The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser. — Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1846-02-10 00:00:00

EXPRESS TRAIN WITH THE MORNING PAPERS By the spirited exertions of Mr. Pearson, _agent for the London Times, and some other news-agents, we expect to receive, by nine o'clock this forenoon, copies of the London papers of this morning, con taining the debate upon Sir Robert Peel's propo sitions last night. IYe shall communicate to our readers the information which they contain in a SECOND EDITION, which will be ready, we expect, about ten o'clock. TO CORRESPONDENTS. Our usual Express parcel did not arrive in time last night By some unaccountable mistake, the name of Mr. George Bade inch was omitted, list week, iu our list of the Grand Jury at the Quarter Sessions for the borough. Our reporter, how ever, correctly copied the list furnished to him. We think a good deal my be said on both sides of the question animadverted upon by " A Housekeepe:." We would. how ever, have in , erted his letter, had he, instead of indulzing in useless recrirn nations against others, brought forward addi tional facts in support of his opinions. EMI' Etberpool taithatti. TUESDAY MORAING, FEB. 10, 1846 In a crisis like the present, when so important a change in the policy of the Government is pending, it may be interesting to our readers to learn how that change is regarded by the representatives of this great commercial community. We are the more readily induced to supply the information from the fact that, during the week, some idle gossip has reached our ears disparaging to one of our hon. members, which none who have observed his past integrity of conduct, and his inflexible adherence to those principles, the profession of which secured him the confidence of the Conservative electors of Liverpool, would wish to remain uncontradicted. It has been more than hinted that Sir Howard Douglas, the hon. and gallant member to whom we refer, is prepared to jump round the compass with her Majesty's Ministers upon the subject of pro tection. Sneers against him have been freely in dulged in : and hints have even been thrown out that official sunshine was to be the price of his flexibility and sudden conversion to Free-trade doctrines We have undoubted authority for denying the imputations levelled against Sir H oward. We know that he entertains strong objections towards the Ministerial propositions, which he regards as preg nant with injury to the true interests of the country; and that he is not prepared to succumb to the dictation of the league, or the Government, by sup porting them. He is not dazzled by the dream of unbounded commercial prosperity, which is held up before us as the price of the sacrifice of the right arm of the country—its agricultural and industrial interest; and is unwilling to be dragged into a forfeiture of his convictions as to the operation of a system of Free Trade ; and is we believe, prepared, should it be necessary, to submit the decision of the question to the proper tribunal—his constituency. Whether this mode of ascertaining the degree of weight to be attached to his vote upon the Govern ment propositions will be urged upon him or not, we cannot of course say. This much, however, we are er- hied to assert, that Sir Howard Douglas will not submit to fight under false colours—to call him self a Conservative whilst carrying out measures which he believes to be destructive of the best interests of the country. That the Conservative electors of Liverpool ad mire so manly and constitutional a policy we feel well convinced. The hon. and gallant member has already won a meed of gratitude from us, in his staunch assertion of Protestant principle and con sistency, which will not fail him in the hour of trial, and we feel persuaded the mass of his former sup porters will be found with him again, whenever he makes his appeal to them, and however the League and its faggot supporters may crowd to the onset. That we are drifting rapidly towards further in roads upon the constitution, every day furnishes convin _ ng evidence. Concession follows conces sion as wave follows wave ; and the very safeguards which we devised to stay:the progress of the devouring flood, are only erected to be pulled down so soon as its waters reach their base, and they are shown to be capable of usefulness. In this way, for the last twenty years, we have been weakening the fabric of Protfistantism in this land,—we cannot weaken its foundations, for they are built upon immutable truth. We conceded to the clamour of dissent the repeal of the Test Acts ; and went on step by step to the fatal concession of 1829. That measure, how ever, was too bold, too startling to be adopted with out some offering to the aroused protestant spirit of the nation. We accordingly hedged round the new elements: which we had admitted into the con stitution, with checks and prohibitions ;—checks, which the serpent spirit of Romanism broke through without an effort; and prohibitions which the re creant and cowardly policy of Conservatism shrunk from the task of carrying into effect. There were few, amongst those who had watched the character of the times, and of the men whom those times have produced, who did not anticipate the period when the mockery of protection thus set up would be withdrawn,—when the full tide of Popery and popish institutions would be let in upon us and recognised, and legalised by authority. That period, the measures of the last session convinced us was approaching. It has come ! The present session is to witness the sacrifice of the Protestant charac ter of the institutions of Great Britain. Can there be a doubt upon this subject ? We will adduce facts which ought for ever to remove that doubt. Passing over the measures of last ses sion—the endowment of Maynooth, and the setting up of a godless system of academical education in Ireland—we ask the reader, in the first place, to re member who was the nobleman who, on the opening of this sessimi, moved the Address in the House of Commons, and what are his politico-religious lean ings. Lord Francis Egerton we know to be a man talented, amiable in private life, and a sincere lover of his Church and her pure scriptural doctrines. He has never been accused of a leaning either towards Puseyism or Young Englandism. Yet, Lord Fr cis Egerton stands pledged to the endow ment of the Roman Catholic Clergy,—another step towards the recognition of the popish element in our constitution. 'We ask the reader, next to refer to the letter of Mr. Macaulay upon the recent ministerial crisis, in which he adduces as the greatest consolation to be derived from the circumstance— a melancholy one to a Whig place-hunter—of Lord John Russell having foiled in his effort to form an administration, the fact that Sir Robert Peel would he able to carry the endowment of the Roman Ca tholic Clergy, whilst his Lordship would probably fail. With such a feeling existing amongst influen tial men on both sides of the House, the conclusion stible that, in the present session of Portia !?obert Peel will add this measure to the list of his apostacies from Protestant principles. But it is not here that we are to stop. We are isked to resign all the protections— ment, also to admit they have been, for they have never been carried into operation—which were pro vided by the Emancipation Bill. On Thursday night, we observe Mr. Watson moved in the [louse of Commons for leave to bring in a Bill " for the further Repeal of enactments imposing pains and penalties upon her Majesty's Roman Catholic sub jects, on account of Religion ;" and, among the class of pains and penalties to be removed, he instanced those imposed by the act of Is2o, directed against the regular clergy, who had come to this country and placed themselves under monastic vows since the passing of that act." Of course, one object here pointed at is to legalize the settlement in this country of the order of the Jesuits,—an order which it has been found necessary to expel from nearly every state in