The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser. — Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1846-10-13 00:00:00

Eibtrpoot taltbatt. TUESDAY MORNING, OCT. 13, 1846. An important document appears in another por tion of our paper, containing the views of the pfauters of Jamaica, with respect to the probable effect upon their interests of the recent alteration of the sugar duties, to which we beg to direct the attention of our readers. Of course, we expect to receive the sneers of our free trade philosophers for ur advocacy of the ge eral reasonableness of these, ur colonists. We may be told, as they are by the Manchester Guardian, that "long as free trade prin ciples have been discussed," we " should have learned something of the true bearings of free trade —something of the right which whole communities lurce to refuse to be sacrificed to the interests of a few—something of the benefits of competition, and a great deal of the mischiefs of protection." We are content, however, to be behind hand i' any =arch in which the philosophers of the Anti Corn- Law League and their journalists occupy the front ranks, inasmuch as we have less faith in their su preme wisdom than in the teachings of experience and the dictates of common sense. What, let us ask, has been the spirit of all our recent dealings with the colonists of our British West Indies but a determination to " sacrifice them to the interests of a few ?" For years they were loaded with every slander which puritanical hypo crisy could invent. They were bawled at from plat forms and dissenting pulpits, through the length and breadth of the land. They were painted by a servile press as Ogres in human shape; held up in sturseries, to frighten little children, as monsters of cruelty. The very name of a planter was associated with the images of a nine-tailed whip and the flayed back of a negro. That mendacious agitation was at length successful ; and what is there in the result to convey to the colonist any great amount of con idence in the wisdom of those,who now assure him that free trade:is the sure path to wealth; or to give him any great relish for the " benefits of competi tion ?" The substitution of free labour for slave labour was to extend and to cheapen cultivation in - the West Indies. It was to do far more than this. It was to overthrow the whole fabric of slavery throughout the world. Directly the contrary has been the result. The colonies have, year by year declined in productiveness, until the planters, as a body, are almost on the verge of ruin ; whilst a vast stimulus has been given to sugar cultivation by slave labour in other countries. This result has taken place whilst the planters have been protected by high discriminating duties—whilst, in fact, the supply of this country with their produce has been secured to them. How open competition with the foreigner :::an improve their position, they may sell doubt. But did we give them fair play, when we sub mitted their interests to the experiment of free labour ? No : we tied their hands behind their backs. Our mawkish sentimentalism stept in to interdict every effort to procure that supply of free Labour, to the use of which we had driven them. We were stricken with pious horror at the thought, that the system of immigration might be the slave-trade in disguise. We impeded therefore, by every source of harassing and insulting restrictions,their attempts to procure labourers from India or from Africa ' • and rendered the expense of procuring it three-fold. We were not, however, satisfied with this. Under the insulting pretext that tyranny might be practised by the planters towards their free labourers, we foisted upon them a well-paid army of officials— stipendiary magistrates, &c.—whose meddling has embarrassed them at every turn. We have more than trebled the costliness of their institutions, thus placing a most disproportionate weight upon backs most unable to carry it, in such a race as that in which we had embarked them. We kept them also subject to all the restrictions arising from their con nexion, as a colony, with the mother country. They must employ only British shipping, and favour, though at a sacrifice to themselves, British produc tions. 'We forbid, for the protection of the British agriculturist, the use of sugar and molasses in our distilleries, &c. We tax their rum to favour the home grower of oats and barley, and the distiller. An a word, we treat them with 'the harsh jealousy shown towards a slave, whilst we demand from them more than the affection and deference of a child. The colonists of the West Indies ask to be placed in a more just position—to start on fairer terms upon the race which they have to run. Is there anything in this unreasonable—anything so very contrary to " the true bearings of free trade ?" We think not. The Guardian, we observe, sneers at the notion, as " hacknied" and "antiquated," that the colonies have contributed materially to the growth of our - iinmerce, and to our naval greatness ; and inti mates that " there is something so peculiarly untrue in its application to our West Indian colonies, that he may he tempted to return to the subject." We trust he will do so ; and shall look for his views upon the matter with great interest. The present economical position of the country is full of problems, the solution of which puzzles our philosophy. We have withdrawn protection from native agriculture ; and our food markets are rising daily. We have given the required " free scope" to manufacturing industry and to commerce, and both are languishing. The capital of the country never was more abundant; yet, to use common parlance, money never was scarcer. The shop-keeper stands idle behind his counter ; the tradesman knocks at his creditor's door in vain ; the merchant is ware housing the bulk of his imports ; the manufacturer is working half time, as the step in advance towards the reduction of the wages of the labourer; the bank has no market for its gold. How, every one is asking, are these results, contradictory alike of past experience and prophecies, to be accounted for "The loss of the potato crop" is the stereotyped reply of the unreflecting, and of the baffled prophets every phase of political opinion. We shall have, it is said, to import three or four millions of foreign grain for this year's consumption of our population. But how is it that the manufacturer, w ho was to have given his cottons or his woollens for this grain, and to be rolling in prosperity, is suffering ? Do the countries from w hi c h we are drawing our supplies of food refuse to take our goods in payment ? It would seem not, for they are not abstracting our gold. The exchanges are aea.rly everywhere in our favour. Yet, again we ask, whence the stagnation in our manufacturing districts ? The farming classes perhaps are con tracting their expenditure. Our colonists are startled into prudent husbanding of their money. Yet both are i❑ the enjoyment of high prices for their produce. We may very probably be reminded that high prices of food are preventing our population ex pending their usual amount of money in clothing. No doubt to some extent this is the case. The in creased expenditure of a shilling per week in the family of the working and middle classes, in the article of potatoes alone, pro Canto diminishes the capacity of those classes to employ the weaver, the printer, and the artizan. But is this rule only ap plicable at home ? If the demand from Great Britain has raised the price of grain in the markets of the world from 40s. to 50s. or 60s, it has added, by so much, to the cost of living and diminished, by so much, the capacity of purchasing our clothing, our hardware, and other manufactures. It has also added to the price which the competing foreign manufacturer must pay for his labour, diminishing, at the same time, his own home demand, and driving a larger surplus to meet us in neutral markets. It was prophecied to us that when we raised the price of grain abroad, the grower of that grain would have increased means of taking our goods. We omitted, however, the palpable truth, that he would have less means of selling those goods. Calicoes