The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser. — Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1845-02-18 00:00:00

columns of the STANDARD, to make the voice of the loyal and Protestant portion cf the people of Liverpool heard above the factious cries of Popery and Radicalism, which at that period were in the ascendant in the Parliament of the empire. in our Council, and amongst our local press. We ad vanced to that task, however, with a resolution to surmount its difficulties; we persevered in it amidst much sacrifice of time, of labour, and of money; and we have the happiness now to contemplate and to feel our perfect success. The voice of Conserva tive opinion in Liverpool is now heard and respected ; the influence of our columns is fully recognised by the community in which we live, an d throughout the kingdom ; the sentiments and wishes of the people of this great commercial town, no longer go forth to the world tortured from the truth by the pen of Radical organs : and for this we thank, whilst at the same time we congratulate, the Conservative public who have aided of efforts We occupy now a more prominent position, in influence and circulation, than most of those Whig- Radical papers which, in the early portion of our struggle, engrossed almost entirely the public ear. We have gone on increasing in both, whilst they have declined ; and the best proof that we continue to progress, is to be found in the snarling and jealous temper with which those contemporaries regard us, and the eagerness which they display to -nify what little of prosperity is left them. We can afford to look down upon these splenetic at tempts to injure us; and the public, whom they are intended to mislead, see through them. Once more we return to our friends and the pub lic our h. thanks for their kindness, which it shall be ow ncreaf,ing study to deserve The difficulty of dealing with so large a sum as £3,400,000 in the way of reducing taxation, so as to afford the greatest amount of relief and public ("n, will readily be admitted ; and it is, highly creditable to the ability and liberal views of the present Government that the statement of Sir Robert Peel, on Friday night, with the excep tion of a little carping at its details from some of the philosophers of the Whig party, was received by the house with a very therefore ieneral satisfaction. It is still more indicative of the great judgment displayed in the selection of the items of his proposed reduc uch approbation of his views has been Lion, th disi du( the Robert Peel made out his case, that the boon of cheap glass is to be of greater public advantage than the repeal of the window duties. "There are in Great Britain," remarked Sir Robert, "as it is estimated, about 3 ; 500,000 houses. There are not more than 500,000 houses which are chargeable with the window tax. There are therefore 3,000.000 houses which require glass for the purpose of comfort, which, if you sanction the removal of the tax, you are about to benefit." As a statistical fact, there is little doubt that this is true. There are not more than 500,0u0 houses chargeable with the window tax ; but why ? a great portion of the remainder would be more healthy, better lighted and ventilated, it they could be made so; but the operation of the window tax compels them to remain in their present state. Of what use is it to say that there are now " three million houses which require glass for the purpose of comfort," when Sir Robert Peel knows very well that the own ers of a large number of them cannot even open an additional hole or a grating, however necessary for the purpose of ventilation, without bringing their property under the operation of this tax ? Houses which require glass surely require windows first. We presume, however, that it is of little use now agitating this or any other question connected with the details of the plan, or we should have strongly urged the claims of another class of persons to some relief at Sir Robert Peel's hands. We refer to those who are now paying the same rate of duty upon un certain income which the landowner or the fund holder is paying upon permanent income. We are satisfied that if the claims of this class of co Itri butors to the Income Tax had been considered the public would have more readily submitted to the continuation of that measure for any moderate period. As it is, Sir Robert Peel cannot hope, howe'. er liberally he may propose to pay in the shape of remissions of indirect taxation, for any lengthened forbearance on the part of the public. TO CORRESPONDENTS. Lted by Lions fc conveyance of an u d third share of the freehold, THE INCONIE TA af this step wed, or increased g Ireland with such meekne consent t ger and thumb to their p, ha leg week a Hs' property Lalifying. must have a ur correspondent. and all who complain I ,, comeTax, should not be surprised ' government. Maynooth cannot he rants given to National Schools in and if Protestants can submit with easures. they ought. with the same he necessary application of the mi- _..ggered with the statement we ,ciative to Noah's Ark being a model for s, though, of course, our contemporary takes the letting off a few of his infidel and unmeaning itimate reference to the sacred record, as sought before him. It will be remembered -t of corr.e of the steam-vessels meekness, t nister, that whic that we save las' built by Messrs. Wilson, and the Mercury is obliged to confess that " the proportions of these vessels, as given with respect length, breadth, and depth, certainly corresp nd with those `he ark." All we have to say in reply is, that we admire .y's candour, though it is the first time within a that he has ever acknowledged himself to be Our contempora ett faul The statements of " Conciliator" have been hashed up in dif ferent forms a thousand times, bat they don't affect the real at issue. Our correspondent must have real history t - , se, if he imagines that the Intended srrants to Po either sett:e the repeal question or atisfy of Rome. It has been observed with ..ucn that a priest of that communion "has no other vita ti-- little purl: 'ish rapa; advance the power and dominance of his What is England, or England's oveted possession, and a victim, , mishap What to be seduced or subdued ; to be wen r by either fraud or force ? Give him what you please, it is instantly turned in his hands into means for attaining this end. Give him .eg,ero a-year, it is an aid of £O,OOO a-year towares his project for conquering Ireland, and then overrunning Enzland. Give him . - '90,000 a-year, in licu of .-€9,000 ; you have merely increased the power of your foe. Gratitude or attachment you cannot pur chase at his hands, would you offer millions instead of thou sands as the price." iiihr kitterpool TUESDAY MORNING, FEB. 18, 1845 We enter, in this publication, upon the com mencement of the seventh year of our proprietorship of the LIVERPOOL STANDARD; and we cannot, without a violation of duty, permit such a period to go by without embracing the opportunity, which it presents to us, of returning to our numerous sup porters and friends our grateful thanks for the kind ness and support, with which they have thought proper to reward our humble endeavours ag conser vative journalists. It was an arduous task which we entered upon, when we undertook, through the nding the fact that such re ion is to be, in a great measure, purchased by notwi od, whose termination is not very apparent, of a tax most unpopular and harass- retention fora peric e income tax. For no slight boon would the public have been disposed to t to the continuance of such a tax. It was nly under an emergency which threatened impeach lent of the national honour that we consented to its imposition. And if the cry for its removal now be not loud and urgent, it is solely because the