Europe, papal or otherwise; which has been the promoter of revolution, mischief, and the darkest crime, in every country where it has been permitted to establish itself. Yet such a bill, we _find, is not to be opposed by her Majesty's ministers. Oh ! no : t' ey only ask to have left to them the office of carrying its provisions out to the fullest extent themselves. Lord Lyndhurst, Sir James Graham i n f orme d t h e H ouse , h a d i ntro d uce d a bill by which Popery would be thoroughly un muzzled ; and he entre a t e d t h e h onoura bl e mem b er to withdraw his motion, an d to see h ow e ff ect i ve l y a Conservative government would do the work of Rome. Lord John Manne rs , on t h e part o f Y oung England, put in a plea for the Cistercian monks, " who devoted their whole time to the benefit of their fellow creatures." Mr. Daniel O'Connell desig nated the prohibition of monastic establishments as "a law to punish devotion to God, and the exercise of .the highest quality of human nature." (1) And ultimately, Mr. Watson, Mr. B. Escott, and Lord John Manners were ordered to prepare and bring in the bill; Sir Robert Inglis being the only Pro testant member to raise his voice against such an invasion of the constitution and the religion of the law. Well may we cease to wonder at the increasing exultation of Popery when such measures can be advocated in the Parliament of Protestant England, without the utterance of a word of reprobation ! Well may we cease to wonder that judgments are visited upon the nation,—that famine is at the door of one portion of our population, and that another is drunk with delusive hopes of prosperity and wealth ! Well may we cease to wonder that mem bers of our pure Protestant Church are permitted to wander into soul-destroying error, and that we are become the scoff and the scorn of the heresy of Rome ! With such a feeling,—such blindness and fatuity existing in the British legislature,—we need no longer ask the reason of the fact that Popery in her conduct towards us, is daily throwing off the mask with which she has for generations past sought to cloak her real features. Let us, as afford ing proof of this, direct the attention of our readers to the following paragraph, which is taken from a communication addressed from Rome to a German paper : Rome, Jan. 19.—0 n the 14th instant, the Vicar-Ge neral of the Catholic Church, Cardinal Fatrixi issued a proclamation to the people of Rome, which runs thus : " Not a few persons di s ti ngu i s h e d f or pi e ty h ave b esoug ht us with urgent prayers to grant permission for the solemn festival of a novena (nine days' service in the Church of the Jesuits,) in order to implore from Almighty God the wider spread and happy increase of the Catholic faith in England. The Holy Father has not only listened fa vourably to this pious request, but furthermore has pro mised to all the faithful who take an active part in the ceremony a partial indulgence of 300 days for every visit, and a plenary indulgence to those who attend the novena five times at least, it being understood that at the same time such persons are to approach the confessional and Lord's supper. This nine days' ceremony is to begin at eleven o'clock a.m. on the 17th instant, in the church above-named. Whether ye look, my Christian brethren, at the great and noble aim in behalf of which these pub lic prayers are offered to the Almighty, or whether ye cal culate the gain of the holy indulgences, by means of which we may shorten the punishment due to our sins— in either case you must in every way, to the best of your strength, interest yourselves in the matter, and take part in this exercise, by praying the Giver of all good, and the Father of all ar.ercy, that He will pour out over that realm and its inhabitants His light and those gifts of grace, for obtaining which alone our prayers will be effectual." Will any man, after reading this, say that Rome is changed, except so far as that, in her treatment of us, she no longer feels the necessity of wearing a mask? Three hundred days' "indulgence,"—three hundred days immunity to sin,—offered to the faith ful who pray for " the wider spread and happy in crease of the Catholic faith in England !" Bravos of Italy, assassins of Tipperary, what a comfortable creed is yours! Only pray for the conversion of benighted England, and the blood of your victims is washed from your hands. Experience has shewn that we were perfectly cor rect in our remarks upon the injustice and impolicy of the course insisted upon by the Chancellor of the Exchequer, with respect to the payment of railway deposits into the hands of the Accountant-Generaf of the Board of Trade. We maintained that the spirit of the requirement of the Act of Parliament would be complied with by the lodgment, by the promoters of railway schemes, of valuable securities instead of money. Obviously, it was unlikely that parties would keep the amount of such deposits by them in an unproductive form—in notes or in gold. They would invest them in one or other of the ne gociable securities, publicly recognized'as equivalent to cash. It was, therefore, a perfectly useless pro vision, or rather interpreAtion, of the Act, to re quire such investment to be reconverted into money for the purpose of payment into the hands of the Accountant-General; and, the more palpably so, when we consider that the functionary in question can be required immediately to invest the funds lodged with him into profitable stock, possibly the very same which had to be sold out to meet his demand. The object of Parliament in stipulating for the payment of a deposit upon new railway schemes, was to ensure in every case a responsible proprietary ; and it was surely the duty of Govern ment to see that this object was obtained without the infliction upon the community, or upon indivi duals, of unnecessary and harassing conditions. The only thing which Parliament had to ask was, whether the companies had or had not the required amount paid up, and its value available to hand over to the custody of the officer appointed. In taking the course, which he has determined upon, of insisting upon a cash deposit, we do not mean to insinuate the slightest imputation of an un worthy motive on the part of the Chancellor of the Exchequer, or the Government. But at the same time motives might be imputed. A. very little ex amination of the state of the Money and Stock mar kets, during the past fortnight, will suffice to shew that the course pursued, without strengthening one iota the standing of the companies complying with it, has opened a very wide field for those specula tions of capitalists, against which the public have not the least protection, and, at the same time, has inflicted wanton injury upon such companies. We shall perhaps best explain our meaning by an ex ample. We will suppose a company whose paid-up de posit upon a million of nominal capital amounts to fifty thousand pounds. 