The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser. — Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1847-12-28 00:00:00

TO CORRESPONDENTS; does npt require any new act of the legislature for the rein)• positioh of the duties on corn in March next. The scale o duties can, however, only be continued for eleven months viz., until February 1849 We do not altogether agree with " a shareholder off in the receipts of the London and North Western Railway as compared with last year," is any cause of despondency, although there are now thirty miles more of road. It would be wonderful if, during the present commercial gloom, the that a " fallin fact was otherwise thin our - correspondent states. Then must necessarily be much less both of passenger and good: traffic, andwe think quite sufficient to account for a varia , tion in the weekly receipts of 46'1,000. sorry to find that a paragraph in one of our reeenl :rs appeared to cast an invidious reflection on the of Mr. Hughes, the celebrated equestrian. Thougl f course a humble birth casts no diarredtt on a man, yet m End that the parents of Mr. Hughes were not only respi eta ble, but possessed of wealth and influence. as the subject has bee rulents, it may be as we on Tuesday ct to in the proceedin, st, is not Dr. Brett, the cele fit of the Royil Inst mth who obtained the a Institution, Was " W st historical prize at the Colle Harper," not iLW.E. Harder,' o doubt Dr. Hampden will be elected Bishop of Hereford t( day, but should the chapter refuse, the Queen will appoir Dr. Hampden to the vacant see, and whether the cathedr anthoriti( ?unities of prcemunire urnal, a paper atrengil "the memorial to thi who in writing of him ttached to tt , n emanated from the dean Mon Lses the first person plural." .ar that the whole of the chant, However this nifty be, i r were not with him, fo re have seen the name of Lord S_ anon of Hereford, appended to t by 400 members of convocation), deprecating the oppOsitior to Dr. Hampden. It is rumoured that the Dean will absent himself to-day from the chapter meeting, thus throwing upor the canons the responsibility of electing or rejecting Dr Hampden. The Church and State Gazette states that the Dean's petition to her majesty was previously rejected by the chapter by a majority of seven to three. Ire Mercury of Tuesday last dooms a lad who bad committee murder to - a life of ignominy and oil. A Publican of Liverpool" cannot expect us to give publicity to his serious charges on anonymous authority. ET): irLibtrpool gPtanbarti. Yearly Subscription Advance, 15s. On Credit, 17s. TUESDA} MORNING, DEC. 28, 1847 Wt are about to take leave of a year which has been one of the most eventful to the commercial and trading classes of the community of any within our memory. To all it has been one of anxiety and suffering ; and to but too many it has brought ruin. It has melted down colossal for tunes to a mere competency ; it has shattered mercantile establishments, which had been regarded as impervious to any shocks which could by pos sibility be levelled against them ; it has swept remorselessly away the fruits of years of well directed enterprise and strict probity and care; and reduced the merchant prince, the tradesman, and the shopkeeper alike to but one grade above the condition from which they set out in the morning of their days upon the world's arena, and some even to a grade lower. Hundreds who en tered upon this year in the possession of means to provide every comfort and luxury of life,- find themselves at its close doomed to struggle for its bare necessaries ; to deny themselves the luxuries and conveniences which had become second nature to them, and to exchange the acquired tastes and habits of former years of opulence and elegant ease for the ruder and more homely, although in the end they may be found not less happy, pursuits of an inferior and a toiling station. To a large portion 'of our working classes also the year which is expiring has been one of suffering and disaster. From the cottages of thousands of our unemployed manufacturing operatives it has swept away every portable article of furniture, the accumulation of years of toil and saving. Thou sands of these classes have been condemned to partake of sorry Christmas cheer; and not a few have missed already, although happily the weather thus far has not been very severe, the accustomed warm blankets or the comfortable winter clothing. The pressure of the times has visited all with tolerable impartiality. It has not selected its victims. Whilst the merchant prince has been trembling in his well furnished counting-house for the safety of his hoards of wealth, the poor man in his wretched cellar has been watching over the fevered breathings of his sick wife or child ; for, to aggravate the un kindliness of the year, it has been fertile in disease and in mortality. If bankruptcy and loss have been before the rich man's eyes ; if for him the Gazette has had its terrors ; the fever shed and the parish coffin have been equally before the eyes of too -many of his humbler 'brethren:- - - w e regret strongly that we are not able to hold out a prospect of any immediate return by the commercial community to a state of prosperity, or even of ease, notwithstanding the very important movement of the Bank of England on Thursday, reducing the minimum rate of interest on Bills of Exchange to 5 per cent. 'We have been too deci sively struck down to be able at once to rally. The complicated machinery of commercial credit has been too completely thrown out of order to be set in motion readily. After such a crisis as we have just encountered prudent men will pause, will feel their way step by step, and calculate their means, before embarking i n any new business. We anti cipate that in the n e w year which is approaching we shall have some months of probation; and it may even be that we shall also have some further yielding of houses, which have thus far been only temporarily propped up by their friends and con nexicns. It must be borne in mind too that amongst those mercantile establishments, which have the most triumphantly weathered the storm, there are few who will not have to feel the loss of actual capital, in addition to the limitation of mer cantile credit; and hence mercantile operations generally must be confined within a narrower or bit, and carried on more exclusively on a real foundation. It is tolerably certain, too, that we must experi ence next year a limitation of consumption at home of articles of import and manufacture, to a far greater extent than we have a prospect of increased exports and consequent employment of our work ing population. The extensive suspension of rail way works must seriously affect the condition of the labourers formerly dependant upon them, and through them the merchant, the shopkeeper, and the artizan ; whilst the drain of capital going on for those lines which are still being constructed will press with inconvenient severity upon the now restricted means of the holders of their stocks. The crisi s m a y indeed be past. We have ileen the worst of bank suspensions ay26 l . Ynerclzatile failures, But we must 197 kg our minds to the conviction that we have, as a commercial community, dill much to go ;rough, which will tax all our patience and re quire all our prudence and foresight, To this commercial community of Liverpool the prospect for the year to come is perhaps brighter than that of some other communities. We have been severely and peculiarly tried; and we may reasonably hope for the absence in the coming year of the inflictions of the