The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser. — Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1846-10-27 00:00:00

TO CORRESPONDENTS f the new .judze is not likely to at is called the _ ~ousts of law will not sit until the first _.auras Term, the 2d of November, and no doubt, re that day, all the arrangement s will be complete. er" wishes us to direct the attention of the Wallasey nets to the state of the roads between Liscard and According to his ' A Rat Wallasey Church. and also about Seacon)e representations they arc in a wolul plight. A Friend to Early Closing" was received too late, tt)r tibtrpool TUESDAY anbarb. _MORNING, OCT. 27, 1846. The Manchester Guardian, a fortnight ago, pro mised its readers to prove the converse of the proposition, advanced by the Chamber of Com merce of Kingston, Jamaica, that the colonies of Great Britain have been, and are the basis of her -political and commercial strength. We have waited with patience for the realization of this bold promise have it before us of our contemporary; and we now in his Wednesday's publication. The positions taken up by our colonial brethren, which the Guardian -had to controvert, are thus summed up by themselves : •` The value of the colonies to Great Britain may be estimated by considering them nstituting naval sta . u every part of the globe. " 2nd. As contributing to maintain her naval supre- s and military posts 3rd. As affording employment to her artisans and ... . manufacturers, through their own consumption, and through the means they afford for promoting the sale of British goods to the foreign nations in their vicinity, espe- cially during a period of war. " 4th. As the means by which the people of England have been regularly anti abundantly supplied, as well with articles of the first necessity as with those considered less so, but yet contributing greatly to the comfort and hap- -piness of a people. - " sth. As preserving the British people, by such supply, from either depending wholly on foreigners for articles even of the first necessity, to obtain which they might eventually have to give gold, or be compelled to dispense with them, and consequently with those other articles which contribute to the comfort and happiness of man. `• The list might be almost indefinitely extended, but that it is unnecessary, since the advantages derivable to Great Britain through her colonies are so palpable, that the mind must he obtuse indeed that does not perceive it to be as much her interest to preserve her colonies, to cherish their industry in order to increase their produc tions to the utmost of their capabilities, as it is to the interest of the colonists to experience that parental fos tering care." %"se shall first deal with the proposition that our colonies have been the source of our greatness as a nation, which the Guardian pointedly denies and at tempts to disprove. But how ? precisely by such an adroit attempt at evasion as we might have ex pected from such an adversary ; by the suppression, in fact, of the main point, in his opponent's case. The Kingston Board of Trade state, as their first proposition, that the colonies are valuable—" First, as constituting naval stations and military posts in every part of the globe." The Guardian, in the whole of his article, never once refers to this very material question ; and in his own summary of the arguments of the colonies studiously omits it alto gether. As a specimen of our contemporary's honesty, we give the summary in question ; and ask the candid reader whether it is a fair one : " Ist. Thd political strength of this country, say these reasoners, lies in her naval power; her naval power can only be maintained by rearing a constant and unfailing supply of hardy seamen :—this can only be accomplished by sustaining a large commercial marine :—and a com mercial marine can only exist through the means of colo nial possessions ;—ergo, _colonies and colonial protection ur political stren who has read attentively the his country the lesson will have been con every page—in the narrative of . - every glorious achievement of our naval arm—that her colonies were the fulcra of the lever, with which Great Britain, during the late war, overthrew the combined power of the whole world banded together for her humiliation and destruction. With the West Indies for a point d'appui in the South Atlantic; with Malta for a station in the Mediterranean, and Gibraltar to guard the pass of that sea; with the St. Laurence, Newfoundland, Nova Scotia in the North Atlantic ; with friendly harbours to run into for shelter or refitting in every portion of the globe, our Howe's and our Nelson's possessed sources of strength which their enemies, driven to skulk besieg ed in their own harbours, would have given worlds to have been able to wrest from their hands. And, even in later times—in our Chinese quarrel—where would have been the resources of Great Britain without her Indian empire ? and what is that empire but a colonial possession, in which to marshal our strength, and from which to draw our warlike resources ? 'ery ma veyed in almo But if the colonies were thus inestimably advan tageous to us during the wars of the French Revo lution, how infinitely more so must they be in any future struggle in which we must be engaged, now that the introduction of steam has brought about so important a change in naval tactics. What would be the operations of a West India squadron in the present day ? should we hear of the fruitless cruizes in search of an enemy's fleet, wasting perhaps an entire season, of which the history of the late war affords so many instances ? Certainly not ; a British fleet might lie safely harboured in any of our trans atlantic ports, whilst a fast sailing steamer would be scouring the seas ready to bring us down upon an enemy at a few days notice, and with a certainty of finding that_ enemy which, hitherto, the sailor has new _r enjoyed. For such steamers too, of every calibre—and he is a blind man who cannot see that steam is ultimately destined to furnish the chief si- s in every portion _ of the globe would form depots for fuel, without which the paddle or the screw would be alike power less. As affording stations for convoys, in time of war, for our merchant fleets, our colonies offer an other advantage, which the application of steam Power to naval warfare, would render doubly striking of the nava arm—our colt d efficacious Our contemporary, of course, will see nothing in these arguments and facts. He says, indeed, of one of these important stations :—" If our West Indian colonies did not produce a pound of sugar—if an earthquake were to bury them all in the bosom of the deep—our mercantile marine would have as much employment in the transporting of sugar, and our naval supremacy be fully as safe as it is now." He would, perhaps, tell a different tale, however, after he had paid war rates of insurance upon a few Bra zilian cargoes, or had a few of them carried into Brest or Toulon. But, the supposition of an earth quake is a violent one. The British West Indies are very likely to remain above water ; and if we do not value them aright, there are other powers quite willing to relieve us of their burthen. We ask the Guardian, therefore, with Jamaica, St. Thomas's, Trinidad, and the rest of our West Indian pos sessions in the hands of a rival and a hostile power, how much employment would our mercantile ma 'Tine have in transporting sugar from any portion of the South American continent, of which these im portant naval stations, so far as the commerce with Europe is concerned, form the keys ? With respect to the claim of the colonies to con sideration, as furnishing, to use the language of the memorialists, " the means of rearing a hardy and an experienced race of seamen to man the nation's