The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser. — Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1846-12-22 00:00:00

WYLIE; SEIRrEYOR AND ESTA 7 LAND AND BETILDLV( 4GEN7 BARNED'S-BU ILDINGS, SWEETI NG-STREET DANCING mEssßs. JOSSET and DUGIT will have MORN. ING CLASSES for young Ladies and Gentlemen during the Vacation. EVENING CLASSES for GENTLEMEN, on TUESDAYS THURSDAYS, and SATURDAYS, for instruction in the Fashion able Dances. •• •e•• • - _ I:l.Tossor begs to inform his Friends and the Public, that there is no truth in the report that he is retiring from his Pro. C ess i o n. 1, DE.'0.,17-NTREET. MRS. PARKE'S NEW SCHEME FOR THE DISPOSAL OF THE REMAINDER OF THE BOWYER GALLERY. VALUE, FORTY-FIVE NUMBER OP . THOUSAND POUNDS. !EMBERS, 10,199. Sf e l4EN- SHARES so ft ONI GUINEA; wt SIX GI.TINEO. The Distribution of the ,Sllares will take place on WEnNEs the 6th of Januari,,,,,end continue afterwards until th, DA Subscri The value of the lowest all £1 11s. Gd With various in terinecliat of the highest allotment The val 250 Guineas For further partieul: rooms, 51, Bold-street inquire at Mrs. PARKE'S Exhibition S. CUTTER, Agent, Tickets of Admission can be had at the Newspaper Offices. Agents have been appointed in the following places : Mr. Wi!liam Evans, St. Anne's-street, Chester. • Mr. Robert Ankers, High-street, Wrexham. Mr. Edward Morris, Postoffice, Ruabon. FOWLER'S TEA, WINE AN D• FANCY BISCUITS HE Proprietor wishes to draw particular attention to the high state of perfection to which his manufacture 0 Biscuits has arrived, and respectfully solicits the support of the public. _. By adhering to the principle of rejecting all inferior ingredi ents, and bestowing personal attention, he is now enabled to gffer an article of such superior quality as will bear compari son with the best, and he hopes thus to secure,a continuance df the very liberal support already received: FANCY OR MACHINE BISCUITS, OR .- ;:CKNELL BISCUITS, SUPERIOR READING BISCUIT GINGER WAVER BISCUITS, TUNBRIDGE BISCUITS, CARRAWAY DO., GINGER BISCUITS, RICH GINGER CAKES. RUSKS FOR INFANTS, VE NNA RUSKS, PURE BISCUIT POWDER, &c., &c., &c Tha above are packed in air-tight Tin Packages, and sold by all respectable Grocers in town and country. WHOLESALE AGENTS: WOOD, BROWN, AND MANN, 7, RAINFORD-SQUARE, LIVERPOOL IMPORTANT. T HE LIVERPOOL CENTRAL CLOTH ESTA BLISHMENT, NO. 7, PARADISE-STREET, IS NOW OPEN, AND THE PROPRIETOR, A. J. STEPIIENS, Being anxious that his Friends and the Public generally may know where to lay out their money, t 6 the best advantage, begs respectfully to state, that they,have now the opportunity of doing so by calling at his Establishment. A. J. S. earnestly solicits an inspection of his stock, which consists of A LARGE LOT OF BEAVERS, PILOTS, SUPERFINES, DOESKINS, &c. &c. N.B.—All Goods marked in Plain Figares at Cash Prices Just received, a Superb Assortment of TrOwsering,s and Vest ings CHRISTMAS PRESENTS. A RTHUR NEWLING has just received a large Stock of NEW and APPROVED BOOKS, suitable for ristmas Presents, many of which are,in neat and elegant Bindings. Also, a Selection of .., BOOKS FOR YOUNG { PERSONS, neatly illustrated, and containing useful knowledge, combined with amusement and instruction. A. N. begs to call partietflar attention to his Stock of Bag steer Comprehensive „FAMILY BIBLES, and Bagster's Polyglot BIBLES „and PRAYERS, in plain and elegant Morocco or rich Velvet Bindings. 31, Ranelaoh-street. LATEST INTELLIGENCE. (BY EXPRESS LONDON COKN .—YESITgaDAY. A sudden and unexpected change took place in the weather early on Saturday morning, when some quantity of rain fell, and a change of wind, which has completely opened the navi gation of our river, and all snow and symptoms of frost have entirely disappeared. Great excitement prevailed in the trade uptol.pday. 'At this day's market the supply of English Wheat was good, but the condition of the samples very bad. Factors began by askins extravagant prices. The trade opened less briskly than on Friday, but ultimately sales were general at 2s to 3s over the currency of this day week. Free foreign continues in good re- quest at a similar improvement, and large shipments - making for Ireland. Malt is 2s. to 3s. per qr. dearer, which has caused a better demand for Barley at 2s. per qr. more money. ' , Beans, Peas, and Rye sell at 2s. per quarter higher rates. Our supplies of Oats continue fully equal to our consumptive demand, but in consequence of the high rates and small sup plies into .the Irish markets, factors held firmly for 2s. to 3s. per quarter more money, which checked business, the few of fers received from buyers not exceeeding Is. per quarter. No Indian Corn here, and but few floating cargoes offering. The are buyers of whole meal at .t'ifi 10s. per ton. SMITHFIELD CATTLE MA RKET.--YzernitDAY. As the condition of .ttie,KtockWasi7cptquiteeqtiaTisc that ex hibited on this day sesnnight, we have reduced our quotations 2d. per 81b., the extreme figure for Scots being at 48. 4d. The beasts were derived in about equal portions from the northern, western, and midland districts. , • With Sheep we were fairly supplied, yet the Mutton trail[ oduced ss. 2d. per 81b. was firm and at which a g, ;ood clearance was effected Calves, the supply of which was small, moved off slowly at bite rates. The Pork Trade wa k's currencies MONEY MARKET.—YESTE RDAY. Public securities have been steady this morning, Consols having only varied from buyers to sellers at 93 for the open hig. A further sale of Three-and-a-Quarter per Cent. Stock lies been made by the Bank broker for delivery to-morrow. Reduced Three per Cents. have been last done at 043-, the Three.and-a-Quarter per Cents. at 953-. Exchequer Bills are 9 12, and Bank Stock 206. The market has been quite inactive. LATEST FOREIGN AND COLONIAL NEWS. SYDNEY Sydney papers have arrived of the 19th August, from which we learn that an outbreak had taken place among the prisoners at Norfolk Istand, which was not put dawn until four police officers were killed. WEST INDIES, The royal mail steam-ship Forth on Sunday, having left Demen Rico on the 27th. The Alice Haviland, of this port, was at Kingston when the Forth left, and colours were exchanged on the 18th with the Isabella, hence. arrived at Southampton, on Nuvember 19th, and Porto M. de Fabron, a passenger from Guadaloupe, has been dele gated to advance the money for compensation on the emanci pation of the negro population in the French islands. The news from the other islands is unimportant, excepting the favourable reports generally as to the growing crops. The 41ith Regiment at Jamaica and the 71st at Barhadoes hake re ceived orders for Cork, and the Vengeance and Belleisle are acketed out to take them. We have our usu,.. a papers by the Forth, by which we learn that the House of Assembly had been opened by the Lieutenant-Governor, in the absence of His Excellency Sir Charles Grey. There is like to be a brisk session. A bill has been brought in forreducing all the salaries of public offi cers, including the clergy. The subject of proposing an in come-tax had been suggested. The agitation on the Sugar Duties Bill was kept up, , numerous meetings had been held in different localities, and resolutions had been passed by the Assembly to the effect, that the policy pursued by the Imperial Parliament towards the West India colonies has been most de trimental, and that the Sugar Duties Bill passed last session must tend to cemplete their ruin. They also express their strong conviction, that, with a limited protection, and a fair measure of support from the parent state in procuring free African labourers, the colonies might have been restored to prosperity, but that the withholding that assistance will aggra vate the misery of the African race, and endanger the colonies. file of Jan Jamaica papers announce the arrival of the Indus at Port Royal from St. Helena, with 340 emancipated Africans, cap tuted by her Majesty's brig Watervi itch on the coast of Africa, and chartered to Jamaica as free immigrants. PORTUGAL Advices have been received from Lisbon to the 10th instant. The oldest inhabitants of Vigo never remember such falls of snow and hail; the hills from Cape Finisterre as far south as the Minho being covered. The Queen's troops were within half a league of Oporto, and a battle was hourly expected. Gen. Casal, who had previously defeated Sada ilandeira, was in command of the Queen's troops before Oporto, who, flushed with success, expected an easy victory. The Queen's troops have taken, it appears, the foitress of Valenca, on the Minho, and opposite the Spanish town of Tuy. The place, however, Was, according to the letter of our corresponded, in a defence leits condition, having only half a company of regular soldiers and a small force of armed civilians. A REPORT ON 'CHANGE.