The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser. — Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1846-09-08 00:00:00

8 COt kibrrpoot •taann. OHM! . 2..:;F T. 8, The statements contained in a letter, published in our last, f ro m the Secretary of the Birkenhead D o ck Cotupany, comparing the relative e x p enses o f car goes imported into the Mersey by the Birkenhead new docks on tine one hand, and the Liverpool docks on the other, seem to us to require a few words of comment; inasmuch as, if the view taken by the Company is a correct one , t h e wor k s on th e Cheshire short; are calculated to strike a heavy blow against the prosperity of Liverpool, and especially to weaken the security of the holders of our dock bonds. We flatter ourselves, however, that we shall be able to reassure those parties—if, indeed, there can be any amongst them who have felt seri ous apprehensions—of the perfect ability of the Dock Estate of Liverpool to maintain its present high state of pro'sperity, notwithstanding any oppo sition which may come from the Cheshire side of the river, or from any other quarter. The Birkenhead Dock Company ground their expectation of securing a considerable portion of the heavy merchandise entering the river, for trans port inwards to tl - e manufacturing districls, firstly, upon the saving of cartage, port•Atage, (3,:c., to arise from the proximity of the docks themselves to the dock warehouses which they are erecting, and to the railway, which is to transport them ; but, mainly, upon the fact that t'. merchandise im- ported will neither be subject to the Liverpool town dues nor to clock rates of any description. From these sources they skew, in tables which they append. to their statement, a saving upon a cargo of 1,000 bales of cotton of £lO9 9s. 9d. in favour of the importer using the Birkenhead docks ; and, upon a cargo of 1,000 feet of timber, they give the Liver pool charges at £4 I Is. 4d., and those of Birken head at only £1 17s. Sd. The saving of dock rates and town dues alone, upon a vessel of 1,000 tons from New York, by using the BirkenheaJ docks instead of the Liverpool docks, they estimate at .el5l 6s. 111. To enable us to deal with these statements, we must examine the relative advantages of the two sides of the river, and the capabilities of this side to meet the threatened competition, by an accom modation of our rates to the circumstances in which we are about to be placed. In the first place we must explain, what is perhaps lost sight of by some parties, that the body issuing such state ments—the Birkenhead Dock Company—is not the body providing the dock facilities, whose superior cheapness is represented. The docks are in the hands of a body of " Commissioners," described by the letter referred to as " a public body created in 1844 by the act of parliament which authorised the construction of the docks ; to them the Crown has granted an area of wharfage and water space of 2721 acres, which form the site of the works; on the security of this property, and of the rates which are to he levied on the shipping making use of the docks, they have boi . i-owed money for their con struction." Tae Dock " Company" themselves, who put forth the appeal to the merchants and shipowners of Liverpool, to which we are now re ferring, is a private body, a partnership, with views solely of their own aggrandisement, and uninte rested permanently in the profitable or onprofita ble working of the docks, at the prices wit which their Commissioners set out. They are, thus offer ing to the merchants of Liverpool advantages, to be derived through the cheapness of a t different body—possibly to he derived from the losses sus tained by that company. The Dock Commissioners may or may not be able to work their docks, by the aid merely of the tonnage dues upon shipping, which alone they are authorised to levy ; and if not, what becomes of the statement of comparative cheapness paraded before us ? Or, if the Liverpool Dock Committee are likely shortly to be in a position to afford us equal advantages, with the additional facilities presented by the location of their works on this, undoubtedly the best, side of the river, again we have to ask, what becomes of the statement of the Birkenhead Dock Company ? Now, we submit that both alternatives are against the Dock Company. We cannot believe that the Commissioners can profitably work their docks with mere dues upon tonnage. Dock water space and quay room is never productive of reasonable inte rest upon the outlay required for their construction, without higher rates than the Commissioners are authorised to levy, unless some co-operative source of profit exists. The Dock Companies of London pay fair dividends; but only because they have dock warehouses as auxiliaries. Here in Birkenhead the warehouses are in the hands of a private company. In our own town, it is true, we have a large surplus income, irrespective of any concern with ware houses; but that is a surplus over the interest on the debt alone and the expenses of working, not over the original cost of our docks, a very great portion of that cost having been paid by the old Corporation, thus leaving a large mar the mere interest on the debt. We suspe,:. y ;fiat the Birkenhead docks, with their low ci.u. "es, can not be remunerative. We doubt whether they will pay, with those charges, the interest of the money borrowed for their construction. Their working will doubtless benefit the Warehouse Company and the owners of land in Birkenhead • but we fear it will be attended with loss to the Birkenhead Dock Commissioners. The result must be, as far as we can see, the exaction of the extreme rate of tonnage dues allowed by the act of parliament, and, too pro bably, the adoption of a scale of dues on goods. A very different prospect of public advantage to accrue is presented by the Dock Estate of Liver pool. That estate will have in the present year something like £lOO,OOO of surplus income. This very statement of the Birkenhead Dock Company informs us that the income of the Dock Estate of Liverpool, during the year ended 24th June, 1845, was £232,479 10s. 9d. It has increased since, and is increasing. The opening of the Albert Dock Warehouses, the interest upon the cost of which we have been paying without a farthing of return, will further increase our receipts and our surplus. This surplus we can get rid of, by a reduction of our Dock Rates. It may be done next year, or any year ; for it will not be necessary to retain a greater income than will fully cover our bonded debt, which, unlike that of our neighbours, does not re present the cost of one-third of the docks them selves. Here is one source of cheapness to offer against Birkenhead. We shall shortly have a rail way communication from end to end of our Dock Estate, which will give additional facilities and cheapness. And to aid us, we have besides, the ad vantages of our established position as a depot of the entire commerce of the district, with communi cations formed and forming in every direction. We are therefore under no fear whatever of the compe tition with which we are th:•eatenecl ; and expect very shortly to see the apparen advantages over us, which the :Birkenhead . Dock Company parade in their statement, swept away. It is far from a pleasurable task to us to have to enter into this comparison of our powers of serving the public with those of our juvenile neighbour. We had thought that it was long ago a settled point that all jealousy between the two localities was to cease, and that they were to act as aids to each other, and to the general commerce of the river, rather than as bickering competitors. The Birkenhead Dock Company, however, with a lack, we think, both of good taste and good judgment, have compelled us to direct the attention of the public to their own real position and oars; and having done so, we lay down our pen, only assuring them, that whilst the people of Liverpool, and those who have confided to them the management of the Liverpool Dock Estate, en tertain every good feeling towards the enterprise