and woollens are of relative value to the demand for them ; and will only be taken in exchange by the foreigner in proportion to his means of profitably disposing of them. Let us give an example of the operation, at present going on in those countries, from which we look for an extended demand for our productions, from the increased price which we give the foreign grower for his grain. Suppose a country, with a popula tion of ten millions, which has been in the habit of consuming our goods, to the amount of half a mil lion sterling annually, whilst its grain was only worth 40s per quarter. This year we take from it 500,000 quarters—its surplus growth—at 60s. per quarter. It ought therefore to be able to pay for goods to the amount of another half million sterl ing. But we have raised the price of the food of its entire people one-third, and proportionately diminished their power to consume our fabrics. The merchant or the grower of that country may take an increased supply; but he finds that he cannot sell even his ordinary quantity. We therefore run the risk of losing, by the glut which we create in a good market, as much as or more than we gain by the comparative cheapness of its grain. The fact is—and by nothing less than its admis sion can we account for the complication of appa rently irreconcileable results, by which we are surrounded—that we have just succeeded in unset tling the industrial relations, not only of our own country, but of every country in the world; and it may be years before the just level is found; years, too, of embarrassment and difficulty they must in evitably be. It is easy to say—" Oh ! our merchants will soon ascertain how much they may safely export in return for our foreign supply of food; manufac turers will speedily adapt their production to the demand, and farmers will settle the question of rent with their landlords ;" but there are more questions, and far more intricate ones, than these to settle. There is the balance to adjust throughout the world between the cost of subsistence and remuneration of industry and of capital. .The foreign labourer and artizan, whose food is permanently raised one-fourth in cost, must have their present balance, expended in other necessaries, secured to them, or they must cease to consume. If their weekly five or six shil lings of wages are swallowed up in the purchase of food, the scale will have to be re-adjusted—a process which will not be completed in a day or a season. We are perfectly well aware what the manufac turer looks forward to, as the result of the process. He entered upon the agitation for Free Trade as upon a wages question. If he studiously blinked the fact that reduction at home to the level of the cost of subsistence was in view, he never concealed the fact that increase of the cost of production to his manufacturing rival abroad was contemplated. All his laboured statistics, to prove that the price of food at home has never had any intimate relation with the price of labour, go for nothing in the face of the facts that, unless such relation do exist, and the rate of wages abroad be raised to the level of the in creased cost of food, he must lose the consumption of all those classes upon whose surplus, over the mere cost of subsistence, such increased cost of food is made to trench. It is inevitable that a man who has been spending, out. of his earnings of five shillings, four shillings per wmk Upon. on clothing, will have nothing to expend upon the latter when the cost of his week's subsistence is raised to five shillings, unless his earnings are raised in proportion. Again, if the price o( labour has no connexion with the price of food, what becomes of the advantage which he is to gain over his foreign rival ? We feel assured that the crisis before us, of which the present anomalous state of the country is a pro minent feature, is one full of difficulty, and which must be met with great prudence and caution. The mere loss of a crop is not the worst of our evils. A year or two of good harvests, and the expenditure of a few millions in foreign corn, would correct that evil. A completely new adjustment, however, of the industrial arrangements of nearly every country in the world, is a widely different affair to deal with— one, too, which we are only called upon to regard as spectators, and which will take far more time for its accomplishment, and involve far more interme diate embarrassment and commercial suffering, than we at present imagine. The evidences are crowding upon us that the great final settlement of the corn laws is not to be a settlement after all. The Government, bewildered as Whig Governments generally are when called upon to act, instead of to talk are, it is said, about to sweep away the small remnant of protection left to the British agriculturist, and to transfer the duty now payable upon foreign imported corn into the hands of the jobbers and capitalists at home, and the foreign holders. The Morning Chronicle, speak ing a few days ago upon the subject of our present position, remarks, significantly enough : " We can hardly be so far out in our estimation of the impression which the existing circumstances and pros pects of the United Kingdom, with regard to the supply and price of food, must have made on the minds of Lord John Russell and his colleagues, as to incur the risk of error in assuming that one subject of cabinet discussion has been the question of immediately opening the ports I to the untaxed admission of foreign corn." The Daily News of Saturday is equally decided upon the subject. " Every excuse," he says, " for a temporary sliding scale is annihilated ;" and pro ceeds : " Monopoly is a state prisoner, under sentence of death in February 1849. How is such a prisoner treated, when a movement is made for his liberation and perpetual en thronement? His trusty keepers have a decisive duty to perform when the danger becomes imminent. Let the official guardians of doomed monopoly perform their duty. There is present mischief and misery to abate, as well as prospective peril to avert. The fitting reply to those who declare there shall be bread-tax perpetual, is that it shall exist no longer; but cease at once, in any form to aggra vate the difficulties and distresses of a struggling people." We may perhaps with great safety receive thesa intimations as feelers.. Lord John knows that he must do something to unravel the perplexities of the nation ; and cutting the knot is a far more simple process, and more suited to his capacity.. We are not without the same hinting kind of in timation from another, and a far more influential quarter, the London Times. - Our astute contempo rary, however, is not the party to commit himself, either in approbation or reprobation of the steps pointed at. On the contrary, he seems to sneer at the advantages (!) to be gained by it. Speaking of the total repeal as a matter which nature has now decided, he says " If that measure is not now adopted, it is because the advantage seems hardly equal to the bad precedent of disturbing so recent a compromise. The advantage, in deed, would be trifling. In a few weeks the duty on fo reign corn will sink to the lowest point in the scale. The difference of price, therefore, between British and foreign corn has already in anticipation sunk to that point, if not to a lower still. So trifling, however, such mere hand fulls, are the foreign stocks available for our markets, that the suspension of the duty would probably have no other effect than to raise the foreign up to the British prices, without retarding, except possibly for a few days, the upward tendency of the latter. The look of the thing' is nearly all that we should gain by an immediate suspension of the new Corn Bill." There are not a few measures adopted nowadays for "the look of the thing." • The statements made at a meeting of power-loom weavers, held in Stockport on Tuesday last, are calculated not a little to startle those dreamers, who have pictured the state of society in the manufac turing districts, under the stimulus of free trade, as a kind of earthly elysium. A. large portion of the public have been given to believe that the ems ployment