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

i'Ve are a, TO CORRESPO,NDENTS. ate that it v of attendihi d at St s never contemplated to pproaching Confir fide's Church, to members or the spondent who addre , a better apply to the L We know nothing E TUESDAI The Lea ploy th ipon t accom Etberpou system DEAR YOU %Ili lately incurred for canals which England's adoption of free trade makes comparatively useless, thus leaving Canada the prospect of direct taxation, to reduce still more her diminished resources. Let England, also, not only repeal Mr. Gladstoiie's act, (which imposes the imperial duties,) but get Canada free trade with the United States. If these things are not done, the only way to preserve Canada from immediately attaching itse.f to the Ame rican Union, is for the Parliament cf Canada (instead of taking off the three shillings) to place on our frontier the same duty of two dollars per quarter, which the Americans charge on Canadian wheat entering the United States; and farther, a duty of twenty per cent. on every other article entering Canada, whether from Britain or the United States, the imperial duty being deducted from said twenty per cent. in the case of foreign goods; for as England gives the colony no advantage, she, of course, expects none from Canada. As it is the policy of a family, so it is the policy of an independent province 'for free trade with all the world entirely detaches our interest from the mother country) to buy or import as little as possible for which its own labour cannot be paid, or otherwise for which cash is demanded; and there is no doubt on my mind that it will new become an object both in Canada and in Ireland to check foreign imports (including British) for which they can never pay after they cease :o get English gold for their produce, or through emigration. In the now enlarged state of the province' however. and looking to the advantages 's banking, wheat by England, we might have acceded to her desire that the three shillings' duty be removed, if her adoption of free trade had not imposed on us the duty of retaining any controul of our own colonial affiirs, which we con: stitutionally can exercise in securing justice to the colo nists, in reference to the province'. debt, &c. &C. Parties connected with the Montreal interest have again and again remarked to me that Canada West r at all ev:nts, can compete in the English market with Ohio wheat ; my answer has been, that they very much under-rate the in telligence of the farmer of Canada West in supposing that he does not see that hereafter the New York market will give a higher price than the English one, and that the Americans will only use the- English market for the sweepings of the New York market ; so that even if they make an apparent loss on what they ship to England, the American farmer may have a profitable AVERAGE when the Canadian farmer will have al/ his wheat sold at the miserable price in England. In England, we are told; too, that the consumption of the troops, for our flour, is great, whereas we know that the Commissaries (in the Westward, at all events,) bring in their supplies from the United States (and decline to pay the three shillings' duty). They prefer American at the same price, because they say this is the only means of getting the Canadian farmer to give it for a lower price And sincerely hoping that peace and prosperit .may be continued to the province by' the firm and wise decisions of the provincial parliament now assembling, I am, dear Sir, your obdt. humble servant, ISAAC BUCHANAN. Glasgow, 3rd March, 1846 DANIEL MACNAB, ESQ., VICE-PRESIDENT HAMILTON DEAR SIR, BOARD OF TRADE * * * —The introduction of free trade into England, which I predict will prove " a heavy blow and great discourage ment" to all the existing interests of this country, but es pecially the manufacturing and mechanical trades, now demands imperatively the ACTIVITY of the Hamilton Board of Trade. On THE PROSPERITY OF THE PRODUCTIVE CLASSES OF CANADA, whether agricultural, manufacturing, or me chanical, (all really hingeing on the farmer,) depends en tirely our continued connection with England. It England were to step forward, and do some GREAT MEASURE for Canada, such as paying our debt, and rais ing up a great TRADE OF EXPORTS from Canada to the States, it would be for you to consider the English ship- ping interest But if England does not immediately move in some al leviation of your circumstances, let the inhabitants of Ca nada repudiate England's interference in your trade regu lations, and hail the United States' bill allowing flour, &c., to pass through in bond to the Atlantic. Believe me to continue, dear sir, yours faithfully, ISAAC BUCIIAD:AN P.S.—I communicate a copy of this, and all my other letters, to the Government in London, for NOW IS THE TIME ; and we have especially to meet with stern con tempt Mr. Ilume's motion "with the view of making the colonies of some use hereafter to England, as they had been none in the past!" This iz meant ju-t to try to frighten us from resistance to Sir Robert Peel's suicidal • measure. I. B. It must strike_our readers as tolerably plain, from the expression of such sentiments by a gentleman holding the distinguished station and possessing the influence which Mr. Buchanan exercises in the country of his adoption, that, so far as Canada is concerned, the loss to Great Britain of the usefulness in the first instance, and ultimately of the allegiance, of those noble possessions must be the inevitable result of the carrying out in full of the Free-trade policy, upon which we have fatally embarked. Vast enough are the evils which must attend the cession of that colony. We thus extirpate the last remnant of well-regulated monarchical institutions in the American continent ; and virtually proclaim to the miserable in every state of Europe that such in stitutions are fit only for them—are fit only for countries whose industry is steeped in wretchedness. But we resign more than this, great as is the sacri fice. We proclaim as worthless and untenable the tie which binds together this country and her whole colonial empire, We throw from us the only mar kets in exchange for whose valuable products we can rely upon furnishing returns, of which British labour is the greatest component part. In Canada we give away boundless tracts of virgin soil in the healthiest climate in the world; and in our tropical possessions we resign, wickedly and wantonly, opportunities and instruments which an Almighty Creator appears to have bestowed upon us for the purpose of working out the great problem of the cultivation of the soil of such climes and the gathering in of their riches, un soiled by human blood, and uncursed with the taint of slavery. _ _ _ In resigning, moreover, to their fate our posses sions in temperate climes—in Canada, in Australia, and other lands for whose cultivation the constitu tion of British subjects is fitted—we give up the only patrimony of the poor of our own count ry ; we break many a hope which looks forward from penury and suffering, as the reward of their unremitting toil at home, to comfort and competence in those far off lands, whither friends and relatives have gone before them and are thriving beneath the fostering care and protection of British laws. To the inmates of many a sad and desolate cottage in these realms, who are, at this moment, pining and struggling to realise that hope, and to transport their labour into these fertile possessions, the news of this direful change in our policy, will be a blow which must prostrate all their bright anticipations, and fall upon their stricken hearts with a weight which can only be withdrawn when the kind hand of death releases the immortal portion of their being from the dross which binds it to earth. es us on the subject of Annui. 