of the people of Birkenhead, they are not prepared to allow them to run away with any considerable amount of the commerce which has hitherto visited the docks and the port of Liverpool. In connexion with this subject, and as tending to show what must be the ulterior prosperity of this port,-with the facilities offered on both sides of the river, worked for the advantage of the locality and the public generally, instead of being marred in their operation by the introduction of an injurious spirit of rivalry, we are enabled to offer the follow ing statistics, from a speech recently delivered by Mr. Visger, in the Bristol Town-council. The gen tleman in question was referring to the high rates levied in that port upon tonnage and produce; and i ns tituted the followi ng comparison of the charges of his own town, and those levied in Liverpool : He bad made inquiries as to the charges at Liverpool, and although before he had an idea that there was a diffe rence, he bad no conception that it was so great as it turned out to be. He bad taken nine articles, the most prominent in commerce, and three of them West India produce : those were coffee, rum, sugar, brandy, olive oil, palm oil, tallow, tobacco, and wine. He had taken the Liverpool and Bristol rates, and without going into detail he would just sta'e the summary of the charges on gow!s, and the charges aessels tile two ports of Liverpool and I3ristol. In brandy there was an excess in Bristol over Liverpool of 45.. 10d. per ton on the goods, and Is. 511. on t 1...;; shipping, coakin t a total over-charge, as compared with Liverpool, of 6s. 31d. On coffee the ex ce.:s on goods was 3s. 7d. over Liverpool, and on the ship ping Is. Sid., making 5s 31,1. On olive oil the excess on goods was Is. 11d. ; on the sl,ipping is. B'd., making 3s. 70.; on palm oil ls. 23d. end Is. SO., making 25.. ltd. ; on rum 2s. 8:1. and is. Sld., making 4s. 41d.; on sugar the excess was, -n goods 2s. 11 1., on the ship ping. Is. 811, m :king 3s. 10d.; on tallow Is. 4d. and Is. 21,1., waking 2s. (31d.; on tobacco the excess was 2s. sd. and Is. 84d., making 4s. 13d. ; on wine 6s. Bd. and Is. making 7s. IL4I. ; the mean excess per tun on nine principal articles of commerce was 2s. 114 d. on goods, and ls. 41. on shipping, making a total of 4s. 61d. in f,:vour of Liverpool. This is we believe a perfectly correct statement, and is, of course, the position of affairs under our present rates. The advantage which we shall pos sess, when our rates shall have been further reduced and our additional works completed, we need not dwell upon. It was almost to be anticipated, that the framing of the rates and regulations adopted for working such vast depositories as the Albert warehouses, in a port where a completely different system has so long prevailed, would excite some criticism and com plaint, however great the pains taken to act fairly and impartially towards all ; and we are not surprised, therefore, that the Dock Committee have not altogether escaped such criticism, as the conversation which took place in Wednesdny's Council meeting will shew. In drawing up their tariff they have taken, we have no doubt, every opi nion and authority within their reach ; and in fram ing their regulations they have exercised all possible pains to afford convenience, without, at the same time breaking through the principle upon which the warehouses are constructed. But where every authority consulted is himself an interested or pre- judiced party, with a natural leaning towards the accommodation and promotion of his own branch of commerce—whilst the importer of palm oil con siders a low rate sufficient for that commodity, and would mulct the importer of sugar, and vice versa— the wonder is that the Committee have steered so fairly between such conflicting opinions. They may have erred in some points. It is na tural that they should have done so in the execution of a task so arduous and novel. Experience, how ever, and we trust they are open to receive its teaching, will enable them to correct any error they may have committed, both in the framing of their rates and in their regulations. With respect to the latter it ought to be borne in mind that, as yet, they are not likely to be carried out so perfectly, and with such convenience to merchants using the ware houses, as they will be by and bye. The various offices are, as yet, incomplete, and the officers are new to their duties. Much may, therefore, be ex pected to be done to facilitate business and to pro mote dispatch. No large concern was ever worked well with untried and inexperienced hands, how ever perfectly the rules for its working may have been laid down. We observe that the cotton brokers held a special meeting of their body on Friday, to discuss the bearing of the committee's regulations upon the trade in that important staple. The leading ob jection urged by these gentlemen to the regulations appears to be the refusal of permission to send their own men into the dock warehouses to sample, as is the practice in the other warehouses of the town. This objection, we are afraid, cannot be altogether obviated, though, if possible, it no doubt will. The principle upon which the warehouses are constructed and designed to be worked, is one of complete ma nagement by the Dock Committee themselves and their servants, in order to ensure safety to the pro duce warehoused, and the absence of pilfering. Manifestly this principle would be broken through if the servants of every broker holding cotton in the warehouses were allowed free and continual ingress for sampling or any other purpose. Besides, other trades would at once claim the same privilege. We should have sugar sampling, and sampling of every commodity deposited—a complete invasion of every floor of the premises, which would thus forfeit every vestige of their claim to central management, addi tional security from accident or pilfering, and be come in their main features not one iota more advantageous than any well constructed and well managed warehouse, unless for its propinquity to the dock into which the produce warehoused is im ported. If the ground upon which the cotton bro kers complain is any fear of the competency of the committee's servants, that ground is, in a great mea sure, taken away by the concession made, that the sampling may be done in the presence of an agent from the brokers. Any further concession to meet other objections cannot, we fear, be granted. At the same time we are confident that every reasonable source of dissatisfaction will be endeavoured to be removed by the Committee. The complaint of the brokers, that they are re quired to remove, at any one time any given delivery of cotton, will be very easily met, if found to press onerously upon the trade. Indeed we are not cer tain that the regulation in question will not be found quite as inconvenient to the management of the warehouses as to the brokers. With respect to the alleged inconvenience, of requiring tickets for the delivery of produce to be presented on the day on which they are dated, instead of being available from day to day, until the whole order is delivered, such inconvenience will not be felt when the ar rangements and the new offices for the Committee's servants are completed. The work of procuring a new ticket will not occupy a minute's time, whilst the practice of requiring one will be a source of se curity both to the Committee and the merchant. The suggestion, that the ticket upon each sample of cotton should state where the bulk is stored, is a valuable one, and will no doubt be acted upon. The ' objection of purchasers, however, against cotton stored in cellars, will not hold here, as cotton in these warehouses is not intended to be stored in cellars. We feel perfectly assured that, after a little expe rience in their new and complicated undertaking, the Committee will he enabled to afford every faci lity within their power to the trade of the port; and we trust that in the mean time their efforts to do so will be aided by the kindly feeling of those for whom they are exerting themselves, at