fleets," the Guardian argues that our foreign trade, being more extensive than our colonial trade, and employing a greater amount of shipping, is capable of affording a more ample supply of seamen for the navy ; and, hence, that colonial protection and the colonies themselves should be swept away, inasmuch as they interfere with the unlimited expansion of our foreign trade: But has the Guardian ever re flected how much of the present growth of our mercantile navy is to be attributed to the impetus first given to the enterprize of British merchants and shipowners by our colonial system ? Our colonial trade, the pages of history shew us, was that which laid the foundation of the vast commerce and gigan tic mercantile navy which this country at present possesses ; and at this moment it constitutes the keystone of the prosperity of that commerce, and of the foreign and commercial marine which it employs. From our West Indian possessions we first stretched our arms to grasp the commerce of the new republic, and empire, of South America. From these possessions our merchants first made their acquaintance with the commercial wants and resources of that vast continent—first angled timidly and cautiously in that mine of wealth, from which we now draw so largely for the support of the in dustry of the nation. From India we first made our footing in the immense market now opened freely to our enterprize in the wealthy and populous Chi n ese empire; and by our Indian power alone can we hold our present advantageous position amongst that singular people. By our command of the St. Lawrence we have afforded us a strong check against the exclusive commercial policy of the United States ; whilst other colonies, scattered over every sea, afford not only depots for our commerce with other and distant nations, but safe and friendly harbours of refuge as well for the shipping which that commerce employs. Admitting, therefore, as a necessary conclusion, that our more numerous mercantile marine contribute a larger quotum of seamen to our navy than our colonial, we must bear in mind that the former is only the offshoot of the latter ; that the foreign commerce which em ploys it has been created and stimulated to its present greatness--has been protected through the hazards of a long war, when nearly every power in Europe was arrayed against us, struggling to destroy or to cripple this great feeder of the national resources — by our possession of those very colonies which a shortsighted manufacturing interest, guided by such philosophers as our contemporary of the Manchester Guardian, would destroy as worthless and injurious. If an earthquake were to bury our colonies in the sea, the Guardian says "our naval supremacy would be fully as safe as it now is." How miserably ignorant or unmindful of all the lessons of history must be the author of such an assertion ! What great naval power ever sprung up in modern Europe, the foundation of whose strength was not the possession of colonies ? Portugal, when her fleets swept the sea in every direction, was a colo nizing nation, with rich possessions in almost every zone. Her decline as a naval power was concurre t with the gradual loss of the colonial empire. Hol land, when she contested with us the mastery on the ocean, possessed a colonial empire ten times greater in extent than the territory, which the in domitable industry of her people had won and fenced in from the tides ; and the naval power of Holland has declined before the growing colonial system of Great Britain. How fallen is the naval power of Spain since the days when her armadas threatened to overwhelm us even in our island home ! Turn even to France. What is it which has even paralized her in her efforts to rear a navy to compete with the fleets of England ? Ask her great emperor. Look even at her policy during the last fifteen years. See her deluging with the blood of her warmest soldiers the barren wastes of Algeria —turning men into blood-hounds and generals and lieutenant-generals into fiends—desolating villages with her razzias, and even outraging Heaven a.. d nature with the groans of human victims offered up in fire upon the smeared altar of her ambition. See her again engaged in a petty quarrel against a defenceless female for the possession of the petty island of Tahiti. Of what is this grande nation in search? For what does she now outrage humanity, and now sully her tricolor in a petty Buccaneer's quarrel ? Eor the possession of colonies ; for the possession of those naval stations and military posts, without which her statesmen know that they may build fleets and man them and send them to sea to measure their strength against the naval power of England, without reaping any other harvest but one of humiliation, defeat, and almost annihilation.— " Our naval supremacy" (without colonies) "fully as safe as it now is!" The dream of a child is wis dom compared with such an assertion. But there is another light, and an important one, in which to view the commercial usefulness of our colonies—namely, as furnishing posts of commercial communication with foreign markets. Where is our route to India, with Malta " swallowed up by an earthquake," and Europe embroiled ? Where our rapid mail communication with Brazil, the River Plate, or the countries of the Pacific, without the West Indies to serve as stations for our fleet of steamers ? But the subject is no t wor th pursu i ng . The folly of denying the usefulness, for this purpose, of these great aids to our commercial and political strength is too transparent to need further notice. We have not hitherto r e f erre d t o t h e s t a ti s ti ca l matter contained in the Guardian's article. Indeed we have not examined its correctness. On another occasion, however, we m a y d o so; an d un l ess we greatly mistake we shall find his figures about as correct and honest as his facts and arguments. At present however our space is exhausted. • We have abstained hitherto from offering a word of remark upon the subject of the recent loss of one of the noblest vessels—whether viewed as a success ful effort of naval architecture or as a triumph of modern science—which ever cleared out of a British port. Perhaps in doing so we neglected somewhat our duty as British journalists. It is undoubtedly due to the community, where lives are liable to be jeopardized by the ignorance of commanders or their carelessness ; by the unseaworthiness of the vessels they command ; by the incorrectness of charts, the variation of compasses, or the failure of other nautical instruments, that the circumstances attending such a disaster as the stranding of the Great Britain, which might have been attended by such fatal results, should be strictly scrutinized,—not only for the prevention of similar accidents, but for the advancement of nautical science and the better elucidation of the intricacy and the dangers of our channel navigation. We have however the powerful plea for slience to offer that, up to the present time, we have never had the whole case, on the part of the Great Britain, properly before us; and we can safely assert that, had we offered any remarks, in the absence of such a statement as that with which we are now furnished by the letter of Captain Hos ken—the substance of which we give elsewhere— we should probably have done some injustice to that gentleman and to the officers under his command. The statement in question conveys a much more favourable account of the whole transaction, as far as the conduct of Captain Hosken is concerned, than the apology for his friend, volunteered by Cap tain Claxton, and removes several most injurious conclusions of the public. Captain Hosken's ac count of the voyage, from the time of the Great Britain leaving port up to eight o'clock in the evening, is substantially