The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser. — Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1846-05-12 00:00:00

tittraturr. --iv-- NOTICES. Examined. By a Liverpool Our - Free Tra - de :PO'icy Merchant. London-: Whataker and Co.; Liverpool : ! L i ce and Addison, end W. Grape!. We resume our extrmrs from th;s well-timed pamphlet; load first quote the views of Vie writer with respect to the condition of the labouring masses under the operation of fitimulated manufactures and depressed agriculture : " A reduction of the reward of manufacturing labour I conceive t. be the natural. the immediate, and the inevi- re-ult of the minkterial measures, or of any mea ., which tend to dtvtrt industry from other branches npinyment, and to direct it towards manufacturing sits. The immediate connexion of the price of labour the prie of food I do not choose at present to dis- I could even aff.nd to throw it overboard alto- T; and leav - Sir Robert Peel and his ministerial and •radical alli's to make the most of their elaborately :unninglv selected figures and data. There is a natu videricy towards decline in the wages paid in all ma- " I need not enter at any great length into the examina tion of the grounds on which Mr. Gladstone endeavours to soothe the fear of injury being inflicted upon Canadian interests by the Government measures, and to show that that country is in a position to sustain the competition to which she is called upon to submit the industry of her population. With res,,ect to her corn, Mr. Gladstone says : " ' I have much satisfaction in reflecting, that if Canada will have to enter into competition with the western states of America, and engage in this rivalry when no longer covered by any protective duty, at least she will not be called on to make the effort without some advantage on her side. Among them I reckon light taxation ; the assis tance she has received froth British credit and funds in .the construction and improvement of her internal commu nications; her more regular and steady course of trade with this country; her low tariff, so favourable to impor tation, and, on that account, so powerfully tending to en courage her reciprocal commerce outwards ; some advan tage in point of proximity, as compared with the most westerly states of the Union, which are also her most for midable rivals in cheapness of production: and, lastly, the means of carriage, without transhipment, by the St. Lawrence, which cannot he had by the Erie Canal. She will likewise have this in her favour, that her corn trade will have become a settled one of some standing, with all its arrangements made and in full operation, while any regular commerce in that article with the United States must be a new creation, and must go through the pro ce-ses attending its self• adjustment to processes as yet untried. with us." " Who is this same Interpreter ?" asked Scapegrace. "Interpreter," answered Stagman, "is a stockbroker, who knoweth all the ups and downs of the place, the abodes of sellers and customers, and the booths where the best bargains are to be had. He bath his living by di recting travellers through the Fair, and showing them where to buy and sell to good purpose. For a small con sideration he will go along with us, and help us in this bu-iness." But Scapegrace, who had waxed foolhardy, replied— " Not so, friend Stagman. I fear not 1 shall find my way easily enough through the Fair, and bring my bogs to a good market without him, and save my money at the same time. Already, methinks, I feel the burden at my back lighter. Let us push on, I beseech thee, to our journey's end." " Neighbour Scapegrace," said Stagman, " thou art somewhat rash in this matter, for Interpreter's fee is but a trifle; and I can tell thee, that if by mischance thou shouldst come to lose thy way in the Fair, ttiou mayst chance to be very roughly handled. There is always a scum of villains there on the outlook to decoy strangers, and, if they will not consent to be cheated, to flout and mock them with jibes and scurril jests. 'Twas but the other day they put Truepenny into the STOCKS, and kept him there till he thought he should. never get. out again; and he only did get out by parting with all the ready money he had. I pray thee, neighbour, take warning, and be advised." As he spake, behold a third man came towards them from behind, and shortly overtook them. " Whither so fast, neighbours ?" said he. " Nay, Mr. Littlefaith," we be all journeying, as I take 7 I it, the same road. We are b ound for V an i ty F a i r, an d se our foreign trade. In 1841 we eltnn rto;l I atirantoov.e ~, a v th,,l .fil,. 17.11. d .C',./... ,;... iA. -----.-J yi from that little bundle which I see in thy hand , it should ti. 452 1,519, a seem thou art on the same errand. Is it not so ?" "It is even so," said Littlefaitb. " I would fain turn tip to 1,643 yet a penny, like other men. Men say, in our village of Loveeain, that my neighbours, Plausible, and Saveall, and . i 'cress Worldly-Wiseman, by their dealings at the fair have made • did rive a mint of money ; and so would Obstinate, too, for that 1 ]S43? matter, if lie had not asked too much fur his wares, and sive rnig so lost his market, and returned as lie went. More fool i.. 1 rim he! 1 shall take the first good offer I get, I promise it of the you." t to meet " Well, now," said Scapegrace, joining in their talk, Jock of I " since Littlefaith is going along with us to the Fair, fur her surely we can do without Interpreter. Come, pluck up a Fr , e 'I i good heart, and let us be jogging." !mend fo Then Stagman shook his head, and said nothing; but I tendeet the three continued to walk on. aces into After a time said Stagman—" Since thou will not take have red Interpreter with thee, there is brit one further advice shall ha which I can give. Not far from Vanity Fair, dwelleth a aculi Ist al certain man called PREMIUM ; but his house is not easily 'Mt. ' it s found, for he liveth next door to Discount, and marry all expel strangers, thinking to find the one, have landed at the of art , ch door of the other. In truth, it is said there is a passage to unequ between their dwellings, and that the two play into each ill have t other's hands; for oftentimes, when Premium see'th visi - rown an C tors coming, and liketh not their look—for he is a shy r market, man, and easily friehtened—he will disappear of a sudden, turtrig die and send Discount to open the door to them, and to say an tell d for ti r Ft he has gone out, and won't be home for a fortnight. This know wh- man Premium is almost always to be found hankering about the Fair; and so long as thou carist keep close upon utieulaiiei him, thou art sure to go right. Follow in the direction 14 district he goeth : he will guide thee to a goad customer; but now, from having made thy market, bestir thytelf, and go thy way the Secret quickly, lest evil overtake thee. But take care thou lose sar it was int, not sight of the man, for he often vanisheth when least expected ; and shouldst thou fall into the hands of his neighbour, who is ever close behind him, then went thou . ne e viie niece years Oxen] upon for the continuance of I utterly undone." reed th ~., t- '-“A' l ' ,, , st . . •,,..... ! .1... „ ,: • .- -' . .. And about mid-day, as they journeyed, they came in as, sight of the Fair, which was of goodly extent, with many e t en lanes and alleys, through which great crowds were ever o 1 moving, and the din and hubbub of their voices, as they sst called out the names of their wares, was such, that at fist rag the pilgrims were mightily confused. Littlefaith spate w, of turning back, but being encouraged of Stagman, he I i took heart again, and went on. ,a And as they gazed about them, and marvelled at the • multitudes that were wandering up and down the noes, 1 cheapening the wares, " Now we are in good luck," cried ti Stagman ; " for yonder ' on the outskirts of the market, seed of the agriteal it I mistake no t, is Mr. Premium. Let us step up boldly to him at once and take his arm—for if we approach him timidly, he will disappear under one of the booths incon tinently." " But do you think we may venture?" said Littlefaitb. "Yea. verily," said Stagman ; so, hurrying up to him, they laid hold of him gently, but with a firm grasp, and saluted him. He was a portly person, attired in a gold sure-. coloured suit, and put on a smiling countenance when the t i , pilgrims laid hold of him ; but mettiought he looked about e . him on every side to see whether he could dodge away, and en. escape. Finding, however, that they clung to him tightly, 'et,, he made as if he were much pleased to meet them, and eo a returning their