'lbis sum has been duly furnished by the shareholders. There has been no malversations of directors—no stagging—no reserves of shares, nominally for the benefit of landowners, but really as sops for provisional committeemen. The fifty thousand pounds deposit have been in vested in consols ; and consols, we know were a few months ago, at par. Now the course which we advocated was, that such investments should be re ceived as satisfying the requirements of the act of parliament. The Chancellor of the Exchequer, how ever, has decided otherwise ; and, as the result of that decision, every company has had, in the first in stance, to realise its investments and to produce bank notes or gold for the acceptance of the ac countant of the Board of 'rrade. So far, then, all the world knew that certain securities had to be sold ; and men with any knowledge of business know what is the result of such knowledge. In the case before us, fifty thousand consols are to be ex changed on a certain day for cash ; and the market is influenced accordingly—depressed accordingly. Now what remedy has the party ? The board of directors, compelled to sell out the best possible se curity which can be afforded it, has the opportunity of purchasing again what has sold—consols, or whatever e!se it may be. ;;Lit, before doing so, parliament must be moved. sk!l the world, therefore, knows that fifty thousand 7 . ounds hive to be re-in vested in stock by a certain company on a certain day; and again the result is against such company. The fifty thousand, invested at par, loses five per cent. when realised in cash. It loses another two and a half per cenit when re-invested. The railway proprietor is thus doubly victimised. We cannot see the sense of this. It is not just. In fact, to this very requirement of the act of Par liament, which calls for the deposit of five per cent. upon the capital of railway companies, we suspect may he attributed that favourable position of the public funds which enabled the Chancellor of the Exchequer last year to make that reduction of the three and and a half per cents., the saving of which to the country was not less than a quarter of a mil lion per annum. In mere gratitude, that func tionary ought not to have exacted the full amount of his bond. The surplus capital of the country enabled him, by its being invested in the national securities, to bestow upon the country a great boon, and whatever value the doctrine of retributive justice may have in otlu r eases, it ought not to have been acted upon here. \.Ve repeat that we attribute no motives of an unworthy character; but we do not like to see, coinci , " lit with the recent state of the • money market, lately frequent operations of the Government broker. In similar operations by any private party, a motive would be attributed. The warehouse owners of Liverpool have, for years past, been about the best abused body of men in the country. They opposed the erection by our public authorities, with the public money, of ware houses on the dock quays, the land for whose site was sold by the corporation, in the days of whig rule, at an insufficient price—at less, in fact, than land in less favourable localities had been sold to private individuals; and for this were branded as selfish men, opposing public improvements from private objects. The Legislature, however, did not think their demands so very inconsistent with justice or so unreasonable; for it imposed upon the Dock Committee, at their suggestion, a clause restricting that body from prosecuting their scheme beyond a certain point, and imposed certain conditions, with which it was imperative to comply. By our report of the last council meeting it will be seen that the warehouse owners have, at length, efFectually purged themselves of all liability to be termed selfish in exacting the full amount of their bond. It may be remembered that some difference arose, a few months ago, between the Dock Com mittee and themselves, as to whether the act had been completely complied with in the erection of the Albert Dock Warehouses. The Committee were restricted to four warehouse floors, and bound to leave a certain portion as open-quay space. They chose, however, contrary to the spirit and letter of the act, as it was contended, to encroach upon this open quay, by the erection of a half-deck floor, thus increasing their warehousing space and limiting the extent of the quay room, for which the public and Parliament had stipulated. On this point they came into collision with the warehouse owners, who had the power to enforce the carrying out of the strict letter of the act ; and might even have gone the length of insisting upon the pulling down of the floors illegally constructed. From the speech of the Chairman of the Dock Committee, however, it will be seen that tl ey have, most creditably and gene rously, abandoned all thought of obstru ting the progress of the warehouses ; and will act harmo niously with the authorities in devoting themselves to the rapid development of the commerce of the port. To use the language of Mr. Bramley Moore, we shall hear no more about "the warehouse inte rest overriding the town." There is ample scope in Liverpool for all parties to live and thrive; and the vast growth of new warehouse property within the past few years shows most satisfactory that its owners have nothing to fear from any course which the Dock Committee may adopt to facilitate the dis charge of shipping, and to accommodate the trade of the port. We would not, from this circumstance, detract one iota from the credit due to the warehouse owners. Their concession to public opinion is most graceful and well-timed; and the more graceful, in asmuch as it has come upon us umprompted and unexpectedly. They will receive, we trust, the only return which is at all adequate to their deservings— the approbation and respect of an entire community, before whom it has been too much the practice to hold them up to obloquy, as incorrigibly selfish, and opponents of the best interests of the port in which their property is so largely invested. THE LIVERPOOL STANDARD TILE FOREIGN CORN MARKETS. The monthly circular of Messrs. Body and Co., just published, gives some data with respect to the present state of the foreign corn markets, which, if they can be depended on as accurate, shew that, from the continent of Europe at least, we need be under no immediate expec tation of such supplies as will cause a large reduction in the price of corn for some time to come. Only five grain laden vessels for English ports had passed the Sound and Belt between the 20th and the 26th of January; and it would appear that most of the wheat stored in the prin cipal European markets will be wanted for home or Euro pean consumption. The French ports are now open at the lowest duty of 7d. per quarter; and it is anticipated that, with the scarcity of grain in the country, France must buy largely in a few months, and probably outbid all other countries in the markets from which her supplies are to be drawn. In Norway and Sweden serious want exists. Common barley, for the consumption of these countries, is shipping in the Danish islands at 265. per qr. In the Baltic barley is selling at 255. 6d., rye at 365., and oats at 20s. per quarter, which is their full value, duty paid, in England. In Holland prices were run up 3s. per quarter on receipt of intelligence of Sir Robert Peel's pro positions; and grain of all kinds is high in price, and very firmly held. In Odessa the finest wheats were quoted on the 4th January at 355. 6d. to 38s. 6d. free on board, and would have brought higher rates, but for a scarcity of shipping. Secondary qualities were worth about 345. Prices, however, have since advanced considerably, and as the stocks, which are not large, are eagerly taken up for the north of Europe, there seems little chance of any great quantity finding its way to Great Britain. TEIE POTA I OE DISEASE IN IRELAND A report of the commissioners of inquiry into mattcrs connected with the failure of the potatoe crop in Ireland, was laid on the table of the House of Commons on Friday night, on the motion of Mr. O'Connell ; and certainly contains some revelations of a startling character. _ " It appears from undoubted authority," says the re port, " that of 32 counties in Ireland, not one has escaped failure in the potatos crop ; of 132 Poor-law unions, not one is exempt; of 2,058 electoral divisions, above 1,400 are certainly reported as having suffered ; and we have no certainty until the receipt of the more minute returns now in progress of completion, that the remaining 600 have altogether escaped." . How this alarming state of things is to be met is not very clearly indicated, or apprehended, by the Commis sioners. The poor-houses, at present far from full, appear to be looked to as affording some promise of usefulness. The employment of the people in public works, however, is their main reliance to preserve the country from famine; but the employment must be upon a most extensive scale, and will require very complicated arrangements to regu late it. Sir John M`Neill, the celebrated engineer, who has been consulted, expresses his opinion that the employ ment on such public works rarely extends its benefits over a greater distance than five miles from the locality of such employment. If this is the cpse something dif ferent from railway works will have to be provided ; ut what that may be the Commissioners appear at a loss to state. Draining or road making, we presume, must be had recourse to; but the difficulty will be to provide the requisite surveys in time, and to ascertain upon whom the cost will have to fall. It is clear that we cannot support the people of Ireland until rit!xt harvest without( some con tribution from the owner of the 116 h soil; and they do not betray any great inclination to bear their portion of the burthen. From the feeling which prevails, with res pect to the export of food from the country, it is not at all unlikely that the peasantry will themselves cut the Gordian knot, by taking the matter into their own hands. A starving people very readily get rid of their notions of the difference between meum and tuum. The subject of the lecture at St. Anlrew's Church, this evening, is " The use and abuse of Forms." THE MERCURY'S CROTCHETS.