—We'have a distrust of these reports, of which, in nine times out of ten, the paternity in difficult to discover. There was one circulated yester daY, to the effect that Louis Philippe, King of the French, had caused an order to be sent to New York, to buy up half a million barrels of flour for French consumption ; and it was agreed that the arrival of such an order would materially enhance prices against the British buyer. Where the news came from, however, as it did not come by the Acadia, and as the King of the French is not the " pri vate correspondent " of ally of the speculative gentlemen, we know not. Perhaps the father of the rumour was the wish that it was true. " The wish is often father to the thought." EXTRAORDINARILY QUICK COMMUNICATION.—By the arrival of the auxiliary steamer Antelope, yesterday. frOm Pernarnhuco, with a passage of thirty•one days, answers have been received by Liverpool merchants to their letters per Swordfish of 20th October. which latter vessel arrived out in twenty•eight days. Her Majesty's packet, from Falmouth, had also arrived there in thirty live days. Sr. JOAN'S MARKET, &C.—This, our largest and central market, was, on Saturday, and for some days pre ciously, well supplied with all sorts of butcher meat, pool. try, game, vegetables, Ric. The shew of beef and mutton Was peculiarly fine, the latter not including the carcases of those coarse monster beasts which so generally obtain prizes at agricultural meetings ; but fine ox and heifer, English and also small Scotch, of prime quality, and more popular amongst the lovers of good fare. There was a brisk demand, and beef sold at from 6J to 8d per pound ; mutton about the same. Some fine lambs (uncommon at this time of the year,) brought in some instances a guinea a quarter. Poultry, especially ge ese an d c hi c k ens , were cheap,—a good goose, of 81b weight, bringing 3s. The show of Saturday morning was not, however, the grand one of this festive season,—Thursday next, (the day be fore Christmas day,) being the appointed d a y. w h en fresh supplies will, be brought up, and the market deco rated with evergreens, flowers, &e. St. John's, on such an occasion; is always worthy of a visit. The outer markets have also been well supplied during the past few days, and will make a grand show on Christmas Eve. TO CORRESPONDENTS. :h every desire to gratify " Enquirer," and several other )rrespondents, we could not find room to-day for their com- munications. Our notice of " Rowland Bradshaw, '' cannot appear until next We have received from T. R. ;el, for the destitute Irish, which we have banded over to the ReV. NV. NI. Falloon. The letter of" A Burgess" was received too late for insertion this week. The snbjeet of it shall not be lost sight of. It deserves agitation. We had marked for insertion the letter of " S," but we hope the appearance of our crowded columns will sufficiently account fOi its postponement. We will endeavour to answer next week the string of queries sent by "A constant reader." We had not tune yesterday for the necessary references. In the first week of January, the STANDARD will be printed with a new and elegant type, manufactured specially for the purpose by the celebrated house of Messrs. V. and J. Figgins, of London. THE STANDARD ALMANAC In consequence of the extreme satisfaction which this elegant little Almanac has given, we have had an extra number printed off, which may be obtained AT TWOPENCE EACH. It answers the double purpose of Almanac and Date Case. THE " LIVERPOOL STANDARD" FOR TH REEPENCE ! YEARLY SUBSCRIPTION In advance On credit . The announcement which we make to our readers, that the LIVERPOOL STANDARD is now offered to the Public for THREEPENCE, requires from us a word or two of explanation. For some time past we have had in contemplation this step—a serious one to ourselves, and one of no trifling import to the community amongst whom our paper circulates. We have not been blind to the fact, that newspaper literature must ultimately accommodate itself to the requirements of the age; that the great organ which aspires to direct public opinion, and which is hourly proving itself more powerful than statesmen or parties, should be ena bled to address its appeals more directly to the many—to address them in their own homes, and by their own firesides—to substitute its earnest teachings for the penny trash, which alone at present finds its way to the poor man's dwelling and to the perusal of his family. To effect this, cheapness is mainly required. The hearts of our humble fellow-countrymen, we know, are not too enamoured of the wretched sentiment and worse principles—the inflammatory doctrines and false philosophy—contained in the papers to which we have referred as constituting at present their usual mental food ; and we have arrived at the conclu sion, that we are only doing our duty as journal ists, conscious of the great responsibility which the march of circumstances has thrown upon us, in submitting to a sacrifice—we trust only a tempo rary one—of our personal interests, with a view to increased usefulness and advantage to the pub lic. Whilst making this announcement, we must assure our readers and those friends who have, thus far, so liberally rewarded our humble labours, that we do not intend to attempt to compensate ourselves by any parsimony of management, by which the article which we furnish at a reduced price shall be less worthy of their acceptance and approbation. We hope even to improve upon the past. The con sciousness that we are addressing a more extended circle of readers, calls upon us for increased energy and increased watchfulness for the interests of those readers. The task before us we fully recognise ; and we trust that we shall not be found unequal to perform it faithfully and bene ficially. From one source, and from one alone, we look for our reward, so far as mere pecuniary considera tions ()Vend. We shall be able to give to the favours of our advertising friends greatly in creased circulation and publicity ; and it is only natural to anticipate that those favours will fall upon us in on increased degree. Henceforth we hope to be behind none of our contemporaries in the advantages which our columns afford to the advertising community. We cannot conclude these brief remarks without re turning thanks to our friends and the public for the support which has raised us to our present position amongst our contemporaries; and we trust that our future labours will not be less de serving or less rewarded. Ebe Eibtrpool &tanbatt. TUESDAY MORNING, DEC. 22, 1846. The productions of South Australia are exciting considerable attention at the present moment. A wide field for geological enterprise has opened upon