The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser. — Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1846-05-26 00:00:00

TO CORRI . :sPON DENTS ye a conferen ately if any amendment afft the Corn 13111 is carried by latie Lords will t th the Commons immedi the essential principle of Lords' coo:mittee. If an amendment is canied on the second reading, the bill is rejected. Our reporter was in error last week in ascribing the removal of the emigrants trorn the ship Rappahannock, the evening be fore our publication, to irstruc , i vas received from the go vernment emigration ages .. That gentleman, we are in formed, was nor present on the occ.ision. We owe an apology to " Nigel," but the latter part of his com munication must have t.een mislaid, or it would c,rtainly have appeared. llnfortunately, we have not yet seen the erection criticised by Ecclesi," and it would he scarcely prudent t) insert an ano- nymous communication ou the subject until we have done We do not view the matte referred to by " Integrity" in pre• cisely the same light as himself. A vote in Committee of the Lord's can scarcely be termed a munceurre. It may be true that such a vote wou:d defeat the will of the house, through proxies not being counted in Committee, but on the other hand the will of the Peers pre ent Li) the second reading may be nullified by a pocket full of proxies. none of whom have probably heard the debates on the question for which their votes are given. We eau~~ut consent to circulate the statements of " liumanitas." His conclusions are founded on wrong data. We know that Dickens and other writers have said that the abolition of capi tal punishment has been followed by a large diminution both in the offences previously punished by death, and in the ge neral amount of crime. This, however, has not been satis factorily proved. On the contrary, we believe the reverse is the fact, and if our correspondent be disposed to pursue the subject further, we refer him to the current number of the Law Magazine. Ebt tibtrpool TUESDAY MORNING, MAY 26, 1846. Our Conservative government are adopting the most effectual steps for turning from them the af fections and sympathy of the people. Does any portion of their policy raise them for a moment in the estimation of the masses, the notion of having been actuated by any thing beyond the harsh and dry dicta of political expediency, or economy, is re pudiated as a taint; and the offered hand of grati tude is indignantly rejected. The Parliamentary proceedings of the past week afford a striking instance of this repulsive inclina tion. A few days ago, the Ministry had urged, through the House of Commons, a measure which was certainly calculated to advance its authors in the affections of a portion, at least, of the working classes. They had effected, by a political sleight of hand, what other statesmen, backed by the voice of aggregate meetings and the funds of confederated free traders might have clamoured for in vain. Tey had given to the people something like an as sured hope of that social milienium, which was painted as the result of a cheap loaf and extended commerce. For this, they were threatened with political martyrdom ; and " a good man suffering adversity" is a spectacle which ever excites the warm sympathy of a generous British people. Al ready Manchester was moving it- enraptured popu lation to do honour to the person of Sir Robert Peel, by the erection of his statue in one of their proposed new parks; and had the Ministry, en masse, made a tour last week through the manufac turing districts, their progress would have been one continued ovation. An opportunity presented itself, however, to Sir Robert and his colleagues, for getting rid of the temporary popularity with which they had been in vested. The Factory Bill was brought before the house. Half a million of the working portion of our manufacturing population asked of Parliament the boon of a diminution of the hours of labour, for male and female youth between the ages of 13 and 13 years. The voice of five=sixths of the nation seconded 0 - and said, " your long hours eir praye of toil are destroying the health, strength, and the morals of the parents and mothers of a future gene ration of Englishmen. You are depriving them of education; you are shutting out from them the means of religious instruction ; you are depriving the male of the means of learning to value the comforts of a well ordered home, and the female of leisure for training in those domestic duties, the proper fulfil ment of which contribute to form the good wife and the good mother; you are making the spring time of both a season of hopeless and wearing drudgery, and their maturity, if they ever reach it, a period of decrepitude and premature old age." This was the appeal made to a ministry which has just khown its apparent consideration for the poor as a plea for giving them the boon of cheap bread. What is the response of Sir Robert Peel and his colleagues ? A concession such as this, they said — the bestowing upon the poor factory workers, in creased means of enjoying life, and elevati g their eannit be granted without di - —"rnfits, and taking some social character. minis ng manufacturi thing from the remuneration of capital. The present hours of labour may be too long, but the capitalist and our foreign trade must he the chief considera tion of statesmen. A large class cf our population inay be dwarfed and demoralized—may neither be taught how to live or die as Christians—but we *must spin so many thousand bales of cotton per annum, and the manufacturer must have his present 'average profit per bale : ~ ,,Tlip„sa,te ' in - g - a : may be YielfaU Qf, Viiranthropists and theorists to declaim upon; but statesmen have to deal only with the un• bending, cold realities of raising revenue, and keeping up the manufacturing interest of the country. This - is the substance of the reply to Mr. Fielden and the advocates of a ten hours bill; and what does it tell us with respect to that other great measure which is uow agitating the country—unsettling in- Austry and paralysing commerce? It tells us em phatically that it has not been to advantage the poor man —to add a penny to his store, a loaf to his table, or a garment to his scanty wardrobe—that agricul tural industry is to be stript of its protection, and "the British husbandman lowered in the social •Scale. It is not an overflowing philanthropy which .bas dictated this measure, but the sordid consider ations of political economy alone. It is the manu facturing capitalist, for whose interest the ministry It is for a stimulated commerce, more mills, more factory slaves, and mare exports and imports, that they are legislating. Let no poor man lift up his heart in gratitude to them for the apparent boon of a cheap loaf. It was not intended for him, and it will not be permitted to be enjoyed by him. seem so careful Whilst Conservatism is thus throwing away from it every thing like popular sympathy, giving increased stringency to an already intolerable poor-law, and. perpetuating the long hours of toil inflicted upon the young and helpless children of our working po pulation, mark the different conduct of its oppo nents, the party of which Lord John Russell is the leader! \Vise in their gen-ration are the Whigs! Sir Robert Peel answers the appeal for help, of half a million of his fellow-countrymen, with scraps and saws from the musty pages of political economists We hay o interfere with the right of every man to sell his labour at his own price, and on his own terms. The Whig leaders, on the other hand, assert boldly that there is a point beyond Which we cannot be guided by ►he cold abstractions and heartless dogmas of political philosophy—that a government has moral duties to perform, uhich it cannot with safety neglect. Mr. I'. B. Macaulay, in