The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser. — Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1848-05-30 00:00:00

TO CORRESPONDENTS. The complainant in the suppoed abduction case reported in our last, was not Mr. Rowbottom, of itichmond-street ; his name was Rixzbottom. Ebsz iLibtrpool &taiOarb. TUESDAY MORNING, MAY 30, 1848. THAT Great Britain, as a nation, has not under stood and acted upon the important mission which Providence appears to have designed for her, has almost come to he regarded as an admitted fact; and, for the omission, we are paying in the fearful and increasing sufferings of all classes of the people. Pauperism is steadily extending itself over the land. The working masses underlie each other for employment in vain. From our agricultural districts, from Ireland and from Scotland, crowds of able-bodied labourers pour daily into our large towns, willing to work, and insisting to he fed, if work cannot be found for them ; and already the drain upon the resources of our trading classes and rate-payers is becoming insupportable. In addition to this local pressure, we have to contemplate an embarrassed commerce, declining industry, a de creasing ability to consume home or foreign pro ducts, and the prospect of a large, and probably a permanent, deficiency in the national revenue, to be made up, in some way, by increased taxati-n. What are we doing, as a nation, to meet and sub due, this great aggregate of difficulty ?—Nothing worthy of us, or equal to the extent of the emer gency. We are, it is true, about to enter upon an effort to reduce expenditure, and to render taxa tion, both local and national, more just in its pressure ;—an effort the success of which is highly desirable and necessary, although in itself sufficient only to relieve us of a fraction of the load we have to bear, and totally failing to meet the cause of our sufferings. A few amongst us are amusing the people with proposals of constitutional changes,— offering toys to the masses who are crying for food ; dreams for the substance ; elections and vote by ballot to men who only want employment and clothing. Such a movement, at such a time, can only be productive of discontent and social danger. Yet all this while we have within our reach the 'means of effecting a vast change for the better in the condition and the prospects of our unemployed and suffering masses, which we are either totally neglecting, or, at all events, trifling with most miserably. We have colonies belonging to the British Crown—vast countries of unsurpassable fertility—capable of absorbing population and in dustry ten-fold more than we can afford them, and whose existing settlers are pining for the want of that very labour which we possess in redundancy. From our Australian colonies we learn, by the last arrivals, that such is the demand for additional hands, that good female servants are snatched up on their arrival at £3O a-year wages, whilst farm servants and artisans are in equal request. Such is the scarcity of shepherds and herdsmen, that the farmers are under the necessity of boiling down their flocks for tallow ! They have timber in abundance which they cannot cut down ; minerals of immense value which they cannot get; abun dance, in short, of all things necessary for the wants .of man, only requiring hands to raise and fashion them for his use. The outlay of one quarter of the amount which we devote every year for the main tenance of our able-bodied poor, for the. repression and punishment of crime, for union workhouses and prisons, penitentiaries and hospitals, would place tens of thousands in the permanent possession .of comfort, and on the road to independence, if not even of affluence. It would convert thousands of - these suffering wratcbes, now fed at our cost in idleness, or snatching the bread put of each other's mouths, in the eagerness of their competition for employment, in the position of employers of their ellow-countrymen's labour at home, and consumers of the fabrics of the British manufacturer. Let such an effort be made by the nation—it would only be a temporary sacrifice—and we should shortly see a happy, a contented, and an employed people in our own land; whilst every wind from our distant colonies would waft us the blessings of those grateful thousands whom we had assisted in throwing off their poverty, and enabled to tread, if not their own, still a kindred soil, with the proud step of freemen. That we are not exaggerating the prospects which Australia affords to the industrious settler, we pro pose to show by the following extract from the 1 etter of a gentleman there, who has addressed his fellow-countrymen at home through the pages of Simmonds' Colonial Magazine for March last : " The emigrants who are most certain of immediate success in South Australia arc the able-bodied labourers, who are industrious enough to work hard for a season, and steady enough to hoard, instead of squandering that for which they toil. The man who does so, will, in the course of a very few years, pass over from the ranks of the employed to those of the employer. This is no day dream; but a result, which, under mine own eyes, has followed the noble exertions of hundreds in this free colony, who have converted their labour capital into land, and their money capital into cattle or corn. Many men who landed here without a shilling, and that too but a very few years ago, are, at the moment I write, happily settled on their own farms, and surrounded with plenty. It will naturally be asked, ' How was this accomplished ?' I will tell you. Suppose you are the father of a family, and have three stout, hearty sons, willing and able to work, (although people here do not generally work so hard as in the slave-driven labour market of the three kingdoms.) The wages, which, if you hired yourselves for a year, you could earn, would average £3O each, be sides your victuals; making a sum of £l2O between the four. This sum is the very lowest which you could cal culate upon earning in fixed places of employment ; but, i f you could hit the seasons, you would earn, in all pro bability, double that amount. What I mean by hitting the seasons' is this :—The sheepshearing and sheepwash i ng season commences about September, and lasts about two months, during which time experienced shearers often return to town with from £2O to £3O; but, alas too often to spend it, or rather throw it away in dissi pation in a single week, with all the proverbial reckless ness of a sailor after a cruise, instead of prudently depo siting it in the Savings Bank, or laying it out safely and to great a.lvantage, for which there is every opportunity, as many have found to their permanent benefit and satis faction. At the time of the bay harvest it is by no means unusual for good hands to earn, by the job, 15s. per day. After tie; hay harvest is over, then comes on the grain harvest, during which experienced labourers caw earn a similar sum; and, when that is at an end, the collecting of gum, threshing, carting, &c., follow in the wake. In the interior there is no lack of employment, either at the mines, where 255. per week can be reckoned upon, as permanent weekly wages, even by men who are not prpc tical miners •, but, in general, a great deal more has been earned by the job,' or by what they call ton-work, tut work, or tribute. When not employed at home, you may, with your neighbours and others, be driving your drays to and from the mines, the usual earnings, for a team of six or eight bullocks, averaging £3 3s. per week. And, if you have a wife and daughters, they may be busy too; for butter, eggs, cheese, poultry, and every descrip tion of vegetable, find a ready market. The honest, sober, and industrious man's best method of turning his labour to profitable account, he will soon find out in this province; but, as I have said before, £l2O is the least a man and three sturdy sons ought to calculate upon as a year's earnings in money. Deducting from this £5 each for clothes, you would have a capital of .