the same as that of Captain Claxton and the account given by the ship's log. — At ten minutes past one, the ship was fairly under weigh abreast of the Bell Buoy, going, by the log, at a speed of IoTI to 11 miles per hour. At about half-past five, Captain Hosken " caught a glimpse of the Isle of Man, but what part of the island ex actly, or how far off, he could not decidedly say, as it was then getting dark and the weather becoming thick." Under such circumstances perhaps he ought to have concluded that the island was nearer than he seems to have imagined from his remark at seven o'clock, after an hour and a half's steaming at 11 knots, or even the 10 which he allowed for, that they " must be well up with the Calf." Soon after this, he says,— _ _ _ " I told the first officer to shorten sail at 8 o'clock, take in top-gallant sail, two reefs in foretop sail, one in the main, and haul the foresail up, as I should alter the course to N. by E. (which is higher than the North Channel course), and go easy all night, feeling sure the ship was past the island. The course was altered at eight, and sail shortened accordingly." . . . _ . So far the vessel was all right, and in a fair course for making the channel passage, although it is clear, from Captain Hosken's subsequent admission, and from the interval between her leaving the port and striking in Dundrum Bay, that the westerly set of the tide had not been allowed for, and that, in con sequence, she was much nearer in to the Irish coast than she ought to have been or her captain calcu lated. Here, then, commenced that fatal error in judgment, to which doubtless is attributable the disaster which followed. At a quarter past eight, Captain Hosken says, the officer looking out on the forecastle reported a light on the port or larboard bow, which the captain concluded must be a ship's light, until after being lost for a short time in the thick weather, it again shewed itself in a revolving light. " I immediately," he says, " kept the ship off her former course, exclaiming, how is it pos sible she has not run her distance ; what can have held her back it taking the light for one of the Calf of Man lights, and supposing the other hidden by the thick weather." The helm was then put about to N. W. by N. We ought, in justice to Captain Hosken, to mention, because the contrary has been freely taken for granted, that he had been from half past five o'clock and remained, with the exception of five or ten minutes, up to the moment of the ship's striking, on deck, watching with his officers the navigation of the vessel. There is an important variation between Captain Hosken's account of the time at which this light was seen, and that given by Captain Claxton. By the latter we are not told that the cou rse o f the ship was altered at eight o'clock, but are rather led to conclude that she kept on her original course until the light of St. John's Point was seen, and the vessel was within a few minutes of striking. We have thus the impression conveyed to us—certainly a most erroneous one according to Capt. Hosken's statement—that, had St. John's light never been seen at all, the only difference would have been that the ship would have been driven, probably at full speed, upon some other part of the bay, with her own almost certain destruction, and that of her crew and passengers. It is clear that the light did mislead, and was in some measure the cause of th e catastrophe which followed; although it appears also certain that the ship ought never to have been in a position to see it at all. But, according to Captain Hosken's account, an important question arises. If at half-past five he saw the land of the Isle of Man, which from his course of N. W. by N. must have been on the starboard, how, by continuing the same course for two and a half hours—until eight o'clock, the light seen on the larboard bow, immediately after altering his course, could be mistaken for one of the Calf lights, is not easily arrived at, unless the ship had not only been " held back"—to use the captain's phrase, but had actually been stationary, or nearly so, for those two and a half hours. From the period of seeing this St. John's light, up to the time at which he was " surprised to find that it was a quarter past nine o'clock," all appears to have been confusion in the minds of Captain Hosken and his subordinates. The strange light utterly confounded them. The proceedings, thus far, connected with the approaching municipal election, afford an admirable specimen of the hollowness and trickery of the Whip.:-Radical party. At the outset of the struggle, we were told that the fitness of the men, and not their mere politics, was to be made the test. by which candidates were to be selected. We were to hear no more of party in the Council ; and to offer an op position to any man of business talents, otherwise qualified by the possession of high personal charac ter, wds to be regarded as indecent and factious. Yet, at this moment, we see a Whig-Radical candi date brought forward in every ward except two, which are left undisturbed by a contest, solely be cause opposition is considered utterly hopeless. West Derby Ward and St. Peter's are the wards in question, in which Mr. Geo. Hall Lawrence and Mr. Tinne are to be allowed to walk the course. There is, however, we venture to say, not a candid man amongst the Whig-Radical party, acquainted with its underground workings, who will hesitate to ac knowledge that, notwithstanding the admitted talents and usefulness of these two gentlemen, their re election would have been opposed as bitterly as that of the most obnoxious candidates in the Conserva tive ranks, could the ward committees have held out to ►the members of the secret caucus the slightest hope of foisting, in their stead, two Radicals of any grade of rampancy, upon the constituencies. Upon what ground, other than his politics, is the re-election of Mr. Jas. Tyrer opposed for Exchange Ward ? Certainly it cannot be said that his oppo nent, Mr. James Mellor, is better qualified to represent the business intelligence of such a consti tuency. We never remember any thing. very striking, either in talent or usefulness, which dis- ' tinguished the former presence of this gentleman in the Council. He was an active partizan, ever at his post when the Conservative party in that room were to be attacked, and always at hand to further the interests of his friends the Reformers. Yet Mr. Mellor can parade in his address to the constituency his (!) conviction that politics ought to cease to in fluence the return of candidates to the Council.. Upon what ground is Mr. Thos. Todd to be con sidered a better man than Mr. Thos. Kaye, the pre sent member for Abercromby Ward ? We might refer to other Conservative candidates who are op posed, and the answer to a similar question in every case, if a candid one, would be—that it is not that they are less efficient men of business than their op ponents, but that they are not Whig-Radical politicians. Our amiable friends are fond of new hobbies; and when they are mounted, they ride them most unmercifully. The sanitary question is their hobby of the day. Whig-Radical professions of readiness to devote every energy to the efficient carrying out of the new bill stare us in the face, conveyed, in unmistakeable type, upon every blank wall or shut ter where a placard can be posted. What is the Whig-Radical claim to exclusive love for cleanly streets, and improved habitations for our working poor, we have yet to learn. Let us test the sincerity of their new sanitary professions, bearing in mind their professed longing that the fittest men only for the carrying out of this and other similar practical questions, should be re elected to the Council. Mr. Samuel Holme, the candidate for Rodney street Ward, is, par