one of the most admirable speeches ever delivered in the Elouse of Commons, thus demolishes, by analogy, the argument that governments cannot in .terfere with the wages or the contracts of individuak. ..Speaking of the Intel ference of government with the regulation and construction of buildings, he says:— We should have nothing to do with the matter if it .were a purely commercial affair; but other and higher Interests than mere commercial interests are concerned. It concerns the public weal that the Brest mass of the people should not live in a way the tffect of which is to abridge lite, making it wretched and feeble while it lasts, and to send to untimely graves the population, who leave behind them a more miserable progeny than themselves. (Hear, hear.) If it be the fact that a great mass of our population is familiar with misery—if it be the fact that places calculated to shorten life, to taint the health, and to turn the stomach of those accustomed to more cleanly habits, are not noxious to those who dwell in them, — this, proves how greatly the government of this country has neglected its duty; and proves that they have tolera'ed the existence of houses like hogslyes, until there is danger of the population becoming like hogs. (Hear, hear.) Who would a ffi rm, then, with respect to a ques tion whsre morality and hutiianiiy are concerned, that we rust adhere to this 'Cheers.) And, in direct reference to the factory question, he asks : Is not the Dublin health concerned in a question re lg to the time of labour? Does any one who has nined the evidence, or opened his eyes in the world, , r examined his oar. feels ouht that twelve hours a t far ory labour are more than are desirable for 9 of thirteen? !hear, hear.) If so much labour be _ sirable, th en I say eve r y argument on w h ch inter ference can be justified calls on me to keep tho-e youths from injuring their health by means of immod era t e to il. . (Hear, hear.) Is this , or it nor, a question in which morality is clncerned ? Can any one doubt—certainly my friends around me do not dnuht—that education is a matter of the highest impnrance as regards the virtue and happiness of the common People ? For education we know that leisure is necessary. Do we believe that, after twelve bohrs have been taken front the day for factory labour, and atter so much time as is necessary for refresbmeu and exercise has also been taken, do we believe that enough time will remain for that amount of education which it is desirable the people should have? I believe that we must answer that question in the negative. (Hear, hear.) This I say, that all the principles in which you in terfere to prohibit contracts of a nature which you believe to be prejudicial to the public morality, justify me in en deavouring to prevent contracts like those which are now the subject of consideration." . These are the arguments of no sickly sentimenta list, but of a man brought up at the feet of Malthus, and deeply read in the political economists; and they are convincing because they are true. In a similar light the question was viewed, and similar opinions expressed with almost equal ability by the Whig leader, Lord John Russell. The Con servative ministry clung by the side of the Cob dens, the Brights, the Humes, and the Wards of the house, bolstering up the cause of capital against humanity, setting the dogmas of abstract philoso phy in the scale against the dictates of feeling and justice to our toiling fellow-beings, whilst their wiser opponents adopted and ably maintained the more widely popular aspect of the question at issue, winning golden opinions and blessings; from no un influential section of the community. What, it may be remarked, is the lesson which our remarks are intended to convey? It is this : Ne wish to make it palpable to the Conservative members of the House that, by the course whicn they are pursuing, they are advancing the very con summation of what they appear most to dread in the establishing in power of the Whig party. They are getting rid, with Sir Robert eeel, of the respect of the British people. They are assisting him to plunge their party into unpopularity, which years of re pentance will not wipe away. They are enabling the Whigs to re-assume their ancient boast that they are the party of the people. Place them once in this position, and in power; and a long, long period of misgovernment, of wild theorising, of desperate ex perimenting upon our government and our laws, is in store for this deluded and betrayed nation. Play on for a while longer the game of the astute and wily premier, and Great Britain will no longer be a land to which it will be a boast and a pride to belong, Our readers, such at least of them as were pre sent, will doubtless remember the pleasure with which they witnessed last year the proceedings of the Yearly Meeting of the Liverpool Auxiliary Branch of the Foreign Aid Society, at which M. D'Aubigne, the eminent historian of the Reforma tion, and other distinguished foreigners were pre sent. The meeting for the present year is announced to be held in the Royal Amphitheatre, on the 9JI June, this day fortnight ; and is not expected to be at all behind its predecessor in interest and importance. Amongst the speakers will be, we understand, the Rev. Canon M`Neile, with several of the leading clergy of the town ; and we shall again have the opportunity of hearing the operations of the society detailed, and its importance and value shown by a deputation of distinguished Protestant foreigners, who will be able to bring to the meeting the evidence of personal observation. At the present crisis this association assumes a peculiar interest. With Popery making prodigious strides towards supremacy in our own land, we seq throughout Continental Europe the light breaking in, and community after community, sickened of the dark jugglery of Rome, throwing away their chains, and coming to the pure fountain of truth for support. Wherever Popery is known, it is becom ing odious and intoleraVe ; and an infinite amount of good is to he achieved by holding up before the observation of the British public, the operations in other lands of societies such as this, and proving to misguided millions of our fellow countrymen the true character of that dire apostacy which here, in the infancy of its strength, bears itself with lamblike humility, although, wh n in its plenitude of power, it can play the devouring lion, We trust that we need not appeal to the liberality of the Protestants of Liverpool in behalf of a society engaged, like the Foreign Aid Society, in emancipating the minds of our Continental brethren from the thrall of this subtle and tyrannical power. Let. our fellow-towns men and fellow-townswomen attend the meeting, and the result we do not fear. The Manchester Guardian is silent under the proof which we 'gave him that the feeling of our Canadian population is not one of approval of the Free Trade measures of her Majesty's Administra tion. He merely echoed, perhaps, another Free 'l'rade authority, the London Times, who paraded the same resolutions of the Montreal meeting as conclusive with respect to the opinions of the ag gregate people of the two provinces; and seeing a document so convenient for his purpose, neglected to search for any of an' opposite character. The following letter from the partner Canadian firm, e . n .. clffire,=t6Convince the Guardian of rge i rtlrva ' fue of his pet resolutions, if the arguments drawn from them even stood uncontradicted by other and better authority " Montreal, 27th April, 1846. " A Free Trade Association has been got up here by a parcel of hot-headed theorists (chiefly young men of no experience), who repudiate protection as au injury and destruction to all sound principles on which commerce should be based. The avowed object of