the colonist, somewhat earlier it is true, but not more sure than was anticipated by those who laid the foundation of its present prosperity. A letter on this subject in our columns of to-day from Col. Gawler, formerly governor of that colony, will be read with much interest. He triumphantly shows that the calumnies which were unsparingly heaped upon him at the period of his recall, were but the offspring of ignorance, and that the outlay which was there condemned as lavish expenditure, was but the seed which is now generating such luxuri ous fruit. We believe the day is not distant when both the people and government of his country will do jus tice to the discernment and foresight which dic tated the wise policy of Col. Gawler, when governor of South Australia. In the present quiescent state of parties, whilst rival factions appear to have ceased their strife for supremacy, affrighted at the complication of evils into which rash legislation, combined with the de crees of Providence, has precipitated the country — the Journalist, if he be honest, has no small amount of responsibility and of difficulty thrown upon his shoulders. It is his task to direct the mind of the community into the best course, by which the en tanglements of our social position may be unravel led—to mould the temper of our population to a proper submission to the pressure of suffering to be surmounted and of sacrifices to be borne—to teach and to warn against those errors, into which we have unhappily been led, by our bli .d adherence to the dictates of temporary expediency, and our ob stinate wandering in the mazes of a false and selfish philosophy. The press has ceased to he the mere exponent of the views of opposing leaders of public opinion. It is no longer a record of the mere chit chat of coteries. A higher mission is seen, felt and acknowledged; and to the performance of the duties of that mission its members must devote themselves in truthful earnestness, unless they are contented to sink in the struggle of intellect into which they are rapidly being impelled. The last few years—we may almost say the last few months—have witnessed this signal change in our positionl have seen• the newspaper press of this and some other countries assume the power, and ably maintain it, which has hitherto been wielded exclusively by the statesman and the senator. We have seen it shake the power Of the demagogue and the disturber, and arrest the hands of tyranny, whether stretched out from the Throne or from the mob. Better than all, this mighty influence has advanced as much in character as in power. The furious bluster which, a few years ago, would have won the encomiums and support of thousands of readers, is rapidly falling into contempt, and those, by whom it is still employed, into impotence. Bitter personalities, malicious slanders, mis-statements or exaggerations of facts to injure opponents, are be coming disreputable and comparatively innocuous. With these views of our changed position, and of our duty, strongly impressed upon us, we feel bound, in entering upon what we humbly hope will prove to be a wider career of usefulness, to refuse to bandy personalities with those few of our contem poraries who appear to take a more limited view of the responsibility of their mission. We have taken an important step, with our eyes fully open to its possible personal risks ; and we shall not turn aside from the course of duty, to which we have devoted ourselves, either to puff ourselves or to revile our rivals. Any increased influence, which we may gain with the public, we are content to leave to the issue of our exertions to benefit our fellow beings ; and of the correctness or incorrectness of our views of human affairs, and of national policy, time and ex perience must be the exponents. There is surely enough for the Journalist to do, in the honest endeavour to remove the evils, with which he feels that the nation and mankind are sur rounded, without admitting into the quietude of the closet the bitter contentions which too often deface the proceedings of the public assembly. The temper of the present age is, happily, favourable to calm discussion, and the exercise of the reasoning powers, rather than of the vituperative. The questions which now press most earnestly upon us for con sideration are social questions—the improvement of the health and the morality of the masses—the pro tection of the weak and the poor—the universal spread of civilization and Christianity amongst mankind. Such questions may be discussed with out ill temper or worse manners. The mere trading consideration attached to Journalism need not be for ever intruded upon the world. By ourselves it shall not be thus unnecessarily intruded ; and we are not at all afraid that we shall surfer from our forbearance. We remarked briefly a week ago upon the vast increase of Irish pauperism crowding into Liver pool ; and the fact appears at length to have made itself telt by the drain upon our parish-office for relief for these destitute beings. They cannot be permitted to starve in our streets ; and if we pass them back to their own country, as we are com pelled in self defence to do, fresh importations keep arriving to claim the same bounty at our hands. "If we remain at home," they say, "we shall be starved." Food sufficient for the people it is now evident that there is not available. The pressure of the times, too, has locked up the springs of charity, e. en where the means to give exist. Ire land is being taught as a nation to exist upon the industry of the British people; and she is not slow in learning the lesson. In past years her peasantry have been in the habit of snatching the harvest wages from the poor Saxon tiller of the soil. They worked then, whilst the English labourer stood idle. Now they come in a different guise, and with a different demand. It was enough that British industry should be displaced whilst the Irish cotter earned the rent of his hovel and his potato ground, and fed the rapacity of the middleman, the priest, and the agitator : it is more than enough that the pauper, the widow, and the orphaned of our own country should be reduced to coarser food to sup port the beggared outcasts, whom Irish landlords are unable or unwilling to provide with the ne cessaries of life. There must be an end, however, of this kind of infliction. But who is the party to whom the country must look to bring it about One of our vestrymen, we observe, suggested on Tuesday, that captains of packets ought not to bring over to Eng land persons so obviously unprepared to support themselves. We know, however, quite sufficient of human nature, to be aware that precisely that num ber of people who can procure the money for their passage, and who have the inclination to come, will do so. Sending them back again, without permit ting them to land, is another suggested plan ; but it is quite inefficacious, as indeed is every other which does not grapple with the root of the evil. This is one of a general, not of a local nature, although we unfortunate people of Liverpool are experiencing its local burthen. It is the duty of the government to look at our position, and to devise some compre hensive measure for our relief. They are totally mistaken who imagine that the present is a mere temporary emergency ; that it arises from the po tato disease, or any other disease. We have vir tually kept the poor of Ireland for a generation past. Their necessities have depressed the condition of the industrious labourer of Great Britain for a generation past. Irish laboar, deprived of its re ward at home, has invaded our farming districts and our manufacturing towns, lowering wages, by the competition created, and offering no very satis factory example of good conduct for imitation. The