1 Saving's Bank. referred to as ,on Friday. The rd it in his next, unless ns of the delinquent ensure accorded to polit cal op• e Police Court, more venal offences klaitDarb. MORAING, MARC!' 10, 1846 up, that the price it Robert Peel has f food h.s no bear our ability to em- v-or by of serious refu )f the arguments and on w ettect of cl atistics is basec , do not Dear s produced by foreign her do they take into considera- of ou manufacturing po ct of the displace- labour, ant facturing districts. It is perfectly obvious, V Quarter of foreign wheat sold in Eng iich the foreign la iin amount of native to, the demand for cultivation of wt and diminishes pro to bvious that the ma mately be compelled m of his industry to spossessed agriculturist will TIT upon him to accept. g operative must iodate the r fant state of s ,e:y, such as that existing in our colonies, the question of the measures now before Parliament is, from the simpler and less in ate state of things which we find there, more ly traced and more obvious. At home, the effect of rendering profitless agricultural ope and thereby diminishing the demand for Ira' labour, will be merely to drive such nto the numerous other channels of em t which offer themselves on every hand. possibly, the change may not be severely ultimately it will be so felt and ex ce over the entire labour market. kt first where no other avocations, , offer themselves for r to resort to, it must be felt at once, iffering and ruin which is and its concomitants may by the labourer and the ation of the soil Free tr for a whil lurist in the )ther country ; in our colo al absence of protection can- ured for a day But in our cc De toter The stand which we made last week in favour of Sir Howard Douglas's views upon this subject, or, 'n other words, in behalf of those mighty feeders g—her colonies—has earned g land's greatnes us the favour of a communication from Mr. Isaac Buchanan, a member of the legislature of Canada, laying before us his views as to what must be the immediate course, in the emergeney in which we are placing it, of that most interesting and impor- because the nearest in blood, in feeling, and in the character of its institu tions to England herself. We give here the sub stance of Mr. Buchanan's communication, and of to wi hich it refers, because we conceive tal importance at the present mo ters in question were addressed by s of great influence in the colony by st sailed, copies being also furnished usie, president of the board of trade, dstone, secretary for the colonies, and the sociation of London, a body, g their high individual king only the English, and not the Canadian,view of the interests of Canada. It will be seen, that as a Canadian, he anticipates that his provincial legislature will at once protect, _ _ _ by heavy du - the steamer Ju to Lord Dalho North erican while aeknowledgin s, the Canada home market, for its i for its manufactures, as this will in no rive them of getting the English price for 1 Meat. r oierplus w nan says that the same course must en in Ireland. He considers the lrn Law, or of "protection to na -3 industry," as virtually the repeal of the union with Ireland ! Irish labour must be protected, for it is of too little, not too much employment that the Irish people have cause to complain ; and Irishmen, he conceives, will not now submit to take the linens of 'the German, the wheat of the Pole, or the to bacco of the American, to the exclusion of the em their own people, in growing or manu .es. Mr. O'Connell's sup i'ngland, he suggests, may r Robert Peel, with all his Mr. Bticl ately be tal I of the C, ployment of free trade thus mean more than t, is aware of Mr: Buchanan s Canada) I now advocate (as what ought to be done in s what I always advocated : the former practice d, and the present practice of the United States; tariff of the Americans (tho' roving of it) as a rebellion against their e always viewed from national interests, astitutions will gradually a, and attain that permanency which s or free& nce that and are now of government presented to the is republicanism, professing to I principles), or, more properly, for the time being, in the mob—a lies in its aptitude to change; in , olution ! And there is the British e two sor of Canada sed on theories ers of opinion, wnose saret r its annual ri .___-.,-a SYSTEM OF NATIONAL INTERESTS AND &EDIT. of honour, and of permanent character. The howed how much they monarch Canadians prefer the latter to the former system. The last steamer from Liverpool, however, carries them the startling news . that Sir Robert Peel has, in the destruction of the national interests, and groundwork 0,,t national credit of England, removed the foundations of the monarchy, giving the empire all the evils of republicanism, with none of its advantages. We have our vital interests in the sower of a hundred Apostates, without the check of an itnnual hustings There can be no question that the case " of native industry" in the mother country as well as that of the colonies will be a very cruel one, under the corn peCtion to which they will be submitted in their own markets (which is their only fair field) by the untaxed surplus, or sweepings, of ail the markets in *:. :Nothing but our machinery can carry as through the unequal struggle; and all trade in which manual labour constitutes the great part of the cost must be destroyed. We are sorry, too, to observe that Mr. Buchanan , n ' as considering themselves practi liz and having now no ula interest in their country, the Canadian `-nbility, remain passive in case of a Ti so, the consequences will be e mere loss of Canada. tiers of Mr. Buchanan, to crated from the war with Am far more serious than We give here the which we have made r Glasgow.2Sth February, I S IG. lAMILTON MERRITT, ESQ., MEMBER FOR LIN- TO WM COLN IN TE ARMAMENT OF CANADA t this suicidal measure Me the case of poor land in England, whose yield be increased, which cannot continue to be cul(i tainty of a fair price, and rade, go back into woods. atcd at all, except with t st, and annected with Canada, there are two great consider- ations or interests. ht. The Canadian inter( Farmer, and of the manuf t, or the prosperity of the Aurers, and mechanics of Canada 2d. The En.olish inte rest, or the prosperity of British Zipping and the titnt is the 1 All the ' Tontreal I and their friends in Lon r, and all they demand from f the Colonies is, what they have all along that the 33. duty on wheat coming from the don, care a United Sta► It v s when I beta moved I that the presence of these parties in Lohdon is rather an iiljury than a benefit to Canada, that I saw the necessity of bringing the case of Canada before the independent members of the Imperial Parliament ; which I did in the two letters I now enclose, nt to every member in both s of which were House I have always seen that the humbug of free trade, as a general application, is worse than the quackery of Morri son's pills, in- lotions, in their constitutions and than men do. %much as r tauces, differ mor But as regaids Canada West, you will be unanimous in your views if the majority of the Toronto Board of Trade will assert their own opinions which originated the i ody, the sole object of which (besides the regulation of the mere details of trade) was to guard the interests of those whose factors, as it were, they felt themselves to be, viz., the productive industry of Canada, whether agricultural, manufacturing, or mechanical (which all derive their vi tality from the prosperity of the farmer.) If free trade is introduced into England, by Sir Robert Peel being successful in carrying bis measure, my advice to the farmers of Canada, and their representatives, is to refuse to take off the 3s. duty on American wheat enter ing the province, unless they wish themselves (shorn of all constitutional power) to be led like sheep to the slaughter. Let England first relieve the provinces of the large debt Upon the destinies of those already settled in our colonies upon the faith of British protection and continued connexion with the land which, even fora better, they left sorrowing, we shall not speculate. Their fate is, in a great measure, in their own hands. They may seek other ties, other protection, which they have not found from the country of their birth and of their love. But the parting struggle will not be one of pleasant feeling. Loyalty—love of coun try—love of friends and relations—old associations, are things which it wrings the heart to throw away, even in the purchase of more prosperous fortunes and better guaranteed hopes. Such feelings, how _ .