the leaders, as first announced, was to secure to Montreal all the western trade. Discussion has. however, shown even them the absurdity of this; but being committed, they go on from pure admiration of the principle ! " The enclosed (cut from the Montreal Herald) shows how little prospect there is of our retaining even the trade of Canada West, and far less of the Western States, it Canada flour has no protection in England to make up for the great charges and longer voyage of the St. Law rence navigation. " The Montreal Herald assumes that the freight from Lake Ontario to Liverpool will be brought down to 4s. • It is now 6s. 9d. It also assumes the freight from New York to Liverpool to be Is. 9d., whereas we have just heard of flour being conveyed from New York to Liver pool at Is. and Is. 3d. " So that, if there is a protection of less than 45., the trade must go by New York, and all this vast employ ment be wrenched from British subjects, by the adoption of free trade in England, to haw! over to the Americans. " The Montreal Herald is anxious to think well of tree trade. and to support Sir Robert Peel as of old, but you see the halting way it does this." We may mention another fact or two which have come to our knowledge, and which may not be uninteresting to the Guardian's readers. A certain Canadian firm is in the habit of shipping annually to those colonies British manufactures to the amount of £250,000. During the first four and a-half months of this year, however, it has diminished its purchases in this country by £40,000 as compared with those of a corresponding period last year. This amount, however, is not a twentieth of what the Canadas take from us ; and if the feeling of alarm which has induced this firm thus to contract its shipments be general, it will be a fair calculation to make that half a million sterling will be lost this year to the manufacturers of Great Britain as the result of that very feeling whose existence the Guar dian denies. He is himself on the spot to ascertain whether the above statement is correct or not; and if he can confute it, on authority, we shall give him a candid confession of our error. The opinions of parties who profess to he in the secret, are still widely apart_ with respect to the probable fate of the Corn . and Customs Bill in the House of Lords. A few clays ago the organs of the free traders were anything but sanguine. There were sorrowful predictions of a hitch in the future progress of the measure, which suggested, doubtless, to many an honourable member, the disagreeable circumstance of haVing to face his insulted con stituents. The Times of yesterday, however, sets all right. 'The measure is safe, thanks, we under stand, to Lord John Russell, who is. reported to have stated that, when he wrote his celebrated letter, announcing his conversion to the League, he considered that he had his party in his pocket, and has just intimated to each; that he expects they will consider themselves as committed with him. We give the note of triumph of the Times:— It is cruel to destroy the last lingering hopes of the des perate, and to consummate the misfortunes of the mise rable, hut Ht times " one must be cruel only to he kind," and even to the victims themselves a certain evil is bet ter than " hope long deferred, which maketh the heart sick." It is, therefore, rather in a spirit of humanity than with a hostile exultation that we announce to the Protec tionist party the final doom of the Corn-laws in the House of Lords. The whispered expectations of a division in the Whig ramp have all proved groundless. Lord Stanley, Lord John Russell, Lord Palmerston. end Lord George Bentinck will not unite in discordant harmony for the sal vation of their c tuntry. The Whig peers have no inten tion to abandon their consistency, nor to surrender all claim to the confidence of the nation by splitting them. selves into sections for the mere purpose of mutilating th e b It. The rumours to this effect are wholly bout foun dation, and the Whig party have taken the surest means to prove that they are so. On Saturday there was a meeting at Lansdowne-house, at which not less than 60 Whig peers were present, including Lord Melbourne and Lord Fitzwilliam. The leading members of the party in the House of Commons attended also. The result was most satisfactory. There were not wanting some who, as we have always done while a compromise was possible, avowed their preference fora fixed duty on the principle of revenue; but it was felt that the opportunity for such a settlement was past, and it was unanimously resolved that they should not waste their energies in attempting to at tain that which was now b-yond their reach, but promote vigorously and cordially the success of the bill in the very form in which it had been received from the Commons. It is unnecessary to enlarge upon the importance of this d-cision. Without it, the Corn Bill might have b-en, not indeed rejected, but so mutilated as to have insured its rejection by the House of Commons; with the firm sup port of the Whig peers it may be considered beyond the reach of danger. Of rather another complexion is the following, which we quote from the Morning Hera I We learn, with great satisfaction, that the decision at the meeting of Whig peers, at Lansdowne House, on Sa turday, to support Sir Robert Peel's corn bill, was not unanimous ; but that Lord Melbourne, who will, we un derstand, be suppor►ed by Lord Beauvale, Lord Ponsontr-. and at least nine or ten other Whig peers, protested against Lord John Russell's insolent attempt to dictate to the party, and declared his (Lord Melbourne's) deter mination to vote against the second reading. If Lord Melbourne take the course which, from all that we can learn, we believe he will take,—and if he shall be sup ported by as many of the Whig party as we trust will sup port him, the defeat of " the execrable bill " is certain. In any case the popular effect of the late Prime Minister's single vote against the odious measure must outweigh the votes of any dozen of hungry place-bunting Whigs or pauper Tory peers. The Morning Chronicle says that seventy Whig peers attended the meeting, and that they came to a resolution, "to give the bill their hearty support, and to offer a decided opposition to any amendment whatsoever." Perhaps, after perusing these versions of the story, our readers will conclude, with ourselves, that the safest plan will be to wait the issue itself. With the glaring inconsistencies of modern statesmen before us, we should be sorry to express an opinion either way. \Ve are sorry to have to point out, in our Friday's contemporary, the following piece of—to say the least of it—exceeding bad taste, which appears in one of the leading columns of his last publication. Speaking of the prospects of the ministerial mea sures in the House of Lords, the Mercury remarks : " It is said, more difficulty has beer. found in ascertain ing how the bishops will vote than either party anticipated. The sudden illness of the Archbishop of York or of Can terbury would soon solve these doubts. Why can't Charles James London take the gout, or Edward Durham ' assume a quinsey if he have it not ? ' In promotion as love— ' Ti be in doubt is but to ne resolved.' Nothing would so soon enable the Lords Spiritual to dis cover that the passing of the corn bit!, without delay, was a religious question, as a vacant see, or the prospect of being called to a more extensive sphere if u'efulness." - - - This may be what the l/ercury considers smart writing. There is a numerous class of people who are content to be witty at the expense of decorum, and to sneer at things which rightly constituted minds hold too sacred for such flippant treatment. The character of the episcopal office we should have imagined was one of these things, at least in the eyes