-Our contemporary makes but a lame eff , rt to get out of his blunder of last week, as to the million sterling of taxation which would be the effect of the duty of a shilling per quarter upon foreign wheat. The Mercury cannot have read the poli cal economists, or he would have known that the position he has taken refuge in is not tenable. Political econo mists almost unanimously agree in the doctrine, that small duties for revenue do not come out of the pockets of the consumer. We would recommend him to consult M'Cul tech. _ TIIE EVANGELICAL ALLIANCE.—The Rev. J. West, chaplain to Dr. Whately, archbishop of Dublin, in the course of a letter announcing the opposition of his grace to the Alliance, says, " At a party of clergy recently as sembled, I called attention to the Rev. Mr. M'Neile's valuable statement of his reasons for declining to join the Evangelical Alliance.' The archbishop quite agrees with Mr. M'Neile in considering that the elements which are to compose this a'liance, are such as to render unity in any course of action impracticable, and that its progress in the direction supposed to be aimed at, must terminate at the first step—the mere profession of union. For it is not so much in general principles that men differ as in the application of them." RAILWAY DEPOSITS.—On Wednesday night the total sum actually passed to the credit of the Accountant-Ge neral with the Bank did not much exceed £5.000,000 ; but as the bankers' deposits, which are generally a little more or less than £1,000,000, were at that time full £5,000,000, it was concluded that at least £4,000,000 was waiting orders to be transferred to the railway deposit ac count, all parties in fact deferring them to the latest mo ment possible, in the hope of receiving some light on the policy of the Government from the report of the select committees. On Thursday, there being no symptom of its apprarance, the payments went on with great rapidity, and they had reached on the afternoon of that day to nearly £10,500,000. The receipts of Friday, the last day, made up the amount to £11,492,000. ST. JOHN'S COURCH SCHOOLS, GREAT CROSSHALL STREET.—The friends of scriptural education in this town will be gratified to learn that these schools, which were opened a fortnight since in a most densely-populated and depraved part of the town, are now completely tilled. At present, 260 children, many of whom up to this time were perishing for lack of knowledge, are there being insti ucted in the way which leadeth unto life eternal, and trained also to do their duty in that state of life unto which it shall please God to call them. But we are pained at being compelled to add that the accommodation afforded by the present rooms is by no means commensurate with the wants of the district. Yesterday upwards of 40 parents in the neighbourhood applied for admittance for their children, hut applied in vain. The schools arc filled to overflowing. Regard to the comfort and health of the children compels the committee to close the doors against all applicants. Further accon modation is loudly called for, and we think the cry will not be unheeded in Liver pool. The present school-rooms are only rented, and they must soon, we think, be exchanged for others more spacious and commodious, in permanent connexion with St. John's Church and district. THE BRITISH SALT TRADE.—The proprietors of the extensive salt works in Cheshire, Worcestershire, and other counties where this most necessary article is pro duced, are doing all they possibly can to render it a most important branch of British commercial industry. The opening of the salt trade with China, via Hong Kong, and the increasing dema• d making for our presidencies in India, has given an extraordinary impetus to the manu facture of the article. The constructing of railways will have the most beneficial result to the mining interest. not only in our copper, iron, tin, lead, and coal districts, but the salt as well. Tile great commercial port of Liverpool has hitherto had nearly the whole of the salt export trade ; but a rival is now starting up in the city of Gloucester. The transmission of brine from the Worcestershire salt works by rail to Gloucester for exportation has, for some time past, been one of the grand projects of the manu facturers of that county. The quantity made in Worces tershire is, on an average, about 100,000 tons of white salt, more than one-third of which is shipped even now at Gloucester; and the trade is rapidly improving. The expense of fuel, in consequence of the high price of con veyance, has been a great drawback to the counties of Chester, Worcester, and Gloucester, althoug h there is plenty of coal. NV hen the Dean Forest Railway is com pleted, the latter city will be most advantageously situa te d , as it will possess an inexhaustible supply of cheap ca rbonic mineral, which can be delivered direct from the train to the salt works.—Mining Journal. BIRKENHEAD COMMISSIONERS An adjourned meeting of this body was held last even. ing, in the Board Room, Hamilton-square. Present, J. H. Greene, Esq., chairman; Messrs. W. Laird, Cole, Horner Brownrigg, Atherton, Gilbertson, A. A. Dobbs, J. R. Pim, Pike. _ _ _ . _ Mr. W. Cole laid before the Board the following report, accompanied with a very voluminous list of clauses, which it was proposed to have inserted in the amended Improve ment Bill now before parliament. The Report was then read by Mr. ATKINSON, as fol lows : " At an adjourned meeting of the Health Committee, held this day, present, Mr. Cole, chairman, Messrs, W. Laird, Ap pleton, Gilbertson, and Adamson, the following Report was unanimously adopted:— REPORT. " Your committee beg to state that they have now completed the revision of the Improvement Acts, and have prepared seve ral additions and amendments, which they are unanimously of opinion would be highly desirable, both for the improvement and health of the township, and they beg to propose that such amendments be introduced, in committee in the bill now be fore parliament. (Signed) WM. COLE, Chairman. "9th Feb., 1846." Mr. COLE, after observing that the new clauses were so lengthy that it would take up too much of the time of the Commissioners to go over them seriatim, proposed " That the Report be received, and the alterations and amendments proposed by the Health Committee, and now laid before the Board, be forwarded to the Law-clerk with instructions that the same be embodied in the Improvement Bill now before Parliament, and as soon as the Improvement Bill is printed a copy of the same be sent to each Com missioner." . . Some discussion then ensued respecting the course pro posed to be pursued, but it was understood that the reception of the report would not bind any member to support it hereafter. the Chairman observing that the matter would be much better understood when each member had a printed copy before him, when he