„,. ; ever, are not understood by those philosophers upon his case be- whose bidding, alas, the legislature of Great Britain And other disadvantages, just .th,e is now acting. _ _ _ We are happy to learn that there is still a possi bility that her Majesty's ministers may be brought to a sense of the justice of some concessions being made to the Canadian interests,—not however in the shape of a direct protection,—to ward off from them a portion, at least, of the injury, which must be dealt against them by the passing of the present measures in an unmitigated shape. On Thursday a deputation of gentlemen interested in the trade and agriculture of Canada had a long interview with Mr. M`Gregor, of the Board of Trade ; and, we be lieve, succeeded in removing some of the misappre hensions entertained by government, as to the real feelings and position of the bulk of the Canadian people, and extracting from him a promise to lay their suggestions before its members, for their se rious consideration. This encouraging fact ought to operate upon all well-wishes of their Canadian fellow-countrymen to come forward and join their earnest remonstrances and entreaties to those of Mr. Isaac Buchanan and the 'other gentlemen, who are making so noble a stand in behalf of the mainte nance, in its integrity, of our colonial empire. The Right Hon. Baronet Sir James Graham, is, beyond all doubt, the unlucky genius of Sir Robert Peel's government. Nothing in which he interferes seems to prosper. Every measure which he takes charge of is either bungled or is rendered distasteful and odious. If his voice is raised in the House in an endeavour to allay the heat of party, or to sta ve off an unpleasant or untimely motion, its cert a i n effect is to throw in a fresh infusion of bitterness, and to increase the determination and obstinacy of the opponent, to whom he addresses his entreaties. There is a supercilious flippancy in his demeanour, and an evident fondness for manoeuvre in his par liamentary tactics,, which repel confidence and THE LIVERPOOL STANIAED. friendship, and cause every word that drops from him to be weighed and scrutinised, as if behind it there was a latent meaning, opposed to that which it conveys when used by candid speakers. In ad dition to these unfortunate qualities, there is, in the Home Secretary, a wilful perverseness f tem per, which will not allow him to see and to yield gracefully to the weight of parliamentary or public opinion against him, and which not unfrequently places himself and his colleagues in positions of nfinite humiliation. An instance of this is before us, in the result of the debate in the House of Com mons upon a motion by Mr. Etwall, the member for Andover, on Thursday night The later advices from the theatre of War in the Pun jaub have brought us nothing of a decisive character. No further engagement was known to have taken place, up to the departure of the mail. So far as our information car ries us, however, it is too clear that we have on hand, in that part of India, a task which it will require our utmost strength to enable us to perform in such a sat'sfactory and triumphant manner as to advance, or even maintain, th e reputation of the British arms and power in India. The successes achieved by our forces, in the unequal struggle to which they were submitted at Moodkee and Ferozeshab, purchased as they were at so vast an expenditure of valua ble lives, are events upon which to congratulate ourselves. They prove that we have amongst those forces, both Euro pean and native, the right stuff by which the victories of Great Britain have ever been gained, and her empire and influence in the East and throughout the world have been extended and secured. The result of those successes, however, we regret, has not been sufficiently great to bring about the early conclusion of the struggle. We have checked the insolent invasion of our territories by the Sikh army ; but we have not struck hard enough as yet to deter them from the pursuit of their rash enterprise. They still occupy, on the oppositetank of the Sutlej, we find, a formidable attitude. Although 70 of their guns, and a vast quantity of warlike stores, fell into our hands In the course of the last session the public mind was startled and horrified by the disclosure of a practice , existing in some of the union workhouses of this country, and particularly in that of the Andover Union, disgraceful to humanity, and be traying an amount of suffering and degradation amongst the wretched paupers who were submitted to it, which few men, not initiated into the secret of the iniquities of the new poor law system, could have imagined to be found in a Christian land. We refer to the practice of employing the paupers in the disgusting office of pounding putrid bones for manure. We use the word "pounding" in pre ference to "crushing," the latter of which suggests the application of machinery, when, in the present case, the bones were pounded in mortars, by hand. Mr. Mundy, a magistrate, and a member of the Andover Board of Guardians, deposed o 9 oath that, STATE OF THE AMERICAN COTTON MARKET, " Accompanied by two guardians and medical men, he examined ten paupers; all, with the exception of two, ad mitted that they were constantly in the habit of eating the mirrow and gristle from the bones. They eat it from old bon's, mraning those that had some moisture remain ing in them, but still were in a state of decompositio , and some had been in heaps two or three months—they eat it from these as well as from the fresh ones. The circular of Messrs. Wright and Lewin, of this town, containing the state of the New York cotton mar ket, gives us the dates of February 16, from New York ; February 4, from New Orleans ; February 7, from Mo bile ; February 6, from Savannah. and February 7, from Charleston. On these dates, freights from New York to this port were Id. to 5-16 d. ; from New Orleans, 13-32 d. to 7.16 d. ; Mobile, 7-16 d. ; Savannah, 5-16 d. s. 3-Bd. r. ; Charleston, 3-Bd. to 7-16. The following is the informa tion given us of the state of the New York market : Some of these bones were in a state of decomposition, having lain in the workhouse yard for two or three months; and thoup.,h:it was supposed to be the principle of the Andover Union that dry bones alone should be crushed, yr.t t ere was no instance on record where fresh and clean bones were furnished, whether received from a distance, or collected in Andover and the adjoining villages. " When a beef bone, or chine bone was turned out of the heap, there was a scramble for it, described like a parcel of dogs, and the man who got it was obliged to run away and hide until he had an opportunity al eating the marrow. One man fetched two bones which he had hid den that very morning in wet ashes; a portion of muscle, very offensive, was adhering to the ends of the bone. The men said that it was a considerable time before they could make up their minds to do so, but after they had once taken to it, they