of a churchman, as the editor of the Mercury occasionally reminds us that he is. Such a para graph as this of the Mercury might have been ex cused as coming from the lips of some rabid dis senter or socialist, to draw down the applause of a mob of infidels ; but it is scarcely suited to the co lumns of a newspaper, which professes to circulate amongst families of every creed, and which, on that ground alone, taking no higher moral or religious ground, ought not to outrage the feelings of any class of its readers. We trust the editor of the Mercury will he able to assure us that the article is the work of a volunteer, and that its insulting cha racter has escaped his observation. It certainly does not bear the ordinary impress of his writing. Mr. Peel, eldest son of Sir Hobert Peel, does not return to Madrid to resume his post as attache to the British Legaion. He is appointed Secretary of Legation under his Excellency Mr. D. R. Morier in Switzerland. We are enabled to announce positively that our govern ment has received formal notice from the President of the United States that it is the desire of the American government that the treaty for the joint occupation of the Oregon territory should cease and determine at the ex piration of twelve months from the date of such notice.— Ob,erver. SINGULAR ROBBERY.—Between the Fours of ten and eleven o'clock on Saturday morning last, an extensive robbery was committed at the house of M r. Francis Barnes, book-keeper, Roscommon-street, Everton, under the tot lowing circumstances. It appears that, immediately after breakfast'on that morning, Mr. Barnes and his family left home, leaving no person to take care of the house except the servant-maid. Between the hours mentioned, a knock was heard at tte front door, which was opened by the ser vant, and instantly two men rushed in, seized hold of her, and fastened her in the water-cellar. They then proceeded to ransack the house, and succeeded in finding and carrying off with them a pocket-book, containing nine sovereigns and four half-sovereigns ; also several ladies' dresses, some gold rings, broaches, and ear-rings, a coral set in three sets of windi ,u w . cu v r a t i li e n t ; .o ?: 3 - t i;- e ;;; l ; i 7ay . ellis s h h ir a t v s e , facet) issued for the apprehension of the robbers. LIVERPOOL, ORNISKIRK, AND. PRESTON RAILWAY COMPANY.—Yesterday, at one o'clock, at the Clarendon kuilai,,,so, a eppoial general meeting of the holders of scrip, or of bankers' receipts for scrip in the company, was held pursuant to resolutions of the two houses of parliament, to take into consideration the bill now pending in parlia ment, entitled, " A bill for making a railway from the Liverpool and Bury Railway to Preston, and to the Blackburn and Preston, and North Union Railways, with branches therefrom, to be called the Liverpool, Ormskirk, and Preston Railway. There was a numerous attendance of shareholders. Mr. Wm. Cooke, in the absence of the chairman and deputy-chairman, occupied the chair. Considerable delay occurred whilst the names and address of the shareholders, and the denoting numbers of all the scrip and receipts were recorded. The Chairman an nounced that the amount of the capital of the company was £750,000, and that there was a sufficient number of scrip in the room to constitute the meeting a legal one. Mr. Lloyd, the law-clerk, then read a bill to the meeting. TNT. Chairman then proposed that the bill be approved of. This was seconded by Mr. Howell, and carried unani mously. 14,592 shares were represented at the meeting. The proceedings then terminated. CHARGE OF THROWING VlTRlOL.—Yesterday, two boys named Joseph Snyder and William Ferguson, the former about 14 and the latter 12 years of age, were brought before the magistrates on a charge of throwing vitriol at a young lad named John James Woodcock. The complainant stated that on Saturday, between one and two o'clock in the afternoon, be was running down Camp bell-street, from Duke -street, when a boy seized hold of him and threw something in his eyes, which deprived him of his sight. Another boy stated that the pt isoner Fer guson held the complainant while the other threw the vitriol into his eyes. They had the liquid in a black bot tle. The complainant was taken into Mr. Taylor's, drug gist, Cleveland-square, where such remedies were applied as the necessity of the case demanded, and he was after wards removed to his own house and at'- - ' ' " 'ica' ended by a me( man. Several other witnesses were called, but their evi dence merely went to show that a quarrel had taken place in Campbell-street amongst some boys, without proving the cow exion of the prisoners with the transaction in question. Dr. Marsh, who had been called in to see the complainant, said he found that intric acid, or what was commonly terned aqua ford., had been thrown into one of his eyes, which was much injared. Snyder denied u e charge, stating that he had been sent on an errand by his master, Mr. Hay, architect; he went into Campbell street, where he played at marbles with some other boys, and some of their marbles were stolen. An alercation took place ai to r.i.ing back the marbles, at which time he (the prisoner) was taken into custody. Ferguson stated that he had been on an errand for his mother, and was playing at marble.. with the boys in Campbell-street, as stated by Snyder, when they were taken into custody, and charged with throwing the vitriol. He denied all knowledge of the charge preferred against him. The magistrates ordered the prisoners to be remanded in order that further evidence might be produced as to their Iden tity. They were both admitted to bail, and Mr. Hay intimated that he could speak as to the good character of Snyder when the proper lime arrived. CHARGIs AGAINST A POLICE -OFFlCER.—Yesterday, a man appeared before the magistrates, Messrs. Hough ton and Harvey, to prefer a complaint against police officer Kinnear, (61,) for having assaulted him. The man stated, that on Friday night he was standing at the corner of Lord -street, between seven and eight in the evening, talking to a friend, when the officer came up, and without any previous intimation, struck him on the side with his stick, at the same time calling him Irish rascal, and adding that if they did not go he would break some of their legs. The complainaint was about to calla witness to prove his statement. when Mr. Dowling, addressing the magistrates, said—" This man is one of the most notorious scoundrels in Liverpool, and so is his friend." Mr. Houghton—lf he is a scoundrel he must have justice. Mr. Dowling said, he had mentioned the circumstance in consequence of the magistrates havi ng asked who the complainant was. The complainant then stated that he was employed to solicit orders for a person who was a cigar dealer. A• witness, on beinz called corroborated the statement made by complainant. The officer stated that the complainant was one of a set of men called "duffers." well known to the police. He was standing (-is had hien stated) with his friend, and they acre ordered off to prevent any interruption to the foot. walk, but ttfust'd to go, at the same time giving a great deal of abuse. He then pushed them, but did not strike at all. The statement was corroborated by Police-officer 360. Mr. Dowling said, that between the Town-hall and Bold street, there were sometimes forty of those fellows occupying the footwalk, and requesting parties to buy ci gars, handkerchiefs, &e, and other things which were not at all what they .ere represented to be; their object was ►o catch parties whom they suspected to be flats, and take them in. Mr. Harvey—l am sorry to hear you say they only take in the flats, because they have attacked me as well as others. (Laughter.) Mt. Dowling—They friund you not so flat as they expected. (Renewed laughter.) The