could read it and consider the various clauses at his leisure. Mr. Pim wished something to be introduced into the motion so as not to render it imperative on the law-clerk to introduce all the clauses, as he was afraid their bulk would frighten Lord Shaftesbury. Mr. COLE said, it would not be the bulk his Lordship would look at, but the quality. Mr. GILBERTSON hoped if the law-clerk could not ob tain the isnertion of all the clauses, he would obtain the introduction of the most important. Mr. COLE said it was pretty well understood by the law-clerk what were the wishes of the committee. Mr. WM. LAIRD seconded the motion of Mr. Cole. Mr. BROWNRIGG said he had no objection to the mo tion as it stood, but if it had gone so far as to adopt the report he could not have voted for it, as be had not read it. Mr. W. LAIRD thought the course proposed to be adopted would save much trouble to the Commissioners, for they would be much more likely to come to a proper conclusion on the subject by a careful perusal of the bill when in print. _ _ _ The motion was then put and adopted unanimously. Mr. COLE said he understood Mr. W. Laird had some thing to say respecting the Building Act. Mr. W. LAIRD said the committee were engaged on a report respecting the construction of fire-proof ware houses, but they had not yet been able to go thoroughly into the matter, he should, therefore, wish that the meet ing would adjourn for a week, when he hoped the com mittee would be able to report on the subject. Mr. BROWNRIGG asked whether they had conferred with the law-clerk on the subject, to know how far they were likely to succeed in obtaining the insertion of such clauses. Mr. W. LAIRD said the law-clerk had been consulted on the subject, and he was of opinion that the clauses might be introduced, provided there were no money clauses in them, of which the committee would beware. He then proposed— " That this meeting do adjourn to Monday, the 16th instant, to receive a further report, from the Health Committee, on the building of warehouses, and to receive a report from the Light ing and Watching Committee upon the proposed amendments in the Lighting and Watching Act." Mr. COLE said the fact was, the clauses alluded to were exactly in the same position as those before the Board at present. Mr. BEOWNRIGG hoped that for the future they would not run the matter so very fine : . Mr. EIoRNEn. asked when it was necessary that the bill should be before the house ? . . _ ~.—. - Mr. 13EtowNRIGG said the petition had already been presented, and the bill was at present before the House, but it was competent for any commissioner to get some one to move for the insertion of either those or any other clauses, which, if approved of, would be included in the bill. The motion was then put and adopted, and the Board adjourned. The hon. William Lewis Denman, son of Lord Den man, has entered holy orders, and was ordained by the bishop of Durham on Sunday week. DISSOLUTION OF THE LIVERPOOL ROYAL STOCK EXCHANGE.—As a sign of the times the dissolution of this exchange might be adduced as important. It will be seen, however, by our advertising columns, that a new as sociation opened yesterday, into which we believe the bulk of its members, together with many who have seceded from the association in Bank-buildings, have entered. COMMITMENTS FOR TRIAL. AT THE SESSIONS, YES TERDAY.—A man named William Reynolds was yester day committed before Mr. Rushton, on a charge of hiv ing stolen from the clothing shop of Mrs. Jones, in Nor folk -street, on Saturday night, a hammock and bed, worth 6s. 6d. Tne prisoner made no defence. Hugh Powell was also committed on a charge of having received 6 sovereigns from a female who keeps a public-house to get changed, and with which, or the change he did not re turn. It appeared he had purchased for himself new shoes, a new shirt, &c. He stated that he had got intox icated, and did not know what bad become of the money. ARRIVAL OF THE DUKE OF LANCASTER.—The fine ship Duke of Lancaster, belonging to Messrs. Stringer and Mann, John Bullev, commander, arrived in this river on Sunday morning, after a passage of 94 days, from Can ton. She sailed from Liverpool on the 28th May last, discharged her cargo in China, took on board a full cargo there, consisting of upwards of 860 tons of tea, and com pleted the voyage in eight mon'hs and ten days, being the shortest time on record. This, the first voyage of the Duke of Lancaster, argues well for what may be expected as regards future passages under the command of Captain Bulley, who, we understand, is notorious for the quick passages made in the ship Thomas Lowry. CHARITABLE SOCIETY.—We regret extremely to hear that the funds of this invaluable society are in a languish ing condition. Last year there were 1634 cases of dis tress relieved from the funds of the society, affording substantial and timely aid to 6195 persons 1 ' The visits paid by the gentlemen connected with the society, who afford their services gratuitously, were 2254, and the amount expended was £l6B 6s. We should be glad if we could interest the liberal sympathy of the public in behalf of this society, which distributes its funds at the dwellings of the destitute, but on no occasion without a previous visit to the family, and a searching iuvestigation into the claims and characters of the applicants for relief. The subscribers have thus the best guarantee that their donations are judiciously distributed. FACTORIES IN WALLASEY FOOL—A Radical con temporary of Saturday, upon whose absurd schemes of establishing factories upon the unoccupied land on the margin of Wallasey Pool, we recently remarked, returned to the charge in his last publication, and treated with some derision our assertion, that a want of water for steam en gines would be felt in such a locality. Perhaps the party in question does not know that fresh water is indispensable for the economical working of factory engines. Where he will find that, in abundance sufficient, in the neith bourhood of Wallasey Pool, we are at a loss to conceive. On the banks of the Leeds and Liverpool Canal the ex periment_ of erecting factories might answer ; but for Wallasey Pool the project is hopeless. He might as well say the locality is suitable for a sugar plantation. CHARGE OF EMBEZZLEMENT. Yesterday, at the Police Court, a young man named Thomas Leach, a col lector in the employ of Mr. John Jones, estate agent, Grafton-street, Toxteth-park, was charged by the latter with having embezzl e d, c hi e fly on th e 26th u lti m o, cer tain small sums which he had received from weekly te nants of premises, and for which he had not accounted — making three distinct cases. Several witnesses were called, and from the general evidence it appeared, so far as is yet known, that the prisoner had received £1 Ils., and had paid over only £1 Is, 6d. About £lOOO passed through his hands annually, while he was in the employ. It also appeared that to cover the fraud he had made a false entry in fi4ures in the books. His employer stated that the prisoner (who had been five years in his service) had received notice to leave, and had left on Wednesday list. the defalcations so far had been discovered since that time; but Mr. Jones added that he strongly sus pected he was guilty of other similar delinquencies, as he was short of £3lO, which he ought to have received ac cording to his books. Mr. Owen, who defended the prisoner. endeavoured to show that the whole atFair ori ginated iii pique, he (the prisoner) having gone to another rival employer. Mr. Rushton decided that he should go for trial, but remanded him so that some further evidence, which it was said could be procured, was brought up. THE IRON TRADE.