benefit which we hope for to all classes from the re ductions now proposed upon articles of great con sumption, and upon raw materials of manufacture, overbalances, in the opinion of the public, the weight of the impost to which we are called upon to submit, in order that those reductions should be made. SUOMI e not here about to examine in detail the propositions which compose the Budget. nese will be found elsewhere very lucidly given in our abridgement of the Premier's statement, to which we direct the attention of our readers. Upon one or two of these propositions, however, as highly important to the trade of this port, we may offer a .s; and, first, we take leave to tender our cind those of a large and important body of our fellow -townsmen for the remission made of the duty upon foreign staves. We have frequiently urged upon the attention of Government the inju rious pressure of this duty upon the interests and the industry of our coopers, whose export business to our colonies and foreign countries it has almost annihilated. A portion of this business it may now various 11 few remart thanks be almost too late to recal from the channels into which it has passed. We are satisfied, however, that a cheap supply of foreign staves will very ma terially revive the energies of the native artizan, and infuse a large amount of prosperity amongst the classes employed in this once important branch of The argument which is most prominently l.ut forward by the advocates of an increased grant to Maynooth, and the only one which can at all be listened to by Protestants, is that in concedieg such funds to an institution designed to propagate the popish heresy, they are only carrying out the spirit of a direct compact, entered into some time or other by the British nation. Yet, in all the debates which have taken place in Parliament, and the many dis cussions out of doors, upon this important subject, we have not had definitely pointed out to us any clause of such act, or the evidences of any arrange ment by the ministry who passed it, from which such alleged compact can he traced. We have been at some pains to ascertain the ground upon which its existence is just now so confidently asserted ; and we find nothing to warrant such assertion. On the contrary, a dispassionate examination of the cir cumstances attendant upon the establishment of Maynooth by the Irish Parliament, and of its sub sequent recognition by the Imperiai L'Tislature, brings us to the conclusion that a contract on the part of the state permanently to support that insti tution was never even dreamt of. To the readers of the LIVERPOOL STANDARD this, we are aware, is no new feature in the subject. It was very forcibly urged upon the Protestants of this town in the following passage of a speech by the Rev. Hugh W.Neile, which we extract from our file of 1841 : " As they were aware, the subject of Maynooth College had been discussed in the House of Commons for a con siderable time. A motion had been made every year for the withdrawal of a grant of about £9,000 a-year made in the Irish estimates for the :up -ort of that college. That motion, however, had been ne zatived every year. Last year the friends of the colter had been pressed more closely than they ever had been before, and they were obliged to put forward more strength in its defence. One of them, the hon. and learned member for the county of Tipperary, brought forward an act of the Irish parliament, by which he alleged, or gave it to be understood, that the grant to Maynooth College was granted in the act of union with Ireland. That was a staggerer,—(hear, bear) —because the lovers of our country would be sorry tojoin those who agitated for the repeal of the union, or of any part of it. However, after inquiry, it was found that no act of the Irish parliament involved any such contract; that the act of union said nothing about such a contract, but it was found at the same time that an act of the Irish parliament, called the 35th Geo. 111., that was, which was passed in the year 1795, appointed certain government officers of state, judges in Ireland, to be visitors of the College of Mayucotb. This seemed to give that college an union with the state, and some persons said it amount ed to an union with the state ; that was a matter upon which others held a different opinion, bat so long as that act was in existence, even the friends of our measure felt they could not ask for a withdrawal of the grant to May nooth College. For his own part he did not see why we might not ask for a withdrawal of the grant in spite of any such act, as it did not appear to him to invol,t, any compact to continue the grant. Still there were such things as parliamentary etiquettes, and the hon. member for Kilmarnock, Mr. Colquhoun,—(cheers,)—anxious to remove every impediment out of the way, and to clear the course for the withdrawal of the grant, had prepared a bill, which he had obtained leave this session to introduce into parliament, the proposal of which bill was, that the act in question should be repealed; that is, that by the authority of parliament the Lord Chancellor of Ireland and certain of the judges should no longer be visitors of the College of Maynooth. The prayer of this was strength ened by another circumstance. It so happened that in the year 1800, just before the union with Ireland, another act passed the Irish legislature, restraining the powers of the visitors of Maynooth College, preventing them from entering into any inquiry respecting the religious discipline or doctrines taught within the walls ; so that, although by the former act they continued nominal visitors, by the la' ter act they were prevented from efficiently performing the office of visitors. One act practically neutralised the other, without repealing it directly ; and the object of Air. Colquhoun's bill was to repeal both of them, or, at least, o much of them as referred to the College of Maynooth. Then there would be an opportunity for the hon. and learned member for Tipperary, or any of his companions, producing even the appearance of an excuse in any act of parliament as a screen for Maynooth College." industr The abolition of the export duty on coals we regard as very material to the interests of Liverpool. It is well known how large a portion of the export freights from this port is occasionally made up of coals. It may be said, indeed, that the shipping trade of Liverpool has grown up out of the facilities afforded for back freights by our possession of abundant supplies of coals, slates, earthenware from the Potteries, and especially of salt. The export duty placed on the former article by the Tariff Regu lation Bill has been seriously detrimental to shipping interests, besides being of very trifling aid to the revenue ; and we rejoice, therefore, to see the article of coals included among the list of our duty free exports. Railway : We feel grateful, too, for the advantages offered " to all.classes of the community by th e remissions ar, cotton wool The South-Eastern Company," remarked his lord "had proposed a very comprehensive scheme; P , g , other he made in the duties uon suglass sl)p schemes i hadve merits been oproposed all th by other hn e companies. and other articles selected by Sir Rob er t Peel. Upon the s re n la Especially, we look upon the reduction m a d e i n th e now inte n d to t ouc h ; t h ey are now es about seboute'fully s I d t 0 be not set duty upon the first -named article as one of great before yourter lordshCompany, adoptiips, arid you w ng till jhe v udge of them. thcom The Soatn iews of e - importance to the entire community, with whom mittee h of the House of Commons of last year, and acting it has now become almost a necessary of life. We i u n po t l i i e t ir e a u d - s r u e g s g s e t s i t ie ion o , f 7 .e d r d e r d