preferred that description of labour to any other. because they could get bones to pick." as the result of these engagements, they were allowed to withdraw themselves leisurely from before our wearied troops, from the circumstance, apparently of their inabi lity to follow up the victory which they had achieved. They were able to construct and retain a strongly fortified bridge across the river, from which they have already at tempted to annoy our troops, by depredatory incursions into our territory, and, at the date of the last advices. we are told that they had been enabled so far to recruit their artillery, that of this branch of their force, whose destructive power was so fatally felt in the past engagements Since our Circular of the 31st January was issued, we are without any further intelligence from Europe, our latest date from Liverpool being 4th January. The operations in cotton in this market, during the past two weeks, have been as follows: During that ending 7th instant, the sales were 7,50 ba'es, about 2,500 bales of which was taken for Liverpool; some few sales were made for Havre, and the residue was sold to manufacturers; prices remained without change from the quotations as given by us on 31st January. During the week ending 14th instant, buyers for Liverpool with drew from the market. in consequence of the advance demanded by ship-owners in the rates of freight; some few parcels, t I amounting to about 1,001 bales, were taken towards the close of they could bring against us no less than 120 guns. By the judicious steps taking by the Commander-in- Chief and the Governor-General, to concentrate the troops at their disposal, so as to bring to bear against the enemy an overpowering force, we trust that all anticipa tions of a reverse being suffered by our arms, whenever our forces may be brought against the enemy, may be laid aside. But we must bear in mind that, in any event, the difficulties which we shall have to encounter in the subjugation of the Punjaub are great, and will call for the utmost energy of the Indian Government and the valour of our soldiers to ensure their being surmounted. We have to do with a people of undoubted bravery, and no trifling skill in warfare, well provided with the necessary munition, and extended over a country which presents every facility for making a prolonged stand. To doubt that we shall ultimately be successful in our efforts, were to doubt what has never yet been doubted—the persevering courage of a British army, and the resolve of the British nation that its flag shall never be dishonoured before a civilized, much less before a barbarian foe. But we may look for still further sacrifices of our gallant soldiers before we can expect the successful termination of the contest ; or, in other words, the complete subjugation of the Punjaub, which is now not only necessary, but is resolved upon. the week for Havre, but toe bulk of the business was done by manufacturers and dealers from the East. The total sales for the week amount to 4,000 bales ; in prices there is no particular change, and we continue our quotations, remarking that sellers generally are more willing to accept the prices on the qualities "middling" and below, than they have ben for several weeks past. _ - . . We have been particular in giving these full de tails of the case, even at the risk of repeating what may be within the recollection of our readers, in order that they may see more clearly the repulsive neis of Sir James Graham's conduct during the debate in quFstion. The fact of the existence of this horrible practice having been divulged in the House of Commons, by one of the members for Finsbury, nn assistant Poor-law Commissioner, Mr. Parker, was sent down to Andover, to institute an inquiry; and, imper fectly conducted as this inquiry was, it disclosed, in addition to the bone-pounding, the existence of gross peculation and immorality in the treatment of the inmates by the master of the workhouse. When it had gone on, however, to a certain stage, and the reports of the evidence from day to day, given in the London Times, had created an overwhelming excitement in the public min', the enquiry was sud denly put a stop to by orders from Somerset House; the delinquent master of the workhouse was per mitted to resign his office, and Mr. Parker, the as sistant commissioner, who, it seems, had shown too honest a determination to arrive at the truth, was summarily dismissed, without being allowed to know the offence which he had committed. We subjoin the current prices for Liverpool classification.— New York Upl'd & Forida. .. none. 16th February. Mobile & N. Orl .. 53 to 6 .. 6i to 62 .. 7 to 7i .. 72 to 8 .. 84 to Si .. 9 to to .. 10 to 1 l Inferior Ordinary ... Middling ... Middling fair 6 to 64 6i to 61 7 to n to Good fair Fine...., Charleston, Savannah, Mobile, 11th Feb. 11• th Feb. 7th Feb. 51 to 6 .. 51 to 6 .. none. 6k to 6k .. 6k *to 64 .. 51 to 6 to 61 .. 61 to 61 6i to 61 to 7 .. tit to 64 .. 7 to 74 N.Orleans, Inferior Ordinary' Middling. Middling fair... 6 Fair 6th Feb.. 5 to 5i 51 to 6 6i to 61 7 to 3 Good fair Fine ..... 7} to 7/ .. 7 74 to none 74 to none. 74 to 7 S to 8 none. 7i to 7i Si to 8i 9 to to A SCENE IN THE HOME OFFICE. - NEW POOR LAW AND OFFICIAL MORALITY. The following notes of a scene which occurred in the Horne Office, between Sir James Graham and sundry new poor law officials, was brought before the House, on Thursday night, by Mr. Christie, M.P. for Weymouth, as having been furnished to him by Mr. Parker, the assis tant commissioner employed to conduct the examination into the circumstances connected with the Andover Union. If correct, they furnish a curious specimen of the way in which official matters are occasionally hushed up, or con cocted for the House of Commons and the public. We may remark, that the reply of Sir James Graham, who was present, was, in the first instance, a complaint of breech of official confidence, and next a kind of " non mi recordo" of the precise particulars of the conversation. After adverting to the facts disclosed in the deposi tions, Sir James observed—l've stated to the House of Commons that the commissioners cannot prevent the boards of guardians from employing the inmates of work houses at this bane crushing ; I was right in saying so, was I not ? If we cast a glance upon our relations with other quar ters of the globe, we find them not without ominous signs of coming derangements of our present state amity. The United States of America, under a hot-headed democratic President, :threaten a course of insulting policy, which, if persisted in, must involve us in that worst of all wars— The door thus shut upon the public, concealing the true extent of the enormities practised, was, on Tuesday night, sought to be opened by a motion brought before the house by the member for An dover, calling for the appointment of a committee to enquire into the whole facts of the case. Was such a motion unreasonable ? Was it one which any mi nister, seriously bent upon securing for our un fortunate poor the humane administration of a law, acknowledged to be one capable of being made the instrument of great cruelty, or who was willing to pay a just deference to the voice of the outraged feelings of an entire people, ought to have resisted Certainly not. Yet, mark the flippant, the heart less, the insulting tone in which Sir James Graham rises to interpose the authority of his office between the demands alike of a whole people and of justice itself, for enquiry. •` I confess, Sir," commenced the right honourable baronet, and we can picture to ourselves the air of supercilious assurance with which the words were uttered:— " I confess, sir, I cannot help thinking that it is meancholy, at the present junction, and in the existing state of pale affairs, that so