of females in feetaries was the exception rather than the rule ; and that their manufacturing avocations were exclusively of the lightest descrip tion—such as piecing, winding, &c. We learn, however, from the speakers at this meeting, that not only are females employed in power-loom weaving, but that, by some philanthropic and " liberal" masters they are exclusively employed. One speaker observed that " six years ago the masters did not refuse men weavers; now there were five or six masters in the borough who would not shop them under any consideration whatever. The consequence was that the natural order of things was reversed." Another speaker thus, even more graphically, remarks upon the practice and its results : " That meeting had been called in a regular and legal manner. to consider a great and all-important question, respecting the conduct of certain master manufacturers, who, it seemed, would not allow the men the privilege of working, but would rather employ females at their weav ing, thus throwing a great number of the former out of employ. They had been called together to see whether it was right and reasonable that such should be the case. The men wished to earn a livelihood in an honest and creditable manner; and they did not wish their wives and children to be dragged out of bed at half-past five o'clock of a morning. to attend the factories. In consequence of this practice young children had to be put oat to nurse, and from the little pittance afforded to the nurses, they were not properly taken care of. Thus, when the child cried, the nurse administered some kind of quietness or cordial, compound of spirit of wine, opium, and other obnoxious drugs." With such a disclosure before us, we have reason to ask the manufacturer—if this is the direction which your increase of production is to take, with what security can we increase our dependence upon manufactures for the employment of the people? Naturally, the increased efficiency of machinery tends to enable us to dispense with manual or physical strength. The woman, or the child, with her improved iron fellow-labourer, is tenfold more productive than the adult with a less efficient ma chine. In a few years we shall probably see the majority of our manufacturing processes performed by women and children, torn from their natural position by human selfishness and the love of cheap ness. What, then, is to become of the male popu lation of the manufacturing districts ? What other lot is left for them than to sink, down into mere household drudges, despising themselves, and despised, as mere lumber, by those whom God ordained to look up to them for support ? But a still graver consideration offers itself when we reflect that these women, withdrawn from their household avocations, and their position in life in. verted, are to be the mothers of another generation of Englishmen and Englishwomen ; that their children, thus drugged and " quieted" with poison, dwarfed with neglect, half idiotic and half savage, are, in a few years, to compose England's working population. We have before us a statement, giving the number of females employed in factory labour in the town of Bradford, from which we learn that there were employed in 98 factories 1000 females under 13 years of age; 4500 from 13 to 18;. and 6500 above 18: making a total of 12,0'0'. Of these, 2000 were married women ; and 1000 to 1200 resided in lodgings or lodging-houses—of course, deprived of all parental supervision. Need we wonder if vice abounds in such a state of so ciety as is here exhibited ? Dearly, indeed, are•we purchasing our manufacturing supremacy, at the expense of the health and the morals of our female population. TO CORRESPONDENTS. We are scarcely in a position to reply in very confidential turns to the question of " An Elector." The Act of I , t George Ist, <tat. 2, c. 58, (commonly cane.' the Septennial Act,) in effect, enacts that all future parliaments should continue for 7 years, " to be exeounted from the day on which, by the writ of sum 4Ntch future parliament should be appointed to meet," unless sooner dissolved by the Crown. It our interpretation of this section of the act be correct the present parliame.,t can sit legally until October, 1843, as at the last general election •. the parliament was " appointed to meet" in October 1811. Th e common mistake—if mistake it be—that there must be a general elccti,,n next year has probably arisen from the seven years being construed by some as seven sessions, the first ses sion being reckoned ir•,c: usive. The students at St. Dees am not entitled to any degree. The fees at the. College are ..€2 2s. entrance, and £lO each term ; there are during the year four terms of about 15 or 16 weeks each. The next term commences 20th January, and ends about the s th of May ; the following one begins on the 20th August, and terminates on the sth December, and so on. Any gentle man could live there respectably and comfortably on about 255. to 31s. per week. Each student is required to attend eight terms prior to ordination. It is said to be the intention of Mr. Parkinson to enlarge the College, and increase the number of students to 15'). There are not 100 there now. We think this is all the information " R" requires. There is more in comino:, between the Anti-Corn-Law League and the opponents of an established emu ch than •` a Conser vative free trader" seems to imagine. We have at this mo ment before u. a circular issued within the last few weeks from the Anti-State-Church Association, addressed to the members of the League, in which these opponents of the establishment say, " Believing that your active co-operation with the Anti Corn-Law League must oftentimes have brought under your notice the fact, that the same principle of justice which lay at the basis of that confederation, constitutes also the foundation of this, we venture to hope that your desire to enfranchise Christianity is equally strong with your desire to unshackle commerce, and that your assertion of the right to conduct trade without the meddling interference of the State has led youlto recognise the claims of religion to the same un fettered freedom. In exposing the unrighteousness of mono . poly, it is hardly possible you should have escaped the con viction, that, of all the forms in which it can appear, the monopoly of religious teaching is the worst." If this be not an attempt to show that protection to agriculture and support to the established church are built on the same foundation, and must stand or fall together, we have lost all perception of the meaning of terms. We gave some time since the chemLal properties of guano, but we have been unable to find the paragraph. Serne remarks on the municipal election we are induced to post pone until next week. Though we have strong suspicions—amounting almost to con viction—as to the identity of the person alluded to by " A Thinking Man." we cannot insert such a communication as the one with which he has favoured us on anonymous autho rity. Can our correspondent give any more tangible proofs for his statement than those we may infer from his letter ? We inserted a fortnight since a letter from "Nigel." and it is somewhat singular that he did not name at that time the ne lect of which he now complains. It is not always pleasant to state our reasons for the non-insertion of letters ; and we cannot now call to recollection whether the communications alluded to appeared or not, hut we have a strong impression that one or two gained admission into our columns. The receipt of an unusual number of advertisements yesterday -hascrowcled out several communications. THE LIVERPOOL STANDARD. BRISTOL AND LIVERPOOL. We are sorry that the few remarks we lately made, upon the subject of making Bristol a free port, and once more restoring it to its ancient pre-eminence, have rather touched one of our Bristol contemporaries—the Mirror; and almost equally sorry that he should imagine that the " good folks of Liverpool begin to take the alarm. They , are more than half afraid." We can assure him that our own pulse was never more regular ; and, more over, we are not so ungenerous as to wish the efforts making by the Bristolians any thing but success. Diffi culties we see in their way we readily confess ; and to those difficulties we pointed in the article in question. But, if referring to them is cruelty, both our contemporaries, the Mirror and Felix Farley's Journal, are very cruel indeed in giving insertion to the reports and letters, detailin3 those enormous and complicated difficulties with which they have to contend in carrying their object. Upon one point we must set the Mirror right. We ought to know something of what is going on, and what is the feeling, in this locality ; and we assure him that he is. misinformed if he thinks that the " north country men" are either endeavouring to check the movement for making Bristol a free port, or that any "Liverpool and Manchester shareholders in the Great Western Railway are putting the screw on the directors to prevent them from rendering that efficient aid which Bristolians are entitled to expect." The letter of his Liverpool' correspondent, from whom he has his information, we can assure him is, in the expres aiw. lo.ogooso of 114,..