The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser. — Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1846-03-10 00:00:00

TO CORRESPOADENTS. We are authorized to state that it was never contemplated to restrict the privel.,!e of attending the approaching Confir mation, to be he'd at St. Jude's Church, to members or the chil tree of menthe sof the congregation. Our correspondent who Evidre , ses us on the subject of Annui ties. had better apply to the Liverpool Saving's Bank. To A. 7.. —We know nothing about the case, referred to as having heen brought before the Police Court, on Friday. The impari , ll Mercury will no doubt record it in his next, unless the redgious and poltic ci opinions of the delinquent ensure him that immunity which is not accorded to polit:cal op ponents. wise(' found committing f r more venal offences. Ql,l)t Ztbirpool Otanbarb. TUESDAY MO RIVING, MARCH 10, 1846. The League fallacy, which Sir Robert Peel has lately taken up, th.t the price of food hes no bear ing upon the rate of wages, or our ability to em ploy the people, 's scarcely war by of serious refu tation, inasmuch as many of the arguments and the statistics upon which it is based, do not bear upon the effect of cheapness produced by foreign importation. Neither do they take into considera tion, so far as the wages of our manufacturing po pulation are concerned, the effect of the displace ment of agricultural labour, and its irruption into .the manufacturing districts. It is perfectly obvious, -that every quarter of foreign wheat sold in Eng land, for the cultivation of which the foreign la bourer is paid. displaces a certain amount of native labour, and diminishes pro tanto, the demand for such labour; and it is equally obvious that the ma nufacturing- operative must ultimately be compelled to accommodate the remuneration of his industry to that rate which the dispossessed agriculturist will find it compulsory upon him to accept. In an infant state of socie y, such as that existing in our colonies, the question of the measures now before Parliament is, from the simpler and less in tricate state of things which we find there, more easily traced and more obvious. At home, the first effect of rendering profitless agricultural ope rations, and thereby diminishing the demand for l agricultural labour, will be merely to drive such labour into the numerous other channels of em ployment which offer themselves on every hand. At first, possibly, the change may not be severely felt, although ultimately it will be so felt and ex tend its influence over the entire labour market. But in our colonies, where no other avocations, save the cultivation of the soil, offer themselves for the labourer to resort to, it must be felt at once, and produce a mass of suffering and ruin which is incalculable. Free trade and its concomitants may be tolerable for a while, by the labourer and the agriculurist in the mother country; in our colo nies, however, the total absence of protection can not be endured for a day. The stand which we made last week in favour of Sir Howard Douglas's views upon this subject, or, in other words, in behalf of those mighty feeders of England's greatness—her colonies—has earned us the favour of a communication from Mr. Isaac Buchanan, a member of the legislature of Canada, laying before us his views as to what must be the immediate course, in the emergency in which we are placing it, of that most interesting and impor tant of England's colonies, because the nearest in blood, in feeling, and in the character of its institu tions to England herself. We give here the sub stance of Mr. Buchanan's communication, and of the letters to which it refers, because we conceive both to be of vital importance at the present mo ment. The letters in question were addressed by him to parties of great influence in the colony by the steamer just sailed, copies being also furnished to Lord Dalhousie, president of the board of trade, Mr. Gladstone, secretary for the colonies, and the North American AssOciation of London, a body, which, while acknowledging their high individual standing, he accuses of taking only the English, and not the Canadian view of the interests of Canada. It will be seen, that as a Canadian, he anticipates that his provincial legislature will at once protect, by heavy duties, the Canada home market, for its wheat and for its manufactures, as this will in no way deprive them of getting the English price for their overplus wheat. Mr. Buchanan says that the same course must ultimately be taken in Ireland. He considers the repeal of the Corn Law, or of "protection to na tive industry," as virtually the repeal of the union with Ireland ! Irish labour must be protected, for it is of too little, not too much employment that the Irish people have cause to complain; and Irishmen, be conceives, will not now submit to take the linens of the German, the wheat of the Pole, or the to bacco of the American, to the exclusion of the em ployment of their own people, in growing or manu facturing these necessaries. Mr. O'Connell's sup port of free trade in kngland, he suggests, may thus mean more than Sir Robert Peel, with all his foresight, is aware of. Mr. Buchanan says : " What I now advocate (as what ought to be done in Canada) is what I always advocated : the former practice of England. and the presciit practice of the United States; for I have always viewed the tariff of the Americans (rho' highly approving of it) as a rebellion against their Utopian principles of freedom f , ont national interests, and as an evid -nee that their institutions will gradually qualify themselves, and attain that permanency which those of England are now repudiating. " There are two sorts of goverrnient presented to the - people of Canada. There is republicanism, professing to be based on theor es (naked princi. ;es), or, more properly, platters of opinion, for the time being, in the mob—a system -whose safety lies in its aptitude to change; in fact, in its annual revolution ! And there is the British monarly —a SYS :ENS OF NATIONAL INTERESTS AND CREDIT, of honour, and of p.,rmanent character. The Canadians, in the war of 1812, showed how much they prefer the latter to the former system. The last steamer from Liverpool, however, carries them the startling news Clot Sir Robert Peel has, in tile destruction of the national interests, and groundwork of national credit of England, removed the foundations of the monarchy, giving the empire all the evils of republicanism, with none of its advantages. We have our vital interests in the power of a hundred Apostates, without the check of an annual hustings !" There can he no question that the case " of native industry" in the mother country as well as that of the colonies will be a very cruel one, under the com petition to which they will be submitted in their own markets (which is their only fair field) by the untaxed surplus, or sweepings, of ail the markets in the world. Nothing but our machinery can carry us through the unequal struggle; and all trade in which manual labour constitutes the great part of the cost must be destroyed. We are sorry, too, to observe that Mr. Buchanan is of opinion that, as considering themselves practi cally separated froi.n the empire, and having now no particular interest in their country, the Canadian will, in all probability. remain passive in case of a war with America. If so, the consequences will be far more serious than the mere loss of Canada. We give here the letters of Mr. Buchanan, to which we have made reference Glaßgote.2Bth February, 1846. WM• HAMILTON MERRITT, ESQ., MEMBER FOR LIN- COLN IN THE PAI:LIAMENT OF CANADA. DEAR SILL, * —You will agree with me that ths suicidal measure (the adopt ion in Et:giand f the t lieory of free trade) places the farmer of Canada in the nr,ost et uct position, his case be ing, from his distance and othfr disadvantages, just the iame as the case (f pcor land in England, whose yield cannot be inc.ewed, which caln , ,t continue to be culti vated at all, except with the cer,:iinty of a fair price, and which trust, under free trade, go hack into woods. Connected with Canada, there are two great consider ations or interests. • Ist, The Canadian interest, or the prosperity of the farmer, and of the manufacturers, and mechanics of Canada. 