be so for some months, which, with increased consumption, will tell on our diminishing stocks. A fire broke out on Saturday night, in a hayloft of Mr. Bruce, 'Beacon-lane, Everton. The damage was trifling. BASE COlN.—Yesterday, a man, named John Clarke, was committed for trial, charged' with passing a base shilling.—A woman, named Mary Jones, was committed for passing a similar base coin. Yesterday, Mr. Rushton required a Jew pauper to find two sureties in £lO to keep the peace towards Mr. Woolf, whom he had insulted grossly, whilst that gentleman was administering the alms contributed by the wealthy Jews to their poorer brethren. EXAMINATION OF MASTERS AND MATES.—At a meet ing of this Board held on Ihe 7th instant, Captain John Harrison, late master of the Dorothea, of Liverpool, and now of the ship Thomas Sparks ; and Capt. John Cock shott Bland, late master OI the Larpent, of Liverpool, were examined, and found duly qualified for first-class' masters' certificates. ABUSE OF CHLOROFORM. — We are informed that a girl, on Friday night, was subjected to a strong dose of chloro form, but did not sleep, and from that time till yesterday she suffered intense pain, amounting almost to paralysis in the right arm and left knee, downwards. The poor girl was relieved yesterday. This should serve as a warning against trifling with so powerful an agent. UTTERING BASE COIN. —There were no fewer than six cases of persons charged with uttering counterfeit coin, brought before Mr. Rushton yesterday ; and, as the offence appears to be greatly on the increase, the public would do well to be upon their guard, especially as regards half-crowns, many clever counterfeits of which have made their appearance. EXTRAORDINARY DISPATCH.—The ship Countess of Sefton, Captain Wheeler, arrived in Liverpool on Sunday last, having performed the voyage from hence to Val paraiso and back in seven months and seventeen days, discharging about 500 tons of cargo there, and taking on board another of 560 tons, the latter consisting chiefly of flour, in bags, being the first in any quanty of Chilian growth brought to this port. PRESENTATION OF PLATE TO OLIVER HATCH, ESQ. —We see in the window of Mr. Mayer, Lord-street, an elegant and richly chased silver tea service, about to be presented to Mr. Hatch, on which is engraved the follow ing complimentary inscription :—" Presented to Oliver Hatch, Esq., by a few Conservative friends, for his devoted zeal and untiring exertions in maintaining the constitu tional principles of St. Ann's War 1. Liverpool, Nov. bincccxLvit. ' The testimonial has been well earned by Mr. Hatch, and its presentation does honour to the donors. The creditors of Messrs. Barton, Irlam, and Higginson held a meeting at the Clarendon-rooms yesterday, at 12 o'clock : about 40 gentlemen were present. John Lockett, Esq., was called to the chair. The following resolutions were put, and carried unanimously :—Resolved,—" That this meeting is of opinion that it is advisable for the benefit of every person concerned that endeavours should be made to procure a supersedeas of the fiat in bankruptcy of the estate." Resolved,—" That the 'following gentlemen be appointed a committee to obtain information, and confer with the trustees of the Royal Bank, as to the best method of carrying out the above resolution, , viz. :—John Lockett, Esq., chairman; James M. Wood, Esq.; Mr. J. J. Hatton, Mr. Thomas Maddock, and Mr. James Brook." Several other matters of minor importance were entered into ; and, after a vote of thanks was given to the chairman, the meeting separated. THE WEATHER. — During the last seven days, we had, at the commencement especially, a good deal of blowy weather, from various parts of the compass, with occasional heavy falls of rain. On Friday there was little or no wind, but a thick and soaking rain fell during the whole day. The late gales have not been so fruitful in casualties to shipping in this coast as on the east side of the island. It has occasionally blown very fresh in our outward chan nels for the last fortnight, but comparatively little damage has been done, thanks to the effectual lighting and buoying of our outward channels. Sunday and yesterday were fine days for the season, and it is probable that, after the heavy downfalls we have experienced in these localities, we may reasonably expect a frost which would now be quite as seasonable.weather enables preparing f the ground farmer t o o r thepro ceed withfield The labour, open draining , spring, &c. Outdoor labour of other kinds also proceeds. There is still good grazing in meadows that have been attended to. BRUTAL ASSAULTS.