salutation — tip, " How now, old friend," said he to Stagman ; what ens, wouldst thou have me to do?" aye - ! " Only to straw us through the Fair," said Stagman. int "These, my friends, are new to the place, and they would 3 fain know bow to sell their wares to the best bidder. I pray thee, go with us, fur thou knowest all the ours and " ' This leaves a balance in favour cf that city of two ins of this Babel." shillings per barrel. So far as the trade in breadstuffs So, keeping fast hold of Mr. Premium s arm, they en between Great Britain and North America is concerned, tered the Fair; and if at a dis - ance they were confused under the present formation of the corn laws, and under with the clamour and din of the crowd, they were be)ond an equalization of duties of Canadian and American flour, measure astonished when they gut into the thick of it. it is pretty evident that the bulk of it must be carried on Here was French row, Dutch row, Belgian row, Irish between this city and Liverpool, but to what extent it row, English row, and Scotch row ; the chief crowd, how will be carried, is a matter of much uncertainty and ever, was in the English row, which was so choked up at doubt.'" times with buyers and sellers, that it was not possible to " With respect to the alleged ' many advantages' which move on at all. But as most people were glad to make the shipping of British North America enjoys over that way for Premium, who was well known there and much of the United States, upon which Mr. Gladstone depends respected. the pilgrims got along the rows better than to prevent this diversion of our commerce from the St. they thought. Lawrence to New York, and from British bottoms to " What will you buy, worthy gentlemen—what will you ,shed, thus remarks upon it : those of the Republic, I cannot see where those advan- buy ? exclaimed many voices as they passed. • • Before, however, the gigantic speculations upon hu- tages lie. It is true that the shipping of British Ame- Buy any Penaylvanians, gents ?" said a man in the raj ,ten lahour, in which the menufateuters here arid else- rice is constructed at less expense; but then it can only merit of a Quaker. where tondly indulge, can b cat ried out to completion, be said to have payine cargoes one vv ay. A vess e l, which " Heavy stock, heavy stock, Jonathan !" cried an maiethirig vet remains to be core-utied—that is, the will has brought to New York a valuable cargo of dry goods, other. 'lnc l-b urine class-s. 'I . here is a mind whose secret can aff o rd to ret u rn, corn laden, to Great Britain at less " Buy my M exicans—best Mexicans !" said a third. gigs a et deep cocci miming rates than even a cheaper ship. which has come out al ., wiih itself the world does " Would nut take a present of them gratis,"'Cried a —oi to heed; there is a voice whose fearful accents most inn ballast, can sail from Montreal or Quebec with a fourth. an all their strength and p err the world has not yet cargo. Mr. Gladstone, • 1 euspect, will find this delusive " Spanish three's reduced—who'll buy." said a fifth. Beard—the mind and the voice of the working population argument slip from Leneath his feet; and especially so " Reduced to nothing," said a sixth. 1, hrouehou Chi istendom, Vol. d. tied beyond the power of " Portuguese deferred annuities ?" said a seventh. when, by the present measures, the British Government Nether eodurence, and eskine en every hand, where the " Deferred to the day of judgment," answered an eighth. has withdrawn the temptation to emigi ants to settle in region of righteous rest-t nice begin s ? If governments " Gl embutc hkins—guaranteed stock, 5 premium, ear Canada, and directed the surplus population of this court take no good heed, this nowt and veie e will one day give c/;tr. said a nil th. try to the western states of the American union, as af- la:terarme to the sense of err we utjes ly inflicted in ways fording them r qual, if trot superior, fields for their enter- "'Won't do, Sauley, said a tenth— slid terms that will slunk limn thi-nr foundations all the prise and industry. It is well known that a large port i on price." existine insinti uoire o• the eer. h. The doctrine that the of our shipping employed in the trade with British Ame- And so on it went, all the dealers bawling and squab only true capital is labour, he weter specious and unsound rica goes out with emigrants to those settlements ; and, bling together, and trying to depreciate one ,anther's in it% application, is gaining fast tired of the minds ot the when we take away this remunerating employment for the wares. misses. The claim of the works err to eat the fruits of outward voyage, the site homewards must be a seriously But, in the meantime, a certain one came up to Li t tle the earth—AO pat-tette ot the gi.ts on' G-d —to be warm and increased one." faith in the crowd, and seeing him in compa n y with Pre to be el olned—to hit fed when he is hungry, and to be With respect to the timber trade of Canada, the same minim, he asked him it he were inclined to sell his scrip. *bettered trove the stereo in fair return for the toil of his despatch says: - Whereupon Littlefaitb. turning round, saw that it was arm and the Sstrat ot his brow, is (laity making itself heard ' " Not only are they (the government) free from the ap- his old neighbour , Plausible , and answering , said , " lit a in a pp eti te that en next b' mi.-taken A cornmunisme of truth such was my errand hither , but what with the din prehension that the proposed re-mission of 1 0 s. per load interests --- f troli,triationn an tine loft coon of past wrongs— on foreign timber and 12s. on foreign deals will cause a and bustle about me. I doubt 1 shall never pluck up heart of deter minaiiwn to res-st tresh epyressiens, is binding the contraction of the trade from British North America, but to find a purchaser." l a bouring c lasses of all lands 'ito tense fraternity. e they are sanguine in the anticipation that that trade will " I fear, neighbour Littlefaith , " said Plausible. " thou tie, meet this g owing emit , d• racy is by far the most clic& i continue, notwithstanding the proposed change, to extend art in the right, arid let me tell thee teat same scrip of cab task of tine statesman in the it , eeetit day ; for it is by itself. "' thine is little in favour here ; howbeit, for the sake or obi 'far the most te oat' , and nangercus r lenient with which he 1 , "A differential duty of 155., proposed, as ' upon the ec q uaintance. I would not have thee return empty-1 will lea had yet to deal.' average nearly covering the difference between treights buy thy wares of thee. Thou canst not expect pre 'Truett "A etrke alaingst the nointifacturing work-people ! from the Baltic and these from British North America profit, but here are twenty crowns, which will defray thy against reeuctem of a ages, follow•II2 a measure which to Great Britain,' he apprehends will preserve to us this I travell , ng charges—and leave thee a somethine over be- Vas to postgame the perod et such re , 'uctien almost inde- trade; and he argues, that as import--tion to Canadian side. Mayhap I may be able some time or other to find fidielv, will be a vet y rtiff rent effor to those strikes— Timber has increased under the m asure of 1842, so it a purchaser. There is the money. Give me the scrip fearful enough in te r re-tot--a hit h hate taken place in will continue to increase when a further amount of pro- quickly; for I see a certain friend of mine, Mr. By-ends, toast tunes. It wel he a final to i uega. on the part of the tection shall have been withdrawn. Candour, however, who beckoneth to me, and cannot wait." 1 ibourer fur his future penii ion in the social fabric. We ought to have induced him, before holding out this unsta- Then did Littlefaith take the ere). ns, and give unto have no further eit Insive dreams it mitigation of his mit- ble argument to the colonist, to have reminded him of the Plausible the scrip, which when he had put into his bosom. ferines, by the surely of cot a l er in, atra of supporting ex- I fact, that very special circumstances, most favourable to he smiled and hastened away. When Littlefaith came jot-lice, to hold up before his eyes. He will say new— the developement of the timber consumption of Great back to Stagman, he told him what he had done. 