2d. The English interest, or the prosperity of British shiPrinc and the umber trade. All the Montreal merchants, and their friends in Lon don, care about, is the latter, and all they demand from the Sect etary of the Colnn:es is, what they have all along pushed for, that the 3:. duty on wheat coming from the United States into Canada be removed. It was when I became satisfied that the presence of these parties in London is rather iln injury than a benefit to Canada, that I saw the necessity- of bringing the case of Canada be fare the independent members of the Imperial Parliament ; which I dui in the two letters I now enclose, copies of which were sent to every member in both Houses. I have always seen that the humbug of free trade, as a general application, is worse tlym the quackery of Morri son' pills, inasmuch as Ba tinns, in their constitutions and s circumstances, differ more than men do. But as regards Canada West, you will be unanimous in your views if the majority of tic Toronto Board of Trade will assert their own opinions which originated the l.ody, the sole object of which (besides the regulation of the mere details of trade) was to guard the interests of those whose factors, as it were, they felt themselves to be, viz., the producti•e indu s t r y o f C ana d a , w h e the r agricultural, manufacturing, or mechanical (which all derive their vi tality from the prosperity of the farmer.) If free trade is introduced into England, by Sir Robert reel being successful in carrying his moasure, my advice to the farmers of Canada, and their representatives, is to refuse to lake off the 3s. duty on American wheat enter ing the pr . ovince, unless they wi s h th emse l ves ( s h orn o f a ll constitutional power) to be led like sheep to the slaughter. Let England firs: relieve the provinces of the large debt lately incurred for canals which EAgland's adoption of free trade makes comparatively useless, thus leaving Canada the prospect of direct taxation, to reduce still more her diminished resources. Let England, also, not only repeal Mr. Gl3dstone's act, (which imposes the imperial duties,) but get Canada free trade with the United States. If these things are not done, the only way to preserve Canada from immediately attaching itself to the Ame rican Union, is for the Parliament o Canada (instead of taking off the three shillings) to place on our frontier the same duty of two dollars per quarter, which the Americans charge on Canadian wheat entering the United States ; and farther, a duty of twenty per cent. on every other article entering Canada, whether from Britain or the United States, the imperial duty being deducted from said twenty per cent. in the case of foreign goods ; for as England gives the colony no advantage, she, of course, expects none from Canada. As it is the policy of a family, so it is the policy of an independent province (for free trade wilt all the world entirely detaches our interest from the mother country) to buy or import as little as possible for which its own labour cannot be paid, or otherwise for which cash is demanded; and there is no doubt on my mind that it will now become an object both in Canada and in Ireland to check foreign imports (including British) for which they can never pay after they cease to get English gold for their produce, or through emigration. In the now enlarged s tate of the province's banking, however, and looking to the advantages given to our wheat by England, we might have acceded to her desire that the three shillings' duty be removed, if her adoption of free trade had not imposed on us the duty of retaining any controul of our own colonial affairs, which we con stitutionally can exercise in securing justice to the colo nists, in reference to the province's debt, &c. &c. Parties connected with the Montreal interest have again and again remarked to me that Canada West, at all events, can compete in the English market with Ohio wheat ; my answer has been, that they very much under-rate the in telligence of the farmer of Canada West in supposing that he does not see that hereafter the New York market will give a higher price than the English one, and that the Americans will only use the English market for the sweepings of the New York market • so that even if they make an apparent l o s s on w h a t they ship to England, the American farmer may have a profitable AVERAGE when the Canadian farmer will have all his wheat sold at the miserable price in England. In England, we are told, too, that the consumption of the troops, for our flour, is great, whereas we know that the Commissaries (in the Westward, at all events,) bring in their supplies from the United States (and decline to pay the three shillings' duty). They prefer American at the same price, because they say this is the only means of getting the Canadian farmer to give it for a lower price. And sincerely hoping that peace and prosperity may be continued to the province by the fir m an d w i se 'decisions of the provincial parliament now assembling, I am, dear Sir, your obdt. humble servant, ISAAC BUCHANAN. Glasgow, 3rd March, 1816. DANIEL MACNAB, ESQ., VICE-PRESIDENT HAMILTON BOARD OF TRADE. DEAR SIR, * —The introduction of free trade into England, which I predict will prove " a heavy blow and great discourage ment" to all the existing interests of this country, but es pecially the manufacturing and mechanical trades, now demands imperatively the ACTIVITY of the Hamilton Board of Trade. On THE PROSPERITY OF THE PRODUCTIVE CLASSES OF CANADA, w hether agricultural, manufacturing, or me chanical, (all really hingeing on the farmer,) depends en tirely our continued connection with England. If England were to step forward, and do some GREAT MEASURE for Canada, such as paying our debt, and rais ing up a great TRADE OF EXPORTS from Canada to the States, it would be for you to consider the English ship ping interest. But if England does not immediately move in some al leviation of your circumstances, let the inhabitants of Ca nada repudiate England's interference in your trade regu lations, and hail the United States' bill allowing flour, &c., to pass through in bond to the Atlantic. * * * * * * * * Believe me to continue, dear sir, yours faithfully, ISAAC BUCHANAN. P.S.