—A rough-looking fellow, named Michael Mitten, was yesterday committed for trial for having knocked down and kicked over the face a man named John Rice, in Waterloo-road, on Friday night. The wounds were of a frightful nature.—Another charge of assault was preferred by a woman, named Elizabeth M`Donald, against Patrick Campbell, a mason. The man was quarrelling with his wife, about four o'clock on Sunday morning, and dragging her about the street by the hair of the head, when complainant interfered, for which she was knocked down the steps of a cellar, and in her fall an infant was ejected from her arms, and lay much injured at a distance from the mother. The prisoner con tended that the woman he was ill-treating was his wife, and that, therefore, no third party ought to have inter fered with him. Mr. Rushton took another view of the case, which was shown in his fining the man £5, or in default to be imprisoned two months. He was also re quired to find sureties, himself in £2O, and two others in £lO each, or be imprisoned three months. IMPORTANT TO SHIP MASTERS AND SEAMEN.-0 n Saturday, William Groves, seaman, summoned Captain Davies, of the " Reogfield," from Que'llec, for £7 165., balance of wages for services as seaman, from Quebec to this port. The service and agreement having been proved, Mr. Davenport, for the defendant, elicited from the compainant in cross examination, that he had deserted from the " Egliostoa," at Quebec, whereupon Mr. Rush ton declared the complainant not entitled to any wages, and ordered the amount due to be paid into court ; and being informed of six other seamen who had neither register ticket, or a discharge from their last ship, post poned their cases until Wednesday, and said, he was determined to punish men who deserted their ships, and declared that for the future all mariners who had no tickets or discharge, should first obtain a new ticket from the Customs, and pass through the ordeal of an exami nation there, before he would make any order for wages, and, where a man confessed himself a deserter, no wages would be granted him, and warned the men present that, if they answered any of the questions falsely, they would be guilty of a misdemeanour under the Merchant Sea man's Act, which was a most serious offence. ROYAL AMPHITHEATRE : FRENCH EQUESTRIAN COM PANY.—This company really appears inexhaustible in the resources of talent at its command. During the past week the performances have been of the most attractive character, comprising all that is excellent in equestrian feats, gymnastics, dancing, vaulting, and oddity. Last night, however, we had a change of performance, and in troduction of new attractions, which it will be seen is to be repeated this evening. The company have with great liberality, considering the immense expense which they must be under, reduced their prices considerably ; and, on the score of expense at least, no one need be deprived of the opportunity of enjoying one of the richest treats of the kind, which enterprise; and a liberal expenditure in management can furnish. Again we must notice the per fection of the acting of the clowns, Messrs. -Auriol, L'E clan., and young Auriol. The feats of Jocko i the Ape of Brazil & are also extraordinary. MEETING FOR SECURING THE RATING OF THE DOCK WAREHOUSES. Last evening, a meeting was held at the Clarendon rooms, convened by circular, " for the purpose of consi dering what measures should be adopted to secure the insertion of a clause in the Act of Parliament to be applied for by the Liverpool Dock Committee, which shall subject the future warehouses of that Trust to their fair share of the local taxes." The summonses had only been sent to the Conservative and Liberal chairmen of the different wards of the town, consequently the meeting was not a very numerous one. The chair was taken by Mr J. R. Jeffrey, who briefly explained the reasons why they had been called together. Some members of the Select Vestry had intimated to him, as one of the tradesmen of the town, that the former body were not in a position to op pose the bill, and suggested the propriety of a movement on the part of the tradesmen to use their influence upon the Council to procure the insertion of the clause required, having been disappointed in not finding in the bill such clause. The Albert Warehouses, he reminded them, were taxed to the local rates to the amount of £3OOO a year; and, as there was a technical difficulty