magistrates cautioned the parties that they were not to stand neon the footwalk to the interruption of the passengers, and immediately dismissed the case. LIVE.iPOOL AUXILIARY BIBLE SOCIETY The annual meeting of the subscribers and friends to the above society was held last evening at the Concert. hall, Lord Nelson-street. The attendance was not so numerous as on former occasions. The Rev. Dr. Berth occupied the chair, and on the platform were the following clergymen and other gentlemen :—The Rev. Mr. Davies, the Rev. Mr. Hampton, the Rev. Dr. Raffl-s, the Rev. J. Kelly. the Rev. J. B. Owen, incumbent of St. Mary's, Bilston, &c. After prayer had been offered up and several passages of scripture read, The HitI c' RNIAN said that his observations would be few, as the secretary and other gentlemen would bring forward statements and details in which, no doubt, they would all be interested. It was impossible for any one who had for a long time been connected with the British and Foreign Bible Society, not to feel deeply interested every time he was present at one of those meetings. It was a society having in view one of the noblest of objects, il had had to encounter some of the most severe - 1 - and that it had struggled on, and still pros er .v is no small proof that it continued to receive the divine I less' ng. He believed, as did all its promoters, that when its objects shall have been carried out, the na tions of the world would be provided with the word of God, each man reading in his own tongue in which he was born, that the world should yield a spiritual increase, and that all the people should praise Him who had thus blessed them. It must appear a wonderful thing to every reflecting mind, that an object such as that sought be to obtained by means of the British and Foreign Bible Society, was so long in engaging the attention of members of the Christian church ; but in that respect it seemed to be in the same condition with other societies, whose objects were of a similar nature. The age in which they lived had given birth to most of them. This had been called by some the age of great societies ; while it had been called by others the age of little books. It might at least be desig nated the age of mechanical invention, as machinery had been brought to operate on those operations connected with the purposes of social life ; and it might be called likewise the age of Christian associations. ( Hear.) The age of societies for promoting the best interests of man, by bringing him into connection with the means which enabled him to know God, and to act upon the principles laid down in His holy word. And while the society whose objects they were met to promote, was contemporaneous in its origin with many other societies, he believed the union of them all ca'culated to effect that which the Lord commanded, and that the Christian public would be as it had been to the present day, willing to lend assistance to them all. (Hear, hear.) There was, perhaps, one feature in the British and Foreign Bible Society, on which he might dwell for a moment. It seemed to be the only society, so far as present experience bad shown, in which it was possible for Christians of all denominations to unite, and to which they could, without distinction of sect, give their cordial support. ( Hear, hear.) It compromised no man's privileges—it judged no man's faith—it offended no man's prepossess'ons—its scone was ainple enough to engage every man's affections, and he could regard its triumph without being in the least degree affected by the anprehensicn that its victory was inconsistent with any object he ought himself to en tertain. (Hear.) He spoke of Caristian men—it was with regard to them, and for them alone, he ventured to say that the British and Foreign Bible Society, properly con templated, possessed those principles in which they might all unite. There might be cordial harmony amongst parties, as each individual who united with them, and who was part of the great machinery, might reserve his own private opinion, being neither called on to defend them against assault, nor required to assail the opinion of his neighbour. (Hear, hear.) Surely that must be re garded as a great distinction. He believed philosophers would think so, and he knew a large portion of the Chris tian community not only thought so, hut acted upon the principle, as they had come forward without distinction to take a part in the objects sought to he attained by the society. He hoped they would excuse him for occupying their attention on a matter which by some might be deemed common-place, but he did hope that there, as well as el-ewhere, the success of the British and Foreign Bible Society would, as it well deserve I, be on the in crease. If other sicietifis came forward and occupied fields in which they laboured, they could make use of the British and Foreign Bible Society to give their labours efffct, and command success, and they stood in the posi tion of being ready to assist them without distinction. He believed that in so doing the blessing of God would rest on their labours, not only because the object waq one which he approved, but because that blessing would be further extended in answer to the prayersand thanksgivings of tho-e who would avail themselves of their efforts. He concluded by calling on the s c-etary to read the report. The Rev. Mr. DAVIES then read the following report : The British and Foreign Bible Society still holds on its noble course. Its receipts last year amounted to £101,305 158, being an excess over the previous year of £3,550 4s. 2d, Its issues amount?d to 1,441,651, being 525,840 copies more than in any previous year. The total issues of the Society have reached 18,324,487 volumes. Let this fact be coupled in our minds with the promise above alluded to—" My word shall not return to me void :" and it will serve to cheer us in the midst of gloomy and alarming forebodings. Your Committee have again this year the pleasing task of reporting that the operations of the Liverpool Auxiliary Bible Society continue to famish ground for gratitude to Almighty God for his blessing, by which its funds are increased and its labours extended. . . . .... ~_ The annual subscriptions last year amounted to 1110 lls, being 121 las. 6(1 ., more than in the previous year, Th donations received last year amounted to .1214 45., being .114 Bs. 6d, more than the year before. The Ladies' Branch society contrmuteu last year .4'333 M. 9d.. but this amount is less than the sum received in the pre vious year by £55 12s. 74. Several causes have contributed to occasion this diminution i n its funds. One is, and that the chief cause, the great want of an increase in the number of rAll ...flora to labour in the tiehl. By the sale 9I uuuU. •I.a re has been received this year .e 9-15 2s. 3(1., being .290 14s. hitt. n,orc tuft., the year before. The country associations have also produced au Increase of income in the past year. The amount being .t'277 18s, 6(1 which is .el 6 9s. 2d. more than the year before The following are the separate items Prescot.... St. Helens Southport . West Derby Ormskirk Orr £5O 0 0 64 0 0 74 5 6 29 0 6 5 0 0 27 2 4 24 19 10 Wallasey In addition to this, they have paid into the Ladies' Association ..El4 16 6 Chowbent Leigh The Mechanics' Association have contributed .e 9 35., being £2 IBs. 45d. more than the previous year. The Welsh branch continues to exhibit the devotion of its subscribers and contributors to the great cause of the Bible Society. Its receipts were £602 ss. 13d, being -E - 85 17s. more than the year before, and from this amount they have trans mitted to the parent society the noble sum of £550 as a free contribution, being eloo more than last year. From these various sources the Liverpool Auxiliary Bible Society has received in the last year, £2971 16s. 