The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser. — Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1846-01-13 00:00:00

Eibtrpool ittanbarb. TUESDAY 1110ENING, 13, 1846 If we were to take the raving of every furious Yankee, whom fortuitous circumstances have ele vated to a position of influence amongst his fellow countrymen, for more than idle and ignorant bombast, we ought to be at this moment in a state of most unpleasant perturbation. Visions of battles and sieges, of blockades and cuttings out, would haunt our eyes. The crack of the rifle and the roll of musketry would be ever in 9ur ears. Sallow cadaverous faces of triumphant Kentuckians and fierce back-woodsmen would fright us at every turn ; and we should wake every morning prepaied to see the " star and stripes" floating above the dis graced Union Jack upon our spires, and modern emulators of Paul Jones ravaging our shores and carrying fire and destruction amongst the shipping which now floats peacefully in our harbours. Happily, however, we arc under no such danger of being eaten up by our swaggering and irate Transatlantic Brother. For all his threats levelled against us, we know Jonathan to be considerably mote disposed to talk large than to fight. The " Generals" and " Colonels" whose military enthu siasm boils over, ever and anon, when talking of Oregon and Texas, of California and Cuba—of " licking the Britishers" and defying all Europe — we know to be, when at home, sharp, thriving, quietly disposed fellows, vending tape or powderhorns, or mayhap rejoicing/ in the dignity of keeping dry goods stores or flogging their own niggers in their own plantations. The diatribes of such worthies, with their sounding military titles, read awful in the ears of simple and:peaceful people, when conveyed across the Atlantic in print, and enforced by editorial swagger; but sensible men, acquainted with the Yankee character and the na•ure of Yankee insti tutions, are prone to laugh in their sleeve and to sleep comfortably in spite of them. We cannot for the life of us believe our brother to be in earnest in his " calculations," when he so palpably intimates to us the fact that he is thinking so much of glory and of "American institutions," and so utterly for getting the God which he worships, symbolically, in the shape of dollars and cents. Prominent amongst those fire-eating gentry, whose fierce denunciations against England ought to drive the nation into hysterics—but dont—is a Senator who rejoices in the name and military style of " General" Cass, probably because, on some occasion, he has commanded a detachment of militia in a foray against some Indian tribe, or in a hunt after half a score of runaway Weeks. We give our readers an extract from his speech, delivered in the Senate on the 17th ult., as a specimen of the ravings of his class : " He (General Cass) would now repeat what he had ex pressed heretofore—that it was ')etter to fight for the first inch of Orezon than the last—better to meet the enemy at the threshold, than await his approach at the hearth stone. And, however separated now by differences, or by space, all parties, throughout the Union to its extremities, he knew would be united in defence of the national rights. Our destiny is onward—its westward movements cannot be resisted -, you might as well attempt to stay the waves of the Pacific as the tide of our emigration setting in that direction. We cannot recede—we cannot stand still—our claim must be maintained or abandoned. Our hardy popu lation of Oregon demanded the support of the go7ern mer t. or they would establish a government of their own. We had an explicit and able memorial upon this very sub ject last week, setting forth that the memorialists were tired of waiting for you, and would cast off all diplomatic chicanery and national pusillanimity, and set up for themselves." I. ;8 a • !hat the " onward destiny" of this people, :an neither recede nor " stand still," sets in towards the West, and that, for the present, at least, their views of territorial appro priation are confined to their own continent. It is clear, however, from a subsequent portion of the next speech that it is not to he so confined for ever. " 1 - le would go, remarked the general, for all future extensions of our general area where they could be rightfully made. There was n - ithing t 3 fear from the ex tension of our borders. The spirit of our institutions, and the temper of our people, were better than fleets and armies to the security of internal concord ; and if this administration could secure the peaceable acquisition of California, it would receive the lasting gratitude of the people. (Voices on the Whig side of the Chamber, Ca lifornia,' Qj course, California," We must have that,' ' And then Cuba, ' We have started and must go on:)" What after Cuba and California ? Canada, no doubt ! "Of course Canada!" "We must have that." "We have started and must go on !" Can it be seriously beliee•ed that any nation, of which one half the population are not lunatics, can permit its destiines to be guided by a party, of which this General Cass is an oracle? Are the merchantsl and traders of New York, Philadel phia, Boston, and New Orleans, the manufacturers of New England, or the planters of the south pre pared to stake the vary existence of their vast com merce upon the carrying of policy so outrageous ? We cannot believe that any considerable body of the American people can dream of the possibility of such unprincipled spoliation being attempted with out drawing down the combined wrath of the world on their country as an intolerable nuisance. No—orators of the General Cass species may de claim and threaten ; but, whenever the thinking portion of the American people see themselges of sternly opposed, by a nation capable, as England, maintaining that opposition, and even of retaliating, the cry for war, or even for territorial encroachment, will he speedily hushed. America will not quarrel with us readily, when she saes and feels the increas ing wealth which she derives from her present friendly connexion with us, which may be estimated from the following statement from our last file of American papers. EXPORTS FROM NEW YORK. The shipments of bread stuffs, provisions, &c., from this port, for some time past, (chiefly to England), having been unusually large, we present the following as the amount of each article cleared for foreign ports to the 16th instant (December), commencing with Sept. 1, 1845, viz : Wheat flour (barrels) Rye flour Wheat (bushels) Corn Rye 24,283 8ar1ey..... Rice (tierce) .... 10,349 Beef (barrels) . . . Pork Lard (kegs) .... Flaxseed (tierces) Cloverseed 934 Besides the above, large quantiti?s of flour and grain are in process of shipment, and now going on shipboard, but as the vessels are not yet cleared, the exact quantities cannot be ascertained. This is not a commerce to be thrown away at the bidding of the half civilized and lawless squatters of Oregon or elsewher9. Brmher Jonathan may sigh for California and Cuba, or cast a wishtful eye across the St. Lawrence; but the magic tie of dollars will restrain his arm from striking at England, his best customer, however freely l::+ may choose to permit his tongue to rail at us. An account has just been published, from the Statistical Departme t of the Board of Trade, re lating to the Trade and Navigation of the United Kingdom in the 11 months ended sth December 1845, compared with the same period in 1844 and 1843 respectively, from which, as strongly indicat ing the increased activity both of commerce and consumption during the past year, we shall make a few compilations. And first we shall give a few acts bearing upon the operation of the new Tariff, upon the Agriculture of the country. In the eleven months of 1843 we imported of live cattle 1978 head, of which 1036 were oxen, and bulls, 359 cows, 38 calves, 199 sheep, 6 lambs, and 340 swine and hogs. It will be remembered that it was predicted in parliament that no material increase of importation was likely to take place as the result of the reduction in duty under this head. In the 11 months of 1845, however, the importations were oxen & bulls 9088, cows 5891, calves 574, sheep - 11,866, lambs 112, swine 1134 ; in all 28,665. Of beef " salted, not corned," we imported, in 1843, 42,194 cwts., in 1844. 