-Cl6O in the first year. This being accomplished, you can. if you choose, purchase here and there, within some few miles of the city, rich, beautiful land, not surpassed by any other in the world for fertility, at the rate of £1 per acre, although considerable portions of land can now only be obtained at some distance from Adelaide; and, when once you get an eighty-acre section, the road to wealth is smooth be fore you. With the surplus £2O two of you can com mence fencing and two may be still for the next year hired out as I have described, with the remaining two occasionally so employed. The climate is so mild, that, until you can afford it, there is not much necessity for anything better than a slab-hut, which you can build yourselves with your own timber; and, let me tell you, in similar dwellings, men, who were nursed in the lap of luxury, have been, and are now, living happy and con tented, because they are either earning an independent livelihood, or, as is the case in many instances, making an independent fortune. Working oxen and a dray, a plough and harrows, follow during the next year ; and seed wheat, samples of which in England have been de clared the finest produced in any part of the world, can be purchased at from 35. 6d. to 4s. per bushel, or 325. a quarter. So that you will observe the only thing which is requisite to make you an independent farmer on your own land, a respectable yeoman of the csuntry which I invite you to adopt, is, as I have before said, to be industrious enough to work hard for a season, and steady enough to lay by that for which you have toiled. Then do you begin to reap the fruits of your industry, and, in a very short space of time, you may find yourself as in - dependent as a 'lord of the manor.' Many an honest yeoman and farmer there is at this moment throughout Great Britain, pondering anxiously what he is to do with his stalwart sons and daughters, for whose support, in his own pursuits, his property has become too small; hesitating into what other branch of industry they can be drafted, where all are overcrowded ; by whom the prospect here presented might be grasped at with avidity. Many a rural parish, which has labour in burthen some superfluity, might be tempted to relieve themselves from that superfluity; to tax themselves temporarily for the achievement of a permanent good. There might he even parochial machinery brought into operation, by which all communities of friends and relatives, the enterprising young farmer, and the labourers and their families, who have toiled for, orgrown up with him,might bear out with them into the far off wild the same recollec tions, and the same scenes, to exchange them with each other in many an after year, by the winter's hearth, or when " Following their ploughs along the mountain side." Such a system would indeed be colonization, in its first form ; but to bring about its extensive adop tion the generous and enlarged co-operation of the government would be required. The rural popu lation of Great Britain is not an emigrating popu lation. They have an instinctive clinging to "the old family faces," the old remembered spots. Even the poor labourer is not tempted from the humble cottage and the garden without a sigh, though the wind and the rain may be streaming from the chinks in its walls, or the decayed thatch. But this repugnance might be mitigated by such a ge nerous co-operation as that to which we have re ferred, on the part of the government; by the in fluence of missionaries to explain to the people the prospects before them, and by the assurance which could be with truth made, that the time is rapidly approaching, when, by the aid of the steamer and the locomotive, the most distant ends of the earth will be brought virtually as near each other, and as. accessible as the neighbouring county was in the time of our fathers. We are aware that, by the agency of the Land and Colonial Commissioners, a dribbling stream of emigration is already carried on with Australia. A few ships are freighted, and passages furnished, free, or at a light cost, to certain descriptions of emigrants. We want, however, a larger and more comprehensive measure of assistance than this; one which will enable the very humblest of our labourers and artizans to carry their labour to a country in which it is wanted. The most unskilled labour is eagerly bought up in Australia; herders of sheep and bullocks, men who can drive a team, or hew down a tree are -valuable. The pauper peasantry of Ireland even, who become worse than valueless to us, when we have allowed them to transfer their labour to our Canadian colonies, or to squat in the forests : of America, would be an acquisition to the i.! f s :)rrner of Australia. So lately as on Friday evening, we were told by Sir James Graham, in the House of Com mons, that numbers of juvenile offenders from the Parkhurst prison—the refuse of cur large towns, trained up to various trades,—had been sent there, and good accounts received of their behaviour; and it is surely not wise on the part of the government that, whilst those whose first qualification was the commission of crime, are conveyed to a new country at the national expense, our own virtuous poor should be left to starve unaided at home. Again, however, we find that we have exceeded Our limits, whilst we have far from exhausted our subject. We shall, therefore, make no apology for returning to it next week. THERE, is a duty, imposed upon us as journalists, to give to the world all the information within our reach, with respect to affairs of great national import. In the performance of this duty we cannot do better than quote the remarks of our contem porary, the Mercury, upon the subject of the Naviga tion Laws ; premising that this said contemporary professes to be the especial leader of free trade opinion in our town. We shall not do him the injustice of garbling his lucubration s. Our readers shall have the benefit of them in full, the only liberty we take with them being the few remarks which we append to each paragraph. In accordance with our contemporary's usual practice, his observations have a text, drawn from his own columns, and sufficiently pointing out the authorship of the article. "Fair play is a jewel," is the text in question. The article itself is headed " The Navigation Laws," and thus our contempo rary discourses : These laws, as we have repeatedly shown of late, are very injurious to the people of this country, and require amendment ; but this does not prove that all the altera tions now proposed by Government, and the restrictions proposed to be retained, are wise. It would be in the highest degree absurd to admit foreign-built ships, duty free, to be purchased in this country, or to be sent hither duty free by British builders abroad, while the British builder at home has to pay a duty of 15s. 9d. per load on the foreign timber he may use in shipl uilding. And it is equally absurd not to admit foreigners to trade with their vessels from one port to another in these king doms, if they will admit British vessels to trade from port to port in their dominions. We ought either to "open our shop to all the world," saying nothing about recipro city, or we ought to make the reciprocity tell for what it is worth. According to Mr. Labouchere's proposal, an American vessel may trade between our home dominions and our colonies. The Americans havenocolouiesbetween which and the parent states our ships can enjoy any trade in compensation for that advantage. Where, then, is the reciprocity." We should really like to be present at an interview between the enlightened writer of the above para graph, and Mr. Labouchere, her Majesty's President of the Board of Trade. We should like to hear the Mercury prove the absurdity of Mr. Labouchere's doing what he proposes to do, and leaving undone what he proposes to leave undone. Our contem porary ought to be summoned to parliament to give the nation the benefit of his rare wisdom. We proceed however with the article, merely reminding the reader that the first sentence is a reply to the question asked in the opening para graph—" Where then is reciprocity." "It is clearly at Parkgate. But, supposing our coast ing trade were thrown open, as well as the rest, while it would be of little or no value to Jonathan, he would be bound to open his coasting trade to us, and that would compensate for all the freedom of navigation we would award him ; for, while he would be entitled to bring sugar from Jamaica to Liverpool, we should be entitled to carry Manchester goods to New York, take a coastwise cargo to Savannah, and return thence with cotton to Liverpool. We could take calico and cutlery to China, thence tea to Philadelphia, and thence a general cargo to Liverpool. By opening our coast trade we should gain enormous