in the Dock Committee and the Council rating themselves on account of a property in which they had no interest, the only course was for the ratepayers to make a movement them selves to coerce both bodies. The Dock Committee were about to expend £300,000 upon Dock Warehouses, which would produce .E 45,000 a year to the parish funds, a great object to the ratepayers, especially as to form these ware houses they would have to pull down property paying at present £30,000 a year to the parish funds. It was here proposed that Mr. Payne, solicitor, should be invited to act as secretary to the meeting, who produced the bill proposed. Previous to. its being read, the Chairman stated that the present rateable property of the port amounted to one million sterling ' • and the £300,000 to be spent on the warehouses would, therefore, produce nearly one-third of the required income. He also read a statement of the amounts for which the Dock Committee were rated, in order to show that they had littlerinterest in the matter as compared with the tradesmen present. Mr. Alderman Cooper attended there to give every aid to the parties seeking for the insertion of the clause. He was the first person who mooted in the Council the inser tion of the rating clause in the Albert Dock Bill, which met with such a warm reception in the Council that the Dock Committee were induced to consent to the clause, which was subsequently pressed in Parliament by the Highway Board. Mr. SMETHURST announced that the Guardian Society had memorialized the churchwardens to call a meeting of the Vestry on the subject to-morrow, for which meeting circulars were issued. A short discussion took place as to the power of a ma jority of the Council to insert the clause, or to refer the subject back to the Dock Committee, in which it was stated to be the opinion of the Town Clerk that the parish authorities were too late to give the necessary notices for the insertion of the clause. Mr. THoRNELY, on the part of the Select Vestry, stated that they could not give such notice, not having seen the bill in time to learn that the clause was omitted. A gentleman stated, on the authority of a party who was prevented being present by indisposition, that the clause required was in the rough draft of the bill, which circumstance lulled the parochial authorities into a false security. . . . . Doctor BRADEEY proposed a voluetary rate being raised to oppose the bill in committee, as, on a former occasion, there being no power in the Select Vestry to allow any of the funds raised for the relief the poor to paying the cost of a parliamentary opposition, as such expenditure would not be passed by the Poor Law Commissioners. Mr. M`MILLAN proposed that the chairman of the various wards should wait upon their representatives. He and his friends had waited to-day upon the three members for Pitt-street Ward, and that all would support a ruling clause. Another speaker said he had seen several members to day, who told him that all that was required was to get up a pressure from without. . A discussion took place as to the best course to be pur sued, the time being so short previously to the meeting of the Council. It was proposed by Mr. APPLEBEE that the Chaiman of the wards should call at once upon their members. Mr. WATSON proposed that they should strengthen the hands of their members by the adoption of a memorial to be adopted by this meeting, and that a copy should be sent to each ward for signature. Mr. BRADLEY seconaed the motion, which was carried unanimously. Messrs. Watson, Urquhart, the Chairman, and the Secretary, were then appointed a committee to. draw up the memorial, and retired for the purpose. LATEST INTELLIGENCE. (BY EXPRESS.) LONDON CORN MARKET.-YESTERDAY, The attendance of both London and country buyers being good, the demand for all descriptions of Wheat of home produce was somewhat active, at an advance in the quotations obtained on this day se'nnight of from Is. to 2s. per quarter, and at which a good clearance was readily effected. With Foreign Wheat we were not to say extensively supplied, and a considerable portion of it was of very inferior quality. Fine dry samples were in good request, at Is. per quarter more money. In all other kinds a moderate amount of busi ness was transacted at full prices. The show of barley was small. Fine malting parcels were in good request, at a rise in value of Is. per quarter, and the cur renaies of grinding and distilling sorts had an upward tendency. Foreign Barley was certainly dearer. The quantity