'I must have a security that I rat, live by my labour, or Britain. have been in operation since 1843. The pro- "Thou faint-hearted fool!" said Stagnian, " knowest I must experiment as I ple a se upon those institutions gress of railway construction, the increased general pros- thou not thy wares were well worth a hundred crowns, which practically p ace me in the position of a machine, perity of the country. and other concurrent causes which, 1 warrant thee, Plausible will makeuf them before tend to tof in loot an being. tee th was ts which eat into the (amongst the rest the fact of the Baltic grower having the market is over. Out upon thee tor a crazed cox life, and lacerane hot ly the bide and the soul.' The cha- . himself appropriated the remitted duty, and rendered his comb! get thee gone, and trouble us no more in this I raster of such xi.ieriments, from such a source, I need timber comparatively dearer than Canadian) have sup- matter. c o at dilate upon." purled the British grower in the compe t ition to which the Better is a bird in the hand than two in tl , e bush," The follow ine examit ati'tn of Mr. Gladstone's des- measure of 1842 submitted him. Let these special cir- said Littlefaith ; and so saying he departed. ps e c i n n, to the Got erner. General of Canada, may he use- cuoistanees cease to operate, and it is by no means a cer- But while Stegman was thus gibing Littlefaith for (iii to rho e whin assert that there is no danger of our pre- tainty that, even with his present protection, the Canadian throwing away his warts, suddenly Scapegrace uttered a Sent policy it fl•ctine injury mein rur colonies, endanger- may not have a period of suffering before him. Reduce cry, and said — fog their ri lat , enship to the moil er country, or damaging that piotection, however, to 15s. from 245., its present t• Merry on us, what he'll become of Mr. Premium ! the interests of the Brutish merchant and shipowner:— I amoutv, and the ruin of this branch of colonial industry I only turned my head for a moment to look at yoneer Sr That it e population ot 13 , it sh America is already se. is certain. The lumherers of that colony will not, like Prospectus of the Grand Equaterial and Tropical June. riously alarmed at tie positon in which the proposed the serfs of the northern European counties, work for a tion, and lo ! I,e slrpt his arm from mine, and 1 saw him measures ot Goternmerit t turn -p to i lace them, is clear m i n i m u m amount of remuneration. Render their em- ito more. from the arisicee and journals rice led by the Halifax ployment unprofitable anti they betake themselves at once " Oh, woe is me!" cried Stagman ; " what I foretold ((mot 8 ,,, a ,,,, r, ~ f ew ( o ne eag, arrived; and the feeling is to their farness; their timber ceases to employ our ship has come to pass, and now 1 tear a worse thing will yet evidently shared ey th, t; welt er General of Canada him- ping. our sailors, a nd their own saw-mills, and to pay for befall us. " self. In his toeeeeh at tire opening of the Canadian par- British manufactures. Under the proposed duty (the And, as he spake, behold there drew near a lean and Ii 'went, on the 20 th u l t. , L ord Lobelia thus indicated freight ill-favoured erson clad i froM 11;e Bahc being ebout 17, per load against inragged and cart-coloured et. ice fir-t impressions. et 1 - est , upon the subject : 38s. from British Amen ice) the Baltic grower will tire, whose doublet was much out at the elbo w s , ar i d who • "'Tine last in-el leerier it•rit .he Mother Country indi- have a protecting duty of six shillings per load (or the looked ever towards the ground ; and no sooner did Stag- C'Ves a frost thiporiant change in rre commercial policy of difference of freight r f 21 s. less the duty of 155,) over the man see him drawing nigh, than he thr ew his scrip on the the E m pi r e. I had previously teken occasion to press Canadian 2 . and thus, it' the quality of the article fee_ ground, and, hurrying through the cro wd, he was seen ion %pen H e e Mai sty's Govertiment a due consideration of ri shed us by t h e latter were as g ood and its cost as little more. Torn 1 knew that tire man's 1 anie was DiscouNT. !tie effect that aiv vontetepl: nal alterat , on might have on at Quebec as t h a t of tie former at Memel or Dantzic, And when the men of the Fair sa w th at. I rettniunn pas the interests of C. ale. But until weliave a fuller expo- the trade must be a losing one and be abandoned. Th e gone, and that Stagman had fled as Di-count drew nigh, sitom of the pre j wed sees me, it would be premature to Colonist obviously cannot support himself with less than they seized upon Scapegrace, and began to fliut him, at entiripate that the c nimi, of this province to a just mea- 21s. as the differential duty. even at the relative prices of first with fair words and pretences, hut at last more our ely lure 9/ protection had beeti overt° ked.' the different descriptions of timber in the British market. and openly.•` e •• I am hot et all inclined to bet eve that the despatch of —......_____ thing of us, itsSeon:st?denA('llt:Ybc.tipedyboture, b•a•aothrosibviellblitruivsgret,;) 3 edatone, iii r e ply t o th e c o mm ur t icatiou of the Go- sell." r General, lies alt red Iris previous views, or is cal- A 1 - IINT TO ALLOTTEES —A well-known journeyman " I have in my scrip a few Eldoradoe, for which I ex- Colated to allay the aggrava , ad trelings of the Canadian tailor in Leicester (whit, it is said, " mocks one" exceed- pected a premium," answered Scr-pegrarie. people. The Colanial Secretary, in the despatch in clues- ingly well), having bee-a served with a writ by a bubble "Don't you wish yeti may get it ?" said the other sm. Gor e which is dated from Downieg-street, on th e 3d com p an y, w hose "directors" had forgotten to reply to pathetically, march, and went out to Canaill by the packet of the 4 th, his letter of applieation tilt their shares were at d seounte " Does your mother," said a ird, with a leok of b sym_ somewhat tan plainly indicates that the policy of Great quietly packed up his sole worldly po s sessions—his goose, pathy—"y our venerable n th e know that you are a road Britain is henceforth to he determined upon i s -respective needle, and thimble—and forwarded them be Pickford to ate he Fair ?" the secretary !He also wrote a note, be gg in g that the Perfectly well." answered Scapegr ainly . are; " it was n ' a colonial interests . lie says : . 44 - "Tee inures `; of Canada have oc enpied the pl ace t o " goose" Might serve as the centre.diell at the next corn- in consequence of her pecuniary distress that 1 came stich they are juAly entitled in the debberationa o f Her mittee dinner, and that he might he invited to the feast, hither." iLajesty's Government upon this important subject, and to " see the last of his old friend."—Leicester Paper. " Distress, indeed I" answe the other; "thou uriiig pursuits 'f he experience of the last twenty years in needy every branch of manufactures has tie witness to the fa,r. In all cases it may not be kingly Emparent from the money amount paid to each rative for his week's labour : but where this is so it at be borne in mi.(' that the same operative now per- Ili three anti even four timPs the work which he did the carne remuneration 20 yews ago. Where the cot spinner formerly attended to 600 spindles only, he at- Is cow to 2400. Where th.! power-loom weaver was y able to attend one loom, he attends now to two and n three, and the , e working at increased speed. ln ry branch of manufactures, human labour we find is ig year by year more econom zed, and the productive rer of the, mere machine enormously increased. !The obvious result of this feature in our manufactur- Vstem is to dirbini,h its power of providing for the ..pl..yment of the people in proportion to the increased jemount of manufactures produced. For instance, we .tuported trom 'he United Sta es, to be worked up into yarn and goods, in 1822, cotton to the extent of 329,906 take. In 1845 we imported upwards of four times that ecnount, or 1,499,600 bales. Now, will any man assert ;bat in the fort's year *he cotton trade of the kingdom +Worded profitable employment to four times the number operatives, or paid tour tines the wages that it did in termer Certainly no man would be so hardy. But cannot be said of the gross amount of the cotton line of course that most valuable por- usshufacture, inclu of it. c rtsisting of the fin,st and fully perfected lab consumed in the home market, far less can it be said rel. the coarse and low-priced fabrics which principally compose our foreign trade. In 1841 we exported 266 946.452 yards of plihr calicoes. In 1842 we exported. 166 041019, whilst in 1843 our exports of the same fabric *prat az up to 520,011.635 yards, and last year they were 613.138,645 yards. 