essed the Board of Trade, and know that it will be urged by the Whig-Radical event of their scliemeeebetininc, additional carried. t. First of advantages al t party that the benefit might have been still in- in the creased, without material diminution, if any, of they offered to reduce the rate of fares of the old ) and the revenue, by the admi ss i on o f t h e s l ave- l a b our new line to one level ; a n d th ey ca l cu l ate d not upon 88 miles, i 2, hiad existed between London and Dover, but sugar of foreign countries to competition with n upon Then I t h h a e t , lower amount they would make the free-labour product of our own colonies, their u n charge. were p to ar i t l e ro u v ia it athdedi'tial third-class a c - The feeling, however, of the British people with commodalion in the carriages, ) regard to the guilt of slavery, is not yet suffi- carriages, which were to be provided with seats and co ciently weakened, by the app ea l s w hi c h h ave b een vered in. They were ready also to lay d own as soon as demanded a n electrical telegraph for the service of the made to their selfishness, to give us any great t he pu blic, at the distance. They fear of successful opposition to Sir Robert Peel's w G e o r v e er t ' o am ru e n n their line oj terminus to be formed at Hun just. and humane plan of inducing cheapness without gerford-bridge, Lambeth, and to make a junction with necessary ruin to our fellow-subjects in the British the South-Western ; and they were willing hereafter possessions. We can still afford to sacrifice some- should it be desirable, to make there a central terminus for all the railways running int London. They offered, tiling for the maintenance of that great principle,only e links—which foreparia e parlia m e n t , re not ie pro for which we have contended so long in the face of ied b moreover, 0 t t h o e r provide proj h projects nowb the world, that man shall not be the slave of man; to be provided—for a coast line of communication mnnor around we can s till a ff or d t o d o something for the mainte- the southern coast, getting thus an uninterruPted commu stance of ou r nat i ona l con sistency. nication along the coast from the metropolis, with the exception of some eight or nine miles, to the Land's-end. With r espect t o one or t w o features, or rather The company offered to place the whole line at the option omissions, in this scheme, we must own to a slight purchase by the Government, in accordance with the feeling of disappoi n t men t . However important to of of last session. These were the advantages they of the trade and the public may be the abolition of the fered." duty upon glass, we are not of opinion that Sir Here is certainly as direct a purchase of the ap- It was our intention to have entered at length • tinn, and to have adduced some 3n advanced by the reverend into an exam proofs of speaker. e find the subject so ably treated in zir:.:les from the columns of the Dublin Lreiii,..q Mail and the Record, which will he found in another part of our paper, that we are readily in duced to retrain from the task, and to rely upon the able case made out for us by our talented contem poraries. In our remarks last week upon the mad specula tions which have been going on in Railway Shares, we expressed strong doubts whether the fact of a• y particular scheme having been approved by the Board of Trade rendered its stock one in which prudecit men would invest at such premiums as we have lately seen paid. Our reason for arriving at this conclusion was a suspicion that that board would be influe ced in their decisions by other con siderations than those of profitable traffic, cheapness of construction, or other circumstances which confer value upon railway property. We conceived that a government board would naturally look favourably upon those schemes which offer the greatest facili ties to the public service, and by which the commu nity would be most benefitted ; and we thought it quite possible that projectors might purchase the good will of the board by concessions which may be found hereafter to be anything but conducive to the profitable working of their schemes. The speech of Lord Dalhousie, on presenting the first report of the board, on Thursday night, fully bears out the view which we have taken, with re spect to the considerations by which, in a great mea sure, these decisions have been influenced. Take this instance adduced by him, the South Eastern The Chamber of Commerce of Manchester is a body of no very enviable notoriety. From the date of the noodleism displayed by its then chairman, G. W. Wood, to the memorable escapade of Mr. Henry Ashworth, on both of which occasions its doings afforded the subject of merriment and triumphant ridicule to Sir Robert Peel, it has ranked in the esti mation of the world as a body whose opinions are beneath contempt—crotchetty, selfish, and ridicu lous. But the Chamber of Commerce of Manches ter has never until within the last week arrived at the climax of absurdity. It has at length come to the conclusion, and acted upon that conclusion, that no individual member of its body shall for the future have an opinion of his own ; that a chamber, pur porting to express the collective wisdom of the ma nufacturing people of Manchester and the district around, shall hold no opinions, and take no steps, which are not in accordance with those which are palatable to the Anti-Corn-law League. If there was any thing which could give influence to the opinions of this body, upon purely commer cial matters, it was the fact that it included amongst its members, and of course expressed the sentiments upon commercial matters of, men otherwise of all shades of politics. Amongst the directors last year was Mr. Richard Birley, one of the most ex tensive cotton manufacturers of Manchester--a gen tleman of undoubted ability and honesty, and whose opinions and influence would perhaps have greater weight with government and the country, upon any matter connected with the cotton trade, than that of any other man in the district. Mr. Birley, however, is a tory in politics; a free-trader, but one who wished to see free trade carried out without the in fliction of certain ruin to the agricultural interest. Mr. Birley, moreover, was chairman to the com mittee of Mr. Entwisle—an admirer of the progres sive free-trade policy of Sir Robert Peel's govern ment; and for this sin—because Mr. Birley has pinned his faith upon the sleeve of Sir Robert Peel, to a certain extent, and prefers a fixed duty to total and immediate repeal of the Corn-laws,—that gentle man has been excluded from his seat as a member of the board of directors. A step more totally sub versive of the influence which such a body as the Chamber of Commerce of Manchester ought to ex ercise, cannot be imagined. In fact, the disgust with which it has been viewed by the people of that town and Liverpool, and the opinion, which it has confirmed, that the Chamber of Commerce is from this time forth to be viewed as merely a reflector of the League, has irretrievably lost for it the weight which it ought to have had with the public. COURSE OF GOVERNMENT WITH RESPECT TO THE FINANCIAL STATEMENT OF SIR ROBERT PEEL —We have learnt, on the authority of letters received from London on last night, from a well-informed quarter, that the following is likely to be the course pursued by the Premier, in carrying out the measures announced on Friday night. Last night he would confine himself to the question of the renewal of the income-tax, which would probably occupy the House until its rising. Tuesday is expected to be a vacant day; and on Wednesday Lord John Russell is expected to open his budget of objections, ..titen will plutlut,c, Ili all p , a ictigiueueu uenteet, which may occupy several nights. ANXIETY TO BE TAXED !