101.240 cwts., and in 1845, 76,221 cwts. Under the heads of butter and cheese, the quantity was in 1843, 280,840 cwts,. ; in 1845 it was 456,384 cwts. Nearly the whole of these were entered for Home consumption, and thus ' supplied the place of so much British produce, or, in other words, added to the food of the People. The amount of coffee, both British and Foreign entered for consumption was in 1843, 27,762,7721bs ; in 1844, 28,964,277 lbs ; and in 1845, 31,789,128, thus showing a steadily increasing con sum pti on of thisimportant article of import. Another article, affording the same index, in sugar, of whi c h the i quantity was n 1843, 3,752,566 cwts, ; in 1844, 3,871,081 cwts., and in 1845, 4,637,448, or upwards of one-fourth added to the country's consumption between 1843 and 1845. The consumption of tea also increased from 37,009,43811 a. in 1843 to 40,956,4481b5. in 1845. The increase is also very great in timber of most sorts, being in 1843, under the head of deals, battens, &c., British and Foreign, 526,570 loads, and in 1845, 997,011 loads. Of large timber the quantity was in 1843, 667 : 930 loads, and in 1845, 990,681 loads. The declared value of some of the principal articles of British and Irish produce and manu factures, exported during the three periods, shew the amazing developement which has taken place in the industrial resources of the country. The total value of the articles enumerated, exported in 1843 was £41,021,643 ; in 1844, £47,312,313 ; and in 1845, £47,764,711, being an increase of close upon seven millions, or about one-sixth during the period. The principal item of this list is that of cotton manu factures, which was in 1843, £14,725,887; in 1844, £17,450,264; and in 1845, £17,689,937. This, moreover, is entirely in fully manufactured fabrics, for we find that the export of cotton yarns has declined during the period. In woollen manu factures there is an increase of nearly a million sterling, or one-sixth of the whole; the export of iron and steel is £900,000 more in 1845 than in 1843, or two-fifths of the whole ; and similar results are exhibited under the heads of " linen manu factures," " hardwares and cutlery," &c. The amount of tonnage employed in the Foreign trade of the kingdom, entered inwards, was in 1843, 3 ,668,788 tons, of which 2,707,832 tons were British; in 1844, 4,034,620 tons, of which 2,936,911 tons were British ; and in 1845, 4,644,693 tons, of which 3,391,199 tons were British. The amount cleared outwards was, in 1843, 3,512,550 tons ; in 1844, 3,459,734 tons ; and in 1845, 4,050,981 tons. Our Foreign trade, it is deducible from these figures, employed nearly a million tons of shipping more in 1845 than in 1843, and had increased in the proportion of one-fourth. . In the coasting trade of the country, we had, in 1843, entered inwards, 9,914,322 tons; in 1844, 10,156,175 tons ; and in 1845, 11,557,882 tons. In 1843, the quantity cleared outwards was 10,394,245 tons ; in 1844, 10,782 189 tons ; and in 1845, 12,197,949 tons. As an indication of the activity of our inland trade and of the industry of the country these figures are most valuable. From an article in the Paris Sikle of Saturday, it appears that whilst this country has had such an immense impetus given to her commerce as these figures denote, the merchant service of France has materially decreased. The tonnage of that country has gradually declined during the last five years from 907,000 to 871,000, to 811,000, to 693,000, and in 1845 to 770,000. Now, we ask of every impartial man, was ever a country more rapidly advancing in prosperity and commerchl greatness than the above statement shows Great Britain to have been advancing during the past three years ? We say no; and, moreover, with respect to one, and that the most important interest whose position it elucidates, the statement does not upon the face of it indicate the total extent of increase. We refer to the item of Cotton Manufac tures. The exports under this head have increased in declared value since 1843 from £14,725,887, to £17,450,264 in 1845. But it must be observed that between the two periods, the value of the raw material has declined considerably. In the last six months of 1843—we have not at hand circulars for the whole of the year—the average price of fair to good fair Bowed cotton was 4i-d. to 5 5-16 d. In the last six months of 1845 ( and the whole year would show about the same result) the average price of the same cotton was only 4-id. to 4-d., or in a proportion of about 301. to 27. Let this be considered, and the only conclusion to be drawn is that the cotton manufacturers have, during the last two years, been in a state of prosperity, and reaped profits unexampled in the history of the trade. Yet this is the time, and by men under such cir cumstances, in which we are told that the salvation of our commerce imperatively demands the imme diate and total repeal of the Corn-laws, and the sub jection of the vast amount of capital and industry embarked in the cultivation of the soil of the king dom to a competition with the foreigner, the result of which none can foresee. These are the men who complain, whilst amassing wealth with a rapidity unexampled, that the Corn-laws stand between them selves and a bare subsistence. Can mendacity and impudence more flagrant be conceived ? The " Times' Commissioner", in Ireland, has just afforded fresh confirmation of the remark, made by us some time ago that, in him, O'Connell had met with more than his match. The efforts of Daniel to throw doubt upon the truth of the state ments made by the Commissioner, as to the condi tion of his Darrynane tenantry, have justly excited contempt and brought upon their author a reputa tion for unparalleled mendacity. How he will get out of the following we leave it to his ingenuity to determine. Vulgar abuse of the Commissioner will not do in this case. It is given on other and re corded authority than that of the gentleman whom he so fluently villifies. Here it is : " In the report of the Census Commissioners of Ire land, for the year 1811, will be found four shaded plates, which at a glance indicate the comp ara ti v e d en sity of population in different parts of Ireland, the comparative amount of house accommodation for the population, the comparative athount of education, and the comparative amount of property in live stock. By the first plate, ' the darkest shade indicates the most dense population.' The counties of Armagh, Monaghan, and Dawn are by far the darkest on the map ; Donegal, Mayo, Galway, and Kerry by far the lightest. In the evidence of Mr. Shar man Crawford, M.P., before Lord Devon's Commission (Part 1, p. 197), will be found a statistical table, showing that the counties of Armagh and Down have the smallest farms, and the greatest number of them, in proportion to the amount of arable land, of any county, and far exceed, in those respects, Galway, Cork, Mayo, Tipperary, and Meath. If over-population, therefore, is a cause of dis tress, Armagh, Monaghan, and Down, ought to exhibit the greatest misery—Donegal, Mayo, Galway, and Kerry the most comfort. The reverse is the fact. By the second plate, 'the darkest shade indicates the worst house accommodation. The brightest county in the whole map is the county Down ; after it rank Dublin, Kilkenny, Wexford, Armagh, and Monaghan. The darkest county in the whole map is the county of Kerry—and Darry nane is the darkest spot in it; after it ranks, in bad house accommodation, Clare, part of Cork, Galway, Mayo, and Donegal. By the third plate, the darkest shade indicates the worst state of education." The brightest counties on the map are