—I communicate a copy of this, and all my other letters, to the Government in London, for NOW IS TILE TIME ; and we have especially to meet with stern con tempt Mr. Hume's motion " with the view of making the colonies of some use hereafter to England, as they had been none in the past!" This is meant just to try to frighten us from resistance to Sir Robert Peel's suicidal measure. I. B. It must strike our readers as tolerably plain, from the expression of such sentiments by a gentleman holding the distinguished station and possessing the influence which Mr. Buchanan exercises in the country of his adoption, that, so far as Canada is concerned, the loss to Great Britain of the usefulness in the first instance, and ultimately of the allegiance, of those noble possessions must be the inevitable result of the carrying out in full of the Free-trade policy, upon which we have fatally embarked. Vast enough are the evils which must attend the cession of that colony. We thus extirpate the last remnant of well-regulated monarchical institutions in the American continent ; and virtually proclaim to the miserable in every state of Europe that such in stitutions are fit only for them—are fit only for countries whose industry is steeped in wretchedness. But we resign more than this, great as is the sacri fice. We proclaim as worthless and untenable the tie which binds together this country and her whole colonial empire, We throw from us the only mar kets in exchange for whose valuable products we can rely upon furnishing returns, of which British labour is the greatest component part. In Canada we give away boundless tracts of virgin soil in the healthiest climate in the world; and in our tropical possessions we resign, wickedly and wantonly, opportunities and instruments which an Almighty Creator appears to have bestowed upon us for the purpose of working out the great problem of the cultivation of the soil of such climes and the gathering in of their riches, un soiled by human blood, and uncursed with the taint of slavery. In resigning, moreover, to their fate our posses sions in temperate climes—in Canada, in Australia, and other lands for whose cultivation the constitu tion of British subjects is fitted—we give up the only patrimony of the poor of our own country ; we break many a hope which looks forward from penury and suffering, as the reward of their unremitting toil at home, to comfort and competence in those far off lands, whither friends and relatives have gone before them and are thriving beneath the fostering care and protection of British laws. To the inmates of many a sad and desolate cottage in these realms, who are, at this moment, pining and struggling to realise that hope, and to transport their labour into these fertile possessions, the news of this direful change in our policy, will be a blow which must prostrate all their bright anticipations, and fall upon their stricken hearts with a weight which can only be withdrawn when the kind hand of death releases the immortal portion of their being from the dross which binds it to earth. Upon the destin of those already settled in our colonies upon theh of British protection and continued connexion with the land which, even fora better, they left sorrowing, we shall not speculate. Their fate is, in a great measure, in their own hands. They may seek other ties, other protection, which they have not found from the country of their birth and of their love. But the parting struggle will not be one of pleasant feeling. Loyalty—love of coun try—love of friends and relations—old associations, are things which it wrings the heart to throw away, even in the purchase of more prosperous fortunes and better guaranteed hopes. Such feelings, how ever, are not understood by those philosophers upon whose bidding, alas, the legislature of Great Britain is now acting. We are happy to learn that there is still a possi bility that her Majesty's ministers may be brought to a sense of the justice of some concessions being made to the Canadian interests,—not however in the shape of a direct protection,—to ward off from them a portion, at least, of the injury, which must be dealt against them by the passing of the present measures in an unmitigated shape. On Thursday a deputation of gentlemen interested in the trade and agriculture of Canada had a long interview with Mr. M`Gregor, of the Hoard of Trade ; and, we be lieve, succeeded in removing some of the misappre hensions entertained by government, as to the real feelings and position of the bulk of the Canadian people, and extracting from him a promise to lay their suggestions before its members, for their se rious consideration. This encouraging fact ought to operate upon all well-wishes of their Canadian fellow-countrymen to come forward and join their earnest remonstrances and entreaties to those of Mr. Isaac Buchanan and the "other gentlemen, who are making so noble a stand in behalf of the mainte nance, in its integrity, of our colonial empire. The Right Hon. Baronet Sir James Graham, is, beyond all doubt, the unlucky genius of Sir Robert Peel's government. Nothing in which he interferes seems to prosper. Every measure which he takes charge of is either bungled or is rendered distasteful and odious. If his voice is raised in the House in an endeavour to allay the heat of party, or to stare off an unpleasant or untimely motion, its certain effect is to throw in a fresh infusion of bitterness, and to increase the determination and obstinacy of the opponent, to whom he addresses his entreaties. There is a supercilious flippancy in his demeanour, and an evident fondness for manoeuvre in his par liamentary tactics, which repel confidence and friendship, and cause every word that drops from him to be weighed and scrutinised, as if behind it there was a latent meaning, opposed to that which it conveys when used by candid speakers. In ad dition to these unfortunate qualities, there is, in the Home Secretary, a wilful perverseness of tem per, which will not allow him to see and to yield gracefully to the weight of parliamentary or public opinion against him, and which not unfrequently places himself and his colleagues in positions of nfinite humiliation. An instance of this is before us, in the result of the debate in the House of Com mons upon a motion by Mr. Etwall, the member for Andover, on 'Thursday night. In the course of the last session the public mind was startled and horrified by the disclosure of a practice existing in some of the union workhouses of this country, and particularly in that of the Andover Union, disgraceful to humanity, and be traying an amount of suffering and degradation amongst the wretched paupers who were submitted to it, which few men, not initiated into the secret of the iniquities of the new poor law system, could have imagined to be found in a Christian land. We refer to the practice of employing the paupers in the disgusting office of pounding putrid bones for manure. We use the word "pounding" in pre ference to "crushing," the latter of which suggests the application of machinery, when, in the present case, the bones were pounded in mortars, by hand. Mr. Mundy, a magistrate, and a member of the Andover Board of Guardians, deposed on oath that, " Accompanied by two guardians and medical men, be examined ten paupers; all, with the exception of two, ad mitted that they were caistantly in the habit of eating the marrow and gristle from the bones. They eat it from old bows, meaning those that had some moisture remain ing in them, but still were in a slate of decomposztiol ; and some had been in heaps two or three months—they eat it from these as well as from the fresh ones. _ Some of these bones were in a state of decomposition. having lain in the workhouse yard for two or three months ; and though : it was supposed to be the principle of the Andover Union that dry bones alone should be crushed, yet t ere was no instance on record where fresh and clean bones were furnished, whether received from a distance, or collected in Andover and the adjoining villages. " When a beef bone, or chine bone was turned out of the heap, there was a scramble for it, described like a parcel of dogs, and the man who got it was obliged to run away and hide until he had an opportunity of eating the marrow. One man fetched two bones which he had hid den that very morning in wet ashes; a portion of muscle, very offensive, was adhering to the ends of the bone. The men said that it was a considerable time before they could make up their minds to do so, but after they had once taken to it, they preferred that description of labour to any other, because they could get bones to pick." We have been particular in giving these full de tails of the case, even at the risk of repeating what may be within the recollection of our readers, in order that they may see