—The announcement of the intention of government to abolish the auction duty, and fix the license of auctioneers at a uniform sum of £l5, has given general satisfaction to the members of that body in Liverpool. An opinion, however, has been expressed by some of them, that it would have been more beneficial in every respect had the sum been fixed at £5O per annum, instead of £l5. It may not be generally known that the various licenses taken out by the more respectable auc tioneers have cost, up to this change, about £33, viz., for furniture, &c., £B, for plate, £5, wine, £lO, &c. It is thought that, however advantageous the plan to include all these branches under one license, it would have con duced more to the respectability of the trade if the total cost had been increased rather than diminished. THE FUNDS : SATURDAY NIGHT.—The funds have not varied much to-day, and prices continue flat and de pressed, Consols for money leaving off 991 to -a; and for the account, 99k to a ; Exchequer-bills, 545. to sfis. pm. ; Bank Stock, 214 to 2121; India Stock, 282 to 284 ; Three per Cents. Reduced, 100 to A ; Three-and-a-Quar ter per Cents.. 1034 to A ; Long Annuities, 12A; and South Sea Stock, 117. The foreign securities were also flat, and some of the quotations show a trifling decline. There was very little done in any of the markets, which, as usual on a Saturday, closed early. Spanish Five per Cents. left off 28 to ; the Three per Cents., 41 to *; Peruvian, 30 to 31 ; Portuguese, 581 to 591 ; Mexican, 35k to A; the Deferred, 164' to-.' ; Dutch Two-and-a-Half per Cents., 63 to *; the Five per Cents., 99 to-' t ; Co lombian, 14 to ; Chilian, 100 to 102; Buenos Ayres, 43 to 44 ; Brazilian, 891 to 901; and Belgian, 101 . to 102. Railway shares were fairly steady, without any great deal doing. The account only having just passed, the specu lators are scarcely yet prepared for renewed action. WATER.—We understand that the reply of Mr. Samuel Ho'me to Mr. Harmood Banner, on the important subject of giving to this town and locality a good and cheap sup ply of water, is now in the press, and will be published in a few days. The dieussion of this subject between two gentlemen, one cf whom must be so well acquainted with the management of the Water Companies, and the other with the local affairs of the town, will be attended with great public benefit. Mr. Danner has undoubtedly an advantage over his antagonist in being able to obtain offi cial information ; but that advantage will probably be counterbalanced by the extensive knowledge of Mr. Holy e or. all matters connected with the local govern ment of the town. DURATION OF THE INCOME-TAX.—The profession that the income-tax is only to continue so many and so many years reminds us forcibly of the following little anecdote. A person who kept an asylum for the better class of lunatics had invited a friend or two to dine with him, some of his patients being admitted, sub rosci, to the same table. The host being called out on some occasion, one of the patients says to one of the guests, " What's the state of your malady, sir? How long have you been suffering ?" " Suffering !" replied the guest, "I am not suffering at all. I was invited to dine with Mr. So•and-So, (the host,) and I am going home again this evening." " Ah, sir," said the patient, " so they told me, in order to get me here : I thought that I should go home again the same evening, hut now I fancy lam in for life. My only escape hence will be to the grave." And just so it wll be with the income-tax. We were tempted into it at first for on'y three years ; now we are to have it for other three; and when those are ended, and we are expecting a r lease, like the man in the madhouse, we shall find our burden commensurate with the lives of all of us. It will be a perpetual tax. If the people suffer it, let them ; but let them not be deceived ; let them, like the patient in the asylum, enter in freely, and know that they are to be de tained there for ever. The unfairness of the tax we have argued and proved again and again till argument and proof are needless.—limes. FEELING IN LONDON AS TO TILE RECENT FINANCI,?.I. MEASURES.—Tbc reception in the city of the financial statement of Sir Robert Peel has been of a mixed charac ter. He obtains great credit for hi s sw eeping abolition of the duties on exports, and for the general tendency of his proposed reduction of the duties on imported articles, to give new life and a c ti v ity to th e commerc i a l enterprise of the country at a time when it is entering on a race of competition with the rest of the civiliz e d w o rld. Looking to China, however, as the greatest new market upon which that competition is to act, and to the desired solu tion of the commercial problem of what returns are to be made for the exports to that country, there is some regret that the article of tea has been so entirely passed over without notice--that it is neither mentioned now, nor any hope held out for it in future. His interference with the excise is for the most part highly approved, particularly as regards the remission of the duty on glass. The continuance of the income-tax, as distinguished from the property-tax, is the most unpopular part of the financial exposition, especially as it is now intimated that it will be imposed for one year longer than the term of five years, which was fixed for its utmost duration when it was first laid on. Many persons had previously been sanguine in the expectation that some modification of the income-tax would have b een p ropose d on thi s occasion : that some distinction would in the first instance be made between income and property, by assessing property at a higher rate, preparatory, perhaps, to the exemption of income, of the mere produce of l a b our , w holly from its operation. Whether or not this feeling will produce any direct manifestation on the subject remains to be seen. THE LIVERPOOL STANDARD proval of the Board of Trade as could be offered by any company. First we have every material con cessions, and no doubt very proper concessions made to the demands and conveniences of the public; but whether they may be consistent with the pro fitable working of the line is far from clear. Lord Dalhousie himself affords us no data. Indeed it is not even said that the question whether these con cessions could he profitably made was ever consi dered by the board. Then we have temptations held out to government itself—an electric telegraph, the links of a coast communication, and the offer to government of the option of purchasing the line. These are undoubtedly great inducements for the board to give it their preference over lines whose projectors are not so liberal ; but it is still proble matical whether the facilities thus offered do not de tract somewhat from the prospect of handsome di vidends for the shareholders. We have made these remarks without the slightest design to prejudice the interests and standing in the market of the particular line referred to, which may be, and no doubt is, a valuable property. Our object is only the protection of the public against the possible, and too probable, result of rash invest ment in whatever schemes the Board of Trade may choose to sanction, without first ascertaining the grounds upon which that sanction has been given; and we trust that we have already said enough to induce prudent men to be more cautious in their operations. Some day, we have no doubt, they will thank us for the word in season. FEELING IN COMMERCIAL CIRCLES AS TO SIR R. PEEL'S FINANCIAL MEASURES. The period between the first announcement in Liver pool of Sir Robert Peel's financial measures for the year and our publication of this day has been too brief to allow of anything decisive being gathered, as to the feeling of the mercantile body with respect to the details of the plan proposed, or