74., being £494 9s. B}d. more than the year before. The total number of copies of the Holy Scriptures dis tributed by this auxiliary and its branches, in the past year, amounted to 31,868, being 16,655 more than in the previous year ;—thus making the total issues from the institution of the society in the year 1811, amount to 299,764. The following list contains a particular statement of the issues during the past year : The labours of the Colporteur have resulted in the distribu tion of 5,256 copies of the Scriptures, which were sold by him in the town and in the suburbs and villages surrounding it, at cost prices, within the last year. Three new Associations have been formed during the past year, and connected with the Liverpool Auxiliary—viz., Orrell, Leigh, and Chowbent ; and in a very few months they have been the means of distributing 2,394 copies of the Holy Scrip tures. Upwards of 3,000 copies of the Word of God have been put into circulation during the last few months by the zealous and persevering efforts of Sunday-school teachers and scholars. The agents of the Town Mission have been the means of ma nifesting the anxious desire of the poor to possess themselves of a copy of the Word of God, upwards of 7,000 Bibles and Testaments having been sold to then . l in a very short time. in the work of Bible distribution. One individual has put into circulation upwards of 400 copies. . . _ tee is encouraged to of faith and labour of love. The Rev. 11r. KIRKUS moved that _the report which under the direction of the committee. He had attended that meeting as a stranger in Liverpool, having only been a resident for a shot time, but although a stranger in that respect he was not a stranger to the institution for whose interest they were met to appeal. There was in everything around them a natural tendency to change ; all human works were changing, many beings were has tening into eternity, and on one day during the last week he had in his ministerial capacity attended tt e funeral rites in connexion with twenty bodies in one district, and when they took into account that the same was going nn in other districts in other parts of the country, and that 'millions of human beings were entering eternity and ra pidly passing from this world. and there was nothing but the Bible and its truths for the salvation of souls, how great was the responsibility which devolved upon them, and how necessary was it that they should come forward and support the society which bad for its ohjfcr the dis semination of the Word of God. He rayed attention to the necessity of looking (especially in a large se port town like this) to the interests of one class especially, and that was the sailors. From the report he was glad to perceive that great attention had been paid to that class of men, and be knew there had been instances of divine am cess arising out of the distribution of the Holy Scriptures to those individuals. He mentioned one or two cases which had come within his own experience, where the Bible that had been given to the seaman had saved him from the eternal ruin which must other• wise have awaited him. He, called their attention to the necessity of using their efforts to obtain an amalgama tion of the societies' funds, and stated a circumstance wherein a poor woman beloneing to one of the southern lighthouses had appropriated a sovereign to the purposes a the society, which had ben left by a lady, although she had been advised by her friends to retain a portion of it for herself. The lady having heard of the circumstance, offered her a situation in her establishment. This the poor woman respectfully declined, fearing it might interfere with her religious dutier. This so pleased the lady that she sent her a check for £2O, and her daughter also inclosed one for £5. The lady to whom he had alluded, was no other than the Duchess of Ke-t, and her daughter, the present Queen of England. He con cluded with an anecdote of a gentleman, a ho had been in tl e habit of giving £lO annually to the Bible Society for several years, and on one occasion he only gave £3. re serving the £7 to himself. Th.. person was shortly afterwards robs ed of the 1.7. and he acknowledged himself to have he en nigh tennsly dealt with on a( c,stit of his hav ing kept hack the £7. when his means would have allowed him to have gi. en £lO. He urged upon the !fleeting to come forward liberally in aid of a society which had ac complished. and was now accomplishing, such an amount of good, by the dissemination of the Holy Scriptures to all, without any distinction whatever. The Rev. J. B. OWEN, one of the deputation, in se ' conding the resolution, remarked noon the fact that a portion of the room was not adtquately filled, and ex pressed his fear that Bible meetings of late had been si milarly neglected. The reverend gentleman proceeded to canvass the objections of some who objected to the con stitution of this society, which he showed to have been the parent of all other societies for spreading Christianity, inasmuch, as by spreading abroad the scriptures, it gave to every man the only sure foundation of religious doctrines. He proceeded to offer several interesting facts, to show the usefulness of the society, and showed, amongst other things, that in the forty-one years during which it bad existed, it had circulated six times as 'many copies of the Scriptures as had been done by all the nations of the world in 1800 years preceding. It bad now produced transla tions into 1.36 different languages. The society had this year circulated a million and a half of Bibles, principally at home. In Manchester, where their ordinary circula tion was about 10,000 per annum, and which had gradually risen to 20,000, the circulation in one month recently was twenty thousand ; and in the six months ended 31st March, the extraordinary number of 60,680 had been circulated in that town. In France, their circu lation bad risen last year to 130,000, in Holland and other countries they had an increase, the only decrease being in Belgium. The reverend speaker concluded a most effective speech, by detailing several interesting anecdotes, showing the benefici 11 effects of Bible reading, at the close of which he was loudly cheered. A collection was then made, after which the Rev. George Osborne moved the next resolution, congratu lating the society upon the increase of tbeir funds, and the society's usefulness during the past year. Several other gentlemen afterwards addressed the meeting. THE LIVERPOOL STANDARD. THE BUILDERS' STRIKE. This unfortunate disagreement between the employers in the building trade and the workmen is still unsettled. Yesterday a general meeting of the masters of all the dis tricts was held at Newton ; and we trust that affairs are now nearer a train for friendly adjustment than they have been hitherto. We have frequently observed that this unfortunate strike has been ill-timed ; but the mischief has not been confined to the builders themselves. It has had a most serious effect upon all the trades which are connected with them. Timber has fallen 2d. a foot, and in some cases more than that; and many of the timber merchants are obliged to put their timber into yards, and be at the ex pense of loading, cartage, and porterage, instead of dis posing of it., as many of them are in the habit of doing, on the dock-quay, at the side of the ship. and so save all the abovementioned expenses. The lead and glass dealers are complaining bitterly of the stoppage, and some of the brickmakers declare that if the strike la-ts much longer, they must cease making bricks in a short time, as the stocks are accumulating, and few are being used. The poor shopkeepers, particularly at Birkenhead, complain most bitterly, and not without reason. It is astonishing bow a stoppage in one branch of business soon begins to affect the