excellence, a gentleman calcu lated, by his business knowledge and pursuits, to carry out the provisions of the new bill for the sani tary improvement of the town. Against such a man there could be no ground of objection urged by any candid man of the opposing party, except his poli tics Has Mr. Holm - e's claim - of fitness been recog nised ? No. Mr. Thomas Booth, personally, no doubt, a respectable and honourable man, has been dragged from the shelf, upon which his fellow townsmen would have been content to see him re pose, to contest the ward. A paltry and pitiful plea that Mr. Holme is engaged in a Corporation contract is put forward. He is told that he cannot, as a con sistent man, enter the Council. Whig-Radicalism sets itself up as the especial guardian of Mr. Holme's honour ( 1 ) Now, mark the shameless hypocrisy of this pretence ! Mr. James Holme is a candidate for Scotland Ward ; Mr. James Holme is the bro ther and partner in business of Mr. Samuel Holme. Both are concerned in the same contract, or the fag end of it, which is said to present a bar to the elec tion of the latter. Yet to the election of Mr. James Holme for Scotland Ward, we have seldom heard or seen this contract, in which he is equally concerned with his brother, offered as an objection ! And the reason Why, it is palpable. Mr. Samuel Holme is a prominent man amongst his party. He has shown himself no mean adept in the art of pounding Whig-Radical quacks in their own mortars. He is cunning of fence, rather a heavy hitter, and, worst of all, is more than suspected of being sound upon the question of scriptural education in the Corpora tion schools. Hence he is offensive to the nostrils of Whiggery, and is to be opposed with all the virulence which the faction can bring to bear against him. Let us offer a word of consolation—we suppose it must be—to this very pure and conscientious party. " Gentlemen, Mr. Samuel Home will seek the suffrages of the constituency of Rodney-street Ward freed from any interest whatever in a Corpo ration contract." Mr. Tomkinson, we believe, is ready to relieve the firm of Mr. Holme from the little that remains to be executed of their engage ment with him. Are the friends of Mr. Booth— who only oppose Mr. Holme from their virtuous dread lest he should sacrifice his honour (!)—pre pared to withdraw their candidate ? Of course not. No man acquainted with the ways and propensities of the faction could entertain the thought for a moment. Meantime it is gratifying to know that their candidate will be soundly thrashed. We shall not have another opportunity of addres sing the constituencies of Liverpool upon the subject of this election ; and must therefore seize the present hour to impress upon them the necessity of exertion in every ward. In two or three of these, to which we have not hitherto referred, we feel a great interest. St. Anne's I must be won. A better candidate than Mr. Bennett j it never had, and never can have. The men of both Toxteths, too, must fight stoutly for Mr. John Sheppard, their old and tried friend, and for Mr. Glazebrook, who we are glad to observe has con sented to stand again. More honest men, or sounder Protestants, they would find it difficult to meet with. There is another reason, too, why this contest should be fought unflinchingly in every ward. An election for the borough is not far off, and the result of our ward elections will be regarded in many quarters as a test of the town. Nay, the very men who are raising the cry of " Good men, and no poli tics," will be the first, in the event of the success of a majority of their party, to turn round upon their Conservative dupes and exclaim—See, the opinion of the ratepaying constituency of Liverpool are in favour of " Liberal" men ! By the bye, may we ask, in concluding, are the Conservatives of Liver pool, in the event of an early. election—no very i m ., probable event—prepared with a candidate? As some little misapprehension appears to e x i st with the mode in . which the Corporation of thi s town propose to meet the increased expenditure li n . posed upon them, by the merging of the Highw ay Board in the Town Council, and in carrying out the other provisions of the Sanitary Bill, we shall en deavour, as briefly as possible, to lay before the public our actual position and the amount of ability in the Council to meet the coming demands upon them. In the first place, the Corporation accounts for tha past year shew a surplus ordinary income to the credit of the borough estate of £26,907 17s. This of course is applicable to the new demand upon us. The general statement, however, spews a debt outstanding on the 31st of August, of £835,167 gs. 10d., the balance of interest upon which is, for last year, charged in the accounts at £19,039 18s. 9d. THE LIVERPOOL STANDARD. Against this debt, however, we have assets clue to the Estate, amounting to £545,562 Bs. 3d., with property in addition valued at £44,793,—in all, £59),355 Bs. 3d. Of this, only► from three to four hundred thousand pounds bears interest at present. One sum composing it, the reversion of Wallasey Pool, amounting to £114,456, is as yet not finally confirmed; but having been settled by arbitration, will, no doubt, be shortly paid off ; and another of £59,182, arising from the sae of land on the north side of the Borough Gaol, is paid into court, and will be applied to payment of the purchase money for the Newsham Hall Estate. From the realisation of the other outstanding assets, it is calculated that a yearly sum of about £BOOO saving in interest will accrue to the surplus fund. In addition, the Corporation is in possession of a large amount of acreage in building land now being rapidly taken up, the fines upon which, as well as upon expiring leases, will come into the ordinary receipts of the estate. St. George's Hall, too, it is to be hoped, will he finished some day soon. From all these sources, there can be no doubt of the Corporation being able fully to meet every demand which the Sanitary Bill, or any other requirement of the town, may bring against them. LIVERPOOL OCTOBER SESSIONS. Yesterday the Sessions w: re opened before Gilbert Hen derson, Esq., Recorder. The calendar contains the names of 77 prisoners for :felonies, and 9 for misdemea nours—in all BG. Of this number only 7 can read and write well, 16 can read imperfectly, 31 can read and write imperfectly. and 32 can neither read nor write. The fol lowing gentlemen were sworn of THE GRAND JURY:— W.Rotheram, Esq., merchant, Exchange-st. West, (Foreman.) Thomas F. Bennett, merchant, Castle-street. James Brehner, merchant, Water-street. Edward Chaloner, timber merchant, Sefton-street. James Cunningham;. cotton broker, Oldhall-street. John Carlisle, merchant, Chapel-street. Robinson Duckworth, merchant, Cook-street. James Harvey, gentleman, Catharine-street. John Jerdein, banker, Etuskisson-street. Edward Langsdale, gentleman, Shaw-street. Frederick Lapage, merchant, Dale-street. John Mather, lead and copper ore merchant, Goree. John Woolfall Mullineux, rectifier, Dale-street. Thomas Mather, corn merchant, Drury-lane. Charles Wm. Newman, jun., cotton broker, Titheharr..e.t. Nicholas Roskell, merchant,. Fenwick-street. Richard Rathbone, merchant, South Castle-street. Joseph Shipley, merchant, Chapel-street, and Richard Withers, sharebroker, Royal Bank Buildings, Esors. • 0 _ The RECORDER addressed the Grand Jury as follows. He said—Gentlemen of the Grand Jury, the calendar will apprise you that 83 prisoners have been committed for trial within the last seven weeks, but if we would form any estimate of the movement of crime our view must be ex tended over a more extensive period. It is a gratifying fact that the commitments for trial throughout England and Wales have been annually diminishing since the year 1842. In 1843 there