their precise operation. We must, therefore, be understood to be somewhat general in expressing the result of our inquiries upon the subject. Before proceeding, however, to details, we may briefly describe the feeling which was excited by the promulga tion of the scheme as a whole. For some days previous to the premier's explanation an impression was very current here that ♦ery little was to be expected in the shape of reduced taxation. The inti mation conveyed in the speech from the throne, of the necessity of further defences of our coast and of an increase of navy estimates, gave rise to an opinion that a large amount of the surplus in his hands would be applied by Sir Robert Peel to the carrying out of these objects ; and the announcement of measures of reduction, so compre hensive as'those decided upon, came upon all parties totally unanticipated, and, on that account, was received with greater satisfaction. The excitement which existed during the whole of Saturday was unprecedented, unless, indeed, it was exceeded by that caused by the announce ment of the tariff of 1842. The first and the great feature of the scheme—the re duction of the duty on sugar—was sure to be received with pleasure by the consuming classes. We have endea voured to ascertain bow it is regarded by the mercantile body, and are glad to find that the feeling is generally satisfactory. By the West India body it is regarded as having improved their position in the market, as com pared with foreign producers. The East India planters, too, find that in their low qualities of sugar they are placed perfectly secure from any injury from foreign competition. Although, under the uncertainty which exists, with re spect to stocks in hand, no definite prices can be fixed, and business has been consequently at a stand, yet, we understand that grocers are already disposed to admit of an advance of 2s. per cwt. upon sugar in bond ; and opi nions are expressed in well informed quarters that 4s. to ss. will be ultimately realized. The repeal of the duty on cotton wool, although so frequently canvassed, may also be said to have come upon us as a surprise, being rather viewed as a thing to be de sired than one to be expected just now. On Saturday the arrival of the news put a stop to business in our cotton market for several hours; and it was not until mid-day that parties began to recover themselves and examine its effects. An advance was asked upon duty paid stocks, on account of the uncertainty existing as to the precise time of the reduction taking effect. A few sales only were made; and yesterday, the same uncertainty con. tinning, the market was very irregular, and is likely to continue so until the question is finally settled. The feeling in favour of the abolition of this duty is not so hearty here as in the manufacturing districts. The abolition of the duty on glass, auctions, coopers' staves, &c.—especially the latter—has given great satis faction here, as also has the sweeping course adopted with respect to the numerous small import duties repealed and the export duty on coal. The more engrossing inte rest attached to the reduction of the sugar and cotton duties has, however, prevented these from receiving more than a merely passing attention. The subject of the lecture to be delivered at St. Andrew's Church this evening is " The Christian as a member of the Church of England." ST. THOMAS'S CHURCH, TOXTETH PARK.—To-mor row evening, the Rev. W. Butler, the respected incum bent of this church, will deliver the third of a series of discourses on the distinctive doctrines of the Churches of England and Rome. Subject, "The Word of God." ST. BARNABAS CHURCH SCHOOLS.—It will be seen, from an advertisement, that on Sunday week two sermons will be preached in St. Barnabas Church by our respected senior rector and the Rev. Hugh M‘Neile, in aid of the funds for discharging the bannce still owing for the erec tion of the cf mmodious Sunday, daily, and infant schools in connexion with the church. We sincerely hope that these appeals will be liberally responded to, and that the estimable incumbent of St. Barnabas will soon have the happiness of seeing the erections completed and entirely free from debt. CLEANING THE FOOT-PATHS.-At the Police-court yesterday, some of the parties having the management of, or owning St. Anthony's Roman Catholic Chapel, were brought before Mr. Rushton, on an information under the local act, 'or not cleansing the foot-path, which is in a very dirty state opposite the building. Mr. Rushton, on looking into the act, said that the parties charged were not at all liable, but that the footwalks opposite all places or worship sere lequi.,o to oe Kept in passable condition by the Town Council—the expense to be defrayed from the borough fund. The information was accordingly dismissed. THEFTS FROM SHOPS.—A rather smartly dressed young man, named William M`Cartin, was yesterday brought before Mr. Rushton, charged with stealing a coat from the shop door of Mr. Tuton, outfitter, Lord street. Mr. Dempster, an assistant at the shop, said that on Saturday he heard a kind of noise at the shop window, and going out saw the prisoner about fifty yards off walking away. Some other men wt re near him. Witness followed him, and found the coat under his arm. He could not swear to the article, but distinctly to the label upon it. The prisoner said that another man had taken the coat, and had dropped it. He was committed for trial, Mr. Rushton remarking that the case was the more aggravated inasmuch as the prisoner was not induced to the act from want or necessity.—Richard Low, a boy, was charged wtih stealing a leather apron, value ls. 6(1., from the shop of Mr. Kent, Great Cross Flail-street, on Saturday night. He was stopped while walking away with it Trial at the sessions. FATAL ACCIDENT.—A few weeks ago, a man named Thomas Healy took his passatte for America by the ship " American," from this port. The vessel put back, and it was found that she required repairs. While she was being discharged, previous to going into No. 1 North Graving Dock, he accidentally fell into the hold, and was seriously hurt. He was sent to the Northern Hospital, and had so far recovered that on Wednesday last he left the house, and went on board the vessel, to remain with her at nights until she sailed. By some means he again fell into the hold on the night of Friday last, or early on Saturday morning, as he was found by some carpenters at the bottom of the vessel, on the morning stated, much hurt and unable to steak. He was again taken to the hospital, where he died from the injuries on the same day. The inquest has not yet been held. It appears from a letter found upon him, written by his wife from Cork, after she had heard of the first accident, that he was from that city, and that he has left three children. DETAINING WEARING APPAREL.-Mr. Pye, pawn broker, was yesterday brought before Mr. Rushton, to show cause why he detained certain wearing apparel, which he ought to have known or suspected to be stolen. Mr. Wm. Cox, of Sidney-place, said, that on the 28th of January last his house was entered by some thief or thieves, and the articles (a brown and a black silk dress, &c.) taken away. He missed them on the same after noon, and had them advertised through the Police-office, sending bills to all the pawnbrokers. lie heard nothing of them until recently, when he accidentally found them through the police-officers at Mr. Pye's. The thief had in the interim been found, tried, and sentenced to six months' inn risonment. Mr. Pye (who produced the articles) said that time had not been given him to arrange the matter; that he was not aware they had been stolen ; and that one of the dresses was not mentioned in the bill. He also wanted the money lent upon them. Mr. Rush ton said he (Mr. P.) was by no means justified in detain ing them, and they must be delivered up. This Mr. Pye complied with, on hearing the decision. The sum of 15s. had been lent upon them. CLAIM FOR WAGES. — Yesterday, at the Police Court, a boy named Thomas Hopkin, applied for a balance of £5, alleged to be due for wages earned, for fourteen months services home to Africa and back, in the John Campbell, belonging to Mr. W. Sharp, merchant.