The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser. — Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1846-04-07 00:00:00

TO CORRESPONDENTS. As a Corresponcicnt has made the eminiry, we have ascertained that Ule c err pmau azaitist whom the verdict was returned in a civil action at our Assiz,s oa Wednesday, is not the Rev. Samuel Fenton, of Wavertree. Ebr tibrrpool -,ttanTiarb. TUESDAY MORNING, APRIL 7, 1846. In calling attention to the misapprehension of the respective duties of two such important bodies as the Council and the Dock Committee, who have undt:r their immediate management two vast estates with distinct and separate interests, we would not be understood to take upon ourselves to decide which, in a legal sense, is in the right or which is in the wrong ; but we venture to give a passing opi nion on what appears before us, arising out of the recent debate in the Town Council. Whatever may be the real amount of power trans ferred to the Duck Committee by the alteration of the dock constitution made by the act 6 Geo. IV., it is7agreed by the leg - al authorities of both bodies that the Docic Committee is not a committee of the council, inasmuch as eight of its members are elected by the dock rate-payers, over whom the Council cannot exercise the smallest control, either by rejection or any other means. 7; It is also admitted by both these respected au thorities that nothing whatever can be originated in the Town Council relating to the management of the docks under the existing acts ; and that the only controlling power of the council consists in the exer . cise of a veto, to annul or confirm the Dock pro ceedings; that a bare majority is not sufficient for one or the other ; and that two-thirds alone of the trustees present can give effect to this power. Thus far both parties appear to be perfectly in accord. The difference of opinion arises as to who has the power to originate new matter beyond the existing act of parliament ? Who is then to take the initiative ? The Dock Committee claim this power, subject, as in all their proceedings, to the approba tion of the trustees in council assembled. This claim, as far as we know, has always been conceded to the Dock Committee, whether as a matter of convenience or not is not for us to say. We con tent ourselves with recording the fact and expressing our opinion of the reasonableness of such a course; for who so likely to know, and judge so correctly of, the requirements, wants, wishes and demands of the port, as those who have the absolute control and management of the estate, with the reservation of the veto ? Who can be so well qualified ? On the part of the trustees it is contended that the sole power belongs to them of originating new matter beyond the existing acts of parliament; that they alone can take the initiative to obtain a new act of parliament for dock extension, or any other purpose ; and that a bare majcrity is sufficient for the exercise of this power. This may be so, but it certainly appears to us to be an anomaly that two thirds should be necessary in the cne case, and a bare majority sufficient in the other. It appears, moreover, to be a contention on the part of the trustees, for a shadow,—for we have yet to learn of their ever having originated any alteration in the dock acts—any new schemes of dock extension—or proposed any new plans,—all, that we are aware of, since the alteration of the dock constitution in the year 1825, having had their origin with, and ema nated from, the Dock Committee. To illustrate the point at issue, by a case anala gous to that of the trustees of the Liverpool docks, we may cite the case of the trustees of the Duke of Bridgewater. The trustees do not originate new docks or basins, cana's or railways : these originate with those in charge of the Bridgewater estate; and the trustees approve or disapprove of any pro posed changes ; and so it is, we believe, in all public companies where there are trustees, instances of which surround us in this town. We do not, however, take upon ourselves to de-. Bide which party is in the right in a strictly legal sense; and, we think, the proposition of the chair man of the Dock Committee was a fair and reason able one, and might have been acceded to, without in any way derogating from the dignity of the Council and its supremacy, as trustees with an ab- solute veto on all the Dock Committee's proceedings, which has never been disputed or broUght in question. The Chairman's proposition was, that the Town Clerk and Dock Solicitor should agree upon a case to be submitted to eminent counsel, well acquainted with the Dock Acts, such as Messrs. Austin, Talbot, and Wilde, and to let such opinions he binding on both parties. Such a course we do think both fair and just, and ought to have been acquiesced in with a view to bring the matter to an amicable conclusion. The case of Mr. Woods, editor and proprietor of the Wolverhampton Chronicle, brought during the past week before the notice of the House of Com mons, is one which really ought to attract legisla tive attention to the present anomalous, and, to our own order, highly dangerous state of the law of libel. The circumstances are briefly these. Sometime ago complaints were said to exist against the con duct of the master of a local free grammar school, by which conduct its public utility was diminished ; and a government commissioner, Dr. Allen, was sent down to institute an enquiry. The result was a report by this gentleman, reflecting strongly upon the master, and imputing the decline of the school to the violent chastisement which he was in the habit of inflicting upon his pupils. Against this report the master objected, as injurious to him, and proceeded against the commissioner, who was de fended by the government, his employers, and although subjected to nominal damages, by them borne harmless. The same report, however —a public document,—had been copied into a local paper, the Wolverhampton Chronicle, with some editorial remarks appended ; and against the pro prietor of that paper the master recovered a ver dict of £5O damages and costs. With the precise character of the remarks in question we have nothing to do, for it is admitted that they had no effect in determining the verdict. It is for having published a govern ment report, which the Committee of the Privy Council thought so important (hot they di rected it to be printed in a cheap form and circu lated extensively, that the Chronicle has been mulcted in £5O and the 1: envy costs of defending an action. There can be no charge of injurious intention against our contemporary—no private malice alleged. He was acting solely in the discharge of a public duty; and, morally, 1:e was in no greater degree offending than if he had voted from any of the blue books, issued by parliament, or from the proceedings of parliament themselves. He com mented upon the report, or he affixed a heading to it; and so far in one sense, he placed himself in the position of the government commissioner. The lat ter, however, had the protection of the public purse held out to him ; his employers have the protection of their privilege. The unfortunate journalist, however, has no such protection ; and must either lay down his usefulness and become a dumb record, or exercise his vocation at the continual risk of being dragged into court by any litigious party who can raise money to fee a lawyer. Really this state of things cannot be mucll longer tolerated ; and would not if the public were at all aware of the extent to which t'al honest and faithful journalist is exposed to the mercy of evil-doers. The evidence of the Attorney General, given in the course of this debate, is strongly in favour of an alteration in the existing law. "He knew one case, in which a perfectly accurate report of an occurrence bad been published ; no exception could he taken to it, but the heading was in these words—' Shameful conduct