was a decrease equivalent to five per cent., followed by a decrease of ten per cent. in 1814, and again by a diminution of eight per cent. in 1845 ; so that 31,303; the number sent for trial in 1832, had declined to 24.,303'in 1845. The returns of offences in the borough correspond in some degree with this stltement ; the num ber committed here reached a maximum of 846 in 1842, which fell to 754 in 1843, fell again to 566 in 1844, but rose again to 643 in 1845. This rise took place wholly during the last six months of last year, and has continued, without interruption, up to the present sessions, when a slight improvement appears, but it is to be feared that eventually the number committed for trial in the present will exceed that of any former year. The proceedings in this, court have frequently afforded ground to suppose that this increase may be ascribed in a considerable degree to excess of drinking—a vice which too frequently attends the prosperity of the poorer classes; and the fact of 8,324 com mitments for drunkenness having taken place last year, is strong evidence that intemperance did prevail during that period to an unusual extent. These are also peculiar diffi culties with which those who administer the penal law have to contend in this borough, owing to the fluctuating ele ments-of which the population is composed. The increase of the commerce of the port in a ratio kyond the increase of the population, constantly calls for great accessions of labour from other quarters. The proximity, too, of Ire land and and Scotland, and the facilities of communication with all parts of England, expose this town in an unusual degree, to the visits of itinerant depredators. The result is, that, on some calculation lately made, there seems reason to think that, at a recent sessions, one•fifth, if not one-fourth, of the offenders, consisted of strangers or new corners. Another remarkable feature in the criminal classes here is the large proportion of females. The most casual observer must know that men violate the laws more frequently than women ; but the influence of sex on the commission of crimes has been carefully noticed and observed in this and other countries, and is now ascer tained with tolerable accuracy. It has been found that the proportion of female to male offenders, committed for trial, has progressively advanced in England and Wales during the last ten years; having increased from exactly 20 per cent. in 1835, to 25 per cent in 1815, when of 24,303 persons sent for trial, 4,962 were females. The general result, therefore, throughout England and Wales, gives one female to four male offenders; and bearing this in our recollection, let the returns of the relative propor tion of the sexes committed for trial at Liverpool be ex amined. It wilt appear that there were committed in _ Females. . 317 I 1844 . 241 18.15 Males. Females. 381.... 181 459.... 190 Again, the return of versons committed on chlrges of a felonious nature in Liverpool, during 184&, skews 1102 men and 519, or nearly half women. This disposition is great, and probably without a parallel. I have not the means of instituting a complete comparison of all the commitments at different places, but the gaol returns spew the number of prisoners in every gaol in the king dom at Michaelmas last, and there were at that time in Males Liverpool Borough Gaol .... 307 Kirkdale „ 248 Manchester or Salford , .... 405 Metropolis e e r s k t m e n w s e t l e l r . : 0(193 Females . 202 . 49 . 166 . 161 . 161 From these last returns it is clear that the females im prisoned in Liverpool were in the proportion of two-thirds to the men, but did not, in any other prison, nearly ap proach the proportion of one-half. I have made use of figures which you will appreciate as more convincing than any general statement to prove the state of females in respect to the penal laws. The causes which have so deplorably lowered the sex, and the remedies which may assist the improvement which has taken place, are sub jects well worthy of attentive consideration. The Re corder then referred to the acts passed dnring last ses sion, and one for appointing a Receiver of Drafts of Ad miralty, and applying to cases of wreck and salvage; and the other for regulating sea going steamers, requiring cer tificates of the sufficiency of their hull and machinery, and also requiring every vessel going to sea with more than ten passengers to carry a boat fitted up as a life boat. A meeting of the supporters of Mr. Walthew, candidate I for Everton Ward, was held at the Derby Arms, Kirk dale, last night. Mr. Joseph Hornby took the chair. Mr. Charles Robertson proposed Mr. Walthew as the candidate, which was seconded by Mr. M'Crea. Mr. Thornhill, member for Scotland Ward, was present. LORD MORPETH.—Lord Morpeth, on Friday last, was present at some private experiments in Mesmerism at the house of Mr. Braid, the surgeon, in Manchester. Yes terday (Monday), the noble lord, in his capacity of Chief Commissioner of Woods and Forests, paid a visit to Birkenhead, where he inspected the dock works and those portions of the shore which are within the category of " crown lands." CHESTER AND SHREWSBURY RAILWAY.—The first general meeting of the Shrewsbury and Chester Railway Company was held in the Royal Hotel, Chester. at one o'clock yesterday (Monday) for the purpose of receiving the report and the election of directors. This undertak ing as the railway world are aware, is formed by the amalgamation into one company of the North Wales Mineral, the Shrewsbury, Oswestry and Chester, Rail ways, and their several branches, for which an act was obtained in the late session. The attendance of pro prietors was very numerous. Mr. Wm. Ormsby Gore, M.P. presided. The report which was of enormous length, commenced with a detail of the objects of the several lines and branches now amalgamated. The total capital on which a dividend will have to be paid, when the lines and branches are made, will be £1,046,000, for which expenditure the company will possess a line 61 miles and 37 chains long. Then followed a statement of the progress of the works, in which it was mentioned that arrangements had been made with the Holyhead, and the Chester and Birkenhead Companies. The whole line would be opened in the Autumn of IS4B. There would be four means of communicating with Liverpool, competing for the traffic of this line, viz, the Chester and Birkenhead Railway, the Ellesmere Canal via Elles mere Port, the River Dee, for the improvement of which an extensive project was in contemplation, and lastly the Cheshire Junction Railway and the bridge over the Mer sey at Liverpool. After a statement of the accounts, then followed the engineer's report, which was exceed ingly favourable. This document stated that taking the line as a whole, including the branches, the Theavar a c g e b a ir m m o a u n n , amount n p er movingmi l w e the ou l a d d o b p e t £ 0 n 15 0 ,5 f 00 the per mi l report,e stated it had been inspected by General Pasley, who, in a letter received that morning, mentioned that he bad made a very favourable report of the works. Amicable arrangements had been made with the Holyhead and Chester and Birkenhead Railway Companies; and as the Inc , was now in union with all the lines between the Se vern and the Mersey, it had a prospect of as great a traffic as the country could produce. Since the sth October, £20,125 of arrears on calls had been paid up ; and he was happy to say that, until the whole line was opened from Chester to Shrewsbury, no more would be called than £6 per share ; and on the North 'Wales Mineral Old Stock only an equalizing call of £1 per share. The Chairman concluded by stating that the line from Ches ter to Ruabon would be epened to the shareholders and their friends on Monday next, and to the public