13,d our hand-loom and power-loom ,-aver. i,ierease in the ratio of 61 to 36 between 1845 and f. 1841, or did they increase in the ratio of 52 to 36 between -1842 and 18-13? Thry did no such thing. We beard of •be exrershe migration from the agricultural to the mann- Geruring districts in those years. There was a sudden expansion of the demand ; but the manufacturing districts to meet it without any material addition to their existing stock of labour Such a tur. her increase of exports as is predicted as the 'ult of Frre Trade I admit may produce such an in ,ed demand for labour as may for a while check the , ard tendency of wages. But mark the chang?d .circumstances into which the nation will have fallen ! We tthall have have reduced the reward of agricultural indus try. We shall have diminished the temptation to in creased apical' ui al enter prif,e, for I hold with Sir Howard Douglas that it seems a strange proposition, and one contrary to all experience, tear the way to encourage the produe.ti-n of articl , s of any kind is to expose that branch of industry to unequal competit ort." By the same pro ess we shall have checked emigration to our colonies; mad thing thrown an additional number of hands upon the 'lame lab ,, ur market, These must of necessity press into 'lc manufacturing districts for employment; and political anemias tell us that it is the proportion of the supply `he demand tor any commodity which regulates its We know what was the effect of the irruption of pauper population of the sou. hero counties into the manufacturing districts, which took place in 1835 and 1836. We know, from the letters of Mr. Greg and Mr. itailiworth to the Secretary of the Po , r Law Commission. to reduce wages. Tte , f the weave rs of Bolton—pioved by a parliamen no.;ssi n to have been subs'sting upon 24.3. per `teen advat.ced 10 per cent, ; and the ..guer regarded this addition of a potato poor weaver's da.ly meal as a symptom of approach in to minufacturing pros; erity, which the machi. f Somerset 1-louse was to be put in operation to r (by I—had liinent L ward oil. —the eat suec-t , stul We know how as the effort made asive rednc'ion of wages which followed and ..de spread tiff-ring and wretchedness which were ted, when at length a period of manufacturing pros on -ucc , eded to the few years o' active prosperity h had intitx-ti the effort to ',qualise.' as the phrase mattutveturing with agricultural prices of labour. ace never yet heard from °thrill sources how many ,t.ral pauper population hr.nr-s which 'h-y had been seduced to leave, -4 • am'd the fryer and pestilence of the lanu!actural towns and villages, mrny r.un then almo-t (1-povu wed Rate untimely graves " And if it be true that New York off , rs some advan tages as compared with Montreal, particularly in regard to the rate of insurance, on the other hand, 1 consider that the shippino of British North America has many advantages ev r that of the United S;ates in the competi tion for freights, as it is conducted at less expense. and is, I must assume, navigated with equal vigour and equal . The same st rugA- between the aer'cultural and the ma- Aurafaeturitiz I,.bourr r, bur upon a rrvore 'extensive scale, fir , d more feartuhy earn-st, must inevitably follow the It is intended to fol. rs are to ab , ;orb the dispossessed og their capability by Jata laid down ab.ive, tlit re can remain little doubt , the t•upply of labour will very soon become out of all aortion with the demand for it. I have no doubt that F,ee•traders mintemp'ate the ordeal through which labouring community is thus to p,ss with consider- They calcukte that they will have a le& the labourer in his reduced amount Tney would however do well to remem efficiency.' " I think it would not be difficult to show that a por tion, at least, of the advantages which Canada is here said to enjoy over the western states of America no longer exists; and that. at all events, when protection is taken away altogether from her agriculturi-ts, a great many of the existing arrangements of her commerce will also be diverted into an 'they channel. The following statements and figures prepared for a Montreal journal by a gentle man in New York, intimately connected with the trade, very matetially weaken the force of the Colonial Secre tary's fond anticipations : EXPORTATION OF FLOUR TO LIVERPOOL VIA MON TREAL AND NEW YORK, UNDER PRESENT CORN LAWS OF GREAT BRITAIN. s. d. Duty on United States N heat, floured in Canada, per barrel ... , • Extra freight from Montreal to Liverpool, over New York charges Manuf9c , ur r of the conwry Average excess of insurance Cost Of importation and grinding in Canada, over the expense of shipping direct to Montral from Cleveland Differential duty in favour of Canadian produce, for the next three years. per brl ... . . Probable differenee in freight from the West to Mon treal, via New York .. Balance in favour of New York as the shipping port . . 2 6 " This balance in favor of this city, will hold good during the three years fixed upon fur the continuance of the remaining protection under the corn laws of Great Britain, and the continuance of the present rate of tolls on our public works.' " " ' If, after the expiration of three years, the present production in the corn laws of England should be abo lished, there will be an increased exportation of bread stuffs from this port, as we should draw that trade from Canada, to a greater extent than yet realzed. The reduc tion of tolls nn our publie works is likely to proceed more rapidly than on those of Canada, and we shall, therefore, be better able to control th:s trade in a few years hence, than we are now. Under the contemplated equalization of duties in Great Britain upon Canadian and American flour, shipments can be mode as annexed : EXPORTATION OF FLOUR TO LIVERPoOL, VIA NEW anti. mepsur YORK AND MONTREAL, Freight, per barrel, from Toronto to Oswego.... Do. do. Oswego to New York.. Do. do. New York to Liverpool Average rate of insurance, (1 per cent.). Cost of transport from Toronto to Liverpool, via New York B.'d, 0 6 2 0 2 6 0 3 tibirritty t+vr•rnonpy war s brr the pi( Freigbt, per barrel, from Toronto, to Kingston.... 0 6 Do. do. Kingston to Montreal.... I. 9 Do. do. Montreal to Liverpool.... 4 6 Average rate of insurance, (2 per cent.) ... 0 6 ire made, and the induce *nents which they have held out to him during this con test. The overatives of the n.anutacturing districts do "tot contemplate a reduce d scide tifremuneration for their current a ith a reducti,.n in the remuneration Seti Whitll they t of fond. They nave been taught that, in the manufactur ing Elysium which tree trade is to create, they are to - have, at once, m. re food and the present, or an increased, *mount of means to pay for it. Will it he safe, I ask, thus practically to l► the vrorkinsr man that he has been the dupe of impo-ture—chit, w. il.t prctes.ing to _seek only .y, lii4 inter ~ nave left him precisely where ibe wa-? Look at the temper of the manufacturing and the industrial classes at the pre-ent moment. An able writer in the Church O . Enuland Quarterly Review, just " won't do at any r. ( crrro, upon others which are akin to it. At the same times I need hardly point out to your lordship, that there are matters into which considerations immediately connected with the supply of food for the people of this country, and with the employment of its population must be para mount.' . . "The employment of the colonial population, or the maintenance of those great interests which the past access of that population to the British markets has established in the colonies, is secondary to the gratification of the cry of the manufacturer at home for a cheap loaf or cheap timber ! In the face of this broad declaration on the part of the Home Government, that the Canadian people are henceforth to be treated, in its legislation toward.; them with respect to the two great staples of their production, as foreign countries rather than as dependencies, whose welfare that Government is bound by ag strong ties as the population of Great Britain herself, there can be little hope that the Canada.; can be brought to feel any great longing to retain the existing connexion. THE LIVERPOOL STANDARD. THE M ODI:-RN PILGRIM'S PROGRESS. ouldst not have us believe that she has sold her 'MENT OF A DREAM. wangle yet'?" Tll a ?RM.. " I said not that she had," replied Fcapegrac, , (From B la c k 4 's Magazine for May.) ttomu ...,ER. ti . _ she would gladly have parted with it if she could." Vann"' "OF' - . the two men had Cf l A,ts.,,' 4 Pasmitral, was mocked at How SCAM:MACE, losing tarn t... " How are you off for soap?", said another in a com passionate tone. And as they journeyed, metbongt , " Very indifferently friend," answered Scapegrace ; much conversation together. . rt. "if thou " for my lodging bas been but poorly supplied of late, and " Now, neighbour Scapegrace/ l