whole community, and it is to be hoped that some arrangement may be speedily made, so that work may be resumed. Nothing has been done at our magnifi cent assize courts for nearly two months; and yester day we counted, in our walk into the town, fifteen large piles of building in various stages of erection, all of which are at a stand. This state of things is most deplorable; and, however well-intentioned Mr. T. S. Doncombe may be in his attempts to raise the social condition of the working classes, it is clear that he and others have been the cause of much misfortune, and that he has assisted to raise a storm which we fear he will be unable either to direct or control. The master tradesmen from the towns of Liverpool, Birkenhead, Manchester, Birmingham, Leeds, Bolton, Pie.ton, Oldham, Stockport, Sheffield, Blackburn, Wigan, Macclesfield, and other minor places, are forming a great defensive association, so as to act in unison, and form a chain of immediate communication, in case they are again attacked in detail, as they have been on this occasion. RAILWAY LEGISLATION The Times of ye,terday gives a long list of railway hills and projects, pro eedings on which have been suspended, or which have been thrown nut on Standing Orders, or before Select Committees on Merits. We can only find room for the following summary of the whole Parliamentary Deposit. Capital English railway bills and projects proceedings upon which have been sus been thrown out on Standin,g Orders, or declared not proved before Select Committees on X. X. Merits 45,061 969 2,170,959 English railway bills withdrawn. 15,158,355 816,070 Tota ed English I l bills suspend- 1 '6O 220 ' 324 , . . Scotch railway bills and projects suspended, or thrown out on standii:g orders or upon nuerits:lo,lB7,oso Scotch railway bills withdrawn.. 1.529,1)00 2,987,029 732,559 120,155 Total Scotch bills suspend.. 1 11,716,050 ed, &c. .. Irish railway bills and projects suspended, or thrown out on 852,714 standing orders or upon merits 2,434.000 Irish railway bills withdrawn ... 659,000 25,954 36,250 Total Scotch bills . do Total English bills do. 11,716,050 60,220.324 852,714 2,987,029 Grand total SUMMARY OF CAPITAL For English Rsilway Bills before Parha mentatthecommt nee ment of this session Suspended or thrown out.. 60,220,324 Less Preambs. proved &c. £75,029,374 £3,971,947 215,178,599 -- 94,006.875 ------121,171,724 For Scotch Bills before this Parliament Suspended or Less thrown out Preambs. proved, &c. • • 33,448,336 11,716,050 9,807,564 21,523,614 ----------- 11,924,722 Eor Irish Bills before this Parliament...... Suspended or thrown out .. Less thrown proved, &c . 11,952,415 20,417,402 3,093,000 15,045,415 Leaving as appliCable to hills not yet decided upon 5.371,987 £138,468,433 SUMMARY OF PARLIAMENTARY DEPOSITS Deposits on English lines.. 11,396,783 Less Bills suspended, &c. 2,987,029 { Preambles proved .. 1,422,917 Deposits on Scotch lines Less { Bills suspended, &c. 852.714 Preambles proved .. 817.019 2,323,371 Deposits nn Irish lines 862,585 Less { Bills su sp ended. &c. 132,204 Preambles proved .. 629,40 S 7G1,612 .6,986,837 Applicable to bills not yet decided upon. 653,638 100 973 7,741,448 DDITIONAL PREAMBLES PROVED Since the above tables were conv , le(l, the preambles of the following bills have been granted in the House of Commons :-: Parliamentary 600,000 31,000 200,000 16,462 Blackburn, Clitheroe, andiNorth Western Junction .. East and West Yorkshire...... Fleetwood. Preston, and West Riding Junction, in part Grand J tion, Warrington and Parks•de, and Warrington and Kenyon Huddersfield and Sheffield Junc tion (Darfield branch) Lancashire and Yorkshire North Eastern Leicester and Bedford. Lesrnahagow, Dalsert, and Coat bridge Mineral. Manchester, Sheffield, and Mid land Junction Midland, Leicester, and Swan nineron, alteration. &branches 140,000 Monkland and Kirkintilloch (Chapel Hall Branch). Reading. Guildford, and Reigate 800,000 57,860 Sh.ffield. Rotherham, Barnsley, Wakefield, and Goole 1,000,000 60.030 600,000 350,000 800 000 1,500,000 22,500 26,250 31,000 61,695 50,000 4,500 1,050,000 80,140 31,302 7.118,000 424,319 Amount previously announced 55,546,503 2.869,344 162,664,503 £3,293,663 The Great Western steam-ship will sail again on Satur. iay for New Y,,rk. STEALING WEARING APPAREL.—Yesterday Joseph Churton was committed for trial at the sessions on a charge of stealing two coats, and one or two other articles, from the stable at tile. Wormald's, Tunnel Hotel, Edge hill. The prisoner had been allowed to remain about the premises. having stated that he was in distress, and having obtained the articles in question, he absconded. He was taken into custody at Prescot. PRINCE ALBERT'S VISIT.—The committee appointed for making suitable arrangements for the reception of Prince Albert, on Lis honourng Liverpool with his presence, are already engaged actively in their duties. It is said that an intimation hes been received. that the Prince will be the guest of the Earl of Derby, at Knowsley, d•iring his stay in this neighbour hood. Should this not be the case, apartments in the lown.hall might be filled up in the hest stele for his Royal H ghness's accommo. dation. We believe that nearly one thousand pounds will be paid for the hire of plate on the occasion; and we are happy to hear the committee are disposed to make every arrangement on the most magnificent scale. May 26, 1846. FOURTH EDITION. Standard-office, Two o'clock. LIVERPOOL CORN EXCHANGE. THIS DAY. The arrival!, l:r•e coastwise and from Ireland, for the week ending yes erddy, are on the whole rather moderate, and from abroad they are by no means large, except Flour, which continues to co r.e in liberally from the United States. ARRIVALS OF CORN From the igth to the 25th May, inclusive COAST- VIVITED FO- LAND. V WISE. STATES. REIGN.' Wheat .. Ors Barley Qrs Malt Qrs, 6Q70 015 25.5 3153 Beans Qrs.; 36( Pease Qrs. ShelledßarleyQrs. Indian Corn. Qrs. Rapeseed Qrs. ; Oatmeal .. Sacks 881 gs Flour. .... Sacks 3334 I 1;0 Ditto Brls. 2972 2245 EXPORTS.—Foreign. Wheat. qrs. ; Barley,— qrs. ; Pease, qrs. ; Oats, qrs. ; Indian Corn, qrs.; Oatmeal, sacks ; Flour. 4 1 brls.—lreland Wheat, iO6 qrs. ; Bar ley, qrs.; Beans, —qrs; Oats,—qrs ; Indian Corn, 4205 qrs. ; Oatmeal, sks ; Flour, 310 scks, 20 brls. —Coastwise. Wheat, 199 qrs. ; Barley, qrs. ; Malt, qrs.; Oats, 295 qrs. ; Beans, 25 qrs. ; Pease, 30 qrs. ; Oatmeal, 56 sacks ; Indian Corn. 83 qrs. ; Flour, 628 sacks 857 brls. Average prices of Grain, for the week ending May 16, 1946. Wheat 565. 3d. I Barley 294..1 Id. I Oats 23, 4d. Rye 335. 7d. Beans.:3sa 2d. j Pease.. 345. 3d, Aggregate average of the six weeks Wheat SG. 3d: ^Barley 298.17 d.. LOats 236.4 d. Rye 338. ,d 335. 2U. I Pease.. 346. 3.1. Duty on Foreign Produce this week Wheati6sod I B - arley gs 0d Oats .. . Ss od I Rye.. Qs 6d Beans 7s 6d I Pease.. ss 6d l Ind. Corn us Od Flour 9s 7ad Duty on Canadian. Wheat.. Is. Od. 1 Parley.. Is.6d. 1 Oats ..os.6d. 1 Rye.. Is Od Beans Os. 6d 1 Pease Os.6d. 1 Ind. Corn Os.od. 1 Flour . Os nd Duty on other British Colonial Wheat, . 3s. Od. I Barley.. /s. tid. I Oats. o-. 6d. I Rye... ls. Cd Beans.. Os. 6d. I Pease.. us. 6d. I Flour. is. gitO. Liverpool Averages, week ending May 19, 1846. Wheat, 2221 qrs., price 5 's 10d ; Barley, Oats, 243 qrs., price 245. 11d. ; Rye Beans, 25 qrs.. 475. od. ; Peas( g qrs., price 28, 7cl qr.., price Os. ed.; qrs.. price Os. Od. LATEST INTELLIGENCE (BY EXPRESS.) ACCOECIIEME\T OF HER MAJESTY. BIRTH OF A PRINCESS. BUCKINGHAM PALACE, May 25, I 84&. This afternoon, at 3 o'clock, the Queen was safely de livered of a PRINCESS. In the room with her Majesty were his Royal Highness Prince Albert, Dr. Locock, and Mrs. Lilly, the monthly nurse ; and in the roan s adjoining were the other medical attendants, Sir James Clark and Dr. Ferguson, and also• her Royal Highness the Duchess of Kent, the Lady in Waiting on the Queen, and the ',Ministers and Officers of State, summoned on the occasion. The Privy Councillo.s present were the Archbishop of Canterbury, the Bishop of London, the Duke of Bac clench, the Earl of l - laddington, Sir Robert Peel, Sir James Graham, Mr. Secretary Gladstone, the Earl of Liverpool, the Earl Delavcarr, the Earl of Jersey, the Lord Chancellor, and the Duke of Wellington. LONDON CORN FXCIT AN3E.