the fol lowing day. The following gentlemen were then re , elected directors :—W. Ormsby Gore, W. Wardell, Sir R. Jenkins, R. A. Slaney, Thos. Dixon, C. Wardell, J. Rogers, Wm. Brown, John Williams, David Harrison, a J n . d B T . .R R o s . s w , e o s h t . n R A o u y d l t , o G r s e o w . e r M e a csat edn ,Wm appointed at each, and Mr. Roy was continued secretary at th e salar y of £5OO. The usual thanks were voted by M r. W T . Jackson. chairman of the Chester and Birkenhead Rail way Company, and being seconded by Mr. Christopher Bentham, were carried unanimously. The £2O salary Bevan, proceedings then terminated. PITT-STREET WARD A portion of the burgesses in this ward who profess to hold liberal principles, met last night in the Vine Tavern, Pitt-street, for the purpose of promoting the return of Mr. George Holt. Mr. Holt has abstained hitherto from issuing an address, conceiving Op the first approaches should emanate from the represented, instead of from tho would-be representative; and therefore he appears in the character of a candidate only under the protection of Mr. Jas. Mulleneux, and not upon his own account. The meeting was very fairly attended, and the " sweet voices" of those present were, as might be expected, unanimous for " Holt and liberal principles." The chair was filled by Mr. J. MULLENEUX, who said the object of the meeting was to enable the liberal elec tors to be properly represented in the Council. On no former occasion was the choice of the electors of so much importance, for the business to come before the Council in the next year, including as it did the sanatory im provement of the town and a constant supply of water, would he most important and responsible. Mr. Holt was the very best man who could be selected to assist in performing this business ; but his opponent, from the peculiarity of his mind, from his bigotted and warm views, which had always brought him into opposition to the improvement and the welfare of the great mass of the order to which he himself belonged, was decidedly unfit to fill the office to which he again aspired. Mr. Wm. R ‘THEONE i❑ moving the first resolution remarked that this ward had been the cradle of his first introduction to the Town Council, and that they had turned him out and selected another, but he did not really think a better, man. At all events he had no hesi tation in saying he considered himself a better man than Mr. Toulmin. He moved "That the known political in tegrity and moral worth of Mr. George Holt eminently qualified that gentleman for a seat in the Town Conncil, and that the meeting returned their cordial thanks to him for having come forward asa candidate at the ensuing elec. ion." Mr. Rathbone made some strong observations in relation to the retiring member for the ward, and said that the Town Council, as now composed, was a disgrace to the constituency. He called upon the burgesses to redeem their unenviable character by positively forcing such men as Mr. George Holt into it. Mr. Holt was a m an who "did good by stealth, and blushed to find its fame," in reference to which he referred to his efforts in support of education, by promoting the female school in the Mechanics' Institution, and many other objects. The Sanatory Bill would be a very burdensome and se.- vere bill for the burgesses unless proper men were sent into the Council who would properly carry ;it out ; and one of such men was Mr. George Holt. Mr. C A MVIMIL seconded the motion; and it was car ried with one dissentient. Mr. JOHN SMITH, in a speech of much length, moved a resolution, to the effect that the meeting pledged itself to use all legal means to secure Mr. Holt's return at the ensuing election. What, he asked, had Mr. Toulmin done? The fact was, his oratory, his abilities, and his industry, were absolutely unknown ; and if he (Mr. Smith) were to attempt to describe his efforts in a public capacity, the very attempt would make him speechless. He was dying, really, to know what Mr. Toulmin had done. Many high deeds might be stated of what Mr. Holt had done. Among them, he had paid £6,000 for the female school of the Mechanics' Institution, and re-let it at a pepper-corn-rent. He was remarkable for what he alas not. He was not the agent of small property, which be could conveniently• manage to let run into a quarter's arrears of rent ; he could not consent to advance a few pounds at the proper time, to pay the taxes. The fact was, that a comparison berween two such men as Mr. George Holt and Mr. Toulmin could not be sustained. Mr. M'CLELLAN seconded the resolution. The regis ter, he said, was in such a state that if the burgesses were really of opinion that Mt. Toulmin had not properly re presented the ward, there could be no doubt of Mr. Holt's return. . . The resolution was unanimously carried. Mr. J EFFREYS, in moving the next resolution, said, that many Conservatives had recently come round from supporting Mr. Toulmin, because he had not attended to the business of the ward. There was, he added, not the slightest reason to doubt the success of Mr. Holt at the forthcoming contest. The resolution was to the effect that a committee be appointed to conduct Mr. H alt's election. Mr. JONES seconded the motion, and it was unani mously adopted. This being the whole of the business, the meeting separated, after giving three cheers for Mr. Holt. ALLEGED " FIX" OF THE DOCK COMMITTEE. A Contemporary of Saturday states that " the talk is that the Dock Committee are in a' fix' ;" that they have " advertised for contracts from Insurance Companies on goods and buildings at the Albert Dock, but that no pro posal has been made, and for the sufficient reason that the insurance offices in town and country have resolved to submit no tender." We are enabled to state that beyond the fact of the Committee having advertized for tenders, there is not a word of truth in this talk. The time for send ing in contracts does not expire until Tuesday next, when it will be seen wh,...t tenders are sent in and to what extent, or whether at all any combination amongst the Insurance offices exists. It is however a fact that the Committee have offers already from other quarters quite sufficient to render them perfectly independent of all the combination spoken of, if the Insurance offices should be absurd enough to make such an attempt. It has we believe been demanded by some of the offices —preliminary no doubt to sending in their Tenders—that Iron Shutters should be affixed to all the Windows; and a specimen is now being prepared by the Committee to be submitted for approval. Double doors to the com munications with• the Warehouses have also been sug gested ; and are about to be adopted by the Committee. The Hoists inside have been required to be closed over by folding doors on .each floor ; and this too is conceded. In fact every effort is making to meet the views of the Companies, and to enable the Committee to insure at the lowest possible rate. It would really be well if our Con temporary would ask himself whether it can advance any good purpose, beyond providing matter for his columns in these dull uneventful times, to dignify by notice every absurd piece of gossip which is sported in the town, or conveyed by some credulous specimen of humanity to his Editorial sanctum. On Sunday, after a sermon by the Rev. C. A. Graham, the sum of £l5 was collected in St. James's church, for the sufferers by the late fire in Newfoundland, in com pliance with the Queen's letter. Collections were also made in several other churches in the town for the same benevolent object. VAUXHALL WARD.—On Friday night, a numerous and highly respectable meeting of the burgesses of this ward was held at Mr. Hayes' Vulcan Vaults, Vauxhall-road. The candidate for the representation of the ward in the Council—J. G. Morris, Esq.