much of the precious time of this house should have been consumed in a matter which after all is only, I was about to call it, a workhouse nu - IWe in the south of England. (' Hear, hear,' and ' Oh, oh.' ") Now we too " confess," and our confession is at least as sincere as that of the right honourable ba ronet, that we feel a great difficulty in expressing in polite, or even in allowable phrase, our opinion of this " melancholy" exhibition of a British Minister's flippancy and heartlessness. "A workhouse squab ble I" The question whether the poor of England, in a hundred workhouses, for to that extent the prac tice is acknowledged to have existed, are to be driven by famine to gnaw the foul and putrid bones, which the very dogs have abandoned, is one upon the so lution of which it is "melancholy" that the pre cious time of Parliament should be occupied ! Leave such mere " workhouse squabbles" to be set tled between the Boards of Guardians and the three kings of Somerset House ! Why should the effluvia of rotting bones and the picture of lean paupers, scrambling like famished beasts for the filthy meal, be permitted to come " between the wind and our nobility,"—to mar the bright vision of free trade and commercial prosperity with which a recreant ministry are deluding their country ? Sir James Graham—we tell you that never did the bitterest Republican strike a heavier blow against the British constitution—never did the most level ling demagogue inflict a more deadly wound upon the feeling of respect, affection, and confidence, with which the British people have been accustomed to look up to that branch of the legislature of which you are a prominent member, than has been inflicted by that unfortunate and cruel speech ! a war with a people of our own race, sprung from a com mon ancestry, and speaking a common tongue. And this, too, at a time when we are throwing from us the only point d'appui which we possess upon that continent —the affections and loyalty of the Canadian people. We are embroiled, too, in the affairs of the River Plate ; and we have the prestige of our arms to recover in our Poly nesian possessions. " Mr. Parker.—l think not ; I have no doubt whatever that the commissioners possess authority to issue regula tions by which such labour may be put on a proper toot ing. " Sir James.—ls that so? Are you sure you are right? " Mr. Parker... 7! am very confident in my opinion. _ Altogether, the prospect of employment for the naval and the military arm of Great Britain, for years to come, is anything but consolatory ; and the question of cost ought to have some small portion of the consideration of those statesmen who are so sedulously undermining the revenue of the country. Perhaps it may be worth the attention of those who are bawling for remissions of pro tective duties, the amount of which will have to fall upon their shoulders in the shape of direct taxation. " Sir Edmund Head, one of the Poor Law Commis sioners, was announced, and Sir James Graham repeated to him what he had said in the House of Commons rt-s -pecting the powers of boards of guardians to employ the inmates of workhouses in bone crushing ; adding, ' Mr. Parker thinks the commissioners have power to control this kind of labour.' " Sir Edmund.—l think we can do so, but _ _ MR. ALDERMAN EVANS AND THE NEW " Sir James.—l do not like the kind of employment in workhouses; we shall have some confounded disturbance about it. DOCK PLANS "Sir Edmund.—l am sorry to hear you say so. The speech of Mr. Eyre Evans, in the Council meeting of Monday last, in opposition to the projected new docks, is really scarcely worth the paper and printing-ink which, in our last, we were compelled by our duty as impartial journalists to bestow upon it. There is an evident squint in the woolly ex-alderman's mind upon this subject. He is the sad victim of a dock-warehouse fever. Were be to construct an ornamental fishpond in his garden, he would most certainly have its margin surrounded, with four or five-story erections, with the necessary cranes, hoists, and railways, for the landing of his perch or gold or silver fish, and the expeditious storage of his rods, lines, artificial flies, and bait. " Sir Janies.—Yes ; this case will be stcck-in-trade for The Times for the next six months; but you have not countenanced. this description of labour, have yt u ? " Sir Edmund.—No ; but we have not discouraged it. " Mr. Parker, handing Sir Edmund a copy of the com missioners' order requiring wayfarers and such casual paupers to break a certain quantity of bones before leav ing the Andover workhouse, said, ' In the cases of mendi cants, such labour has been directed by an order of the commissioners, upon the certificate of the surgeon thst it was innocuous.' " Sir James (taking the paper from Sir Edmund), ' Is that so ?—why it makes the case worse.' " Sir Edmund observed, that he regretted that Sir James entertained such an opinion, and that he did not think such labour could be abandoned without giving of fence to boards cf guardians. " Sir James.—Now, what am Ito tell the house about this business? It will never do to produce Mr. Parker's report and these depositions. I will tell yc,u what I will say. I will begin by adverting to bone-crushint4 in work houses ; then go on to say that I lost no time in commu nicating with the commissioners, who forthwith replied that no information of the practices mentioned by Mr. Wakley had reached them ; that Mr. Parker had been directed to make inquiries on the spot ; that I had had an interview with Mr. Parker, who verbally reported to me the result of his investigation ; that some of the inmates of the workhouse of depraved appetite had eaten meat off the bones ; and when the guardians heard of it they di rected an investigation by their medical man; that the other workhouse officers bad been enjoined to be careful to prevent inmates of depraved appetites gaining ac2ess to the bone store. If I say that the assistant-commissioner made this communication orally that will possibly suffice. This report must not be produced. It must be treated as if it had never been made." (!) By way of discrediting the only witness likely to " peach,' we suppose it wr We have no intention now to go into any lengthened remarks upon this lame effort—this sad exhibition of a tortuous perception and wounded vanity. We must, however, take the liberty of correcting an observation which felt from him with respect to the danger and the expense of taking vessels into the river in their passage from dock to dock. Mr. Evans stated that, "he could formerly get a ship round for thirty shillings ; but the expense of getting through the docks proposed would inevitably cost a great deal more." To all practical men who are not infatuated with a hobby, this assertion will appear sufficiently preposterous. We will, however, give Mr. Evans afact, which may, perhaps, convince him how other people regard the cost and danger c f getting a vessel round, by way of the river, as is the existing prac tice. When here on her last passage, the American pac ket-ship Independence wanted coppering. Rather, how ever, than encounter the expense and danger of coming into the river, in order to get into the graving -dock, she went out to New York, deficient as she was in her cop pering, to have it renewed or repaired there, thus depriv ing British shipwrights of employment, and British mer chants of the sale of their copper. " If the Commissioners, urged Mr. Wakley, did possess the unlimited power which the right hon. baronet said they did, in Heaven's name let the house and the country see how they exercised it. (Hear, hear.) If they did not, they gave up, not merely the assistant-commissioner, but the poor also, to the mercy of this arbitrary power." Happily the indignant House rose up against