last. We may be spared the infliction of Irish immigration under which, and the disease brought with it, we suffered so se verely in the year gone by. Ireland cannot for ever be visited with famine, or partial failure of the potatoe. We have also the prospect of an ample supply of the raw material, cotton, which may be called one of the staple trades of our port. Our export trade also may be reasonably expected to increase, from the known fact that the principal foreign markets are unusually bare of British arti cles. But we must not be sanguine. Prudent caution should be the characteristic of every man's business transactions for some time to come, unless the lesson which we have recently received has been given in vain. THE supporters of the principle of Dock Ware houses, or rather those of our local Journalists who have taken up the question with less of discre tion than knowledge of the real hearings of the subject in hand, affect to be perfectly amazed at the influence, both out of doors and in the Council, of what is generally termed the warehouse interest, 3s shewn in the result of the recent agitation to procure insertion of a rating clausein the D oc k Bill. The private warehouse-owners were set down as a class politically defunct. They had conceded their just claims, in deference to a temporary cry for the adoption of a new system. which was, whilst inflicting serious injury upon themselves alone, to benefit incalculably the rest of the com munity. They were conceived to hare henceforth Little else to do than to set about the task of reducing their expenditure to the level of their crippled incomes, or of making out their balance sheets for the instruction of the Bankruptcy Com missioners, their creditors, or the annuitants de pendent upon the mass of building property held by them. Matters, however, have not progressed so smoothly as was anticipated bf some of the persecutors of this class of the community. A egiticaon suffering brings about very rapidly a unity of endeavour to get Tid of its cause. When it is found that a weapon, aimed only at a single object, scatters its shot amongst,the spectators, it is not very unnatural that the. latter should seek to put a i) to any further discharges This has been eminently the case with the work- ing of the Albert Dock Warehouses thus far. The public, and especially the tradesmen of the town, have discovered that the private warehouse interest is not the only one which is being damaged. They see' that many of the predictions which that in- terest advanced as to the tendency of the system, if carried on under an exclusive system, are being verified. The merchants were the first to com plain that they were not excepted from the general lot ; but that the privilege of sampling their own aoo& was to be taken 'from their. 'The master porters saw with alarm their business, so far as the Albert Dock was Concerned; transferred exclusively to a public body. The coopers of the port saw them:3elves excluded, by the Committee's regula tion, from carrying on a business there in which they had been brought up from boyhood ; and ()they trades looked forward to a similar depriva tion. Still, for a time, there was only one Dock from which they were driven out. The great mass F the 3rk of the port they have still open to rem. But it became a totally different question ben a large extension of the system was pro- Deed. It became, in fact, a question whether, be- Ire consenting to such an extension, the justice of those regulations might not be fairly canvassed, invelving as they did the utter ruin of some of the most extensive trades of the port; and hence 'the increased influence, in the Council and amongst of that feeling, of which the warehouse owners are the. most prominent repre sentatives. Hence the potential character of the claims of that body to be dealt with equally, as to rating with the public body, with whom they have t o compete. We 'gave in. our last a copy of the memorial presented to the Council, by the master coopers of the port, a body of tradesmen second to none in respectability; and we refer to the substance of that memorial, not only because the claims which it urges are strong in themselves, but, as well, be cause the coopers alone have as yet felt tile full force of their exclusion from the Albert Dock. The committee has its own foremen and coopers in this dock, and admits none else to work within its walls. A master cooper may have been em ployed for years by a merchant. Some of them have worked for him during a long life of indus try ; yet, although such merchant would gladly be permitted to keep up the old connexion, and to have their work done by the old hands, if his vessel is sent into the Albert Dock—and we presume the same principle is to be carried out in all our future enclosed docks—the connexion must be dissolved. The dock coopers alone must be admitted on board to head his casks, to repair them, or to determine upon their security from leakage and waste when , warehoused. These men have many o f them ex tensive premises, some of them on lease, and most of them at high rentals. They are heavily rated to our local burthens. They have large capitals embarked in materials. They have apprentices to be taught their trade, and to be dependent upon its permanency in after years. Is it fair that their interests should be sacrificed to the grinding strin gency of the experiment, or to the perhaps hasty dicta of any committee of their fellow-townsmen ? But the full extent of the grievance imposed upon them is not seen at a glance. Surround the whole of our docks, or those of them only which bring the commodities most likely to be warehoused on the dock quays, and what need shall we have, as a port, of coopers at all, except to mend our water tubs and make buckets ? These men may close their establishments. It may be said, however, that we shall have a sufficient resource in the coopers engaged by the committee themselves. But where will they get them from ? Will an ex perienced man be found in the port, should we want a further supply in a few years' time ? The Dock Committee, we presume, will not take apprentices ; the masters cannot do so either, or teach them their trade if they were willing. It is well known that the cooperage of West India produce, palm oil, and some other similar articles, affords a large amount of employment to the coopers, and con stitutes a peculiar portion of the business. Now this portion is most likely to be stored very exten sively in the dock warehouses ; and the parties now principally dependent upon it must at once with.: draw from business, or transfer themselves, with their apprentices, to some other port. The case of this body of men cannot be tainted with the charge of a wish to monopolise. They urge, on the' contrary, that by their withdrawal from the trade, the business in the hands of the committee and their coopers will become a mono poly. They ask to be allowed to enjoy a fair op portunity of competition with their opponents; and heavily burthened as they are by their position as large ratedayers, as compared with their opponents, they do not fear the result. Their claim, moreover, they conceive, is one in which the whole mercantile community is interested. The merchant has at present no control over the charges made for his cooperage, nor security for the manner in which it is executed. But if the mercantile community is interested in the question, the trading interests are still more so. If it is essential to the working of the dock-ware house system that the committee should be their own coopers, why