no trifling sacrifice of time and labour, and certainly with no personal object to serve. It can neither be their interest nor their wish to press unfairly upon any particular branch or class. We are most gratified with the course which the authorities of Liverpool are now pursuing, to pro mote the health of the town, over whose affairs they are placed as rulers. The time was when such matters as the sanatory condition of our poor was not attended to ; when human beings, of the same flesh and blood as their more wealthy fellow-towns- Men, were left, on account of ignorance of their condition, to die unpitied in their pestiferous cellars and courts, without an effort being made to remedy their wretched state. That era happily has passed away. We know now our duties. We know, be sides, our own interests. Our fears have taught us to be charitable and considerate of the health of the working man. If he suffers in his cellar, ue tremble in our well-furnished houses or our villas. Fever is no respecter of persons. It does not ask how many pounds or shillings a week its victims receive. It knocks at the rich man's door as well as at the poor man's, and is as fatal in its results. An advertisement appears in our paper this day, announcing the startling fact, that the fever hospitals of our town are no longer able to accommodate ad ditional patients. There are people who pass over such an announcement with unconcern. They have the means and appliances for the promotion of recovery from this sad scourge. But the poor — .what means have they ? Just those which they are told are closed against them. They have their densely filled and ill-ventilated dwellings; but no more. No hospital —no gratuitous attendance and medicine. They are told that disease has over stepped the bounds for which charity has provided ; and that if stricken by the hand of affliction, they must bear the stroke unassisted. Can we not help them ? We must suggest that it s is within our power. We have no room in our fever hospitals, it is true ; but we have houses which may be converted into fever hospitals. The neighbourhood of Soho-street and St. Anne street would furnish many houses fit for the pur pose; and we do not see how a few hundred pounds could be better bestowed than in hiring a house suitable, in whatever neighbourhood disease may be prevalent. The rich will not complain of the cost : the poor will be grateful. We may remind our readers that the foundation stone of the new church, in Prince's-park, for the Rev. Hugh AVNeile, will be laid to-morrow (Wednesday), at half past twelve o'clock. THE LIVERPOOL STANDARD. REV. HUGH APNEILE'S SERMON. A great outcry has been made about Mr. M'Neile's late sermon. We can understand that the title may have staggered some persons of little discr;minhtiun ; but no thing is so easy as quizzing. How glibbly, for instance, might the microscopic Momus, the fool of the press, and jester-general of literature, have turned into ridicule the description of the Last Judgment in the 25th chapter of Matthew. Such a travesty would shcw how easy it is to satirize the most sacred subjects, and what a mere mouse Punch becomes when he goes (?) to church. Mr. M'Neile has only expressed thoughts and feelings which would naturally arise in the mind of any pious person who is accustomed to look with " Scripture's second sight" on the events of Providence. A vast assemblage of people suggests, without any im. potation of prtfanity, the anticipation of the multitude that will congregate at the general judgment. A royal personage recals the thought of the Sovereign of the skies; for, as Lord Bacon says, " A king is a mortal god upon earth;" and tare arrival of that personage associates itself with tire comir * r of Him " by whom princes decree jus tice." This is the amount of what Mr. M'Neile has ad vanced; and to show how perfectly natural is the line of illustration lie has employed, we may state, that when the Queen first went to Scotland in 1842, the Rev. J. T. Brown, now of this town, published a discourse, entitled " The Visit of her Majesty contemplated under a reli gious aspect." A copy of this production the Queen was graciously pleased to accept. It contains, amongst others, the following allusions:— " Mark some coincidences, faint indeed, yet not unin structive, between the arrival of the Redeemer and that of tire temporal potentate. ' The Lord,' according to St. Paul, 'shall descend from heaven with a shout, with the voice of the archangel, and with the trump of God.' And again, ' In a moment, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last trump: for the trumpet shall sound;' and once more ' he shall come in his glory, and all the holy angels with him.' Were not these incidents recalled by the coming of royalty ? When the sovereign appeared, it was the daughter of a long ancestral line who attracted towards herself the homage due to the valour of a hundred heroes, and the magnanimity of a hundred patriots; she was the personification of territory, power, legislation, govern ment. All the worth and talent which minister to her at home and abroad, seemed to hover around. This was honour concentrating in the crown, and producing emo tions which, in some faint and distant degree, may be held to resemble the reverence with which mankind will ! behold - Him by whom kings reign and princes decree , justice.' " What will be the sublimity of the shouts, what the thunders of the trumpet, which shall shake the earth as Messiah approaches, flaming on the horizon as his chariot, all terrestrial sounds were weak to express. Dumb, in comparison, were the crashing of a thousand battles, the rending of a thousand earthquakes. But, as the feeblest notes of some thrilling air will recall the vocal and instru ment,' swell by which we have heard it performed; so, to the ear of faith, and the heart of hope, must these acclamations and intermingled melody, resounding from shore and street, have suggested the mighty noise that shall burst from the confluence of Time and Eternity. " It was to gratify the longings of a dutiful curiosity that the kingdom poured forth its population. All were eager to behold. The thought of business was banished. The only questions were, Whence shall I nest see? What will be the most propitious moment ? How different the coming of the Son of Man ! Pony will bewilder and state overawe, and acclamation deafen, and on a scale, and in a style, infinitely transcending imagination's boldest grasp and brightest colouring, there will be the sublimity of festival and jubilee. But there will be nothing of the gay leisure of a spectacle. An affair of overwhelming importance awaits all. None shall have thoughts disen gaged for speculation about others. Even the Judge shall be an objc,ct of secondary interest. Self, with its special history, and sins, and trial, and destiny, shall concentrate each emotion. To catch a glimpse of the earthly sovereign, what sacrifices, what efforts! None need be apprehensive of missing a stedfast view of the heavenly. From beneath the mountains and rocks that cover them, He shall drag the wicked, and they must stand and plead guilty at his bar. ' Say unto God, How terrible art thou in thy works! Through the greatness of thy power shall thine enemies submit themselves unto thee!" _ . Mr. M`Neile can well afford to pity his revilers; in deed, he may thank them for stimulating the sale of his sermon to an extent almost unprecedented. We give, in another column, the preface to the third edition of the sermon, being the reverend gentleman's reply to his critics. Last night, the Rev. Thomas Nolan, and the Rev. Henry Carpenter, of this town, attended as a deputation the an nual meeting of the Ormskirk Auxiliary to the Church Missionary Society. SUICIDE.—On Sunday last, a young woman named josdith Goulding was found dead suspended to the bed post of the room in which she lodged, in a house in Greetham-street. There appears to be no doubt but that this was an act of self-destruction, but the cause is yet unknown. The inquest will be held this day. ASSAULTS ON POLICE OFFICERS.