present difficulty is only exaggerated in degree; and it ought to bring about a cure for the difficulty, which we have all along been experiencing. We are far from wishing to join in the outcry against Irish landlordism. But really our present Government must take some steps to enforce upon some of them a recognition of their duties. They must be urged to do what in them lies to keep their own poor removed from even the possibility of want and wretchedness, such as they are now suffering ; and, to ensure this object, some of the anomalies which characterise our past legistation for Ireland, must be swept away. We must have no more at tempts to cure actual and tangible evils by remedies addressed to fictitious diseases; no more prescrip tions of Godless colleges and municipal franchises for a starving people. A poor-law upon the broad principle of the law of Elizabeth must be submitted I to. Ireland's good landlords—and they are many — would welcome it readily. Only the short-sighted or the selfish would wince under its infliction. Throughout the discussion of the Free Trade question we predicted that one of the first results would be to place the consumer of food at the mercy of the capitalist and the speculator; and it is not difficult to perceive that we are in something very like that situation at the present moment. In every corn market throughout the kingdom the rage for investments in grain and flour is rife, and the most trifling incident—the stoppage of a canal or the snowing up of a railway—is seized upon as the ground of advanced rates. Cargo after cargo pours into the country from foreign markets. Immense supplies are known to be preparing for our shores, and only detained by the temporary want of ship ping. Yet the capitalist is found ready and eager to buy and to store up every fresh supply as it arrives, in the hope, no doubt, to exact famine prices, although the effect of the measure, which is thus placing the food of the country in his hands, was to protect us from even the fear of famine. There must be, however, in this movement, as in every past mania, a day of reckoning; and we would earnestly press upon the farmers of Great Britain not to permit themselves to be involved in its con sequences, by madly holding for increased prices. Already the consumption of the country is seriously reduced. Whilst the speculator in corn is raising the poor man's loaf, the speculator in cotton is closing t!-.e factory, which enables the poor man to eat. Half wages for the manufacturer is the sure forerunner of half rations. High prices thrown into the hands of the foregn grower inevitably attracts his produce to our markets, and must ultimately bring on a period of glut and ruin. The steady operations of the British farmer are all to which we have now to look for safety. We do not anticipate that a crisis has already arrived, or is immediately at hand. The gip created in our supply of food, by the partial failure of the potato crop, will perhaps, for a time, absorb our rapidly increasing supplies. But that time cannot be a long one, when we take into consideration the fact that high prices of the leading staples of manu facture are limiting the demand for labour, and reducing the estimated quantity of food required to feed our population. We may also feel the effect of a pressure upon the money market as the result of our increased imports, and the existing want of orders for the manufactured exports. All these cir cumstances combine to produce a state of things against which the farmer will do well to guard, and which may probably affect, very seriously, those unwary persons who are at present dabbling in spe culations foreign to their legitimate business, and which they cannot be supposed to understand very distinctly. Some of the latter may have to thank us for our warning. The limitation of the salary to be paid to the pre sent medical officer, appointed under the provisions of the sanatory act, to £3OO a year, ie certainly not very complimentary to the gentlemen of that profession, or consistent with the very onerous duties which the act of Parliament imposes upon such officer. He is required to be a man of "ability and expe rience;" and is " To inspect and report periodically on the sanatory condition of the said borough, to ascertain the existence of diseases, more especially epidemics increasing the rates of mortality, and to point out the existence of any nui sances or other local causes which are likely to originate and maintain such diseases and injuriously affect the health of the inhabitants of the said borough, and to take cognizance of the fact of the existence of any contagious disease, and to point out the most efficacious modes for checking or preventing the spread of such diseases, and also to point out the most efficient means for the ventila tion of churches, chapels, schools, registered lodging_ houses and other public ediffices within the said borough, and to perform any other duties of a like nature which may be required of him." In addition to all this, he has, whenever required by the coroner, to make "a post mortem examina tion, with or without analysis of the contents of the stomach or intestines, without fee or reward," in all cases where an inquest is held. To do this mass of work well is obviously quite incompatible with the enjoyment of much leisure or opportunities of pri vate practice ; and if a first-rate man is to be secured, it is rather beneath the character of a wealthy corporation to press that talent into their service without a fair and adequate reward. We know, however, sufficient of the public spirit and liberality of the heads of the profession THE LIVERPOOL STANDARD. in Liverpool, to believe, that for this sum a capable and active officer will lace his cervices at the dis posal of the community. It is to the zeal and energy with wjiich this sanatory question has been pressed forward upon the attention of the legisla ture and the public, by the medical profession, that we mainly owe the efforts making to improve the health of our towns ; and the members of that pro fession will not withhold their assistance, now that we have at length been induced to proceed in earnest. But we ought not to expect that the phy sician or the surgeon is always to be a self-sacri ficing individual. We exact no such forgetfulness of self from the members of other professions. The lawyer and the engineer retained for the public service stickle for their fees • and we cannot perceive why the same amount of intellect and infinitely more labour, and personal danger besides, which pre required to make a a able doctor should not be equally considered. We should perhaps not have referred to this sub ject at all, but for a proposition made by our con temporary the Journal, who appears to think the appointment of a sanatory medical officer unne cessary. Our contemporary asks : '• Vl'hat has he to do ? To report upon the general health. The local registrar does that, and the materials of his report are not within individual means—they are deposited in the fever ward, the dispensaries, and the sad memorials presented at the record office of death's doings. The ablest physicians of the town accept as an honour the privilege of giving advice gratis at our charitable institutions. 'Would it not, therefore, be desirable to bestow the £3OO a-year on the dispensaries, and permit the resident surgeon to fulfil the condi'ions of the law, by being nominally the municipal medical officer. The sanatory report, when wanted, would then be derived from a larger inquiry and more numerous sources. In fact, it would be better than could in all likelihood be furnished by an individual physician. " The police have a surgeon attached to the force. Could not he discharge the duties of the new office ?