not their own joiners, their own carpenters, their own riggers, blockmakers, ropers, &c. ? The principle contended for, that the com mittee must have a full control over every work man admitted within their docks, extends this length or none. THE subject of Free Trade is one of so dry and oftentimes complicated a nature, that few casual readers have the time or inclination to wade through the long articles occasionally emitted by the periodical Reviews upon it; and, therefore, the erroneous doctrine they often send forth is allowed to pass as if it was irrefragable. An arti cle appeared in the October number of the Edin burgh Review, which, notwithstanding it has evi dently been the effusion of a writer who has stu died closely the subject he analyzes, is also so obviously the production of a strong party writer, blinded by prejudice, that we are tempted to ex pose some of his fallacies which are vented on the Navigation Question. The greatest and most pervading of these is the notion that the greater our purchases of ships or any other thing abroad, the better,—as we are certain to export such amount of our own manu factures as will cover the cost of all such imports, to whatever extent they may be brought. Alas ! I the present distress and penury of the country too ' plainly shew the contrary ; whilst they prove as distinctly that the payments for the large quantity of corn and provisions we were compelled to im port this year, has impoverished us to a degree which is too palpable to he mistaken. And it may be asked, How are we to pay the American people for the corn, provisions, cotton wool, turpentine, &c., with which they supply us, when the artisans of the United States arrive, by the rapid strides they are now making, at such perfection in cotton, iron, and other manufactures, as to require none from us ? Then surely shall we have cause to regret the loss of those valuable customers, our own colonies, of which the free traders are so anxious to suggest measures for depriving us. The Reviewer expresses alarm lest America should retaliate for our present restrictions, much reduced as they are; but if he would inquire into the subject, he would find that the American code is not more liberal than our own ; consequently, there is no ground for retaliation. The late Mr. Deacon Hume undoubtedly has claims to be considered as a clever man, but he was not without strong prejudices in favour of certain doctrines; and his constantly citing the prosperity of the cotton manufacture as a proof that we should succeed in the same degree in every other manufacture, appears to have been without the consideration that the coals and machinery of Manchester afforded it advantages which other trades did not enjoy. The Reviewer attaches great importance to the arrival of a few cargoes of sugar from Porto Rico, and other slave plantations, under the new system, but quite overlooks the much greater amount of loss the natioh is sustaining by the blow it has colonies ; and although at given page ive t 2 o ou B2h r e o own old admits l that colonies are extremely beneficial to the interests of th e mo th er coun t ry , and encourage its shipping, he changes his mind at page 299, where he more than insinuates that colonies are of no advantage whatever. His ideas of allowing foreign vessels to be in troduced into our coasting trade, on the plea that such permission , would not be availed of, is per- l'lft LIVkitPOOL STANDARD. fatly theoretical ; for if a Belgian vessel, returning borne in ballast, took a cargo to the Isle of Wight it a reduced freight on her way home, would it not be a deprivation to our own coasters ? The Reviewer, brought up in the Manchester school, of course imagines that the throwing out of employ of a few thousands of shipwrights and carpenters should be reckoned as nothing, provided an equal number of weavers and spinners are brought into work ; and also seems to regard as Certain what is extremely doubtful—whether in crease of commerce would augment in proportion the number of British carriers, when all the foreign shipping of the world was let loose upon us. His notions of equivalents also seem to be perfectly one-sided ; for he conceives that the abolition of so trivial a thing as the 7th section of the present Navigation Act, and the dispensing with appren tices (a matter of very * doubtful policy), would compensate the British, shipowner for the losses he would inevitably sustain by the total repeal of the Navigation Law. As it is now announced that a modification of this law is to occupy the early attention of the legislature, and it is possible that the article at which we , briefly glanced may have been put forth as a feeler to the country, we shall enter into a consideration of the writer's views on a future occasion. THE committee appointed to enter into an inves tigation of the effect of our system of currency in producing the commercial difficulties under which the country has been labouring, have adjourned their sittings, as we anticipated, until the 4th of February, when parliament meets again for busi ness. The mode in which the enquiry is intended to be conducted has, no doubt, been determined upon ; hot, beyond this, nothing has been done. We gr e atly fear, therefore, that all that we h ave to expect from its labours for some twelve months to c ome is a blue book at the end of the session, by whi c h time the bank directors will have been enabled t o get up in the country a factitious prosperity, which will serve to render us forgetful of what we have recently been suffering ; and that legislation on the subject will then be postponed for another year, or probably the question will be cushioned until the recurrence of another monetary pressure brings the country once more to its proper senses. We would urge upon the various commercial communities to be prepared to defeat the efforts of the ultra-bullionist party thus to get rid of so all important a subject. The question must not be allowed to , be put to sleep. It should be agitated; and, most important of all, our leading merchants and bankers ought to confer with each other, and to be prepared to lay before parliament a remodi fication of our monetary system, which will meet the altered circumstances of the country. Our commercial associations ought to debate the ques tion. Each member ought to bring to the various bodies the result of his experience of the working of `the present laws. There will be found in the accounts of the many suspended mercantile estab lishments striking practical lessons on the subject. It will he seen from these sources of information the process by which our large concerns are one day oppressed with the extent of capital within their reach for investment or speculation, and at another time, without any previous warning, are reduced to the adoption of all sorts of expedients to avert ruin. A vast mass of information might thus be got together, and arranged, with the deductions to be drawn from it, ready to be laid before the Parliamentary Committee as soon as it meets, or to be brought before parliament and the country, should that Committee show a disposition to burke tha enquiry. It should he made, too, a point of duty with the well-informed amongst the mercantile and trading class to study, and to make themselves thoroughly conversant with, the subject of currency. There is no class of the community, from the merchant prince, the fundowner, and the holder of railway shares, to the shopkeeper and even the labourer, who is not deeply interested in the proper adjust ment and regulation of the circulating