of an attorney'; and in consequence a ver dict was given for the plaintiff." Is there, we ask, a journal in the kingdom, or one publication of it, in which some lynx-eyed legal practitioner might not find similar materials for an action under this libel law ? There scarcely is. We claim no immunity for the press. We ask not for it the privilege of prying into private charac ter and exposing the frailties of others. But we do contend that the press should not be utterly an un protected and almost a persecuted thing in the eye of the law. Submit us to some common sense and intelligible restriction of our privileges ; but do not leave us surrounded with traps into which the most wary cannot avoid falling. We have heard a good many devices mooted for rect ifying the present state of the Railway Share Market, and dealing with the mass of railway scheures now before the legislature. Some of these devices are purely selfish. Some are flagrantly un just. The majority are preposterously absurd, as well as unjust. Sweep away all the new schemes, and sanction only "necessary extensions and amal gamations," exclaim the holders of new lines bought -up at more than their worth, during the mania by the large companies. Postpone the calls for three or five years upon all the new companies,—say some of the la.ter. Both these modes involve selfish ness and injustice. The latest, however, to which the honourable' member for Sunderland is said to have given his sanction, is characterized by absurdity and injustice beautifully combined, and, we observe, meets with considerable support. Mr. Hudson's proposal is a clause in each act of Parliament, to enable a given mjority of the share holders of any line to wind up the concern, and to divide the funds in hand rateably amongst the holders of the scrip. " A very proper arrange ment !"—we hear some hundreds of provisional committee-men, so!icitoi s, promoters, &c., with not a few of the unsophisticated public, exclaiming " Wind up these concerns, and rid us of all further responsibility !" Let Mr. Hudson's clause be re trospective as well as prospective. Undoubtedly wise in their generation are the advocates of this mode of righting the railway vessel. But, gentle , Men, some of the unfortunate scripholders may say, with respect to this summary mode of dealing with what is now their property, why not have done this before you pocketed our premiums of £3 or £4 per share ? Your kind consideration for us and the public is very creditable ; but it conies too late. It may be very much to your interests, now, as pro prietors of the "great circumbendibus" to get rid of the "direct junction" line; but we, who are now the owners of the scrip of the latter would prefer holding on for a while, if you will permit us. We paid you extravagantly for the risk you ran ; do give us a chance, at least, of getting a portion of our money back ! If you have deserted the ship, you are scarcely the proper persons to sell the cargo. And reasonable, too, will be such a rejoinder to such a proposal. It may be all very true that many of the shareholders in once promising concerns, out of which they flattered themselves they had got with a profit, find now that they are not out at all; and, like Sterne's starling, " can't get out." But Parliament will scarcely, we should think, make a " royal road" for them, by any such prepos terous enactment. Could matters be placed in statu quo, which they cannot be, and premiums refunded, which they will not be, the bulk of the corn panie might easily enough be wound up in the fashion proposed, or some other, equally feasible in appear ance. But the web is now too hopelessly entangled for such a ready straightening of its meshes. Mr. Hudson's proposal, as it stands, to apply the clause prospectively, may pass current ; but along with it, we must have other clauses 20 protect the simple public from the dangerous power which Mr. Hud son would place in the hands of projectors, or we shall have their branch of business made more one of trick and chicanery than it has already been. As faithful chroniclers, we feel bound to com municate to our readers the following important announcement, the pomposity of which, we trust, will not startle the faith of the public in its correct ness. When we mention that its author is the Mercury, it will, doubtless, be received with all the authority of an official despatch, or a Ministerial declaration. The announcement 1.4 appropriately headed by an extract from that profound writer " Punch," and thus proceeds our local "Judy"— 'THE OREGON QUESTION.-NO WAR. "We were the first to make known the fact of the ' Message of Peace' sent out to the United States on the 4th December, independently of, and indeed preceding, any possible despatch of the Times newspaper of that day's date. Our statement was cavilled at by the uninformed, but events proved our accuracy in every particular. Look• ing at more recent events on both sides the Atlantic, and availing ourselves of intelligence from the best sources, we have now the satisfaction of intimating to merchants, manufacturers, and all whom it may concern, that we have now NO APPREHENSION WHATEVER of war between this country and the States. Persons interested may, we implicitly believe, act as if the whole question lately in dispute were settled, and proclaimed by the respective Governments as being finally disposed of." Although we are really unaware of the circum stance connected with the " Message of Peace," we cannot doubt our contemporary's asseveration of his priority of announcement. The public must, how ever, be abundantly obliged to our contemporary for his intimation " to merchants, manufacturers, and all to whom it may concern, that HE (the Mercury) has now NO APPREHENSION WHATEVER of war be tween this country and the States." Such persons may go on with their business, as if there had been no " cloud rising in the far West." Mercury is sa tisfied henceforth let no little clog bark ! The case of Wooliner v. Toby, tried at Exeter, in which the defendant, who had applied for an allot ment of railway shares, which he subsequently re fused to take up, was compelled by a verdict against him, to pay the full amount of the deposit due, has had the effect of encouraging the provisional com mittees of many of the projected lines, in which a similar default of payment has been made, to resort to the law as the remedy. Circular letters have been flying about in all directions; and hosts of persons, who have previously regarded their liability as non-existent, and consequently have paid no at tention to applications made to them, are just now in a state of considerable trepidation and doubt as to the course they should pursue. As the subject is, we dare say, of interest to many of our readers, some of whom are, perhaps, relying on the advice of very doubtful authorities urging them to resist even contribution to the expenses in curred, we feel it our duty to give the following opinion upon the question, which appeared in the haw Times of March 28 —a journal which is gene rally received, even by the profession, as entitled to considerable weight in its judgement upon legal points : " We think, therefore, that there is little chance of an allottee escaping from the liability he has incurred, upon the mef . its; he must rest his hopes upon the technical difficulties in the way of maintaining such an action. But reliance on technicalities is never creditable to the party or his legal adviser, never safe, for the courts will defeat it if they can. The advantage of success is not to be measured against the hazard of defeat, especially where even success it dishonour. Far better will it be for allot lees to pay the trifling sum in mist eases required of them, as their contribution towards the expenses, than to risk a law-suit, with its costs and a nxirties. Distributed among so many. these expenses will fall lightly upon each ; thrown upon