—The iron trade of South Stafford shire continues in the same prosperous state which we noticed the week before last,!and ;we understand that efforts are being mane in various parts of the district, and more particularly in that section of the coal-field lying near Oldbury, to obtain further supplies of coal and iron stone. For this purpose, several pits, which had long since been considered as worked out, have been re-opened ; and with the aid of increased skill, and improved machi nery, the abandoned mines will, it is expected, yield a fresh supply of their mineral treasures. From the uncer tainty which exists as to the measures of Government, with respect to the numerous projected lines of railway, the ironmasters evince great unwillingness to enter into large contracts ; otherwise, from the abundance of orders, we should have to quote prices considerably above the rates fixed on at the recent quarterly meetings of the trade. As it is, the existing prices can scarcely be cdhered to, and we are enabled to state, on the best authority, that there are parties now in South Staffordshire en deavouring to effect purchases for the continent—Germany in parti cular—for several lines of railway, amounting in some cases, to 30,000, and in others to 40,000 tons. It is. we believe, satisfactorily ascertained by the largest rnanufac turing firms in the kingdom, that the modifications and changes in the tarff with regard to the importation of pro duce from America, will cause such a demand for the con sumption of iron in the United States, as to warrant the assumption that double and treble the quantities hitherto exported from this country will take place immediately on the new measure coming into operation. The effect of the increased and increasing demand for iron is not confined to our own district, for our Liverpool letters inform ns that Scotch pigs fetched 80s. per ton, and that other de scriptions of manufactured iron rate proportionably high. —Birmingham Journal. FALL OF THE WAREHOUSE ri MOOR-STREET FINDING OF THE BODY OF LARCEY. Since our last publication, a great number of porters and others have been employed by night as well as by day, in getting and carting off the valuable grain, flour, &c., from the warehouse which fell, with its accumulated load, on Saturday week—burying in the ruins one of the labourers. The weather has, on the whole, been rather favourable, for the season of the year, and great progress has been made ; but many days will yet be required to complete the removal of the property and materials. The body of Peter Larcey was found by the labourers on Saturday morning, in room No. 1, and near the end of it, facing the Old Ropery. Yesterday an inquest was held on the remains, before Mr. Curry, and a special jury; one principal object being to arrive at the cause of the unex pected fall of the building, which involved such fatal con sequences. The first witness, Thos. Carroll, a porter, sta ted, that while working at the ruins on Saturday, he saw the legs of a man hanging down from room No. 2, into room No. 1, and assisted in getting the body out. The right side of deceased's head was partly carried away. Deceased was at the time of the accident working in No. 2, with several other men, (as before stated). The warehouse was eight stories high, including the cellars. Shortly after it fell deceased was missed. Rooms 3 and 4 were filled with flour, in barrels, piled five high, and fifteen a:Toss the room, with a gangway between them. Witness did not consider such a weight too much for the rooms of a well standing warehouse. Nos. 5 and 6 were filled with barley belonging to Mr. Tipping, thrown down in bulk. No. 7 was filled with wheat and pease, belonging to Messrs. William Steele and Co., both in bulk. No. 2 hid wheat. He had known the warehouse for 13 or 14 years. Patrick Scantlin, a porter, knew deceased, and was at work with him in No. 2. Between 11 and 12 o'clock on Saturday week, witness observed two of the beams over his head, and between him and the door, giving way. They broke in the centre, and the floor and everything above it came tumbling in. He made to the door to heave himself out. He got out through the door by a rope, and then found all the warehouse had come down, except the end at the Old Ropery, and part of the roof. It appeared to him to be sound and safe, if not overloaded. The wheat taken in was Mr. Slattery's. The cross-beams were supported by props. Edward Newman, a porter, was in the jigger -loft at the time. There was a noise like a clap of thunder. Witness was at the Old Ropery end of the warehouse. He stopped a moment or two at the jigger. The dust then over powered him, and he got down the stairs as far as No. 2. The stair was choked up with barrels of flour. He made his escape. John Evans, warehouseman to Mr. Dean, who rented the whole warehouse from Mr. Tipping, said Mr. Dean had taken it for three years certain, from the Ist January last, for general purposes, and let off rooms to different persons ; but no lease had been signed, nor was there yet any written agreement. John Solda - n, a porter, was in No. 2, with deceased. There might be in it 1000 sacks of wheat, more or less, which covered the better half of the floor, but was in no place near the top. It was trimmed up in the usual way. There was at first a noise like thunder, and then the building fell. Mr. Lawter, warehouseman to Mr. Slattery, said the room (No. 2) was taken from Mr. W. Dean's warehouse man, by witness himself, at 359. a week, and Mr. Dean was told it was for wheat, but nothing was said about the quantity. It was a bonded warehouse, but not especially so. The room ought to have contained 2400 sacks, and he thought there were only about 1375 sacks in it at the time. Its area was 240 yards superficial. It was only abgnt three-fourths filled. Wheat might be placed four teen bricks high from the floor, in the lower rooms. In some parts it was but twelve bricks in this instance, in others more or lesa. A witness stated that the warehouse was propped from the cellars, which were arched, to the top. Mr. S. Holme, (builder,) being sworn, said he had been sent for by the mayor, on the morning of the 31st January, and proceeded to the warehouse to view it with him. He found about two-thirds of it had fallen into Moor-street. The direction in which it appeared to have fallen was south-west. About half the western wall was down, and the whole of the front next Moor-street had also fallen. The beams had drawn out of the eastern wall, but no portion of that wall was disturbed. A part of it was dangerous, and he had it pulled down. He also got his men to prop the front wall at the old ropery, as it was bulged out. He had since gone with Mr. John Stewart, and Mr. Weightman, and made an inspection of the warehouse and a sketch ; but they found at present nothing by which they could judge of the cause of the accident. His present impression, judging from appear ances, was that the eause of the accident would never be discovered. It might have arisen from a defect in the bottom props. The coroner here suggested to the jury that the case should he adjourned for further evidence. He alluded to the late tank accident, on the first inquest relative to which (and involving six lives) only one scientific gentle man had given evidence; yet on a second inquest on another of the sufferers, a very different verdict was come to. He thought, therefore, they should have further evidence to satisfy the public mind. He also considered it proper that Mr. Tipping (who had not appeared) should be examined. The jury concurred, and after Mr. Stewart, in reply to the coroner, had stated that he could not account for the accident in the present state of the ruins, the inquest was adjourned till that day fortnight—the 23rd instant—by which time the bottom of the warehouse may be examined by Mr. Holme and others. We should add that a person present, who was questioned by Mr. Holme, said that the iron doors were put into the warehouse about two years ago in a peculiar way ; and Mr. H. said that the fixing of them as stated would not in the slightest degree weaken the building. The deceased was a widower, aged about 50, and has left five children. COLLISIONS ON THE RIVER YESTERDAY.