medium. There is no holder of a contract, no acceptor of a bill of exchange, no buyer or seller of a commodity, no man even whose capital is his labour, whose interests are not at stake—who is not liable to have all his enterprise rendered nugatory by an arbitrary turn, or an injudicious relaxing of the screw, of which the handle is in the bank parlour. There can be no safety until not only the banker and the merchant capitalist, but the tradesman and shopkeeper as well, are able to see before they enter into engagements, whether they are likely to be able to meet them—whether, in short, there may not be, at the very moment they may be making such en gagements, an artificial crisis preparing, which will raise beyond their reach the capital upon which they are depending. There is, we verily believe, not a commercial nation in the world, whose trading classes are more generally ignorant upon monetary questions, than the British nation. The subject has been studiedly mystified, and represented as one with which only legislators have occasion to be conversant, when, in fact, the circumstances which affect the demand for, and supply of, money are as important to be known, and as simple, as those which affect the demand and supply of any article of produce or of merchandize. LATEST INTELLIGENCE. (BY EXPRESS.) THE WEST INDIES The Trent steamer arrived from the West Indies at Southampton, yesterday. She has brought 17,000 dollars and £1,970. The most important news from Barbadoes is that the West India Bank suspended payment on the Ist of De cember. It was, however, generally supposed the em barrassment was only of a temporary nature, and that the bank would go on again shortly. VIE DESIGNS OF POPERY AND THE OATH OF ALLEGIANCE The legislators of this Protestant country, and our high functionaries, of fttrious kinds, are required, on their as suinption of the official powers, to swear that " no foreign prince, prelate, or power has, or ought to have, any authority or jurisdiction within this realm ;" and it must be admitted that the oath in question—the oath of supre macy—is rather a difficult pill for a conscientious man to swallow. What can we say, for instance, of the hardship of insisting upon our making a solemn asseveration of the absence of authority in the Pope of Rome to exercise spiritual authority within this realm, with the following paragraph before us, which we take from the columns of the Morning Post 1— " The Rev. John H. Newman was to leave Rome on the 9th instant, for England. Mr. Newman is the bearer of documents of great importance relative to the arrangement of the Roman Catholic dioceses, and the establishment of new Bishoprics. He is expected in England in a few days." If if is not a fact that the Pope of Rome exercises " spi ritual authority" over the priesthood of Great Britain and Ireland, we can scarcely conceive what the term used means. It has been- said, indeed, in past times, as an answer to the charge of interference, that the Romish clergy only acknowledged him as their guide in matters of faith and doctrine. But here we have him exercising both a temporal and spiritual authority; re-arranging Romish dioceses in this country, and establishing new bishoprics ; exercising, in fact, over the Romish clergy and church here precisely the same authority which her Majesty the Queen, her Privy Council and Parliament exercise by law over the Established Church of England. There is not a hair's breadth of difference between the two jurisdictions. But the Pope, it would seem, contemplates and claims still further inroads upon the Protestant faith and the temporal power vested in the Queen, the Lords, and Com mons of Great Britain, if we can believe that the leading organ of British Papists—the Tablet—is in earnest in the following paragraph contained in one of his recent num bers. His holiness asks to be enabled to control not only his own spiritual subjects, but to dictate to the sovereign and the legislature of this realm what laws they shall enact. We quote the paragraph as one of the most astounding pieces of impudence with which we have recently met : " Calm your perturbation, ye excellent individuals, and submit with decent dignity o the inevitable. It is even so. It must be so. It will be so yet more and more. You are only at the beginning of your perplexity. The Pope will speak more loudly than ever, and what is more, he will be listened to. He will turn over your musty acts of parliament with finger and thumb, scrutinising them with a most irreverent audacity ; examining those which concern him; and when he has found these, rejecting some, and tolerating others, with as much freedom as you use when you handle oranges in a shop, selecting the soft and sweet, and contemptuously rejecting the sour and the rotten. And then—oh ! dreadful thought —he will insist upon being obeyed. The very slates of Exeter Hall must erect themselves in horror at the bare thought of such a thing. What ! The bill was read three times in each session of Parliament : it was twice passed, engrossed on parchment, garnished with a waxen appendage by way of seal, and has had over it pro nounced by Royal lips the mysterious and creative fiat, La Reineveut. The Queen wills it—the Lords will it— the Commons will it. What does it want to complete the perfect fashion of a law ? Nothing of solemnity, nothing of force, which the imperial sceptre of the kingdom could give, is wanting to it. But truly it may want the sanction of religion ' • the Pope snuffs disdainfully at it ; the Ita lian Priest will have none of it ; it trenches upon his rights, or rather upon his duties : it violates the integrity of those interests which he is set to guard ; and, there fore, Commons, Lords ' Queen, wax, parchment and all, avail it very little. You may call it law, if you please. You may enter it on your roll. You may print it in the yearly volume of your statutes. But before long you will have to repeal or alter it, to procure the sanction of a foreign potentate, without which it has not, in the end, the value of a tenpenny nail. Thrice happy England ! A blessed lot, indeed, it is which is in store for us, as the repayment of all the con cessions which .we have made to this insatiable power. By and bye, unless British Protestantism awake from its false arena of security, neither the decisions of a British parliament, the crown of a British Sovereign, nor the liberties or lives of a British Protestant people will be — if we may use the language of this insolent Popish scribe — "worth a tenpenny nail " ! PRESENTATION TO CHARLES EDWARD RAWLINS, ESQ. Mr. Mayer, in Lord-street, has just completed a service of plate, to be given by the members of the Antimonopoly Association, of this town, to their late secretary, which is, as a work of art, perhaps the purest specimen, and the best adapted to illustrate the subject that has been executed for many years, if we might not say ever was got up in this country. The principal piece is a large sized waiter, which is made on quite an original plan. The centre is a raised flat, on which is chased a figure of Victoria the First, seated on a rock, with the British lion at her feet, and a globe, which is onwreathed with a laurel branch, as showing the blessing of peace enjoyed by the world at this period. Her right hand is extended in the act of receiving the four geogra phical sisters, Europe, America, Asia, and Africa, with their characteristic emblems. Then in a lower, or sunken circle, are represented the principal trading nations of the earth, bartering and exchanging their manufactures and the