a few, they are ruinous. We therefore re commend our readers, in all cases, to urge their clients to pay any reasonable contribution towards fair expenses, as being not only the most honest and honourable, but the most prudent course they can adopt." t)f course we have no opinion of our own to offer upon th. , subject. There may, in some instances, be special exceptions, in which companies by mal versation, or breach of the terms of the prospectus, upon the faith of which the application of the allot tee was made, have forfeited their claim. " The glorious uncertainty of the law" however is prover bial; and people ought to pause before they tempt its consequences. THE QUARTERLY RECEIPTS AT THE LIVER- POOL CUSTOM HOUSE. We have again at this port a decreasing quarterly revenue, arising principally from the reductions in raw Materials and articles of consumption in this district. The gross revenue of the corresponding quarter of last year, viz., the three months ending the sth April, 18.15, amounted to £928,973. To the 4th April this year, up to which date the return is made up, the re ceipts are only £793,424, thus showing a deficit of £135,541. The Liverpool Stock Exchange will be closed from Thursday next until the following Tuesday morning. The Rev. Walter Fletcher, Chancellor of the diocese of Car lisle, died on Wednesday, at the advanced age of 79. Yesterday, the Committee on Group 21 decided the preamble of the London and Oxford line, promoted by the Great Wes tern, not proved. THE EVANGELICAL ALLIANCE.—A public meeting was held at Birmingham, on Friday, which was numerously attended. Among other parties present, were the Revs. W. Ewbank, J. H. Stewart, and J. Todd Brown, of this town. The poor-law commissioners have appointed J. T. Graves, Esq., barrister-at-law, of the Inner Temple, to be an assistant poor-law commissioner, in the place of Mr. Tufnell, who has resigned. Lord and Lady . Stanley were to leave Belvoir•Castle, where they have been visiting the Duke of Rutland, on Friday, for the Earl of Derby's, Knowsley Hall, with the intention of passing the holidays with the noble earl. Potocki, one of the leaders of the late revolt in Poland, has been condemned to death, and executed at Siedlce. SIR HENRY HARDINGR.—It is understood that the title of Sir Henry Hardinge will be Baron Penshurst, of Penshurst, in the county of Kent. OUR INDIAN VICTORIES.—A correspondent in yesterday's Times asks with brevity, but• Very pertinently, "May I inquire i what amount of victory s considered n - cessary by the church or the state to call forth a public expression of thankfulness to Almighty God?" DR. WESLEY.—The name of this talented individual has of late been so much before the public in connexion with the noble instrument about to be erected under his auspices in St. George's Hall, that the public generally will be glad to have an oppor tunity of hearing him deliver a course of lectures at the Colle giate Institution, in which they will have ample opportunities afforded them of listening to his unsurpassed performances on the organ. Perhaps Mr. William Earle may do himself the pleasure of attending. We feel satisfied that he has a soul for music in him, and honours genius wherever he may meet it. We perceive that on Tuesday . next Dr. Wesley commences his course, and that on that evening the illustrations will comprise selections from Mozart, Spohr, Back, S. Wesley, St. Ambrose, St. Gregory, &c. THE LIVERPOOL STANDARD. LOSS OF THE COLONIES OF ENGLAND. [We are requested to insert the following letter to the Board of Trade at Hamilton, Canada West, from Mr. Isaac Buchanan, who is, or has up till this time been, its president.] Glasgow, 2d April, 1846. DANIEL MACNAB, ESQ., VICE-PRESIDENT, BOARD OF TRADE, HAMILTON. DEAR SlR,—Since I wrote you, indeed, since the end of January, my brother and 1 have continually been in London (either the one or the other of us), endeavouring to bring the Ministers, the Legislators, and the public, to a sense of the critical position into which free trade will undoubtedly bring all the colonies, but Canada in parti cular. I think I may say that, in awakening the people in this country to their °en danger, we have been more success ful than we could possibly have expected, considering the gross ignorance that pervades English society on the sub ject of the colonies, and the consequent reluctance with which any colonist is listened to. And I may safely say that the CASE OF CANADA was entirely overlooked by Lord John Russell when he wrote his ill-judged let'er to the city of London, nor has it been any more CONS'DERED by Sir Robert Peel, in framing his present measure. In fact, the present system of managing, (or managing to retard, to speck more correctly) the colonies, seems to me so farcical, that I see ne hope of England retaining her colonies (even if free trade is not introduced into the empire) without the introduction of an improved machi nery in Downing-street. You will observe, in my printed correspondence, that I propose that Government have two private secretaries for Canada, each to be three years at Montreal and three in London alternately. The general opinion in London (as to the way PEEL'S MEASURE will be shown to have been received in the col ony) is that the Canadian, like the Horne INDUSTRY, will have its vital interests betrayed by the Judas kiss of its professing friends. " Keen were his pangs: but keener far to feel, He nursed the pinion which impelled the steel; While the same plumage that had warmed his nest . Drank the last life-drop of his bleeding breast." But at present 1 am far too serious to have any reference to Sir Robert Peel's allusion to the trade in feathers ; himself, alas, now only a political feather, and used for Lord John Russell and O'Connell's purpose. It seems to have leaked out, or to be guessed at, that the Colonial Minister has been made to write out so strongly to the Colonial government to GET UP a demon stration in favour of, or at all events, to BEEP BACK any demonstration against, Free Trade, that the accounts per Ist April steamer will rather strengthen Sir Robert Peel's hands than otherwise! for the people of England will go no further into the matter than just to say—" Why the Parlia ment of Canada says so and so." You and I know that no member will be returned again who betrays" native indus• try," but his present vote will be viewed as constitutional public opinion in the meantime, just as the votes of Sir Robert Peel's hundred and twelve apostates count none the worse for their not agreeing with the strongly-expressed wishes, and the most vital interests of their constituents. If the Canadian legislature, and the Montreal mercan- 1 tile interest, prove true to the body-politic of Canada—the agriculturists—some protection to the home and colonial grower and mechanic, could still be got, 1 feel assured, 1 for the public here are beginning to have some idea of the i value to the empire, directly and indirectly, of the colonies, I and of the fact, that THEY ARE THE ONLY COUNTRIES IN THE WORLD WHERE BRITISH MANUFACTURES HAVE PRGTECTIGN YIELDED TO THEM—a privilege which the adoption of Free Trade here must withdraw, as a matter of course, even during the short period of their remaining colonies. 1 am scarcely believed here when I assure people how ' strait-laced protectionists the Americans are in their own country, for in England the Americans array them selves, AS ONE MAN, for Free Trade, which I should think I might be viewed as proof that they suppose it will not prove for the benefit of England, or for the permanency of her institutions. In making out the patriotic selfishness of the Ameri cans, and in illustrating their notions of Free Trade, I have been not a little served by the fact, that the other year, (1812), when timber became scarce on the south side of our Lakes, and rose in the United States two or three dollars the thousand feet of plank, the Americans raised the duty to 30 per cent., thus giving the rise to THEIR custom-house, and not to the Canadian lumberer.