of Malt being scarcely adequate to meet the wants of the brewers, that article was firm, at fully the prices paid on Monday last. There were scarcely any Oats in the market. Fine dry par cels moved off steadily, at a trifle more money, while the mid dling and inferior kinds were quite as high as last advised. Owing to the large imports, the sale for Beans was heavy, at a further reduction in the -quotations of Is. per quarter. In Peas, the supply of which was small, exceedingly little was doing at late rates. Indian Corn was dull, but Indian Meal, as well as Rye Flour, supported previous quotations. For Flour we had an im proved demand, but we can notice no actual improvement in value. SMITHFIELD CATTLE MARKET.-YESTERDAY. The supply of beasts being what may be termed a moderate one, and the attendance of both town and country buyers large, the Beef trade was somewhat active, and, in some instances, the quotations ruled very high. The primest Scots, Devons, and Herefords sold readily, at from ss. 6d. to ss. Bd. per 81bs., indeed ss. 10d. per Sibs. was realised in some cases. and the value of all other breeds had an upward tendency. From the north, we received about 1,600 short horns ; from the eastern, western, and midland counties, 1,800; Herefords, runts, Devons, &c. ; from other parts of England, 700 of various. breeds; and, from Scotland, 250 horned and polled Scots. With Sheep we were scantily supplied for the time of year, awing to which the Mutton trade was firm, at an improvement in currencies obtained on this day se'nnight of 2d. per Sibs. ; the primest old Downs selling readily at ss. 4d. per 81bs. The supply of Calves was tolerably extensive, yet the Veal trade was steady at last week's prices. In Pigs comparatively little business, but late rates were well supported. LIVERPOOL FOREIGNERS MISSION.—We perceive that the Rev. Joseph Baylee will preach a sermon in Kirkdale Church on Sunday next, in aid of the funds for the con tinuance of the mission now happily established in this town through his disinterested an d perseveringinstru mentality, for affording the means of grace to the num bers cf Germans from time to t ime located in this town. The pecuniary responsibility of Mr. Baylee in this matter is, we are informed, of a large amount, and we hope that the Christian public will avail themselves of the present opportunity of aiding his benevolent exertions. A STEP IN THE RIGHT DIRECTION.—We have already stated that the Universities of Oxford and Cambridge have petitioned against the admission of Jews into the House of Commons. We perceive from the provincial papers that many clerical meetings have been held in various archdea conries for the same purpose, and we are glad to hear that Dr. M'Neile has prepared for the signatures of his con gregation a petition of a similar kind—a step which, to adopt the words of the clergy of the archdeaconry of Bed ford, " does not seem inconsistent with the quiet, unob trusive character of our sacred calling, but rather simply incumbent upon us in our ministerial capacity." A CONVERT.—The Albion, which has always been a thorough free-trader, seems now to be in doubt as to the policy of his pet measure. In announcing, yesterday, the re-imposition, in March next, of the duties on corn, he adds, The once much-abused ' fixed duty' is now a popular measure, and it is an axiom everywhere but in Manchester that a moderate duty on all kinds of grain and flour would not advance the price of bread one iota, while it would save us from an empty exchequer." If, a couple of years ago, we had made such a statement, the Albion would have laughed at it as the climax of absur dity. Our contemporary is not, however, the first who has acknowledged a similar error. RATING OF DOCK WAREHOUSES.—The churchwardens received last night a requisition numerously signed by the parishioners requesting them to call a meeting of the rate payers, to consider the Dock Warehouse Bill, with special reference to the non-insention of a clause rendering the warehouses liable to parish rates. As it is desirable the meeting should take place prior to the special meeting of the Council to-morrow, the churchwardens have called a special vestry meeting of the inhabitants to-day (Tuesday), at twelve o'clock. Of course it is desirable that the vestry which will be held in St. Nicholas's church, should be as numerously attended as possible, and as every parishioner is deeply interested in the question, no doubt the church will be crowded. PETITION OF RIGHT.