the Right Hon. Baronet, and thus, in part, wiped off the stigma which he had brought upon it, of treat ing with slight and mockery questions affecting the interests of our suffering poor. First, Mr. Wakley, by adducing a mass of startling facts within his own knowle!ge, t,tript the question before the House of the flimsy covering under which Sir James endea voured to conjure it away from their observation. The hon. member for Weymouth, Mr. Christie, next made some startling revelations, disclosing the mode in which things are managed between the Poor Law Commissioners and the Home Office, and bearing upon the nature of the offence, for which the too-straightforward Assistant Commis sioner, Mr. Parker, received his dismissal. Mr. Ferrand, in a telling speech, explained the tricky process by which he was himself sought to be crushed with respect to the case of the Keighley Union ; and was followed by other members, when at length the poor badgered Secretary was forced to exclaim, " Will the House allow me to interpose ?" and finally to accede to the motion for the Committee prayed for ! Unlucky to the last, however, Sir James Gral:am must needs make a reservation. He remarked— Assistant_ . .. Commissioner Parker was dismissed. How instructive is the whole affair if, correctly reported, with respect to the credit to be given to the explanations of some ministers. It is easy to treat reports as if they were never made. The Rev. Hugh MCeile's important work, entitled "The Church and the Churches; or the Church of God in Christ, and the Church of Christ Militant litre on earth," will be published in a few days. We may also take the liberty of setting the Chairman of the Dock Committee, Mr. Bramley Moore, right with respect to a vessel which recently capsized during the ope ration of removal from dock to dock, and which, in reply to a question from Mr. Aikin, he stated to have taken place in the basin. It was in the rirer that the accident in question occurred. We may add, as consolatory to Mr. Evans, that since this last explosion of his on the subject, we believe that not less than twenty shipowners of the port have waited upon the Chairman of the Dock Committee, to express their unqualified approval of the plans, and to urge upon him to persevere in their accom plishment. CHARGE OF ROBBERY AGAIN'IT A SERVANT.—Yes terday, Mary Kelly, a girl in the service of I‘l rs. R. Mc Mister, publican, Richmond -street, was charged be fore Mr. Rushton with having stolen £3 15s. from her mistress. It appeared that on Friday night the money was missed from a drawer, and suspicion falling upon the prisoner, she was given into custody on Saturday evening. She was remanded for further evidence. LECTURES oN ROMANISM.—The lecture at the Concert Hall, Lord Nelson-street, will be delivered this evening by the Rev. Henry Carpenter—the subject being, " The superstition of the Church of Rome in the veneration cf relics." The reverend gentleman has given too many proofs of his ability to demonstrate the fallacies of Romish corruption, to cause the slightest doubt that he will on this occasion exhibit with withering effect, the absurd idolatry of the Papacy in immediate connection with the subject in hand. We are very glad to find that these lectures are extremely well attended, and that they are producing good results. THE TIMES, HERALD, STANDARD, AND THE GOVERNMENT. The question so lonz pending as to whether the an nouncement in the Times, on the 4th of December last, of the intention of government to repeal the corn-laws, was an authorized announcement, or, vs stated by the Morning Herald, and Standard, the then aspirants to government favour, " an infamous fabrication," has just been set at rest by the retractation of the term by the lat ter, and the expression of their belief that the Times, al though apparently informed with respect to forthcoming measures. In the Standard, of Wednesday evening, the admission in question is thus made : " On the evening preceding that announcement of the Times, which we contradicted by authority, being in structed (unconsciously on our part) to " tell a lie in the words of truth," an insult and an injury which we must ever remember,—on the evening of the 3rd of December letters were, we know, despatched to public men of influ ence in the United States, by officers of the government, making announcements similar to that made by the Times of the 4th. We have, indeed, now little doubt that the article of the Times proceeded directly from the Treasury, and that the false part of it, the alleged decision of the Cabinet, was thrown in with a view to Amer:can use." The charge against government, made in this paragraph, is a serious one, if it can be substantiated ; and is at least as well worth being made the subject of a question, or even a motion for inquiry, in the House of Commons, as many questions which occupy the time of that assembly. If the press is thus to be made the vehicle of diplomatic deceits, the sooner honest journals cease to aspire to the honor (?) of ministerial confidence, and place their de pendence for information upon their own activity and in telligence alone, the sooner they will enjoy the full confi dence of the public. The fact, if true, of is a government organ being instructed to mislead the public, something new in party tactics and in the annals of the press. THE MANIFESTED ONENESS OF THE CHURCH OF CHRIST. -A SERMON BY THE REV. HUGH AI'NEILE. —We had in prepatation some remarks upon this most effective and convincing exposure of the fallacious nature of the proposed Scriptural Alliance, of which a third edi tion will be ready this day, with an introductory preface, and an appendix. The pressure upon our space, how ever, and circumstances incidental to newspaper manage ment, we regret, prevent us this week doing more than directing the attention of Churchmen to a work full of sound scriptural views, and well calculated to warn the reli gious world against the snares which are daily being spread before their feet. " I am perfectly willing to withdraw my amendment, to make it a substantive motion, and to acquiesce in the mo tion of the hon. member for Andover. (Cheers.) I am afraid I shall not be met with such cheers, when I add, that . with re s p ec t to the motion of the hon. member for Fymouth ( Mr. Christie), for the extension of the in quiry to the cause that led to the resignation of Mr. Par ker, which I admit was virtually a dismissal, I must offer a decided oppo s ition to it. ( Murmurs ) The power of ap pointment of the Assistant Poor-la in Commissioners is vested absolutely in the commissioners—the responsibility of the selection rests with them exclusively ; they are res ponsible for all the acts of the Assistant Commissioners ; and I repeat my deliberate opinion that it is impossible for the . commissioners to execute the duties of their office either safely or satisfactorily if there be any interference with reference to the selection of their subordinates, o r their summary dismissal. This will be a subs e q uent ques_ tion ; but I cannot, consistently with my duty, consent to , that extension of the inquiry." Ibis bold enunciation of the arbitrary constitution of the Poor Law Commission, and theirrespon sible character of its head authorities, though by no means new in fact, had the natural effect of im pelling the House to the task of a thorough investi- ROBBERY OF COTTON. — Yesterday, four lads, Edward Mc. Culley, William Halworth, William Noble, and George Reynolds, were brought up at the Police-court, on suspicion of having stolen a quantity of cotton, some spun yarn, and half a hundred weight of oakum. The property belonged to Messrs. Fletcher and Messrs. Hum ble and Milcrest, and had been stolen a few days previ ously to the prisoners being brought up. They were ap prehended at a marine store warehouse, in Perry-street, kept by a person named Riley, where the property was also found. It was stated by the officer, that Riley, who had only come out of gaol a few days since, had de• camped. The prisoner had the keys of the marine store, and apparently carried on the business. On Culley making his appearance in the dock, lie was recognized as haring stolen eighty-four guano sacks, from Messrs. Hal bead and Lord's shed, Sefton-street. Culley was com mitted for trial on account of the sacks ; the other pri soners were remanded. March 10, 1846. gation of the whole system. Other members pressed LIVERPOOL SHARE MARKET FOR THE WEEK LATEST INTELLIGENCE. on the House the same views; yet, with his ENDING MONDAY (YESTERDAY). (BY EXPRESS.) usual perverieness, the Right Hon. Baronet refused to give way, and, on a division of the House, the The following is a copy of the circular of the Liverpool LONDON CORN EXCllAN:4E.