ad vantages ; by reserving it to ourselves, but opening that to the colonies. the colonists themselves would be bene fitted, but the English ship Owner would not." Doctors do differ, certainly. "By opening our coast trade we should gain enormous advantages." Pray how, good Mercury ? Mr. Labouchere says that there is a law of nature which compels us to reserve that trade ; that it would do no good to the foreigner if thrown open. But between the president of the Board of Trade and the Mercury there is no comparison on the score of authority. Our contemporary has the advantage by many chalks. Upon our concluding quotation from the Mercury's article we shall make no remarks. We dont profess to understand it; and our contem porary will, doubtless, decline the task of furnish ing us with understanding. We hope the meetinc , to be held to-day will not peti tion for the barbarism of protection," which is wresting the carrying trade of the world from us. Let the ship owner and the shipbuilder of Great Britain be released from all imposts which impair their freedom of action as traders, and then they will compete with the world. The pretence of serving our maritime power by compelling him to employ three English sailors to one foreigner, is too transparent. The system causes landlubbers to be classed as seamen, while they dilute the natural rate of wages, and drive the cleverest sailors to countries where ability and better wages are in more equitable combina tion. To maintain the present navigation laws would be as absurd as to adopt a one-sided amendment of them. ' But they may be and ought to be greatly liberalized, or totally repealed, on principles of entire reciprocity ; and to this object the meeting of to-day ought to urge the Government." We leave this paragraph for "the enlightened" public of Liverpool to solve. We leave our readers to ask themselves how our Navigation Laws can be "totally repealed on principles of entire recipro city." We leave them, in short to the perusal, in the above quotations, which constitute a leading article in the Mercury, of the most astounding piece of twaddle which was ever palmed upon the public. IRISH DEPENDANCE UPON BRITISH SUPPORT. We have always been twitted with the fact that Ireland could not only grow sufficient for her own wants, but that, in addition, she supplied Great Britain with a great por tion of Or food. A slight change, however, is now ob servable. We receive, certainly, large shipments of breadstuffs from Ireland ; but we send her, in return, the full value in a similar commodity. We find in our Corn Circular thatthe imports of Indian corn into Liverpool for the week ending Tuesday last were 25,958 qrs., and of Indian meal 1,230 brls. Of this quantity we sent to Ireland 21,744 quarters Indian corn ; and our shipments of Indian meal were 7,227 brls. ; showing, at all events, and it is a gratifying fact, that our Irish brethren are abandoning their exclusive reliance upon the potato, and that the bet ter food, which at first they rejected, is now taken on choice. The money value of these shipments of Indian corn and meal about equals that of the wheat, &c., which we received thence in the week. FATAL ACCIDENT.—On the 28th of April a porter, 28 years of age, was receiving some bales of cotton into Messrs. Newhall and Clayton's warehouse, Sefton-street, when some of them fell upon him, from the height they were piled, and :le had his leg broken. He died on Satur day last from the injury. THE LIVERPOOL STANDARD. TRANSFER OF THE BTRKENHEAD DOCKS.- STATE OF THE NEGOCJATIONS. We informed our readers in our last, that a negociation bad been set on foot, by which it was hoped that an ar rangement would be come to, by which the docks of Bir kenhead would be handed over for completion, and be worked in future by the Liverpool dock trustees. To en deavour to bring about such arrangement, a deputation was despatdied on Monday evening by the Birkenhead authorities to London, to consult the bondholders on the subject ; and as the result, three of the latter body, of whom Mr. Isaac Lyon Goldsmidt was the leading one, were empowered to enter upon negociations, as to the terms of the proposed transfer, with the chairman and members of the Parliamentary Committee of the Dock Committee, in Landon. Several interviews, we learn, . were held during the week ; but no arrangement of a satisfactory character, or the basis of one, was arrived at. An endeavour was made by Mr. J. Bramley-Moore to procure from the bond holders an offer of a definitive nature ; but the only reply was a declaration from Sir J. L. Goldsmidt that he, as the principal bondholder, must be paid off in full, 20s. in the pound, with interest—a proportion of which, however, he proposed to take in bonds, renewed by the Liverpool Dock Committee at a lower rate of interest than those which now represent his claim upon Birkenhead. As this was stubbornly adhered to as the basis of the negociations, and of course could not be assented to, nothing was done up to the departure of the Dock Chairman to attend the meeting held in Liverpool on Friday, or seemed likely to be effected at all, up to the last accounts received. The bonded debt of the Birkenhead Dock Commissioners amounts at present to £423,000 ; of this only a portion has been expended upon the construction of the works to be purchaed, and that portion not very jndiciously, in the opinion of the proposed purchasers. Of the remainder some has been lent, invested in the necessary plant, or otherwise got rid of. The Dock Committee can, of course, only treat for the purchase of an actual and bona fide security; and, until the bondholders have such to offer, and especially so long as they hold out for the full reim bursal of money unwisely invested, some of it, no doubt, with a view to profit upon other transactions, there can be no prospect of a negociation being even commenced. It appears, we understand, very doubtful that Mr. Goldsmidt can be induced to recede from his present position ; and, should this be the case, the proposed pur chase must fall to the ground, as the Commons committee have only given until to-day for an arrangement to he concluded; and, even should they be induced to grant a further adjournment for a few days, there will be scant time for procuring the consent of the Dock Trustees here upon a matter which demands to be maturely weighed.— There are other difficulties, too, in the way, and some of a rather intricate character. As the basis of any purchase of the property by the Liverpool Dock Committee, they require that all the acts of parliament binding them, with respect to its application, should be swept away. Now, this would at once bring us into collision with the Woods and Forests, who claim the northern strand of the pool, and who have a claim upon the Dock Commissioners of Birkenhead, who have undertaken to make a large portion of it into laud for their use. Again, it brings us into col lision with the Railway Company, who, having expended • a large amount of money for a branch and wharfage land, demand the completion of the scheme as originally planned. We should have, besides the Dock Warehouse Company, the Warehouse Commissioners, the owners of frontages on the pool, the Commissioners of Birkenhead, and others to settle with—the whole of whose demands would be quite incompatible with the application of the estate for any save purely Birkenhead purposes. We think we have said enough to show that there is little probability of any progress being made in a pur chase during the present session of parliament at all events; and if it fall to the ground now; we entertain little expec tation of a renewal of the proposition from this side of the water. It is clear that in the present state of affairs, the ownership of these docks would involve the Liverpool Dock Committee in endless contests with our neighbours, as any attempt on their part to apply them merely as an adjunct to their own dock estate, for beaching ground, building yards, foundries, and other purposes for which they might be made useful, would raise up against them, from a host of different interests, a' cry that they were destroying Birkenhead entirely. THE SUGAR DUTIES. To-day the Committee appointed by the House of Com mons, on the sugar duties, are to come to their resolution upon what shall be their recommendation to the House, with reference to the degree of protection to be afforded to the