Antrim, Londonderry, Down, Tyrone, Dublin, Wicklow, Wexford, Kildare, Carlow—in fact, the north and east coast of Ireland. The darkest counties in the map are Mayo and Kerry— and the darkest spot in Kerry is Darrynane; after these, in deficient education, come Galway, Waterford, and the west of Donegal, Sligo, Clare, and Cork. By the fourth map, ' the darkest shade indicates the greatest abundanc3 of live stock.' The darkest counties in the map are Meath, Wexford, and Kildare; next comes Down in equable darkness—which in this case is:the type of equable wealth. The lightest counties, that is to say the poorest, are Donegal, Mayo, Galway, and Kerry—and the lightest spot in Kerry is Darrynane. These are public documents, and the proof is conclusive." Can Daniel destroy the record, here, by his usual device—railing ? He will find it difficult to per suade even the gulls of Conciliation Hall that the Censtis Commissioners of 1841—men chosen with no political bias—have erred wilfully in putting down his property as containing the worst and most miserable population even in miserable Ireland. The meeting at the Amphitheatre, on Friday, and the i'ery liberal subscriptions which it produced. will, no doubt, be represented by the League press as one of the proudest triumphs which the agitation of that body has hitherto achieved. We admit that, in some respects, the result of the meeting was a triumph—a "great fact." 'that such a sum as thirteen thousand pounds could be extracted from the ultra- Radical section of this community, to be applied towards any object, the benefit of which to them selves was not both direct and immediate, is what no one who has known them intimately, could have previously credited. It is conclusive that the con siderations which influence them in carrying on this agitation are, to a large extent, pocket interests. For an object of pure philanthropy—to benefit their fellow-townsmen, or their fellow-countrymen—to add an extra potato to the poor man's meal—the result of a meeting of this party would have been enumerated in pence instead of pounds, and the meeting itself might have been held in a bathing machine. The establishment of a free trade in corn and other commodities, is to put money in the pockets of the Rathbones and Heyworths, the Mathers and others—to give a vast stimulus to the American and other trades—and hence these gentlemen bleed freely. But that there are other and strong feelings in the background, the elements of which this meeting was composed, and the tone of its proceedings, suffi ciently show. The leading speakers were, to a man, Dissenters—some of them the most violent of their class. Of the subscribers of the larger sums, four out of five are in the same category. Is this a fact from which no inference is to be drawn? On a purely commercial or economical question, one would imagine that Churchmen and Dissenters would be found acting together in a proportion more nearly approaching to their relative numbers amongst the community; and the conclusion to be drawn from the preponderance of dissent in this movement is, that .it is to be regarded as a blow levelled against that church which dissent hates with its bitterest hatred. Beyond this, however, there is one deeply-rooted feeling which—carefully enough concealed—prompts much of the energy with which a repeal of the Corn laws is sought by the League. We ask of any one who was present, what passages of the speeches, delivered at this reeding, were most vociferously applauded. The answer, if a true:one, must be— those passages in which the landed aristocracy were most vehemently denounced, and held up to public odium. We are aware that Mr. Bright denies that any speech has ever been made by any member of the Anti-Corn-Law League, which tends to subvert the aristocratic element in the constitution, although he admits having " said harsh things, because he felt harshly ;" but what, may we ask, is the mean ing of the following passage in his speech of Friday, if it does not point to the subversion of this ele ment ? " You have read, most of you, what has been said by dukes, and lords, and squires, within the last month. Now, I ask you, as the representatives of a great com mercial community, is it your opinion that those men are qualified by intelligence, or by their sympathy with art and with the people, to rule over and to regulate the trade, and the vast mercantile affairs of this greatest of all commercial empires ?"—(" No, no.") Are you willing to sit still in Liverpool, and that other towns should sit still, likewise, and work as you can, earn what you can, and live as you can, and all this merely permis sively; that you should be here calling yours :elves the citizens or this country, having the power, if the law does not interfere, to gather to yourselves the riches of the whose earth, and to add for ever and ever to the everlast ing comfort and well-being of the population ?—(Hear.) I ask, " Are you willing that these men, who have proved their ignorance and incompetency so that every man can see it—are you willing that they should rule over and legislate for the commerce of this kingdom t"-- (" No; we'll stand it no longer," and cheers.) Surely to deny the right of the House of Peers to legislate for the commerce of the kingdom is to deny it that position which it has hitherto held amongst the other branches of the constitution. If the mercantile interest is to dictate the policy of the country, and allow no other voice to be heard, we might as well set up a purely democratic form of government at once. We have made these few observations on the character and proceedings of the meeting certainly without the slightest hope of arresting the headlong career of the Anti-Corn-Law League, or of arousing the Conservative party, in our town or in the country at large, from the lethargy into which they have sunk. Our object is to dissipate, if it can ever have been seriously entertained, the notion that the movement, or the meeting, is to be regarded as ex pressive of the feeling of this great mart of com merce. We are not yet arrived at the length of throwing ourselves into the arms of the League, although, from all that we can at. present see, we are not much better off in the hands of the Govern ment which we raised to office to work out Conser vative, not radical and revolutionary policy. It is, we are aware, a difficult task for a man, who has been accustomed to office and power, to re concile himself to his position and pursuits when he has unwillingly descended into a private station. Has his fall been from a hoard of direction of some railway ? His mind will still revert mechanically to the thought of rails and sleepers, carriages, and lo comotives, and he will canvas, with no very amiable feelings, the proceedings of his late colleagues and his successor. He cannot get rid of the impression that he is still a part of the concern, and that, with out something to do in the management of its affairs, he is out of his natural element. Even a retired parish officer,. or a churchwarden, we believe, is an unhappy being for the first few months after the expiry of his year's lease of office and authority. In a predicament something like this Mr. Eyre Evans appears to have been since, by his election to the council, as member for Vauxhall, he has ceased to occupy a seat upon the dock committee. He cannot get the notion out of his head that he is still potent as ever in that body ; and his fingers itch to be overhauling plans, and subscribing papers. It grieves him, apparently, that he is not sitting on finance committees, and building committees; and his eyes ever and anon open in amazement when he discovers that important works can be projected and even carried out without the aid of his great talents. The debate in the council on Saturday, upon the proposed docks at Wapping, exhibits an instance of this soreness and unwillingness to resign himself to his proper position towards the dock committee and their proceedings. Certain steps have