—YssmanAy. The supply of English Wheat from the near counties was moderate this morning. Best qualities were taken at our last week's quotations, but much of the secondary could not be dis posed ot, excepting at a reduction of Is. per q u a rte r . F ore i gn , either free, bonded, or f. o. b. was extremely difficult to sell. The show of sprin ,, Corn has been trifling; Barley, Beans, and Peas sold slOwlat late prices. We obseive no iiiteration in the value of Oats. The millers generally agreed to reduce the top price of Flour 4s per sack. SMITHFIELD CATTLE MARKET YECTKRDAY Fresh from our grazing districts, the arrivals of beasts to-day were somewhat extensive, and of most excellent quality, owing to which, and th e thi n attendance of buyers, the beef trade was• in a very dull state, at barely, but at nothin4 quotable beneath,. the prices obtained on Monday last, and at which a clearance was not effected, The numbers of sheep were, compared with those exhibited. for some time past, larger and of good quality. Prime old Downs were, however, rather scarce, and which sold at full prices. All other breeds were a mere drug, and, in some in stances, the rates had a downward tendency. The lamb trade ruled dull, at previous currencies. Crlves , and pigs, the supplies of which were moderate, ruled heavy at late rates. NEW ZEALAND we learn that the -By the last accounts from New Zealand 'oops in the north were Fncanipeq about iiati cut a road towards the pah tor about five miles. The force consisted of 500 of the 50th Regiment, 100 of the 99th Regi ment, 80 Marines, 60 Artillery, 50 volunteers, and 220 sailors, with two 32-pounders, one long 18-pounder, two 12-pound how itzers, 2 brass 6-pounders, 7 mortars, besides 1032-pounders that were expected in the Elphinstone, which arrived at the Bay of Islands the day before the last accounts left, having the gover- nor on board. Sir Francis Hastings Doyle, son of the late chairman of the Board of Excise, and who recently held the office of assistant solicitor of the Excise, has been appointed Recei ver General of the Customs, in the room of the late Sit William Boothbv. The salary of the office has been re duced from £l5OO to £l2OO a year. The amount of secu rity required is £30,000. AN IMPOILTANT FACT.—There is a cargo of wheat now lying in Goole, near Hu:l. containing 977 quarters► brought from Ibraila, in Wallachia, weight 60lbs. per, quarter; perguarte freight t 6 o d. Go i z i le r. B H s u 6 d d s p o e n r , q ui ta i s t r ie ter rc bushel. cost price free on b oar d a t th e a b ove-na me° — pla t c o e ta , l 9 c s o p s e t r of Leeds, was the first purchaser. And yet the advocates of the new Corn Bill would persuade us that British farmers need fear no reduction of prices from the fre 6 , introduction of foreign gra in i n t o thi s country .—Noe linghantshire Guardian. A LOYAL TOAST.—At the dinner of the Devon Agri cultural Society, at Exeter, on Tuesday, Sir J Ken" naway, the chairman, in proposing " the Health of Prince i Albert, the Prince of Wales, and the rest of the Roy. Family," said, " It was a toast which put him in co , ;: siderable difficulty. If he were not chairman; he'lnigur be called to order for what the lawyers call uncertaint; —proposing a toast which could not be strictly defined' for it was at present impossible to s a y, whither they we'" drinking the health of three, four, five, six, or segen t members. (Laughter and cheers.) It might congit at this moment of only four, it might be five, possibi six or seven, or more. It was v e iled i n th e c l o uds 0 uncertainty, and even express trains could not define th e exact number of healthy they were drinkinz," POTATOES.—On Thursday the largest quantity of Po tgl. toes ever witnessed in Clonmel appeared in the market They sold fur sd. per stone in th e morn i ng , an d in tb ° evening they fell to fourpence. The fact is, that the fod . mers have been holding up their potatoes, in the expectit tion of a great advance in prices; but now th e s ecret; coming out, and they are glad to sell them at a ean,,, c greater reduction than they have been s old a t for so lv e time. There is plenty of provi.ion and plenty of ernil, merit in the coun , ry.— Tipperary Comtiltilion of Stl o , dny. The rep,:rts from Mulling4r, B a lli n a, Newry. naghan, Carlow, Cork, Limerick, Dungannon, Kilken l 4, &c., are quite as f a vourable. A correspon d en t at Cot fi, sv,llan. county Down, in a letter to the Newry Teleyra 7) , says :—" I have been resid en t h ere f or t h e last seven ,§ and during that period I have never seen the marke t- well supplied with potatoes as at nrevent ' MILK AT SEA.—Preserved nrov to ns of every descriP,,ei o ) Severn salmon from L' e d. • - from ordinary boiled be( such perfection that their efficacy is novrb;ilongei a ( It. l l:':nt' ' but each, as a delicacy at sea would si n k i n to insigion'op,. before the ordinary milk, and hence plans multifarious , t oe' of which in turn have proved unsuccessful, have been.deri! to preserve this ordinary article. Patent Milk, Milk PO4 it eln and indeed so many abortive L experiments were tried t_,, s e ria" attempt might almost be consinered forlorn. The same ":„..1, however, that led to the thorough preservation of meat', ti o' given rise to this, and we were present at Messrs. IngiebiDeea Cooke's on Thursday, when a canister of milk, which 1 1 °`„eri°,, f sealed twelve months, was opened. The milk was far si t : c real to that usually sold—and quite equal to the ordinarY —the cost of the canister of milk was sd. SHIPPING INTELLIGENCE., ',u • MONDAY, MAY 25.—Wind N.W. fresh. „rk , ' „,,,, ARRIVED. —A , ia, Hannah. from Mobile—Chester, 7 "; - , ban o " t o from Savannah—Sea, M•Wiliiam , from Lar ichr — ",",,,, 0 Wulff, from St. Petersburg -- and frovidenee, and Fra"'" - Ostend. Magnet. (steamer) from St. Petersburg. at London Ta YS jorf c et The Pandora, from Watei ford. that was stranded o " t pe Bank. ,Bth instant, has been got off, and brought in to considerably damaged „, and of Pi.vmouTu. May 24 .— H.M.5 . Terribir., of 2/ Irn" - .; alre - Ones of 308 horse power, has put back from the : 1 1;r. evolution, with considerable damage from bad • 2 5 . 41 LIVERPOOL CATTLE MARKET, , " — „, . 1 5 14. ,., tha pce The supply of stock at arket to-day has bee n s ' o ditfe .- id of 1. - ite; the whole of which was sold at little rr n mult °° b.l from our last statements. Beef bid to 6id per I - to Bd. ----=---------------- y ~t. As quiet as mice is Cotton-just going on , nii‘ 7, l : a p i g : J j 'g ic, r 6ere l: LIVERPOOL COTTON MARKET , and barely maintained. 3 00 bales sold, merely ,upplying their immediate wants; prices de. ' "talk" more on Corn than Cot_on. MAltlC6fr' d. LIVERPOOL HAY AND POTATO - e• MAY 25, 1846. 5. d. s. d. s. d. nOlh• •-• 3 5 Hay. old St% .. a 8® 0 li' i PotatoeS.ll ) g i'l ..., 9 I ti , Clover ..... ..... 0 0— 0 a KemPs •••• • • 3 9 a Vetches ..... ... 0 2}— 0 3 Short Tops •• 4 0 24 0 3 Clips ..... • 4 S'4 • : t— 0 4i Pink EYes•'• • a 1 ' ..... 0 . O 4 Cattle •• • • n •• 0 0, 9 v to n 35 ,TilnoillS. 31* O 0 I:manure all to t h e i...• Straw, Wheat 0 3 Oat 0 3 Bar ey Carmt% F 6. LIVERPOOLSAi : TUESDAY, 26 , 1846. PRINTED AND PUBLI SHED NI N EVERY TUESDAY M JOSHUA FLETCHER LACE, of 53. Grove. sOO V and I.BONARD ADD, of . Great Orford street. At No. 4, ST. ISON Gaoaag's l4 CaptcssiT LtesitTool' treet..