* Mr. Macgregor, of the Board of Trade, is the arch enemy of the British American colonies. Having himself failed of success in our trade, he seems to grudge pros perity in it to every one else; aid the whole object of his ambition seems to be to strip the timber trade of its remaining, and far from adequate protection (but for the present spurt from railways), as if his own bad success was from too great, and not from too small, profits! This official, having injured, verifies the adage, and now hales the Canadas and New Brunswick ; and goes very little, if any, short of saying that England would be better without them ! although she, has no other supply of timber that he or any one else can point out. There is no doubt that, when Canada is lost to the em pire, the price of timber will be double what it is now, but this will suit the iron-masters; so you see how involved are the interests of England. I hope and trust that your Board has done its duty, or will immediately do so, in standing up for those who are your real constituents—the farmers and mechanics of Canada. Even if homely and sound principles are banished from England, it can only be FOR A TIME, till the political quick doctors destroy a few of their more prominent patients. Let it never be forgotten, then, that the originating principle both of the Toronto and of the Hamilton Board of Trade was, that OUR OWN LAND IS THE BASIS UPON WHICH COMMERCIAL ENTERPRISE CAN ALONE SE CURELY AND PERMANENTLY REST. Even if mere commerce had been open to the province of Upper Canada, as a source of national wealth, we would have valued it, as permanent, only to the extent that it flowed from the cultivation of our own lands. Before us we had the example of Holland, whose com merce has sunk into the comparatively insignificant dimen sions of her own home and colonial territory, ALTHOUGH SHE WAS, DURING THE LAST CENTURY, THE MOST COMMERCIAL COUNTRY IN THE WORLD. Indeed, had Lord Castlereagh retained Java as an 1 English colony, the commerce of Holland would have been all but annihilated. So much for the permanency of foreign trade ! The United Sates Transit Bill allowing Upper Canada to send her flour to England via New York in bond, is an immense boon to you. You will save a dollar per barrel of the immense ex pense of transport hitherto incurred via Montreal. This is a great blow to English shipping ; yet the Go vernment here (too much occupied by its own struggles for existence) gives no indication of throwing the St. Lawrence Canal open, toll free, the only measure that I can save our inland and Atlantic shipping. The canal alluded to will, I presume, be finished in September next, but unless Government makes some grand movement SHOWING A DETERMINATION TO RE TAIN THE TR,DE OF CANADA WEST to THE ST. LAW RENCE, no prudent man will prepare craft for its improved navigation ; and the trade, once diverted to New York, will never be regained. As a house we would be glad to join with the great shippers and shipowners. and pay ls. per foot outward freight (like the shippers to New York by the liners) instead of 7d., as at present, so as to enable the Canada traders to bring flour as cheap front Montreal as New York. However, in the firm conviction that we have, that FREE TRADE LOSES CANADA. TO THE EMPIRE, there seems no use inn the merchants making any efforts dic tated by any patriotic or British considerations ; and from the inactivity of Government, it looks very much like as if they were now of the same mind. I remain, dear Sir, Your obedient humble servant, ISAAC BUCHANAN. * This shows that the Yankees are wise in their gene- ration, and that theirs is the political economy of the nineteenth and not of the eighteenth century, or, in other words, theirs is the economy of COMMON SENSE. Never let us forget that the Americans are a GREAT PEOPLE. (because individually intelligent and comfortable) although a WEAK GOVERNMENT. They are too wi,e a people io believe Sir Robert l'erl, that, by any legislation of theirs, they can permanently affect the extent of the imports or experts of foreign countries ; or control the prices of these, which tine foreign country's own circum stances and legislation c in aloe eff.ct. Their object was, and they attained it (as they always do their just objects), to retain for their own people the employment of sawing the timber. Thee admit the logs or raw material FREE, but they iteAVILY TAX the manu factured article. At the period I allude to, they saw that. IF rusty nAD THROWN OPEN THEIR PORTS to Canadian lumber, THEIR OWN MILLING INTEREST WOULD HAVE BEEN EXTIR PATED, by inadequate remuneration, on the first occasion of money becoming scarcer (more valuable) in Canada than the United States. They saw, in fact, that their millers, in the first instance, and their consumers in the second, would have had to suffer in the flesh, whenever (through bad legislation or otherwise) Canada becomes distressed on the one hand, or artificially prosperous on the other, as having, by the ruin of the American miller, a temporary monopoly of the United States market for boards, in addition to her usual permanent or home demand. The Americans, in fact, know that they cannot regulate prices by legislation; and the:Kile object of theirlpatriotic legislation is what ours ought to be, to LeGise ,TE ONLY FOR THOSE WHO ARE LABOURERS AS WELL AS CONSU MERS; securing the consumer the greate.4 amount of competition, consistent nith the GREATEST AMOUNT OF EMPLOYMENT TO THEIR OWN MANUFACTURING OR LA BOURING POPULATION. The Americans don't take England for their model, a country so proud of its masses of gold in the hands of a few. as not to be ashamed of the proportionate masses of distress in the homes of the many ; hut, with wisdom and humanity, prefer to form themselves upon the model of such countries as Switzerland, which, though small in a national point of view, are great in the only true wealth, THE HAPPINESS AND PERFECT INDEPENDENCE OF EVERY MAN WHO CHOOSES TO BE INDUSTRIOUS. Ic. B. Mr. P. Buchanan and Major Fagan had interviews yesterday with Mr. Secretary Gladstone, at the Colonial office.—London papers of Thursday. The Cork CJustilution denies that Sir Harry Smith is an Ir shman. and after admitting that he is an English man, says, "We are sorry for it." Why? Sir R. H. Inglis, M.P. for Oxford, attended divine service on Sunday morning at St. Bride's church. The hon. beet. was at St. Andrew's church in the evening, when the Rev. Hugh M'Neile preached for the schools in connection with that church. FAMINE AND FEVER. The Irish papers of last week more strongly than ever deny that there is any ground for the wide-spread apprehensions of the desolating effects of famine and fever. With respect to the former, the Dublin Mad— an excellent authority—confidently asserts that the "cry is conceived in faction and is attempted to be sustained by fabrication." In the County Down the country in general is free from fever, and the districts are much more healthy than usual. In King's County there is much less of sickness, and especially of fever, than there has been for several years. The same accounts are received from other quarters. As regards the fa mine cry, we give the following brief summary of facts, premising that the Irish journals give long statistical tables on the subject. In thirteen of the principal mar ket towns of Ireland, including Dublin, Cork, Wa terford, Limerick, and Belfast. potatoes are now selling at the average price of 4d. per stone. Oat meal in the same towns is selling at the average price of 14s. 9d.per cwt., and the L'elfast Mer cantile Journal—a purely commercial paper—in re cording the fact, adds this pregnant observation, " This is far from the price in times of scarcity." The whole county of Armagh, first by the resolution of its Grand Jury, and