West Indian planters for some years to come. Three several plans have been proposed to the committee —a very elaborate one, by Lord George Bentinck. This was rejected. There was a second scheme, of Mr. Wil son's, with which the planters were tolerably satisfied, — this also was discarded. Tnere was a third, attributed to Mr. Goulburn and Mr. Cardwell, which would, we be lieve. have been still more agreeable to the West Indian interest, but of which a vital clause was thrown out by the influence of Lord George Bentinck. Thus the committee have come to a stand-still, and the report stands a good chance of going up to the House without any reco►n mendation in favour of protection at all, unless the pro position of Sir Thomas Birch be accepted. This is to the effect, that the duties on foreign sugars shall for the next six years be 20s. per cwt., and on British sugars 10s. per cwt.. and then gradually to reduce the former duty until it falls to 10s. per cwt. The recommendation is to be ac companied by another for a large increase in the supply of free-negro labour. This would appear to be the last effort that can be made in the committee, and we would call the attention of all who do not desire to witness the abandonment of a great line of national policy to this most important subject. We would have it considered upon "slavery" grounds. The West Indian planters tell us, and common sense would appear to confirm the statement, that in time—in a few years—they will be able to bear the competition with the foreign sugar-grower upon equal terms. If this be so, the question of slavery is favourably solved. After all we have done, this last experiment is surely worth trying. PETITION FOR THE ABOLITION OF THE NAVIGATION LAWS. We were not a little surprised yesterday afternoon on learning that a document to the above purport was lying for signature at our Exchange News-room. After the opinion of the town had been so unequivocally recorded against, any such measure, at the meeting in the Sessions House on Friday, we might have expected that the good sense of the promoters of repeal would have prevented such a display of their weakness and obstinacy. W e found our information, however, strictly correct. The placard, also lying on the desk, was to the following effect : . _ " V A Petition for Repealing the Navigation Laws, and removing at the same time all restrictions on the construction and employment of British Shipping, lies here for signature." This is doubtless an endeavour to give effect to the un successful amendment proposed by Mr. Wylie at the meeting last week; and however little we may be inclined to attach importance to this proceeding, we still conceive it necessary that the shipping interest of this town should not suffer any thing which may appear, however meagrely supported, in a substantive form, to pass without a prompt contradiction. We therefore earnestly call upon our fellow-townsmen to lose no time in getting up a counter petition, when they will shortly be able to demonstrate that the supporters of the Navigation Laws are in an overwhelming majority in the borough of Liverpool. At four o'clock yesterday afternoon only 24 names had been appended, consisting of those parties who had spoken at the meeting in favour of repeal, in addition to whom we noticed, at the head of the list Mr. Eyre Evans, lower down Mr. William Rathbone, et hoc genus omne, to the number before stated ; and at five o'clock they had only raised 11 more. COMMITMENTS FOR TRIAL AT THE SESSIONS FROM THE POLICE COURT YESTERDAY.—JOhn Kelly, a boy, for breaking into the house of Michael Connolly, in Peter street, on Saturday, and stealing therefrom a quantity of wearing apparel. Mary Curry, for stealing in Tarleton street from Jane Wright, 4s. 6d. and an apron. Eliza Healey, for stealing from Richard Simon a person from London, in a house in Beau street. a watch and handker chief worth £2 2s. PRESENT TO THE EXCHANGE NEWS-ROOM. Mr. Forrester, of the house of Wiley, Webber, Forrester, and Co., of Oporto and this town, has presented to the com mittee of our Exchange Buildings a proof copy of his beau tiful surveys of the river Douro. This work has been considered of such importance that it has been adopted by the Portuguese Government as a national work; and Mr. Forrester, who has already had the honour of knighthood conferred upon him by the Queens of Spain and Portugal, received from both these Governments the most flattering testimonials on the presentation of his maps of the Douro. We understand that this work will not be published for the present. The donor, Mr. Forrester, has received the cognomen of " The Reformer of the Wine Trade of Liver pool." ATTACK ON A LANDLORD.—Mrs. Allen, wife of Mr. Allen, publican, Shaw's-brow, yesterday appeared before kr. Rushton, against a man, who had she said, been one of six or seven Irishmen who had on Saturday night forced themselves into the house, and said they " wanted some Orangemen," apparently to assail them, and that they must be sent for. Their conduct was so violent that Mrs. Allen sent for the police, but they all escaped, with the exception of the prisoner, who, before he was appre hended, had struck the landlord so cruelly on the head that he was unable to come up, as appeared from a sur geon's certificate. Upon the prisoner there was found a long piece of iron, resembling an old-fashioned pot-hook. Mr. Rushton strongly reprehended the conduct com plained of. What had the prisoner and his companions to do with Orangemen, or to assail them with dangerous weapons such as that produced ? He ordered him to be , remanded to the gaol, to await further evidence, and en deavour to discover the other aggressors. --. ROYAL MERSEY YACHT CLUB' .—On Saturday last, the anniversary of her Majesty's birthday, the members of this club opened their season by the yachts sailing in com pany, under the broad pendant of the worthy and respected commodore, T. Littledale, Esq., whose flag was hoisted on board of his fine yacht, the Queen of the Ocean-59 tons. The day was remarkably propitious for the occa sion—fair and beautiful, with a light gaff topsail breeze, which remained steady during the whole day. The fleet counted, 'in addition to the commodore's craft, the Drift —53 tons, the Vision-45 tons, the Minona, Hebe, Jeannette, Ranger, and Gem. the latter vessel belonging to the hon. secretary, who officiated as the vice-commo dore on the occasion. The yachts were manoeuvred by Ackers' code of signals from the commodore's craft, re peated by the Gem. Each of the yachts had a select party of the friends of the various owners on board, and after sailing over a distance of upwards of forty miles, re turned to Liverpool, and all expressed themselves highly delighted with the day's cruise. THE WATER QUESTION. THE POLYTECHNIC SOCIETY. Yesterday evening the adjourned meeting on the water question (which had commenced on the previous Monday) was held in the theatre of the Royal Institution, and the interest excited drew a large and respectable auditory. Mr. BENNETT, councillor of St. Anne's Ward, took the chair, and after a few opening remarks, Mr. GRANTHAM, C.E., was called upon to open the discussion upon the adjourned meeting on Mr. Dwyer's paper of last meeting. Matters, he said, since he undertook to do this had crowded upon him, which rendered the task he undertook more onerous than he expected. The so ciety felt every respect for, and acknowledged the value of the exertions which the body of gentlemen constituting the Health Committee had devoted to this subject—one foreign to their business avocations ; and he wished to place the society clear from any imputation of going with any popular feeling, which he knew was prevailing against the plans they had in view. The society wished to inves tigate the question upon its real merits. An inquiry had been going on by scientific men, and he had to regret that the report of the gentlemen engaged npon it had not as expected been yet laid before the public, as Fe and others might have derived information from it. He bad, at the last meeting adduced some statistical facts relative to the Water Companies, which as many gentlemen were then present who had not heard them, he would recapitulate. (The statistics he furnished, stating that the companies had received little or no interest on the outlay for the first years.) He then brought forward other comparative estimates, showing that the