The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser. — Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1846-04-21 00:00:00

TUESDAY MORNING, APRIL 21, 1846. We give, in another column, as full details as we could find room for of the important intelligence from India, brought by the Overland Mail just ar rived. Our successes in the East, and their results, are thus expressively but succinctly summed up in the Times of yesterday:— " The Indian war is over. The Sikh army, routed in four successive battles, is finally broken and dispersed. Two hundred and twenty cannon captured, and all the rest surrendered, are sufficient -a arrant that its power is gone. In fact, there is no longer a hostile force in the Punjab. Those wide dominions, so lately governed in strength by Runjeet Singh, have been, in two short months, invaded and placed at the mercy of a foreign conqueror. That mercy has not been implored in vain. The Punjab is again restored to independence, and the Maharajah of the Sikh nation still reigns at Lahore. The greater part of the British troops has, ere this, crossed the Sutlej, and peace is established in India. We cannot help expressing our regret at the mode of obstruction by which the heads of the Dock Com mittee are met in the Council, in their endeavours to carry the liberal and extensive measures which they have brought forward for the improvement of the Dock Estate, and, by reflection—for all neigh bouring bodies and localities, not placed in a rela tion of a competing nature, reflect their prosperity upon each other—of the prosperity of the town. Increase the efficiency, and consequent cheapness of the docks of Liverpool, and you draw more ship ping to the town, more commerce to the merchant, more custom to the shopkeeper. The interests of the town at large are bound up in the prosperity of the Dock Estate ; the latter pays a large debt in re urn to the interests of the town. The prospect of increasing commerce to the port, as the effect of the improvement proposed in its means of accommodating that commerce, and the necessity of providing for that increased commerce, to be derived from the extension of communication inland with localities, now connected with, and taking their supplies from other ports, have already been, in many instances, proved, and were further forcibly illustrated by the Chairman of the Dock Committee, in the following remarks, with respect, amongst others, to our future relations with the port of Newcastle-upon-Tyne. We are about to be pro vided, by means of the Liverpool, Manchester, and Newcastle-upon-Tyne Junction Railway, with an improved communication with that great northern port, and the important localities intervening, from whose commerce we have been hitherto virtually excluded by the inconvenience of our existing com munication. But we must leave Mr. Brarnley Moore to speak for himself : Tile increase in the trade of the port must continue to go on, as it was backed by a rapidly increasing population, and its means of communication with the interior were gradually becoming more facile. For instance, at present there was no communication between Liverpool and New castle-upon-Tyne ; but a railway communicati, n was now projected, and he trusted that it would he successful, and that it would pay the spirited parties who had taken it up. At the present time Newcastle was supplied with an im mense number of articles from London, which, when the railway was opened, would be supplied from :Liverpool, and which had not hitherto been supplied from Liverpool, because that town was inaccessible from this port except at a great cost. He had no fear whatever but the com merce of Liverpool would go on increasing. We only hope that all parties will look the ad vancing prospects, and probable future require ments, fairly in the face. We direct attention to a very able letter in our columns this day, addressed by Mr. Isaac Buchanan, of Glasgow, to Daniel APINTab, Esq., Vice-President of the Board of Trade, Hamilton, Canada West, upon the subject of the future position of our British American Colonies under the operation of the proposed Free Trade measures of Sir Robert Peel's Administration. We have been accustomed to place such implicit credence in those statistical returns, published by official authority, upon which the statesmen of this country are in the habit of basing their arguments upon the subjecf of any change in the national policy which they may advo cate, that Mr. M`Gregor's figures, as to the actual position of the Canadian , as compared with foreign trades, which the advocates of the ultra-liberal mea sures now in progress represent as so utterly insig nificant, are well qualified to startle us, and to in duce in us considerable hesitation before we place implicit credence in official documents and party statements based upon them. Upon this point we beg an attentive perusal to that part of Mr. Buchanan's letter in which he shows, upon the authority of no less a person than Mr. M'Culloch, the dishonesty of tte representations of the Maneltester Guardian, in which that journal asserts that since 1839 there has been an actual and a large decrease in the shipments from this conutry to our British American pos sessions. Mr. M'Culloch says that, as given in the 43d page of the Appendix to the 44th edition of his Dictionary— The gross shipments in 1844 were. The average, 1839 to 18-14, was. . 