—Mr. Sharp said, the boy had only gone on trial, and was to be bound ap prentice on his return, if he suited. Two voyages had been performed, and as regarded one of them, the boy's name was not on the ship's register. He also thought the sum claimed too much, £4 a year being what he Lad usually given to young apprentices, and some employers received a premium with ►hem. No agreement had been made as to wages —Mr. Rushton said, on hearing all the evidence, that Mr. Sharp was not to blame, but that the captain had been careless in not entering the name of every one belonging to the ship in the register, and had thereby rendered himself liable to a penalty of £2O. He could only—in the absence of an agreement—fix a reason able amount of wages, and he thonght the sum demanded might be considered so. Some deductions for clothing were admitted by the applicant, and Mr. Sharp agreed to pay the balance—X3 12s. 9d. POLICE -COURT, YESTERDAY.—MINOR CONVICTIONS, &c.—A little boy named John Taylor (previously con victed) was sent to gaol for three months for stealing a piece of bacon from a standing in St. John's Market, on Saturday. —A man named Matthew M'Cabe, for stealing 41b. of copper nails from the vessel where he was em ployed as scraper; one month.—A very little boy was charged with tendering successively two bad sixpences in payment for a halfpenny candle. It appeared that he had acted under the orders of his father, a disreputable cha racter; and he was discharged.—A girl named Sarah Simpson was charged with stealing half a bottle of gin gerette from a dwelling-house. She had before been convicted, had suffered six months' imprisonment, and was now consigned to prison for a month : —A man named Peter Coyne, who was detected in stealing about 21b. of leaf tobacco from the transit shed attached to the Tobacco Warehouse; 21 days' imprisonment.—Three men, Con nolly, Cassidy, and Ginnes, were charged with being drunk and disorderly in Marybone on Sunday, and strik ing a police-officer. The case being proved, they were fined respectively 20s. and 10s. together with Gosts, or to be imprisoned. One of them had been married on the same day, and produced his certificate to that effect. Feb. 18, 18--15. THE PROPOSED SUGAR DUTIES I LIVERPOOL SHARE MARKET FOR THE WEEI A meeting of the Refiners of Colonial Sugar and Mc- The transactions during the past week have been rath lasses at this port was held on Saturday, at which the limited, owing to the approach of account day ; and pric representatives of six local refining firms were present, of most kinds of stock have had a downward tendenc when various resolutions were passed—the fir)t, depre- the principal exceptions being Birmingham and Glouce eating an immediate reduction of the duties without ter, Bristol and Gloucester, Great North of Englan compensation for the loss that would be occasioned to the amongst the old stocks, and Trent Valley amongst tl refiners, who hold large stocks of necessity from the new, which have advanced. Yesterday was final settlir nature of their business, and who have been taken by day, and, in the early portion of it, little other busine surprise in consequence of the financial statement having of course was attended to. Before the closing of tl been brought forward so much earlier than usual—the market, however, a large business was done at improve second, praying that the duty on colonial molasses may prices. The settling was not fully arranged be reduced to three shillings per cwt., which low rate, it is said, would not only benefit the poor who con sume the treacle and inferior sugar obtained from the article, but furnish the farming interest with a capital material for feeding all kinds of live stock—the Sir W. M. STANLEY'S HOUNDS will meet third, praying that cane juice may be introduced into This Morning, (Tuesday,) at the Tariff at a moderate and fair fixed duty, and inci- Friday, Feb. 21, at dentally the duty on Khaur sugar may be equitably. ad- At Eleven o'clock. justed—the fourth, that brown clayed sugar may be ad- The CHESHIRE HOUNDS w ill mee t on mitted at the Muscovado duty—th 3 fifth, complaining of Wednesday, Feb. 19, at.. Wal g herto n L o d ge , D o ddi ng t o the new scale of duty on refined sugar as too favourable Thursday, 20, at to the colonist. Deputies were appointed to wait on the Saturday, 22, at Premier. On the same day the wholesale grocers also At Half-past Ten o'clock. met, and appointed a deputation to proceed to London to claim from the government a return of the duties actually Sir W. W. WYNN'S HOUNDS will meet on paid on sugar not removed from the bonded warehouses. Wednesday, Feb. 19, at The petition of the refining houses sets forth that their Friday, 21. at business is one involving, especially when molasses is the Saturday, 22, at P eu t re By c h ai article operated upon, many tedious processes; and that At Half-past Ten o'clock the quantity under such process in small refiners' pre mises generally averages from 300 to 500 tons. Upon WATERLOO COURSING MEETING, OVER. this weight of sugar the sudden reduction of the duty by ALTCAR, 118. 3d. per cwt. would cause a loss to each refiner of On TUESDAY and THURSDAY, 4th and Gth March. from four to six thousand pounds. The petitioners, Mr. Nightingale, Judge. therefore, submit that a return of duty should be made NOMINATIONS FOR THE WATERLOO CUP, conformably to the usage in former cases. They pro- Value 300 goys. in specie. A sweepstakes of 25 soy: teed to state that they well weighed the words of each, for 32 dogs ; from which will be given a bonus c the Right Honourable the First Lord of the Treasury £l7O for the 16 beaten dogs in the first ties. last session, with respect to the notice likely to be Mr. Eden. Mr. Watts, Mr. Edwards, Mr. Garvin given previous to alteration this year; and observing that Mr. A. Graham, Mr. Swan, Mr. Smith, Mr. Clarke the case of dealers was dwelt on as not entitled to warn- Mr. Robinson, Lord Eglinton, Lord Eglinton, ing, whilst their own case was entirely omitted, concluded Wynne, Mr. Deakin, Mr. Ball, Mr. Standish, Di that the established usage of compensation, in lieu of Brown, Mr. Pollock, Mr. Gale, Major Woodhouse warning, was to be adhered to. They appeal, however, to Mr. Woodbourne, Mr. Nash, Mr. B enne tt; Mr the House on the further ground, that ministers having Blundell, Mr. Jepson, Mr. Fowler, Mr. Taylor introduced their financial plans two months before the Mr. Jebb , Mr. Hunter, Mr. Scott, M r . S eg : r , M t usual period, no possible precaution on their own part Alderson. could have saved them from loss. The petitioners con clude by recommending a number of modifications of du ties, which are stated in our account of the proceedings of the meeting above. The deputation appointed to present this petition pro ceeded to London, and having placed themselves in com munication with the refiners there, waited upon Sir Robert Peel on Saturday, but were only able to transmit to him a statement of their case, owing to his being sum moned out of town upon official business. They re ceived, however, an assurance that their case would be considered, and that nothing decisive of the question at issue will be resolved upon until Wednesday. It is the opinion of the deputation that their prayer for compensa tion will be granted THE CHASE THE ALTCAR STAKES. Value 100 sovs. in specie, for the 16 beaten dogs in th , first round for the Cup. NOMINATIONS FOR