then by the proceedings of a general meet ing convened on the subject, has rejected the idea of scarcity or the necessity of having recourse to the pre cautions of Government, one of the resolutions stating that there are sufficient provisions for the county and ample employment for the people. The great counties of Down and Antrim had already come to the' same decision. In Cork county we find, on the authority of the Cork Relief Committee, that the alarm is artificial. At a meeting of the committee it was stated that there was an abundance of potatoes in the neighbourhood, but the people-were keeping them in the hope of get ting large prices, and one woman, who holds a large quantity, has been heard to say she will keep them until she gets a farthing a piece. The large arrivals of Indian corn meal are, however, now driving the farmers to market with their potatoes, and last week potatoes were shipping at Cork for England. At Waterford the price of potatoes is an average one, and last market day there was a supply equal to three weeks' consump tion, and on an average of good quality. At Dungannon market there was a large supply. At Dublin there are vessels now lying laden with potatoes sound and good as ever were eaten. At Aberayon, Cardiganshire, North Wales, placards are posted that a ship load of excellent potatoes, from Ireland, are on sale at that town, and it has been pertinently asked, " How is the exportation of a ship load of potatoes from Ireland at this time of the year reconcileable with the failure of more than two-thirds of the crop ?" We do not, then, see any just grounds of apprehending a famine in Ireland ; and had we space for the insertion of the carefully compiled statistics from which we have condensed these few par ticulars, they would absolutely negative the assertion of even a scarcity. TIIE ELEVEN HOURS' (FACTORY) EXPERI- AI ENT. Messrs. Horrockses, Miller, and Co., the highly re spectable mill-owners, of Preston, who have adopted the eleven hours' experiment, have, in order to gratify the public, published the following statistical account of the result in one of their establishments (the Moss Factory), for the month during which it has been in operation:— Counts of Yarn Spun, 35's to 40's. Quantity spun in 6i hours,l Hand Self-acting 'Fhros average of 4 weeks, ending M ules. M ties. February 2n 317,523 draws. 714 lb. 721 lb. Quantity spun in 64 hours, average of 4 weeks, ending 287,016 do. 658 lb. 665 lb. March 27 The proportionate quantity for 64 hours, as against 6g } 285,240 do. 662 lb. 666 a lb. hours, should be Thus, it appears, there has been a slight proportional gain in hand mules, to the amount of 24 minutes per week, and a loss in the self-acting mules and throstles of about 20 minutes per week. The latter, Messrs. Hor rockses and Co. say, arises from the machinery requiring the same daily cleaning, whatever may be the hours of working. During the time tite experiment has been going on, the speeds have not beet, altered, nor any change made in the quality or fineness of the yarns. A contemporary remarks upon this statement : " This result is more unfavourable to a reduction of time than we should have expected, especially dpon hand mules, where, it might reasonably have been supposed that the increased exer tions of the hands would have made up a much larger portion of the loss. It seems to us quite clear that, subject to such results, workperip!e in factories, who are paid accordi.,g to the quantity which they produce, would not willingly consent to a diminution of the hours of lalyiur, except under an augmented rate of payment tor their work." We are, however, not at all convinced that this state. ment is conclusive, or that the workpeople or the public will think thatthe only matters to be considered are the amount of production and the relative amount of wages earned. The comforts, the health, the increased oppor tunities for moral culture gained by the working classes from this relaxation of an hour in taeir hours of labour, are material considerations which our contemporary ap pears to leave entirely out of -ight. Nor are we told whether it is not the fact, that the yarn spun has been more equal, and the deductions for spoilt work less. Besides, it is difficult to see how twelve hours' work is to be got from either mules or thro,tles in eleven hours, without some slight increase in the speed of the machi nery. DIVINE SERVICE ON EASTER EVE. TO THE EDITOR OF THE LIVERPOOL STANDARD. SIR,—I was glad to see a correspondent in your paper, last week, pointing nut the propriety (in my opinion, the duty) of having divine service in our churches on Satur day evening next (Easter Eve). A strong argument i❑ is favour that in the Prayer Book there is a speciA service for the day, namely, Col lect, Epistle, and Gospel—an argument which ought to have much weight with many of our clergy. I am glad to find that the hint was not altogether in vain, as at the church I attend notice was yesterday given of a service every evening this week.—Yours. &c. April 6. P.S.—lt is not too late for notice of a service on Satur day evening, as ihe sane can be given on Goad Friday. COLLEGIATE iNsTITUTION.--;011 Friday last, C. Cragie Halket, Esq., of Fifeshire, commenced a course of six lectures on Landscape Gardening, Tne attendance was not numerous, and before the close of the lecture it had become extremely reduced, the greater part of the audience having proved themselves equally deficient _in relish for the subject, and knowledge of good breeding. We must allow that the lecturer himself was not wholly free from blame in the matter. An enthusiast in his art, he forgot his audience ; and while his discourse evinced a perfect knowledge of the subject, together with the most correct principles, and the most cultivated taste, it could not but prove anything but entertaining to persons having no previous acquaintance with the study, and no inducement to enter upon it beyond the immediate justification of hearing it explained to them, and the advantage which a knowledge of its general principles might afford. After a plea for indulgence, which we do think ought to have been more gerierous'y responded to, the lecturer made some severe remarks upon country gentlemen who insist upon being "their own landscape gardeners," and only afford proof that wealth cannot confer taste, but that opulence and ignorance may go hand in hand. He then showed the distinction between landscape gardening, and land. scape painting, which by some were thought to be identical in their principles and requirements. A good landscape painter, might make a good landscape gar dener, if the landscape were to be looked at only from one point of view ; but this was not the case. The guiding principles were the same, but there was a marked dif ference in the execution. The task of the gardener was by far the most difficult. He was confined to certain objects, and within a certain scope; he had only the rude materials of nature to work with ; he mutt combine orna ment with utility, and his wet k must bear inspection from every point of view. What he had chit fly to aim at was, the judicious combination of the several parts of the landscape into an effective, well-conneeted, congruous whole. From these general observations the lecturer pro ceeded to an enumeration of the various objects to be attended to in properly laying out a piece of ground. He described the different styles of architecture, and the sort of country to which they were respectively adapted, the Grecian bring most suited to tame and level scenery, the Gothic to the wild and rugged, &c. In determining the position of the house, climate was entitled to consideration ; the principal reams should front the south or southeast: the worst exposure in this country was the southwest. The retaining of much wood about a house was decidedly objectionable, rendering the air damp and stagnant, and consequently unwholesome. An artistical connexion between the house and the grounds was indispensable, a handsome house rising in naked grandeur from the middle of a lawn resembling nothing so much as a pork steak stuck upon spinage. An intermediate link of architec tural terraces, &c., should always be maintained. The choice of plants, their arrangement and distances, next occupied attention; after which, fountains and vases, pleasure-grounds, gardens, rockeries, bridges, lakes. ap proaches, and lodges, were successively treated of, and errors of taste in respect to them unsparingly lashed. In speaking of rockeries, Mr. Halket observed, that they were seldom beauties, and could only be allowed in pe culiar localities. Tjae celebrated roekery at Chatsworth, however well-executed as a monstrosity, was egregiously out of place between the mansion and the-conservatory, and could only be regarded as a regular-built deformity. EFFECT OF THE WEATHER ON CRIME IN A LARGE TowDr.