present local wells, with an ad ditional one would supply the town for years, without the necessity for incurring the outlay laid down for any of the new large schemes of bringing water from great distances. He assumed that 3,000,000 gallons, with an addition of 20 per cent., or 600,000 gallons, for courts, watering of streets, &c., would be required to make the supply ample; also, 600,000 gallons for cleansing sewers, &c. The present works, if improved, would, he believed, yield 7,500,000 gallons a day ; and he had also estimated the expense for a new station at £68,300. For sewerage, and the watering of streets and cleansing of courts, he was in favour of employing salt water, as equally suitable, and they might have a reservoir in an elevated part of the town, to which a small engine would pump it. Some of the present mains, which if the new scheme were to go on, would be removed or rendered useless, might for this pur pose be available. He combatted some objections made to the use of salt water, as tending to spoil gentlemen's clothes, as futile. With regard to supplying manufactur ers and others, who employ condensing engines, they in general would prefer pumping their own water. The cost, of the smallest "monster" schemes proposed would be far more than that of availing themselves of their imme diate resources. With the former, the people would have to pay, as he showed by figures, a large amount more. The new plan, in place too of costing half a million, might cost double that sum. It would be impossible to reduce the rates, if so large an addition was to be levied upon us. He read an abstract of a paper he had that day from Mr. Simpson, showing that large quantities of water could be obtained from the upper sandstone rocks in this and other adjoining localities. He next touched upon the demand that had been made for a constant sup ply in all the pipes, but expressed his opinion that this was necessary only in some of the great mains, and that the service pipes should have cocks for regular and fre quent supply only. Courts could be well supplied by cisterns which the works would keep always full, and that they were not provided (for the cost would be but Is. 61 per house additional per annum), was solely the fault of the landlord, and not of the companies. Some of them thus supplied, let for 265. a year more than those opposite which were not ! He then showed, that to give a more frequent supply to districts did not require so large an additional expenditure of water as was generally believed, and this he proved by adducing Marybone district, which cost very little more to supply it six times a-week in place of three times, as formerly, though densely peopled. 'With respect to drying up private wells, this was of trifling consequence, as compared with the general advantages of large and deep wells; and the few parties who lost their wells, could be supplied immediately at a very little more cost. He had seen Revington, and he believed all its waters, and he deemed the scheme respecting it great, but surrounded by risk and dif ficulty. He would not be one of the gentlemen who would incur the respons bility of carrying it out. It was against it that the light, though not extensive thrown upon it lately, excited doubt and alarm. The public, in cluding himself, were all to blame that it had gone so far without proper investigation, and the discovery of these difficulties now surrounded it. They had already spent £30,000 in law expenses, &c., on it, and some seemed to think they ought therefore to go on with it, and spend £400,000 more. He concluded by saying that from what he could judge or learn, he would respect fully recommend to the Corporation a postponement of their plans. There were- great difficulties in the way. They ought to lay all feeling aside, but a consideration for the public good ; weigh well the arguments on both sides; and think of the great burden they would throw upon the town, by persisting in their present scheme. Let them wait, at least, until the question was more thoroughly sifted, as to the supply that could be furnished by the present works, and until others that might be added within their own vicinity, were fairly tested. (He was listened to throughout a long and able address—of which this is but a synopsis —with great attention, and sat down amidst much applause.) Mr. SMITH, who was called upon by the Chairman, as one of the parties who had visited the Rivington Pike, said, that he found that many of what he had been ac customed to call ditches, were called streams, and many of them. as well as of the streams, were perfectly dry. The Douglas contained only an inch, and the Yarrow 21, the former being abstracted altogether by the canal com panies. It was said, however, that the water was to be dammed up when plentiful, and doled out to us when wanted. The vallies, now meadow land, to be msinured by guano and other commodities. The water was not such as we could use ; and he found that the quantity would not be more than sufficient to give compens sation required. In Manchester, he had found that similar water, pure to the eye, would not be used. The Rivington water had the same properties—animalculge, and vegetable and earthy matter—which lie had found in pools abounding with fish, and of course full of food suit able for fish. He had never seen a country so deficient in water, although he had visited many parts of the country. If they only proposed to collect it in winter, we could procure it easily, by the same means upon our own sandstone grit. In the valley of the Riddlesworth the stream runs over the oral measures ; and the water runs through the millstone grit, and resembles skim milk. The speaker referred to the insecurity of depending upon estimates, and referred to the increase of those for St. George's-hall; and combated the notion that so large a quantity as 200,000 gallons would be required for working the cranes at the docks. Mr, Smith concluded by en treating the people of Liverpool to pause before entering upon this enormous expenditure, reminding them that, in the event of their driving the inhabitants of Liverpool by highs rates to take their families into smaller houses, they might not improve the sanitary condition of the town. Mr. GRANTHAM explained as to his remarks with respect to the landlords not providing tanks, so far as the Bootle Company was concerned. Mr. RAWLINSON maintained that an expenditure of money for a supply of water to a large town was not to be looked at in comparison with a good supply. After referring to the fact that this was not a country of foun tains, and to the low sanitary state of Liverpool, he pro ceeded to contend that the Rivington Pike scheme was after all an inadequate scheme, and that a much larger amount might be brought from the Dee for the same money. His scheme was calculated to supply 30,000,000 gallons ner day, and although Mr. Grantham might think that excessive, the inhabitants of New York did not think so. This quantity could be supplied at a profit over the total expense of procuring it. He stated that by his plan the mains could be k e pt full at all times for fires, for flushing sewers, and all other purposes. Mr. Raw linson condemned the Rivington Pike scheme on the ground that the water there came down unequally ; and contrasted it with the ample supply which could be brought from the Dee ; and after an appeal to the people of Liverpool on the score of their local greatness, con cluded his paper amidst partial cheers. Mr. SPEN6ER complained that the meeting had shown a feeling in favour of some speakers ; and contended that they were not prepared to go into a decision upon the figures and estimates brought forward by Mr. Grantham. After a few remarks in opposition to the views of Mr. Grantham and Mr. Simpson, of the Green-lane Water Works, he proceeded to read a letter from Professor Ans ted, referring him to local experience as to the supply to be got from the red sandstone. Mr. Spencer admitted that the quantity required might be got, but that it would be as extensive as the double supply from Rivington Pike. In reply to Mr. Rawlinson's remarks, he said that the gauges at Rivington had, up to last week, given above a million gallons more than the estimates. The fact which Mr. Smith had stated—that on his visit the streams were dry—proved that the shed was not upon a boggy marshy land ; and produced specimens of the water from