-11orolaell, Fudge.'. W ere think ing far more about cotton and corn, the loss of the Great Britain, and other meaner matters, to enable us to raise our thoughts to the sublime height of the Bristol Free Port Association, cr to penetrate so far into futurity as to canvas the result of their meritorious and patriotic endea vours to advance the prosperity of their town. We have all the humanity of Uncle Toby ; and, in all sincerity and kindness, assure our brethren of the ancient city that there is room enoueh in the world both for them and us. CHESTER DIOCESAN CHURCH BUILDING SOCIETY.— The Bishop of Chester has issued circular letters to the clergy throughout his diocese, directing them to make col lections in their various churches, before the expiration of the present month, in aid of the funds of this excellent object, which are now exhausted. In compliance with his lordship's request, a collection, amounting to £4O; was made at St. Jude's Church, on Sunday last. We widerstand that the anniversary sermons for the Irish Society will be preached in Liverpool this year cm Sunday. Nov. Bth, and public meetings held the following days. The Rev. Daniel Foley. a native of Dingle, and once a member of the Churcluf Rome, who attended the anniversary in Liverpool two years ago, and the Rev. Mr. Winning, the clergyman of Kingscourt in Ireland, where the Irish Society has been so signally blest, have promised to he present as a deputation in November. Other cler gymen are also expected. We are glad to find that many pulpits of our town are already promised. It would be a melancholy addition to Ireland's miseries at this time if there should be a " famine of the Word of God" also in those districts where the Irish-speaking population desire it in their own tongue, through a deficiency in the funds of the Irish Society. Besides the Society affords employ ment, and in this way means of support to several readers I and teachers throughout the country. Further particulars of the anniversary will be given in advertisements, in a week or two. INQUESTS YESTERDAY, BEFORE MR. CURRY.--011 view of the body of Isaac Hulse, aged 25, a Runcorn flatman. On Thursday fortnight, the flat to which de ceased belonged was lying near another, off Spehevvood, in the Mersey. Deceased and his father got into a boat to get to the other flat, in cutler to assist in hoisting the sails a little higher. When in the act of coming across the bows of the flat (not their own) they were run down, and deceased and his father went down under her. The father got hold of the boat astern of his own flat, and saved himself. It does not appear that the deceased rose to the surface. The body was seen floating in the river by the people on board the steam-packet Sampson, on Saturday last, and was conveyed to the dead-house. Verdict, " Accidentally drowned."—On vieekof the body of Elizabeth Comoy, a married woman, aged 51, who resided in Brooks'-street. The husband stated that she was much addicted to drinking: that on Friday night she came home much intoxicated ; that he assisted her to her bedroom, where she began to undress, and he went to bed ; that she fell against the fire-place, End then against a cupboard door which was partly open ; that she began to moan, and said that night would be her last ; that she then fell upon the floor, when he left her, as she was 'in the habit of lying there when drunk; that not hearing her speak for some time, he called a girl who lived in the house, and on lifting her found ber mouth bloody ; that she then made a dart to the door, fell to the bottom of the stairs, and never spoke more. The surgeon who was called found her dead, and on examination was of opinion that she died from apoplexy, the result of natural causes. Verdict accordingly. DOINGS IN TOXTETII-PARK.—The bulk of the rate payers of Toxteth-park, we are sure,cannot be acquainted with the effort making to oust a deserving public servant of the township, Mr. Avrey ; and the utter want of rea sonable grounds, beyond his known Conservative politics, for such a proceeding. Were they fully acquainteiwith the facts of the matter, and the rapidity with which th e i r affairs are being hurried into inextricable disorder by the clique which at present rules the roast in that township, they would at once, by their presence at the poll now going on, crush the effort in question. It has all along been a boasted tenet of Whiggery, that their proceedings in office were directed by a just deference to the voice of public opinion, openly expressed in a public meeting. In the present case such a meeting, to consider the charges against Mr. Ayrey—how or by whom got up we say not—was held on Thursday last ; and the following is a copy of the resolution, as entered in the books of the vestry :—" Moved by Mr. Harbord, seconded by Mr. W. B. Jones, that in consequence of the so-called charges against Mr. Ayrey not having been substantiated, he be reappointed an assistant overseer, at a salary of one hun dred pounds per year, with the same duties as those allotted to him in the appointment of the 18th December last, and with the same conditions. Motion carried." —Another resolution, of a similar character, was either moved or seconded by Mr. Alderman James Lawrence. In despite, however, of such declaration of the Vestry's opinion, a poll has been called, and is now going on. At present, we regret to observe that, by the apathy of the Conservative party, the want of knowledge that such poll is going on, and the various and well-understood appliances which the other party command, the friends of a perse cuted man are in a minority. We trust that such will not continue to be the case. A single effort of the Con servative ratepayers of the ward will snatch a valuable servant of the public and his children from undeserved destitution, and we trust it will be promptly made. THE POLL, we repeat, is now going on. Record your votes at once. MODE OF WORKING THE ALBERT DOCK AND WAREHOUSES. As there seems an idea abroad that there is something very complicated in the mode of working this dock and warehouses, and, moreover, as in all new establish ments, worked on a different system to old ones, there must of necessity be something of routine to learn, we have been at some pains to get together a few directions, by the aid of which, we trust that a fair general idea of such routine will be arrived at by our commercial com munity, and perhaps some previous wrong impressions be removed. Of course, there will occur particular cases to which these directions will not apply. In the manage ment of such, however, a general tanowledge of the prin ciples, upon which the establishment is worked, will afford valuable aid; and parties feeling difficulty, as to detail, will receive every assistance from the dock officials. We will commence by giving the mode of working the discharge of a cargo of COTTON. First.