produce of the soil with English merchants, for their varied articles of necessity, comfort, or elegance. In one group is the American giving his cotton, tobacco, &c., for the produce of Manchester and Spitalfields. Another, the liberated slave, has adopted the European costume, and is introducing the English merchant to his sable brethren, and showing them the advantages of com merce in exchanging their ivory, palm oil, &c. for calicoes and articles of domestic comfort. The Asiatic forms another group, and with his laden camels is transporting his spices and gums to give in exchange for articles his unsettled habits of life preclude him from manufactUring with equal perfection and cheapness. The Chinese is of fering his chests of tea and other products of the country in barter for cloths and other goods he does not make. Here is a group of Spanish peasants, with their pic turesque Andalusian costume, enjoying a harvest home, after the gathering of the fruit of the vine: whilst in another group is the haughty Spaniard, in his ample cloak, arguing the value of his pipes of wine, to be disposed of for some bales of English manufactured goods, of which the seller feels equal pride for the superiority of their quality and fabric. Each group has its appropriate distinctions in the falls of Niagara, the shipping and steamers on the Guadal quiver, the sugar-canes of Western India, the palm trees of Africa, the elephant, the camel, and the horse, the pyramids, the pagoda, and the spire, the proha, the junk, and the steamer, as each distinguishing the country to which it is peculiar. The border is again raised above the chasing, to an equal height with the centre, and is a broad and richly chased band, on which are grouped the various articles used in domestic, agricultural, mechanical, industrial, and ornamental convenience or skill. The centre is re lieved from the broad flat of chasing by a polished band of bright silver on which is engraved the following quota tion :—" Monopoly is the Parent of scarcity, of dearness, opoly Ltociatioi;, a b n or d d o e f r Secretary to the Liverpool An - the Council and Members." uncertainty." c e e n r g t arianvteyd. To ond Charlesona similar band band Va n s , :dA s t q he , 1842 to 1847, presented I.Y . . of fn which inkstand e .A w r i e th rse a y fi i g s u a r n e seated, with one foot on a marine shell to right hand resting on the Anotheras h f m e'w i v ratherl er p part proximity o h 'afn the e r t o i : e t r the e s h e e i a r s , p eo r m ow m o er f ci a al v gr es e s a e t i n t e o indicate ss—andin frm h o er whenceleft than h d s ,r e derives estingon her lap, she holds a wreath of laurel to denote her anxiety for peace and good-will to the different nations of the earth who visit her shores. The ink bottles are formed of the lotus, to represent the oldest nation, and the cotton plant as the youngest nation of commercial greatness. Besides these, there is a beautiful basket enriched in the same style, together with a large table service of silver plate. ST. SAVIOUR'S CHURCH TO THE EDITOR OF THE LIVERPOOL STANDARD, SlR,—Having frequently witnessed your able advocacy of our Scriptural Church of England, I hope you will be able to afford a small space for a short notice respecting St. Saviour's Church. To all those in the town who feel interested in the spread of the truth, as it is in Jesus, but especially to such inha bitants as reside within the district of Falkner-square, it must be a matter of great joy and thankfulness to notice its improving circumstances. It may scarcely become me to say how devoted the re spected incumbent seems to his work ; but the fact of the free seats filling, proves that the Gospel is indeed preached to the poor, and that when Christ is proclaimed scrip turally, faithfully, and affectionately, first, last, and always, the people will flock to the green pastures of God's sanctuary, where they may be fed with the bread and water of life freely. It cannot fail to I:e j m ost gratifying to the new minister (Rev. G. W. Warr) to observe the increased congregation within the past few months ; and it must be a source of great encouragement to him to persevere in his indefa tigable labours. I, for one, should rejoice to see the sa cred edifice thronged with devout worshippers, not hearers or admirers only, but faithful doers of the Word, who will " so let their light shine before men, that they may see their good works, and glorify our Father, which is in Hea ven ; ' and thus give demonstrable evidence of being " the living epistles of Christ known and read of all men. " Praying that the Church of Christ may extend on every side, and that St. Saviour's may prove a great blessing its neighbourhood ; that its already endeared pastor, who has the prayers of unknown friends to sustain him in his arduous duties, may be abundantly " watered himself while in the act of watering others," and be made the honoured instrument of winning many souls to Christ. who shall constitute " his crown of rejoicing in the Presence of our Lord Jesus Christ at His coming;" _ I remain, dear sir, your's truly, X X. [The writer of the foregoing is 'Wwarm friend of the Church of England, and we gladly comply with his wish to insert his letter.] CHARGE OF FELONY.—John.Campbell and John Cash were charged by Anthony Robinson with having stolen a quantity of composition nails at the Brunswick Dock. Mr. Rushton said it was not a case of felony against the prisoners, (who were discharged,) but observed that it was one of very serious inquiry against the dockmaster of the Brunswick (Charles Vas), who had in solve way been a party to permitting the robbery, and he directed that a statement of the facts should be sent to Mr. Brumley- Moore. THE SHIPOWNERS AND THE IMPORTERL S OF FOREIGN PRODUCE For some years past the position in which the shipowner has found himself placed with the merchant, on the arrival of his vessel from a foreign port, with respect to , the payment of his freight, has been felt as one of con siderable inconvenience. The former is bound to satisfy, in the first instance, the claims of his crew for wages, within a day or two of their being put on shore. He has various port charges to pay, and he may have to meet bills drawn upon him by his captain in the port from which his vessel sailed, or in any other port at which he may have been driven to put in for water, repairs, &c. To enable him to fulfil these oblintions, he has, if not a party of ample capital or credit, to depend in a good mea sure upon the collection of his freight, or occasionally to receive an advance upon it from the broker to whom the ship is consigned. In ordinary times, the collection of the freight, al though teasing, is not productive of serious difficulty. He finds a portion of the cargo consigned "to order; ' and when, as is frequently the case, the merchant holding such order" and the bill of lading, does not promptly present himself to own and take away such cargo, but en deavours to use the ship itself as a warehouse until he finds a buyer, delay in discharging occurs, and, indepen dentlyof havingto wait anunreasonabletitne for his money, he may lose, and frequently does lose, an advantageous outward freight. By the terms of his charter party, the earnings of the ship are due on the delivery of the cargo "in good order and condition ; " but in such cases, he cannot deliver, because he does not know to whom the cargo has to be handed. The only course then open to him is, after proper notice given, to warehouse the goods at the expense of the owners, to be delivered to them on