been taken by a portion of that body on behalf of the whole, and sub ject to the confirmation of the whole, which have only come to his knowledge at the same time and through the same channel as other people ; and forthwith he claims to be allowed to discuss their merits in his place in Council, before even they are in a state of completeness sufficient to allow of their being laid before the Dock Committee itself. Why should his "hands be tied ?" Why should "he be re strained ?" Why should he not be allowed to break through all the rules for conducting public business which bind other men ? Really there is somthing a little unreasonable in the conduct of Mr. Evans with respect to this matter—something more in keeping with the character of a petted child than of so sensible a person as Mr. Evans has always been considered to be. The Sub-committee, he says, of the Dock Estate are about to do nothing without the knowledge and the sanction of the general body, of whom they are a portion. in due time, we tell him, the plans and estimates of the Wapping Docks will he laid before the Dock Committee for their sanc- tion or rejection. In due time they will be laid, with the committee's report upon them, before the Council. And in due time Mr. Evans will have an opportunity of expressing his opinion upon them as a member of the Council. What would he have more ? Why is he more aggrieved than other men by the fact that works have been projected, and the necessary plans deposited for parliament, with out consulting him ? Another piece of ill-humour, directed against the Chairman of the Dock Committee, and prompted, we are afraid, by jealousy of the present position of that gentleman similar to that displayed by Mr. Eyre Evans, was vented yesterday in the Council by Mr. James Aikin, Mr. Evans' quondam faithful ally in Dock Management. For the particulars we must refer our readers to the reported proceedings. Mr. Bramley-Moore, they will admit, can hold his own against any number of such assailants. THE ONENESS OF THE CHURCH.—The anxiety of the public to possess themselves of the admirable discourse on this subject by the Bev. Hugh M'Neile, has been evinced by the unusually rapid sale which it has met with. A second edition has been already called for, and is pub lished to-day. BAPTISM OF Two ISRAELITES.—On Wednesday even ing (to•morrow) two members of the house of Israel, who received religious instruction is the Liverpool insti tution, will join (D.V.) the Christian Church by public baptism. These will makeup the number of fifty converts out of the above institution. The holy sacrament of bap tism will be administered in Christ Church, by the Rev. F. 'Ould. IMPORTANT ANNOUNCEMENT.—On Saturday, a case in which there was a point of law (under the new small debts act) not previously propounded, came on for hear ing before the Commissioner of the Court of Requests, and, as it may be interesting to the public, we subjoin the particulars ,—The complainant, a person of the name of Scott, had been been sopcenaed on a trial at the late Court of Passage, by the defendant, Mr. Hill, auctioneer, Ha nover-street, who, on hearing that Scott had also been supeenaed by the plaintiff in the action, and the verdict being for the defendant, demurred to pay his expenses. A. summons was granted by the court, to which Mr. H. ap peared, and endeavoured to show by parallel cases from the Law Journal, that he was not liable, and that the court had no jurisdiction. This was overruled, and an order for payment and an execution granted ; the latter was not put in force, but the complainant appeared to prove the defendant's ability to pay the amount. He stated, that with the exception of Messrs. Thomas Win. stanley and Sons, Mr. Hill's business was more lucrative than that of any other auctioneer in Liverpool. He proved by advertisements the extent of his sales and his readiness at all times to advance as much as £l,OOO. Another witness proved that he had advanced £7O during the past week. Mr. Hill; in reply to a question from the commissioner, stated that the only reason why he had not previously paid it was, that he was not liable, and that the court had no jurisdiction; but he then tendered the amount. The Commissioner—" I rather think it is now too late. Do I understand you to admit that you were able to pay this amount previously." Mr. Hill—" I ad mit that." The Commissioner—" Then I do not know that I shall be doing my duty to the public, if I do not commit you to Lancaster Castle. You have resisted an order of the court when you were able to obey it." Af ter a delay of about a quarter of an hour, the Commis sioner asked Scott if he would be satisfied with the amount, and on his replying in the affirmative, the money was received from the defendant, to whom the Commis sioner stated that he bad full power to commit him to Lancaster. He would not wish this case to be taken as a precedent. lie wished it to be understood that when a person had the means, and resisted an order of the court, he was fully liable to be committed. We learn that a prohibition is about to be moyed Ice in tho case. THE LIVERPOOL STANDARD. COLONIAL CHURCH SOCIETY. A meeting in aid of the Liverpool Colonial Church Society was held in the Music Hall, last night, and at tended by a considerable number of the friends of the object in view. The society was represented by a depu tation consisting of the Hon and Rev. Baptist Noel, and the Rev. Samuel Merrick. The Rev. D. Tattershall was called to the chair, and around him we noticed a large body of the local clergy. The proceedings were opened by prayer, after which, The CHAIRMAN said that he ought to apologize for having been some few minutes beyond the time ; fur he had had to attend to another meeting on another subject, from which he had just come. This would serve as an additional reason for his not detaining them long. He was happy to be amongst them on such an occasion, and to take part with them in prosecuting the ob ject in view. He was not so well acquainted with the operations of the society as many of them around him, and he would leave it to them to enter into details. But he firmly believed the society was one well worthy of the support of the Christian community. It proceeded dis tinctly on Church of England principles; and it must be added, that it maintained no missionaries abroad, but such as were guided by the doctrines of that church. The Rev. A. NPComeEr then read the report. It stated that the object of the society was to send out clergymen, catechists, and schoolmasters to the colonies of Great Britain, and to British residents in other parts of the world, where they were surrounded by the Heathen aborigines. It did not pass over in silence the efforts of dissenting bodies. It acknowledged their efforts, and prayed a blessing upon them. It was a rival to none. It was one of the conditions of its constitution to place no missionary in any part where there was a faithful mis sionary already of any denomination. It was, therefore, a Church Pastoral Aid Society for Foreign parts. Its constitution, too, was similar as well as its object, as the members sent abroad were subject in all matters eccle siastical to the Colonial Bishop, and where there was none to the Bishop of London. The report then set forth the claims of the society, not only in promoting religion amongst the present aCult settlers abroad, but in inducing them to impart religious education to the rising genera. tion. The colonies were linked to us by every tie—the tie of worldly interest—the tie of natural affection, and the tie of natural responsibility. The society looked also to operations on foreign coasts and in foreign stations. It stated, in conclusion, that a deputation from the present society would bring the facts more fully before the meet ing, and expressed gratitude to the clergymen who had kindly come forward with collections in their churches for preaching in behalf of' the society. The Rev. W. W. EWBANK on rising to propose