52,419,926 Showing an increase of 111 per cent.... £6,164,365 The shipments to British America were, in 1844 .• • • The average, 1839 to 1814, was ... 3,070,861 2,666,371 Showing an increase of 15 1-Gth per cent. £404487 The Guardian gives a decrease from £3,047,671 in 1 5.39 to £1,751,211 in 1543, and finds it convenient to omit 1844 altogether, the preceding year being a year of depression, the figures relating to which suited the purpose of his argument. With respect to the correctness of the figures themselves, Mr. Buchanan emphatically says— " Now, I assert, and by the return of the present stea mer, I shall expect from the Montreal and Quebec Cus tom-houses a verification of my assertion, that INTO THE PORTS OF MONTREAL AND QUEBEC ALONE THERE HAS BEEN AS MUCH IMPORTED FROM ENGLAND AS THE AMOUNT OF THE ABOVE OFFICIAL RETURNS FOR ALL BRITISH AMERICA ! t• If I am correct, the error of the Government returns I will amount to neither less nor more than the omission of an amount equal to the whole trade to every port in New Brunswick, Nova Scotia, Prince Edward's Island, and Newfoundland; and these together cannot be far less than the amount of the trade of Montreal and Que • bec, or the amount of the whole official returns as above." Mr. Buchanan appears to have drawn upon him self, by his fearless tone and straightforward business facts, the ire of the advocates of Free Trade, who would mislead the manufacturing public, especially, with respect to the tendency of their measures, in producing not only a social convulsion at home, but the separation of her most valuable colonies. With respect to the future course of Canada, under the operation of these measures, his opinion has been met by positive denial and such delusive figures as the above. The following expression of opinion, with respect to public feeling in British • America itself—whose population, we should imagine, ought to be the best judges of their own affairs—coming from one of the first merchants of Upper Canada, and a gentleman whom we know to be most guarded and cautious in his opinions, ought to have more weight than the flippancy of any Free Trader in the mother country :•-- "The abolition of all protection on Canadian or Colo nial produce in Britain will, ere long, produce a change in the feelings of the Colonists, and, it may be, in the mother country also. If the Colonists have no protec tion, they will seek to buy where they can best please themselves ' • and the bond of mutual interest which at present binds them to Britain will be loosened, and in time entirely broken ; and the time will come when it becomes no longer the interest of Britain to retain the connexion. That time will be very much hastened by the late changes, and it becomes us to inquire whether we would continue in business in Canada either as an in dependent country or as a State of the Union ; for it would not surprise me if the present generation even have to ask themselves such a question." We presume that the question—what parliament is to do with the hundreds of railway schemes, the necessity of getting rid of which is now universally acknowledged, will shortly be made public. Sensi ble and practical men are fast discovering that the mere permission to a majority of shareholders in any given line to wind up their own affairs and abandon their contemplated undertaking, is not the kind of remedy which wise statesmanship would have desired. Its operation must be to hold out a wide field for the display of all kinds of trickery. It holds out no security to the public that good schemes, of national importance and interest, will not be overthrown, and bad schemes, affording no increase of convenience to the public, carried out. Nay, it actually tempts this result. Public opinion has declared itself in favour of the adoption of the most direct and independent routes between impor tant seats of commerce—the most direct routes be tween the centres of consumption or production,— and the ports whose traffic they supply. It has set its face against the patching and botching system of the old monopolies. Yet we have in the proposed measure a weapon which seems to have been ex pressly devised to enable the existing great lines to rid themselves of the more efficient communications, with whose rivalry they are threatened, and to fas ten upon the public, for years to come, the neces sity of travelling by their roundabout and extrava gantly expensive routes. Amalgamations, and the formation of peddling branches go on, under this mode of getting temporarily out of our difficulties ; the great companies throw the mantle of their pro tection and the aid of their capital round a host of petty schemes, and thus erect barriers against all further efforts of improvement of the country's communications ; whilst lines, by which such im provement would at once be brought about, are per mitted to fall through, without the legislature at tempting to canvass their importance and their comparative value to the country at large. The principle that men are the best judges of their own affairs and interests, and of the mode in which they shall employ their capital, may he cor rect enough in the abstract, but there is, surely, a limit beyond which, for the sake of the community at large, it should not be carried. By legislating at all to release speculators and railway projectors from the effect of their past folly and misconduct, we acknowledge that the prudence of capital is not to be implicitly trusted in. We have devised checks innumerable to protect the national interests and the national morality against the effect of its fan tastic doings. Does a projector offer to darn up one of our navigable rivers, or to throw a bridge over an estuary, the Admiralty steps in to check the invasion of its national usefulne's. And the same or a similar check might very legitimately be ap plied to the carrying out of projects, which as cer tainly operate to retard the improvement of the nation's resources and convenience. It is as ma terial, for instance, that Manchester should have the best possible facilities for bringing its products to the Mersey for shipment, as that the best channel should be kept open from the Mersey to the ocean. And, on this ground, the Legislature itself ought to take care that the capital, upon which we have to depend for the formation of such lines of efficient communication, should not be frittered away in abortive efforts to patch together particular existing monopolies. Parliament has a right to say you shall make the best communication, if you make any. If - you have over-estimated your means to make all, you shall not lock up the available amount of those means in the construction of lines, whose certain result must be the retarding, if not the in definite postponement of the construction of those which we regard as the most important for public interests. We want an intelligible guidance, by an impartial, tribunal of the mode in which capital should be directed towards railway investments, and some powers existing in that tribunal to deter mine what amount the nation can afford yearly to devote to them. The fingers of the community Lave been pretty well burnt—sufficiently so to serve as a caution for the future, if any caution could suppress the grasp ing spirit of selfish appropriation and eagerness for gain —but this clumsy mode of enabling us to get them out of the fire, affords no protection against the recurrence of similar periods of mania, and con sequent embarrassment and stagnation of commerce, such as that under which the nation is now suffering. A wise and able government would have grappled with the whole question. It will have to be grappled with. The good easy public must neither be left to the tender mercies of a host of unprincipled pro jectors, on every occasion when the national pro sperity tempts men to gamble with the superabun dance of their means, nor must the prospect of the country receiving at some future time the largest possible amount of cheap and efficient communica tions for its traffic be postponed, indefinitely, by allowing the soil to be cut up by a number of abor tive schemes, which can never be made efficient and profitable in themselves, and which must for ever remain drags upon the successful working of legi timate undertakings. We trust that the committees now sitting may be able to devise some mode of dealing with the whole question. It is singular to observe with what energy the public mind, once roused to a perception of the ex istence of abuses or evils, sets itself about the task of their removal. Thus the people of Liverpool have been blind to the occurrence of a frightful amount of mortality, beyond the ordinary rat e o f ! other towns, less favourably situated by nature,—be yond even the rate in those neighbouring manufac turing towns which they had been accustomed to regard as filled with unwholesomeness and pesti lence. Their actual position was proclaimed to them, through the medium of the press, in parlia mentary reports, and by a few among the local fa culty ; but they were slow to be convinced. They looked at their noble river, their magnificent docks, and said it could not be that over such a locality disease should hang so densely and snatch its vic tims so remorselessly. The conviction came at last. They saw, interspersed amid the thorough fares of commerce, the unventilat d courts, and fil thy, uncleansed cellars, in which pestilence was en gendered ; and they set about the task of their im provement or removal. Whilst thus engaged it was