more clearly the repulsive ness of Sir James Graham's conduct during the debate in question. The fact of the existence of this horrible practice having been divulged in the House of Commons, by one of the members for Finsbury, an assistant Poor-law Commissioner, Mr. Parker, was sent down to Andover, to institute an inquiry; and, imper fectly conducted as this inquiry was, it disclosed, in addition to the bone-pounding, the existence of gross peculation and immorality in the treatment of the inmates by the master of the workhouse. When it had gone on, however, to a certain stage, and the reports of the evidence from day to day, given in the London Times, had created an overwhelming excitement in the public mind, the enquiry was sud denly put a stop to by orders from Somerset House ; the delinquent master of the workhouse was per mitted to resign his office, and Mr. Parker, the as sistant commissioner, who, it seems, had shown too honest a determination to arrive at the truth, was summarily dismissed, without being allowed to know the offence which he had committed. The door thus shut upon the public, concealing the true extent of the enormities practised, was, on Tuesday night, sought to be opened by a motion brought before the house by the member for An dover, calling for the appointment of a committee to enquire into the whole facts of the case. Was such a motion unreasonable ? Was it one which any mi nister, seriously bent upon securing for our un fortunate poor the humane administration of a law, acknowledged to be one capable of being made the instrument of great cruelty, or who was willing to pay a just deference to the voice of the outraged feelings of an entire people, ought to have resisted ? Certainly not. Yet, mark the flippant, the heart less, the insulting tone in which Sir James Graham rises to interpose the authority of his office between the demands alike of a whole people and of justice itself, for enquiry. I confess, Sir," commenced the right honourable baronet, and we can picture to ourselves the air of supercilious assurance with which the words were uttered:— " I confess, sir, I cannot help thinking that it is meancholy, at the present junction, and in the existing state of pub!ic affairs, that so much of the precious time of this house should have been consumed in a matter which after all is only, I was about to call it, a workhouse squabble in the south of England. (` Hear, bear,' and ' Oh, oh.' ") Now we too " confess," and our confession is at least as sincere as that of the right honourable ba ronet, that we feel a great difficulty in expressing in polite, or even in allowable phrase, our opinion of this " melancholy" exhibition of a British Minister's flippancy and heartlessness. "A workhouse squab ble ' The question whether the poor of England, in a hundred workhouses, for to that extent the prac tice is acknowledged to have existed, are to be driven by famine to gnaw the foul and putrid bones, which the very dogs have abandoned, is one upon the so lution of which it is "melancholy" that the pre cious time of Parliament should be occupied ! Leave such mere " workhouse squabbles" to be set tled between the Boards of Guardians and the three kings of Somerset House ! Why should the effluvia of rotting bones and the picture of lean paupers, scrambling like famished beasts for the filthy meal, be permitted to come "between the wind and our nobility,"—to mar the bright vision of free trade and commercial prosperity with which a recreant ministry are deluding their country ? Sir James Graham—we tell vou that never did the bitterest Republican strike a heavier blow against the British constitution—never did the most level ling demagogue inflict a more deadly wound upon the feeling of respect, affection, and confidence, with which the British people have been accustomed to look up to that branch of the legislature of which you are a prominent member, than has been inflicted by that unfortunate and cruel speech ! " If the Commissioners, urged Mr. Wakley, did possess the unlimited power which the right hon. baronet said they did, in Heaven's name let the house and the country see how they exercised it. (Hear, hear.) If they did not, they gave up, not merely the assistant-commissioner, but the poor also, to the mercy of this arbitrary power." Happily the indignant House rose up against the Right Hon. Baronet, and thus, in part, wiped off the stigma which he had brought upon it, of treat ing with slight and mockery questions affecting the interests of our suffering poor. First, Mr.Wakley, by adducing a mass of startling facts within'his own knowledge, stript the question before the House of the flimsy covering under which Sir James endea voured to conjure it away from their observation. The hon. member for Weymouth, Mr. Christie, next made some startling revelations, disclosing the mode in which things are managed between the Poor Law Commissioners and the Home Office, and bearing upon the nature of the offence, for which the too-straightforward Assistant Commis sioner, Mr. Parker, received his dismissal. Mr. Ferrand, in a telling speech, explained the tricky process by which lie was himself sought to he crushed with respect to the case of the Keighley Union; and was followed by other members, when at length the poor badgered Secretary was forced to exclaim, " Will the House allow the to interpose ?" and finally to accede to the motion for the Committee prayed for ! Unlucky to the last, however, Sir James Gral am must needs make a reservation. He remarked— " I am perfectly willing to withdraw my amendment, to make it a substantive motion, and to acquiesce in the mo tion of the hon. member for Andover. (Cheers.) I am afraid I shall not be met with such cheers, when I add, that with respect to the motion of the hon. member for Wey►nouth ( Mr. Christie), for the extension of the in quiry to the cause that led to the resignation of Mr. Par ker, which I admit was virtually a dismissal, I must offer a decided opposition to it. ( Murmurs ) The power of ap pointment of the Assistant Poor-law Commissioners is vested absolutely in the commissioners—the responsibility of the selection rests with them exclusively ; they are res. ponsible for all the acts of the Assistant Commissioners ; and I repeat my deliberate opinion that it is impossible for the commissioners to execute the duties of their office either safely or satisfactorily if there be any interference with reference t') the selection of their subordinates, or their summary dismissal. This will be a subsequent ques tion ; but I cannot, consistently with my duty, consent to that extension of the inquiry." This bold enunciation of the arbitrary constitution of the Poor Law Commission, and the irrespon sible character of its head authorities, though by no means new in fact, had the natural effect of im pelling the House to the task of a thorough investi gation of the whole system. Other tlYeMbers pressed on the House the same views; yet i with his usual perverseness, the Right Hon. Baronet refused to give way, and, on a division of the House, the result was a majority against ministers of 23. Unfortunate Sir James! We wouldn't undergo the schooling, you must since have had, for your next quarters' salary. THE LIVERPOOL STANDARD. WARLIKE ASPECT OF AFFAIRS IN INDIA.. The later advices from the theatre of War in the Pun jaub have brought us nothing of a decisive character. No further engagement was known to have taken place, up to the departure of the mail. So far as our information car ries us, however, it is too clear that we have on hand, in that part of India, a task which it will require our utmost strength to enable us to perform in such a satisfactory and triumphant manner as to advance, or even maintain, th e reputation of the British arms and