—an office which, after all, originated in legislative cant, and an affectation of comprehensive humanity. In fact, a doctor will not do, for the coroner needs a surgeon, not a physician." This is not in accordance with the Journal's usual good sense. The ablest physicians of the town have, in times past, " accepted as an honour the privilege of giving advice gratis at our charitable institutions ;" but they are tiring of such extreme liberality, which they do not see imitated by mem bers of other professions. The resident surgeon of the dispensaries have already sufficient to do ; and are scarcely of the class best fitted for this new office. A division of the labour attached to it would, we admit, he very desirable. Some assis tance in performing it we can easily see will have to be provided, if the act is to be made productive of the utmost possible advantage. But all public ser vants who have to perform onerous public duties ought to be paid liberally for their exertions, if their efficiency is to be kept up. For a year or two par. ties may remain satisfied with the mere honer of such appointments ; but at length the appointments themselves become honorary, and the duties attached to them nominal only. IMMENSE INFLUX OF SHIPPING INTO LIV ERPOOL. For some time past, owing to the prevalence of easterly winds, some of our docks have been almost emptied, and the labourers usually employed in them have been driven to serious straits ; and many, doubtless, to actual want. The worst feature of the case, however, has been the hold ing back in the Channel and in the Atlantic of those large supplies of breadstuffs and raw materials, which it was known were on their passage to this country : and the consequent facilities afforded to the capitalist to exact high prices from consumer,. A favourable change of the wind, however, has happily taken place. Early on Satur day a vast fleet of vessels began to pour into our river ; and by Sunday afterncon not less than 128 sail, many of them large American and Canadian vessels, with cargoes of breadstuffs, cotton, timber, &c., hid come up, and, with the exception of 17, were safely docked. Of the vessels docked 22 are from the United States, with an aggregate registered tonnage amounting to 11,054 tons; 19 are from Canadian ports, aggregate burthen 10,019 tons ; 3 are East lndiamen, tonnage 1187 ; and the remainder, other foreign and coasting vessels, tonnage 6280. Of the 17 vessels in the river, 7 are Canadian, 5 American, 2 East Indies, and 3 foreign, the tonnage of which we may average at 500 each, or 37,000 tons in all arrived from the Saturday morning's tide to the Sunday's mid-day tide. We had fifteen foreign arrivals yester day, American, Canadian, &c., which, with another fleet of coasters, will probably make up the whole to above 40.000 tons. This gratifying change is calculated to do infinite service to our working poor, and all connected with the shipping and docks of the port, whilst it may also serve to arrest prices of the produce thus brought to our shores. DISHONEST FRAC ['ICES OF A LONDON CUSTOMS LOCKER. The London Times, in his city article, of Saturday last, contains the following notice : " We are authorised to state that the duty on sugar involved in the dishonest practices of a locker in the service of the Customs, alluded to in a paragraph from the London Mercantile Journal of the 17th instant, and alleged to amount to between £20,000 and £30,000, does not exceed .t 260. The locker is in custody, and legal proceedings have been instituted against him, together with his confederates. 'This man having certified the discharge, the warehouse keeper is fully exonerated." This is an instance of the rare occurrence of a respect able journal giving too ready an ear to anonymous rumour. Shakespeare told us long ago how credulous rumour was, and how she " gathers as she goes." The press ought to be careful on the score of authority, before giving cur rency to statements such as that contradicted above. The able pamphlet by the Rev. Hugh M'Neile entitled " The State in danger," has already reached a second edition. Sir W. M. Stanley, Bart., has returned to Hooton from town, and thence the hon. baronet is expected to proceed to the Earl of Chesterfield's, Bretby Park. - , DEATH FROM BURNlNG.—Yester d ay, an inquest was held on view of the body of Ann Jones, aged 3 years. Deceased lived with her parents in Beau -street, and being left with another child, aged six, her clothes took fire, and she was so much burned that she died on Saturday. THE WEATHER.—Since our last publication the wea ther has undergone a change, which will enable thousands of our out-door labourers, many of whom were for a time thrown out of work, to resume their avocations. The severe frost gave way on Friday evening, and was suc ceeded by a rapid thaw, Much rain has daily fallen since, chiefly in heavy showers. ALLEGED ROBBERY.—A man, named Patrick M'llroy, (or Hayes,) was yesterday charged, at the Police -court, by James M'lntyre, with robbing him of £5 15s. It was stated that, in the absence of Mrs. M'lntyre, wife of the complainant, and sister-in-law of the prisoner, the latter assaulted the complainant in his own house, Prince Edward-street, and took the money from his pocket. The evidence not being quite complete, that of a little boy who witnessed the transaction, the prisoner was remanded until to-day. LIVERPOOL CHARITABLE SOCIETY.—Our readers re quire no lengthenedjstatement to prove that there is at pre sent the most distressing want among the poor in this town. If they needed any proof of the truth of this, it would be supplied by a fact which we publish elsewhere in the re port of a coroner's inquest, held yesterday, from which it will be seen that a poor man has died in Liverpool chiefly from want of food. Among the societies engaged in mi nistering to the necessities of the sick and destitute, we know of none which deserves better the support of the humane than the Liverpool Charitable Society, whose ap peal is inserted in our advertising columns. The poor are visited at their dwellings by the benevolent and highly respectable members of the committee prior to any relief being given. DESTITUTION IN THE HIGHLANDS AND ISLANDS OF SCOTLAND.—On Sabbath last, collections in aid of the fund on behalf of the above object were made in the Pres byterian Church, Myrtle-street, and Canning-street, and we are gratified to learn that Mr. Ferguson's congrega tion responded to his powerful appeal by contributing £ll4 13s. 61d., and that amount independent of a sum received from members of other communions; Mr. Welsh's congregation also raised £looos. 4d. for the same object; and we trust that the example set by these congrega tions who have been subject to so many calls in the rear ing of their places of worship, will not be lost sight of by their more opulent countrymen ; and as the distribution of the funds is to be wi' bout reference to sect or party, that Scotchmen of every communion will see it their duty to Do and do likewise. DEATH FROM STARVATION.—An inquest was yester day held on the body of Martin Finnigan. Catherine Freeman, a widow residing in Lace-street , said deceased and his wife and three children came to lodge in her cellar about a fortnight ago. They appeared to be in a very destitute state, and got their living by begging. The wife and children left the house on Friday morning about nine o'clock. He went out along with them and did not return until nine at night, when he was brought home by four men. He then appeared very ill. He was put to bed and died about two o'clock the next morning. No surgeon saw him until after bis death. During the time he was living in the cellar he had not sufficient food, and had nothing but what he procured by begging. His wife had applied at the Parish-office, and had been relieved twice with bread, but the deceased had had no relief.