—met with a most enthusi astic reception from the whole of the gentlemen present, among whom were J. Holme, Esq., J. Radley, Esq., J. Cooper, Esq.. and T. 'Wilson, Esq. The Rev. J. Jones, minister of St. Andrew's Church, has announced to his congregation his intention to com mence a Wednesday morning service at half-past eleven o'clock, consisting of the Litany, (the ancient noonday service of the Church) and a short exposition of Scrip ture. It will prove a boon, we trust, to many, both of his own and of other congregations, who are prevented, by delicate health and other circumstances, from attend ing an evening service. _ SMUGGLING.-A t the Police-court, yesterday, a sailor, named Thomas Lamasnera, was brought before the sitting magistrate, Mr. Booth, charged with landing or removing from the steamer Victoria, two pounds and a half of foreign manufactured tobacco without a permit; and the case being proved, he was fined (under the act) £25, or, in default, to be imprisoned for three months.—Another seaman, charged with smuggling six pounds of tobacco from the ship Oriental, in the Brunswick Dock, and which had only just arrived, was fined 205., or to be im prisoned for ten days. had the tobacco exceeded the weight stated by a quarter of an ounce, the fine would have been £lOO. THE WILTSHIRE CHAMPION COTJRSING.MEETING This important meeting closed on Saturday last, after five days' sport. The Elstone Stake, for bitches pupped in 1845, £BO, was won by Lord Eglinton's Frolic; Mr. F. Parkinson's Position ran up. The Beacon Hill Stake, for dogs, £BO, was divided between Mr. Miller's Young Cecrops and Mr. F. Parkinson's Pro Tern. The Fver leigh Stake, for bitches, £BO, was won by Mr. Miller's Mischief ; Mr. Jenner's Lily ran up. The Great Western Cup, for puppies of 1845, £320, was won by Lord Eglin ton's d. Auchenleck ; Mr. Jones's b. Juverna ran up. The Druid Cup, for all ages, £320, was won by Mr. Mil ler's b. Magic; Lord Eglinton's b. Bessy Bell ran up. The Stonehenge Stake, for dogs pupped in 18-15, £BO, was won by Mr. W. Etwall's Windfall; Mr. A. Graham's Knight Marshal ran up._ BOAT RACE ON THE CHESTER. WATERS.—On Thurs day last, notwithstanding the inclemency of the weather, a most interesting match was rowed between two crack crews, one belonging to the Dee and the other to the Thames, for £lOO a side, from the Heron Bridge to Aik man's Garden, a distance of nearly three miles. For about half-a-mile it was neck and neck, but the Cestrians not finding the speed quite fast enough, applied more steam, and came in victorious by twenty boat-lengths. The plucky Londoners supposing that a change in their position in the boat would give them an advantage a second challenge was given for a similar amount and dis tance, which was immediately accepted by the Chester men to come off on the following day, when some of the four to one on the Chester men. most splendid rowing that was ever exhibited was wit nessed by some hundreds of lovers of the sport. The Chester men, Messrs. Bolton Littledale and William Dixon again proved themselves victorious over the EARLY CLOSING CLOSING OF SHOPS. — We have all al ong ad vocated the early closing of shops , for various reasons, d th o r n ee c , r andew Messrs. Mawdsley and Perry. Betting, two, but especially with a view to afford the assistants that re laxation after the labours of the day which their generally youthful years require for health, and that time for men tal improvement which is not otherwise within their reach. We feel, moreover, convinced that if early closing could be effected throughout the town, the masters would be gainers, rather than losers, in the diminished consumption of gas; and when the practice became general, purchasers would supply all their necessities within the prescribed hours with equal advantage to themselves. We therefore direct attention to an announcement of a public meeting on the subject this evening, at the Concert-hall, Lord Nelson-street, for the purpose of furthering the closing of shops at seven o'clock, an hour sufficiently late for all bu siness purposes, particularly when it is considered that our mercantile establishments and public offices are now closed long before. A number of influential gentlemen, of all parties, whose names are given, will address the meeting, and we doubt not but they will adduce irrefra gable arguments in behalf of the desired change which would, we think, without injury to any class, tend much to the improvement and elevation in society of a large and useful portion of the co mmunity—the tradorpme as sista% Oct. 27, TRW. LATEST INTELLIGENCE. (BY EXPRESS.) MEETING OF PARLIAMENT. The rumour of a meeting of Parliament next month is confidently revived in the very be: informed circles. Lord J. Russell and the Chancellor are said to be bent upon this object, and determined to resign if the other members of the Cabinet will not conform to their opinion. The question will, however, be finally settled on Wed nesday, if not before. It is said, that at the next Council it will be proposed to open the ports, suspending the duty of 4s.—Slandard, of last night. LONDON CORN EXCHANGE.--TEsTERDAv At this day's market, there was a fair supply of English Wheat. No further advance conld be realised, but it met a steady demand at the currency of this day week. k good con sumptive and country demand exists for free foreign at late rates. The show of Barley was moreliberal. Fine selected Cheva lieris 2s to 3s, and other sorts Is to 2s dearer. Malt scarce; and brought a similar improvement. No Indian Corn here, and floating cargoes in great request, as well as a large business done for future shipment. Peas are 2s, and Beans Is dearer Since last Market day, we have had a good supply of Oats from Ireland; but the supplies coastrays and foreign are only limited. Owing to the excited advices from Ireland, factors firmly demanded an advance of is to 2s per qr. This paralysed the trade, and little business resulted. SMITHFIELD CATTLE MARKET.—YESTERDAY. With home-fed beasts we were moderately well, but not to. say heavily supplied. On the whole the beef trade was steady at prices about equal to those obtained on Monday last, and at which a good clearance was effected. From the northern districts we received 7800 short-horns, from the western and midland counties 700 Herefords, runts,. Devons, &c., and from other distant parts of England 800 of various breeds. The numbers of sheep were by no means large; yet the mut ton trade was in a sluggish state at barely, butt at nothing quotable beneath, last week's prices. In calves only a moderate business was doing at late rates. Pigs ruled dull, at our quotations. The ball at Warrington, for the Dispensary, has been postponed to the 2nd of December. An excellent Berlin repository, for the sale of Con tinental articles, is about to beopened at Bold-street. The Court returned from Hatfield House to Windsor Castle on Saturday. A number of melancholy casualties will be found in our shipping news. On Saturday, whilst Mr. Newdegate; M.P. was hunt ing at Ansley, near Birmingham, his horse, in leaping a. brook fell, and when on the ground kicked out, and struck Mr. N. on the jaw and fractured it. FIRE IN SCOTLAND ROAD—Yesterday evening a fire broke out in the premises occupied by Mr. Roberts, joiner, and which are situated in the middle of a new stack of buildings, on the east side of the street, a little beyond the Scotch church. The damage done was trifling. FAREWELL SERMONS;--The Rev. W. R. Hunt preached an affecting farewell sermon, at St. Saviour's Church, on Sunday morning. The Rev. Mr. Warre has been appointed incumbent of the church. On Sunday, the Rey. Mr. Townsend preached his farewell sermon, at St. Philip's Church. Cape of Good Hope papers to the 3rd of September have• been received. The skirmishes with the Kaffire have been continued, and were of much the usual cha racter. The colonial troop 3 succeeded in driving the enemy before them, killing several, wounding many, and capturing 400 or 500 head of cattle, sustaining little or no loss themselves. The last accounts from Alenandria, of the 9th inst., mention that the Nile had risen 24. feet, and considerably injured the growing crops. In the province of Lagachie upwards of sixty villages were under water. The Ariel steamer, of the Peninsular and Oriental Company, ar rived at Alexandria on the 9th, having effected the pas sage from England in 12 days. PHILMARcIONIC CONCERT.