The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser. — Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1846-08-18 00:00:00

THE LIVERPOOL STANDARD. El)t lii_zrpoot TUESDAY MORNING, AUG. 18, 181 The new Tariff of the United States, although still highly protective of the native industry of the country, is a measure which will be received with infinite satisfaction by the British merchant and manufacturer. Its strongest recommendation to the latter, is the fact that it d.)es away with the system of arbitrary valuations for the imposition of duties, the effect of which upon a large class of textile fabrics was to impose an absolute prohibition. Thus, woollens of a certain range of price, and cotton goods of the ordinary class, which may now, under an ad valorem duty of 25 per cent., find their way .i . into consumption in the Ainerican markets, were shut out by the duty being levied upon att assumed price, double, and in some cases treble, their actual cost. The document itself is too long to be trans ferred entire into our columns. We shall, thereto e, content ourselves with a summary of the most im portant articles affected. Schedule A imposes ad valorem duty of one hun dred per cent. upon brandy, cordials, &c. Schedule I imposes -10 per cent. upon preserves, sweetmeats, dried foreign fruits, manufactures of cedar and other fine woods, prepared vegetables, and meats, spices, cigars, snuffs, and other manu factures of tobacco, foreign wines, &c. Schedule B irnpoFes a duty of 30 per cent. upon German silver articles, ale and porter, embroidered goods and made-up wearing apparel, and other ar ticles worn which are made up by hand, cosmetics and tinctures, baskets, beads, Bologna sausages, ornaments manufactured of hair, Indian rubber braces, &c., cameos and mosaics set ill metal, walking sticks, pickles, corks, earthenware all China, fire works, bonnet foundations, bonnets of' straw or other vegetable substances, fur caps, muffs, &c., knitted hosiery not otherwise provided for, card cases, pocket books, &c., carpets and rugs, carriages, peppers, cheese, clocks, coach and harness furni ture, coal and coke, cutlery, combs, &c., cotton cords, gimps, laces, gold and silver tassels, &c., confectionary, jewellery and trinkets, artificial fea thers and flowers, umbrellas, household furniture and other manufactures of wood, ground ginger, grapes, gums, hat bodies, iron in bars, cast, or scrap iron, japanned ware, manufactures of jet, macaroni and all similar preparations, manufactures of bone and horn, &c., articles of brass, copper, &c., vessels of glass, coloured glass, &c., articles of leather, marble paper and papier machee, manufac tures of wool, molasses, firearms, oil cloth, ochres, oils essential and volatile, olive oil, olives, paper, parchment, plated and gilt ware, saddlery, preserved salmon, sewing silk, Indian rubber shoes, soaps, unmanufactured tobacco, vellum, vinegar, unmanu factured wood and wool. Schedule C imposes a duty of 25 per cent. upon buttons, borax, preparations of mercury, camphor, feather beds and feathers, floss silk, grass cloth, hair seating, baizes and flannels, cablas and cordage, manufactures of cotton, goats hair or mohair, floor manufactures of silk, worsted goods, slates, and woollen and worsted yarn. Schedule D imposes 20 per cent. upon chemicals, unmanufactured goats' hair or mohair, unmanufac tured furniture woods, extracts from dyewoods and madder, flaxseed, green turtle, drugs, dyes, &c., bacon, grain, blankets, blank hooks, bound or unbound, hewn and sawed timber, planks, staves, &c., iron and bronze liquor, marble, unmanufac tured, prepared willows, tiles and brick-, cotton hosiery, chromates and sulphates, copper rods, nails, &c., steel not otherwise provided for, foreign fish, glue, fruit, green or ripe, hair and other vegetable substances for bedding, hat bodies wholly or chiefly of wool, hatters' plush of which cotton is the chief component, seed oils, lead in sheets, bars, or pipes, linens, crude drugs and bituminous substances, musical instruments, strings, &c., animal and fish oils, oranges, lemons, &c., paints, dry and ground, paper hangings, periodicals and other works in the course of printing and republication in the United States, saddlery, common, tinned, or japanned, soda and salts, common salt, spermaceti candles, starch, tallow and wax candles, thread laces and inserting, types and type metal, cotton velvet and cotton anti silk velvet of which cotton is the chief component, foreign whalebone; white and red lead, window glass, woollen listings and yarns. Schedule E imposes 15 per cent. upon arsenic, barks, crude brimstone, tow of hemp or flax, glaziers' diamonds, raw silk, not further manufactured than singles, tram and thrown organzine, tinfoil and plates, steel in bars, cast, shear, or German, zinc and spelter in sheets. Schedule F imposes 10 per cent. upon ammonia, annatto, barilla, printed books and illustrated news papers (I) not otherwise provided for, chloride of lime, cameos and mosaics not set, chronometers and parts thereof, precious stones not set, engravings, seeds, furs, gums, indigo, hair, india rubber, lime and lemon juice, maps, music, palm and cocoa nut oil, tallow and other g: ease for soaps, watches and watch materials. Schedule G imposes 5 per cent upon crude tartar, old bell metal, brass in pigs and bars and old brass, dyewoods in sticks, copper in pigs and bars and old copper, berries, nuts, &c., used in dying, lastings and cloths for shoes and boots exclusively, manu factured horns and teeth, old pewter, tin in pigs and bars, unmanufactured shells, zinc, &c., and a quantity of articles used in dyeing. Schedule H declares duty free animals imported for breed, bullion, coins and antiquities, tea and coffee imported direct, copper ore, sheathing felt, garden seeds, guano, furniture in use, models, paint ings imported as objects of taste and not as mer chandize, plaster of paris unground, platina unma nufactured, copper sheathing in sheets 48 inches long and 14 wide, and weighing from 14 to 34 ounce: the square foot, specimens of natural history, mineralogy, trees, shrubs, &r., wearing apparel in use, professional books and instruments of trade, the proyerty of persons arriving in the United States. The operation of this tariff, as compared with that of 1842, is to tax more highly the luxuries of the rich, whilst it lowers the cost of articles consumed by the poor. Thus champagne, which paid on an average 12 per cent., Burgundy, which paid 9 per cent., and Madeira, which paid 5 per cent., are all to pay 30 per cent. Silks, kid gloves, cosmetics, high priced flannels, jewellery, &c., are raised from low to high duties. Amongst articles of general use we find spices reduced 60 per cent. and upwards to 40 per cent ; treble ingrain carpeting from 73 to 30 per cent; manufactured iron, glass, common braces, woollen cloths, ordinary silk handkerchiefs, Bros de naples, &c., are largely reduced. Vinegar pays 30 per cent. instead of 52 ; salt pays 20 per cent. instead of 76; cotton prints or calicoes costing 12 per cent., the running yard (the ordinary wear amongst our own working classes) pay by the ad valorem system 25 per cent. instead of about 50 per cent. by the old system; shirtings, value 6+ cents the yard, pay 25 per cent instead of about 97; and mousseline de laine, 25 instead of 50 per cent. The shipping interest of the States is also favoured by a large reduction in the duties upon tarred cables and cordage chain cables and anchors. The general effect must be to increase very ma terially the value of the American market to the British manufacturer, whilst it may arrest the pro gress of the people of the eastern states in manufac turing skill, notwithsland:og the large margin of protection (25 per cent.) still left them. Reviewing the circumstances of the last few weeks in connexio with the Prince's visit, while we find much to rejoice in, aril much to be proud of, we must confess we blush for " our order" when we con sider the exhibition of rancour and persevering malice, at the expense of conscious falsehood, made by one of our contemporaries. We have the satis faction of compensation, to be sure, in seeing the object of that reckless calumny growing in public estimation for every thing that can adorn the Chris tian and the Clergyman. 