—YssrganAr. ,is result Was a majority against ministers of 23. New Stock Exchange, giving the feeling of the market The snpp yof English wheat by land carriage B=l os t i i at Unfortunate Sir James! We wouldn't undergo up to the close yesterday. The transactions on the Old morning was very small, and the condition being same w , imroved an advance of Rely is. per quarter was realisedut,. the schooling, you must since have had, for your Stock Exchange will be found in the usual column • : the white, but red and damp qualities cannot be noted hlgli not next quarters' salary. Monday, 9th March, 1846. Free foreign continues in gond request. In bonded weodrign..... ,—.--,..... The market has been in a complete state of stagnation hear of any transactions. Fine barley sells freely, hut jean , 2" nd WARLIKE ASPECT OF AFFAIRS IN INDIA. during the past week : the recent news from America and descriptions are o d ffered at low figures. . The show r orfon alt sots ' I BOrti w a e re re s d c uc c c e o . nriutto n ns d lLp e e g id alities m ast the East Indies, together with the continued scarcity of Oats grtVlaastter. good ') money, have tended much to produce the depression. be written 6d. per quarter ar deaier. ng a The later advices from the theatre of War in the Pun- Business in this market has been extremely limited jaub have brought us nothing of a decisive character. No I n R eg i s t ere d St oc k, Ch es t er an d Bi r k en h ea d ; were SMITHFIELD CATTLE MARKET.—YssYgnnA v. further engagement was known to have taken place, up to sold on Saturday last at £614, being an advance of 3os The last week's imports of live stock into the metropolishar the departure of the mail. So far as our information car -141 d he l a p n alt s r e e c e I , w a r t shaFe since Monday last.—Grand Junction Stock : been moderately good, viz., 30 oxen and 119 sheep fr i ),ln on n t t t ife r t u g i i i i t t in fr g em bu x t 2 lAt t le e ti l rl p u e e r , si c 3 l a u r r e ing ries us, however, it is too clear that we have on hand, in c Dutch Sg r o t I: s in fri s i i n r H oN a ,o r ra liv e en c , on d andt7l°.XllloB-CliadycreSilard an off . e c c brought 220 oxen and cows, together with 190 sheep, recently. it . r : r„ l l l e o f that part of India, a task which it will require our utmost limited sales effected at £l47.—South Eastern and Dover strength to enable us to perform in such a sat'sfactory and shares neglected.—Leeds and Thirsk have receded to par f f r o o r i e v n he st e o o c lnl: e nt aem F a o n r c in w ol s t qualities of each dei a ' n " u p. steady, and prices had at wh l ich price the last sales were done.—Huddersfield wadtendency. triumphant manner as to advance, or even maintain, th e 1 ares have fallen to £5 pm.—Sales to some ext ent reputation of the British arms and power in India. The have ana been e made in Liverpool Pigs moved off freely, and last week's quotations ser e The supply of calves was smkill, while the veal trade was O n successes achieved by our forces, in the unequal struggle £144. all li t i h Scrip r t ares e , a further . decline has taken place in suppo e to which they were submitted at Moodkee and Ferozeshah, marketable d e script i ons . il ere.i Goole +d l a n . d D o o r nmzscitrekras Per r s t ih d s . to sink the offal:—Coarse and inferior beasts 25/001 purchased as they were at so vast an expenditure of value- are wo e rt m h t 3 o s 3s 2d, second quality do. 3s 4d to 3s 6d, prime later an d purchased sheep 4s LrizetoSc:stsdd,Sisco4nsd2riduatolity4 d 0.68 470100141, ble lives, are events upon which to congratulate ourselves. .£li- pm., and buyers at this price.— Lancashire and Che shire Junctions, £24 pm.—Derby and Crewe, £24 pm.— iiik Stock_ unchanged. -- They prove that we have amongst those forces, both Euro pean and native, the right stuff by which the victories of goys! )o ve r s in a h a a r l a f- e s e h e a r a e r s e , 11 v oprmth. pm.—Ba nk small ditto - 4i. 8 15cF. to 4s. c i r i r . sT ar c g a e lv h e og s 3 s s s. o 3 d d. 1 4 r,d to 4.5' lid pm. —Dutch t h Rhe nish neat small porkers 4s. Bd. to ss. '2d., suckling calves._ l l3s3, pi„ Lod rin ., ne p s gt s n l ezor o se s -w7lle l d sheep ss. 04. to 55. 2di.,prioi ,:. c l i ' d. , Great Britain have ever been gained, and her empire and Xl* pm. 315., and quarter-old store pigs 16s. to 21s. each. Bea sts influence in the East and throughout the world have been London and Manchester markets continue depressed. sheep 17430. _____.:_....._--•-----". 4 P.M.—A heavy fall in all desciiptions of shares, as extended and secured. The result of those successes, . will be seen on reference to the actual sales. . . IRELAND MAYO ELECTION. Oa At the close of Thursday's polling the numbers 5 0 ; v :—For M`Donnell, 396 ; Mr. Moore, 342; 02 i' n ' t a'g ' It is said that, rintwithstanding, the latter hates , s prt:4 pulled up a little, the success of Dr. MacFlale is certain. There is little more intelligence reglLectiest the fatal collision between the military and the WP dal mob. The following verdict was returned on l' hur9 e by the jury sitting upon the body of Mary Burke• l o is the persons killed in the affray :—" The majority 0., jury find that the deceased, Mary Burke, was lON 4 1 ) 0 Tuesday, the 3d March, by a pistol-shot, tired 11 , 0 0 : 1. Samuel Fletcher ftom Mrs. Murray's gate. a ce obliged to find this verdict in consequence of n --e ° e" u r. h co being allowed for the prisoner." It is stated IV t" e f a tal respondent of the Du3lin Evening Mail, that the 1 ball, when exlracted, proved to be from a musket, 00 pistol. -THE LATE AEFRAF. WEST INDIA. MAIL ° I Anima trait are uarre et Intelligence. The weather in the majority of the iO. was unfavdurable to agriculture. Our files of paP ers C o o ila silt of those received from Jamaica, Barbadoe s. Trinidad. We have none from Demerara, St. Ltict e ks S. Vincent's. In some Jamaica extracts it appea rs Eur o of earthquake have been felt in St. Lucia and Marti!" .he the 01 1 ng extract but without causing damage to life or property The Barbadoes papers give the follow;- state of the weather:— not " The weather has continued dry for some ticae.lt as even a refreshing shower has fallen for some daY,.;:their become very sultry, and clouds of dust are tak" ) ° flight through the city, to our great inconvenien ce 'r och think that appearances denote the commencemen t ° sea weather as we experience during a fine crop s eason , o f that we shall not be speedily blessed with rein ~l , n c r oP quantity. Should this be the case, the fiat Of 03 0 has gone forth, and a very short one must be reap ed per year. The young canes which have been planted 81. 