—We have frequently remarked that if the weather be severe over night, the number of prisoners brought before our stipendiary magistrate on the following day is almost invariably below the average. This is to be ac counted for by the fact that in very bad weather parties after the hours cf business keep as m u c h as possible within doors, and evil doers, street walkers , and pick pockets, so far follow their example, not only from motives of comfort, but from being aware that their chances of prey will be but scanty. This was exemplified by the returns of.prisoners from the several police stations yesterday and Sunday. It is not unusual for Mr. Rush ton to have from 150 to 160 cases of one kind or other to dispose of on the Monday—the accumulation of two nights and a day. It rained incessantly during Saturday night, Sunday and Sunday night, and the total number of pri soners brought up )esterday was only 68 ! Sunday night was extremely cold, wet, and windy , an d it i s an unpa ralleled fact that only four prisoners were taken on that night to all the out police stations, to be brought up yes terday forenoon for examination. I THE EASTER VESTRY-ATTEMPT TO BRING THE PARISH UNDER THE DOMINATION OF THE POOR LAW COMMISSIONERS. The inhabitants and the unfortunate poor of our town are already beginning to reap the fruits of the admission of " liberalism" into the management of their affairs. Amongst the forthcoming movements of the party who have " fair play" for their motto, the most astounding is announced in the following handbill : PARISH OF LIVERPOOL, April 4th, 1846. NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN, That at the Annual General Vestry to be held on Easter Tues day next, a Motion will be submitted to the Inhabitants to the following effect : That application be made to Parliament to Repeal the Act of the sth and 6th Victoria, intituled, "An Act for the better Administration of the Laws for the Relief and Management of the Poor of the Parish of Liverpool." WILLIAM EA RLE, MOS. URQUHART, Overseers. It will be seen that this announcement bears the stamp of authority. The public would suppose that it expresses the views of the parochial authorities. It is headed. " Parish of Liverpool." It is printed by the tradesman who, for some reason which we cannot divine, executes nearly all the Select Vestry's printing; and, in every respect bears, upon the face of it, the appearance of an official document. Yet, the public who know nothing of our local politics, will be surprised to learn that the two gentlemen, who have thus usurped the authority of the body to which they belong, are merely a miserable minority of that body. The churchwardens refused to sanction the project which Messrs. Earle and Urquhart have in view ; and of the remaining overseers, one is unwell and the other out of town—neither were consulted, we believe, previously to the placard being issued. There is trickery therefore in the announcement of this movement, in the first instance. And now let us see what is the benefit which these two " liberal" gentlemen propose, by taking out of the hands of the parishioners the management of their own aff.irs. Can the central commissioners manage our affairs be ter than we can ourselves ? We will give a little of our recent experience in reply. Over and over again the reports of our Vestry meetings show that letters requesting instruc tion upon particular matters of emergency, have been left unanswered, until the emergency has passed. The whole machinery has been shown to be utterly incapable of being applied to the direction of poor-law matters in this town. The most recent and flagrant case was connected with the application of the Vestry to the commissioners, as to the course to be taken for the purpose of making the ware houses round the new docks liable to the local rates. A reply was received, virtually referring the matter to the discretion of the local body ; but that reply was not re ceived, and, in fact, was not sent off until the whole affair way settled in Parliament So much for centralization. We are threatened, at the approaching Easter Vestry, with a further infusion of that " liberal" material, of which the movement above noticed is one of the first fruits. What, however, has been the experience of last year's " fair play ?" Why, of the gentlemen of " liberal" politics placed upon the Vestry, three have forfeited their seats for non-attendance to their duties. A party triumph they might be willing enough to lend themselves to ; but in the vulgar matter of pauper and parish registration, such refined spirits refused to interfere! Mr. John Smith, we suspect, will find little sympathy with his cry for " fair play," if this year he proposes at the annual Vestry men who won't work at all. With the Andover bone-crushing affair fresh in the minds of our fellow townsmen. perhaps even they may not be so enamoured of "liberal" vestry men, as he imagines. THE STRIKE IN THE BUILDING TRADES. Up to the hour at'which we write, we hear of nothing to show that this unfortunate strike is drawing to a con clusion. A considerable number have signed the declar ation proposed by the masters. In one large concern, that of Samuel and James Holme, above 50 joiners have signed and are now at work. A number of bricklayers have also signed, and about 100 labourers—a class, the least able to endure deprivation of work, snd therefore the most cruelly situated, bring totally dependent upon the course taken by the other trades. The masters con tinue firm, with the exception of one gentleman—Mr. Haigh—who has addressed the following letter to his bro ther tradesmen : "TO THE MASTER TRADESMEN IN THE BUILDING DEPARTMENT. " GENTLENIEN.—Upon the assembling of my workmen last evening, pursuant to the resolutions adopted by your body at the late meeting, and subsequently by myself, I found that there did not exist among them the alleged evil ' the resolutions' were intended to cure. . " That amongst the men in my employ there was no dissatis faction nor any encouragement or support given to the dissatis fied, or the ' turn outs,' in their own or any other branch of the building trade, either in this town or Birkenhead ; that, more over, having been solicited to support the joiners of Birkenhead curing their strike, they had positively refused to do s "I further received the strongest assurance, written and otherwise expressed, that they had no such intentions as those by which, in the terms of your second resolution, they had been judged. Therefore I did not add inkistice to error, I mean my own.) which the certain consequence of requiring them to sub scribe the reso!utio,s ' woo d have involved, namely, that of throwing the unoffending and content out of employment. " I am, gentlemen, respectfuliy, yours. "THOMAS HAIGH." On Tuesday night an overflowing puolic meeting of the operative trades was held in the Commercial Hall, Glou cester-street, at which r. solutions were passed upholding