the first resolution was received with warm approbation. He commenced by directing the attention of the meeting to the object and institution of the Colonial Church Society. The report which had been drawn up by his Rev. friend Mr. M'Conkey, had in a neat and terse manner described its objects, namely, that it was not only for the benefit of our countrymen in the colonies, but also in all parts of the world. He had himself experienced the advantages of it in the course of his travels in several parts ofEurope, when it had been his privilege to attend places of worship where clergymen were partly supported by the Society. (Hear, heat.) Many Englishmen had to travel in foreign parts and were obliged to mix with persons in towns where they happened to be located. It was, therefore, of the utmost importance that they should have the benefit of those ordinances which they enjoyed at home. (Cheers.) But the great field of the society's labours respected emi grants from their father-land. Towards them it looked with especial favour. It was not of their own free-will that they turned their backs on England, and all the com forts of home : stern necessity compelled them to seek their bread in some other land. There, probably, they found an utter absence of real religion. Their children, who had been baptised into the Church of Christ, grew up almost heathens, and there called for their especial attention. (Hear, hear.) The rev. gentleman then drew attention to the state of our penal settlements. It was in the year 1787, at the close of the American war, that the government determined to found on the other side of the earth the great colony of New South Wales. In that year 1030 settlers were sent out, about 600 of whom were convicts. Now it would scarcely be believed, yet such was the fact, that the government of this land were about to send out there 1030 people without a single clergyman. However, owing to the interference of the late >lr. Wil berforce, with the Prime Minister (Mr. Pitt), it was agreed to send out one clergyman, but no church was then built, and for seven years afterwards no addition whatever was made. (Hear, hear.) The reverend gentleman then read a extract from a convict, who stated that he had been fourteen years in a re al settlement without those means of spiritual instruction which had been afforded to him in prison in England. He, therefore, urged upon the meeting, that as all large towns contributed most to the number of convicts in the penal settlements, it was the duty of the inhabitants of such towns to assist the society in furnishing spiritual instruction to such ouncasts. (Applause.) As regarded other portions of the world too, where British vessels visited their shores for the purpose of trade, they did not find them destitute of inhabitants, but teeming with people. England had suit to almost every portion of the world for the earth's luxuries, and what had Englishmen done it i return ? Wherever they had mixed with the aborigines, they had spread disorder, vice, and disease, and gradually the original inhabithants had disappeared. (Cheers, and cries of hear, hear.) In confirmation of this the reverend gentleman read an extract from the evidence given by Captain Buckham be fore parliament some time ago, in. which he stated that he had seen a male and female in a remote part of the island of Newfounaland shot by Englishmen, and these were said to be the last remaining pair of the ancient inhabi tants of that co'ony. (Hear, hear.) The Rev. gentleman then referred to the constitution of the society, which he declared to be as good as could well be expected in our present imperfect state, and to the questions put by the society to those who become pastors under it. One of these questions was, " What eminent theologian do you most coincide with ?" Now, if any one should reply that he agreed with Archbishop Laud, he would at once say, " You won't do for us ;" but if he said he agreed with Thomas Scott or Matthew Henry, although he did not altogether agree with them in everything, yet he would be a fitting person for the agent of the society. (Cheers.) The Rev. gentleman then urged the meeting to more strenuous exertion in behalf of the spread of the gospel. He knew of nothing to prevent the whole world from being evangelized except the supineness of Christians. There was certainly nothing in scripture which forbade such a consummation, and the fault that it was not so rested upon man and upon man only. (Hear, hear.) The Christian Church had not done its duty, and therefore he trusted all would go on increasing in earnestness and diligence in the good cause. The Rev. Gentleman concluded with moving the following resolutions :—" That the report now received be adopted with those feelings of thankfulness to Al mighty God for the establishment of an auxiliary in Li verpool, which the objects, constitution, and operations of the Colonial Church Society seem to demand from us, and with hopeful prayer that He will make the institution prosper by His blessing." (Cheers.) The Rev. S. MERRICK rose to second the motion. It would not be necessary for him to enter at any length into details as, to what were the objects of the Society, or what its constitution. They had been clearly detailed in the report, and fully develoved in the speech of his rev. friend, Mr. Ewbank, who had just sat down. He would, however, add a few words in confirmation of the object of the Society. The rev. gentleman then referred to its operations in New South Wales. He had lately conversed with the supreme judge of Port Phillip, and he found in a country 6do miles long and 200 broad, containing not less than 32,000 inhabitants, there were at this hour no more than two ministers, and a similar destitution existed in all our colonies. Great improvement, however, was to be observed when an English clergyman had been established. In proof of this he read a number of exceedingly interest ing extracts from the publications of the Society, and of letters from its agents abroad. Ili Nova Scotia, he said, through the instrumentality of a single scripture reader no less than nine congregations had been formed during the past year, composed of from 40 to 150 persons each. (Loud cheers.) The resolution being put from the chair, was carried unanirr ou ly. The Rev. F. PARRY rose to propose the first resolution, and in doing so, said he thought he should beet serve the interests of the society by abstaining from occupying the time of the meeting with any observations of his own, further than by saying it had his hearty approval and most cordial support, as he knew they were all impatient to hear a reverend gentleman who, after the labour s of the previous day, had travelled all the way from the metro polis to advocate its claims—one whom they would all listen to with delight, and whose praise was in all the churches. (Loud cheers.) He therefore concluded with proposing, " That considering the intimate connexion which trade and emigration has established between Li verpool and the colonies, we recognise the strong claims which the society has upon this community, and more particularly on the members of the Established Church." (Loud cheers.) The Rev. It. DAVIES, in seconding the motion, said, after it had been put a collection would be made in bebalt of the society. (Cheers.) The resolution having been put from the chair, was unanimously adopted. A collection was then made, during which the meeting sung the 117th Psalm. The Hon. and Rev. BAPTIST NOEL next came forward amidst bond cheers, and proposed the committee and officers of the Society for the ensuing year. Ile coin menced by stating that as he felt great interest in the pro gress of the Society, which seemed to him calculated under the divine blessing to be of most important use in cur extensive colonies, and calculated to bring many souls to everlasting glory, he begged, in moving the resolution, to express his hearty thanks to the gentlemen who had enrolled their names among its