all the streams, taken at various times and sealed up by Captain Francis, and contended in favour of their superior purity. He proceeded to remark upon Mr. Rawlinson's advocacy of the Dee water, as water not likely to be got. The Rev. Mr, DWYER thought that none of his argu ments had been touched. He asked, as to a statement made that. the public were getting salt water out of some wells, where was it ? He was told it was in Oil-street. Mr, WM. EARLE said it was in his well; and if he wished he could give him salt to his porridge. (Laughter.) Mr. DANSON, after some remarks upon Mr. Grantham's estimates, spoke to the large increase of water tenants since there was given the assurance of an approaching supply of that commodity, which was increasing the revenue from the water company very largely. He proceeded to condemn the remarks of Mr. Smith, which he deemed derogatory of the character of the eminent professional men engaged in this question. The speaker went on to argue that the out-townships. who were complaining of the present rates, had a full right to bear those rates which they had sought to have paid out of the borough fund. Mr. SMITH explained and denied that he bad made any imputation upon the gentlemen engaged by the Corpo ration. Mr. GRANTHAM replied by defending the slight altera tion which he had made in Mr. Hawkley's estimate ; and seeing many of the officials engaged in the sanatory ques tion, his friend, Mr. Fresh, in particular, repudiated the charge of having thrown any stigma of inattention to the wants of the town by the committee upon the subject. THE FLOWER SHOW. - Our readers are fully apprised that the first Horticultural exhibition of the Liverpool Association will take place on Thursday next, at the Corn Exchange. No doubt the attendance of the public will be as numerous as the occasion merits. The promoters of so interesting an exhibition ought to be encouraged to g ve us further similar opportunities. MORE RIOTS AT BRADFORD. COLLISION WITH THE MILITARY. A correspondent in a letter from Bradford, dated yes. terday evening, writes us to say that that town has been the scene of another very alarming commotion. Yester day the utmost excitement and uneasiness prevailed. During the course of the day immense numbers of chartists and unemployed operatives, accompanied by women, marched through the principal streets of the town, for what object no one could tell. The inhabitants hourly expected that riots would take place. With a view to put down the insurgents, should they make any attack, or commit any breach of the peace, the 'military force, con sisting of artillery, cavalry, and infantry, had been placed under arms, ready to act at a moment's notice. In the course of the early part of the day an affray took place with the police, several of whom were roughly handled and suffered much by the mob. All the shops are closed, and business completely suspended. MR. MITCHEL, It is stated that Mr. Mitchel has been removed to Pentonville Prison,. and it is rumoured that in all proba bility he will be confined for two or three years there, and, in case of good behaviour, will not be banished from his native land. A writ of error will, we believe, be moved for to carry the case into the House of Lords. Mr. Mitchel's type and furniture have been restored to his family. A subscription has been already set on foot in Ireland for the wife and children of Mr. John Mitchel. . The lady is a Ili. ce of Sir William Verner, M.P. for the county of Armagh, and was married at the early age of 15 years. Although still youthful she is the mother of four children, the eldest of whom is 9 years old. Among the contribu tors to the subscription are Mr. It. O'Gorman, sen., for £5O ; Mr. T. F. Meagher, £5O; Mr. W. O'Hara, £5O. Up to Friday night the sum collected amounted to nearly £4OO. LATEST INTELLIGENCE. (n EXPRESS.) A letter from Vienna of May 22, says, that the cholera had broken out on the shores of the Danube. At Galatz twenty-three persons had been attacked by it. M. Salamanca has succeeded in escaping from Spain. He arrived at Bayonne on the 21st. LATEST FROM FRANCE. APPREHENDED DISTURBANCES. The inhabitants of Paris were thrown into a state of great excitement on Saturday afternoon by the rappel, which was beaten in all the principal thoroughfares. The national guards immediately assembled in all their usual places of rendezvouz, and the shops were generally closed. The cause of this movement was a mystery. The national workmen, above 100,000 of whom are engaged in the capital and its neighbourhood were, it was said, to revolt, and menaced to set fire to Paris. On Sunday the city was tranquil, but reports again raised the excitement. The troops were again out, and supplies of ammunition have been brought to the different posts. LONDON CORN MARKET.-YESTERDAY. A very short supply of English Wheat was slowly cleared off this morning, at a decline of fully Is. per quarter. The arrivals of Wheat from the Baltic during the past week have been large, and these meta dull sale at a decline of Is. to 2s. per quarter ; old Foreign without alteration. English Barley was in very short supply, and its value must be quoted nominally the same as last week. The malting season having drawn to a close, fine qualities are no longer saleable for that purpose. With large arrivals of foreign Barley its value has declined is. to 2s. per quarter. Oats were a dragging trade, at a reduction of6d. per quarter. English Beans and Pease were the turn dearer. Egyptian Beans, on the spot, are worth 265, to 275. ; and are saleable afloat at 238. 6d. to 245. cost, freight, and insurance. MONEY MARKET-YESTERDAY. It is not improbable that, although prices have suffered no depression, and are even * higher than last quoted on Saturday, the tendency upwards might have been more decided but for the complexion of the Irish news. We call Consols now 80 to SMITHFIELD CATTLE MARKET.—YESTE R DAY. We have to-day a large supply of good B eas t s . ; t ra d e i s d u ll, and the heavier descriptions are rather lower; notwithstanding, a nice selling Bullock still makes 4s. 2d. There is an increased supply or Sheep and Lambs, and the demand has decreased ; cons quently lower prices are submitted to. T ra d e i s h eav y for Calves. The demand for Pigs is very limited. PICK-POCKETS.—At the Police-court, yesterday, John Jeifrys, Peter Manly, and Michael Lynch, were committed to gaol for three months, for attempting to pick pockets in Great George-street. STEALING ON BOARD SHIP.—Four young men, Duffy, Davies, Holding, and Fletcher—were yesterday charged at the Police-office with being found on board the packet ship West Point, concealed under the passengers' berths, with the evident object of stealing their clothes. They were committed to gaol for a month. We are glad to perceive from an advertisement in our paper of this day, that our favourite friend Wilson will, at the request of several parties in Liverpool, give his Walter Scott Entertainment at the Royal Assembly Rooms, next week.- The songs selected for the-event - ties entertainment are chiefly culled from Sir Walter Scott's poem, The Lady- of the Lake, and, if we are to judge from the encomiums bestowed by the London press upon this new effort of Wilson's in catering for the public taste, we may predict a room crowded to excess. HORRIBLE DEATH.--On Friday fortnight the schooner Charlotte, of Bridgwater, was put into the graving dock at Sherborne for repairs, Six men were at work under her, when the vessel was observed to be giving way, all the men escaped except one. an old man who was in a sitting posture and the vessel fell on him, forcing his heart and lungs through his body with such force as to eject them several feet from his person, and his heart was seen quiver ing in the bottom of the dock until taken up and placed, with the lungs in the poor fellow's cap. OVERCHARGE OF SERVANTS, AND THEIR RETAINING THE DIFFERENCE OF THE MONEY.— At the Police-court, yesterday, a boy named Charles Shaw, and a young man named William Bingham, were charged before Mr. Rush ton with having overcharged the servant of a gentleman from London, for the keep of a carriage and two horses for a night at Mr. Lucas's repository, and retaining to themselves the difference of the money, only 7s. of which, however, was paid over to Mr. Lucas's foreman. Mr. Lucas said the charge was only 6s. They were both com mitted for trial. ESCAPE FROM GAOL.