aid Stigalb- ' . I think of changing it." " Lodging, quotha ! You shan't lodge here, Mr. Fer twaokueldosutrsseellvl ourselves i t s o s t c h r e i p g o r f ea t t hi m ne ar t k o e a t gnson, I promise you." all the fools in the world be gathered toSetber, and nZ.It i ll "My name is not Ferguson," said Scapegrace meekly; d' a i t an V t a a n g i r t ' y few knaves besides. But the fair is a perfect maze , fa" " neithCr have I the least intention of lodging here." of blind alleys, courts, and winding passages; among the if Wh a t 2i shocking bad hat !" cried a voice from be which thou wouldst assuredly lose thy way it thou didst hind, and in a trice was Scapegrace's hat knocked over enter them without a guide; and with such confttsion of his eyes, and hi. 4 pockets turned inside out • but fii , ding we ?fair,t. 0; t i , b 4 ; wares in the shops and windows, that thou mights walk nothing therein but scrip, they were enraged ' , and falling about from morning to eventide without finding what upon Scapegrace, they kicked, and cuffed, and hustled him thou wert in search of. I remember me well, that when up one row an ddow n another, through this all e y a n d across I fi rst resorted thither, I more than once went into the that court, till at last, being tired of mocki.g him, they wrong shop, and bought many articles which turned out east bird out of the Fair altogether, and shut the gate naught. Therefore must we get Interpreter to go along against him. SCENE IN THE IRISH HOUSE OF COMMONS DURING THE DEBATE ON THE ACT OF UNION. . (Prom the Knight of Gwiinne.) The individual whose address this long scene of inCrult had interrupted, was now suffered to proceed ; he was a law-sergeant, a man of inferior capacity and small profes- , sional repute, whose advocacy of the government plan had raised him to an unbecoming and dangerous eminence at the bar. Without the slightest pretensions as a speaker, or one quality that should adorn a statesman, he possessed other gifts scarcely less valuable at that day ; he was a ready pistol, he came of a fighting family, not one of whom did not owe some advancement in life to a cool hand and a steady eye, and he occupied his place in the ministerial van by virtue of this signal accomplishment. As incapa ble of feeling the keen sarcasm of his opponents as he was of using a similar weapon, he was yet irascible from temperament and overbearing in manner; and was used by his party as men employ a tire-ship, with a strong con viction that it may damage more than the enemy. To cover the deficiencies of his oratory as well as to add Poignancy to his personalities, it was the invariable cus tom of his friends to cheer him vociferously at the end of every sentence which contained anything like attack on the opposition, and to this species of backing he was in debted for the courage tbat made him assail_men incom parably above him in every quality of intellect. Mr. Plunkett was now the object of his invective, nor was the holdness of such a daring its least recommenda tion. Few of the government side of the.house would have adventured to cross weapons with this master of sar casm and irony, none but the Serjeant Nickolls could have done so without a strong fear of the consequences. He, however, was unconcerned for the result as it affected himself personally, and as for the withering storm that awaited him, the triple hide of his native dul,,ess was an armour of proof that nothing could penetrate. From Plunkett he. passed on to Bushe. from Bushe to Grattan ; no game flew too high for his shafts, nor was any invective coarse enough to level at the great leaders of the opposi tion. If the overbearing insolence of his harangue de lighted his own party, it called down peals of laughter from his opponents, who cheered every figurative absur dity and every illogical cmclusion with shouts of ironical admiration. Lord Castlereagh saw the mischief, and would gladly have cut short the oration, but the speaker was revelling in an imaginary victory, and would listen to no sugges tions whatever. Passing from the great names of the Irish party, he, launched forth in terms of insult towards the county members, whom he openly accused of holding their opinions under a mistaken hope that they were a marketable commodity ; and that as some staunch adhe rents of the crown had reaped the honours due to " their loyalty," these quasi patriots were only waiting for their price. The allusion was so palpable, that every eve was turned to where Hickman O'Reilly sat, and whose con fusion was now overwhelming. " Ay," continued the speaker, now carried beyond all self-restraint by the evident sensation he had cans , d, " there are gentlemen opposite whose confessions would reveal much of tnis kind of independence. I have my eye on some of them, men who will be patriots if they cannot be peers, ready to put on the cal) of liberty for the Mob, if they cannot get the coronet from the Cr wn. Many, too, are absent from this debate; they stand out, peraaps, for high terms; they have got peerages for their wives, arid now, like a hackney coachman. not content with their fare, they want something for themselves.' I heard of two such a while ago, they even came as far as the lobby of this house, there they halted and hesitated, a m:tre, or a regiment, a blue ribbon, or a red one, would have turned the scale. perhaps. Why are they not here now, I ask, what has become of them ?" " Name ! nam , !" screamed the apposition, in a tor rent of mad excitement, while the government party, out rageous at the blundering folly of the whole hqrangne, en deavoured to Mill the speaker back into his seat. Never was such a scene, one party lashed to madness by sus pected treachery and open insult, the other indignant at the stupidity of a man who, in his attempts at attack, had raked up every calumny against his own friends. Already mole than one hand was laid on his arms to press hint down into his seat, when he, with the obstinacy of tho rough dulness, sho himself free, and called out, " I'm ready to name." _ . • - Again the cries of " Name !" were shouted, mingled with no less vociferous cries of 6' No, no!" and the strug gle nu.. had ev.-ry ri.ppe.r.ncr - ve - lx= - pers , rnnt -- oner, when the speaker, militia to order, asked if it was the sense of the house that the sergeant should give the names he al luded to. " I'll soon cut the matter short," called out the ser rant, in a voice that resounded through every corridor of the house : " I mean the Knight of Gwyune and Bagenal Daly." - - - A cry of " Prier, order," now arose from all parts of the house, the direct mention of any member by name be ing a liberty unprecedented. " I beg to c orrect myself." said the serjaant ; " I should have said the honourable members for Mayo and Old Cas tle—l ask again why are they not here?" " Better you had never put the question !" said a deep low voice from beneath the gallery, and at the same in stant Bagenal Daly advanced along one of the passages, and took his place, directly in front of the Sarjeant. A tremendous cheer now broke from the Opposition benches, which the Ministerial party in vain essayed to return. " i perceive, sir," sa d the Serjeant, with an effort to resume his former ease, " I perceive I have succeeded in conjuring up one at least of those truant spirits, and I cannot do better than leave him to make his explanations to the House." With this lump, disjointed conclusion, the learned Ser jeant sat down. and alit - lough the greatest exertions were made by hi- friends to cover this palpable failure, the cries of derision drowned all other sounds, and before they were silenced, a shout tl •• Daly, Daly, Bagenal Daly," resounded through the building. • Daly arose slowly, acrd saluted the Speaker with a most deferential courtesy. It was several minutes before the tumult had sufficiently subsided to make his words aud ible. hut when silence ptevailed, he was heard to regret. in terms of unaffected ease, that any circumstance night occur which should occupy the time of the House by on servatiens from one so rude and unlettered as himself, nor would he now ve,dure on the trespass were the occa sion merely a personal or,e. From this he proceeded to sate that great. emergencies were always occurring. in which even the humblest opinions should be made known as evid- Tieing the probable impressions upon others, as lowly eitcuestenced as he will now addressed them. •• Such is the present one." said he, raising hi• voice, and lookinz around him with an air of bold defiance. " You are about to take away the right of self-government from a nation,.and evety roan in the land, not only such as sit here. sir, out