officers and particularly to his rev. friend Mr. M'Neile whose presence he should have been glad to enjoy, and those members of the society who had, by their a'tendan c, t Stifled their conti nued friendly interest in its • welfare. It was not as a mere matter of form that he appeared to move this resolu tion ; but he felt sincerely thankful that God had put it into the hearts of so many persons in this important town to promote a cause with which his glory and the good of our fellow creatures in the British colonies was in a great degree connected. The meeting bad heard a great deal to-night of the operatior a of the society—that they were extended to our countrymen everywhere—to those who were resident in foreign countries under foreign dominion as well as those in our own colonies. The important influence which the subjects of a country like ours were calculated to exercise, for good or for evil must be obvious. The numbers settled in such a place as Smyrna, under the dominion of the Turkish empire, would necessarily exercise a most important influence, for evil, or for good, among the motley population:by which they were there surrounded. Not to speak of the influence which Mahometanism and Asiatic habits of life must ex ercise upon our countrymen themselves, let us realize how a few persons, professedly our fellow Christians might influence those who looked upon Christ with hatred. If they were unworthy of the name of his followers, if they lived in the vices which degraded the debased po pulation around them, careless of all religious duties, and unmindful of eternity, they must confirm the hatred and contempt which the Turk felt for the Christian name ; but, on the other hand, let them be religious men, walk ing in the fear of God, fulfilling, with blameless integrity, the various social relations of life, living as for eternity, holding up His banner as a sign they bad become of the band of his faithful soldiers, and inviting all around them, —the lai.sed Orlentalichurches as well as Mahometans— to receive the truths which they adorned. We might readily imagine the influence exercised by our countrymen settled in the Greek:islands, in the neighbourhood of a rapidly rising and important kingdom, just rescued from the thraldom of the Turk, which had been debased for centuries, and was now springing forward with rapidity and order to an acquaintance with literature, to a revival of her own magnificent language, and to a rivalry of the other nations of Europe in all that constitutes the civilization and prosperity of society (cheers). Our countrymen in the lonian Islands, if marked by religion, might teach to the population of those islands in connec tion with the British crown, and holding very close relationship with the Greek kingdom, they might shew to them the spirit of the evangelical doctrines which they had received ; whereas if they were living in wordliness, folly, and carelessness of their souls, then they must con firm the Greek in his persuasion that we are ignorant heretics, and that they alone have the truth which con stitutes the Church of Christ, and marks them as the favourites of heaven. We might realise the same facts with regard to many hundred of our fellow-countrymen, whom different circumstances had led to live in the in. viting clime of Italy. Placed among Roman Catholics, who were so ignorant as to suppose that Protestantism was not Christianity, and that it was only another name for universal scepticism, if our countrymen there lived without the worship of God, without the love of it, with out anything to mark a religious and serious people, if they neglected to manifest the signs of conversion with God by zeal among their neighbours and a holy life, then would the Italians be .c , nfirined in those prejudices to which they viewed a faithsuperior to their own,bywhichthey were still held in the chains of superstition ; whereas, if they saw our countrymen living under faithful ministers of Christ, reading the Bible in their families, and mani festing by their blameless life the effect which truth had upon their consciences and hearts—then, Italy, the seat of the most determined enmity to evangelical truth, though to a great extent enlightened, would be rendered curious respecting the faith that we in this country pro fessed. Our relations with France were increasingly in teresting. That nation, similar to our own, was a constitutional monarchy. That nation, like our own, had attained civil and religious liberty to a great extent; but Catholic as the French were, they were disposed to view our religion with prejudice, and having been for ages, alas, our rivals in arts and arms, they were disposed to view with equal prejudice our progress as a nation in pros perity. Now let our countrymen be marked by a want of integrity, a want of temperance and sobriety; by the want of anything which honoured a nation or the Christian name, and he could easily understand how the direst prejudices of Frenchmen against the English name and nation were confirmed, and how they were led to suppose that the ford of religion which they had embraced was in every respect superior to our own, if they were not led to a more melancholy conclusion. for there were num bers of them who, throwing off the shackles of supersti tion that bound them together, might think there was nothing better for man than a dreary and cheerless atheism till he sank into the grave to be forgotten. This being the influence for good or evil which our countrymen migh exercise in foreign lands it seemed s,,me what strange.considering the numerous institutions which Christian benevolence had founded in this country of late years, their moral condition should have been so completely overlooked ; but this society had been permitted, in some little degree, to mitigate the evil which had been felt from the want of instruction among our countrymen abroad. Sometimes it had been permitted to send out an assistant chaplain to one of those stations, a faithful man, as at Smyrna ; sometimes by a concurrence of circum stances it hae, been led to establish a faithful minister where there was none before—which was the case at Corfu •, sometimes the influence of the society by a small contribution might serve to sustain a man in his labours, which had happened to Mr. Robins at Pisa, and the con sequence was that two more chapels had been erected, one at Pisa, and the other at Lucca. And at Florence, which before was in very different hands, a successor had been r pplied to the preacher there who was faithful and enlighten But the case was even stronger in our colonies. These colonies were the peculiar and by far the the larger sphere of action which the society had, in the providence of God been led to choose. Mr. Noel then went over the labours of the society's agents in different colonies, and he con cluded by explaining the principles on which the agents were sent out, and the means taken to secure none bu faithful, devout, and godly man for that important ser vice. The Rev. Mr. HAMPTON then addressed the meeting, and after an excellent address from the chairman, the as sembly separated. THE LATE INQUEST AT TH E HARRINGTON WATERWORKS. The law of " crowner's quest" is proverbially a kind of commodity not learnt in the schools, and having more of "glorious uncertainty" about it than any other law. We have scarcely been surprised, therefore, at the two oppo site verdicts recently returned by two juries, sitting under the same coroner, upon the same case. We refer, of course, to the inquiry into the cause of the bursting of the Harrington Company's tank, in Rock-street, which one jury declared to be accidental, whilst another has just re turned a verdict of " manslaughter" against the foreman of the works at which the tank in question was con structed. _ _ At the risk of encountering some amount of odium by interposing between the party against whom this latter is levelled, and the popular animosity, which has, unreflect ingly, we think, as is