the payment of freight and charges. But here a difficulty arises which, in times of pressure and fluctuation of prices like the present, becomes a seri ous one. The shipowner has no power of forcing .a sale to repay him for his outlay. He has to wait until the state of the market enables the importer to realise : and thus, should the voyage have been a long one, and the article imported a low priced one, of which the freight compoes a large portion of its value here, he is, in many instances, finding bona fide capital to a large amount for the use of the speculator. In many instances, where the market for a commodity thus shipped has sustained a severe depres sion, its saleable value on arrival may be found not to cover the freight. At this moment we learn that there is East India produce ( rice) stored in our Albert Dock warehouses, which has been so far depreciated in price that, if sold to-morrow, it would not realise the freight and the rent chargeable. Yet the shipowner has long ago performed his part of the contract, and paid his wages, port dues, &c. It is by his Capital that it is now held ; yet he has no such control over the produce as will enable him to realise. We are glad to perceive, from a communication ad dressed by a Liverpool shipowner to the London Times, that this great grievance is exciting the attention of the parties most interested, and that efforts are about being commenced for its redress. It ought to be taken up not only by the shipowners and charterers of vessels them selves, but by those merchants as well, who are in the habit of rendering themselves fully responsible for their transactions. A legitimate import trade can never be done whilst the man of no means, or of indifferent honesty, is allowed by this loose system to conduct large operations without, at the same time, being compelled to assume a proper amount of responsibility for their result. We ap prehend that the mercantile community and the ship owners have the remedy within their own reach. A power of sale, within a reasonable limit, and with just regulations as to the mode of conducting such sale, might be given in all charter-parties. If this, however, cannot be done, or if the necessary amount of unanimity upon the subject cannot be insured, we cannot think that the legislature would refuse interference if the case were fairly brought before its notice. POPERY AND SUPERSTITION STILL ALLIED. Under this head we last week inserted a brief article, shewing that " in the Swiss quarrel, one of the strongest weapons used by the priesthood in the Romish cantons, to urge their flocks to resistance, was an assurance of an especial divine protection, vouchsafed to all who should fight in the church's cause." Amulets were, forsooth, to be sold, at half-a-crown each, represented as efficacious in turning aside bullets from the person of the wearer. We also said that a similar amulet had been recently found at Birkenhead. In consequence of our notice of these facts, we have received (as a further confirmation) a curious little tract, of eight pages, entitled, " Two Divine Revelations, revealed to St. Augustine, St. Brid get, and St. Anne, by our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ," and " printed in the present year," so far as we can make out the type. The document, which has a large staring cross on the first page, is much worn, soiled, and tattered, having been worn as a bosom friend, and often perused by the owner, a labourer at some buildings in this town, in whose bag, accidentally dropped, it was found. In the second page an attempt is made to explain the authenticity of the ' revelations," and it is stated that " The second explains the Twelve Golden Fridays in the year, and the Devotions, together with some salutary Acts, by the late Rev. Father Murphy, D.D.,—revised and improved by several learned and eminent Divines of the Church of Rome, and now published for the general benefit of all pious Catholics, from a manuscript carefully translated from the Italian ;" thus giving an authority and a sanction, in the eyes of the ignorant, to the super stitious and blasphemous asseverations which it sets forth. The " charm" assumed to belong to personal possession of this piece of paper is thus set forth within brackets . " All Christians are here to note the virtues of this reve lation are such, that what man or woman soever who shall carry it about them, fulfilling the requests of our Holy Mother of the Church, shall not only be free from their enemies, but also from a sudden and unprovided death ; and if a woman travailling with child shall have it about her, she will not only be safely delivered, but like wise be free from the fear of death in childbed ; and what house or place it is kept in shall be free from evil spirits. And to him or her who shall carry it about them, the Blessed Virgin will appear, and forewarn them of their future blessed state." The concluding words are " Chris tians, pray for the souls of C. and M. C." We need offer no comment on this unmanly and anti-Christian entrap ment of the ignorant mind, and all the harm we wish the cunning priest or priests who have framed it, is that one of them should be kept in each of their houses, so that (by their own asseveration) it " shall be free from evil spirits." We are authorised to state, in reference to an allusion in the Mail, that the Rev. Samuel Fenton had nothing whatever to do with the address from the clergy of Liver pool approving of Dr. Hampden's promotion. The rev. gentleman never even saw the address. GRATIFYING TESTIMONIAL.—On Christmas-day the churchwardens (Messrs. Robinson and M'Culloch) of St. Mary's, Bootle, on behalf of the congregation, presented their valued incumbent, the Rev. John Crump, with a purse containing one hundred guineas : a substantial to ken of their approbation of his untiring zeal in the service of his flock. The testimonial is not the less g ratifying to one and complimentary to the other, froin o tt 3 c i i i r i c= l : stance of Mr. Crump's recent appoin t ment t to cement the bency, where we hope to see tin o ' n already so a uspiciously formed between pastor and um. people. SUDDEN DEATHS.—Yesterday an inquest was held be fore Mr. Curry, on view of the body of Thomas Fair dough, the son of a rigger living in Henderson-street, Toxteth-park. On the afternoon of Saturday deceased fell asleep, and was put to bed in apparently his usual health ;—he was found dead shortly afterwards. He was a delicate child, and, it appeared, had died from convul sions.