0 0;, perishing in many places from the want of 0 1 9, 1 0 4 plants are at this time scarce, if even the weather 01 " planting." Pack et' The Trinidad Standard, in its summary for th e P$ says— to 'g " Hardly any rain has fallen, and we are begi nni t eel experience the inconveniences usually atten dan dustl' drought. The roads and streets are extremely ..her o The wells in town are getting low, and vegetation,roleg not concealed beneath a thick coating of dust, is bee p i a llf to have a burnt-up appearance. The gardens, ear are where not assiduously tended by their proprie tor ;; drooping, and everything tells of the want of nature freshing and fertilizing shwers. " The surveys for the ai o lways have progressed shard during the month. Mr. Curtis and his co lleague! , it tle been diligently employed. The G rea t Eastern an d °" Western Railway company have addressed the Govecirthe and Council in reference to their projected line, s9 e ct° f public are manifesting a growing interest on the EuTttlis railways for the island, strong hopes are prevalen t t tie% great event may be expedited with all despatch of cut the first turf and laying down the first rail." 11 04 , COMMITMENTS.—John Farrell, William B u rt Mathew Atherton, were yesterday committed lef l oset for stealing 15s. from Ann Braithwaite, Sussex Gill-street. d STEA , ING WlNE.—Yesterday t wo lads, -1 e °eel spectively John Craddick and Thos. F e rous, wer e " ever before the magistrates on a char;e of stea ling srin: bottles of wine from the premises of Mr. Sher n)c sand ° ' merchant, King-street. It appeared that on w ell , botafternoon,ibeleitnarngienheadodf similar aw accesssbo i m octtoh e t rysnetse the howe ti i:s m ni cdophrot) warehouse g elk s a t edtb h :w o es m nr: I,rii.tf e alo r drr i ta a ceti of to et.s foun t s le stolen. l where they regaled themselves with cl . o is °l ' -r f were taken into custody in Ben's ,, a n rden., •fiec l k 9g , sr who was an old offender, was committed to gaol months, the other prisoner for seven days. lc 11/7 ,f4 WHIG CANDIDATE FOR RODNEY-STREET " f On Saturday evening, a meeting of the Reformers tooeo word was held in the Portico, Newington, for th„e P t bitt e of selecting a Reform candidate Mr. William o a tr., was in the chair, and on the platform were a fo l t o leading ultras of the party. Mr. Charles Roberts tor, nominated by Mr. J. H. Smith, as " a fit an isfef st i person" ; and his claims having been supported bY ho too, John Mather, Richard Shiel, and Eyre Evans °IND'. //l r; the opportunity of mounting his dock hobby) , 0P, 6 bertson addressed the meeting, detailing his vier ne nel, things in general, which of course were of the I;yeleco Radical sort. The meeting searated about nin e ,,, - ,e b e ti c Up to the hour of going to press,we regrct tha t y ., ab ° ,o‘ nothing of a Tory candidate. hat are our P a n - t er s s. '" to allow a mere boy like this anti-monopoly sP °- into the Council chamber thus unopposed ? SINGULAR ROBBERY.—Yesterday, a man nens:ol ;4, Macnamara, was charged, bef cre M r Rushton' s ° ing wearing apparel. About t en o ' c l oc k the sam e r l l d~ Inspector M'Donald was standing at the corner° ottifeder side, when he saw the prisoner, very genteel,: ofgt coming down Dale -street, with something h u e bed `did his top-coat. The Inspector asked him what P' t be there, and he said his own clothes, adding tbli not like carrying them in a bundle in the street' b i o g immediately taken into custody, and. on.se are tyro, t ost the Police-offic.e, 't it was found that he ha d on rood $t e coats and a pair of trousers. On inquirY , ii r b ite,„is, that the oronertv had been stolen from the Inn, Dale-street, the same morning, the Pr is rAs - recognised by the chambermaid, who aPPearivehste r a, ness. The clothes were identified by Air% ' vest. Mr. Jerome, who were stopping at the Wh' te P et 4a . re( prisoner was committed for trial. t ss. r e , The Souchong tea sold by Hollis and Co. a ,b 0 P 60 6 lb., is of very superior quality, and all persons_, that4el. the flavour of Souchong tea ( and it posses. i 7 i s ex aroma so much to be desired) should try it lent. advertising columns,-- out e lecturer on Mesmerism , will deliver second t ' ec a whe ,clc ° that will Spencer b eseenrr, Hullreetraheealfctiedleribestioor: MESMERISM this science on Thursday evening next. ":" l i is tral7 rlr was not only highly entertaining, but was 1 ; 1 -p e ts (I ', I f' some truly astounding insta nce s of the e We have no room to give the lectu merism it deserves SHIPPING INTELLIGENCE' w • N ! i'l • 0 0 MONDAY, MARCH g.—Wind S.S.E. t o ,' Oar e, pfroti ARRIVED.—Storm King, from Cuba—An tel l " ll ar' er IL St. John, N.B.—Ferries, f rom Islay—Gratial , .'oeel ' Sawanilla—Wallace, Summerson, anfi Sewell. New Orleans. SAILED —Lotus, Head, for Barbadoes—Vi;',.;cia--nor,'l, for St. Michael'. , —Monarch, !town, for St. P;.,,xell'orOv:rfr land, Vaughan, for St. John, N.B.—Merc u ti ° ' ogs'o,Clier , nambuco—Trenton, Cutting, for New Oritans-;__Nise woo, for Messina—Jos. A, derson, Ridley, for Lag u , n _.l4 o , l) „'O' l itop for Halifax—St. Martin's. May, for St. for Calcutta—Village Girl, Wcof. for Bahi r o c t iot" 0 07 ro d for Havana—La Salvador, Kersulo. for ?', ll r for e oein' o r4' Merchant, Birnie, for Mobile—Alwina, 11° • — t ie , Maria Adriana, Linden, for Rotterdam—ln ‘ dds r / we' d $O O / Vigilant, Mutleyait, for Ostend—Anna Agatb a ,:.e, onjerd —John, Politz, for Riga—Commerce. re r i o r k ni k ilOg e. Kirkilove, for o,tend—Anna Siberdina, Hge n. „,, 10 1 ' Theodore Heinrich, Lipp, for Riga—ltOgustu, Ghent—Gem, Bonnell, for Terceira. The Victoria, M'Mahon. for Live -pool, viva s 96•- Lar of the Mississippi 4th Feb. Ellerslie, Pegan, from Iquique and Islay, at Glo be, The Sarah sailed frdm Callao sth Dec. Chilian, I st Jan. all for England Arica, Davidson ; Bee, Murray, and Nautilus, a~°' we~~ De lV Arica. t 9 t Eliza, Woolley; Christina, Craig, and San'' „ f ele , at Valpai &so dr" d bo J ti n i h io n r S E o n u g c l l a r i , sailed from ditto 2nd Dee.; 6 : 9701 00 0 " Lady Bassett, Carthew, from Rio Janeiro, 9. 4 / IZC' 1%, e eo LIVERPOOL CATTLE MARKE T, no t LI 01 1 4 The supply of stock at market to -day 'Ps ao d 00 0 though a fair average, both as respects goaht• wag this time of the year • the whole or neartY prices. Beef 6d to rid ; Mutton Sd to Sid• c 0 LIVERPOOL PR OVI:SI01 --- NI - B The finest and freshe s t parcels of Butter we r se ese or rs for, and the price of su c h is supported. °tile . I RCP r, M i' o,l °de e ot° Nothing - LIVERPOOL COTTON MAR— „yea 0 , 0 4 The demand for Cotton to.day has been 0 0 ;i d , 'l ll o 9s a.nd the tone of the market is barely suPP, ° !, r e ices ' 9f . be e° day are estimated at 5000 bales at the fa.' Y for export. on speculation, but some little basin LIVERPOOL: i n 1 84 " . TUESDAY, MA.RCEI L- , i 4 rf PRINTED AND PUBLISHED It '' 1 4. % • af () TUESDAY A" --- oti BY t ee , JOSHUA FLETCHER LACE, of 53. Grove-,•ireet. LEONARD ADDISON, of 1 4, Gr eat Orford-6roo At No. 4, Er. Gisortax's Clurscatir, Li"g". EVERY me 1 4 nd ix Ad m . To conl ' 14R, t t th e C t o , f . 4he 41 s'ra PCU . I . 4 „ Fiody r, "ed bititwo( To col in fro at mY of • Ev E . " ( lay • B HE , 1) „ t Tio AucTsltim To PER; T HE to 4 0 ll a ~ k P of o th • a insta Or other Dock,— T a of L carious del .p 6, at th ( !xttost ea It Was in ,ad struck building4o tices s ec a i•l Itt Well as f dad is onl' 'th the w tr: triderst and we ' r killen N or the 2 " N e t o ll 7 111,x.t Use bi n :e. wa 44y at '; tan of is_ :snip t* 3. I h 4 ai :o n of ti I? ea li rPos e 4 , Of t o t he h e Ti 1 14!,' e sent th e 'Mous' , ease ; kr th e 10,,,SUBst (Gh inn !),f th _ ant, i le Th en r tPo; I t Ta 4 tha„, ler bat i tY 2 rt n i d • What mg 4 1 4 1 vh0 Y elr "cia ns a 4045. That Sth e Surge, tary„!.Alr. A d o n s son, Ps in bel Atts, Chaim carried 414„, -ay, 1 venal Tre Annual k-"PY r Omer e 0( . -an r 4147! ; a o r s. Joh n q., 4 .. ... . k!Att 44 ic P.l4°:einEs( With "MOn DAy, TB in Li,