—John Connor, a police-officer, found deceased, on Friday night, in Standish-street, about ten o'clock, standing against a wall. Witness thought that he was drunk and went to him, but found him sober, and hardly able to stand or to speak. On the way to Bridewell witness ascertained where he lived, and two men took him to convey him home. Witness saw him dead on Saturday night. Wit ness asked him some questions, but could not understand what he said. He appeared to be in a state of destitutio n and starving.—Mr. Kilner, surgeon, when he was called, found deceased dead. On a post mortem examination he found that death had been caused by disease of the lungs. and the want of sufficient food combined. The want of food was the principal cause of death. The jury returned a verdict to the effect stated—disease of the lungs, and want of sufficient food. The cellar is a most miserable place, and the body was stretched upon a litter of straw. The mother (who is very ill) and the children have been taken to the workhouse. In the same house in which the poor creature died there are no fewer than eight sick persons. ARRIVAL OF TILE STEAM-SHIP ANTELOPE FROM RIO The auxiliary steam-ship Antelope arrived at this port yesterday afternoon from the Brazils. having left Rio on the 2nd November. Bahia the 13th, and Pernambuco the 19th. She has been retarded on her passage by easterly winds, hut on the whole ber voyage is very satisfactory— occupviag a period of three months and eight days out and home, calling at the ports both ways, and discharging and taking in full cargoes. She brings fifteen passengers and voluminous corre.pondence. The Emperor of Bra zils honoured the Antelope with a visit previous to her leaving Rio, and enjoyed a sail in her round the bay. Every facility and encourazement has been given by the authorities in Brazil, who are anxious to promote quick communication with this country, and it is to be hoped out own Government will be influenced by the successful experiment. The Antelope does not appear to bring any political news of importanc , either from Brazils or the River Plate, but there has scarcely yet been time to analyze the papers received. Exchange at Rio 28.-4. The following is an extract from a letter per Antelope from Rio Janeira "An immense number of persons have been on board ; and amongst them the whole of the Ministers, many senators and deputies, and finally, on the 30th October, the Emperor honoured us with his presence, and took a trip down the bay. lle had a fine opportunity of seeing her work, which she performed exceedingly well, and he was highly delighted and expressed his sati,faction ; both he and the whole of the ministers, who also accompanie-I him, expressing their desire that the company might be successful and prosperous in their undertaking, and that they might depend upon every possible protection and as sistance being afforded them. The ship went so easy that the Emperor was not aware she was moving until his at tention was called to it." The following were the passengers, fifteen in number : Messrs. Thomas Dutton, Prince, Phillip, Vanzellar, and Harklev Mons. and Madame Veatie and child, Mons. and Madame Fabesheur, Mons. L. Fabesheur, Captain Bennett, Mons. Calse, Mons. Roulier, and two others. We are glad to learn that the ship answered well in every respect, the screw acting well, and the ship being also a fast sailer. Her Majesty's steam-packet Daphne left the same port 17 days before her, bound direct for Portsmouth, and has not yet arrived. The success of the Antelope is exceedingly gratifying, inasmuch as she is the first merchant sailing ship with auxiliary steam driving tie screw, that has performed so long and rapid a transatlanticvoyage. Her performances reflect the highest credit on her intellectual commander, Coptain O'Brien. The experiment having realized the fullest expectations of the spirited proprietors, a regular line of similar veesels will shortly be established to run between the two countries ; and the example will doubt less be followed by other companies trading to other parts of the world. INCREASE IN PRICES OF BREAD STUFFS AND OTHER ARTICLES OF GENERAL CON SUMPTION. At the commencement of what is, in all probability, destined to prove a severe winter, not only to our poor, but to persons of limited incomes, it may not be uninteresting to glance at the prices of articles of general consumption now, and compare them with the price of the same articles six months ago. We have therefore prepared a few data, which we propose laying before our readers. And first we take the article of Bread Stuffs. On the 16th June, 1846, from the circulars of an in fluential house before us,•we find that English superfine flour was selling at 38s. to 40s. per sack, of 280 lbs. On the 15th Dec. in , tant, there was none of the quality in the market; but Irish superfine, of nearly the same quali ty, brought, in December, 50s. to 515., ar an advance of more than 25 per cent. The average of wheat for six weeks ending 6th of June, was 555. 3d. In the six weeks ending sth December it was 60s. 7d. Good general quali ties of oatmeal in June sold at from 28s. 6d to 31s. In December the prices were 455. to 475., the increase being over 50 per cent. Indian corn was sold in June at 355. to 365. for white, and 325. 6d. to 345. for red. I❑ December it was 70s for white, and 71s. to 725. for red, having doubled its price in the six months. In all other kinds of grain a rise has taken place. The prices of the meat market it is not fair to quote at present, as Christmas is a season at which feeding stuffs are dear, whilst the demand for butcher's meat is great. It is a fact, however, that prices have been on the ad vance for the past six months; and but for the great scarcity of fodder our cattle markets must have ruled much higher. The price of nearly every farm produce is greatly advanced. Potatoes are beyond the reach of the poor, and garden produce, apples, turnips, carrots, onions, Scc., are very dear, whilst fruit is almost a total failure. We have also an advance in many other articles of con sumption. Tallow is ss. per cwt. higher at the close of the year than in June; and candles and soap are propor tionably advanced. Palm oil, used extensively in soap making, was at £23 10s. to £26 per ton in June, and was £35 10s. to £36 in the beginning of December; and has advanc , d since. Lard, butter, bacon, cheese, &c., are also very materially higher. This is a sad state of things to contemplate, together with a defic'ency of employment for our work people, dur ing the winter months. We trust, however, that the hearts of the wealthy will not be closed against their poorer neighbours, and that every effort will be made to alleviate their sufferings. LITERARY NOTICE. Christmas and Christmas Carols. London : T. B Sharpe; Liverpool: G. H. and J. Smyth. This is aju'dicious . selection of Christmas songs, ex quisitely illustrated by a number of most beautiful wood engravings. The carols consist of the well-known hymns so frequntly chaunted at this season ; and their beautiful woodcuts will serve to impress their meaning on the minds of the young especially. A well-written account of the original introduction and object of this clsss of compo sitions forms the commencement of this pretty little work. SOUTHERN AND TOXTETH HOSPITAL—On Sunday, the annual sermon in aid of this most valuable institution was preached at St. Barnabas's Church, by the Rev. Thomas Nolan, A.M., incumbent of the church and the honorary chaplain to the hospital. The Mayor, accom panied by his father, (Charles Lawrence, Esq.,) the Town clerk, the Clerk of the Peace, and