usual in such cases, set in strongly against some one, no matter whom, so long as punishment is inflicted, we must interpose a few remarks upon the subject. We cannot conceive on what grounds Mr. Howell is attainted by the verdict as guilty of so weighty a crime. It is certainly against all the evidence adduced, both on engineering and legal grounds. Mr. Grantham's evidence, given at the first inquest, and repeated at the second, fully met the views of the engineers examined on that occasion. There were no new facts elicited, and, above all, there was not a shadow of evidence to prove, what is the necessary legal ground of a verdict of man slaughter, that either criminal negligence or incapacity of any kind could he traced to the unfortunate accused. A jury of his country, however, will, we trust, more justly and sensibly regard the case. The subject of this evening's lecture at St. Andrew's Church is " Growth in grace." No fewer than 55,577 persons emigrated from this port during the past year. On Wednesday evening, something went wrong with the boiler of the Medina steamer on her outward passage from this port to Dublin, and her engines being affected thereby, she had to put back, On Sunday morning last, after a sermon by the Rev. J. R. Connor, the sum of £25 was collected at St. Bar nabas Church, in aid of the fund for erecting the new church for St. Simon's district. VESSELS FROM THE COTTON PORTS.—Abstract from Mr. Court's book of the number of vessels cleared at the following ports for Liverpol, not yet arrived. Latest dates—Dec. 11, New Orleans, 3 vessels ; Dec. 12, Mobile, 4 ; Dec. 17, Charleston, 3 : Dec. 15, Savannah, none. Total 10. STEALING FROM A WAREHOUSE. —Yesterday a carter, named John Williams, whose case had previously been before Mr. Rushton, was again brought up ; and further evidence being given, he was committed for trial at the sessions. The charge was. that he had carried off in his cart from a warehouse in Stanley-street one tierce and and two bags of coffee. BROTHERLY LOVE.—The Rev. J. H. Stewart's sermon on this subject is now ready. The chief point which the reverend gentleman has endeavoured to establish is, the duty of Christians generally to promote, as much as pos sible, obedience to the commandment of the Saviour, to " love one another," whilst he also presses on the reader's attention the more prominent characteristics of this Chris tian grace. RESTITUTION.--Mr. J. Rolls, who was dismissed, nearly three years since, by the Commissioners of Cus toms, for the alleged concealment of an overture made to him to defraud the revenue, has been restored, by order of the Lords of the Treasury, to his former situation of landing-waiter, and all an ears of salary, amounting to £l,OOO are to be paid to him. STEALING A WATCH.—An abandoned woman named Mary Fleming was yesterday committed for trial for rob bing a man of his watch in the neighbourhood of Everton Crescent, on Saturday night. The watch was not on her person when she was given in charge, but was afterwards found by a police-officer, hid in the area of a house in Salisbury street. STEALING A CHEESE.—Yesterday, at the police-court, two men, Samuel Wilson and John Skerratt, were brought before Mr. Rushton, charged with stealing a cheese. On Friday night a police-officer observed the prisoners hur rying along, one of them with a cheese on his head. He followed them, and seeing themselve pursued, the cheese was thrown at him, and they escaped, but were afterwards taken. On inquiry it was found that a cheese had been abstracted from the shop of a cheese-factor in London road, whose shopman identified it as having been near the door on Friday afternoon, and afterwards missed. The prisoners, who were old offenders, were committed for trial at the sessions. FELONIOUSLY ENDEAVOURING TO SELL A SEAMAN'S REGISTER TICKET.—At the Police-court yesterday, a man named Angus Martin, was charged with this offence. It appeared that lie had employed a boy, whom he found playing in the street, to go to the shop of Mr. Roger Dogherty, outfitter, Park-lane, and sell for him a mari ner's register ticket, for which he was to receive 4s. This is a parchment document which every British seaman is required by the new act to procure at the Register office, and which certifies him to be a British subject duly registered, describing his person, &c. This every captain engaging a seaman is bound, under a penalty, to require. Mr. Dogherty suspecting something wrong, asked the boy if it was himself who was designated on the ticket. He replied no, and bronght in the prisoner, who first said it was himself, and afterwards frequently contradicted him self. He was given into custody, and it was afterwards ascertained that the ticket (for another man) had been duly registered. The prisoner was committed for; r al at the sessions, but it was intimated that bail would be re ceived—himself in £3O, and two sureties in £l5 each. Jan. 13, 1846. LAST NIGHT'S MAIL• MARK LANE CORN MARKET-YESTERDAY Notwithstanding the supply of wheat by land carriage, sera" pies from Essex, Kent, and Suffolk, was but moderate Ole morning, it could not be disposed of, except at a decline of 21. per quarter upon the prices of this day se'nnight. In fre e foreign there is very little doing, buyers being unwilling comply with the demands of the holders ; in Bonded we am not hear of any transactions, but floating cargoes, both soft and hard, are inquired after on speculation as well as for expert' Best Barley maintains its late value, but secondary quality is veil unsaleable, and ls. per qr. lower. White peas are 2s. per qr. '+ maple and grey ls. per qr. cheaper. Beans sell slowly on the terms of last week. The sale for oats is quite in retail, they fully maintain last Monday's quotations. SMITHFIELD MARKET-YESTERDAY. The supply of beasts derived from our own grazing districts was somewhat on the increase, and of full average quality. The attendance of buyers being by no means large, the beef tram ruled heavy, at a decline in the quotations of 2d. per 81b., the highest figure for the best Scots not exceeding 4s. 2d. per 811 A; and a total clearance was not effected. From the northern counties we received 1,800 short-horns; from the western and midland districts, 600 Herefords, runts► short-horns, &c. ; and from other parts of England 400 of va rious breeds—the remainder of the supply being chiefly derived from abroad and the neighbourhood of the metropolis. The numbers of sheep were small, while the mutton trade was steady, at fully last week's prices. Although the supply of calves was by no means large, the sale for that description of stock was in a sluggish state, On somewhat easier terms. Upwards of 200 pigs have arrived by steam from Ireland. To-day the pork trade was firm at late rates. PRICES OF STOCKS, &c.— YPSTFP DAY. The market for the public securities still :wears rather A drooping appearance, and there is very little animation. Con sols are 943 to 944 being scarcely so good as at the commence ment of business. Exchequer Bills keep pretty steady, at 285. to 30s. premium. Bank stock is firm at 205 to 206. The Nei/ 34 per Cents. are down to 971; and the 3 per Cents. to 953 to 95k. LONDON SHARE MARKET-YESTERDAY. In the Share market a tolerable amount of business has bees transacted, but, generally speaking, at lower prices than on Saturday. Caledonians 141 to 141 ; ditto New, 31 to 4; Croy don, 22 ; Eastern Counties, 22k to 211; Midlands, 153 to 155; Newcastle and Berwick, 20 to 191 • Dovers, 38k; South Mid lands, 3i to 3 premium ; Manchester and Southampton, 3 W ; Trent Valley, 20*; London and Brighton, 671 to 671; Goole 4 and Doncaster, 1 to 11 ; Northampton, Banbury, and Chelten-'.', ham, 21; Constituted Great Northern of France, 141; Dutch Rhenish, 7i; East Indian, 1 premium; Great Indian Penin sula, prem. _ / Tic Ineri , , AS nead, Quart Eveni Co? 13R-u f A, ehur .or I .iro u __ , Lt‘ IMPORTANT FROM THE BRAZILS. We have received, per steamer to Pernambuco, and thence by the Swordfish, which