—Another inquest was held yesterday, on the body of James Ellams Standish, eight months old, who lived with his parents in Warwick-street. Deceased had had an affection of the bowels. He was found dead in bed early on Sunday morning. Verdict—" Death from na tural causes." FAREWELL SERMON AT ST. JUDE'S OF THE REV. DRUMMOND ANDERSON. — On Christmas evening, the Rev. Mr. Anderson, who has most ably and acceptably officiated for about four years as Curate of St. Jude's Church, preached his farewell sermon to a numerous assemblage of the congregation, to the whole of whom he had most deservedly become affectionately attached. His discourse was most feeling and impressive, and was highly creditable to his heart as well as his head. He referred in a most grateful manner to the kindness and consideration of those among whom he had had the fortune to officiate ministerially, and wished them all the happi ness which this world can afford. The rev. gentleman immediately enters upon his important duties as Chaplain of the Workhouse, to which he was recently appointed by the Select Vestry, and for the discharge of which he pos sesses, in an eminent degree, every necessary qualification. OBTAINING MONEY UNDER FALSE PRETENCES FROM THE PARISII-OFFlCE. — Yesterday, a woman, named Ann Turner, was charged by Mr. Gray, of the Parish-Office, and another gentleman of the same establishment, with baying obtained parish relief, from the 25th of May last, and for ten weeks afterwards. at the rate of six shillings a-week ; she represented herself as being friendless and destitute, though it appeared that her husband was in good work at a foundry. She stated that she had had sickness and distress in her family, which was large— also two deaths amongst them, and that this induced her to make the application. Mr. Gray admitted that she had a large family, but said that the Parish-Office was overrun with oases of imposition. Mr. Rushton said the vigilance of the pariah office was not exerted to the ut most, otherwise cases of the kind would not occur. He remanded the prisoner for further evidence. CHARGE OF STEALING A BALE OF COTTON. — At the police court yesterday, a man of respectable appearance, named Edward Moore, was placed before Mr. Ru shton, on a charge of having in his possession, and hav in g dis posed of a bale of cotton, which had arrived' at v atprtohceeerdedail way station in this town. Constable al markstagbilneKehoc an had beenactive detective officer, gave a long and rather verbose descrip_ tion of the package, and the manner in which, for the h o p b u l r? te o r s a e ted of ,ftehloenirooupses,trtaankseitn. off, Ikc oi after the venue, from information received, and traced it to the warehouse of a Mr. Smith, who kept a cotton stove, and who, it appeared, bought it in an honourable way of trade as a bale returned from Manchester—paying for it "at once 4d. per lb. Mr. Davenport defended the pri soner, and elicited from the prosecutor that he had known him for several Years, and was not aware of anything wrong in his character. The prisoner, under the circum stances, was remanded until Wednesday, so that further enquiry might be made into the case. Mr. Rushton re marked that Mr. Smith ought to have exercised mope discretion on purchasing the bale. Mr. Smith said that the marks were so obliterated that, in addition to what he was told, he felt assured that it was a returned bale, and as such he had purchased it at a fair price. Dec• 28, 1847. LATEST FOREIGN AND COLONIAL AMERICA. The packet-ship Mary Ann, Captain Patten, arrived its the Zersey yesterday, fr3m Boston, with advices from that port, to the 6th instant, and from New York to the 4th, inclusive. She brings no specie on freight. lad Reyu,b/icano, published at the capital on the 4th, says" that A , sufficient number of members had arrived at Queretaro, on the Ist of November fir the transaction of business. A lettOr from Queretaro direct announces that Congress had organizBd on the 2d of November, and that Senor L. Jos Marial Eodev, a deputy from Guanaxuato, had been selected president, and Senor D. Jos Maria 11 , rnandes, a deputy from Durango, was elected vice. president." Santa Anna was believed to be secreted at Vera Cruz, waiting to escape. There bad been a political emeute at Guadalaxara. There had been little doing in foreign exchanges at New York, on the The rates were 10 to 10k. CITY TRADE NEW YORK, FRIDAY AFTERNOON, DEC. 3. The markets since the Ist, have continued very dull, and the business now going forward is extremely light, even tbr this period of the season, in which there is usually but little doing. The recurrence too of mild and rainy weather has suspended the activity in domestic produce noticed in our last. The Erie Canal, at last accounts, was navigable from Buffalo to Albany. The weather again proved very inclement, and a steady rain fell durinc , the greater part of the day, w hi c h inter rupted all out-door' business. Flour was steady at yester day's quotations, with a fair amount of sales. Wheat re mained about the same, without sales of moment. Corn sold to a moderate extent, at previous rates. Meal con• tinued steady, with considerable sales. Rye sold at yes terday's prices. Oats were somewhat less firm, and sales made on terms slightly in favour of purchasers. Provisions were inactive. ' ‘ `Pork was nominally the same, while sales of all kinds were very limited. There was nothing new in Groceries. The rain storm prevented sales by auction in the streets. Corrox.—The market remains dull, and sales were effected with difficulty at the quotations annexed. LIVERPOOL CLASSIFICATION. New Orlealit, Uplands. Florida. Mob., 4r TeX. none. none. none. 64 to 64 64 to 64 64 to 6 7 to 74 7 to 7t 74 to 7i - - to 71 74 to 71 74 to 71 Inferior Ordinary Middling Good Middling Fully Fair Good Fair. Bif to 8 8 to 8 81 to 8i si to 9 9 to a FREIGHTS.-800 brls. flour were engaged for Glasgow, and 500 ditto for Liverpool, at Is. 6d. to each port. It was said 9d. was offered for corn in bulk to Ireland. To London, previous rates continued to be demanded. To Antwerp, ashes were taken at 305., while to Havre there was no change. NEW ORLEANS, Nov. 25. The Cotton market is quiet ; prices rule in favour of the buyer. Sugar is without change. Molasses : sales at 181 to Mt cents, with but little in first hands for sale. Flour is dull at previous prices. Corn : sales at 44 and 46 cents.. In freights we have no new engagements to report. &- changes : no alteration in previous rates. MRS. H. BEALE'S CONCERT AT THE ROYAL ASSEMBLY ROOMS, GT. GEORGE-STREET. Last evening, this lady gave her annual concert, at the above rooms, which we were, as showing, on the part of our fellow-townsmen, an appreciation for fine classical music, glad to see very well and fashionably attended. The music selected was principal .v from the first German composers, and comprised some of the latest pieces of the lamented Mendelsshon. The gem of the first part, which alone we were able to stay to hear, was a manuscriet song, written by this great composer in Miss ware album, which was sung by that lady with touching sweetness and encored. Another song 'from Mozart's Figaro, " Al desio," was also given in her own splendid style. The trio in C minor by Mrs. H. Beale (piano forte), and Messrs. Herrmann and Haddock (violin and violin cello), was finely played, and narrowly escaped an encore. The part closed with a fantasie on airs from Lucia di Lammermoor, by Sig. G. Regondi, on the concertina, which was a wonderful effort. The concert gave unqu*• lified satisfaction. The Earl of Ellesmere has addressed a long letter to the Times respecting our national defences, the means of which, his Lordship urges we have very grievously neg lected. The first of the series of concerts at the Collegiate In stitution was given last night. It went off with spirit, and several pieces were encored: The charge for admis sion is the lowest ever made to a Liverpool public. ROBBERIES IN SHOE SHOPS.—A female named Mary Cloke was yesterday charged before Mr. Rushton with purloining two pair of boots, from two different shops, itt Whitechapel and Marybone. Each pair were stated to be worth ss. She was committed for trial at the sessions. THE WEATHER, since our last publication, has, upos the whole, been cold, but more seasonable—a slight frost having set in on Sunday night. We have nothing new to note in the agricultural world, beyond the fact that our neighbouring farmers are busily engaged when the climate permits, in draining, manuring, and preparing their lands for the spring. WRECK. OF TUE . FAKSILX was cvrec':ed at the moat' or the river, about three weeks ago, is now lying broadside near the Waterloo shore. She was purchased on speculation a week or two ago, for be tween £2OO and £3OO, by a party who thought he could raise her, and bring her into port; but we learn that, after several ineffectual attempts, it has been decided to break her up. She was a new vessel, and was on her first homeward voyage from Alexandria. , THEFT OF 13 - UTTER.