trades unions and their principles, and determined not to accede to the demands of the masters. The masters met on Thursday at the Portico, Newington, in great force, about 100 being present, Mr. Tornkinson in the chair, very firm resolutions were passed on the subject of the de claration, and the speeches in support of them were of a most determined character. A deputation from the Man chester Association attended, one of whom, Mr. D. Bell house, gave some accounts of the proceedings in Man chester. It was stated that numbers of workmen were kept out by fear of the acts of others. It was determined to print the proceedings of the meeting fur distribution among the workmen. On Tuesday, a workman n , med Raeburn was taken before Mr. Rushton, on a charge of having violently assaulted Wm. Davies, a painter who had continued at work, and the charge being trade out, he was committed for trial at the sessions, the magis trates making some very severe remarks for the informa tion of the turn-outs. It will be seen from a paragraph that another case of assault was heard before Mr. Rush ton yesterday. At Bradford, in 'Yorkshire, the strike still continues. The dine asked 4s. a-week in the first instance, but have since made overtures, by advice, to their masters, to take 25.; a meeting was the consequence, but the negotiation ended unsatisfactorily. On Tuesday last, the labourers employed on the Bo ton and Blackburn railway turned out for an advance of 6d. and 9d. per day : they yet re main on the strike. The various trades in the neigh bouring towns of Manchester get worse every week. Up to Saturday it was estimated that 200 men had signed the dec:aration.at Manchester, about half of whom were turn-outs. Tne joint rs nn strike at Manchester are 783, and the other trades are dependent on them, so that, though the plasterers, painters, and plumbers, are able to get hands, the advantage is of little benefit to the masters. One of the first building firms in Manchester has engaged a number of men, and is about to bring over many more from Cornwall. It is said that one or two of the firms in that town have received threatening letters. It is expected that the men engaged in the various branches of the building trade in Birmingham will very soon be out on strike for an advance of wages. The bricklayers have already demanded an advance of 3a. per week, and most of them have struck work. The strike is said to be the result of an understanding with the men in other parts of the country. It seems that there has been a considerable demand for men at the Birkenhead works and Manchester, and that this demand has led to an inducement on the part of the general committee of the building trade to effect an advance of wages through out the kingdom. The master builders of Birmingham held a meeting on Thursday, and considered the demand unreasonable, but it was stated that there was a great scarcity of bricks, and it was eventually resolved that the demands made by the bricklayers are greater than the price of provisions or the state of trade warrant, but that the builders are willing to advance the bricklayers one shiiling per week upon their present rate of wages, en condition that they comply with this offer on or before Monday. THE REVENUE. An Abstract of the Net Produce of the Revenue of Great Britain, in the Years and Quarters ended the sth of April, 1845 and 1846, showing the Increase or De crease thereof. YEARS ENDED APRIL 5. 1845. 1846. Incr. Decr. £ £ £ £ Customs 20,176.731 17,664,618 .... 2,512.113 Excise 12,224,907 11.886.035 .... 338,822 Stamps Taxes Property Tax 5,104.448 5,1.84.741 .... 19,707 Post Office 679.0 0 768,000 89,001 Crown Lands 125,000 130.000 5,001 Miscellaneous . 1,067,354 939,747 ... • 127,607 Total Ordinary Revenue 50,310,028 47,792,751 480,972 2.998,249 Imprest &other Moneys . . 429,901 170,846 .. 259,055 Repayments of Advances Total Income 51,807.703 149 . ,480,484 930,085 3257,301 151,807.703 Dedui Decree 149,480,484 :t Increase . 'Sc on the Yi ear 3257,30-1 930,085 2.327,219 ARTERS ENDED APR 1845. 1846. I Incr. I Decr. £ £ £ £ Customs 4.402,506 3 961.918 .... 440,588 Excise . Stamps Taxes.. Property Tax Post Office Miscellaneous 415,016 91,522 .... 323.494 -- Total Ordinary Revenue 10,742,124 9,73 5 , 790 105,368 1 1,111,702 Imprest &calr Moneys 206,007 52,909 .... 153,098 Repayments of Advances Total Income 11,366.676 10,24 5 , 1 7 2 143,296 ; 1,264 , 800 Deduct Increase..,,.. Decreas on the Qua 'ter.... L 11121,504 April 7, 1846. LATEST INTELLIGENCE. (BY EXPRESS.) LONDON CORN EXCIIAN3E.-YESTE.RDAY. The supply of English Wheat, by land carriage sample, this morning was small, and sold at the rates of this day se'nnight free foreign, in consequence, was more in demand, and realised former prices ; in bonded there did not appear any thing doing. Fine Barley supports our quotations, but ordinary qualities are almost unsaleable. White I'eas nominally unaltered, and grey rather dearer. The Oat trade is fiat, and the advance of last Monday not maintained. Certificates are in demand at 13s. to 13s. 6d. Beans sell slowly, and are the turn lower. SOUTHERN HOSPITAL.—We understand that several members of the congregation of St. Ann's church, Aig burth, have through their pastor, the Bev. H. J. Purdon, made a request to the liev. I'. Nolan, strongly urging him to publish the sermon he preached before them in behalf of the Southern and Toxteth Hospital, on the 14th of March last, the collection after which, including dona tions since sent to the rev. gentleman, has reached the handsome sum of £l2l. We are sure that this announce ment will be hailed with delight by the numerous ad mirers of the faithful labourer in the service of his Divine Master, and doubt not that the sale wiil more than justify such a request being made, more particularly when we add that any profit which may arise, will be handed to the treasurer of ihe Southern and Toxteth Hospital, for the benefit of that rising institution. We hope, in a short time, to be able to announce that the sermon is published. Mr. Hammond opens the new theatre, in Christian street, on Monday next. COMMITMENTS.—At the police-court, yesterday, a man, named John Heagan, was committed to gaol for one month, for stealing a coat, the property of police officer Samuel Falkner, from the house of the father of the latter, in Dale-street.—Richard Parry was committed for a like time, for stealing a horse-brush and other arti cles from ast ible in Roscoe-lane, to which he had been admitted by the hostler, to light his pipe. IRISH PROVISIONS,—The following is the list of articles of consumption imported into the tort of Liverpool from the Irish ports during the last week, being from the 20th to the 26th •alt. inclusive :-2,853 firkins, 144 half-firkins, • 502 baskets, and 131 boxes of butter; 28 bags, 70 tons weight, and 2,323 bushels of wheat ; 5,485 sacks and 75 tons weight of flour • 48 tons weight, 130 b ags , an d 233 barrels of oats ; 20 flour; 150 other packages, and 75 tons weight of oatmeal; 532 sacks and 100 quarters of malt; 15 barrels of beef; 18 barrels and 14 kegs of general pro visions; 64 kegs and 157 barrels of pork; 49 hhds., 9 tierces, 8 bales, and 4 barrels of ham s; 20 p ac k ages of tongues; 403 barrels of bacon ; 715 boxes and tierces, 59 bales, and 15 other packages of linens and cottons ; 98 puncheons, 13 hhds., and 2 other packages of whiskey ; 38 casks, 70 firkins, and 358 kegs of lard : 60 sacks of farina, and other articles of minor importance. CASE AGAINST A BENEFIT SOCIETY.