—A man named Patrick Clarke was yesterday fined by Mr. Rushton L 5 and costs, or to be imprisoned for two months, for a vio lent assault on police officer Parkinson, No. 32. Another man named Christopher Murphy was fined in the same amount for assaulting another police officer in another part of the town. THE APPROACHING EXHIBITION OF PAINTINGS. — We hear that a most superb exhibition is in preparation by the committee of the Liverpool Academy. Not only is the amount of larst.class pictures greater than any former year, but every exertion is making in every depart ment to gratify the taste and comfort of the public; the rooms are being newly carpetted ; the catalogues are to be reduced to sixpence each ; thus progressing with the spirit of the age—better accommodation and less price. We wish them every success : they well deserve it. PRINCE ALBERT'S LATE VISIT TO LIVERPOOL.— His Royal Highness Prince Albert, with the concurrence of her Majesty the Queen, has directed to be forwarded to the Mayor and Chairman of the Dock Committee pri vate copies of Winterhalter's portraits of the royal family, as a mark of their joint satisfaction with the reception given to the Prince in July last. They were accompanied by a very complimentary letter from Col. Anson. Should the Mayor or Mr. Bramley Moore have this most flatter ing present framed in Liverpool, most probably numbers of their fellow townspeople will have an opportunity of inspecting them. STEALING CASKS FROM THE QUAYS.—At the Police Court, yesterday, a man named Towel was charged with stealing a tierce and two empty puncheons from the quays of the Duke's dock, the property of Mr. M'Fee. The prisoner and another man took them in a cart to the yard of a master cooper, and offered them for sale. Some suspicion was excited in the yard that they were not ho nestly come by, and they were requested to leave them and call again for the money. Meantime enquiry was made; and the owner being found police officer Hassell secured the prisoner on his return, the other man mak ing his escape. The casks were identified, and the pri soner was committed for trial. Nine casks in all had been missed from the Duke's quays. THE PACKET SERVICE AT LlVERPOOL.—Commander Thos. Bevis, conducting the packet service at Liverpool, it is reported, is about to retire from his situation, his pe riod of service having expired many years since, and the Admiralty, taking into consideration the increasing importance and responsibilities of this office, are about to avail themselves of the opportunity of the retirement of Commander Bevis, to appoint an active post captain to the vacancy. Commander Bevis was appointed in Feb., 1839, consequently he has held the post for seven years and a half, which is longer than any other officer has held a situation of the kind. Commander Mercer, who was appointed to the Dover station in 1811, has also just been superseded by Commander Baldock. SMUGGLING TOBACCO.—Three men belonging to the ship Wilsons, recently arrived at this port from Montreal, were yesterday charged by Mr. Brooks, of the Custom house, before Mr. Rushton, with having smuggled, or brought with that intention, a quantity of foreign manu factured tobacco-251bs. of Cavendish and albs. of cigars. Their names were George Holmes, the carpenter, and John Scott and Frank Clarke, seamen. The tobacco was found in the cargo part of the vessel, close to the bulk head on the forecastle, and was found by removing a board. They each and separately after the article was found, acknowledged to being part owners, and they were fine £3OO each, or to be imprisoned, with an intimation, however, from Mr. Rushton, that as the quantity was small, and they appeared to be ignorant of the weight they could carry as sea stores, a representation would be made at head quarters to obtain, if possible, a mitigation of the amount of punizhment. RECEIPT STAMPS.—In a case at the police court, yes terday, where a clerk in the office of a commission mer chant was charged with having embezzled considerable sums of money from his employer, it appeared that in one or two instances, evidence of payment could not be received in c onsequence of the receipts not being stamped. One of the amounts was for upwards of £95, and the stipendi ary magistrate commented upon the insecurity which at tended transactions so irregular, observing that the par ties were, in every case, liable to an information for a penalty. The prosecutor stated that it was a common practice among merchants to give unstamped receipts in order to save the expense, which would be considerable. It was a pity, he added, that stamps were not much cheaper, as it was nothing but their heavy cost which pre vented their use. Penny receipt stamps ought to be in troduced. Mr. Rushton, in reply , said he bad had before him many cases of the same description, and the practice appeared to prevail to a great extent : The law, however, ought to be regarded, otherwise inconvenience might follow, for receipts sot originally %tamped could not, like other documents, be subsequently stamped on the pay ment of a penalty. THEATRE ROYAL ADELPHI.—Last night the pet vo calist of the pet theatre of Paris charmed, fascinated, and bewildered the crowds at this now prosperous place of amusement by her brilliant singing andstill_morp brilliant acting in the opera, " the Black Domino," which Aub er considers his best, and which Jules Jam has pronounced in his way to be "bon." The piece is of that melo-dramatic musical character which carries an audience away ; the complicated interest of the plot, and the multiplied sur prises would, anywhere, and more especially out 9f the district of dilletanti, compensate for any deficiency in the music or the musicians ; and, when to the dramatic excel lence are added songs that live in the memory for weeks after single hearing, and a singer like Anna Thillon, unrivalled for the clearness and sweetness with which she displays her many resources, the only result of its production, in a very efficient manner, at a Liverpo o l theatre, must be success. Mr. Hudson proved himself use ful ; and in the other adjuncts, personal and scenic, of the Parisian prima donna, there was nothing to carp at. Mr. Hammond has won every praise for the manner and style in which he has put the opera on the stage; and the plau dits received by his managerial creations, evince that his exertions, governed always by a correct taste, have been perceived, and will be rewarded by the public. LAUNCH OF THE " LOODIANAH." Thrre is no sight more enthusia3ticallv sought after by a Liverpool public than that of a ship launch. Every Lidiviunal, impressed with the importance of our corm merce, seems to regard with veneration en event that shall add another plank to the " Wooden Walls of Old England ;" and it having been announced that the Loo dianah eas yesterday to be moved from terra firma to the restless waters of the deep, long before the appointed hour hundreds were congregated at the yard of the builders, Messrs. W. B. Jones and Co. At her bow. an exten sive stage was erected, and in the yard the timber was so arranged as to give all an opportunity of witnessing the sight. On the platform we observed the Rev. D. Stewart, the Rev. T. Nolan, the Rev. John Herbert Jones, John Fletcher, Esq., and friends, G. H. Lawrence, Esq., W. Moore, Esq., H. Moore, Esq., Holderness, Esq., R. Houghton, Esq., J. Houghton, Esq., Carter, Esq., H. Steel, Eq., C. Groves, Esq., John Anderson, Esq., Blythe, Esq., Alderman Chilton, Capt. Anderson, of H.M. steam-ship Pharo, Capt. Heron. John Smith, Esq., &c., and a number of the fairest of our Lanca shire witches. Precisely at twelve o'clock, all being in readiness, the orders were given, " out tomshores," and on the daggers being struck, (without the aid of the screws that were fixed at her fore foot and to the cradles) she moved slowly but gracefully to the bosom of the circumambient waters on which she is destined to ply. The drop of a pin might have been heard while she glided down the ways, but di rectly she was released from her cradles she acknowledged, by