—Suppose A has 2000 bales onboard in the Albert Dock, which he wishes to warehouse elsewhere, he has only to send down his order to deliver them from the quay, the charges on which are required before delivery ; and if such charge is not definable before weighing, to de posit a sum computed to cover such expense, calculated by bill of lading, weight, and dock-charge, and no delay will occur. In fact, the object is to get off all goods as soon as possible after landing, and thus to make room for other vessels to use the quays. Secondly.—A has 2000 bales of cotton, and he wishes to warehouse them at the dock. Before actual landing he sells such cotton to B. He immediately sends down an order to transfer to B such 2000 bales, defining on such order what charges are to be made to him. Thus :—De liver to 82000 bales of cotton, ex to —, charges, to date, to our account—or if, warehoused, re-weigh and de liver to B, &c., &c., charges to our account—or reweigh ing, and charges to account of transfer. The property then vests in B, who can also transfer, or order delivery, for any party to whom he pleases—in like manner defining in the order on each occasion to whose account charges are to be paid, whether to his own or buyer's. Now let us suppose the cotton the property of B. He, like A., can take out dock warrants, for any quantity he chooses on each warrant ; and, by endorsement, he can order the delivery of the whole or any part comprised in such warrant. When this is done, however, the docu ment thus endorsed specially, as to the portion to be deli vered, must be deposited at the gene:al office, after which, further deliveries will be made to the written orders-of the last endorsee. If the owner of the property embraced in the warrant desire it, a new warrant can be obtained, specifying the quantity remaining undelivered, which new document as to such remainder has all the force of the original itself. If the patty wish it, the whole quantity, or any frac tional part of it, can be delivered by simple orders, each order being kept at the general office as a voucher for delivery. For example, B sells to C 250 bales, and directs transfer of that quantity to C, in the form given above. When such transfer is completed in the books at the docks-, C can in like manner order and direct delivery to another buyer. By this plan it is clear that business transactions must be greatly simplified, and property in any emergency ren dered immediately available. For the security of the dock estate, however, it is necessary that, before completing such delivery or transfer, their servants should be fully satisfied of the right of the parties to authorise such trans fers ; which can only be done by the exhibition of the bill of lading, on the part of the original importer, or in the case of merchandise already transferred from the importer, by an authority from the principal himself lodged in the office. Thus it may happen that a clerk may present the order ; and though no doubt may exist as to his instructi ons, yet it is obviously unsafe to transfer valuable properly without proper and formal authorization from the owner or firm represented by him. We believe that some delays have taken place in the transfer of goods from merchant to mer chant by the enforcement of this rule. Its reasonableness, however, is undeniable ;. and when the necessity for enforc ing it is known, no such difficulty need occur. We may add, that there is no hindrance thrown in the way of the removal of goods in any such lots as the owners think fit. Should 5000 bales constitute the original lot, they may be removed by one order or in single bales, at any time when de manded, the proper orders for such deliveries being lodged at the general office. PAUL-STREET PUBLIC BATHS AND WASH HOUSES. Passing by the locality of these new erections, on Saturday last, we took the opportunity of going through them • and must acknowledge that a visit more interesting we seldom had the privilege of paying. The baths are situated at the Bevington end of Paul-street--a street leading from Vauxhall-road to the bottom of Bevington hill, near the Northern Corporation Schools. The front of the building is in Paul-street. :The superintendent's house, which is at the north of the building, faces Beving ton-street. A description of the arrangements in the in terior may be interesting to our readers. The entrances are from Paul-street, nearest to Beving ton-hill, one being for females and the other for males. Both sections of the establishment are perfectly separated from each other. Entering the female lobby we find, on the ground floor, a cold plunge bath, about 30 feet by 18 inches in size, floored with earthenware tiles, and from 34 feet in depth at one end to 4 feet 9 in. at the other. This is surrounded with very neatly constructed dressing•rooms, and is fitting up with bearing ropes, and, in short, is as complete as such a bath can be made. In the same female compartment is one private hot or cold water bath, with shower bath attached, one vapour bath, and: six public hot or cold water baths, with dressing-rooms attached. In the male compartment; nearer to the Vauxhall end of Paul. street, is a plunge bath, about 36 feet by 24, two private baths, arranged for hot, cold, or showery one va pour and eight public bat baths, with the fittings of the whole very complete and commodious. Up stairs are the same baths'in both compartments, with the exception of the plunge baths which occupy the space from the ground to the roof, being fitted above them with skylights. In each story is an office for the superintendent, with a win dow commanding the male and female entrances. Wait ing rooms are also provided for visitors of the private baths, which it is intended to fit up with sofas and other conveniences. There are six water closets attached to this part of the establishment. In the washing department, which is on the ground floor, are six washhouse,s, each containing ten troughs and a boiler. The troughs are of the best construction. with taps for hot and cold water, and vents in the bottom of each to let off the water. Attached to these is a drying room, containing 17 clothes maidens, which slide out on grooves, and, when in,operation, are placed over the floor of a stove, with eye-holes to allow the hot air to rise. Upon these it is calculated that all the clothes washed can be dried with great rapidity. In addition to these public washhouses, is one containing eight troughs and boiler, with a separate entrance from Panl-street, which is intended for washing the infected clothes of poor per sons. The stoves for heating the water required for the i establishment, which are made by Mr. Pooley, of this town, are of the best construction. The boiler, for the supply of steam for the vapour bath, is, in dimensions, four feet by six. It is much to be, regretted that the establishment, cal culated as it is to he of such infinite service to the poor population in the. neighbourhood, in a period like this, when fever is rife, and the means of cleanliness so much in request, should. not be at once brou3lit into operation. The baths and wasbhouses are ready, or could be made so in a day or two ; but it is said there is no water available ! How this arises we know not. It would only be chari table to suppose that no needless or vexatious impediment is thrown in the way by the water companies. The Paul-street baths are to be managed under the su perintendence of Mr. Clarke, the late able superintendent of the institution in Frederick-street, to whose kindness we have been indebted for the information which we now furnish to our readers. MILITABX, MOVEMENT.—We learn that the foot regi ment called " The Third Buffs," will pass through this town on. Wednesday and Thursday next, (five companies on each day,) on their way from Portsmouth, where they have been, for some time, to Edinburgh. A detachment of the 7th Hussars arrived here on Sa turday and left yesterday en mule for Dublin and Li merick. COMMITMENTS.—The following prisoners were sent for trial by Mr. Rushton yesterday :—John Reece, for stealing or attempting to carry off 151bs. of lead. from an untenanted house in Penryn-street. A skeleton, key was found upon him.—Ann Boyle, for stealing wearing ap parel, value £2, the property of Elizabeth Boyd. THE WEATHER, &c.