every ma., to whose Noire ambition a seat in this House may form a goal, every man, has a de-ip interest. in your proceedings. It is a grave and weighty quest on, whose conditions impose the conviction that we are 'IA' to legislate for ourselves, th A we are too weak, or too venal, or too ignoraut, or toe dishonest. To that conclusion you must come. or no other. Absence from Ireland must strzgest enlightenment on her interests ; dis tance must lend knowledge as well as enchantment, or a'a English patliainent cannot he better than our own. I have listened attentively but unconvinced, to a I argu ments ou this head ; I have heard over and over again, the long ca alogue of benefits to accrue to this country. when the rower of realizing th-m h-rself has been arrested from her, anti I have thouAt of Lear and his daughters! It would seem to me, however, that the social welfare and the commercial prosprrity of a people, are themes too vulgar Cir the high consid rats; nof our times. The real q restion at issue is, riot whether a Parliament should or should not continue to sit here, but what shall I and other- like me hem-fit by. voting it away fir ever—" " Ord- r —order," called out several voices. But Daly resnared, " I ask pardon, it is more parlia mentary to put the case tllff rent ly, at , :l I shall under cor rection do so. Well, sir, we may benefit largely. I trust I am not disorderly io saying that peerages, bishoprics, regiments, frigates. conimissi utershins, and I I enven knows what more, will reward us. when our utility to the State has met the approv. I of an Imperial Parliament. I can well credit every promise of such gratitude, and have only to ask in turn, are thes- the arguments that should sway us now? Is it because we are bungling legislators,, that they wish for us in London ? is it because we are venal, they seek our company , ? because we are inefficien', they ask for our co-operation? Are they so supremely right minded, hottivrahle, and far-seeing, that they need the el my of our dullness to make them mortal ? And suopose such the case, will it be gratiling to us to become the Helots to ti,is people ? Will our national pride be flat tered, because our eloquet.ce is sneered at, our law de tided, our political knowledge a scoff, and our very accent a joke. Du not tell the such things are unlikely ,• we are far weaker ou the print than we I.ke to contiss. For my self, I can imagine the sense of shame, of deep, heartfelt, , abusing shame I shratld feel at seeing some of those I see here, rise in the &Pah House of Commons to address that bode, while the rumour should run, he is the mem ber for Metall or for Wit klow. I can picture to myself . such a m-n ; a Quail of low erigin and mean capacity—a men w, o carves his lath in life, less from his own keen abilities. than that others shirk from his contract, and leave him unopposed in every struggle, a pettyfogger at 'he bar, a place-hunter at the parliament, half beggar, halt bravo, with a petition fot the minister, and a pistol for the o a positi• n. I nagine a man like this, and reflect upon the feeling of every gentleman, at hearing the ru mour amit.unce, • Av, that's a learued Serjeant, a leader at the bar of In land.' " Th.. last words were delivered in a t me of direct per s utility, as turning towards where Nickolls sat, Daly threw at bin, a look of defiance. The whole House arose as if one man, with cheers and counter-cheers, and loud yells of insult, mingled with cries of " Order ;" nor was it till after a long and desperate wordy altercation, the clamour was subdued, and decorum at length re stored. 'Then it was remarked that Nickolls had left the Hens.; Ihe Speaker immediately ordered the Serjeant of the Hods Ed 'Once Daly ander arrest, a measure which, how ever dictated by propriety, seemed to call forth a burst of indignation from the Opposition benches. " I hope, sir, said Daly, rising with an air of most admirably-feigned humility, " I hope, sir, you will not execute this threat—the inconvenience to me will be very great—l was about to pair off with the honourable and learned member for Newry." The mention of the town for which the Serjeant sat in Parliament renewed the laughter which now prevailed on both sides of the House. " I cannot understand the mirth of the gentlemen op posite," said Daly, with affected simplicity, " without it be from their astonishment that the Government can spare so able and so eloquent an advocate as the honour able and learned gentleman, but let them reassure them selves and look around, and, believe me, they'll find the Treasury benches filled by gentlemen as like him as pos sible." The Speaker reissued the order to the Serjeant-at-Arms, and Daly now came forward to the table and begged in all form to know the reason of such severity. " If, sir," said he, in conclusion, " if I could believe it possible that you anticipate any personal collision between myself and any member of this House, I have only to say, that I am bound over in the sum of two thousand pounds, to keep the peace within the limits of this Kingdom—l take out a license at two pounds fifteen to kill game, it is true, but I'd not pay sixpence for the privilege to shoot a lawyer." The fact of the heavy recognizances to which Daly alluded, was at once confirmed by several members, and after a brief conversation with the Speaker, the matter vrcs dropped. It was, as may be supposed, a considerable time before the Debate could assume its due decorum and solemnity, after an• incident like this; for although hostile collisions were neither few nor unfrequent, an insult of so violent a character bad never before been witnessed. At length, however, order was restored, and another speaker addressed the House. All had resumed its wonted propriety, when a messenger delivered into Daly's hands a small sealed note: he glanced at the contents and rose immediately—Lord Castlereagh's quick eye caught the motion, and be at once called on the Speaker to interfere. " I have myself seen a letter conveyed to the honourable member's bands," said he ; " it requires no peculiar gift of divination to guess the object." " I will satisfy the noble Lord at once." said Daly; " there is the letter I have received—l pledge' rug' word of honour the subject is purely a private one, having no reference, whatever, to anything that has passed here. He held out the letter as be spoke, hut Lord Castlereagh declined to peruse it. and expressed his regret at having made the remark. Daly bowed courteously to him and left the House. SECOND EDITION. Standard-office, 12 o'clock. [ADDITIONAL ADVERTISEMENT.] Q W. has been received, and the next communica- LI • tion will be attended to after the 17th instant. AMERICA ißy the packet-ship Liverpool, which arrived here this morning, we have received New York papers to the 22nd ult. Serious riots took place at Brooklyn on the 20th ult., and following days, in consequence of the Irish labourers having struck for an advance of wages. The men assem bled in large numbers, and the military had to be called out, and were, according to the last advices, actively en gaged in quelling the disturbances. About 500 Germans are now engaged at the dock-works at Brooklyn, and the employment of these persons offended the Irish. One of the Germans has been seriously injured. The Caledonia steamship arrived at Boston on the 20th ult., with the important intelligence of the British victo ries over the Sikhs. The news from this country was con sidered favourable to tee continuance of peace, and the amicable adjustment of the Oregon question. The news from Washington is to the 20th ult., and is important. It seems that the House of Representatives has refused to recede from the amendments to the O. egon resolutions, by a vote of 89 to 64. The Senate refused to alter the resolutions, and the certainty now is, that the resolutions giving the notice must either pass in the form in which they came from the Senate, or entirely fall through. In either case, the Senate of the United States, aeting in an amicable spirit, will have accomplished a most pregnant victory over the President and the House of Representatives. From Mexico we learn that General Almonte had ar rived at Havana, en route for England. Immediately on landing at Havana he went to Santa Anna, with whom he was closeted for several hours. Mr. Slidell had received his passports, and had left the country. It is said that the Mexicans were on the eve of another revolution in favour of Santa Anna. who was expected daily at Vera Cruz. A ship arrived at New Orleans, which left Vera Our on the 3d April, reports that on that day the Repub lican and Santa Anna party united were to declare against the g‘ivernme.nt, and it was said that Mr. Dimond. the troors . were eo disposed that they could not act against United States Consul. had declared that the government the insurgents. Further and more corn -lete advices from this qu..rter will therefore be most anxiously looked for. Two American soldiers have been seized by the Mexicans, and thetrA their release was demanded, it was declined. A letter from an officer in the United States army on the Mexican frontier says," Everything betokens the greatest activity on the opposite side of the river; two redoubts were thrown up by them during the night, and two more are construc'ed to-day. Officers in splendid uniforms are promenading on the bank, and the gay streamers of the lancers are waving in all directions. Our infor mation is correct in relation to their forces, &c. ; about 2500 regulars and 600 militia are quartered in the town ; Gen. Ampudia is some two or three days' march distant, with 3500 or 4000 regulars, and a few militia ; besides these, conscripts are daily arriving, which will probably swell their numbers to some 7000 or 8000. We have con siderably less than 3000 effective men." Exchanges remained inactive ; on London, at 109 to 1091; anti nn Paris, at 5 271 to 5 2R. N liW YORK COTTON MARKET. APRIL 21.