power in India. The successes achieved by our forces, in the unequal struggle to which they were submitted at Moodkee and Ferozeshab, purchased as they were at so vast an expenditure of valua ble lives, are events upon which to congratulate ourselves. They prove that we have amongst those forces, both Euro pean and native, the right stuff by which the victories of Great Britain have ever been gained, and her empire and influence in the East and throughout the world have been extended and sec'ired. The result of those successes, however, we regret, has not been sufficiently great to bring about the early conclusion of the struggle. We have checked the insolent invasion of our territories by the Sikh army ; but we have not struck hard enough as yet to deter them from the pursuit of their rash enterprise. They still oecupy, on the opposite bank of the Sutlej, we find, a formidable attitude. Although 70 of their guns, and a vast quantity of warlike stores, fell into our hands as the result of these engagements, they were allowed to withdraw themselves leisurely from before our wearied troops, from the circumstance, apparently of their inabi lity to follow up the victory which they had achieved. They were able to construct and retain a strongly fortified bridge across the river, from which they have already at tempted to annoy our troops, by depredatory incursions into our territory, and, at the date of the last advices, we are told that they had been enabled so far to recruit their artillery,that of this branch of their force, whose destructive power was so fatally felt in the past engagements that they could bring against us no less than 120 guns. By the judicious steps taking by the Commander-in- Chief and the Governor-General, to concentrate the troops at their disposal, so as to bring to bear against the enemy an overpowering force, we trust that all anticipa tions of a reverse being suffered by oar arms, whenever our forces may be brought against the enemy, may be laid aside. But we must bear in mind that, in any event, the difficulties which we shall have to encounter in the subjugation of the Punjaub are great, and will call for the utmost energy of the Indian Government and the valour of our soldiers to ensure their being surmounted. We have to do with a people of undoubted bravery, and no trifling skill in warfare, well provided with the necessary munition, and extended over a country which presents every facility for making a prolonged stand. To doubt that we shall ultimately be successful in our efforts, were to doubt what has never yet been doubted—the persevering courage of a British army, and the resolve of the British nation that its flag shall never be dishonoured before a civilized, much less before a barbarian foe. But we may look for still further sacrifices of our gallant soldiers before we can expect the successful termination of the contest; or, in other words, the complete subjugation of the Punjaub, which is now not only necessary, but is resolved upon. If we cast a glance upon our relations with other quar ters of the globe, we find them not without ominous signs of corning derangements of our present state amity. The United States of America, under a hot-headed democratic President, ;threaten a course of insulting policy, which, if persisted in, must involve us in that worst of all wars— a war with a people of our own race, sprung from a com mon ancestry, and speaking a common tongue. And this, too, at a time when we are throwing from us the only point d'appui which we possess upon that continent —the affections and loyalty of the Canadian people. We are embroiled, too, in the affairs of the River Plate ; and we have the prestige of our arms to recover in our Poly nesian possessions. Altogether, the prospect of employment for the naval and the military arm of Great Britain, for years to come, is anything but consolatory ; and the question of cost ought to have some small portion of the consideration of those statesmen who are so sedulously undermining the revenue of the country. Perhaps it may be worth the attention of those who are bawling for remissions of pro tective duties, the amount of which will have to fall upon their shoulders in the shape of direct taxation. MR. ALDERMAN EVANS AND THE NEW DOCK PLANS. The speech of Mr. Eyre Evans, in the Council meeting of Monday last, in opposition to the projected new docks, is really scarcely worth the paper and printing-ink which, in our last, we were compelled by our duty as impartial journalists to bestow upon it. There is an evident squint in the worthy ex-alderman's mind upon this subject. He is the sad victim of a dock-warehouse fever. Were he to construct an ornamental fishpond in his garden, be would most certainly have its margin surrounded, with four or five-story erections, with the necessary cranes, hoists, and railways, for the landing of his perch or gold or silver fish, and the expeditious storage of his rods, lines, artificial flies, and bait. We have no intention now to go into any lengthened remarks upon this lame effort—this sad exhibition of a tortuous perception and wounded vanity. We must, however, take the liberty of correcting an observation which fell from him with respect to the danger and the expense of taking vessels into the river in their passage from dock to dock. Mr. Evans stated that, "he could formerly get a ship round for thirty shillings ; but the expense of getting through the docks proposed would inevitably cost a great deal more." To all practical men who are not infatuated with a hobby, this assertion will appear sufficiently preposterous. We will, however, give Mr. Evans afacl, which may, perhaps, convince him how other people regard the cost and danger of getting a vessel round, by way of the river, as is the existing prac tice. When here on her last passage, the American pac ket-ship Independence wanted coppering. Rather, how ever, than encounter the expense and danger of coming into the river, in order to get into the graving -dock, she went out to New York, deficient as she was in her cop pering, to have it renewed or repaired there, thus depriv ing British shipwrights of employment, and British mer chants of the sale of their copper. We may also take the liberty of setting the Chairman of the Dock Committee, Mr. Bramley Moore, right with respect to a vessel which recently capsized during the ope ration of removal from dock to dock, and which, in reply to a question from Mr. Aikin, he stated to have taken place in the basin. It was in the river that the accident in question occurred. We may add, as consolatory to Mr. Evans, that since this last explosion of his on the subject, we believe that not less than twenty shipowners of the port have waited upon the Chairman of the Dock Committee, to express their unqualified approval of the plans, and to urge upon him to persevere in their accom plishment. THE TIMES, HERALD, STANDARD, AND THE GOVERNMENT. The question so long pending as to whether the an nouncement in the Times, on the 4th of December last, of the intention of government to repeal the corn-laws, was an authorized announcement, or, as stated by the Morning Herald, and Standard, the then aspirants to government favour, " an infamous fabrication," has just been set at rest by the retractation of the term by the lat ter, and the expression of their belief that the Times, al though apparently Editing against the ministry, has been all along perfectly informed with respect to forthcoming measures. In the Standard, of Wednesday evening, the admission in question is thus made : " On the evening preceding that announcement of the Times, which we contradicted by authority, being in structed (unconsciously on our part) to " tell a lie in the words of truth," an insult and an injury which we must ever