—YeSter day, as the brig Limena, the property of Messrs. Clay pole and Son, bound for Puerto Rico, was under sail on her outward voyage, she ran foul of the Pearl barque, the property of Watson Brothers, which was being towed out on a voyage for Tobasco. The effect of the collision was, that the Pearl had her main and wizen masts carried away, and the Limena was also injured. Both vessels put back. Last evening, the Hannibal ran foul of an outward bound Spanish vessel, and sprung her bowsprit. She will have to dock. The John Brooks, an inward bound vessel, lying off the King's Dock, had her bow sprit carried away, by a vessel being towed across her bow. She will have to go to dock. THE EGYPTIAN TRANSIT COMPANY.—The Times of yesterday, after announcing that at the time of the last advices leaving Alexandria, no tidings of the Bombay mail had arrived there. The Pacha has superseded the Transit Company managed by Mr. Waghorn, and put his grand son, Governor of Cairo, at the head of it, with subordi nate Turks and Egyptians to assist him. Mr. Waghorn built all the stations on the desert, and they are now taken possession of by the Pacha—this will annihilate the whole of the English interests in the overland route, if Lord Aberdeen does not immediately instruct Colonel Barnett what to do forthwith. All this is the work of French intrigue, and it has been their study to effect this object for the last five years; they have at last taken ad vantage of the Pacha's partial imbecility, for he has not been himself, in the opinion of diplomatists, since his abdication for a whole week in August, 1844 Since then gigantic schemes have arisen under French auspices, and Alexandria, Damietta, and the sea coast have assumed a warlike aspect under French engineers, who have per suaded the Paella the English are determined to take his country. Since this order of the Pacha's has gone forth, the chief of one of the Tor tribes has been murdered on the desert, and the greatest consternation existed at all the desert stations in consequence, particularly at No. 2, near which the murder took place. It is said that Mr. Waghorn anticipated this three months ago, and forth with despatched his partner to the Committee of the Bombay Steam Fund, again to obtain the station-houses, which are still their property, in order to counteract this unfortunate interruption to our communications with India. CHANGE OF THE WEATHER.—SAILING OF VESSELS YESTERDAY.—For several weeks past we have had at this port and the neighbouring coasts successions of gales or strong winds from the westward, which (as will be found by our shipping intelligence) have proved fatal to many fine vessels making for our port. The same cause has detained many others, ready for sea, in our docks, which had consequently becomo unusually crowded, to the exclusion from berths of many large craft which had arrived in our river. On Sunday night (on the eve of full moon), a change took place, the wind veering to the north, and finally, yesterday, to about the N.N.E., and a sharp black frost set in, which in a short time covered the pools in the town and the ponds in the neighbourhood with ice. This wind being favourable for vessels outward bound, especially after they have passed the Bell-buoy, all was yesterday morning before high water (which was about eleven o'clock,) in commotion at our dock basins and piers, in hauling out and setting sail. Steam-tugs were in such requisition that twice the disposable number would have found employment, and many large vessels, bound to various ports abroad, were necessitated to beat down the stream. About forty vessels sailed for foreign ports, and nineteen coastwise. These, with many others inward-bound, or moving about, together with many fine vessels at anchor, including the magnificent ship Duke of Lancaster, formed a beautiful and animated marine pic ture. Could steam-tugs have been obtained many more would have sailed, and if the wind continues in the same quarter to. day, we shall have again to report a great num ber of departures. The breeze was rather fresh, and the cold—though the sun shone out—most piercing. After so open a winter, the old saying is verified, that " as the day lengthens, the cold strengthens." ENGLISH ORNAMENTAL GLASS. —The progress of British industry and ingenuity is not more fully illustrated than in the manufacture of ornamental glass. It has hitherto been considered, that however strong might be the claims of the English artizan to superiority in manu facturing domestic articles of glass, to Bohemia was con ceded the credit of surpassing all other nations in producing ornamental manufactures. We have now, however, the pleasure of stating, that, by the completion of a series of successful experiments, our little i s l e i s no t on ly a ble to compete with, but actually to surpass, the continent in manufacturing what may be termed " Bohemian Glass," which, though beautifully tich, will not bear comparison with some specimens we have seen of home manufacture. The splendid colours produced by the mixture of metal do not in the foreign :appe ar so we ll ama l ga mated, and one other important . superiority in the competing article is, that the painting and gilding with which the glass is ornamented is perfectly durable, being burnt in—the only deficiency hitherto urged against the Bohemian manufacture. Mr. Smith, of Bold-street, who represents the inventor, has sent two specimens to our office, which may be seen during the day, It is made in a thousand different forms, and is peculiarly adapted for chimney-piece ornaments. Feb. 10, 1846. VAST INCREASE OF THE TIMBER TRADE OF LIVERPOOL -- -- h From the circular of an in fl uential firm, just publ;' , l er we learn that the forei g n and colonial imports of tim of into this port during the past year, have exceded thos t e ehe the preceding year by 70,088 tons, and an average 0 " 0 / five preceding years by 114,333 tons. On an averag e ... the ten years preceding the present, it employed 364 v"' sels with a total of 169,281 tons; and has this year ere, 563 vessels, with 273,646 tons, an increase o n a e cedented in the history of any port io the kingdom. ''''... following table contrasts the tonnage employed ill timber trade this year with that of the previous one L''o From Feb. 1, 1845, to Feb.l. 1846 From Feb.t, 1844, to Fe o.l.l ' Tong' Vessels. Tons. Vessels. ill Quebec 2l 4w .... 125,325 Quebec l5B .• • • , 450 St. John, &c... 239 .... 114,529 St. John, &c. 211 .• • • ' 4 113 . . 33,792 Baltic Baltic 5l .. • •_____,.... - - s 50 Total 566 .... 273,64 r Total 420 .• • • ? ° "'..A So trifling has been the supply of those woods adaPT: for the construction of ships of the first class that, et in; present moment this one of the greatert maritime pot,, in the world, is in . the anomalous position of not be t ; in stock a single log of foreign wood suitable for a tire . , years' ship. There can be no question, therefore , of ; 1 1 ',,,, policy which, by removal of duties, would encourage the supply of such woods from all parts of the world, and, all events, admit, free of duty, all oaks, hard wo e. _ masts, spars, treenails, p ex itch pine, such woods!! enter largely and almost clusively into and the constructO of ships. The following is the extent of the imports of coloais squared timber for the two years :- 1845. 1846.•, Quebec.. 3,664,969 feet 5,591,076 f ee t ' St. John ..... . 1,836,021 „ ...... 2,248,332 tl M iramich i 49,241 „.. Other Ports ... 185,925 „ Red Pine. 420,418 „ The mahogany trade is stated to have been nearly dou bled. The business in Canabian timber is thought not.la_ have been remunerative to the importers, owing to tb_o unnaturally high prices in the colonies, and the high raw of freights. To-day is the sixth anniversary of the marriage of b st Majesty and Prince Albert. of The Marquis of Abercorn has accepted the offi ce ,,, Groom of the Stole to Prince Albert, vacant by resignation of the Marquis of Exf ter. ; net SOUTH-EASTERN RAILWAY EXTENSIONS.