several members of the Council, walked in procession to Divine service, and were preceded by the officials of the Corporation in regalia. The church was. so densely crowded by a respectable congregation, that there was not a single vacant sitting.' The reverend gentleman selected for his text the third chapter of St. Paul's Epistle to Titus, and part of the eighth verse, and delivered one of those beautiful, im pressive. and eloquent discourses upon the fruits of faith. as exemplified in the life and character of the believer, for which his public ministry has ever been distinguished. His appeal was of a most touching and powerful nature. He also stated that 613 patients had been admitted into the hospital from the Ist of January, 1845, to the Ist of January, 1846, and that 1489 out-patients had been attended to ; making a total of 2132. Forty-three had died. From the Ist of January, 1846, to the present time, 551 had been admitted, and 1393 out-patients had been attended to making a total of 1944. Twenty-eight had died, The number in the hospital at present was 57, being only five less than the beds there will accommodate. The collection amounted to the liberal sum of £B7. On Wednesday, at St. Silas' Church, after a sermon by the Rev. Hugh M'Neile, the sum of £2l was collected for the Lying-in Hospital. The Rev. William Duncan Long, M.A., Minister of St. Matthew's, and Afternoon Preacher of Trinity Church, St. Anne's-street, has been appointed to the Incumbency of the District Church of St. Bartholomew, Birmingham. NORTH Corixon.vrioN ScriooLs.—Yesterday forenoon the annual examination of the children educated at this excellent establishment took place in the School-house, Bevington Bush. Amongst the visitors present we ob served Messrs. Alderman Horsfall, C. W. Reade. G. G. o r nby an d stheo (son of Revd tt. the rector ), aand W . Campbell, JR Dover;. Connor, also a Campbell number of ladies, including the Misses Hornby and Mrs. Reade. The infant scholars were first examined—about 190 in number, mostly girls. They were all neatly, and some of them tastefully dressed, and appeared to be quite pleased. After singing Christmas carols, they proceeded to answer questions on Bible history with readiness and accuracy. In the simpler rules of arithmetic they showed astonishing quickness; and the same may be said of their replies to questions in geography. After further exercises on scriptural subjects, they repeated and sang in a feeling manner, " Friends and teachers, fate ye well !" and after it, " Dearest parents and relations!" The Rev. Rector Campbell, who presided, said that the attainments of the children so far were highly sati'factory, and their appear ance most interesting, conferring great credit on them selves and their teachers, to both of whom it was their duty to give every encouragement. Here the principles of true religion and morality were instilled into the minds of children, and their parents and friends could not do better than encourage them in their progress. Mr. Alderman Horsfall signified his gratification in accordance with the reverend gentlemen. Many of the children's parents were present, and were deeply affected. On the company leaving the room, the little ones sang the National Anthem with good effect. The examination of the elder boys and girls then took place in the large upper school-room, which is very appropriate for such au occasion. They sang a hymn in an admirable manner, and a prayer followed ? The boys, and afterwards the girls, read portions of Scripture, and afterwards ably replied to numerous questions on the same, put by the Rev. Mr. Dover, showing that they had all been well in structed in the meaning of the several passages, and had in memory the principal facts of revelation, &c. Rector Campbell, who had business to attend to elsewhere, said, before leaving, that he was extremely well satisfied with the proficiency exhibited, which must also be a source of gratification to their teachers, and their parents and re lations, many of whom were present. The latter ought, he thought, to he grateful for the opportunity their children bad of obtaining a sound religious education, and ought to do all in their power to keep •them under so admirable a system of tuition. The pupils, who were all clean and neat, were then briefly examined in arithmetic, history, geography, &c., and acquitted themselves most creditably throughout. The writing was shown in the lower large room, and included excellent and bold specimens of pen manship. There was also a well-executed lithographic print by one of the scholars (Samuel Webster) who had left, and had become apprentice to a lithographer. The examination closed with " God save the Queen," sung with great effect by the whole school. Buns and oranges were distributed to all, and while they discussed them, the Rev. Mr. Connor addressed them in a feeling manner. A large number of the parents and relations of the scho lars were present, and were deeply and proudly interested in the proceedings. Prizes of books, and, in some in stances, clothing were then made to several of the most proficient—chiefly of those whose friends were the poorest. There were present 220 girls ; and 337 boys out of 400 whose names appear on the books. Dec. 22, 1846. THE COTTON SPECULATIONS. Another week of furious speculation has brought on a slight reaction in the temper of our market. Above a hundred thousand bales changed hands up to the close of Friday's business—or close upon four weeks' consump tion ;—and the bulk of this at increased rates. The con sumers in the manufacturing districts, meanwhile, seem completely paralyzed ; and the sale of manufactured fabrics is suspended until the agitation existing in the market for the raw material so far subsides that it can be ascertained what prices will be remunerative. How long it may be until this can be accomplished it is difficult to predict. Most sadly, however, we fear that the operative portion of our population, and, perhaps, not a few of their employers, have a poor prospect before them for a few months to come. We have, like most other people, no opportunity of ascertaining the precise amount of groundwork for the advance in the price of cotton which has thus far taken place. It appears to us, however, that, even in the event of the crop being so deficient as it is stated to be in some accounts, there are many counterbalancing considerations which ought to have repressed the present speculative movement. It is very clear that our home consumption of the manufactured fabrics must be limited by the neces sities of our population. The consumption of Ireland must inevitably be reduced to one-half or a third of its usual amount. Numerous continental markets will be injured by the advance in the price of food rendering con sumers incapable of buying their usual stocks of manu factures. Besides, it is well known that our trade of last year to foreign markets was somewhat excessive. We had increased our productive power more rapidly than we found buyers of our products. We over-supplied some of our largest markets. We have other important markets closed against ns, by internal discussions or foreign ag gression. There is every prospect therefore that we shall not require our usual supply ; and there is also the possi. bility—no very remote one—that our present rates will bring forward far greater stocks, consisting of the accu mulations of past years, than we have calculated upon. We give here our circular containing the business of Saturday and yesterday, and refer our readers to a para graph elsewhere, by which it will be seen that the spin. nera at Mossley, near Ashton-under-Lyne, have reduced their hours of working to 46 hours per week, and to close them entirely during Christmas, or from the 24th instant to the 4th of January. COTTON MARKET, SATURDAY. The cotton market is going down an inclined plane, and, as is always the case in a breeze, some get very sanguine; but turn the scale, and these very men will cut and run like a parcel of rabbits. The sales were reported at 3,000 bales, and late in the day, 3,000 more were done on speculation, at very uneven prices. COTTON M kRICET, MONDAY. On Saturday, we reported a change of tone about our mar ket. Some of our large buyers are showing the white feather, and getting out at a small sacrifice. This applies to men who merely went in for their farthing a pound. Those who based their operations on the deficiency of supply on an already de creased stock, are more steady, and do not show their stocks. Buyers to-day have made purchases id. and even id. below the highest point of Tuesday last. The sales reach only 3,00 e bales—half to speculators ; and the market closes very irre gularly-. WONDERFUL DESPATCH.