remember,—on the evening of the 3rd of December letters were, we know, despatched to public men of influ ence in the United States, by officers of the government, making announcements similar to that made by the Times of the 4th. We have, indeed, now little doubt that the article of the Times proceeded directly from the Treasury, and that the false part of it, the alleged decision of the Cabinet, was thrown in with a view to American use." The charge against government, made in this paragraph, is a serious one, if it can be substantiated ; and is at least as well worth being made the subject of a question, or even a motion for inquiry, in the House of Commons, as many - questions which occupy the time of that assembly. If the press is thus to be made the vehicle of diplomatic deceits, the sooner honest journals cease to aspire to the honor (?) of ministerial confidence, and place their de pendence for information upon their own activity and in telligence alone, the sooner they will enjoy the full confi dence of the public. The fact, if true, of a government i organ being instructed to mislead the public, s something new in party tactics and in the annals of the press. LIVERPOOL SHARE MARKET FOR TH E WEEK ENDING MONDAY (YESTERDAY). The following is a copy of the circular of the Liverpool New Stock Exchange, giving the feeling of the market up to the close yesterday. The transactions on the Old Stock Exchange will be found in the usual column : Monday, OM March, 1846. The market has been in a complete state of stagnation during the past week : the recent news from America and the East Indies, together with the continued scarcity of money, have tended much to produce the depression. Business in this market has been extremely limited. In Registered Stock, Chester and Birkenheads were sold on Saturday last at £5ll, being an advance of 3os per share since Monday last.—Grand Junction Stock : fluctuating but little in value, during the past week, brought from £216 to £213 per share.—Midland Stock : limited sales effected at £147 South Eastern and Dover shares neglected.—Leeds and Thirsk have receded to par, at which price the last sales were done.—Huddersfield Canal shares have fallen to £5 pm.—Sales to some extent have been made in Liverpool and Bury shares at £l4 to £l4l. In Scrip Shares, a further decline has taken place in all the marketable descriptions. Goole and Doncasters are worth 15s pm.—Direct Northerns, dis.—Ormskirks .£ll pm., and buyers at this price. —Lancashire and Che shire Junctions, £2l pm.--Derby and Crewe, £2l pm.— Dovers half-shares, / pm.—Bank Stock unchanged.— Royal Insurance are worth 38s 6d pm.—Dutch Rhenish £l/ pm. London and Manchester markets continue depressed. 4 P.M.-A heavy fall in all descriptions of shares, as will be seen on reference to the actual sales. STATE OF THE AMERICAN COTTON MARKET. The circular of Messrs. Wright and Lewin, of this town, containing the state of the New York cotton mar ket, gives us the dates of February 16, from New York ; February 4, from New Orleans ; February 7, from Mo bile ; February 6, from Savannah, and February 7, from Charleston. On these dates, freights from New York to this port were d. to 5-16 d. ' • from New Orleans, 13-32 d. to 7-16 d. ; Mobile, 7-16 d. ; Savannah, 5-16 d. s. 3-Bd. r. ; Charleston, 3-Bd. to 7-16. The following is the informa tion given us of the state of the New York market : Since our Circular of the 31st January was issued, we are without any further intelligence from Europe, our latest date from Liverpool being 4th January. The operations in cotton in this market, during the past two weeks, have been as follows: During that ending 7th instant, the sales were 7,509 bales, about 2,500 bales of which was taken for Liverpool; some few sales were made for Havre, and the residue was sold to manufacturers; prices remained without change from the quotations as given by us on 31st January. Durinr , the week ending 14th instant, buyers for Liverpool with drew from the market, in consequence of the advance demanded by ship-owners in the rates of freight; some few parcels, amounting to about 1,000 bales, were taken towards the close of the week for Ilavre, but tne bulk of the business was done by manufacturers and dealers from the East. The total sales for the week amount to 4,000 bales ; in prices there is no particular change, and we continue our quotations, remarking that sellers generally are more willing to accept the prices on the qualities " middling" and below, than they have beau for several weeks past. . _ _ We subjoin the current prices for Liverpool classification.— New York, 16th February. Upl'd & Forida. Mobile & N. Orl. Inferior none. .. 5i to 6 Ordinary Middling Middling fair ... 7to 74 .. 7/ to 8 Fair 74 to 7/ .. 81 to 84 Good fair Fine nom. .. 104 to 11 Charleston, Savannah, Mobile, N.Orleans, 11th Feb. loth Feb. 7th Feb. 6th Feb. Inferior Ordinary:— . Middling. Middling fair 6s to 7 .. 64 to 6$ .. 7 to 71 .. 7 to 74 Fair 74 to 71 .. 7 to 74 .. 74 to 71 .. 74 to 71 Good fair Fine. none. .. none. .. none. .. 9 to 10 A SCENE IN THE HOME OFFICE. - NEW POOR LAW AND OFFICIAL MORALITY. The following notes of a scene which occurred in the Home Office, between Sir James Graham and sundry new poor law officials, was brought before the House, on Thursday night, by Mr. Christie, M.P. for Weymouth, as having been furnished to him by Mr. Parker, the assis tant commissioner employed to conduct the examination into the circumstances connected with the Andover Union. If correct, they furnish a curious specimen of the way in which official matters are occasionally hushed up, or con cocted for the House of Commons and the public. We may remark, that the reply of Sir James Graham, who was present, was, in the first instance, a complaint of breach of official confidence, and next a kind of " non mi recordo" of the precise particulars of the conversation. "After adverting to the facts disclosed in the deposi tions, Sir James observed—l've stated to the House of Commons that the commissioners cannot prevent the boards of guardians from employing the inmates of work houses at this bone crushing ; I was right in saying so, was I not ? "Mr. Parker.—l think not; I have no doubt whatever that the commissioners possess authority to issue regula tions by which such labour may be put on a proper foot ing. . . Sir James.—ls that so? Are you sure you are right? " Mr. Parker.—l am very confident in my opinion. " Sir Edmund Head, one of the Pour Law Commis sioners, was announced, and Sir James Graham repeated to him what he had said in the House of Commons res pecting the powers of boards of guardians to employ the inmates of workhouses in bone-crushing; adding, "Mr. Parker thinks the commissioners have power to control this kind of labour.' _ _ "Sir Edmund.—l think we can do so, but " Sir James.—l do not like the kind of employment in workhouses; we shall have some confounded disturbance about it. " Sir Edmund.—l am sorry to hear you say so. " Sir James.—Yes ; this case will be stock-in-trade for The Times for the next six months ; but you have not countenanced this description of labour, have you ? " Sir Edmund.—No ; but we have not discouraged it. " Mr. Parker, handing Sir Edmund a copy of the com missioners' order requiring wayfarers and such casual paupers to break a certain quantity of bones before leav ing the Andover workhouse, said, In the cases of mendi cants, such labour has been directed by an order of the commissioners, upon the certificate of the surgeon that it was innocuous.' " Sir James (taking the paper from Sir Edmund), Is that so ?—why it makes the case worse.' " Sir Edmund observed, that he regretted that Sir James entertained such an opinion, and that he did not think such labour could be abandoned without giving of fence to boards of guardians. . " Sir James.