—There was tot a sufficient amount of business done to-day after the advises per Caledonia were received to test their full ef fect on the market. Some sales were made at fully I de cline, and ethers at previous rate's. Our quota ions must he considered nominal for the present. The sales for the last three days amount to 130 Wes., Upland and Florida Mobile and New Orleans 65U Bales. 650 Bales. None. Inferior Ord. to good ord.. 61 to 71 64 t o 7.1 Mid. to good mid. 71 to 7/ 6-1 to 71 Mid fair to fair .. 8 to 81 84 to 9/ Full fr. to good fr. 84 to 9 94 to 10 Fine . . . FLOUR. &c.—Nothing of importance has been done in Flour to-rhy—good brands Western Canal are offered at 5 dots. 34 cents to 5 &is. 44 cents. Fredericksburg, Paersourg. Alexandria. Baltimore, Geo , getown, &c. may be (looted at 5 dots. to 5 do's. 124 cents. MOBILE COTTON MARKET. APBIL 13.—Cotton—Ar rived 5.136 b des, exports 8 773 bales, leaving on hand 131,593 bales ag .inst 125.793 same time last year. Last two or three days the market nag been quite irregular, and in some invances easier terms have been acmoted for the lower qualities; on the other hand finer grades have been in good demand and have commanded full rates. Sales cf the w. ek, 8 700 bales; purcha-es have been for Northern and French account. Freights—Foreign very dull, no engagements; Br ships readily accept 7-16 1 ; a ship for Havre succeeded in filling up at 1 ; a bark for Providence and a ship and bark - foi: Boston have been taken at P; for New York the packets have obtained o ; Exchange—Not so animated, and the demand only to a moderate extent ; market is better supplied and a fair de mand existinz ; rates of all descriptions have been gradu ally advancing, sterling has gone up per cent. since the 4th instant. NEW ORLEANS, APRIL 11.—Cotton—Arrived 14,035 bales;. cl'd 4612 do • stock on land 211,963 do ; prices eighthof a cent hig her ; bulk of the business on Northern account ; business of the week 30,300 bls, 15.000 sold during the past three days. Sugar--lleviand tolerably fair, partly on Northern account ; sa'es 1575 , hhtis ; very large stock for sale on the levee; cannot enange quota tions; a r'd iisahhdg; cld for New York 791 do. Mo laSSt s—traasat•tions 1800 Ws. from 244 to 25c last rate, top of the market ; arrived 2779 Mts. Freights—upward impulse rate for cotton to Liverpool Id, very little offer- Wheat Ors. 4398 Barley Qrs. 112 Malt Qrs. 141 Oats Qrs. 1277 Rye Qrs. Beans Qrs. 220 Pease Qrs.l ShelledßarleyQrs. Indian Corn. Qrs. Rapeseed` Qrs. Oatmeal Sacks 1928 Flour. ....Sacks' 8397 Ditto Eris. 1 sso 1622 I 412'2 1940 8397 28130 EXPORTS.—Foreign, Wheat,— qrs.; Barley,— qrs. ; Pease. 6 qrs. ; Oars, qrs.; Indian Con', qrs.; Oatmeal, sacks ; Floor, 2' 4 bria.—lreland Wheat. qrs.: Bar ley, qrs. ; Leans, —qrs ; Oats, qrs ; Indinas Corn, 4913 qrs. ; Oatmeal, sks; Flour, 5o scks, 64 brls. -Coa , tsvise. Wheat, 196 qrs. ; Barley,. 556 qrs.; Malt, gm. ; Oats, 1 4 ; Beans, IFS' qr's. ;pease, 11 qrs.: Oatmeal. 195 sackS ; Indian Corn, 15g qrs. ; Flour, 533 sacks 358 brls, Averare prices of Grain, for the week ending . May 2 4 . wheat 563. sd. I Barley 29a..5d. 1 Oats 238. ! Rye 334. 54. Beans.. '34-;. I.d. j 1 ease.. 33,. led Aggregate average 01 the six weeks. Wheat 586.1cd ; Barley 3 , sl ad. L Oats 22, led. l Rye 33t.-git: . _ Beans.. 1 fd. Pease.. 33 ~ 10d Duty on Foreign Produce thi, week Wheatusod Barley 8s Ott. Oats I Oats . 6s Od Rye.. gtßict' Beans SS 6ci Pease.. 9s 6e. Ind. Corn us Od Flour lOs2a Duty on, ;radian Wheat.. Is. Od. I Parley-18.0d: I Oats .. is.6d. I Rye.. Is Olt Beans os. 6d I Pease Is.od. I Intl. Corn t.s.od. I Flour .0s nal Duty on other British Colonial. Wheat.. 4s. Od. I Barley.. ls.ud. I I ats; 1-.Bd. I Rye Beans.. us. 6d. I Pease.. I r. , od. I Flour Liverpool Averages, week ending Wheat. 4 , 84 qrs., price 53s lld Oats. 412 qrs., price Beans, 13 CI s.. 42s May 5, 1846. I qrs., price 2)s Bd,; pr ce Os, ed.; ps., price Os. ed. ss. 9d. ; Rye, i.; Pease, LONDON GAZETTE.-TUBSDAY, MAY 5. PARTNERSHIPS DISSOLVED S. and A. Glendinning, Fluddersfield,woollen cloth merchant; —Burgess and Leach, Manchester. joiners— Itage and Calms'', Nottingham. lace manufacturers—Fothergill and Wall, Man chester, wholesale grocers—Marshall and Son,- Nottingham, vainte s—J. Scholes. J. Smith. and I. Wild, Crompton, Lanca shire, coal proprietors—J Scholes and J. Gar Side. Kuowl Col liery. bholvermnor, Lancashire, coil ers—M. Philipp() and W.B. Francis. Norwich. surgeons—J. B. Blacks ler and W. Short, Liverponl, sail makers—Butt and Satchell, Cambridge. minium , —d. Richardson and Son, Liverpoo., coopers —Soflte and stride, Eling-mill. flampqiire, millers—R. and H. Anderson. Liver pool, linen drapers—J. Solomon and Co., Exeter, tailors-I'. But.erworth and Co., Sh w Clough, Lancashire, wool carder; —J. Waites and Co., Wakefield, twine manufacturers—Mer chants' company, Liverpool, Manchester, Rochdale. and else where. common carriers—Parker and Hebden, York. tick ma nufacturers—H. A. Johnson and W. Pearson, Louth',• Lincoln shire, druggists—A. Oldham and Sons, Kingston-upon-Hs% millwrights—J. Hutchinson and Co., Sutton and Liverpool, glass bottle manufacturers; so far as regards J. Hutchinson..." Spilman and Hunter, Gainsborough, curiiers. DECLARATION OF DIVIDENDS, 3. Evans. Liverpool. ironmonger. H. ( hambers, Ashton and r-Lyne tailor. T. Todd, Ma nct ester dealer in cotton goods C. tttovin, Birmingham, coach proprietor. DAN KRUPTS. Samuel Mosley Wade, Liverpool. cotton dealer. Joseph Taylor. Liverpool, merchant. Joseph Miller. Whittlehury street, llampatead-road, painter Jules Valle, Manchester and elsewhere, si , k printer John William Pitsch, Sackville street. Piccadi ly, tailor. - John Dailey arid Al red Inskipp, Long-lane, Bermoildsenleal ther manulac'.urer. John George Ufford, Holloway, common brewer. Joseph Willis. Bucklersbury, eating-house k,.ener. • James Weston, Bishopsgate-street eti ithin, hatter. William Thompson, Cooper's•row ' C ru tch e d.friars, &U F whe's-buildings. Great Tower-street. wine merchant. Henry Walters, Bristol, licens d victualler. • William Brook, Manchester, and Goldsmith-street, stuff atm' chant. John Taylor, HrlderstieM. commission agent. Bristol, surgeon. DIiVIDKNDS. M , y 28, E. and T. Rolph shepherd's-court, Upper Broot street. Grosvenor-square, builders—May 29. W. Parsons, HAS to!, brewer—May 26. W. Janes, Usk, Monmouthshae, araper—May 2d. A. Mathe and S. Moore. Liverpool. merchantfir —May 26. G. F. Fairclouch, Liverpool, money scrivener — M a l' 26, J. H. Pemberton, Liverpool, merchant—May 26,J. Threlfall, Liverp-01, banker—May 27, J. Roberts, Piasyn Derwen, Den bighshire, miller—May 28.. J. *ill and W. Watson, Liverpool. merchants—May 27, W. H. Bell, Kingston-upon-I-lull, seed ery,hee. . E award Joseph Staple CERTIFICATES To be granted, unless cause be shown to the contrary on the day of me street. cloth manufacturer—MO --,r—may 27 , tt• May 29. T. Dowglass, Vig 27 R.. C. Turner, tiounascli Queen Ari-street, Cavendi h-stree, 26. H. Wa rd . Widford.mill and I.udgate-street, paper manufacturer—M ay 39 ' R. G. Spedding, Queen-street, Cheapside. and Bush-lane. CO P ' fordo don-st eer, zinc manufacturer—May 26, W. Urivin, Hertfordshire. fellmonger—May 26, J. Roberts, Plasyn De rv& - ner -- Denbighshire. farmer—May 29, S. Littler, Liverpool, dra p er May 27, C. Brady. Aston nigh Birmingham, commission ag` - —May 27, M. Sitith, Birmingham. ironfouuder. CERTIFICATE h wt) To be granted by the Couttot Review, unless cause be 6.0 to the contrary on or hefore May 26. C. Self, Sun-stre , t, Bishopgate Without, plumber—J. Ila rrig ' Leadenhall-market, butcher—H. Arnold, Derby, cheesefacto r-- J. Aidritt, Rugelev. Staffordshire. ropemaker—J. Wilkie-on, tta.lingch , o, Lancashire. joiner—H. J. Barker, Flixton, Lanca shire, logwood and drug grinder—J. Hutchisson, tlalifa" Yorkshire, ironfounder. FROM THE LONDON GAZETTE OP FRIDAY. PA qTNERsHIPS OISSOLVED. , • Buchanan and Pa rlane, Liverpool. timbe r mer chants—rec. son and Troughton. shipbuilders—F of an d B an k s , LiverP°'l brokers—J. and A. Wadsworth. Sheffield, joiners—J. Firth 10 Son, Halifax. Yorkshire, worsted spinners and manufacturerYl Lawton. floldroyd, and C o ., Huddersfield. mann acturer s fancy waistcoatings ; as tar as regards B. B. Holdroyd—W• apd T. D. Phipps and J. Carrington, Bath, carriers; as far att , :;,, gards J. Carrington—W. Cheetham and W. Wrigley. Gldir and i reston, hat manufacturer.