'We allude to the Mercury and the Rev. Hugh M‘Neile. The natural and real power—what may be called the power en phisique—of a man is, at the best, but very small. It is. the moral ascendency which he has gained, and the esteem in which he is held, that enable any man to influence others largely, and be come instrumental to the accomplishment of any important service to mankind. Here we find Mr. M`Neile. Without any vantage ground of office, or rank, or wealth, he moves gracefully and as one quite at home, amongst the very highest circles, and commands the attention, respect, and admiration of the public. At such ascendancy calumny aims its envenomed shaft. It is malice excited, not by any injury it has received, but by the sight of excellence to wh ch it cannot attain. It is what is vulgarly and properly called spite, unconsciously betraying its own little ness and its own pain. It is such a destitution of benevolence as cannot a'mire what is good, an d such a destitution of talent as cannot injure what it hates. It is a combination of mortified vanity and unsubilued sloth : vanity which puffs itself up on an imaginary equality with distinguished p. rsons, and sloth which shrinks from the vigour and assi duity necessary for the honourable attainment of such equality. These all issue in the despicabie attempt to pull down the exalted object of their envy to a level with their own meanness. Here we find the Mercury. His jaundiced eve cannot endure ti e lustre of Mr. M•Neile's reputation. Hence the cloud of known falsehoods, raised again and again with the hope of affixing some stigma to the Rev. gentleman. We repeat, deliberately known falsehoods. The Editor of the Mercury knows perfectly well that what he has said and insinuated, and allowed his correspondent to say and insinuate through his pages, against Mr. M'Neile, is utterly false. He dares not to say that he thinks it true. In this he has happily betrayed himself. For, by a sneaking note to his corres pondent's letter, he endeavours to escape the odium, whilst, by giving insertion to the letter itself, he is odiously guilty of the offence. The stale trick is seen through. The viper has gnawed the file with sui cidal earnestness ; the creature's teeth have become harmless, whilst its venom, instead of following its bite, has recoiled into its own bowels. On every side, and from gentlemen of every variety of politi cal opinion, we hear of the disgust excited by the infamous conduct of the Mercury ; whilst the manly dignity, the Christian forbearance, and the graceful eloquence of Mr. are more than ever the theme of general eulogy in the town. The great boon which has been so long clamoured for by the manufacturing interest—the measure which was to set every loom, every spindle, every forge and every instrument of trade and industry in active operation—the repeal of the corn laws is a fact accomplished. We have had an extensive intro duction of foreign grain into our markets ; a gene ral cheapening of food, along with the prospect of something more than an average harvest, We cast about, therefore, in search of the promised pros perity which was to result from our new policy. What do we find ? Last week our columns recorded a general i esolve of the spinners and manufacturers of the Blackburn district to work their mills four, ' instead of six, days a week. How is this ? We have not heard that our exports have of late mate rially diminished. Our colonies, indeed—those despised consumers of our goods—have had their confidence shaken, and have ordered less freely than if old ; but what are British America, the West Indies, Australia, New Zealand, and other such markets, compared in importance with those coun tries, whose favours we have purchased:by our free trade policy ? Nothing, we were told. The falling off is to be accounted for from som other quarter; and we fear that, at length, it will have to be ac knowledged that the consumption of our own coun try—the consumption of our farmers and of our yeomen—is soma little ingredient in the country's prosperity. People who recognise Cocker as an authority, although an old fashioned one, in matters of finance, conceive that the agriculturist, receiving 475. instead of 565. per quarter for his wheat, has less to spend in broad cloths, hardware, crockery, and calico. Travellers for houses in Leeds and Birmingham, Manchester and SLffield, find cus tomers shy in buying, and still more s hy i n pay i ng . There is an evident hitch. Farmers and farmers' wives cannot be made to comprehend the abstract beauties, much less to feel the advantages, of free trade. Obtuse, we dare say, these classes are— unlearned in the doctrines of Adam Smith—igno rant of the very existence of M culloch and Mal thus, Ricardo, and Deacon Hume. The League should really not have dissolved until they had enlightened these misguided people, and taught them how to feed and clothe themselves with half their accustomed income—how to m a k e two an d two, which to their poor understandings make four, into a dozen or fourteen. If the farmers, however, are falling off as con sumers, at least the manufacturing labourers are getting fat upon our cheap corn. No reduction of wages going on ! Oh, no. They were wicked pro phets who prophesied such selfishness on the part of the manufacturer. We were to see increased in stead of reduced wages. We were to take the un sophisticated agricultural labourer from the hard duty of " following his plough along the mountain side," and place himself and his family in the easy enjoyment of the gin, and smoke, and odours of our manufacturing towns, and villages. Alas, the wicked prophet has proved too true a prophet. The adoption of short time is no proof of the ability of the manufacturing interest to absorb the dispos sessed labour of the agricultural community ; whilst the following announcement proclaims but too plainly the fact, that the cry for cheap food was but I the forerunner of a cry for cheaper labour. We give it from a contemporary : "Ashton-under-Lyne, August, 11. "The master roller turners of Stockport, Park Bridge, Oldham, Ashton-under-Lyne, Dukiiifield, and other places, have given notice to their workmen, that at the expiration of the next fortnight they will reduce their wages to the amount of five per cent. This announce ment at the present time has naturally enough created considerable excitement amongst the operatives, many of whom complain bitterly of corn-law repeal as the cause of this reduction. In some instances the work-hands have waited upon the masters to ask the cause why an abatement in their wages should take place so soon after they have accomplished their pet object, viz., a repeal of the corn-laws, arid while they are still calling upon them to rejoice at the downfall of monopoly, &c. The men state that the answers received have been, ' Food is now cheaper, and you can therefore afford to work for less.' A delegate meeting of the trade was held at the house of Mr. Thomas Moss, the Grapes Inn, Ashton, on Monday, relative to this subject, when the following resolution was agreed to :—` That we unanimously agree to work four days a week should circumstances in connection with the trade require it : but on no account will we submit to the proposed reduction.' ' Several other branches of mill workers are threatened with a reduction, and they are at the present time form ing themselves into unions to resist it. Unfortunately for the repealers, in every case of which we have yet beard, the reductions have been proposed by parties connected in some way with the Anti-Corn-Law League. The power loom weavers of Stalybridge are holding a public meeting of their body this evening, for the purpose of carrying out the principles of union." Pore over this evidence, working men of England I You were to have more food, more work, more wages, and more surplus to store up for want in af ter days, as the result of Free Trade measures. You are told, however, now that you can live for less, and that you must workfor less. You, who have thrown up your caps at Anti-Corn Law celebrations—who have been flattered and elated to see broadcloth hob nobbing with your humble tustians, at free trade dinners and soirees—who have huzzaed the clap traps of the Thompsons and the Aclands, and the teetotal drivel of the Heyworths and other worship pers of sloppy beverages, too thin for your own stomachs, which are not strengthened by turtle, real or mock—what think you of your prospects ? A cheap loaf you have, and less to buy it with; cheap sugar, and less to sweeten with it; less wages, less work, and little hope for the future. You were to be advanced in the social scale. You arc about to be 'degraded, and you have been betrayed into the weakness of being the instrument of your own fall. The woes of provisional committee-men—the voluntary exile of some, the mysterious disappear ance of others, and the fo:cible plucking of the few, who have maraully stood their ground, or trusted to quibbles and technicalities for their pro tection—have ceased to move the hearts even of the most sympathetic. Like the eels, they have got used to the legal gridiron. The host of specula tors in scrip have by this time almost ceased to grieve over the fortunes which have melted away in their fingers; and are singing to each other, in resigned cadences, a parody of the old song, " Sigh no more, gentles, sigh no more ; Scrips were deceitful ever." The universal letter writers have been enabled by the kindness of the law to snap their filters at at torney's threats, and to laugh at the consequences of repudiation. Another class, however, who have hitherto been hugging themselves in their imagined safety—the men who have been favoured with large allotments, and have pocketed the premiums—are beginning to feel nervous. The time of registia tion for those schemes which have received the sanction of Parliament is a hand. The holders of scrip are being called upon to send in their names for enrolment; to exchange securities which involve no responsibility for others which involve liabilities for calls; " but will they come when you do call for them ?" The ominous word "dis. appended to so many of the "directs" and "Junctions," the " Grand Unions," and the less imposing " Branches," will, we fear, tempt the bulk of them to transfer their dangerous property, not into their own names in the books of the various companies, but—into the fire. What is the next act of the drama ? There are sundry hundreds of deeds which have been signed —Parliamentary contracts and subscribers' agree ments;—and the sale of the scrip representing the amounts so signed for has not torn the seal from the bond, " Litera scripta manet." Parchment is an enduring thing. The names of the original al lottees must be registered in the place of those scripholders who refuse to own their now d pre ciated property. The gentlemen who have all along been fancying that the harvest of premiums which they have reaped was all their own, "to lend, to spend, or to give," discover that, to snatch that harvest, they have incurred responsibilities of no very pleasurable kind to contemplate; and that calls are coming, the presence of which is not very likely to change discount into premiums, or to ren der their property a very buoyant article. Grim visions of secretaries' and lawyers' letters rise up in the distance; and the postman's double knock is not half so grateful a sound as in the days when every other letter was an allotment, and Exchange street East and Royal Bank Buildings were El dorades, Seriously, it is fearful to contemplate the havoc which must occur amongst the unfortunate allot tees of one-fourth of the railways which, being sanc tioned by Parliament, have been attempted to he car ried on. A glance at even one page of the Parlia mentary blue book, just published, containing the names of parties, who have signed railway bills to the amount of £2,000 and upwards, will abun dantly show the utter impossibility of going on, without involving thousands in ruin. It is not for bankers and merchants, and their responsibility for upwards of thousands, that we fear most, although to many of them the issue of their attempt to grasp so large a portion of the golden shower may be sufficiently disastrous. Generally, however, such patties have secured shares in undertakings of a valid character, which they may part with, at some price, and get out. Some of the heaviest amounts which appear, have doubtless been: subscribed by gentlemen, as directors or trustees for public com panies or parties quite able to sustain the weight of respo sibility incurred in their behalf. But, the small traders, the shopkeepers, the professional men, the clerks, the household servants, whose names are appended to such instruments for such heavy amounts, compared with their means, absolutely startle us. What is to become of them ? It is frightful to think of their position, and of the con sequences, to innocent persons, which may result from their mingled folly and avarice. It is fright. ful to contemplate the shock to commerce which must follow the general conviction that these par ties are irretrievably in the net; and the long period of suspended confidence which may occur before they are fairly and completely released. The ordeal, however, must be gone through, and it will be a severe one. In such a crisis as the pre sent, the price of the very best share property is affected by the pressure of a call. That price in mid dling and unpromising concerns will fall to nothing. Nay, we doubt whether, with even two or three calls paid, the shares in some may not be difficult to give away. Under such circumstances, what can we expect but expensive and unproductive liti gation and widely spread distress and embarrass ment ? The only hope of safety lies in the pru dence of railway directors themselves, who ought now seriously to consider how little prospect there is of any good resulting from an attempt to carry out their various undertakings in the present state of monetary affairs. One half of them, at least, ought to be shelved until the commercial horizon brightens. We don't know whether it is the genius of the Popish system, or the natural wish of mankind, to stand well with their fellow creatures, which prompts to such scenes as the following, the de scription of which we extract from a Dublin paper:-- " Preceded by the Rev. Messrs. Hennessy, Roughan, Ma bony, and Fahy, the wretched man unhesitatingly walked up the stairs ; and after conversing privately for a few minutes, was about to mount the awful scaffold, when turning round suddenly he said—' I would wish to say a few words." Do not; take my advice (said the anxious clergyman,) do not say a word.' After some well timed expostulation the scaffold was ascended, and