a gentle dipping of her head, the vociferous cheers that emanated from a crowd numerically greater, and equally important, to any we have previously observed. The Loodianah, in point of workmanship and model, is not, in our opinion, surpassed by any wooden vessel that has hitherto been launched from our port. Her timbers are of the choicest English oak, and her planking from the Bun nell to the first futtock heads, is of picked East India teak. Below the light water line she is all English oak, and having a fine entrance and a clean ran, with a good flat flooring and a side " round as an apple," she posses ses all the requisites of a merchant model—exquisite stow age and abundant I,earing, combined with good sailing qualities. Internally her construction is equally admira ble ; her bends, binding streaks, and stringers are of unu sual length and strength, varying from 60 feet downwards. Between decks she presents a most superb appearance, being entirely fitted with mahogany, decorated with the most elaborate carvings, which axe relieved by light and elegant cast fresco-work gratings. Her length for ton • nage is 132 feet 4 inches, and over all she measures 150 feet 4 inches; her beam is 31 feet 7 inches ; her depth of hold 22 feet 5 inches ; and her tonnage by builders' mea surement 602—while her burthen per register will be about 750. After the Loodianah left the stocks, she glided from the eddy tide into the stream, which taking her by the stern, displayed her broadside to the assembled multitude, amongst whom one opinion alone appeared to prevail, that a more noble craft never floated on the Mersey. Her figure-head is that of a Sikh General in all the ornamental costume of his country, and with the trail-boards and head-board, all of which are most elaborately carved by Mr. Allen, presents an imposing appearance. The quarter galleries and the stern are also equally admirably deco rated. The vessel was christened by Miss Fletcher, the daughter of John Fletcher, Esq., and has, we learn, been built for the firm of Messrs. H. Moore & Co. She will be commanded by Capt. Heron (late of the Harvest Home,) and is intended for the eastern trade, in which we trust she may be most successful. After the launch, the company adjourned into the model room, in which was laid out a dejeuner, prepared by iNlessrs. Fisk and Co., of Castle-street. At least two hundred and fifty people sat down; and for the credit of Messrs. Jones and the parties furnishing the feast, we must say that we never saw a more sumptuous entertain ment, whether we take into consideration the number of the parties entertained, or the style of their entertainment. Both the provisions and the wines were of first-rate quality; and the company was most select. The wines were supplied by Mr. Sherlock, of King-street. The first toast given was " The Queen," which was acknowledged by the usual honours, and by the national anthem, sung by Messrs. George Holden, junior, J. Mellor, C. Radcliffe, and H. Roberts, in which the corn piny joined. The above gentlemen belong to the Sappho Glee Club. The next toast proposed was, " The health of the owners of the ship Loodianah, Messrs. H. Moore and C 0.," whom the Chairman characterised as the most re spectable men of business with whom he had become ac quainted in the course of his transactions. Glee, "Ye gentlemen of England." Mr. H. MOORE replied on the part of the owners, ex pressing in the most enthusiastic terms the satisfaction the vessel had given them, and concluded by proposing the health of Messrs. W. Jones and Co., the builders, who, he trusted, would live to build a fleet of ships a noble as the one they had that day launched. Mr. W. BUCKLEY JONES responded, and professed himself quite unfit to return adequate acknowledgements for the handsome manner in which his health had been proposed, and the enthusiastic manner in which it had been received. One of his partners was much better fitted to return thanks. As for himself, he could much better handle an axe than make a speech. His firm could turn out a good ship and a good model, but they could not enlighten the company present. No expense bad been spared in building the Loodianah. They had endeavoured to construct a good carrying ship, taking into consideration the fact that fifty days more or less on the voyage was not to be considered, so long as she carried a sufficient cargo. The essentials of a merchant ship, and of naval architecture, he con sidered were to carry a large cargo, and to sail quick. Mr. Jones proceeded to pay a justly-merited compliment to the owners of the vessel launched. He had found them a good ship, and usefulness considered, a handsome one ; and paid his compliments to his partner, who, he said, had once been a ship-master but was now a gentleman. Mr. Jones made some remarks upon the relative merits of wood and iron as used for ship-building purposes, the former of which he did not expect to see superseded in his own time, or that of his children, or grand children, and concluded by proposing the health of Captain Heron, the gentleman who was to be entrusted with the naviga tion of the Loodianah. Glee—" The ship's in Port." Mr. J. SMITH (of the Mercury) responded for his friend Captain Heron. The Bishops and Clergy of the diocese were next given, which was responded to by the Rev. T. Nolan in an elo quent speech, which we regret we cannot give. One statement of the Reverend Gentleman we must, however, notice, viz.—the fact supplied to him by Mr. Samuel Holme, that within a circle of forty miles round Man chester the population exceeds that round St. Paul's, London, by 350,000 persons, which speaks volumes in favour of the prospects of our town. A number of other toasts were drunk, and the party dispersed at a late hour in the afternoon. We were gratified to learn that during the dejeuner, chiefly by the exertions of Mrs. Joseph Harrison, of St. James's-street, upwards of £8 were collected in aid of the funds of the Jordan-street Seamen's and Apprentices' Reading-room and Navigation School, which is open to all seamen and apprentices without any charge. Four gentlemen kindly undertook to hold boxes at the doors for the reception of the donations of the parties attending the dejeuner. We should be glad if this example were followed on every similar occasion, and the valuable in stitution in question would thus be placed on a perma nentlyefficient footing. The annual show of live stock, agricultural implements, seeds, roots, &c., in connexion with the Liverpool Agri cultural Society, will take place, we perceive, on the 24th instant, in the North Haymarket. ST. MATTHEW'S CHURCH.—On Sunday next,. two sermons will be preached in this church, and collections made towards defraying the expenses of conducting Divine service. It appears from a statement which we have seen that there is a balance standing against the church of £65, which, we fear, will only be increased, unless extra means are supplied. We earnestly call on the churchmen of our town—and they are both numerous and opulent— to make use of the present favourable opportunity for wiping away completely the debt against this building. ASSAULT WITH A KNIFE.—A youth named Thomas Rowe was yesterday charged at the police court with having attempted, with an Open clasp-knife, to stab the steward of the Antelope steam and sailing ship. John Edwards, an old man, the ship keeper, observed him, and getting hold of him, prevented uny further assault. The prisoner, who, it appeared, was rather tipsy at the time, and had had some slight difference with the steward. was requested to pay £5 for the assault, or in default to be imprisoned two months ; and further, po find sureties to keep the peace, himself in £2O, and two others in £l5 each, or to be imprisoned for three months. DINNER TO WORKMEN.