—The weather during the past week has been extremely unsettled, with frequent thick rains and stormy winds, chiefly from the south-east and and south-west, showing an apparent breaking up of the season. Mechanical operations out of doors have conse quently been occasionally suspended. The farmers are busy in getting up their potatoes. and we regret to say that in many parts in these districts the disease has com mitted great ravages. The price of this edible has there fore risen to 16d. a peck. Butchers' meat and all other provisions are also on. the rise. Good bacon commanded in our public markets on Saturday 10d. per lb. OFFER OF CHUR:3II PEWS BY AUCTION.—A sale, or rather offer to sell, by auction of a number of church pews, in St. George's Church, Everton, St. Nicholas' Church, Trinity Church, end St. Thomas's, took place yesterday in the Clarendon-rooms, by Messrs. Thos. Winstanley and Sons. The pews were all the property of the principal representative of the late Mr. Wm. Earle, a gentleman residing at a distance from Liverpool, and who is desirous of disposing of them, because, according to the auctioneer, he did not wish to have the trouble of collecting the rents. Six pews were offered in St. George's Church. No. 58, on the ground floor, for which a rental of £8: Bs. is re ceived, subject to a ground rent of £3105., was put up by the auctioneer at £5O ; but there were no bids. No. 59, also on the ground floor, producing the same rental, and liable to the same amount of ground rent, shared the same fate. No. 72, under the gallery, rental .Za, and ground rent £2 10s., was withdrawn for want of offers, as well, also, a double pew, Nos. 76 and 77, centre, under the gallery, rental £l4. No. 90, a double pew, and No. 151, a pew in the organ gallery, let for three guineas, three pews in the parish church of St. Nicholas, free from ground rents, and numbered 27, 39, and 50, elicited no offer. The same may be reported of No. 71 in the south aisle and body of Trinity Church. The only pew for which an offer was made was No. 41, in St. Thomas s Church, the ground rent of which is £2, and the rental unknown, in consequence of its having been unoccupied for 18 months. The sexton of the church bid £3 for it, provided he could have a clear title, but the auctione declined selling at that price, and invited the sexton t o treat by private contract. The owner, it was stated, would sell the whole property at a reasonable price, either in one or more lots. One or two gentlemen intimated a desire to treat as soon as the reserved prices had been amended 4 it being evident that they had been based upon too high a valuation. The auction was elenderl y attended. ST. ANNE'S WARD MEETING. Yesterday evening, a meeting of the Conservative bur gesses of St. Anne's Ward took place at Pontack's inn, Christian•street, for the purpove of nominating a candi date to represent that ward. The meeting was numerous and respectable. In the absence of Mr. Norris, the chairman, Mr. James Parker was called upon to preside, and f at his request, the secretary read a note received from Mr. N., to the effect that he was unable to attend, from illness, and strongly recommending to their notice Mr. William Bennett, whom he had hoped to introduce to them in person , . The CHAIRMAN of the meeting said, that after the hulls ome manner in which Mr. Bennett wasp noticed by their chairman, little was left for him to add. Mr. B. would, he doubted not, be the man of their heart's choice, He was, moreover, a tradesman, and was warmly attached to the best interests of the town. It was not for him (the chairman) to say much of the retiring member. He had no doubt many good qualities, but he was not the man for this ward. Tradesmen he considered the most eligible to represent the town in Council, as to them be longed its burgess property, and the town now ap peared determined to have tradesmen to consery e and control it; and it would be to their interest to return an able man from that class of the community. Mr. Bennett had much to recommend him. He had long acted on the committee of the Vestry, and had rendered highly efficient services in that department. He had also devoted equal services on the committee of the Collegiate Institution, which was a strong guarrantee of his principles being of the right kind. (Hear.) He (the Chairman) did not address himself, in these remarks, to the Conservatives of the ward alone, but to all the burgesses, who would find it to their advantage to elect such a man. He, therefore, cordially approved of the nomination of that gentleman. (Cheers.) Mr. JOHN PETER SIMPSON seconded the motion, as he considered Mr. Bennett to be a man who had their interest at heart. The motion was put, and unanimously carried, with cheers. The candidate was then called, and the handsome man ner in which he had been nominated was communicated to him. Mr. BENNETT then, amidst great applanse; expressed the pride he felt. He said that many changes would take place in the improvement of the town within , the next three years, including the supply of water, &c. No exer tions should be wanting on his part to forward the best interests of his townsmen. He added that he had been well received at all the meetings he had attended. A committee was then proposed and elected. The CHAIRMAN said there was a gentleman present to whom they were indebted for most valuable service& at the Revision Court, and who would move a resolution— he meant Mr. Bremner. (Cheers.) Mr. BREMNER stated that he had not intended to take any active part in the present election, but learning that Mr. Bennett was to be the candidate, he could not resist coming forward. He spoke highly of that gentlemen ae a useful and practical' man, and considered the ward. would do honour to themselves by electing him. He moved that the meeting use all proper means to secure the return of Mr.. Bennett, which was carried by accla mation. A CANVASSER. stated that hebad seen Mr. Brownbill, who had stated that he would vote for the Conservative candidate, and he (the speaker) should see that he came early to the poll. (FWear.) The meeting then separated with the most confident anticipations of Mr. Bennett's triumphant return. THE LIVERPOOL CUSTOMS' REVENUE. Amidst the complaints of declining commerce, which reach us from every quarter, it is gratifying to find that the port of Liverpool stilt keeps on the even tenor of her way, improving her position. i The accounts for the pre sent quarter, ended the 10th nstantygive an increase over the corresponding three months of 1845, of £118,295. The following are the receipts during the three months of both years :- 1845. 1846. July, £233,518.. August, 277,267 September, 387,203 Giving £897,988 against £1,016,383 in , the quarter of 1846, shewing the above surp!us. Taking the three quarters of the year now ended the ac count will stand as follows : QUARTERS ENDED, 1845. 1846. sth April.... £928,973 £793,427 kith July ..... 817,279 10th October.. 897,988 Totals _ £2,644,240 .£2,754,306 , • showing a gross increase upon the 9 months of £110,066. This is encouraging, not so much for the gross amount received, (which is less than in the corresponding period of 1844,) or the surplus over last year, but from the circum stances under which it has accrued. It shoos us that whatever blows the customs' revenue of the kingdom may receive from changes in oar economical system, there is a healthy vitality in the commerce of this port which enables us to rally from the shock. Thus, in 1845 we found the year's receipts at our Custom-house reduced from £4,487,664—the previous year's receipts— to £3,433,112; shewing a deficiency on the year of £1,0:4,552. This was accounted for by the Tariff reduc tions, including £600,000, as the loss on cotton, in the port of Liverpool alone. We have , this year bud further reductions of important duties;. yet -we are steadily re gaining our position; and folly anticipate in a very few years to gain our original revenue productiveness, unless some more tinkering is practised upon our import duties. In the meantime, the present result sufficiently shews that the commerce of the port has increased, and is still in creasing. BUSINESS DONE AT THE ALBERT DOCK UP TO DATE. The following is, we believe, a correct list of the vessels discharged and discharging at the Albert Dock and Ware houses since their opening, the gross amount of which, up to Tuesday night, was given by the Dock Chairman at the recent Council meeting : ... c 7 . •1 N 6, ~f" Ship's Name. Whence. Cargo. l f,„ g I=i l .S'G'E's = 1 z Fi 1 William Fisher Bahia, &c... Cotton, sugar, &c; 364. 