the culprit cried out—' I will explain all—my prosecutors swore falsely.' " A voice then came from the boundary wall, saying— ' Stop as you are, don't mind them.' Ihe speaker, we understand, was a near relative to the dying man. " Sexton, addressing the crowd, said, am going to die, and may I never enter the kingdom of God, if every word of what my prosecutors swore was not fal,e.' " Mr. Hennesey—Now, Sexton, if you persevere, you are wrong, and if you persist in making a dying declara tion, lat least will not be accountable. Do you forgive your prosecutors ? " Sexton—' I do froth the bottom of my heart, and all my enemies.' Again, addressing the crowd he said, I have a good deal to say, but the clergy won't allow me ; I forgive my prosecutors, and may the Lord have mercy on my soul—l will die with what brought me here— courage.' " Here was an undoubted ruffian—a murderer. He had made his peace with Heaven, as his creed tells him he can make it, by confession to his priest—a brother mortal and sinner. He was annealed, em balmed, ready to go out of the world : yet he was anxious to die with a lie in his mouth. He forgave his enemies; yet he accused the witnesses who had proved his crime, of perjury. Happily he had a spiritual adviser who was, to some extent, a check upon him :—an honest man, and a man considerate of the conscience of his unfortunate devotee. But what are we to think of such men as the attempting assassin of Sir Frederick Hopkins ? What of the numberless men who have attempted murder, or committed murder, and denied their offences on the scaffold ? Do Popish priests, unlike the party in this case. wink at such things ? The question is an awkward one, and we refrain. We are really tired of exposing the inventions of such papers as the Liverpool Albion. Of course his worship the Mayor has been above the meanness of conciliating the people who have to do with concoct ing the paragraphs which appear in this paper. We ourselves are said to have affected something like chivalry in defending the Mayor against the attacks of the Albion and his brethren. 'We cannot see anything chivalric about the matter. We are not " the organ" of the Mayor, or any other functionary. We are simply the organ of any man we see perse cuted by Whig-Radical spite. The poor puling beings, who do the mischief for the Albion, are as little in our eyes as any other libellers. We therefore pass over all the " Hey diddle did dle" of the Albion directed against ourselves. We have no " chuckling" to do; but we don't tell lies, and we don't allow the Albion to tell lies without calling him to account. We did so on a late occa bion. Wa. told our contemporary that a certain penny-a-line manufactured story of his was a manu facture from first tq last. It is so. There is no mistake about the sending in of the officer's card, which was vouched for by the Albion. There was no card sent in. As for the Mayor's servant not delivering the card, the idea is preposterous. The rest of the story, as to the second message, we re peat—and as our contemporary is not satisfied with plain language, we repeat it plainly—is a deliberate falsehood—a " lie with a circumstance"—the most enormous and barefaced of lies, inasmuch as inven tion is called in to aid dishonesty. We are really sorry to have to use this kind of language ; but there are people, it seems, who un derstand nothing more polite. We apologize espe cially to the respectable proprietors of the Albion, which used to he a paper as honest and courteous as it was talented. We could pardon the loss of the latter feature in our contemporary ; but when stu pidity is added to vulgarity, it is a duty which we owe to ourselves, who are attacked, to the public, whose ear is outraged, and to the proprietary, who, we are sure, do not wish their property to be made the vehicle of personal scurrility, to speak our sentiments. The Rev. Charles Henry Burton, M.A., of Corpus Christi College, Cambridge, has been appointed to sec. ceed the Rev. Dr. Iliff as Minister of St. Philip's Church, in this town. Patron, John Cragg, Esq. THE WEATHER AND THE CROPS.—From a somewhat extended observation, we may state that the wheat crop in this neighbourhood is by no means what we were led to expect from the favourable summer we have had. The late heavy rains, together with the hot weather, have caused the .grain to sprit in many fields we have seen, and in Orrell, Garston, and other places south of this town, and exposed to the wind, the wheat (not already housed,) has been laid down to a very considerable extent. So far as regards this locality, the soundness of the article cannot to any great extent be depended upon. Good wheat will be the exception, not the general rule. The other crops are upon the whole good. STEALING MEAT FROM ST. JOHN'S MARKET. —A woman named Margaret 'loves was yesterday charged, at the Police Court, with having stolen a quanti:y of meat from St. John's market. Mr. George Whittaker, of Rizh mond-row, said that., about eleven ;o'clock on Saturday night he was in the market and observed the prisoner going from standing : .to standing, but buying nothing. He at last saw her take a breast of lamb from a stall, which she walked away with, and gave to a girl near her who put it into a basket which she had in her hand. The prisoner was taken into custody, and it was o faterwards found that she bad also managed to purloin part of a neck of lamb, and three pieces of beef from different parties. She was committed for trial. NAVIGATION LAWS AND FREE TR ADE.-IM POR I'A.N I' PETITION RECEIVED PER THE CAMBRIA. We have before stated with sufficient distinctness our opinion that we must either, as the result of free trade, be prepared to see our most valuable colonies secede from their connexion with us, as from an onerous tie without its equivalent, or demand from us some concession which will tender them a burthen up )n the country rather than an advantage. Our readers know sufficiently what is our own opinion as to the importance and henefit to us of these colonies. They consume, n the ratio of their popu lation, more of our fabrics and of the products of cur in dustry, than foreign countries. They are, in this respect, counties of Great Britain, rather than colonies. They have our habits, our lancuage ; they feel with us and for us ; they favour our industry and prefer our manufac tures. We have legislated for them, moreover, as if, with regard to their imports, the fabrics which they are com pelled to consume, and the mode in which they dispose of and convey their exports, they were British soil, as they are inhabited by British subjects. We cannot, however, expect that our colonial fellow. countrymen can tamely sit down, when we abandon them, without an effort to save themselves from ruin. Our Canadian fellow-countrymen, we are glad to see, are not content to do so; but have laid before her Majesty the Queen a case most difficult to gainsay—loudly calling for legislative interference, and which appeals most forcibly to the sympathy of the British public. We give here the case in question, as stated in a petition from the mer chants and others of Canada West, which has been for warded to this country by the royal mail steamer Cam bria, for presentation to Royalty : TO THE QUEEN'S MOST EXCELLENT MAJESTY. The Petition of the Board of Trade of the town of Hamilton Humbly shrwelh,—That the proposed changes in the commercial policy of Great Britain are such as to cause serious apprehension in the minds of your petitioners, that the value of grain, one of the great staple produc tions of this colony, will be depreciated to such an extent as to prevent our farmers from being able to compete suc cessfully with the corn growing countries of the north of Europe, which have the advantage of proximity to Great Britain, cheapness of labour, and greater facilities of transportation. That whilst your petitioners are convinced of the ne cessity of strenuous exertions on the part of the people of this colony, in order, as far as may lie in their power, to neutralise the effects of these changes, they at the same time look for the co-bperation and assistance of your Ma jesty's Government in carrying out such measures of relief as may conduce to this end. That a large portion of the costs of our agricultural proceeds, before reaching Great Britain, (at present the only market open to us for our surplus,) consists of the expense of transportation, as will appear from the follow ing calculation of the present cost of conveying a barrel of flour from this port to the port of Liverpool, viz. Shipping charges and storage here... Os. 3d. currency Burlington Canal tolls Transportation to Kingston ........ Os. 6d. Ditto thence to Montreal • . 2s. Od. Insurance on lake and river........ Os. 2d. Equal, at 8 per cent. premium, to ster ling . Atlantic freight from Montreal to Liverpool.. Insurance, 1 percent. on 255. sterling Os. 3d. 3s. Id. Bs.lod. sterling. or more than one-third of its value in Great Britain. We would further represent to your Majesty, that a large portion of the best wheat growing districts of Ca nada West, namely, that part bordering on Lakes On tario and Er:e, is situated so as to be able to use to advantage the route via the Oswego and Erie Canals and Hudson River, thereby effecting a saving of time, in terest, insurance, and cost of transportation, when com pared with the route via the St. Lawrence, as will be shown by the following calculation of the present cost by this route, viz : a. d. Storage and Shipping charges here 3d., Canal Tolls, 2d Freight to Oswego, 6d. ; Freight to New York, 22c.; Canal Tolls, 18c 2 6 Lake Insurance 20s to 3s. 83... 3 cur. Equal in sterling at 8 per cent. premium, to.. 2 6 Freight to Liverpool. sterling 3s. Od. . Insurance, per cent. on 255..... Os. 21d... 3 2i 5 81 Showing a difference in favour of this route over that by the St. Lawrence at the pre sent time of ... That in addition to the foregoing advantage in point of cost of transport, the route via New . Y.rk is available earlier in the spring and later in the autumn than that by way of the St. Lawrence, the dangers and disadvantages of which we conceive to be so great as to lead us to express our decided and deliberate conviction that ship ment s from Montreal or Quebec cannot be made on such favourable terms either as regards freight or insurance as from New York. We would further humbly represent to your Majesty that up to the present time we have not been able to avail ourselves of this route, owing to the restrictive laws of the United States • but as these are in course of bein g modified, we will be in a position to export our produce through their territory, in bond, on favourable terms. Under these circumstances, we humbly pray that your Majesty and the Imperial Government would sanction the importation of Canadian produce into the ports of Great Britain, shipped in bond through the United States, on the same terms as if shipped direct from Canadian ports, under such regulations as may be deemed expe dient, such as the production of proper certificates of growth or manufacture from the Collector of Customs at the port of shipment in Canada, or in any other manner that may be deemed advisable. It may be urged that should the prayer of this petition be granted, the result would be to throw both the inland and Atlantic carrying trade into the hands of foreigners; we would, however, humbly submit that the interests in volved in the former are of minor importance when com pared with the g.eat and general benefits that would re sult to the agricultural interests they conferring the boon now asked for. While your petitioners conceive that British shipping may be employed in the carrying of our produce from New York as well as from the ports of Montreal or Quebec. In further confirmation of the importance of the prayer of this petition we humbly submit the following calcu lation. as showing the small proportion received by the agriculturists of this country of the value of his products in Great Britain,and as showing the importance to him of such a saving as that which would be effected by adopting the route via the United States, viz : _ _ Suppose value of flour in Liverpool, 255., deduct the following charges : Duty 71d, dock and town dues 2 d .... . Porterage receiving and delivering 2d, cartage to buyers, 14. d Yre insurance on sheds and interest and bank com. mission on duty ... If warehoused, additional cartage, porterage, ware house rent, fire insurance, &c., &c.. ... Commission and delcredere 4 per cent. on 255. .. 1 Atlantic freight 65., insurance 20s. Der cent., and policy 3d Sterling 16 1 Equal hfcurrency at 8 per cent. premium on ship board at Montreal Currency 19 3/- Shipping charges at Montreal as under : Cartage to store. Id., coopf.rage, 1/d., inspection, 2d., storage, 2d., cartage to ship, Id., wharfage. Id., shipping, 2d., insurance, Id. Freight from Kingston to Montreal .. 2 0 Insurance on river and lake, per cent. 0 2 Lake freight, 6d., Burlington Canal tolls, 2d.. wharfage, storage, and shipping, 3d., fire insurance. Id. .. 1 0 Interest, say an average of six months, on - 4 1 --4._ 15 2 205., at 6 per cent. - .. Carriage from interior, say Brantford, Paris, and other places similarly situated,. 13 0 Leaving only the small sum of 13s. currency to remune rate the farmers, equal, at 8 per cent. premium, to 10s. 10d. sterling per barrel. We humbly solicit that your Majesty would be graci ously pleased to grant the prayer of this petition, and your petitioners, as in duty bound, will ever pray. Can we, in justice, refuse the prayer of these peti tioners? Let us examine their position. They are our fellow•countrymen—our sons and our brothers. We have drawn them from their homes on British soil, to fertilize, by their industry, the woods and prairies of the far west, by the le2islative promise to foster their industry in preference to that of the foreigner. We have encou raged them by our legislation to incur heavy debts, for the purpose of carrying out works whose tendency is to pro mote the exclusive employment of British shipping in the transport of their goods to this country ; yet, without some measure of protection, those works are inoperative. The western farmers of the United States have the better of the farmers of western Canada. Their route to Great Britain is cheaper than the route by way of the St. Law rence. What is, then, the duty of the legislature of the mother country? Evidently, there are but two courses; and from adopting one of these we have already closed the door. The adoption of the principle of free trade pro hibits the adoption of any favoutitism, as to duties, towards the produce of our - colonies. We have, however, another course open to us. We may allow these fellow countrymen of ours, from whom we have withdrawn our protective code, to send their, goods by the route which they find the cheapest. We may allow them the same advant ages w hi c h th e y wou ld p osse ss if they were Ameri can subjects. Not for a moment do we insinuate that they wish to be such. But they must have fair play. Two races, with but a river or a lake to divide them, can not long be kept from fraternising, when to the one race connexion with us is a prohibition. Canada must send her Corn by the cheapest route, or she must become a portion of the American Union. She does not say this. Her loyalty prevents such expression