—On the 18th, two prisoners confined in Cardigan gaol for housebreaking effected their escape and got clear off. Immediately after the gaoler's visit on that day, the prisoners must have set to work, and having broken off the leg of a bench, with that im plement they succeeded in breaking their way through the walls of their apartment, whence they got to the roof of a part of the gaol ; there they tore their blankets in pieces, and having fastened them together, they tied one end to an iron railing, and formed a rope, by means of which they descended to the fields at the back of the gaol, whence they got clear into the'road. Two MEN STABBED BY A BLACK MAN.—At the Police court, yesterday, a black (Brazilian) sailor, named John Fontenac, was charged with having stabbed two English sailors, David Rolland and John Charleton, on Saturday night, about eleven o'clock. The prisoner, who was with two coloured companions, had come out of a public-house, in Wapping, and was challenginc , " any Englishman" amongst those who passed to fight him. The complain ants and others with them were passing, when, from the violence of the prisoner, a scuffle ensued, he having first struck a blow at Charleton, who was wounded in the face and hand. The other complainant seeing his comrade attacked, ran to his assistance, and was also stabbed in several places in the neck. Two other witnesses saw a knife glittering in the prisoner's hand. He made his escape, but was soon afterwards taken. He denied the charge in toto, but was'sent for trial. CAUTION TO TRADESMEN OBTAINING GOODS ON FALSE PRETENCES.—Yesterday, Mr. Reav, Secretary to The Liverpool Guardian Society, appeared before Mr. Rushton against a well dressed man calling himself John Scholes, who he explained had, by as he conceived fraudulent pretences, obtained from a paper-hanger in this town no less than 180 dozen of paper, he stating that he had built some houses in Dexter-street, and that he wanted the paper for them. it was sent, but he stopped the bearer of it, although promising to pay the money on the way, and obtained it without paying anything. It was after wards found that no houses were lately built in Dexter street, and the whole was a trick. Mr said Rushton, this case could not stand, as the goods had been sold upon the prisoner telling a falsehood, and the party selling them did not use due caution and inquiry. Another cam was then brought against the prisoner, he had obtained 56 dozen of room paper from Mr. Wm. Harlow, on promise that it should be paid for to the person who took before it was delivered over. He, however, induced the carrier to go to a public-house, where lie persuaded him to leave it. He immediately afterwards sold it, in Islington, for less than half price. He had also swindled a Mr. Evans. Mr. Rushton said that, as the frauds of the prisoner were no doubt extensive through the town, and the reporters were present, lie should remand the prisoner, in the ex pectation that the publicity of the case so far would lead to the discovery of other cases against him. THE DEAmissAL OF Sea H. BULWER.—The Times, of yesterday, publishes the letter of the Duke of Sotomayer, the Spanish minister, to Sir H. Bulwer, our ambassador at Madrid, requesting the withdrawal of the latter from that capital. After announcing to Sir Henry the appre hensions entertained for his safety, the Duke says,— "Your conduct, in the execution of your important mis sion, has been reprobated by public opinion in England, censured by the British press, and condemned in the Bri tish parliament. Her Catholic Majesty's government cannot defend it when that of her Britannic Majesty has not done so. In this state of things your remaining at Madrid is considered in this country, doubtlessly without foundation, as a procf of the weakness of the government, and, if this opinion should gain strength, it might occasion some conflict, which it is indispensable to avoid at any cost. For these reasons, which the loyalty of the British people and its government cannot otherwise than appre ciate at their true value, her Majesty's government has resolved to put an end to all these fatal coutingencies, by transmitting you your passports, and requesting you, within the term of forty-eight hours, or sooner if possible, I to quit this capital, for circumstances are urgent, and there would be much to lament if this took place too I late." The Duke goes on to say that he does not wish to wound the dignity of the British nation, and that the de -1 parture of Sir Henry cannot weaken the relations of friendship between the two countries, May 30, 1848. ONVOCATION OF THE CLERGY.—ADDR ESS To HER MAJESTY. The Queen having appointed yesterday (Monday) f °r the reception of the address agreed upon by c onvocatio n ' full honour w a s do ne t o th e ceremony , an d the proceed ' ings were on a scale of grandeur unequalled in the histor/ of our national hierarchy. The procession left the Jerusalem Chamber at half-pa st two, and moved throu g h the Dean's-yard, across thel Broad Sanctuary, through Princess-street into Gre t a , George-street, and thence into the park by Storey's-ga e proceeding along Bird-cage walk to Buckingham. Palace, where they we r e rece i ve d b y th e L or d Ch am b er lain, Wh o conducted them to the throne-room. the On being introduced to her Majesty, his Grace Archbishop of Canterbury, read the address, which tw e ec r i an expression of attachment to her Majesty, congratulat her Majesty on being surrounded by a family, who the/ trusted would repay th e pi ous care o f th e i r parents. The/ gratefully acknowledged " her Majesty's continued adh e _: rence to those constit u ti ona l p r i nc i p l es , th a t m oderati o l in the exercise of power, and that care for the gen era f weal, which has al wa y s di s ti ngu i s h e d th e S ov ereign ° your Majesty's house. We quote the next par agra ph i n f u ll :—" We de s ire , especially to express our thank fulness for the preservati e d of the two ancient an d venera bl e sees o f St. A s apit 51 ; 1 4 Bangor in their disti nc t ness an d i n t egr it y , as we ll as ' the appointment of a new bishop at Manchester to super' intend the spiritual welfare of the vast masses of manufat; turers that have recently been accumu l a t e d i n those W I) , of this kingdom, and we hOp e an d t rus t th a t this maY the prelude of a further increase of the episcopal bodY , that the number of the chief p as t ors i n our Church r5aY l " brought more nearly into proportio n t o th e va st increP e in the number of souls committed to their charge. de The address then went on t o no ti ce th e exertions nis to extend the efficiency of the Church in our foreign P ° ' - sessions. LATEST FOREIGN AND COLONIAL. THE WAR IN JUTLAND. Advices from Hamburgn, dated Friday night , inform. ° that a courier had arri ve d i n th a t c ity f rom Berlin, bea l an order to General W ra n g el w hi c h di rec t s hi m to %%th in draw the forces of th e G erman i c C on f e d era tion fro g Jutland, with as little delay as possible. Order has been restored at Naples. CAUSE. OF THE EMPEROR OF AUSTRIA'S FLIGH.• The walls of Vienna are covered with placards calling °, the people in general and the women i n part i cu l ar , to Ilfhale for the Emperor's return. It i s now asser t e d that ',- Emperor's journey to lunspru c k was no t a fli g ht, but abduction ; that he left to wn i n th e fi rm b e li e f that 11 1 , was going out for a short drive, an d th a t w h en the trav ling carriages reached th e p ar ty a t S c h on b urn , his Pug; ment was on a sudden overruled by th e p ass ionate en t d, treaties of the ladies, who sh oc k e d hi m by a fright picture of the dangers which th rea t ene d him a n , them at Vienna. The whole affair is represented as f. successful intrigue of a party who knew the character :4 the Viennese, and intended to hurt them to the quick, ou et force them to every possible con c e s si on t o a b so l u te pow by depriving the city of the quality of the Imperial Pr e g sence, from which the Viennese are won t t o l o ok for a their importance in their own eyes and of the provinces' The petition from the clergy against the bill for leg— re ing diplomatic relations with Rome, has received than 2,000 signatures, and additional names are rtiPl" coining in. elc. The extensive building factory o f M r . C ooper , at ham, near London, was destroyed by fire on Sunday., sf