2911 37 Dorothy China Tea .. .' 311....1 17 Frankficld.... New Orleans Cotton, &c. Magnificent .. Ditto CountessMinto Cronstadt .. Tallow, &c. Alice Haviland Barbadoes.. Sugar, &c lBO 188 14 Douro... .... Oporto Wines, &........ 20. 127 28 Royal Saxon.. Calcutta Generale . Wines, stones. &e. ' r 0 0 2 5 0 4 5 7 3 3 6 9 5 3 5 13: Ocean (stmer) Havre Dorothea .... Calcutta General JoThin M . Vicar. Ditto .... . Ditto ... 648 768, 56 Joseph Bushby Ditto Cressida Ditto Paragon. Ditto Jno.Farnworth Jamaica.... Ditto ThomasMellor Pernambucaotton, sugar, &c.l , 257 1771 30 Wm.M`Dcugal Taganrog ..ITallow Swordfish .... Pernambuco Cotton, sugar, &c. 345 3131 49i Grindley Madras ....'General Adam Lodge.. Calcutta.. Penelope Sierra Leoae• 2lB .... , . c c.E. $ Camillus ..... 'Bombay.... General j 615.... 47 Lena Sincapore Boykett Bordeaux,.. Wines, fruits, &e.. 1151.... , 5 c' v We may state, in additi , the dock by yesterday's ti manifests of two ships, nc dock for discharging there ion, that one other vessel entered ide ; one is in the river ; and the 3w off the port, are lodged at the Two CAR-DRIVERS COMMITTED FOR TRlAL.—Yes terday, at the Police-court, two car-drivers were brought before Mr. Rushton, charged with stealing a man's cap. The case was proved against them, and as it appeared that one of them. had been committed for felony several times, and the other no fewer than four times, they were both committed for trial at the sessions. This case natn rally suggests the question—As no carman can legally drive without a license granted by the magistrates (or the Town Council), how comes it that so little inquiry is made into the characters of applicants, that even men who have been repeatedly convicted of felony, are passed as eligible for the trust, when the slightest inquiry at the Police-court, and reference to its books, would immedi. ately show them to be vile impostors. The public are sufficiently annoyed by the frequent overcharges, inso lence, and sometimes dishonesty, of a great number of carmen already, that it is surely high time that, when new applications are made, men of really good character should alone be licensed, so that the whole of the body may be improved, and the public protected. CRUELTY TO ANIMALS AT NEW BRIGHTON.—In consequence of camplaints made by visitors at this agree able bathing place, of the cruelties wantonly practised by donkey drivers and others, the Liverpool society for the prevention of cruelty to animals solicited and promptly obtained. from the London Royal Society, the services ot an active London constable to arrest them. The result of his exertions have been the conviction, at Liscard Ses sions -house, on the 2nd instant, before William Hall and Henry Winch, Esqrs., of William Rowlands and Richard Peters, of New Brighton, donkey drivers, in costs, for cruelly beating donkeys under their charge. Also, of George Upton. of Wallasey, in 10s. and 6s. 6d. in costs, for working a horse in a cart, whilst suffering from a dreadfully cut and bleeding knee ; and of Jonathan Mar shall, of Wallasey, in ss. and costs Gs. 6d., for violently beating a donkey, and spurring it under the tail till it bled. Through the agency of the same active constable, before William Potter, Esq., at Birkenhead, on Tuesday, the Gth instant, John Pearse, driver of the Hoylake coach, was convicted in the penalty of 10s. and 6s. 6d. costs, for driving horses with raw wounds under the collar. It is to be hoped that these cases will be a solitary example to other offenders, and that the police and the humane part of the public, will thus see the importance of doing all in their power to suppress all cases of similar cruelty. It is not generally known, that by the act of Parliament, any one may take out a summons for a case of cruelty which he has witnessed, and obtain certain conviction, without the need of any other witness. If application be made to Mr. Hayward, of Bold-street, the agent for the society, or Mr. Richard Fry, the honorary secretary, every assistance will be rendered. MRS. PARKzs' PICTURES.—The drawing of the club subscription for this valuable collection is now progressing, and many of our townsmen have been extremely fortu nate. Nearly all the shares are taken, and as a subsriber of one guinea is entitled, at the lowest ratio, to a print valued at one guinea and a half, (eleven thousand pounds worth of pictures being divided amonst the subscribers of two thousand pounds,) there can be little doubt that all will be disposed of in a few days, Air, Cuttra, of Bola, street, is the agent, Oct. 13, 1846. LATEST INTELLIGENCE, (EY EXPRESS.) THE WAR IN KAFFIRLAND. (Prom the Morning Herald of Yeaterday.) On Monday last, we announced the arrival of the Marie Some!, with Cape of Good Hope papers to the 4th of Au gust inclusive. This day we are put in possession of other Cape journals of the same date, with later news from' the seat of war, of a highly interesting character. The last intelligence acquainted us, that on the 16th of July, Colonel Somerset, with his army, had passed the Buffalo at Bridle Drift. The present ad vic.es supply us with the important operations of that gal lant officer since that period, as detailed by him in his official communication to Lieut.-Colonel Cloete, from which it will be seen that in the pursuit of Pato, he made a rapid and bold incursion into Kreli's territories-, where he had a smart engagement with the Kaffirs, thoroughly routing them e killing about forty of them, and capturing five thousand head of cattle, which he conducted safely through the enemy's country to head quarters. The loss on the side of Colonel Somerset was, Field- Captain Groenwaldt wounded, one Fingoe killed, and one Fingoe wounded. The Fingoes' display the most I intrepid conduct, and appear to have borne the brunt of the action. In addirion to the above important news, we have also particulars of the successful operations of the troops under the command of Colonel Hare and Sir An dreas Stockenstrom, in the Amatola Mozentains. In these engagements, it was conjectured that' 150 Kaffirs were killed, irrespective of many wounded. The loss on the side of the British troops was inconsiderable. LONDON CORN EXCHANGE.-YESTERDAY. At this day's market the supply of English wheat was only moderate, which was quickly Cleared off at Is. to 2s. per qr. over the'currency of this day week. There was a fait - country demand.for free foreign at a similar improvement. The cOtintry advices report barley generally dearer, and fac- tors demanded Is. to 2s. per qr. advance, which checked busi ness ; but necessitous buyers had to. pay rather more money. The arrivals of oats, although notiarge,appear fully adequate to the present limited demand ; all' descriptions were fkeely offered at last Monday's rates, and even lower prices had tb• be taken where the lay days of vessels had expired, to save demur rage. Beans and peas as last noted, with a less active demand. Fine malt is -scarce, and readily taken off as it comes to mar ket, with an upward tendency. Indian' corn—the inquiry still continues for Ilbating cargoes, and 48s. cost, freight and instil'-' ance, is generally asked. SMITHFIELD CATTLE MA RKET.