of her feeling. But it must come to this. Even English men can forget their country, when their country forgets them. The document, which we have already quoted, suf ficiently shows the opinion of the Upper Canadians. The following, which we quote from a Montreal paper, may perhaps be equ 111, conclusive:— " At the present moment, there is, perhaps, no object of equal importance to the well-being of this colony then can he sought for from the mother country, as that of bringing about a repeal of the British navigation laws, in as far as they affect cur interests. Well may we exclaim, in the words of the memorial lately presentei to Govern ment by the Free Trade Association, " This colony is now labouring under the loss of protection on the one hand, and the crushing eff..cts of the severest restrictions on the other." Protection, or preference for our pro ducts in the markets of the mother country, there is now none of any value; but all the restrictions that were im posed on us as an equivalent for those lost advantages, are left in full vigour, depressing our industry and paralysing our commercial enterprise. "Whilst a reciprocal state of things existed, we were con tent, although, on a review of our past circumstances, we candidly believe that England had the best of the com pact. It was, in the language of Mr. Gladstone, " a mu tual sharing of benefits, or rather a mutual bearing of burdens." But now the case is altered : the benefits are destroyed ; but the burdens are left to oppress and gall the industry of our hard-working population. And what are the burdens? We cannot too often draw public at tention to them. First, the differental duties ; but next, and by far the most important, the restrictions imposed on our commerce by the ruinous operation of the British navigation laws. Let us not be misconstrued. Let no timid person turn upon us here, and accuse us of dis loyalty, or a desire to weaken the springs of England's naval grandeur. To such we would reply, that our love of country cannot be shaken, nor ought it to be ques tioned. But we have a duty to perform to ourselves, as well as our snccessors; and craven must be the individual among us who refuses, at this crisis, to exert himself to obtain those comprehensive reforms that our peculiar situation renders manifest and necessary. At present, we shall confine ourselves to the discussion of the most important of them,—the repeal, absolute with reference to Canada, of the British Navigation Laws! "Of what avail is it to the Canadian to raise abundant supplies of wheat and other staples for exportation while these laws are in force ? Can he procure their convey ance to British markets on as favourable terms as the far mer of the United States can forward his ? No. But why ? Because the British navigation laws restrict him to the use of British ships, depriving him of every option. and compelling him to use such at exorbitant rates of freight, although foreign vessels could be procured on greatly reduced terms. The interests of the Canadian farmer—nay, of the Canadian people—are thus yearly sa crificed to an extent that, we venture to assert, they have no adequate conception of. Averse to making unsup ported assertions, we will appeal to facts and figures to prove what we affirm respecting the intolerable effects of this monopoly of our carrying trade thus unjustly secured to the British shipowner. Let us compare the rates of freight between New York on the one hand, and Mon treal on the other, and Great Britain, that have been current during the present summer; and the result will be seen to bear out what we have asserted. Rates of Freight current at New York in the year 1846. To Liverpool. May 13.... 2s. 3d. per barrel. Bd. per bushel. „ 30....35. 9d. „ 9 9 June 13.... 3s. ft 9d. „ „ 27....35. ~ Sd. „ July 11.... 2s. 3d. ~ Bd. „ ~ H. ... 2s. 3d. ~ Bd. „ Average.. , . 2s. 6d. Sid. Rates of Freight current at Montreal in the year 1846. To Liverpool. May 18.... 4s. 31. per barrel. Ss. 3d. per quarter. , 28.... 4s. 3d. „ 83 . 3d. „ June 11.... ss. 3d. ~ 9s. 3d. „ „ 26....65. PP 10s. II Jetly 11....65. ft 10s. PI „ 22.... ss. 9d. „ 10s. PP ------- Average ...ss. lid. 9s. 31d. per quarter. Is. 211 per bushel. " What do these tables exhibit? An average loss to the Canadian producer of 2s. 7d. stg., or nearly 3s. 2d. cy. per barrel on his flour, and 531. stg., or about 7d. cy. per bushel on his wheat, by being restricted to the employ ment of British vessels. Canada will this year, in all probability, export fully 450,000 barrels of flour, and 400,000 bushels of wheat, besides other staples of great importance, but we will restrict our calculations to those main articles for the sake of clearness and brevity; and what amount of loss will be entailed on our producers in consequence of the laws complained of ? A simple calcu lation will show it to be no less than £71,250 on flour, and £16,666 13s. 4d. on wheat, making a total. of £87.916 13s. 4d. on these two articles alone ! Will it be believed that the country is in its senses, if it submit any longer to such manifest injustice, without maki , g an effort to get rid of the laws that oc casion it ! Why should this colony make a yearly sacri fice of nearly £90,000 for the benefit of the British ship owner ? We appeal to it then, as friends having one common interest to be up and doing. Let the whole country arouse itself, and petition, Besiege the imperial parliament with petitions, while it is yet in session ; let the country present, as it were, one unanimous petition against the continuance of these ovressive laws. Op pressive, did we say ?—nay, iniquitous towards Canada, if their maintenance is persevered in after their effects are are clearly pointed out." We cannot question the loyalty of our Canadian fellow countrymen. But we ask of her Majesty's Ministers— can they expect two millions of industrious people, how ever loyal, to cling long to a connexion which offers them only the worst part of a bargain ? We observe the arrival in our river yesterday of the splendid new Glasgow trader " Sapphire." This vessel is certainly a gem of surpassing beauty, and adds another superior vessel to the fine line of traders, " Opal," " Topaz," " Amethyst," &c., for which Messrs. M'Ar thur and Co. are agents. CRICKET.—A single-wicket match will be played this day, between*Mr. Cambridge of the Edge-hill. and Mr. J. F. Rose of the Olympus Cricket Club, on the Edge hill ground. Hall-lane, Kensington. The wickets will be pitched at 5p m. A good deal of money is pending on the result, the friends of each being sanguine of victory. SPORTING. — There is no great abundance of game in the neighbourhood of such a town as this. We may state, however, to the regret of those interested, that the poachers have already been at work, and several fine coveys which had been seenhave, we fear, disappeared. The birds were well grown, strong on the wing, and sucn as sportsmen would wish them to be on the Ist of Septem ber. Four coveys, recently seen near Garston, have already been pvt hors-de-eombat by depredators. ROBBERY AT THE PRINCE'S BANQUET AT 'IFIE TOWN-HALL, AND AT THE LICENSED VICTUALLERS' DINNER.