—On Thursday evening, Messrs. Winspear, Hyde, and Co., gave their workmen a treat in celebration of the commencement of a new pile of workshops which that firm are about to erect in Great Howard-street, being compelled to leave their premises in Crompton-street, by the new railway tunnel from Edge bill to the northern extremity of the docks passing through them. About fifty persons sat down to an admirable dinner at Mr. Adcock's, the Clarence Hotel , served up I in the worthy host's best style. Under the able presi dency of Mr. Robert Walker, a most agreeable evening was spent, and many appropriate toasts drank. Mr. Davies filled the vice-chair with much efficiency. REBUKE OF A POLICE OFFICER FOIL INTEMPERATE USE OF HIS STICK. —Yesterday, at the Police Court, three men were charged by a police officer with riotous conduct, and with assaulting him. It turned out, how ever, from the evidence, that the principal complainant had himself been in some measure the aggressor, he having violently struck one of the prisoners with his stick. Mr. Rushton expressed his strong objection to the pace of the town being allowed to use sticks at all. The London police were not permitted to use such weapons, and he verily believed that the frequent intem perate use of them provoked resistance, and caused great disturbance. He was of opinion that the truncheon alone was quite sufficient, especially during the night. They might spring their rattles for asssistance. [Mr. Ellis explained that the police officers were not allowed to carry their truncheons by night; and we may, add our opinion that a blow from a passionate man with a truncheon would be quite as severe as from a stick. The fact is that the policemens' sticks are turned out of heavy dye-wood, or iron-wood, almost as heavy as metal, and a strong blow from one of them will break bones, for they have no elasticity, and break like a bone. Why not have stout oak or ash sapplings, if sticks be required, which they at times may be for the dispersion of a riotous as semblage of people, and for the individual protection of the officers from assaults.] The three prisoners were strongly admonished by the magistrate to be more care ful in their future conduct, and in wandering in the streets at late hours, and in consequence of the mal-treatment of one of them by the officer in question they were dis charged, LATEST INTELLIGENCE. (BY FXPRE,S.) LONDON CORN EXCIIAN3E.-YESTERDAY. The market opened this morning with considerable excite ment for wheat. The supply of English was only moderate, and met a brisk sale at fully 4s. to ss. per qr. over the currency of this day week. The demand for free foreign was more ex tensive, at 3s. per qr. more money, and quite as much improve ment was realised for bonded, and the demand so exceeds the quantity here, that some French orders last week were exe cuted in Lincolnshire. New barley is 25., malt Is. to 25., beans and peas Is. higher. Indian corn is in great request, and buyers would give 2s. to 35. per qr. more for floating cargoes. We have a fair supply of foreign oats, but the arrivals from Ireland and coastways are only trifling. The trade is Is. dearer for most descriptions ; but the sale checked, anti only retail sales reported. SMITHFIELD CATTLE MARKET.-YESTERDAY. The attendance of buyers was rather extensive, while the de mand for primest Scots, &c., was very steady, at fully previ ous quotations. In all other kinds only a moderate business was doing at late rates. ,the supply - of Sheep was again extensive, yet the mutton trade was very firm, at fully, but at nothing quoteable beyond, last Monday's prices. With lambs we were seasonably well supplied. All kinds moved off readily at extreme currencies. Calves moved off freely at advanced prices. In pigs very little was doing at our quotations. PRICES OF STOCKS.-YESTERDAY. Hundreds upon hundreds of persons in this country are in terested in the state of the market for American securities. Scarcely a sale has been made in our market for .t'loo for a long time past. We are advised that matters, though bad, are likely to improve in New York. Very little business has been done in the English funds to day. Consols are at 964 for the Account, at 96k for money, and Exchequer-bills at 13 to 17 pm. Portuguese Four per Cents. havejust been quoted at 40, and then at 43, and now at 42.. The price of this stock on Saturday was at 4S. The decree of the Portuguese Minister, as to the dividend to be in future paid upon the stock, is the cause of the fall. Spanish Bonds are at 27i. the Three Per Cents. at 38i, and the Mexican Five per Cents. at 26. Railway shares are not in good demand to-day. FINANCIAL SUMMARY OF THE WEEK. (From the Britannia of Saturday.) The price of Consols, as well as of every description of securities, has been well maintained during the week, and the market has bad altogether a firm aspect. The im provement caused by the reduction in the Bank rate of discount has not receded, and Consols for the October account closed yesterday at the prices of Saturday last, 968 to Z. For money the price was 96k. The fluctua tions have been trifling during the week, a slight degree of depression felt on Tuesday having been recovered by the confident reports spread of the Queen of Spain's mar riage, which would undoubtedly contribute to the tran quillity of Europe. Exchequer Bills have continued firm at 16s. to 20s. premium. Other securities for temporary investment have been regarded with favour. Money is for the time exceedingly plentiful, first-rate securities being easily negotiable at two per cent. It is remarkable, however, that short dates only are sought for ; and hence it is inferred that the market can hardly, at present, be said to be in a sound state. Some fear is still entertained by the timid on account of railway calls ; but men of larger views, and with a better estimate of the national resources, see nothing to dread from railway en terprise, assuming it to be legitimate, notwithstanding the immense number of bills passed this session. Jr. the Foreign Market the principal event has been the advance in the prices of Spanish stock, consequent on the Queen's betrothal to her cousin. The rise has been nearly equal to two per cent., and a general expectation is entertained that now Spain will rise in the rank of na tions, and make a vigorous effort to place her finances on a sound footing. The proverbial success of the King of the French in all his undertakings justifies the most con fident hope of the prosperity of Spain, now that he has, in some degree, taken the dynasty and governmen t o f that country under his immediate protection. Spanish Actives, which on Saturday closed at 251 to 6, were yes terday done at 271 to 1. The Three per Cents. have risen in like proportion ; they closed last week at 361 to 7; we note them now at 39k. Portuguese stock has also improved with the more peaceable aspect of affairs. The Four per Cents., which on last Saturday marked only 42, were yesterday done at 47 to 471. Other descriptions of foreign stock have shared in the improvement. Mexicans were yesterday quoted at 261 to 4, but the market was dull for them, as they are regarded with great shyness. The Share Market has been comparatively inactive du ring the week, and there has been a disinclination to pur chase. From the considerable fluctuations in price, shares do not yet present a good opportunity for temporary in vestment, and the warning of last autumn has not yet been forgotten. Indeed, from the mania that then pre vailed, prices were forced up to such an unnatural height that it is doubtful whether the stock even of established lines is not yet too high. However that may be, certain it is that the Share Market has not materially participated in the improvement felt in other kinds of securities this week, and that the transactions have been limited in amount and of a languid character. We see that in all 305 railway bills received the royal assent this session. Such a mass of enterprise is startling; yet it is to be noted that, as a majority of these schemes are for connecting lines, the main trunk ways will be in fact fed and enriched by these tributary shoots. The French lines have shown some symptons of im proved-lent, but the amount of business done in them has been slight. From the manufacturing districts the accounts are more favourable. A demand has sprung up, and there seems a probability of a fair autumn trade. In many descriptions of manufactures the trade is unusually good for the time of year. The rise in the price of grain received a check on Mon. day, owing to the continuance of fine weather, but the fall has since been recovered, and a steady rise in price is now anticipated. The failure of the potato crop must cause an immensely increased consumption of bread-stuffs, and thus the large supplies anticipated from the United States may be taken into consumption without any unusual pressure on the market being felt. Some demand has been experienced from France and Bel gium, and cargoes have actu,dly teen shipped from the former conntry, the harvest there, it is stated, being la mentably deficient in yield. The Gazette returns pub lished last night show an average price of 755. 