—YSSTERDAY. Notwithstanding the boisterous gales experienced during the past week, we hare again to report the arrival of large supplies , . of foreign stock inhLondon, as well as the nutports. Both the - beasts and sheep have reached us in good condition, and we have no hesitation in saying that, in the course of time, the sheep will equal in quality those home-fed. These observations may, likewise, be applied to the lambs and •zalves ; but from their paucity of numbers, we are not, as yet; able to form so conclusive an opinion as to the pigs. With home-fed beasts we were but moderately supplied; hence the beef trade was active, at an advance - in the quota tions of 2d per 81b, and a good clearance was effected. From the northern countries we received abcat 1,800 short horns ; from the western-anti midland districts, 700 Herefords, runts, Devons, &c. ; and from other parts of England, 300 of various breeds. The numbers of sheep were much less than those exhibited for many weeks past. The mutton trade was, therefore, very brisk, at a further improvement in value of fully 441 per sib, and the whole of the supply was readily cleared off. For veal we had rather iv sluggish demand, at last week's prices. In pigs a steady business was. doing at late rates. Mr. Gillon, the Radical member for the Stirling dis trict of Burghs, died last week. The Earl Grosvenor has joined the Marquis and:Mar chianness of Westminster and family at Eaton , Hall, Cheshire, from his shooting quarters in Scotland. The noble earl, en route, visited Lord and Lady Prudhoe, at Stanwick Park, Yorkshire. Si. Robert and Lady Peel have, during the last week, entertained a succession of visitors at Drayton Manor, Staffordshire. The Earl Talbot, Baron Stockmor, Sir James and Lady Graham, Colonel Bowles, Mr. Samuel Rogers, Professor Owen, Mr. Plckersgill, Mr. Eastlake: &c., have been among the guest% A S:GN OF THE TIMES.-At a very full repeal gather ing, held in Cork last week, the Premier's inability t& meet the pending crisis was the theme of a leading speaker, while—tell it not in Derrynane—Sir Robt. Peel was lauded to the skies as the trustworthy pilot, the only' statesman fit to weather the storm. On Friday, three respectably dressed persons were ad mitted at Armagh to view Lord Rosse's telescope ; one of them advanced to the extreme end and cast a stone at the speculum. It happily did not take effect. The three were arrested. The one who threw the stone said he considered it a blasphemy to scrutinize too closely the works of the Almighty. IMPORTANT ABRIDGEMENT OF 711 E EXPENSES OF WORKING , ' SHIPS OVERTIME.—The Commissioners Of Customs have issued an order, allowing all ships of every country importing goods in bulk, es brimstone, bark, bones, divi divi, linseed. dyewoods, guano, hemp, iron, valonia, bides, &c., to work before and after the legal hours without the attendance of a landing-surveyor , thereby curtailing the expense to the mere payment of the landing-waiter and weigher for their cztra attendance. The first steamer of the New York Cowes and Bremen 'line is to be ready by the Ist of March. She is already far advanced: She is to be 1,750 tons burthen, 240 feet on the upper deck, will be 31 feet 9 inches ;.she will have three flush decks. The engines arc ;.a be 1,0 00 horse power cach ; a double marine, with a 72 inch cylinder , and 10 feet stroke. She will be called the Washington. Captain Hewit, a graduate of West Point, but better known as the commander of the Havre packet ship Utica, will command-her. At the Ilammersmith Police-court on Saturday, a young man was committed to prison for three months.on a charge of obtaining money under false pretences as a necromancer. The prisoner in answer to the charge, said he was ready 4 o return the money. He had, at a grew . "' expense, learned the art under an eminent and learned professor, and had practised it for four years. He bad also learned the mystery of the cards and practised pal mistry and the use of the planets, and he was not before aware that he was liable to punishment unless he practised witchcraft. A collision took place on the Eastern Counties Railway , on Saturday morning, between a train with 33 trucks, and another with 33 , carriages laden with grain. The latter started about half an hour after the other, from Cam bridge, but unfortunately drove into it in consequence). 3 f the engine of the truck train getting out of order. A sig nal was exhibited to stop the grain train, but too late. The engine and several carriages were dashed to atoms. and sacks upon sacks of loose grain were apparently nailed up with the soil. The loss is calculated at not less than £3OOO. RESUSCITATION OF THE POTATO.—We are much pleased to receive more favourable reports of the potato crop. It would appear that, on inspection, disease bas made but little ravages amongst it, and that the tubers which have reached maturity are sound, and in a great measure fit for human consumption. They have not, it is true, either the flavour or the nutritious qualities which in ordinar7 years the vegetable possesses; still it is gm' tifying to learn that, where no produce was looked for, we have now the prospect, in many instances, of a half , or at least a third crop. We trust that not only is this,. intelligence correct, but that this condition of the plant is general throughout the country.—Cork Examiner. SEE OF, ST. A SAPII.—The Right Reverend Thomas Fowler Short, D.D., Lord Bishop of Sodor and Mae► has been appointed to the vacant see of St. Asaph. He is a very respectable scholar and divine, a sincere whigi and has actually had the care of St. Asaph's diocese for nearly two years. The Morning Herald in announcing the appointment says. " we doubt whether, without a re: peal of the act of 1836, a new Bishop of St. Asaph could be made. But an easy way out of the difficulty would be, to give up the union of Bangor and St Asaph, and 1 0 unite, instead, St. Asaph and Man. A short act for this purpose might pass in three weeks from the meeting of Parliament. Anti, if this arrangement were agreed upon, a Bishop of Manchester might be appointed forthwith. We hear, and we trust the report is true, that something of the kind is actually in contemplation." SHIPPING INTELLIGENCE. mON DAY, 12th OCTOBER.—Wind S.S.E. to N., light. AanivED.—Syria, Cox, from Quebec—North Pole, Sim, fr°L -. Bombay—Rajah Bassa, Glover, from Cal cu tta—Alciope;Be"„,_ nett, from Valparaiso—Selina, Belt, from Arica—Dash, Loga— from Ambriz; sailed Sth Aug.—Jamaica, Selkirk, from Bahia; sailed 13th Aug.—Wyke Regis, —, from Halifax, N.S.--M °. Packet, Robinson, from Quebec. SAlLED.—Neptunus, Paeplow, and Emma, Meincke, Stettini Joseph and Mary, Bosford, Rotterdam—Myrtle, Norman. 7„ Terceira—Antelope, Asplett, Lisbon and Monte Video— Mr , nore, Procter ; Liverpool, Eldridge, and Humpden, Cowan , 1 " New York. Mary, Sullivan, from Quebec at this port. On Sept. Ee c o e i the Superior, from Londonderry to Quebec, and took P - Z ia , the crew of the Lanark, Frith, from Quebec for this port, v_Tdirc was abandoned 21st September, having become water-rioeniairwned the hurricane of the Igth. The remainder of the cr ew on beard the Sul erior. The Alice, which arrived here on Saturday from ward's Island, spoke the Falcon, hence to Quebec, 25"-h on her • in lat. 4S. long. 51, with loss of bulwarks , hav in g been beam ends for 12 hours during the hurricane. The ke F a lcon spoke the barque Francis, from London, on the morni n g of the 25th. half full of water, and apparently bearing up for Newfoundland. Glen Helen, for New Orleans, has put back, being too crank. Martha, Longregg, Wm Antwerp for this port at Dartmouth* Belle, from Bahia at Patagonia. Cosmopolitan, Griffiths, hence at Ambriz. Oregon, Evans, and Emigrant, Price, hence at Quebec. Aberdeen, hence off Quebec. Prince Ed . St. John, —, off Green Island. Mysore, for Trieste, at Odessa. Sir Charles Napier, --, off Bic 17th Sept, - LIVERPOOL COTTON MARKET, OCT. 12. The demand for Cdtton to-day has been to the extent of 10,00 , 5 , bales, of which quantity the trade take 5000 and speculatt t 2010 bales. The market is decidedly dearer than it was Is '" week. LIVERPOOL CATTLE MARKET, OCT. 12. t o We have a good supply of Beasts at OW market to-day, b° os with respect to number and quality; the supply of Sheep vl small. With a numerous attendance of customers, the Bee trade was rather duller than of late, with a shade of decline '— price from our last statement. Beef, 54d to 6d per lb.; mutte.°' 6id to 7cl. LIVERPOOL: TUESDAY, ()CT. 13. 1446. PRINTED AND PUBLISHED EVERY TUESDAY MORNING BY JOSHUA FLETCHER LACE, of 53, Grove-street, and LEONARD ADDISON, of 14, Great Orford.street. At No. 4, ST. GYOII.GIi'S CRESCNNT LIVERrOOI.. pd Orders and Advertisements received by Messrs. 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