—At the Police court, yesterday, a respectable looking elderly female, named Susan Handles, was com plained against as having stolen from the Town-hall a small brass pan, the property of the corporation of Liver pool, on the night of the royal banquet, and also, of hav ing subFequently stolen a broom, &c., from the Licensed Victuallers premises, in St. Anne-street, on the night .of their annual dinner, on the 15th instant. The prisoner had been employed on both occasions to assist in the cuisine. Some things having been missed at the latter place, and suspicion having fallen on the prisoner, her house, in the neighbourhood of St. Anne-street, was searched by two police-officers, who found not only the besem, (be'eneng to Mr. Towers, of the Angel Inn) but the pan, both of which were identified. The prisoner said she had received the pan, full of soup, from the head cook, at the Town-hall, and bad intended to return it, ut being called to see her daughter, who was in child- Led in C! e,hire, she had not had time to do so. She ad ded, that with respect to the besom, she had been allowed to sweep up some potatoe parings, &c., at the Licensed Victuallers' house, and to take them ; that the brush happened to be amongst them, and that, from the reason before stated, she bad not had time to ascertain whether it belonged to Mr. Towers, who had provided the dinner, or to the victuallers, but that she intended to return it also. She had, it appeared, told a different story rela tive to the pan to one of the police-officers, and under the circumstances Mr. Rushton committed her for trial. A daughter of the prisoner, who appeared to be much dis tressed, addressed the magistrate, stating that she had witnesses in court who could speak to the good character of her mother, but the case appeared to be too palpable to admit of th-irbeing heard atthis stageof the proceedings. SPLENDID PAINTING AT MR. GRUNDY'S.—We had yesterday the pleasure of a cut sory examination of a splendid painting " Feeding the Horses," by J. F. Her ring, senior, Esq., now on private view at Mr. Grundy's repository, Church street. The subject is one of intense interest, representing a scene of rustic magnificence, " A Halt with Horses, and refreshments beneath the cool shade of Mine Host's' Gateway," a subject the artist has handled with that powerfully graphic pencil that has ad vanced him to the envious position of a leading artist of the modern school ; dwelling not on the delicacy of finish, the elaborate detail, or beauty of conception, we must pronounce it a splendid composition. which, though dif fering in subject and style from any we have seen pre viously by the same talented painter, partakes of all that warmth of feeling so fully exhibited in his other produc tions. It is truly said, that however talented an artist may be, he will ultimately find a rival ; and this picture, which is painted as a companion to Landseer's Shoeing," goes far to prove the ve:acity of that assertion, and will doubtless place the painter as a delineator of animal life in the hignest reputation amongst the admirers of British art. The subject is an exceedingly happy one. A fine modelled chestnut horse forms the principal -feature of the picture, which is being fed from a riddle by the os tler, a brawny Scotchman, who is seated on a tub looking intently at " a Grey" that is held by a Scotch lassie, whose simple attiee—a blue petticoat and a gracefully f o lding wrapper—adds a lustre to her simple but beau tiful and expressive countena nce . The muscular arm of the ostler is admirably depicted, as also is the dra oCfhietsstnmuteci, bwihdossedefiesynecesetoemosurbdenet. In drawing, it i s f a i t hf u l to lif e , an d " harmoniously wa rm — t h e hi g h li g ht s with the powe r f u ll y tone d shades— thattsopmhcen rer dra pery theent;oiosasupnotudi invisibly n v g t e v h y i sseoiorb y powers. it not only gives a rotundity, but an indescribable semblance to nature. The saddle sits beautifully and the perpendicular hanging of the stirrup greatly increases the effect that the well-fed silken coated animal presents. The back ground, like many of Landseer's is an archway, from which a depth of tone is derived that throws forward powerfully the whole of the figures. In detail the pro duction is equally admirable. The poultry (the plumage of which is varied soft and delicate) —picking the scattered grain from the pavement—the " iron-bound bucket"— the gothic window, filled with exotics—the horse-cloth— are pleasing subjects introduced by the heightened imagi nation of the painter. Our space precludes us from further detail. We must urge our readers to take their . earliest opportunity of viewing the picture itself. A ug. 18, 1840. CONSOLATORY TO THE BRITISH FARMER. In the debate upon the New Tariff Bill, in the American senate, Mr. Al`Duffie, after highly eulogising Sir Robert Peel for repealing the Corn Law, gave his opinion that, under the operation of a free trade in grain, "in less than t , n years the Missisippi valley would export fifteen millions of produce to England, in exchange for manu factures, at one-half the cost under the protecttee system." Of course the Missisippi valley is not to have the privi lege of supplying us all to itself. The Ohio and other valleys will put in a claim ; and Hungary, Poland, and Russia, are ready to enter the lists. From all these sources the supply must, in time, become quite plethoric; and the difficulty will be, not to procure grain and flour, hut to find stomachs to put it in. John Bull is emphati cally an eating animal ; but, unfortunately, he cannot eat all the corn of all the fine valleys of America and the rest of the world, even if supplied at half price, and paid for in calicoes. It is clear, however, that we must get our digestive powers in order for the impending surfeit ; and equally clear that the British agriculturist may turn his plough share into a loom, his spade into a shuttle or a spindle, and his fields into bleach crofts, as soon as he likes. 11 is present avocations cannot be very profitable ones, with wheat at " one-half the cost" it was under the protective system. We may cease to trouble ourselves with questimis of currency, bank notes, and bullion, since cottons and woollens are to become our only circulating medium. HOUSE OF COMMONS.-SATURDAY. After a considerable amount of mere routine business had been transacted. the order of the day was read for the third reading of the British Possessions Bill. On the motion that the bill be read a third time, The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER said that be in tended to bring up a clause which would introduce such amendments into the bill as would obviate the objections of Mr. Gonlburn, and as would prevent the colonial legislatures from levying unfair discaiminating duties on British produce and manufactures. Lord G. BENTINCK objected to the bill as a measure destroying the monopoly of the British manufacturers, and producers in the British colonies, and as overturning the whole system on which those colonies had hitherto been managed. He contended that the passing of the Corn Bill, and the prospect of the passing of the Sugar Bill, had not produced the anticipated effect of securing the prosperity of our manufacturers. At various places in Lancashire and Yorkshire the master manufacturers had given notice of their intention to make a reduction of 5 per cent. in the wages of tbeir wcrkmeu, on the ground that they could stand reduction, as the price of food was cheaper. I❑ consequence of the fall of the price of wheat, the farmers would not purchase manufactures, until they saw whether they could pay for them ; and in Canada flour and timber had already sunk so much in value, that one house alone had recalled an or der for £lOO,OOO worth of dry goods to be sent to that colony. Under such cir cumstances the manufacturers could ill afford to lose the monopoly of the colonial market; and be therefore called upon the house to pause before it gave a third reading to a measure so important, introduced at so late a period of the session. As this bill would also ultimately abolish the navigation laws, he felt it his duty to move, that it be read a third time that day three months. Lord