--it - the case that these projects are doomed in Standior orders Committee. The objection raised against the i s " lidity of the deed, as being one deed for several project s ' is not likely to be substantiated. A Barcelona journal of the 30th publisbes an improbs ble statement of a collision having taken place at Vera CO (date not given) between the Spanish brig of war Patriou and a British frigate, in which the Spaniards had two a three men killed and the British 60. of According to the latest accounts from the canton v . ' Berne, the population had declared, by an immense Mt' jority, in favour of the convocation of a constituent 6 :i sembly. The excitement was very great; trees had been planted on different points. On the 31st ult. Dr. Roux, the celebrated Parisian oett' list, operated on the eldest son of Don Carlos, for a ( 1; taract, which had manifested itself some years sinc e : o one of his eyes The Gazette de Berry mentions that t operation only lasted a few seconds, and had been e° 3 nently successful. The Universal German Gazette announces from 1 lermo, 19th ult., that on that day the Prince RoYa, Wurtemberg and the Grand Duchess Olga were solemn ; affianced to each other in the Greek chapel of the Pa lal i . of Olinazzo. The Empress of Russia, who was presel i : is said to be so much recovered as now to be out of dangt; Letters from Florence of the 27th ult. state, that th e extradition of M. Renzi had caused a very urdavoura''io impression in Tuscany. Placards had been posted uk i , the streets of Florence denouncing death against the nisters. The Grand Duke, visibly affected by those ° H , monstrations, had left for La Maremma, a district sites' along the Mediterranean, where he was still on tbegib'• AWFULLY SUDDEN DEATHS.—On Saturday las t ' a f stone. mason, named John Hodge, as he was on his f'",; home from work, ran into the surgery of Mr. Lyci° ° :l; Market-street, Birkenhead, and dropped down d eb Mr. Mr. Lyddon attempted to bleed him, by making an jo e r sion in the jugular vein, but it was of no avail. The PI! fellow is the third person who has died equally suddep in Birkenhead during the last fortnight. of liberty POTATOES. IMPORTANT FACT.—It is very sins a that while in many places potatoes are so much complaitinei, of, so scarce, and so dear. in the market town o f they are offering weekly, by SCO or 600 bushels. w ithou t d . single diseased potatoe to b e s een , an d a t f rom 2s. to 25. 2 _:„• per bushel, heaped measure ; and, what is st i ll more 51 ; gular, there is the readi es t access t o Thi rs k, by rail wB ..e if from most parts of the ki ng d om . On M o nday last lab quantities went away unsold.—Leeds Mercury. ACTION BY A SHAREBROKER.— On Friday, 111 Rooney, a stock and share-broker, obtained a verdict r the Court of Queen's Bench, Dublin, against Dr. Pan; for £1390 Ils. 3d. damages, with costs, the amount of 0 account for railway shares. Mr. Napier, Q. C., took 9 0 1 objection to the validity of the transactions in scrip' ..t lines which were not provisionally registered. The CO took a rint. of the objection. SOMETHING WKONG.—The following remarkable fact, apppar from the report of the Northern Railway of Franu"..f read at the meeting of last week :—lst, the numbe r . shares transferred amount to 571,741, being one-tbq more than the total amount of shares issued ; 2nd , t 1 419 the buyers are to the sellers in the proportion 17,„0 buyers to 8,881 sellers. On the 31st of January last 76 400,000 shares issued were possessed by 18,000 individloP being in the proportion of 22 shares to each holder. The Canterbury branch of the South-Eastern Raillr about fifteen miles long, was opened on Friday, with feo great rejoicings. A dinner in celebration of the e r a was given at Canterbury by the Corporation, the pr:siding, and supported on his right by Mr. J. 1 :1 1 0 gregor, Chairman of the South-Eastern Company' delivered a very interesting address. Amongst those ti p sent were Lord Torrington, the Dean of Canterbury, J. Ripley, and Mr. J. Buchanan, of Liverpool. MR. BRIGHT, M. P. AND THE TEN HOURS' 13 1 ,., 1 ; ( 1 , On Tuesday night, the operatives employed in Mr. 11 4 , I t ner's (a strong advocate of the ten hours' bill) mill, Preston, met and passed resolutions emphatically 0%05 dieting the statement made by Mr. Bright, on the pre'll u o Thursday evening, in the House of Commons "that wi nr , Mr. Gardner reduced the hours of work to 11, he ( a , Gardner) increased the speed of his steam-engine a 0!! other machinery, and made up for lost time by to' l some minutes from the meal hours of his people." A o DESTRUCTIVE FIRE AT SUNDERLAND.—O n morning, about six o'clock, a destructive fire broke ou'rg, the extensive paper manufactory b e l ong i ng t o IVle sg ,be Hutton, Fletcher, and Co., situ a t e a t D ept f or d, withirl'o borough of Sunderland. Nothing could be done to s A i i i r anything of value ; and the w h o l e o f t h e proper ty, sat 0, be worth frcm £6OOO to £BOOO, was , i n an h ou r or V c , destroyed. There was a grea t s t oc k o f paper , dan tilß pe, tured, on the premises, besides about 100 tons of oldr o d and a great weight of rags and other materials us e paper making, all of which burnt with rapidity. teg' A deputation, respe c ti ng a re d uc ti on o f d u ty on a t had an interview with Sir Robert Peel, on Saturd B9 ;ioo his official residence in Downing-street. The deputti l ati was headed by Lord Sandon, M.P., Sir Howard Du ll ° o o' and included a deputation from Liverpool , e a st sisting of Mr. Charles " urner, Chairman of the P ti , India and Chi na A ssoc i a ti on; Mr. Willia m Ni c ol, DeP h a afr Chairman; Messrs. William Potter, William Peat 1.30 9 ,P0t Christopher Rawson, and John Scott, members Toil association; a deputation from Manchester, consistlgei Mr. Robe r t G a rdiner and Mr. Robert James Far' or%o and a deputation from London, consisting of Sir 6e 'or Larpent, Chairman of the East India and China A elation, ann Mr. Samuel Gregson, Deputy-Chairp 3B°. ,r BRITISH MANUFACTURES.—A concession, the illP i rerf . tance of which to the manufacturers generally or kind of ornimental and useful articles in this countrYld not well be over estimated, has lately been sa nctior! to oe the government. By the regulations of the C u- OP ] department, patterns and samples of foreign cotton' 0/ woollen, or other manufactures in the loom, are pe r , r° ,lcl s , to be imported into this country free of duty, P R ' s 10 , that the article s are of so small a size as to he usel es t.d e any other purpose ; but all other articles, w hether Trbe of glass, china, or metal, which may be imported f ° e ol; purvise or patterns, are, upon, impo r t a tion choll a 0 with the duties legally due thereori. In consequen t bai t ° , earnest remonstrances on this subject, governmen' g fi d e determined to admit such samples and patterns bugr jay introduced into the country, free of duty. The in p ort i gence, ino the first instance, is to be confined to ril e .tg orl' of London, Liverpool, Bristol, Hull, Leitb, Dublin, Cork, and Belfast. MAR RIgD.-Yesterday. at St. Nicholas's Churc h . bY "" A t , Mr. Philips. Mr. W. Davison, Corn and Pro..ision Merla te fir Martha, eldest daughter of Mr. D. E. C. Carleton, a master of French-park, County Roscommon. 104 d BIRTH.—On the Bth instant, the wife of Robert Ada rns ' of a son and heir. 9 , of LIVERPOOL CATTLE MARKET, PE t o-0 We have had a good supply of Beasts at our marK`;„ve t t) for the time of the year, which met with dull sale. at lat ti prices. The supply of Sheep was small, the whol. t e brisk sale at high prices. Beef Sid to 6id por lb to Bd. LIVERPOOL COTTON MARKET. Fslo 9, n „ ot ft The Cotton market has not been quite so animitteloeP-ri, nevertheless a good steady business has been done to tAme of soot) bales, at full prices. The better descriptions v eto can are not showing quite so freely as or late. an e ft prices have been obtained. The trafe seem to pureo"Dotit and altogether the market has a firm and steady tone!..." LIVERPOOL TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 10, 184 6 ' PRINTED AND PUBLISHED AT 1 14 tit EVERY TUESDAY MOi BT JOSHUA FLETCHER LACE, of 53. 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