—As a proof of the extraor. dinary despatch which vessels can have by discharging into the transit sheds, Prince's Dock, we have to record the following :—The packet ship Nicholas Biddle, from New York, arrived at this port on Thursday, the 17th instant. She commenced her discharge next morning, and in four teen hours' working time the following goods were landed and stored, and about half of them passed the Customs' scale :-1778 barrels flour and meal; 261 barrels beef and and pork ; 211 barrels apples ; 42 casks rice ; 559 barrels turpentine and rosin ; 529 bales cotton ; 113 hales leather ; 8 bales wool ; 17 cases merchandise, and 7500 bushels wheat. The ship commenced loading again for New York yesterday. LADIES' CHARITY BALL.—From the circumstance of there being no Ball he Id for the benefit of this Charity last year, we understand that its funds have been greatly reduced, at a period too, when, from the exigencies and severity of the season, and the dearness of provisions, many poor women in sickness have been to apply to its funds for relief, who in other years have never burthened them. It is anticipated, however, that the ball of the present year will be one of the most brilliant which the society has ever held ; the splendour of the newly-furnished and decorated apartments in• the Town Hall being, along with the fact of this being one of the oldest charities of Liverpool, an attractive feature. We understand that the Rev. the Senior Rector of Liverpool has given his coun tenance to the Society on this occasion, in consideration of its not being adequately support e d b y su b scriptions, which, however, are solicited from those of the public who do not attend assemblies. The present we understand is its fiftieth anniversary. MRS. PARSE'S ART•UNION.—We do not scruple to call the attention of our readers to the announcement of Mrs. Parke's club subscription, for the disposal of the magnificent, and, we may say, unequalled collection of engravings and paintings, known even in the pages of his tory as the Bowyer collection. A more splendid display was never before the public, and the few specimens now on view at No. 51, Bold-street, admirable as they are, either as works of art or decorative pictures, but faintly convey an idea of the whole. There can be little doubt that the shares will soon be taken, as the subscription of one guinea will entitle the holder of a share to a print or picture averaging the value of £4, but ranging up to £2BO. A London correspondent of a local contemporary says :—the prizes embrace pictures of George 111., por traits of the Duke of Welli n gto n , the trial of Lor Wil liam Russell, Lady Jane Grey accepting the crown of England, Magna Charta, the Babington Conspiracy in 1586, &c. ; the famous works of R. Bowyer, Sir T. Law rence, W. Deals, C. R. Leslie, 8.A., J. Gadby, W. Bromley Murray, &c. Taking the exhibition, merely in a business point of view, namely,—in the benefit it con fers on certain branches of our industrial classes, it de serves well of the public. CLARENCE TEMPERANCE TlALL. — WOMderStaild that our talented townsman, Mr. W. Rowlandson, gives a musical entertainment here on Saturday evening next, and has kindly volunteered his services gratuitously. THOMAS' NECTAR DRAUGHT.—This is a new and ex cellent winter beverage—very pleasing to the eye, and still more so to the palate. It sparkles like champagne, and is beautifully flavoured with the peach kernal. SHIPPING INTELLIGENCE. MONDAY, 21st DECHMBER.—Wind W.N.W, ARRIVED —Lydia, Cama roons—James Dunlop, from Honduras—Alexander, Apsey, from Jamaica—Grieco, Drew, from New Orleans—Scotland, Mills. Savannah—Huguenot, Graves, New York—Wm, Penn. Coghlan, and Agenoria, St. John, N.B.—Chieftain, WEwing, Miramichi—Matilda, Bride, St. Malo—Johanna, —, Danzic—Naleria, Wright, Hamburg—Concelcao de Maria, from Oporto. Washington, Wilkie, from Quebec at this port. On the 26th Nov., off St. Peter's, experienced a heavy gale of wind from the southward. Antelope, (steamer,) O'Brien, from Rio Janeiro at this port; sailed 2d Nov ; from Bahia lath, and Pernambuco 19th. Coeur de Lion, from Montreal 'at this port. Left Quebec 23d Nov., and experienced moderate and open weather down the river and gulf. On 25th Nov. saw two ships on shore at Matati, with topsails double reefed and set; and a barque on shone three miles below the ships. Old England, from China for Cork, off Cape Good Hope, out 120 days. Benjamin Boyd, Clark, and Challenger, Pearman, hence at Camaroons. Tom and Jessie, from the Ciyde for Tampico, off Waterford 7th Dec. Georgiana, Symers. from Honduras for this port at Cove. CovE, 19th Dec.—The Tuscany, of New York, for Hull, sprung a leak 29 days out, and had boats stove, &c. WEXFORD, i9th Dec.—The Macao. Scott, from New York to Belfast, ran on shore, last night, at Kilmore, on rough ground, and is making much water. Greater part of her cargo expected to be saved. LIVERPOOL CATTLE MARKET, DEC. 21 We have had a large supply of stock at our market to-day, which met with dull sale. In the best quality !here is no altera tion in prices from our last statement; second-rate and inferior a shade lower. Beef, 5d to 6d per lb.; Mutton, 6d to 6,/d. LIVERPOOL HAY AND POTATO MARKET. DEC. 21, 1846. s. d. s. d. Hay, old 2tilh 0 B®o 10 IPotatoes, vgolb s. d. s. d New N .. 0 6 0 9 ! Kerops .. 6 6 7 0 Clover 0 6 0 7 I Pink Eyes.... 6 4 6 8 Grass 0 0— 0 0 1 Cups Straw, Wheat... 0 3 0 3i , Shoit Tops .. 5 9 6 0 Oat 0 3 0 3al Cattle Barley Carrots . . 0 2 A 2i ;Turnips, Is. ton 26 0 —29 0 .44 0 —46 0, (Manure DIED. On the 16th instant, aged 72, ESTHER, relict of the late Mr. JOSEPH TUNSTALL, of Huyton. BILL OF FARE AT THE FASHIONABLE RESTAURANT, 17, CLAYTON -SQUARE, For this day (Tuesday) and to-morrow (Trednex&y). TUESDAY, DEC. 22.—Soups : Mutton Broth, Oxtail, Gravy, and Mock Turtle. Fish : Codfish, Soles; and Whiting. One o'clock.—Roast Beef and Savoysv - Boiled Fowl, Pickled Pork, and Jugged Hare. Three o'clock.—Boiled Leg of Mutton Roast Goose, Broiled Fowl and Mushroom Sauce, Chop s , ' Steaks, and Cutlets. Five o'clock.—Roast Saddle of Mutton, Veal and Ham Pie. Apple Pudding and Mince Pies. WEDNESDAY, DEC. 23.—Soups : Vermicelli, Mock Turtle, Gravy, and Mutton Broth. Fish : Soles and Codfish. One o'clock.—Roast Sly iulder of Veal and Ham, Boiled Tur key and Oyster Saute, Beefsteak Pudding. Three o'clock-11°W Leg of Mutton and Rabbit Pie. Five o'cloek.—Roast Sirloin of Beef. Rice Pudding and Mince Pies. Half-pint of Fine Amontillado Sherry, or Full-flavoured Port, ls.; Pint, 2s. ; Quart, 4s. ines are of undeniable qua " THE FA4nIONABLE RESTAURANT, CLAYTON-SQUARE. — A restaurant fitted up in the oriental style, possessing very superio [ADVERTISEMENT.] Suitable :e lle : 3 ; 0 7 M a 1 0 1 d classes. 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