horse valued at £5O perished, a n d £5OO wor th o f win° glass was destroyed. The loss is very great. Her Royal Highness the Princess Sophia, daughter e! his late Majesty George 111., and aunt to the Queen, e f i t pired at half-past six o'clock o n S a t ur d a y a ft e rnoon , her residence at Kensington. The Princess became ve ts 131, ill on Saturday morning, an d was v i s it e d by her 0 sister the Duchess of Glo uces t er , w h o re t urn ed in afternoon. Her Majesty the Q ueen D owager , and —of Royal Highness Prince Alb er t, p a id v i s it s i n th e course the day. His Royal Highness the Prince of Prussia left Louti_Lll on Sunday for Dover, whence he will take his depart s s p for Ostend. On his arri va l a t O s t en d h is R o y a l High l3 " s , will proceed to Brussels to visit th e ki ng of th e BELGII er and finally return homewards by way of the Hague, ? f , ,,0 passing a few days with his relations in that capital. -oe4, great benefits will be deri v ed f rom thi s v i s it to .: 0, land ; the people of Be r li n w ill rece i ve a c onstituti o n instead of, as they fancied, a despotic successor to o _, throne ;. while the same people, w h o are now s o clamoroaav'e for the return of the Prin ce , an d 3,000 of whom he petitioned to be allowed to m arc h i n procession to Nrel e t j, a t him back, will learn to mistrust the fickleness of o popular opinion which drove o ne o f th e i r war mest fr .le to seek an honourable asylum in a foreign land. s u ridaY EFFECT OF MITCHE L ' S CONVICTION. - - On that Dublin was perfectly quiet. It i s a s i gn ificant fe e ' io l i t, at the Theatre Royal in that city on SaturclaY which was very well attended, th e ga ll er y v i s itors e u est but a faint cheer for "Mitchel." They tried the r r l o ts two or three times, and b u t f ew p ersons i n the eth e a tiouo l of the house responded. On the other hand, tlie u n ,ly anthem of " God Save the Queen" was raptir f o r the plauded—it might almost be said unanimon.t' e ffeet o f dissentients were too few an d f ee bl e t o m ar '" So that the loyal demonstration in the slightest degree' f theun instead of an insurrection in the city on the day ° ° fortunate Mitchel's t ra n s p or t a ti on , th e w bole P P appeared singularly bent on b us i ness and ple.sureer the misguided t n an cou ld h ave ant i c i pa t e d this, sur would have checked hi s o wn w ild career.--- at ELDON Rooms.—A very excellent op en i ng supper' which many new and beautiful dish es , i n th e French s ' 4 were displayed, was given on Tu es d a y n i g ht last, by Scyde, a celebrated professor of the g astronomic art, vi.r, u, is now the conductor of this establishment. The en t fo r tainment was more than creditable, and augurs we l l his future success,ulatiou METEOROLOGICAL REGISTER, BY MR. H. CHADBURN, 71, LORD-STREET BY MR. C. H. CHADBURN, 71, LORD-STRE"•'--,4 lATMOSPHERIC Daily Direc. e.... 1 Temperature' tion ii 3 ,1,- in Humidity at F a ll of , 1 Pressure at shade byself- N oon . wind 5 ~+N ine Six registering . ' of at .:„...;-- .3 thermometer Dry Wet Rain. Noon' 4 ri! e a.m. p.m. Max. Min. bulb. bulb. ? 4 • ----... In. Deg. Deg. Deg. Deg. In. ~,, ,rT - 8 55 „ 23 30'38 30'34 67 55 63 61 AY "i„ - ,5 , 7, 24! 30'35 30'32 68 58 67 62 o %,..' N ' ‘ ', 69• 5 , 25: 30'35 30'24 71 60 71 64 r.' , '' ‘ ',; 70 ,o', 26' 30'15 3o'll 70 53 68 62 w•S': 70 0 `; 27.; 30'15 30'14 70 57 69 62 5.8.D* 015 v 28! —I —; o'l6 --_,...'" 29' 29'98 30'01 64 60 —. N' \ i THE NV EAT H E R.-23rd : clouded.-24th: briglitc - og ae ( L; ditto.-26th ; ditto.-27th : ditto.-28th : partially c ' Ilea" night, heavy rain, with thunder.-29th: ditto; no"' _, TH E W EAT H ER.-23rd : clouded.-24th : 13) ditto.-26.th ; ditto.-27th : ditto.-26th : partial night, heavy rain, with thunder.-29th: ditto; shower. [ADVERTISEMENT.] IzAN CS THE GENERAL LIFE AND FIRE ASS Tr ‘ , - - • COMPANY. 2 0 9 • • CaP• (Empowered &y special Acts of Parliament, 3 Vic•P and 10 Vic., cap. 1, 62.) King William-street, London ; 21, St. David-street, Edinburgh ; 1, Cross-street, Market-street, Manchester; and EXCHANGE-COURT, EXCHANGE-STREET vASI, LIVERPOOL. J ~~ roon Ball. next Elgin Al lish( of A T. ] the Ti a ry Mod Tip hate CAPITAL, ONE MILLION. CIRCULAR. hie $ t Should you have any Fire Policies which are ren e l'i a c it,,,l the approaching quarter day, I beg respectfully tot itr Ov io behalf of the `GENERAL LIFE AND FIRE AS COMPANY," the favour of being permitted to trans"-tol all to that office. No expense will att en d th e transfer , ..d yo" trouble may be avoided by your allowing me to forWa' present In the poLify lic Department the company to the head office in Lo ny transacts all I,ll'e,pco relating to Life Assurances, Ann u ities, and Fan"' et merits, upon the most 0- liberal terms. f borry'oe Loans also are ranted on the personal security 0 a ü bie and three suretiesndra the deposit of a policy to do amount of such loan. Sallll s Orders will be taken by Mr. JAMES EciinnsLEvi at tendent Registrar of Births, Deaths, and Marriag e ' , • offices, N 0.34, Islington. Ilemain, your obedient servant, THOMAS CARTER, To Marine Insurance Bro A l ' o e ,I.:: V o • ?. • re d hi 4C ' P.S.—SHIPS, FREIGHTS, and CARGOES 27751/ amount, in the principal LONDON MARINE OFFICES, and at LLOYD'S. Visitors and residents in Liverpn - 0 - 1 should vieiOa i s or ENTAL DIVAN, CLAYTON-SQUARE, fashionable ropl;raict RANT and SUPPER LOUNGE. The object of h 4 a n i ci ne in entering upon this establishment was to suPt,"ue r li onc ioa, universally acknowledged, and to concentrate, i i l o g establishment, all the superiorities of the lea d o st sl ) Houses ; in fine, to combine with economy the 11) t ualitY'pia arrangements, the greatest accommodation, Vill e e ac.-b • lad civility. Scale of charges : Soups of all kinds, 6 ,, w ith ners from one to seven o'clock. Joints to cut fro l ll d 9 stealA„aer and cheese, Is. ed.; Dinner from ditto, 10d. ; go 3 p; all etcs., Bd.: Dinner ditto, Is. Id. • ' small ChOP , ) ; pit o f o o ditto, Is. 2d. Tarts and Puddings 4d. each. Na! ,int l9l rilie s Amontillado Sherry, Is. ; pint, 25.; quart, 4s. • hai l l for l oced , old Port, Is.; pint, 2s. ; quart,4s. A Private 'lta ts always ready. Chops,. Steaks, Kidneys, Welsh Rare,q '4(l. L p oi Eggs, &c., every night for Supper. Cup of Con;, , , so. Cigar. 6d. Fine old Irish and Scotch Whiskey. prop 4 40 1% a Billiard-rooms. Smoking room up stairs. Mr. FEENY* OPINIONS OF THE LIVERPOOL PRESS.--"T he o f C 1. 0 . 170 1 4, -Albion.an be excelled for variety or lowness, l orle s; "It consolidates the reputation of th e i rclassf o otr e a caterer for the public."—Mail. Suitable r o alll zo wines are of undeniable quality."—Times. fittedop O R r e i s e t n au ta r l an s t t , yl C e, la p y o tO ss n e - s fi s q i U n a g re N . , — ery A !;setra;ir.aZeofiltntreao Jpo LIVERPOOL : TUESDAY, MAY 30, 1848 ' EVERY TUESDAY MOR ~,/, G' PRINTED AND PUI3LIERED S I 1.• a By JOSHUA FLETCHER LACE, of 53,eet'lli LEONARD ADDISON, of 14, Great Orford-oop. 06 At No. 4. ST. N LlvE ti Zeivto , :,.ee t; Orders for Advertisements received by Messrs. i lee t-s o .' V: Grov stre e t, Co., Warwick-square; Barker and White,z clia rlft 13 . -.el, Deacon, Walbrook ; Reynell, Chancery-lane ; Co/ 111 ' 111 i ' l ,i°, Birchin-lane; Joseph Thomas, 1, Fincli-lane, .. itet ,- 0 1 , court, Fleet-street; Lewis and Lowe, 3, den Hammond, 27, Lombard-street; Mitchelli,...;,—rt,ostoe: hill; at the London Commercial Coffee-bouschapter Ve Co e 6 at the Jerusalem Coffee-house, Cornhill ; Cast e_ ~° . u c i p t ie r house, Paternoster-row ; North and South Arvee_ri)eia-rjail'ejelerlo house, Threadneedle-street • Parsons, 9,,',00;:r 0 c1. ,e d . London; Johnston and Co.,' Eden Quay, i' s t i re et, ki ra rrit? Exchange-street, and C. H. Lewis, Market sellers, '6 D al y ter; Haddock, and J. and W. Booth, Boar . w iott , t,r l N ton ; Clarke, Pilot-office, Preston : and A 4 / 00" • Herald-office, Birmingham ; Harthill an" '-' 1 A pp Si Prince's-square, Buchanan-street, Glace ; L t. OP BIRKENHEAD ; TODHUNTER, Chestc! PIN KNEY, Argyle-street; OsnoaNt4 ( Ai GRIFFITH ) Hamilton-street.. Ister-strut ' 1 TAI; the 7th ii Ditto !shop Then, .-M TI TR on A Ti( r AL at T ( toll() A_ Of ;s i Clan tneh eons trey ta tha th e sten eer cove etre( 5. deg, ere. them aPpl cum 6. Mat be , ex p , C O °Ut 1 7. Of n 111 0 d Con,. mad ,won lo ng Dro l to a: pri;, CGi U lmn isnp Whi or y, ire an( m Q et o th z the