—A respectable looking man yesterday preferred a complaint, before Mr. Rushton, against the officers of a benefit society, called " The Free Brethren," for refusing to pay him the sure of £2, due to him over a number of weeks as sick money, at the rate of 103. per week. A case of a similar nature had been before the court a few days before. The de• fence was that only 15s. were due, as the applicant bad agreed to receive a smaller sum per week than that stated. The complainant said that he bad certainly ag eed to do so in order, owing to representations wade to him that if he did not the society would be broken up, and as he was unwilling that it should be so, he c msented to receive a smaller amount, which the officers agreed to pay. After, however, paying him two or three small sums, they broke up the society, and stopped all further payment. He added that part of the money left in the box at the time was spent in drink. He had signed no paper consenting to the society being broken up. The officers said they had nothing to pay with, and all the other parties declined to pay. Mr. Rushton said they were all individually and collectively liable. He knew of nothing more shabby or dishonest than for such societies to take working men's money when they were in health, and to break up the so ciety, with a view to their receiving nothing back when they became ill. If the claimant were not paid the £2 due to him, within a reasonahle time, he (Mr. Rushton) shouid distrain upon one or two more of the parties, and sell their goods fe- the amount. WIGAN ELECTION Pa riTioN.—Oa Friday, the Speaker informed the House of Commons that the recognisanceS entered into by the petitioners against the return for the borough of Wigan were reported to be unexceptionable. AN OUT-AND-OUT DISSENTER.—The Gloucester Chronicle states that Mr. James Hart, a farmer, of Elton. took a lad in his employ before the na , gistrates, and pre ferred a complaint against him for going to church instead of the Wesleyan chapel. The magistrates, however, de clared that the lad had just as much right, to Ca to his parish church as his master had to frequent the Wesleyan chapel, and dismissed the complaint, mulcting the master in the expenses. Mr. Hart, it is said, has since dismissed the boy from his service. EMIGRATION.—The tide cf emigration to America, from Ireland, has set in this year earlier than usual. The quays at Cork are crowded to inconvenience with passen gers and their luggage. Already one vessel has sailed with a full complement of passengers, and twenty-three others, with nearly four thousand emigrants are preparing at that port for sea. In addition to these, vessels are taking in emigrants at the Shannon, Bantry, Skibbereen, Kinsale, Youghal, Dungarvan, Wateeford, and at all the large ports round the coast. The large mass of emigrants are parties having the appearance of respectable farmers, all of whom are taking with them su ms o f money from £5OO to £lO each. The Garden,r arrived at Cork, with Indian Corn on Tuesday, and when discharged will be fitted out for passengers. THE WEATHEIL—Within the last few days we have. in this neighbourhood, been unexpectedly visited by what may be termed many of the rigours of winter—severs frost happily excepted. On Saturday (as indeed for some days previously) the air was chilly for the season, indicat ing that the atmosphere above was charged with matter w ich must either be discharged by downf tll, or otherwise dispersed, before the kindly warmth of spring advents& Accordingly, on that day, about noon, a cold rain. min-. Bled occasionally with sleet, set in, and continued with little or no intermission during the whole day and night. V, ry early on Sunday morning a change took place, but it was only from heavy rain to thick snow, which at dawn had covered the streets and house-tops to the depth of some inches. In the fields and grounds round the town it had in some places obtained a depth of perhaps s ix i n ches;. in others, where drifted, from eight inches to a foot" About eleven o'clock the downfall again alternated to rain/ which fell heavily and without cessation during the whole day, during the night, and during the whole of yesterdsi• The snow rapidly disappeared in the town after the 01. 11 set in. During the whole time the atmosphere, which W necessarily extremely damp, was withal as cold to percer lion as if it had been freezing. Both Sunday and yoga' day were truly dismal days. The o;d adage that "it an ill wind that blows nobody good" was fully verifie7 for never did the owners of cabs, coaches. oron;buses. an, other " public" vehicles derive a richer harvest w ithin given time. The streets, yesterday especially, were:fill% with the const an t di n o f w h ee l s . W e h ave no t ve t learn e d what effect this " storm" has bad on the growing creP s ' though we fear the wheats, which are generally very N e t : ward, must have suffered, but not perhaps very mat t rially. The low lands, that have but an imperfect ou tfr for the water, will no doubt be flooded. The garclens lll 4 be little injured, if at all, there having been no actual fff o r to nip the blossom of the forward fruit trees, and i` other of their productions are tangible by mere rain o r snow. We learn that snow fell thickly, and partly lies on the Welsh uplauds and bills, also on the high Is ii 4 on the east of this county, in Yorkshire, and genertTtf. through , .ut the north of England. In some parts of S c e 0 land it had accumulated " undrifted" to a height oft (a t feet, but in others little or none had fallen. It is still j the time we wrote) cold and wet; but from the adval e s period of the spring , we may expect, when a change t 3 place, to be suddenly transported, as it were into the e ° parative warmth of summer. SHIPPING INTELLIGENCE. MONDAY, APRIL 6.—Wind E.N.E. fO r 011, A SAlLRD.—Spartan, Thompson, and 1-tills*orough. ..01 St..lchn, N.B.—James Stewart, Laird; 't. George , Pomrsofr Sea Bird. t.yall. for Newfoundlard—Hendlika, Guit. terdam—Rcnfrewshire, Burns, for Quebec—Jenne BaS 4 apt7 Siirea, for Marseilles—Luna, Redmond, for Grettada- - 0 7 0 / Ann. Drew, for Dordt—Mensageiro. Soutilino, for Vl a Alarm, Tupper, for Palermo—Frances Ya'es, Brown. for ltoir —Corsair. Daly, for l - lalifax—Mematope. Renouf, for Nig ?Alf —Safeguard, smith, and Baron of Bramber, Flinn, fo r 00 0 : treat—Providence , Ford, for Malta—D'Arcy, Garrick, fo r .0 0 burg—Julia. Atwool. for Dordt—Panope. Candler, for C°ol-00 , tinnple—P.R.C. SedgAick, and quy. Baird, for Cape 13 ,.. b alef f Fisherman, ilocquoil, and Diton. I.e Gressley, for LlaY:.' t to, Pr, —Roa Harmonia. linoco, for Vianna—Wm. Duke. r 10 0. 0" Beirout—Elizabeth, Brereton, and Christina Haw, Str' fur Dordt. Pascoe, Mitchell, from Charente, at M (ford James, Reavens, hence for Havre, at Kingstown 6. LIVERPOOL COTTON MARKET. A Fnli I t . The good demand experienced throu g ho u t the 'w 11 ? e n d', ,— .i $ t 4 week has been experienced to-day from both the trad e of l' e r porters. The sales reach 6..0 bales at the full priel. week. For the lower descriptions of American rattl e at Or Prices have be,n obtained. The market closes with gre ness. - -- LIVERPOOL PROVISION MARKET, A The Butter market assumes a more healthy tone, anhdaaall aye a positive advance in price cannot be noted. por e t he ye it more difficult to operate. No doubt exists th at a (ors stock wilt be worked off before the appearance of a"' tity. G ' pt X c ) 6 LIVERPOOL CATTLE MARKET, AP -1 oto,io, We have had little or no alteration to quot e fr.t f io,on,f)::oia statements. Ai ythicg mime. either in Beef or M e ' sclt v e eagerly sought alter, and fetching high prices. er lb. mt,tr , r. ; Arl to .LIVEII,YOUL HAY AND l'O d' 0. e• APRIL 6, 1846. cl• 9 I-1 s. d. s. d. s --* Hay, old 2:.1b 0 7@o 9i Totators, r. nOlb• 3 6 _... 9 , 0 Clover TATO IVIALIs-' . 0 6 0 8 Kemps ****** g 6 ... 3 '% Vetches 0 0— o o Short• Tops•• 3 9 4 -- 9 Grass 0 0— 0 a Cups ...... 4 0 : , straw, Wheat.., 03— 0 4 Pink Eyes — " 1 7 - 1.50 6 Oat - 0 2 a 3 Turnips. V' Bar ey Carrots 29 0 —3l 0 Manors ..... A lll4. BIRTHS. on, On the Ist instant, at Breckfield lodge. E vert J oSS E tiODGsON. of a son. le of PA" On the sth instant, at Kirkdale. the at FOSTER, of her Majesty's Excise, of a son. LIVERPOOL: i g46. 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