10d. In an ticipation of a rise in price, and a consequent fall in duty, stocks are beginning to accumulate in bond. The arrivals of foreign for the week in the Gazette are 14,000 quarters, while only 747 quarters were entered for home consumption. The arrivals of oats have been very large, and we notice that in the week 40,000 quarters were en tered for home supply. Experienced factors in the prin cipal towns of the kingdom advise that the consumption of grain is now greater than ever they recollect before. The duty of 10s. cont nues 'a force. LOANS TO IRISH RAILWAY COMPANIES.—Mr. La bouchere has stated that he will entertain proposals for loans to Irish railway companies that have obtained acts of parliament, and the parliamentary deposits on which have been bone fide paid up, and continued in bank to the credit of the companies. INQUEST. —Yesterday an inquest was held, before Mr. Curry, on view of the body of Patrick Brien. Deceased had sailed on Friday week in the Eclipse steamer from Wexford to this port, and was then well. On the follow ing morning he was taken ill, and was attended to by the passengers as well as they could. He did not rally, and died on board on the night of the following day (Satur day), at eleven o'clock. A post-mortem examination was made, and the surgeon having given his opinion that the deceased had died from disease of the heart and lungs, a verdict to that effect was returned by the jury. COMMITMENTS, YESTERDAY, AT THE POLICE-COURT. —Ann Gibson, a young woman, was charged by Elizabeth Molyneux, cf Bedford-street North, with stealing several silver spoons, which had been left in a drawer in one of the bed-rooms. The prisoner was said to be a dress maker. She declined to say anything in her defence, and was committed for trial at the sessions.—Patrick Tobin, was charged with having been concerned with three other Young men (not in custody) in breaking into a marine store, belonging to William Leach, in Perry- street, Tox teth-park, on Saturday morning or Friday night, and therefrom stealing a quantity of old copper and lead, which was deposited in a bag. He was committed for trial at the sessions.—Sarah Naylor, a married woman, was committed for stealing a shawl and a table-cloth from the house of Mrs. Margaret Green, London-road. EMBEZZLEMENT BY A CONFIDENTIAL CLERK.—On Saturday a young man (stated to be married) of very re spectable exterior, named Victor Lecour, was brought before Mr. Rushton on a charge of having embezzled sundry sums of money which he had received from Mr. Unwin and other persons, but which he had never ac knowledged or accounted for to his employer, Mr. Wm. Woodruff Dorrington, merchant, of Chapel-walks. The complainant stated, that the prisoner was his con fidential clerk ; and that he only made the discovery on Thursday last. At Lecour's lodgings a quantity of letters were found, which had been addressed to his employer, but which had been intercepted by the prisoner, and kept entirely from his employer's knowledge. They revealed the fact that the prisoner had been, from time to time, making applications to various corres pondents of Mr, Dorrington for large amounts of money, in some instances due to Mr. Dorrington, but in two of the cases application was made for £3O, where in one only £8 was owing, and in the other £lO. M r. Dorrington, said that, if the prisoner was remanded, h e should be prepared to prove a variety of cases in which he had received large sums of money, and had never accounted to him for them. Mr. Rushton said that it was a very shocking case. The secre t cor respondence the prisoner had evidently been engaged in with Dr. D's customers had not only been intended to have the effect of robbing his employer, but it was calcu lated to destroy the . gentleman's credit ent i re l y. M r . c D a view a s v i o e n n s p t, oohr elicitet h fo a d f t rk h on e nol p w r t e o o n pt e t o r h , s ie a s c s u k c tleoedrr that,s e d w e io q nn u ci e u s e t n i ocni severale s s , , with a view to elicit from the prosecutor, that, on several oc promised forgiveness on a full revelation being made. The prosecutor acknowledged that, in one instance, before Christmas last, he had overlooked one offence, but that what was now charged had all happened since. The pri soner was remanded. He was again brought up yes terday, when considerable additional evidence was adduced. The prisoner was apprehended by police officer Thomas Ainsworth, in a splendid house, kept by himself, in Everton. The general tenor of the evi dence was to the effect that, as before stated, the prisoner had received large amounts in the name of his em ployers, for which he had not aocounted, and when detected he prayed that he might not lie prosecuted, and would make good the amount, as he expected some money through his wife. He was fully committed for trial at the sessions, and the witnesses were bound over to appear under the usual surety. He declined, after being cautioned, to say anything in his defence. A gold Geneva watch was found on the person of the prisoner, which, with the dam and appendages, is, we beard, of £3O value. Sept. 8, IR4g. "THERE IS DEATH IN THE POT." 2 KINGS, •IC. 40v. TO THE EDITOR OF THE LIVERPOOL STANDARD. SIR—On the 24th of last month I addressed a letter to you on the then insanitary state of the town, which you thought of sufficient importance to be prefaced by a Leader," in which you cordially responded to my appeal to yourselves, by impressing upon our municipal authorities the necessity for the prompt discharge of their duty to their fellow-citizens. Your advocacy, which did no less credit to your pen than your heart, has met with its proper reward —success. Already have the initiative steps been taken by the Watch Committee to remove from the town one great cause of disease, the masses of autrifying refuse accumulated about the dwellings of the poor. One little suggestion still remains unattended to, viz.,—the immediate and daily supply of water to the poor man's dwellings by the Water. Companies. This I beg of you to press for, and you must obtain it ; let but the directors and other shareholders of the water companies, who are dividing their 10 per cent., consider that their stinginess at the present critical time sacrifices at least one life per diem, and lays on a bed of sickness fully twenty times the number, and 1 am sure they will, even if it should be proved to be attended with a loss of *th per cent., sanction so great a sacrifice of their pecu niary interests to the lives and wellbeing of those by th sweat of whose brow themselves and their fathers have been enriched. Wealth has its privileges, but it has its responsibilities also. Pestilence stalks abroad, principally from the neglect, the culpable neglect of those whose duty it was to avert its approach. The tocsin of alarm was sounded long ago, but wealth went home to its country house, after subscribing its guinea to the Dispensary, and thought it had done its duty. Oh that the selfish rich could, while reclining on his couch, be carried in the spirit to the poor man's dwelling, and there witness " some strong" father "in his agony." The mother of those wailing children, (alas ! how soon to be or phans,) as supporting his drooping