—The fifth undress con cert of the Philharmonic Society, for the yresent season, took place yesterday evening. The attendance was unu sually numerous and respectable, and the music, which was a miscellaneous selection, chiefly instrumental, was admirable, and went off with great eclat. We are sorry our space precludes us, at the late hour we write, a de tailed notice. Mozart's "Jupiter" mnphony was admi rably managed throughout. MUSICAL ENTERTAINMENTS.—Mr: Dempster, the eminent American vocalist and composer, has announced his intention of appearing at the Concert Hall next week. He is the author of the pathetic ballad; the " Lament of the Irish emigrant," so feelingly sung by the Hutchinson Family. The New York papers speak in the most rap turous terms of Mr. Dempster's powers. AMMERICAN BEEF.—We have tasted some of the A .merican beef offered by Mr.C. A. Tate for sale: Though tot equal to prime English beef, it is nevertheless of ex cellent quality—tender and tasty. We are confidently assured that there is no worse quality in any of the tierces than that which we tasted. Mr. Tate has imported 300 tons, and is selling it largely in all parts-of the country, especially in the manufacturing districts. Several gen tlemen—professional and otherwise—have given testi mony to the good quality of the beef. IMpoRTANT CASE.—On Saturday a young woman named Catherine Comerford, who was in •so weakly a state as to be almost incapable of supporting herself in the was s e eet and though that she was pregnan t. , On con cealeddock, denied repeatedly questioned, charged h ge o d f abeofioffed.MrT.hßoupsrbistoonnewir wthenhtavtionlig live eas servant at a house of ill fame in Hart-str eet, Thursday night she complained of a dreadful p ain in t he stomach and retired early to bed, and on the followin g morning the dead body of a child lying with. its face down wards•was discovered under the bed clothes. The surgeon could not say whether the child had been born alive orpot. The prisoner said she went to the workhouse on the Wednesday before she went to Hart-street, but that she was turned out next morning by the doctor who said she was too far off her confinement, and that she would only be an incumbrance if kept until she was delivered. Police-officer 165 said :—When I went up to the Work house for the prisoner this morning, for the purpose of bringing her down to the court, there came on a very heavy shower of rain, and as the day was so bad, and the poor woman very weak, I asked the governor for a cab to put her in. His reply was, that they did not keep horses at the Workhouse for such purposes ; that she was, be be lieved, a bad woman ; and that, if she committed murder she ought to be executed for it. He came out with a great deal of that sort of language, Mr. Rushton : Let her be removed in a car, and on Monday let the governor and also•the surgeon of the Workhouse be in attendance here. The case was not brought forward again yesterday, in con sequence of the prisoner being too ill to be brought to the court, and also from the absence of Mr. Rushton, who well indisposed. Mr. Stewart, a barrister in Lincoln's Inn, has written a letter to the members of agricultural societies, calling on them, "now that we are to have free trade in the produce of land, to direct their efforts also to have free trade in the land itself." He says—" You all know that the buying and selling of land is at present anything but free ; you all know the expense and delay which now embarrass all dealings in land. Is it not worth your while to consider whether these must be submitted to 8 0 inevitable evils ; or whether, by taking the proper means, you cannot materially lessen them?" He also iostances the trifling expense and simple character of a transfer of land in other countries compared with the enormous cost and intricate proceedings necessary for the same purpose in Great Britain. . .. SHIPPING INTELLIGENCE MONDAY, 26th OCTOBBR.—Wind S. light. A RRlVED.—Acadia, Younger, from St. Petersburg, and Helen/ Anderson, from Dram. SAILED —Accevita, Sophranich, and Richard, Currie. Trieste' —Volant, M'Murchy, St. Andrew, N.B.—Lunatia, Leghorn -- Rival, Shipley, and Arethusa, Morris, Halifax—Paolina, Triege —Hope, Hanson, Rotterdam—John and Elizabeth ,—, mold?. Braily, Lisbon—Jamaica, Baillie, Havana—Albert, Larkin, St. John, N.B.—Anna Elizabeth, Rotterdam—Tory, Sharp, Mobile—Excelsour. Williams, New Orleans—Amalie, Moller, Memel—Patriot King, Ponsonby, Hong Kong—Asia , Chnmbers, Newfoundland—Eliser, Belling, Riga—Lady Sbagt Stewart, Roper, Payti—Asia, Hannah, Mobile—Jenny Rine* Wakeham, Coustantinople—Mandane, Hutchinson, ChariestOn —Mountaineer, Boguit, and Jane Anderson, M'Kellar, S a Lar. nah—Britannia, St. John, N.B.—L a d y C onstable, Poole, 1" Orleans—Cynosure, Yabsiey. Messina—Watchword, Downing* Constantinople— Stafetto, Gheut—Palmyra, Walda o ' Ghent—Joseph Bushby, Sparks, Bombay. TERWYN, (MONMOUTH Sll I RE,) Oct. 23.—The Elizabeth, 11C kle, from Liverpool for Jamaica, was wrecked to-day on thin coast. One man drowned ; cargo expected to pe saved. , A BERYSTWITR, 23rd Oct.—The Three Sisters, Davies, Ire"' Pentrewan for Liverpool, in running for this harbour, grounde d outside, and was hove off into the Channel, and there fi11ed.... 1 CARDIFF', 24th October.—The Royal Saxon, from Liverpool for New Orleans,,has put into Penarth Roads, with topgallant masts cut away to weather Hartland Point. There are ip is rted reP° 15J sail of vessels lying in these roads.— A large sh to have gone down at her anchors off the MuMble S 1814 o r less Llverp for Bone, 23rd October.—About 6J tons of goods , more damaged, have been saved from the Eliza, from night. Valparaiso, on shore at Undercliff. 23rd The Damascus, Bliss, hence for Boston, was at anchor . instant to the northward of Boscastle, (Cornwall,) In 13 fathoms water, with masts cut away, and one man lost overboard. Messenger, Garrick, hence for New Orleans, was driven on shore in Cardigan Bay 24th instant. Crew saved Olinda, Thompson, hence for New 0 with water casks stove ans, at Caldy Roads Querida, hence at Ilevana Chaos, Wilson, from New York off Sc Enterprise, Davies, hence for St. Thos , Aurora, -, her ce at Falmouth, for -. Elizabeth Ann, Bryan, from Pentrwn for this port at Carer, with loss of boat, bulwarks, sails, &e., and decks swept. Comet, Bell, hence for Rye, at Studwell Roads, with loss O f bulwarks. _ 3rd Oct mas, at Plymouth. SOYA V1.1n.• Margaret, Christian, hence for Waterford, at Studwell Rosa. with loss of sails and bulwarks, Martha, Collis, hence for Dordt, at Studwell Roads, with 1 0 ° of sails and bulwarks, and one boy overboard. Emerald, —, and Sarah Trotman, --, off Beaurnalia• VESSRLS SPOKEN.—OCt. 8, Helen, of Allot, bound to Glaste., —Oct. 9, Hector, and Lorena, bound to Europe—Oct. 15, saw Ashburton, hence to New York, in lat. 44 45, long. 49. LIVERPOOL : TUESDAY, OCT. 27. 1846. PRINTED AND PUBLISHED TUESDAY MORNING EVERY JOSHUA FLETCHER LACE, of 53, Grove-street, and LEONARD ADDISON, of 14, Great Orford-street. , At No. 4, S. GEORGIC'S CRESCENT LIVERrOOL., Orders and Advertisements received by Messrs. 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