arrived here on Thursday, advices from Rio to the 20th November. The news, both polically and commercially, is very gloomy. The opera tions of the act of last Session, with respect to the mea sures to be taken by British cruizers to repress the slave trade, has, it appears, been regarded by the authorities of Brazil as most oppressive towards their shipping engaged in legitimate commerce; and a strong feeling of exaspera tion has been produced in the minds of the Brazilian people and their Government, which has manifested itself in the re-issuing of their previous declaration against the rights of the children of all foreigners dying in Brazil, which was withdrawn through the strong remonstrances of Lord Aberdeen, to procure which, it will be remem bered, so strenuous an effort was made by the Chairman of our Dock Committee, and other gentlemen in the Bra zilian trade, in this town and in the metropolis. The result of this determination of the Brazilian authorities, has been to produce a feeling of uneasiness amongst our countrymen in Brazil, which must, for a time, paralize, or at least throw a damp upon, operations from Great Britain. The mill of Messrs. Gemmill and Co., at Glasgow, was destroyed by fire on Friday. The damage is estimated at £7OOO. On Friday last, in London, at 9 p.m., the mercury in the barometer reached the unusual height of 30.57, being 14-hundredths of an inch higher than the highest point of the past year. The sum of £1,317.690 3s 3d, being one-fourth part of the surplus revenue of the year ending the 10th of Oc tober, is about to be applied towards the reduction of the national debt. In 1830 the French navy consisted of 206 vessels and 28,000 seamen. At present it consists of 22-1 vessels and 30,000 seamen. The budget has doubled in the same time. Ann Swift, a prostitute, who recently stabbed a girl in Mason -street, and against whom a verdict of wilful mur der was returned by the Coroner's Jury, was apprehended on Tuesday last, and committed for trial at the next as sizes. Friday's Gazette contains the appointment of the fol lowing gentlemen as Lords of the Admiralty :—Lord El lenborough, Sir George Cockburn, Sir William Hall Gage, William Bowles, Esq., the Hon. William Gordon, and the Hon. Henry Fitzroy. Mr. W. E. Gladstone has retired from the representa tion of Newark on the ground that a gentleman, Mr. John Stuart, Q.C., recommended to the constituency by local circumstances, has solicited their suffrages. It is. not yet known what borough or county Mr. Gladstone will seek to represent. Captain Baker, of the sth Fusileers, stationed at En niskillen, committed suicide, on Friday. The unfortunate gentleman was found with the top of his skull blown off: he having placed the firelock under his chin, and pulled the trigger with his toes. He was a native of England, and had only been Gazetted to a regiment on the 30th ult. A boy named John Kean, who worked at the foundry of Smith and Willey, at Windsor, has been committed by Mr. Curry, our borough coroner, for the manslaughter of another boy employed at the same works. Kean struck the deceased, and when the latter was found be'had a cut over the left eye. _ The mission ship Warree sailed from the Trafalgar dock on Tuesday morning, for Old Calabar, on the west coast of Africa, provided with everythi ng th a t h uma n forethought could suggest, for establishing and prosecuting mis'ionary operations there, under the auspices of the United Secession Church of Scotland. VERY 1 RUE.—An agent of the League was last week distributing their tracts in a village near Mansfield. It appears, however, that though he was in the full pay of the faction, he was not a full convert to their principles. A person of his acquaintance asked him what be had got, when he replied, " A tract to show how there is to be large loaf for sixpence ; and threepence to buy it with." DIABOLICAL ATTEMPT.—A few days sire I-lead-con stab e Green went to the premises of Mr. Buddy, a miller at Ballycloughduff, to search for arms. Buckly told them that if the police were drawn off he would surrender them. This was refused ; and on finding that the head-constable and four police were on the water-wheel searching it, he cried out to his son to lift the sluice and drown them all. This young rascal proceeded to do so, and was in the very' act of effecting it, when one of the police sprang forward, and, placing his carbine at his breast, swore he would drive the contents of it through him if he did not desist. Had this diabolical attempt succeeded, it would have caused the deaths of Head-constable Green and four men with him on the wheel, where the arms were found.--• Westmeath Guardian. "the MR s . o M ur ° c it e A o l f A a l; C D al.l l :l3 l-i n E y. T " lM l E n S.' k — uly last that exposes journal began its war n i ngs o f i mpen di ng d anger f rom th e ra il wa y mania. A " s p ec i a l corres p on d en t" o f th e Hampshire Independent i m p u t e d t h ise warn i ngs t o corrup t motive s and a desire to p us h par ti cu l ar ra il ways ; h e asserte d th a t Times " Mr. D—, the managing (money) proprietor of The Times," and his son, obtained shares in a certain railway as a reward for the aid of the journal, and that they, with a Mr. A—, whir also has possession of its columns, speculated "for the fall" under cover of the same attacks. On the 2d inst. appeared a letter to the Hampshire Inde pendent, from the same " special correspondent," ,ad mitting that his " informa n t" h a d b een " misinformed ;, avowing that the charges were " totally unfounded ;" and asking pardon of the persons calumniated. 7'he Times has ferreted out the offender. " The author of these falsehoods is a ' Mr. Edward Raleigh Moran,' who is, or was, the sub-editor of the Globa. We need say nothing of this man's character—it is sufficiently known to all connected with the metropolitan press." PROGRESS OF LIVERPOOL. —There were no fewer than eighty-six warehouses erected in Liverpool during the past year, the majority of them being, as our readers are aware, of immense proportions and on the fire-proof prin ciple. We stated in our last that there had been 3,72 8 houses built in this town in 1815. It apikars from all official classification of them, that 1212 are of the estimated annualLitlue of £l2 per annum, 2,007 of from £l2 to £25, 332 froffir £25 to £35, and 177 from £35 upwards. THEATRE RQYAL, CH URC li• STREET.—The active management of this favourite little templed Momus, pro duced another new drama last night, with complete SRC.' C AS, entitled, "The Pride of Birth ;" the chief parts were excellently supported by Mr. Lister, Mr. W. J. Ham mond, and a new actor, a Mr. Lacey, who has some ad mirable requisitions for his department ; Mrs. H. P• Grattan, appeared as. " Mimi," her London part, and k aEc e mt p u t i nii g t n h .e e, (MissT h h o e u s d e r Mercer), n me ra a c e w r r roari imparted re h t e e ad r ah natural and idn a tt n eh d r ee scheerful heroine character. The Pantomime concluded the entertainments , and was highly relished. Clown, Harlequin, and Pan taloon work together most harmoniously, and the tricks were capitally managed. Mr. William Ryan is an adnal. cable Ilarlequin, and leaps with great agility and freedoni. - - LIVERPOOL PROVISION MARKET, JAN. 12• Good fresh parcels of Butter are in better demand, and prices for such well supported. inferior qualities plentiful, and quite a drug. _ - LIVERPOOL CATTLE MARKET, JAN. 12. We have had a good supply of Beasts and Sheep at our mar ket to-day. With a numerous attendance of buyers • near i the whole met with b r i sk sale at high prices. Beef 6 ' d to 61d per lb; Mutton 7d to 71d. LIVERPOOL : TUESDAY, JANUARY 13, 1846. PRINTED AND PUBLISHED EVERY' TUESDAY MORNIN BY JOSHUA FLETCHE Ft LACE, of 53, Grove-street, and LEONARD ADDISON, of 14, Great Orford-street. At No. 4, ST. GEORGE'S CRESCENT, LIVERYOOL. 0 41 Orders and Advertisement s are rece i ved by Messrs. 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