-1S ' iow what am Ito tell the house about this business? It will never do to produce Mr. Parker's report and these depositions. I will tell you what I will say. I will begin by adverting to bone-crushing in work houses ; then go on to say that I lost no time in commu nicating with the commissioners, who forthwith replied that no information of the practices mentioned by Mr. Wakley had reached them ; that Mr. Parker had been directed to make inquiries on the spot; that I had had an interview with Mr. Parker, who verbally reported to me the result of his investigation ; that some of the inmates of the workhouse of depraved appetite had eaten meat off the bones ; and when the guardians heard of it they di rected an investigation by their medical man; that the other workho'ise officers had been enjoined to be careful to prevent inmates of depraved appetites gaining ac ess to the bone store. If I say that the assistant-commissioner made this communication orally that will possibly suffice. This report must not be produced. It must be treated as if it had never been made." (I) By way of discrediting the only witness likely to ." peach,' we suppose it was that poor Mr. Assistant- Commissioner Parker was dismissed. • How instructive is the whole affair if, correctly reported, with respect to the credit to be given to the explanations of some ministers. It is easy to treat reports as if they were never made. The Rev. Hugh M`Neile's important work, entitled " The Church and the Churches ; or the Church of God in Christ, and the Church of Christ Militant here on earth," will he published in a few days. CHARGE OF ROBBERY AGAINST A SERVANT.—YeS terday, Mary Kelly, a girl in the service of Mrs. R. Mc Alister, publican, Richmond-street, was charged be fore Mr. Rushton with having stolen £3 15s. from her mistress. It appeared that on Friday night the money was missed from a drawer, and suspicion falling upon the prisoner, she was given into custody on Saturday evening. She was remanded for further evidence. LECTURES ON ROMANISM.—The lecture at the Concert Hall, Lord Nelson-street, will be delivered this evening by the Rev. Ilenry Carpenter—the subject being, " The superstition of the Church of Rome in the veneration of relics." The reverend gentleman bas given too many proofs of his ability to demonstrate the fallacies of Romish corruption, to cause the slightest doubt that he will on this occasion exhibit with withering effect, the absurd idolatry of the Papacy in immediate connection with the subject in hand. We are very glad to find that these lectures are extremely well attended, and that they are producing good results. THE MANIFESTED ONENESS OF THE CHURCH OF CHRIST. —A SERMON BY THE REV. HUGII 111'NEILE. —We had in preparation some remarks upon this most effective and convincing exposure of the fallacious nature of the proposed Scriptural Alliance, of which a third edi tion will be ready this day,' with an introductory preface, and an appendix. The pressure upon our space, how ever, and circumstances incidental to newspaper manage ment, we regret, prevent us this week doing more than directing the attention of Churchmen to a work full of sound scriptural views, and well calculated to warn the reli gious world against the snares which are daily being spread before their feet. ROBBERY OF COTTON.—Yesterday, four lads, Edward Mc. Culley, William Halworth, William Noble, and George Reynolds, were brought up at the Police -court, on suspicion of having stolen a quantity of cotton, some spun yarn, and half a hundred weight of oakum. The property belonged to Messrs. Fletcher and Messrs. llum ble and Milcrest, and had been stolen a few days previ ously to the prisoners being brought up. They were ap prehended at a marine store warehouse, in Perry-street, kept by a person named Riley, where the property was also found. It was stated by the officer, that Riley, who had only come out of gaol a few days since, had de camped. The prisoner had the keys of the marine store, and apparently carried on the business. On Culley making his appearance in the dock, he was recognized as haring stolen eighty-f our guano sacks, from Messrs. Hal head and Lord's abed, S e ft on - s t re et. Culley was com mitted for trial on account of the sacks ; the other pri soners were remanded. March 10, 1846. LATEST INTELLIGENCE. (I3Y EXPRESS.) LONDON CORN EXCIIAN3E.—YESTSRDAY. The supp.y of Englis whet by land carage samples morning was very s:•nal! h , and a the condition being sornewha, improved an advance of Is. per quarter was realised upon the white, but red and damp qualities cannot be noted higher' Free foreign continues in goad request. In bonded we did not hear of any transactions. Fine barley sells freely, but ordinari, descriptions are offered at low figures. The show of beans a nd peas was good and we reduce our quotations is per qr on all sorts of the latter. Oats are scarce; English and fine qualities ratis i be written 6d. per quarter dearer. SMITHFIELD CATTLE MARKET.—IESTERnAY• The last week's imrorts of live stork into the metropolis have been moderately good, viz., 30 oxen and 119 sheep from Rotter dam ; 60 cows from Harlingen, and 70 oxen and cows from other Dutch ports, in fair average condition. To-day we had an offer 220 oxen and cows, together with 190 sheep, recently, arrived from the continent. For most qualities of each description 0 ' foreign stock the demand was steady, and prices had an UP' ward tendency. The supply of calves was small, while the veal trade was firi li at Friday's prices. Pigs moved off freely, and last week's quotations were well supported. Per Blbs to sink the offal :—Coarse and inferior beasts 2s 1 0 d to 3s 2d, second quality do. 3s 4d to 3s 6d, prime large oxen 3s 8d to 4s Od, prime Scots, &c., 4s 2d to 4s 6d, coarse 5 0 ° inferior sheep 4s Od to 4s 6d, second quality do. 4s 8d to 45 10d., prime coarse-woolled sheep ss. Od. to ss. 2(1., prime Sou th Downs ss. 4d. to ss. Bd., large coarse calves 3s. 10d. to 4s. 6d,.„'t prime small ditto 4s. Bd. to 4s. 10d., large hogs 3s. 3d. to 4s. un' , neat small porkers 4s. Bd. to ss. 2d., suckling calves 185. 10 315., and quarter-old store pigs 16s. to 21s. each. Beasts 23 531 sheep 17430. IRELAND. MAYO ELECTION.-THE LATE AEFRAY. At the close of Thursday's polling the numbers stood thus :—For M'Donnell, 396; Mr. Moore, 342 ; majorltyr 45. It is said that, notwithstanding the latter having pulled up a little, the success of Dr. Mac Hale's protege is certain. There is little more intelligence re specting , the fatal collision between the military and the Repeal mob. The following verdict was returned on Thursday by the jury sitting upon the body of Mary Burke, one t?' the persons killed in the affray The maiority of th is jury find that the deceased, Mary Burke, was killed on Tuesday, the 3d March, by a pistol-shot, fired at herb! Samuel Fletcher, from Mrs. Nlurray's gate. We are obliged to find this verdict in consequence of no evidence being allowed for the prisoner." It is stated by the car: respondent of the Dublin Evening Mail, that the fat ball, when eslracted, proved to be from a musket, not a pistol. WEST INDIA. MAIL. The papers by the West India mail are barren Of intelligence. The weather in the majority of the island° was unfavourable to agriculture. Our files of papers C 011; sist of those received from Jamaica, Barbadoes, and Trinidad. We have none from Demerara, St. Lucia, Or St. "Vincent's. In some Jamaica extracts it appears shocks of earthquake have been felt in St. Lucia and Martinique , but without causing damage to life or property. The Barbadoes papers give the following extract on the state of the weather : " The weather has continued dry for some time ; ne t even a refreshing shower has fallen for some days ; it has become