—At tne police court, yesterday, ts man named John Morgan, was charged with having stolen from the shop of Mr. Patrick Tool, of Marybone, a firkin of butter. The prisoner had gone into the shop on Friday night, at a late hour, when it was full of customers, and boldly took up and carried off the cask. He had been previously suspected, and being watched, was discovered and apprehended in a court in Addison-street. He 'ma committed for trial. DEATH BY BURNING, OF AN ELDERLY JEWISH LAD Y.* —An inquest was yesterday held before Mr. Curry, touch ing the death of Sarah Lemon, a Jewish female, aged SS years. Deceased lived with her brother in St. Andrew street. On Sunday night deceased was in her room, in which there was a fire ; in the morning she was found lying on the floor before the fire, quite dead, and burnt to a cinder. She was quite sober. Verdict—" Death by how originated no evidence to show." )urning, TIDE TABLE. MOAN. lEVENG.I HOHT. I HOLYDAY!, ETC Tuesday.... 28 Wednesday. 29 Thursday .. 30 Friday .... 31 Saturday .. 1 Sunday .... 2 Monday.... 3 h. m. k. as. ft. in. 3 3 53 7 4 812 8 3 1 28 14 2 Innocent's Day. 4 48 5 19 11 11 5 52 6 27 11 7 8 7 9 5 8 7 3 3 6 7 1 1 2 1 7 2 Circumcision.3dsiißday aft christ. 9 1 925 13 1 [mas. METEOROLOGICAL REGISTER, BY MR. C. H. CHADBURN, 71, LORD -STREET, ATMOSPHERI Temperature in shade by self-re- Humidity at Pressure at giatering Noon. Thermometer. DailylDirec 1 tio* Fall of Wing of at Nine Six Dry Wet Rain. Nool6 a.m. p.m. Max. Min. bulb. bulb. In. In. Deg. Deg. Deg. Deg. In. 29'63 29'58 36 32 36 34 -- 9.1.1. 29'78129'98 36 33 36 34 5- 29'86 29'64 37 33 36 Dec. 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 29'94 30'12 43 30'30 30'30 43 30'30 30'27 - 9.16 0.02 N. 0. -- N.K. Z WZATHBR.-21st : foggy; night, frost.-22nd: sligkt nd frost.-23rd : fine, frost, with breeze.-24th : slight fog, t rain.-25th : cloudy.-26th : frosty.-27th : frosty. SHIPPING INTELLIGENCE MONDAY, 27th Dacsmaaa,—Wind S.S.E., moderate , Annivzro.--i'acket, from St.tDomingo —Mary Ann, Patten, from Boston ; sailed 6th Dec.—Gazelle, Lakey, from Patras— Sofia. Giacobbe, Messina—Mary Pring, Oporto—Fanny, °eke... and Jeannette, Doordt, from Antwerp—Bathurst, Honduras—' Emperor, Carder, from Jersey. Charlotte, Hawkins, from Bombay, at this port, towed in dismasted, from Long Island Channel, S.W. coast of Ireland. Charlotte, Smith, and Waldron, Moore, hence at N. Orleatul , Magnificent, Verrill, from London at ditto. Povvhatten, Hayden, hence at Baltimore. Potomac, Claggitt, hence at Hampton Roads. Tarquin, Reardon, hence at Boston. Aurora, Clarkson, from Tatmagonche, at Cove. Two masts, heals upwards, apparently belonging to a schooner of about 80 tons, and attached to the wreck, were passed yes terday, two miles N.N.W. of the Bell Buoy, by the President, steam -tug. LONDON CORN MARKET.-YESTERDAY, At this day's market there was but a short supply of English Wheat, which was quickly cleared off at fully, and for picked samples Is. per qr. over, the currency of this day week. There was only a slender attendance of country buyers, and in con sequence the sale of foreign was limited, at our previous cur _ Barrel Flour sold rather higher, and Indian Corn was again held at is. per qr. more money. The supply of malting Barley was large, and exceeding the present demand; prices yielding Is. to 2s. per qr. Malt a slow sale, and Is. pe r r qr last lower.week's currency. Beans and Peas fully supported A large arrival of foreign Oats having come to hand, and the lay days for discharging being so short, they were pressed off at 6d. per qr. decline, at which reduction a fair extent of busi ness was transacted. SMITHFIELD CATTLE MARKET.-YESTERDAY, Although the attendance of buyers was by no means large, the beef trade ruled steady, and last week's prices were sup ported in every instance. Prime Scots sold without difficulty at from 4s. 10d. to ss. per 8 lbs. At least two-thirds of the Beasts were beneath the middle quality. There was a very moderate number of Sheep offering, and tile quality of that description of stock was by no means first rate. Prime old Downs, which were - rery scarce, moved OIT freely at the extreme rates paid ea Monday last, or from ss. 2d. to ss. 4d. per 8 lb. Otherwise the Mutton trade was steady at full prices. Scarcely any calves were in the market, and the Veal trade was firm at full prices. _ Prime small Pcrkers moveioff readily at extreme currencies. Other kinds of Pork were quite as dear. At the close of the market a good clearance was effected. MONEY MARKET—YESTERDAY. Consols opened at 85i, and closed for the account at 84 - - LIVERPOOL COTTON MARKET, DEC. 27 A numerous attendance of consumers in the market, all eager buyers of low American Cotton from 4d. to 41(1. caused the prices of this kind to harden a little, and, even at the advance, the market is not well supplied. As a proof of the badness of trade, we may remark that the run is on low stuff, at 4d. to 414., whilst the better quail. ties are plentiful at 41d. to 4111., and good Orleans at sd. Stocks are diminishing, and for some time the arrivals will be light—until they can negotiate more freely in the States. The stock of Cotton in this port is now less by 64,000 bales than it was at this period last year. THE LATH COLLISION IN THIS RIVER.—The most active efforts have been used by the owners of the Flam beau to raise her, but so far without success. During the operations on Sunday, one of the chains under the steamer snapped, and her stern part dropped suddenly, quite a dead weight, into the bed of the river; thereby causing a jerk upon the bow and fore part, which immediately se parated those parts of the vessel from the other, from the bow to the paddle beams, a length of about thirty feet. That effort was therefore fruitless, and the destruction of the vessel seemed inevitable. The fore deck, part of the bow, the cabin stools and tables, bulkheads, &c. were soon floating in the river, where they were picked up and se cured. The owners now consider it doubtful whether the vessel will ever be raised. She is lying on the outside of •Pluckington Bank, opposite the Albert Dock, in a depth of four fathoms at low water, and is fast filling with sand and mud. We learn that to-day at low water a diver is going down to take a survey of her present position, and see if there be any further chance of raising her ; and if not, to ascertain whether it is likely • she may be a permanent obstruction to the navigation of the river tf she remains as at present. Should she be abandoned by the owners, we have .heard it intimated that it is probable the Corporation will endeavour to remove her by blowing her up. The value of the vessel is esti mated at £3OOO, and the cost already incurred in the endeavour to raise her at between £3OO and £4OO. It is said that the cause of the accident is likely to furnish materiels for the gentlemen of the long robe. BIRTH. On the 24th MUEL ROWLANDSO instant, atN, the Colle of a son ge, Durham, the lady of SAA , . DIED. On the 24th instant, deeply regretted, aged 36 years, Mr• RICHARD ROBERTS, brassfounder, Wood-street, and late a the firm of Neville and Roberts, of this town. 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