—On Saturday, this form of pro ceeding was heard before commissioners. It has its origin in a grant from Magna Charta, which prescribes that pro ceedings against a King must be by petition of right. The case was a highly important one—the petitioners being Catherine Robson and Isabella Ainsly—who traced their descent back to Sir Robert Troutbeck, who was perpetual curate of Newton, Cumberland, in the days of Shakspeare. The property claimed by the petitioners amounts, with interest, to the immense sum of £135,759, and the jury found that the petitioners were entitled to it as the next of kin of Samuel Troutbeck. the testator. The property was seized by King George the Third. EAST INDIAN RAILWAYS. —In the House of Commons, on Friday, in answer to a question from Lord Jocelyn, Mr. C. Lewis stated, that the Calcutta Presidency had consented to the constretion of a line, called the Indian Railway Company, from Calcutta into the interior, the terms being that the sections should be executed so that the line should cost no more than £3,000,000. The. Government.were to find the land, and were to ua tee interest at the rate of 5 per cent., and t o have guarantee interest option.o of purchasing the line in 25 or 50 years.. A similar offer had been to the Great Indian Peninsular from Bombay, i n wards thirty-five mil es i n length. NA arrangement had been made with the Madras pee. 14, Mt LATEST FOREIGN AND COLONIAL. • The Swiss Diet have refused to accept the mediation of France. Abd-el-Kader has at last submitted to the Emperor of Morocco. It is believed in well-informed circles in Paris that M. Guizot has so identified himself with the policy of Austria in the Swiss affair, that he will find it necessary to resign. A general insurrection has taken place in Sicily. The constitution of 1812, guaranteed by England, has been proclaimed throughout the whole island. The entire country has risen up in arms, and the soldiers have re fused to fire upon or act against the populace. THE PRASLIN TRAGEDY.—The Droll states that Mademoiselle Deluzy has commenced a suit against Mar shal Sebastiani for the payment of an annuity of 3,000 francs (£120), bequeathed by the Duke of Praslin to the governess of his children by a will executed in the year 1843. Mademoiselle Deluzy demands, moreover, that several articles of furniture given her by her former pupils shall be restored to her, and she further demands the re payment of a sum of money which, she asserts, was con fided by her for safe keeping to the late Duke of Praslin. THE ALLEGED ATTEMPT OF COUNT MORTIER ON THE , LIVES OF HIS CHILDREN.—The circumstances connected with the rescue of the children of Count Mortier, at the Hotel Chatham, in Paris, on the ith of November last, at the• moment when he was supposed to be about to immo late them, must be fresh in the reader's recollection. Since that time his family have instituted proceedings for the purpose of having his property placed in the hands of trustees, and the count himself put into the hands of guardians as a lunatic, which he has, however, resisted, upon the grounds that he was not mad ; and that although he might have determined to commit suicide to relieve himself of the misery caused by his wife's misconduct, yet that he had no intention of harming his children, and that a determination to commit suicide by no means im plied alienation of mind. The inhabitants of Chelsea, Fulham, Kensington, and Hammersmith, are seeking to be formed into a parliamen tary borough. An ingenious- Irishman has invented a " life-preserving coat for landlords." The steamer Tagus, with the heavy portion of the East India mail, brought to Southampton, on Saturday, £lOO,OOO in specie. The Bishop of Kilmore and Ardagh has ordered the , prayer appointed to be used in the time of war and tu mults to be read in every church in his three dioceses. ' A rate of 7s. 6d. in the pound has been struck by the guardians of the Tullamore union, although the last rate of 3s. has not, and, according to the collectors, cannot be raised. COALBROOK DALE IRON WORKS.—We are sorry to learn, that the colliers at these works are to be put on half-work next week ; the iron-stone pits, we are informed, are to continue in fall operation, in consequence of the small stock of iron mine now on surface.