very sultry, and clouds of dust are taking their flight through the city, to our great inconvenience. W i e . think that appearances denote the commencement of such weather as we experience during a fine crop season, and that we shall not be speedily blessed with raih in ael quantity. Should this be the case, the fiat of the crop has gone forth, and a very short one must be reaped this year. The young canes which have been planted are fast perishing in many places from the want of showers plants are at this time scarce, if even the weather induced planting." The Trinidad Standard, in its summary for the packet' says— " Hardly any rain has fallen, and we are beginning to experience the inconveniences usually attendant on drought. The roads and streets are extremely dustl• The wells in town are getting low, and vegetation, where not concealed beneath a thick coating of dust, is beginning to have a burnt-up appearance. The gardens, especiallf where not assiduously tended by their proprietors, are drooping, and everything tells of the want of nature's re' freshing and fertilizing showers. " The surveys for the railways have progressed rajah' during the month. Mr. Curtis and his colleagues have been diligently employed. The Great Eastern and South' Western Railway company have addressed the Governor and Council in reference to their projected line, and public are manifesting a growing interest on the subject ° railways for the island, strong hopes are prevalent that the great event may be expedited with all despatch of euttinS the first turf and laying down the first rail." COMMITMENTS.—John Farrell, William Burns, an d Mathew Atherton, were yesterday committed for tria t t for stealing 15s. from Ann Braithwaite, Sussex Houses Gill-street. STEALING WlNE.—Yesterday two lads, named re spectively John Craddick and Thos. Ferous, were brought before the magistrates on a charge of stealing several bottles of wine from the premises of Mr. Sherlock, wine merchant, King-street. It appeared that on Sunday afternoon, some bows, amongst whom were the prisoners , obtained access to the warehouse of Messrs. Sherlock, where they regaled themselves with champagne, fourtee° bottles of which were found to be missing. The prisoner! were taken into custody in Ben's-gardens, and one 01 them had a bottle in his pocket, which was identifie4 as being similar to those which had been stolen. Chadds who was an old offender, w as comm it te d t o gao l for months, the other prisoner forileven days. WHIG CANDIDATE FOR RODNEY-STREET ICA ltp. On Saturday evening, a meeting of the Reformers of tbiS ward was held in the Portico, Newington, for the purp ose of selecting a Reform candidate M r . William Rathbone was in the chair, and on the platform were a few of the leading ultras of the party. Mr. Charles Robertson Wa g nominated by Mr. J. H. Smith, as " a fit and proper person" ; and his claims having been supported by Messrs' John Mather, Richard Shiel, and Eyre Evans (who took the opportunity of mounting his dock hobby), Mr. 1 1 °.: bertson addressed the meeting, detailing his views upo n things in general, which of course were of the va Radical sort. The meeting separated about nine o'clock'r Up to the hour of going to press, we regret that we Ma i nothing of a Tory candidate. What are our party aloe° to allow a mere boy like this anti-monopoly spouter walg into the Council chamber thus unopposed ? SINGULAR Rol3BERY.—Yesterday, a man named Ed od ,' Macnamara, was charged, before Mr. Rushton, w ith gat' ing wearing apparel. About ten o'clock the same morning' Inspector M'Donald was standing at the corner of Chair hc s i oi d sm e t , i on w pg ceona downt h . e Tp s a ha w el e nshtserpeeecto with ai prisoner, tsiki very ed i rn something genteellywh what tb uh l he bad bulky t au t d i o r ;d e , oe i there, and he said his own clothes, adding that be a a l , not like carrying them in a bundle in the street. He , i r d immediately taken into custody, and, on searching °j— ai; the Police-offi2e, it was found that he had on two tort coats and a pair of trousers. On inquiry, it turned el l that the property had b een s t o l en f rom th e White BF" , ; Inn, Dale-street, the same mor n i ng , the prisoner bei ng recognised by the chambermaid, who appeared as a ness. The clothes were identified by Mr. Webster e ke Mr. Jerome, who were stopping at the White Bear. prisoner was committed for trial. et The Souchong tea said by Hollis and Co. at ss. 4d. Per lb., is of very superior quality, and all persons who pr e ps the flavour of Souchong tea ( and it possesses that aroma so much to be desired) should try it—it is ex e lent. MESMERISM.—It will be seen, on referenZe to ca d advertising columns, that Spencer T. Hall, the celebrs'on lecturer on Mesmerism, will deliver a second a ddress ..0 this science on Thursday evening next. The last lee%s was not only highly entertaining, but was ill ustra ted T er some truly astounding instances of the effects of N. 0.6 merism. We have no room to give the lecture that le it deserves. SHIPPING INTELLIGENCE. MONDAY, MARCU g.—Wind S.S.E. to W.N.W. f r oo ARRIVRD.—Storm King, from Cuba—Antelope, Clarke , 4 .00 1 St. John, N.B.—Ferries, from Islay—Gratitude, Harvey'. rO O3 Savanilla—Wallace, Summerson, anfi Severn, Cheever, New Orleans. g oo' SAILE m D.—Letus, Head, for Barbadoes—Vi v acious, %er for St. Michael'.—Monarch, Brown, for St. Lucia—Ne? W „ per' land, Vaughan, for St. John, N.B.—Mercutio, Sewell, 10`cobe• namhuco—Trenton, Cutting, for New Orleans-Sofia, for Messina—Jos. A. derson, Ridley, for Laguna—Mars , .oler• for Halifax—St. Martin's, May, for St. Martin's —Hope, for Calcutta—Village Girl, Woof, for Bahia—Serafin , 0 0 ; 1 05 11 for Havana—La Salvador, Kirsnlo, for Marseilles-- Jo", Merchant, Birnie, for Mobile—Alwina, Moiler, for Maria Adriana, Linden, for Rotterdam—lndustrie, Zell ° Dor' Vigilant, p l 11 0 1 uthdz. foreyart, Riga —Commerce, —cArtelne. D Ostend—Anna Ag e Gathraa,v, andßeoer,rcl o iP ia ge ) Ki kliove, tor Ostend—Anna Siberdina, Ugen. for Amster Theodore Heinrich, Lipp, for Riga—Auguste, KiricilO Vei Ghent—Gem, Bonnell, for Terceira. Nla4hth"or Liverpool, was agroun d op. Feb. s Ellerslie, Pagan, from Iquique and Islay, at Callao t The h o e f V the ieteria' MississippiNi‘ • v The Sarah sailed from Callao Sth Dec. ; Globe, • A ri Chilian, Ist Jan. all for England Ce Arica, Davidson ; Bee, Murray, and Nautilus, Ward , s '''" Aca. 1)0 410 ba Eliza, Woolley; Christina, Craig, and Santago, at Valparai s Souc 19 64 John o hay, sailed from ditto 2nd Dec. ; and PrY de ' both for England pvra Lady Bassett, Carthew, from Rio Janeiro, at CaMPb 9 , e6 LIVERPOOL CATTLE MARKET, MAI" -- , 1 11 0 0/ The supply of stock at market to-day has not bee t i - b er . _ : ,. though a fair average, both as respects quality, and IA OP' this time of the year • the whole or nearly so Was so prices. Beef 6d to bid ; Mutton 8d to Sid. 9, ~if /t e4 LIVERPOOL PROVISION MARKET, --- m )*"itoc4-0,11 The finest and freshest parcels of Butter were alone %so for, and the price o f suc h is supported. Other sorts au dull. - aff r te• LIVERPOOL COTTON MARKET, MAlttoderBor The demand for Cotton to.day has been only verY 0 - o ,le o o, and the tone of the market is barely supported. 111 1 ,,5t Vi e ° , A. day are estimated at 5000 bales at the full prices of Nothing on speculation, but some little business has .` for export. LIVERPOOL : i Q 46. TUESDAY, MARCH 10, .'"" PRINTED AND PUBLISHED N I !4 A EVERY TUESDAY hiOtt - BY JOSHUA FLETCHE R LACE, of 63, Grove-street. BO LEONARD ADDISON, of 14, Great Orford-street' At No. 4, ST. Grones's CRESCJINT, LITSATO" ext ada RU —ll the Per "Of u, t tia ) Roy for t ab o , DuL rical com l Th Thre W Ar Piro the NO the b T 9 Claud( MR. RIS. 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