THE WATERLOO PURSE, Value 100 sovs. in specie. A Sweepstakes of 10 sovs _ . eich, for 16 dogs. Mr. Eden, Mr. Watts, Mr. Edwards, Mr. Garvin, Mr A. Graham, Mr. Swan, Mr. Smith, Mr. Clarke, Mr Robinson, Lord Eglinton, Mr. Wynne, Mr. Deakin Mr. Ball, Mr. Standish, Dr. Brown, Mr. Pollock. The dogs to be named on Monday, March 3rd. Lord Stanley g: - .ve a grand banquet on Saturday even ing, at his mansion in St. James's-square. The report that the Camden Society were about to appeal against the decision of Sir H. J. FuA, in tho celebrated stone altar case, is authoritatively contra dicted. THE SUNDAY SCHOOL SOCIETY FOR IRELAND Yesterday evening, the annual meeting of the Liver pool Auxiliary Branch of the Sunday School Society for Ireland was held at Christ Church School-room, Chris tian-street, the Rev. Fielding Ould in the chair. The room was crowded to repletion, and after a hymn and an appropriate prayer, The Rev. CHAIRMAN stated the objects of the society —to promo'e the extension of Protestant Sunday schools in Ireland, by ern/hying agents, and distributing Bibles and Testaments amongst the pupils. The society was established in 1809, and still continued to flourish and expand, though, he lamented to say, some who had at first supported it had withdrawn. The society was never theless as important as ever; as much, if not more, needed ; and, by God's blessing, would, he trusted, go on and prosper. The scriptural education of the children in Ireland was the main object ; and though there were many other societies for religious education, there was no other that exclusively addressed itself to the Lord's Day—a day which was disrespected, even to desecration, by the Roman Catholic people of that country. The spec tacle of 266,000 children being instructed in the truths of the gospel in the heart of a Popish country, and the many parents who received the reflex of that instruction, was surely one that was calculated to awaken the warmest feelings in behalf of the society. He regretted that the government was against such a society for the dissemina tion of gospel truth, and had not only withdrawn their grants to them, but had given their endowments to Roman Catholic estabiishments for education--to fix upon the children the chains of superstition. The last scheme proposed in parliament was, indeed, to increase to nearly four-fold the former grant to Maynooth, which was formerly £9OOO a-ye:r, and was now proposed to be raised to £28.000. Some years ago, government proposed (and he believed through the present premier) to endow the society they were met to advocate, but it was refused by the lAter, and it was perhaps well that it was; for it would have been withdrawn be fore this time, and the society, not depending upon itself might have gone down like others. He highly compli mented a lady present for her exertions, through which -el')') Tact rpor ho.r. rn;c.a./. fuud would, however, he feared, fall short this year, and he would be glad to distribute 20 or 30 collecting cards to parties wil ling to collect donations. The qoestion would soon cease to be an Irish one only : it would soon, from the encroach ments of Popery, become at., English one. He read an extract from the London Times of two years ago, chewing this to be the fact, and concluded by contending that all the mischiefs, bloodshed and rapine in Ireland could alone be put down by Scriptural education. The following is an extract from the report : " In connection with the society there are in Ireland 2981 schools, containing 246,693 scholars, and 23,265 gratui tous teachers; of the scholars 140,202 were reported to be reading in the Bible and Testament, 50,895 to be adults, above the age of fifteen, and it appeared that about 100,000 were not receiving instruction in week-day schools. A most important feature in this statement, and one which cannot but commend the system to every friend of Ire land, is, that upwards of twenty-three thousand persons of benevolence and piety in all classes, are engaged in affording instruction gratuitously to their neighbours on, the Lord's Day. The labours of these teachers do not ter minate with their services on the Sunday, but by visiting the scholars at their houses they become acquainted with the temporal wants of the respective families, and are led to use means for their relief. Upwards of 700,000 Bibles and Testaments have been circulated since the formation of the society, in 1809." The Rev. Mr. WOLFENDEN proposed, after a brief but pointed address, that the report be received, and that the list of names for the committee of the gentlemen, and of the committee of the ladies' auxiliary, for the present year be adopted. The Rev. R. H. KYLE, of All Saints', Herefordshire, rose to second the resolution, and spoke in behalf of the society with great eloquence and effect, for nearly two hours. To attempt anything like a report of his touching address at this late hour, is beyond our time or limits. He related many affecting anecdotes of the excellent ef fects of Sunday schools in Ireland, which he had himself long attended to, and supplied many deeply interesting statistics relating to them. He was listened to with the utmost attention. and was much applauded. A hymn was then sung, and a liberal collection made towards the funds of the society. We understand that the Rev. Mr. KYLE will preach a sermon this evening, in behalf of the Society, at St. Mark's Church, when we trust the attendance will be commensurate with his merits as an eloquent speaker, and the claims of the Protestant Irish Sunday Schools upon the benevolence and Christian feeling of the public. ILLICIT DISTILLATION.—Yesterday two men, M`Don ald and Delaney, and a female named Smith. were charged before Mr. Rushton with being in possession of several quarts of illicit spirits, low wines, &c., in the cellar of the house where they lived in Blackstock-street. The female was seen talking to them when they were apprehended by the excise-officers, but the evidence was not sufficient to convict her of a guilty knowledge of the distillation or possession of the spirits, and she was discharged. The case was made out against the men, and they were each convicted in a penalty of £3O, or in default, to be im prisoned three months. S sTURDAY EVENING CONCERTS.—Upwards Of two thousand persons attended on Saturday last, when the celebrated Mr. Henry Russell, from America, gave one of his inimitable vocal entertainments, delighting and as tonishing his numerous auditory, who received all his songs with rapturous applause. He givPs a second enter tainment this week, and we understand that Mrs. Sun derland, who has created so much sensation amongst the musical public in Liverpool, will sing next, when an extra night will be given to accommodate parties who are unable to attend on Saturday evenings. She will be as sisted by Messrs Mary Swain, Mr. Ryalls, and Mr. Lam bert, principal bass at York Cathedral. DEATH FROM BURNING.— Yesterday, an inquisition was taken before the borough coroner, touching the death of Euphemey Eccleston, a child of ten years old. The deceased lived with her parents in the house of Mrs. Hinds, Sidney-place, Edge Hill. On Friday night, the deceased was by herself in a room, on the fire in which her mother had left a pan. In taking the pan off, her apron (as she afterwards herself stated), took fire. A sister of the deceased, aged 12, ran out and gave the alarm, when her mother and a police-officer went in, and the flames were extinguished, but not before she was so dread fully burnt about the chest. neck, and arms, that she died on the follo w i ng n i g h t. Th e j ury returne d a verdict of " Accidental Death." DEATH IN THE WORKHOUSE.