—W. Dicker and S. E.' Cr. ne.court, Fleet street, London, embosser.—B. C. Boast ao T. Shillito, Leeds, coachhoilders— Clarke, Kinmouth. and m e i,: Co., Aldermaubury. warehou-emen—Crown Colliery, Gime:A rshire—W, Thor as, S. Lepard. and D. Williams, Cloaa. lane. London, attorneys; as far as regards W. Thomas";,, r ; Rol,son and Co. Durham. plasterers—J. and W. Bennett. nointtliam. stonemasons—T. W. and L. Wild. Walmerley cure, Shuftleworth, cotton spinners —H. L. Gintberr and T A. 5t, 4 ,P,..g. Basing lane, London. merchant factors—G. Webb and J . Knttthridge, silversmiths—W. and R. S. Green, Titchlw,,, saddlers - Young and Lawson. Manheen, near Ugin, DECLARATIONS OF DIVIDENDS. G. Graham, T. Adams, and M. B. Macfarlane, CheaPSide' calico printers. R. Payne, Hatton-wall, London. br,sgfounder. T. Chapman, Tottenham-comt-road; Loudon, dairyrnan• G. barnes, Poi tsea, innkeeper. T J. Ashton, Pall. mall, London. tailor. On . F Fothergill, Bell' s-close, Northumberland, lampblack In facturer. I —George Seabrook, vSOLVENT LutoD, , Bedfordshire, straw- fay 5 manufacturer. BANKRUPTS Cuthbert Parker. Liverpool, linendraper, May 2 , , June - K y. 12 o'clock. at the Liverpool Distriet Court of Bair - W . " 8 0 solicitors, Messrs. Gregory and Co., Be ford-row, London:wee Mr. Green, Liverpool; ()Mehl assignee, Mr. Cazenove. pool. Thomas Freeman, Wood.street, Cheapslde, London, (doe manufacturer. Joseph Fearnby, Windsor- terrace, City-road, wore ted' sty' manufacturer. Christopher Clarke, Goswell-road and Cranbourne London. draper. # John Joseph Taylor. Tooley-street, Southw a rk, tobacc Jail es and Thomas Wh tvlaw. I.;chfield•street, So h°s Store-street, Beatord-squal e. Landers. John hodsworth Ahrshams. York. tailor. Samuel Shann, Leeds. cloth unbitten Samuel Ogden, Manchester, woollen factor. Vinliam Gill, Warrington, Lancashire corn merchant . Benjamin Clarke, stroud. Glocestershire, grocer. Robert Foale, Kingsb.idge. Devonshire, victualler. Stephen Knowles, Exeter. common brewer. DI VI DEN DS. June 4, J. Haigh, Almo , dbury. Yorkshire, clothier-- , C'- ,toun, rsfiet,_ orlkshire, t. -- .in tog; ship for Havre 1 1 15c, Trieste z 1 3 16; coastwise , ' Pa terao g n and udd J. e M. Malonck. Liverpool,chemis merc h a nts ...,:j , freights have advanced, and are quite unsettled, with an F. T. Walker, LiveLp -01. merchant—June 1, 'l'. 140414 _,1, upward tendency. verpool, bookseller—June I, J. Ogle. Liverpool, merc w " 0 CERTIFICATES ntsgn _._ To be granted, unless cause he shown to the co b he day of Huddersfield, K . NArotuczst BoNAPARTE.—His fate furnishes a re- June 1, TK. Row t tnarkatile instance of the instability of human greatness, keeper—June Is, R. Pickles, Barnsley, Yorkshire. it° e _„ ° o ooll, and there is no doubt that his dislike to medicine re- facturer—June a J. C101.14.th, Hudder,field, Yorkshire. v.i 4 „i a ., motely caused his early dissolution ; for rather than take May 2., J Hall, Rochdale. Lancashir -. sharenro,C,r,"; 10 0 . some simple remedy he ;Wowed disease to gain the asatm• J. Riding and J. Fielding, Ley. Yorksb ire 'ot!: and, Lancashire, co" dancy over his constitution, and death was the result. facturers. of CERTIFICATES A Thus it is that persons cannot be too watchful of their To b e granted, unless cause be shown to the c state of health, and be'ng always provid-d with a safe and . —.. before the 29th day of May. T 1 1, o a l W pticeir: c e ffi n jcoiment the e m t e w d o ic g in r e ea , t s e u s c t h bl a e s ssi F u r g a s m o iit t o i r i t , is s w P o; I l l d, of long life. . ,_ sco rcH SEQUEsTRATIONS.. health hleal h— G. P. P a ne. Liverp 001, dente and Linguard, New Elvet. near Durham, teacher of IM P ELEPHANT HUNTING :' A DILEMMA.—major Roger.l .1 R. Prentice, Edinburgh. picture dealer. had jti,t had capi , al sport with a herd of elephants; his .1 .1 .. C R l..l3 ,i rtnkierareenock st . o b c o k o t :ise i :ter. l tour guns had all been discharged, when an elephant made T. W atson. " i i:t s ,rlr7 v h: builder ") . er ' a charge at him from the skirts of the jungle; there was J. PrGvan, Glasgow, flesli,r. no help for it except to run ; and for forty yards the M j x kept just ahead. feeling at every step the animal's trunk trying to insinnate itself round his loins. A turn round a tree gave a momentary adsantace, which he 1114(le the most of, by springing up into the branches (he was tEmble as a cat, and as strong as a lion); one font higher. and he would have been out of the elephant's reach ; but betore he had time to draw up his legs, the elephant had got him fi'mly clenched in the coils of his proboscis; still Rogers pulled against him, thinking it he'ter to have his leg wrenched from the socket than, to fall t ack bodily into the animal's power. The struggle, however. did nct la 4 long ; tor, to the delight of the pur.ued and chagrin of the pursuer, the W e lli tigtcn b oot w hi c h the former wore slipped cif extricat e d th e l eg , an d saved the lire of poor prey, after Rogers. The dil emma , h oweve r, dal not end here ; for d the st t e e le y p i f l i t g an l t he finding bo ot . himself baulked l b , a h u i l s k eqduaorft quarters is beneath the branches. and kept his ttAticipated .scum in the tree for twenty-four hours, whets the :appal, or country postman, happening to pass hy, Rogers gave him notice of his po sition; and on this being intimated to the nearestvillage, the elephant was frightened away by tom-toms and Yelling. Had this occurred in a deserted part of the jungle, poor Rogers would indubitably have been starved, to death On the tree,—Sportirg:Magazinc, MEETINGS OF CREDITORS voa Ll' 000 ., flO May. e ,ict 0 12, William Tomlinson, jun. proof and div... D i. " vitt," , 12. Whharu lwedole, 21. d ........... .•• •• • • Pi tt° ' 15, Michael Kelly, 2nd...................... intro* , 1.5, Owen IlugheA.lst p od/ 1 0. - 15, Golnorne ant Dobbs. proof ............ •• pitt°. 1.5., Samuel Mosley Wade, Ist he in . , .. t „, trw; B I)l , or:b.—The demand for Combing Weo lg ce ot crease. which may be ai ti ihut ed to the long a bse lh 0 0 ers in taking their supplies tor consumption, '!" o n y e d mini,lied order. lhe supply in this market It, r P. nalr;e... the staplers t maintain eir prices. a niee ° „ n ti „; rhateii..l alteration in this branch of the tra d -iiie•itlt i tt the__°,7,olll:, nivr" report. he stick of Yarns is generally d spinners chiefly working to nide'', and pric...s taif upward tendency. r ieces.—There is a sterelY,".., - „riceg• A kin 1 o f autumn goods, and without alterati.A T o si, nert i ont„ H 17 DLIF RS rxst.u.—Trade is evident y W ee i c ta . Wit ti w iT i g amo It of goods have changed hands this tuie sane merchants act with great catition--. ~ ho o r s not rio increase ti e.r stock. H Amienx.—The staple trade of this touts a n s f o r s tither more active than it was a short War_ a nd ,010 41 ble for the summer wear are in, good denla4o l 0 " - te obtained. Wools continue nigh, w hich 1 0 4004. urers reducing prices, and tpurit to 004 O P , May 12, IR4o. THIRD EDITION. =ll Standard-office, Two o'clock. LIVERPOOL CORN EXCHANGE. Tills DAY. The receipts into this port, for the week ending yester day, include a tolerable quantity of Wheat and a liberal supply of Flour from Ireland, but of other articles thence or of any coastwise, except Malt, the arrivals are small; those from abroad containing a fair accession of Wheat and Indian Corn, with 28,130 barrels of Flour from the United States, thereby increasing the stock of this article under bond in Liverpool, t) 536,369 ban els. ARRIVALS OF CORN From the sth to the 11th May, inclusive STATICS. RETCH 3309 :5300 11428 72g , 234 )649