—. Mining Journal. On Thursday morning a ship was seen on fire off Wey mouth. She was an American, of about 600 tons, and thought to be laden with cotton, She continued to burn to the water's edge, when she went down. Nothing is known of the crew, but it is supuosed they were either taken off or took to the boats. The labourers of Nenagh-450 in number—have ap plied to the poor-law guardians for relief. They state in their memorial that their food consists of turnips—one scanty meal in the twenty-four hours—oftentimes only one in forty-eight hours. They declare their willingness to be content with only three days' work in the week, but that this is not to be hoped for. The Metropolitan Sanitary Commissioners expressly state, that " there is no evidence that cholera spreads by the communication of the infected with the healthy ;" a nd they mention it as " a fact, altogether irreconcileable with the notion of contagion, that as no human means have succeeded in excluding it from particular spots, so no ex tent of communication with the sick has been able to carry it into other places." POISONED WELLS.—Any one passing Richmond-ter race, Clifton, durinc , the last week or ten days, must have remarked the long string of doctors' carriages drawn up in theneighbourhood. The reason for this formidable dis play was the existence of illness in almost every second house, the inhabitants of which were afflicted with gastric fever. It was not, however, until one death took place, and several were in imminent danger, that the cause of this extensive illness was discovered, when it turned out to be produed by the use of a spring which supplied the place, and whose waters had been imperceptibly poisoned by a sewer breaking into it, and so greatly vitiating their character as to cause gastric fever in every family using it. —Bristol Times. CULTIVATION OF COTTON IN INDIA.—On Friday a meeting of the Manchester . Commercial Association was held at their rooms in King-street, for the purpose of meeting Mr. Petrie, assistant to Dr. Wight, superinten dent of the East India Company's farm at Coimbatore , established for the cultivation of cotton from American seed. Mr. Petrie produced samples of cotton grown on the farm, which were pronounced to be equal to any that had ever been brought from New Orleans, and which he showed could be produced at a much lower price than cotton from America. In the course of the proceedings Mr. Turner (the chairman) stated that, by the permission of the chairman of the East India Company, the experi ment was made at his (Mr. T.'s) suggestion, and it was a remarkable fact that the suggestion had been sent to Manchester, and acted upon, and the cotton produced and delivered in Manchester, again in a space of time considerably less than twelve months. The meeting ap peared well satisfied with the experiment. I-Inaza,fl OF MIATT.I ARSCICIATIONT.—A of the Health of Towns Association was held on Saturday, in the Hanover-square Rooms, London. There was a numerous attendance. The Marquis of Normanby, pre. sident of the asssciation, was in the chair, supported by . Lord Ashley, M. P. ; Lord Ingestre, M. P. ; Earl For tescue • the Earl of Mulgrave ; Lord Ebrington, M. P. • Mr. W. Mackinnon, M. P. ; Mr. Ewart, M. P; ; Mr. R. Adair, M. P. ;. Mr. £ Ellice, M. P. ; Mr. Cardwell, M.P. ; Mr. R. A. Slaney, M. P. • Mr. H. Tufnell, M. P. ; Ge feral Turner; Mr. J. Heywood, M. P. ; Mr. W. S. Craig, M. P. ; Mr. M. Baines, M. P. ; Mr. C, Forteseue, M. P. ; Mr. H. Suffield ; the Hon. E. P. Bouverie, M.P. ; Mr. R. Palmer, M. P. ; Dr. Bowring, M. P. ' • Mr. Parker, M. P. ; Mr. C. P. Grenfell, M. P. ; Sir T. Birch, M. P. ; the Hon. F. Byng ; Mr. R. D. Granger, F. R. S., &c. A deputation from Liverpool and other towns at- . tended. Mr. Cardwell seconded one of the resolutions , and alluded, amidst the cheers of the meeting, to the in tention of the Corporation of Liverpool to bring water from the Lancashire hills. LoAr BREG.---600d, sweet, and wholesome bread being an indispensable requisite in every family who value their health, we are proud to have it in our power to direct their attention to Mr. Gibbon's announcement elsewhere, at whose establishment we can confidently say they Will meet with that greatest of all luxuries, "good bread; and as Christmas is approaching, we may as well, at the same time, notice the preparations he has made for supply' ing his customers with everything rare and good in the cake department. SHIPPING INTELLIGENCE. MONDAY, 13th DECEMBER.—Wind S. moderate. ARRIVED.—Ann and Jane, Smith, from- Calcutta—Mersey, Shumway, from Mobile—William Penn, Michaels, Charleston —Maid of Erin, Egan, from Pictou, and ater Witch, from St. Michael's. SAILED.