head she wipes the clammy death-sweats from his brow, show., by her pinched and sickly features, that she too is stricken. He dies—she lingers, and perhaps recovers. Pah ! says the rich, this is stuff! No, Sir, 'tis but a faithful feature drawn from nature, the original; had you and your class discharged your duty, it would not have existed. But methinks I hear you say, Mr. Editor, " Revenons a not: moutons," in other words, return to the beef question. Since my letter to the Mercury on the subject, ten days ago, the Mayor has, I believe, summoned a commission of inquiry concerning the amount and intensity of disease amongst the cattle slaughtered and sold in Liverpool, but as I have not been invited to attend the investigations, I have thought it better not to go any further into the sub ject until these " learned Thebans" make their report. I cannot, however, refrain from stating, that a very great man in the matter pronounced the carcase of a cow which had been seized by the inspector of meat the night previously, in the presence of the Chairman of the Watch Committee and a veterinary surgeon, and with the appro bation and concurrence of the owner, as being quite good for human food. " `When doctors differ, who shall de cide ?" But a most respectable wholesale butcher, who stood by, was heard to exclaim, that he should like to re ward the " great man" for his opinion by inviting him to dine off the beef, and make him , dine off it. To this I would add,—after he had seen the lights,—which he had not when he gave his "ex-cathedra" opinion on a "dawn ing" subject. _ _ In treating of this affair I would have it distinctly understood that, while I strongly reprobate the practice of slaughtering and selling diseased meat, and would leave no stone unturned to remedy the evil, yet I would wish it to be accomplished without injury to the tradesmen who, as a body, are as respectable and good citizens as any in the town. The evil is a gre'r one, and requires energetic and decided measures to retne6 it. The honest fair trading butchers of the town are all anxi us to do away with the revolting system of selling food for Christians which Jews won't touch. I speak in parable ; but to ex plain, I affirm that if the beef which is sold in the markets of Liverpool had to pass the Jews' inspector of meat, not one-third of it would be permitted to be sold. If the Jewish nation, by acting in accordance with the Mosaic instructions, succeed in obtaining good sound wholesome meat at a moderate price, why should not their Christian fellow-citizens be placed on the same footing by those in authority over them ? These crudities will suffice, I hope, for the present, as I have just had set before me a dish of "smoking hot potatoes," affected with " the disease," which have been forwarded to me (raw) by a friend, and about which I shall have something to say in some paper this week. Your's, &c., H. G. HARBORD. 4, Upper Parliament-street, Saturday Evening. The annual archery fete at Wynnstay, North Wales, the princely seat of Sir Watkin Williams Wynn, takes place on the 11th instant, and will exceed in splendor all similar fetes in this part of the world. Dinner will be laid for 400 of the aristocracy. and the evening terminate with a grand ball, for which Weippart and his full band are retained. THE FRENCH QUARREL AT TAHITI. OUT valiant neighbours have at length learned the advantages of a little prudence. We are informed, on good autho rity, that their claim to the Friendly Islands is to be abandoned, and that nothing is to be kept, except so much as will seem to satisfy the democratic spirit of La feline France. By so doing, the French nation will steer clear of a rock-ahead, and common sense be placed in the Efe cendant in the conduct of"affairs of Ghat great nation. • GOVERNMENT PATRONAGE.—AIthough there is not as vet any official notification of a vacancy in the department, it is stated that the office of Poor-law Commissioner, with a salary of £2,500 a year, has been conferred on Mr. Morgan John O'Connell, M.P. The Nation, while fully admitting Mr. O'Connell's qualifications for the situation, deeply regret the fact of an O'Connell becoming a " st'• pendiary of England," as establishing a precedent which the weak and venal will improve to their own interest. THE WHITE QUAKERS.—Joshua Jacob, the leader of the sect denominated "White Quakers," who bad been confined for a long time in the Dublin Marshalsea, for contempt of the Court of Chancery, was set at liberty yesterday week on a report of the master, that he could not longer be detained without danger to his life. Joshua has gone amongst " his own people," and is now the re sident patriarch of the White Quaker Colony, whose local habitation is the antique building once the abode of the late Lord Kilwarden, on the Naas-road ; and a yeti rural and salubrious situation, undoubtedly, for any patient. MR. GREEN, JUNIOR'S, ASCENT AT BERLIN.—The Berlin papers contain elaborate accounts of the ascent of the celebrated aeronaut, in a balloon thirty-eight feet in diameter, and sixty-seven feet in length from the top to the bottom of the car. This is about a middle size be tween Mr. Green, senior's, large and small balloods. The spot from which the balloon ascended was granted for the purpose by the King of Prussia, who honoured the expedition with his patronage. About:4o,ooo spectators assembled to witness a sight which in that part of the world is a perfect novelty. Among the most distin guished were the young Prince of Prussia, the Prussian Ministers, and all the foreign ambassadors. Mr. Green was accompaniad by Count Schafeotsch and Herr Kuh nel. The balloon alighted on the plain of Gross-Beeren, and it is a remarkable coincidence that this was on the anniversary of the victory vained on that spot by the Prussians over the French. The balloon has been desig nated the " Gross-Beeren Balloon" on account of this cir cumstance. Our ambassador, the Earl of Westmore land, showed great attention and kindness in assisting Mr. Green in this novel enterprise. Mr. Green purpose 9 to make similar visits to other German cities. HER MAJESTY'S CRUISE.—As will be seen from a paragraph elsewhere, her Majesty reached Jersey on Wednesday evening. On Thursday her Majesty and the Prince Consort made a progress through the loyal town of St. Heliers, and on through the country some few miles, to the Castle of " St. Orgueil," very ancient, and said to have been originally built by Julius Cresar. Her Majesty and the Prince, accompanied by the Lord Chamberlain, Earl Spencer, Viscount Palmerston, and the rest of the Royal suite, returned to the Royal yacht little before three o'clock. Her Majesty did not leave the yacht again that day. Prince Albert proceeded in the Fairy to take a little survey of some portion of the island. Her Alajesty left Jersey on Friday, the 4th inst., at 8 o'clock a.m., and arrived at Falmouth about seven , o'clock the same evening. After the Queen's arrival an address was presented, through Viscount Palmerston, to her Majesty, from the mayor and corporation of the bo rough of Falmouth. Her Majesty on arriving was saluted from the battery on Pendennis Castle. Her Majesty dinner party on board the yacht comprised only the Ro9 s ' suite. Her Majesty left Falmouth on Saturday morning • for Mount's Bay and the Scilly Isles, with an intention of returning,. to Falmouth on Sunday, and calling on Monday ; on which day a pilot has been ordered to take the Fairy up the River Fal, as far as Tregothnan, the seat of the Earl of Falmouth, when the barge will convey the illusttious party to Truro, where the inhabitants are making great preparations to give them a splendid re ception. On their retur❑ the Prince proposes honouring the Polytechnic-hall with his presence, and will after wards go to the 'United Alines in Gwennap, about eight miles distant from Falmouth. Those who are anxious to rent, or invest in property will find many favourable opportunities by referring to our advertising columns. LIVERPOOL CATTLE MARKET, SEPT. 7. 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