—On Friday, an inquest was held before the Borough Coroner, on view of the body of a child, ten days old, named Owen Green. It appeared, that, after the birth, the mother died, and the child was taken to the girl's sick nursery at the Work house, and placed under the care of Sarah Beyes, one of the nurses. At the time of his reception he had a wound on the left side of the head, a contused wound on the back of the head, and another on the right side. His death was caused by a wound on the left parietal bone, which was an inch and three• quarters in length, and an inch in width, and was evidently inflicted by violence. A female, who acted as midwife, and attended the mother of the deceased in her confinement, admitted that the birth had been a tedious one, and that she had been obliged to inflict some injuries, when extracting the in fant from the womb. A. verdict was returned to the ef fect, that the deceased died of the injuries, but how in flicted there was no evidence to show. LIVERPOOL TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 18, 1845. PRINTED AND PUBLISHED EVERY TUESDAY MORNING, By JOSEIUA FLETCHER LACE, of 53, Grove-street, and LEONARD ADDISON, of 14, Great Orford-street, At N 0.4, ST. GEORGIC'S CRRSCENT, LIVERFOOL Orders and Adertisements are received by Messrs. Newton I t ', Co , Warwick-square ; Barker and Whi te. Flee t-slrc,,i, Deacon, Walbrook ; Reynell, Chancery-l ane; Charles Bai.-0, Birchin-lane ; Joseph Thomas, 1, Finch.la ne , C orn hill ; den Hammond, 27. Lombard-street; Mitchell , 8, Red Lw,, o , court, Fleet-street; Lewis and Lowe, 3, C ast l e-court, C 0.., hill; at the London Commercial Cohee-house, Mincing-la ° ;f, at the Jerusalem Coffee-house, Cornhill ; C h apter Co fee-house, Paternoster.row ; North and South Amerlt7:, Coffee-house, Threadneedle-street; Parsons, go, lane, London ; Johnston and Co., Ed en Quay, DublM. 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The Right Hon. the Speaker of the House of Common! gave his first grand parliamentary entertainment for the present session on Saturday evening, at his residence in Eaton-square. The guests were chiefly members of the ministry. Mr. Cardwell was amongst the company. TEIGNMOUTH.—The surplice is still continued. Or Sunday last, the greater part of a very small congregation left the church, amidst much noise and confusion. Re port says, that the worthy incumbent is preparing for a siege, and that on Sunday next the police are to guard the church to prevent an uproar, that the surplice worshippers may not be disturbed.— [Vest Briton. REV. ROBERT MONTGOMERY'S NEW WORE.—The popular author of " Luther," " The Messiah," and other poems, and whose last work, " The Gospel Before the Age," has caused so much discussion, not only among English critics, but in France and Germany, ha - , it will be perceived, by our columns to-day, a new work in the press, under the noble and expressive title of " CHRIST OUR ALL IN ALL." A sublimer theme human pen can not handle. TRACTARIAN CONCESSIONS.—We publish i❑ another part of our paper two pieces of intelligence which, we feel convinced, will be received by our readers and the public in general with extreme surprise and satisfaction. We allude to the intended dissolution of the Camden Society, and the concession of the Tottenham clergy on the subject of church innovations. Both these circum stances are at the present crisis of ecclesiastical affairs most important. They indicate a proper appreciation of the perilous aspect of things in the church.—Times of yesterday. THE PACKET-SHIPS UNITED STATES AND ENGLAND• It appears, by our late accounts from New York, that some apprehensions were entertained at that ei'y for till safety of these fine packet-ships, which sailed from this port on the 26th of November and Ist of December res pectively, especially as the packet-ship Oxford, Captain Rathbone, which left Liverpool on the 18th December, had arrived in safety on the 20th ultimo. The New York Herald remarks :—" They have been out in severe wea ther, and the probability is, that they have lost spars. and, perchance, masts. They have been a long time at sea, yet hundreds of fast-sailing ships have tven longer is making voyages of an equal distance. For instance, the John arrived at Philadelphia last Sunday, after a passage of 131 days from Leghorn !" SWITZERLAND.—Lausanne letters and the Swiss jour nals of the 11th instant announce that the Grand Council of Vaud had assembled on that day, and would probably' give to its representatives in the extraordinary Diet the same instructions as those of Berne, Soleure, and Zurich. Two of the cantons, Friburg and Geneva, had declared against all intervention with the rights of the government of Lucerne. The former had instructed his representa tives to declare the admission of the Jesuits into Lucerne an act of sovereignty of that canton, exercised in virtue of its constitutional authority, and with which the Diet wee incompetent to interfere. Protesting beforehand against any decision the assembly might adopt, whether it resolved to invite or corrpel Lucerne to expel the Jesuits, the Grand Council of Friburg apprised the Council of State of its readiness to invest it with full powers, and supply it with an unlimited credit to enable it to adopt efficient measure of defence. That body was likewise empowered to ap point a Commander-in -Chief of the cantonal forces, who would most probably be M. Vonderweid, a swiss officer in the Neapolitan service. Geneva, however, w 0 not disposed to proceed to the same extremities as Fri burg, and would join in a pressing and friendly invitation to Lucerne, in.consideration of its federal position, to re-. scind its decree relati ve t o th e J esu i ts. T he G ran o Council of Zurich, after a warm discussion, in which the Landammann Zehuder denounced the Jesuits as a mo ral plague, which it was incumbent on the confederation to remove by force, if necessary, appointed for its represen tatives in the extraordinary Diet Dr. Fourrer and Coun cillor Ruttimann. The former, however, only obtained 100 votes out of 199, and the second 99 out of 194. LIVERPOOL COTTON MARKET, Fan. 17. The business in this market, on Saturday, was inter rupted by the statement of Sir Robert Peel, and the uncertainty as to the actual time of the duty being taken off. About 2,000 bales were sold at previous prices• Yesterday, prices continued very irregular. The sales were about 4,000 billes, chiefly at last week's full prices• SHIPPING INTELLIGENCE MONDAY, FEBRUARY I%—Wind S.S E. ARRIVED. — Courier, and Wolfville, from Ichaboe—Willi - JO Kelso. from Belfast—and Eleanor, Julius, from Charleston, SAILED —Goodwin, Davies, for New Orleans—Vesper, Bel lamy, for Gibraltar—Foyle Packet, Lang, for Barcelona—Lad , ' Falkland. Baker, for Antigua—James Anderson, Ridley. fo r Santa Martha—Caroline Lessure, R a y mon d . for ilade Scheediac, (,rifrinp.for Mobile—Don, Queripel, for Havana -- Matilde, Schultz, for Danzic—Plgeon, fiesieck, for Azores - r Kondraty Saveu, Tuleff. for Havana—Br triers, Hill, for Hal fax—Kitty, Wylie, fog Charleston— an d F ame, S h ort, for 14, .' Video. Midas, Kier, and Catherine, Gray, from Ichahoe, at Cove Dryope, Davidson, hence a t F a l mouth, loss of bulwarks a n stanchions, and ot , e man killed Jessamine, Jarvis, from Leghorn for Liverpool, at Milford TELEGRAPH OFFICE, FEBRUARY 17 Wind at Holyhead, S.S.W. fresh breeze. at Off Holyhead. in w ar d b oun d . N o. 183, Albert or Ann, Bk. a 11 30 a.m. ; 8463, Crown, Bk. at 12 30 p.m from Mobile; a" 862. Ben Nevis, Ship, at 3 p.m. yesterday, from Savannah. Off Point Lynas, inward bound, N 0.3862, Mayaram Dayaraw Bk. at 7 afro. and 3902, Catherine, Brig, at 12 at noon. LIVERPOOL PROVISION MARKET, F EB . 17. Our Butter Market still continues in a very supine state. Pe r ; haps, however. we may f a i r l y state that holders display le a ; nervousness. Pickled Butter is at 905., wi , h very little doiliP . In Provisions we note no alteration.