-Berlin, Smith, Philadelphia—Ann Paley, Lister, Lisbon—Corinthian, M`Phun, Leghorn—X L, Owen, Ancona— Susan E. Howell, Burley, Baltimore—Ocean; Jones, and Bona Pea, Brown, New Orleans—Ocean Queen, M•Bride, Apalachi cola—Speed, Grundell, Savannah—Joseph Yeoward, Jones, Pa lermo—Marchioness of Bute, Kenny, Mobile—Amphitrite, Jullen, Bergen—Emma Heyn, Schmeer, Ancona. All the vessels that have arrived here within the last three days, experienced the hurricane of the 6th and 7th instant, which is described as being exceedingly violent, commencing from S. and S.W., and veering round to the N.W. and N.N.W., with a very heavy sea running, and occasionally severe squalls, with hail and sleet. The reports of a few of the vessels are very incomplete, and carelessly drawn up, as well as inaccurate. _ Hibernia, (steamer,) hence for BOsion, was spoken Bth Dec., at 8 a.m., in lat. 50 42, long. 11, all well, by the Stirlingshire. Prince of Wales, and Royal Saxon, from Calcutta, and Mar garet, West, from Batavia, at St. Helena, and sailed for tneir destinations 26th Oct. The Earl of Chester, that arrived here yesterday from Bom bay, lost bulwarks, stancheons, rails, cookhouse, & c., had her boats and spars started, one of her forechain plates broke, and topgallant forecastle filled with water, during the hurricane of the Gth and 7th instant. Mary Queen of Scots, Willcox, hence at Pernambuco. Hannah Kerr, Muir, from Callao, and Wilton, Wilson, from Rio Grande, at Cove. COVE, 11th Dec.—Oxford, Goodmansen, from Liverpool for New York, put in here to-day, with decks swept; out 23 days, Spoke the Enterprise, from St. John, N.B. to Cork, with lossOf foremast, bowsprit, anchors, &c. FALMOUTH, 11th Dec.—The American Lass, Cumming, from Liverpool to Sierra Leone, put in here to-day, with loss of bul warks, stancheons, and jibboom, covering boards split, leaky, &c., having been struck by a sea whilst lying too, on the 6th instant, in lat. 46, long. 6. DIED. On the 12th instant, at No. 8, Mount Vernon-road, after few days illness, aged 53, SARAH. wife of SAMUEL WIL LIAMSON, Esq., and daughter of the late John Whinyates, Esq.. of this town. Same day, at his residence, Mount-pleasant, Col. CHARLE S . MOORE. Same day, at her residence Bronte-street, aged 52 years, Mrs. CATHERINE WCABE, relict of the late Mr. Thomas M'Cabe, Blockmaker, of this town. LIVERPOOL CATTLE MARKET, DEC. 13. The supply of Stock at our market to-day has been smaller than last week, and the quality generally inferior. We had a good attendance of customers, and anything good readily sold at high prices. Beef, sd. to 64d. per lb.; Mutton, 6d. to 7d. LIVERPOOL : ,TVESDAY, DEC. 14, 1847. • PRINTED AND PUBLISHED EVERY TUESDAY MORNING, y JOSHUA FLETCHER LACE of 53 Grove street, and LEONARD ADDISON, of 14, Great Orford-street, At No. 4, ST. GEORGE'S CRESCENT, LIVERPOOL. Orders for Advertisements received by Messrs. 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COFF] TEA THE Frienth informed tha DAY EVENING ne. Lord Nelson-stree ntinent ; after 'I 'hire, subscribed 'aire, Yorkshire, 8 Tea Tickets One Shit .. "'"111r. COCKSHOT, tit-street; Mr. M. gowELL, Eating I The Public will ..,% witness the pref boffin will exhibit I s pecimens, obtain Fate his future Leo LIVE: THE EXHIB . ARTISTS is 01d Postoffice-place Admission : One tinder,, twelve years "emen's Five Shill: . h tickets, Two and Two and Sixpence. !ha by Gas-light fr tUrd a y. The EXHIBITIC fit Dusk ; and will ] eh the following 3 WOPENCE and Mrs. S. JAW FIFTY:F THE ANNU) INSTITUTIC 1111 1 d Town Council, °f January. Tickets 10s. eacl , s t•ady Patroness change, TI uffice, 2 E kid atMessrs. HE brincipal Shops in I down a D n o d o t r a s k N e Y will N.B.—No Monet PERFEC IN TEN MINU DR; LOCC 1:11HE most wor Coughs, Colds . 'ire everywhere per 14 'om Mr. P. Rol " GENTLEMEN received since my advertise the Wafei 'action to all who ti RAPID CURE OF ( " To AI SIR,-1 write t eived from taking to me. I was so m down, a coughing Often thought I she Nn sleep a whole n boxes of Wafers. ANOTHER CU • " To Al "Ps " is witl Faordinary powers Troubled with a cc Without relief, wh , to try ',mock's We for one large box e. recommended then experienced the gr ever grateful, The particulars '"very Agent throng LOCOCK'S cure of Asthmas, ( orders of the Breal To SINGERS ad s . in a few hours tl t'ovrer and Flexibil taste. Price Is. l Dw Suva and 0 by all Medicine Vei EVANS, ft ...Sold in Liverpoo ‘9nee ; ROBERTS, I Iltreet ; ASPINALI qeOrge-plaCe • BR, % treet ; and a ll Met Unnrincipled Der of Da. LOCOCk' ;heir of that r Ipeir guard against "WAFeas" unless Dear in white letter %tattle eagU box.