J. RUSSELL defended the bill, contending thatwe ought not to expose the colonies to the disadvantages, when we took from them all the advantages of protection. It the manufacturing and agricultural part of the popula tion had a right to consume the cheapest sugar they could get, the colonies were also entitled to have their provisions and manufactures at as cheap a rate as they could be ob tained. He declined, upon this occasion, to follow his noble riend into that discussion, o n th e policy of the na vigation laws, into which he had so recklessly entered. Mr. SPOONER declared his intention of voting in favour of the amendment, for he thought that the colonies ought not to be entrusted with such a power of imposing differ ential duties, as would enable them to establish a mono poly against the mother country. Mr. BRIGHT turned the manufacturing experience of Lord G. Bentinck into utter ridicule, by showing that it was chiefly derived from the columns of the Standard newspaper. lie denied that wages were falling in the manufacturing districts ; asserted that the statement to that effect which had appeared in some of the journals was totally false; and declared that, as the price of food was now low, and the demand for labour abundant, the manufacturing population had never enjoyed such great physical comforts as at the present moment. He refuted the various arguments advanced by Lord G. Bentinck, and concluded by expressing his gratification at the intro duction of the present measure. After some further discussion, in which Mr. Bernal, Mr. B. Escott, and Mr. Brotherton supported, and Mr. Henley, Sir H, Douglas, Mr. M. Gore, and Mr. Newde gate opposed the bill, the house divided, when there ap peared, for the amendment, 8; against it, 47; majority against ir, 39. - The bill was then read a third time and passed. The house then disposed of the other orders of the day and adjourned. The Bishop of Winchaster consecrated a new church and cemetery adjoining, in the island of Guernsey, on Tuesday. Geo. Hudson, Esq., M.P., has subscribed £2O towards the fund fur the relief of the widow and daughter of the late unfortunate Haydon, the painter. WESTMIIk:STER BRlDGE.—Yesterday, notice was given to the public by the Commissioners of Westminster bridge that the thoroughfare for carriages would be closed till further notice on and after Saturday the 15th instant. T. C. Foster, Esq., the Times' Commissioner, and formerly a reporter on the LIVERPOOL STANDARD, who has been recently called to the bar, appeared at our Assizes in his robes yesterday. He looked extremely well. INQUESTS.—Yesterday, before P. F. Curry, Esq., in quests were held, first, on the body of a child, named w C h h i rt c p h p 1 e h , who ber been s o i d e o d v e w a i a t i h o , h — er y o p r a d r i e c n t tsin accordingly.—Se condly, on view of a female named Margaret Ryley, aged 34, who kept a lodging-house in Plueobe-street. The de ceased had been subject to fainting fits, and, on going to bed, fell down a few steps of the stairs, and, though she did not complain at the time, it appeared that, on a post mortem examination, she had died of concussion of the brain. Verdict accordingly. INTERRUPTING A STREET PREACHER.—A young man was yesterday brought before Mr. Rushton, charged by a police officer with having made some dissentient re marks to a preacher in the street, which gathered an ad ditional crowd, and caused some commotion. The defendant (who had got at large on bail) said that be had happened to differ from the doctines held forth by the preacher, and had certainly interrupted him by a remark; but that the preacher did not quarrel with him for what he had said, but mer,ly told him he would argue the point with him after his congregation bad dispersed. Mr. Rushton said that, no doubt the preacher had the best intentions towards the people around him, of nhatsoever opinions he might himself be, and that it was very wrong to annoy or disturb him. With this rebuke he discharged the prisoner. ROBBERY OF MONEY ON BOARD SHlP.—Yesterday, a boy named David M'Arthur was brought before Mr. Rushton, at the Police-court, charged with robbing a seaman, named Harrigan, on board of the Commodore, complainant,Glasgowste a fine - lookin g -sbip,o man, ntleirp and sag also eto a witnessthisport.h The wo was on board, proved, in effect, that while the parties had lain down to rest before they landed here, the pri soner ransacked the pockets of complainant of a half sovereign and a quantity of silver. The act was observed by one of the witnesses, and about 15s. was found on the prisoner when he was apprehended. It appeared that the latter had come from Scotland ostensibly in search of work. As the complainant had made an engagement to go to sea from this port in a few days, Mr. Rushton committed him for trial at the present Assizes, so that the party aggrieved may not be compelled to relinquish his voyage, by waiting until the next Borough Quarter Sessions. It is of some importance that the public should know that summary jurisdiction before the bo rough Magistrates (and which is legally restrictive) need not be resorted to in such cases, and be a sort of salvo for a guilty party, as the Learned Judge who pr' sides in the criminal court will be always found ready and willing to try such cases during his stay, which would be other wise sent for adjudication before the Recorder. FRAMES FOR THE SAILORS' HOME.—TO those of our readers who intend framing their engravings of the Sai lors' Home, we would recommend an inspection of the many beautiful designs in papier mache, by Air. J. R. Keys, of the Music-hall, Bold-street, some of which may be seen at our office. Many of the frames are expressly adapted in design to the architectural style of the build ing, and their appearance being equal to that of the most elaborate carvings, they give a richness and beauty to anything they encircle. A notice of papier mache, from the Art-Union, appears as an advertisement in another part of our paper. SHIPPING INTELLIGENCE. MONDAY, AUGUST 17, — Wind S.W. ARRIVED.—Swan, Taylor, from St. John, N.B.—aud Louisa, Preitz. from Rita. SAT LED.—Undaunted, Whitewas. for Valparaiso—Schoodiac, Griffin, for St. Stephen—Emanuel, Burn. for Quebec—Dumbar ton. Pendleton. for New Orleans—Mary. Page, for Montreal — Den Unge Svaine, Wulff, for Iceland—Nancy, Way. for Dordt —Fern Sodskende, Neilson, for Bergen—Pickwick, Cornish, for Valparaiso—John, Politz. and Caroline, Ahrens, for Riga— Oporto, Barnes, for Oporto—Pereciosa , Soundberg, for Stock holm—amd Michigan, Mason. for Portland. John Peat, Guthrie, from ttio Grande. at Valparaiso LIVERPOOL COTTON MARKET, AUG. 17. The demand for Cotton to-day has been very considerable, and the sales reach 7000 bales, not only without animation, but accompanied by an amount of deadness and dullness as is sel dom felt with such an extent of business. 1000 bales of the above are by speculators, and 2500 of them are Surats, almost entirely for one house. LIVERPOOL CATTLE MARKET, AUG. 17. We have had a limited supply of all kinds of stock at our market to-day, with a numerous attendance of buyers from all parts—the whole of which was sold at an advance in price from our last quotations. Beef Sid to 61d per b. ; Mutton qd to 7d ; Lamb 6ad to 7d. DIED. On the lath instant, JANE, second daughter of the late ARTHUR ELLISON. Esq. Same day, aged 16, SUSAN, only daughter of Mra CAMP BELL, Catherine -street. Same day, at her father's house, in Gill-street, aged 33 , ELLEN, youngest daughter of Mr. MACAULEY. LIVERPOOL : TUESDAY, AUG. 18, 1846. PRINTED AND PUBLISHED EVERY TUESDAY MORNINGS BY JOSHUA FLETCHER LACE, of 53. 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