that their attention became directed to the full amr,unt of the evil to he encountered ; that they became aware of the deficiency of ordinary sanatory precautions and means which had been suffered to exist; that they had an amount of sewerage totally incapable of meeting the increased wants of the town, inefficiently constructed, without plan, and in parts almost incapable of being worked for the pur poses of drainage. They had, moreover, allowed the supply of the most active and efficient instru ment of cleansing—water—to be locked up in the hands of a few individuals, with power to direct absolutely its lines and modes of application, and to dole it out at an exorbitant rate in minimum quantity to the public. All this tardy conviction has flashed upon us at once ; and the efforts making to repair the conse quences of past neglect, and rectify past mistakes, are active as the previous lethargy which led to them was dense. `re are glad to observe this, be cause we feel confident it may be turned to good purpose for the advancement of the moral as well as the physical health of the community. It is a sign that we are in earnest ; that we recognize our duty to see that all classes, the very poorest as well as the rich, are allowed to breathe the pure air of heaven unobstructed, and to have afforded to them an ample quantity of the most necessary element for the preservation of health and life. But we must not go too rashly to work. We must weigh our means carefully, and attempt only what we are satisfied that we can accomplish. We have, howe ver, no wish to excite a niggardly spirit in those who are stirring in this good and great work. Our object is only to remind them that there is a limit to the power of any communities to accomplish the best works ; and to urge them to take care that their available means are judiciously applied to the carrying out at first of such remediatory measures as are likely to be the most extensively and perma nently useful. In the mean time, it would be well for whatever local authority may be intrusted with the important duty of improving the salubrity of the town, and the cleanliness and comfort of its population,, to procure powers and to exercise them rigidly, in order to prevent the growth of sources of future mischief, similar to those which they are now called upon to put down. Whilst engaged in removing those wretched habitations in the existing locality of the town, they must see that similar nurseries of disease are not permitted to be erected in the out skirts, and thus to block up and putrify a portion of those lungs, through which pure currents of air can alone be drawn into its contre. They must see that these lungs are kept open, that future wide thoroughfares from the heart of our population to the country may be formed, without involving that enormous outlay and destruction of property which has hitherto so greatly impeded every attempt at ventilation. It might be well, too, if they could direct them selves in earnest to some vigorous means to break through some of those dense masses of building to be found choking up the access both of air and of traffic to important localities of the town, and which, in addition to the public inconvenience they create, form fertile sources of disease, and, we may add, of immorality and crime. It is not wide sewerage or cleansing which can render these localities whole some. Air is as important to health and vitality as TO CORRESPONDENTS. 'The letter of " E." was received too late for even perusal. Several communications are pressed out by an ui.usual flow of indispensable matter yesterday. A correspondent states that dining the past winter, Boot's-lane, Kirkdale, has been quite impassable, it having been in a most disgraceful state, in many parts mud has been ankle deep, and in others, particularly opposite to Liver-crescent, and extending to Yewtree-lone, beds of mud have been collected from sw,epings of the road, until a complete pool has been formed which has forced the inhabitants to go a considerable way round. Our correspondent adds that we may c on sider what a nuisance it is when the scavengers who appear about once a mor.th have thought it a disgrace to the authorities. Several other p - asons have addressed us on the same subject. E,ly. Ribrrpool RPtapbarb. THE LIVERPOOL STANDARD. water or food. We may send our scavengers daily through these streets ; we may pour down their sewers a flood of water daily; we may ventilate and cleanse their dwellings, and even induce habits of comfort and order amongst their inhabitants; but we can never raise their health materially until we have allowed the air to circulate freely through them, in a pure state and in abundance. The expense of such an effort on a large scale might be considerable; but public convenience—view the question upon this low scale—would be infinitely promoted; and, at the same time, we should be adding years to the duration of life of our population. There are few, we feel convinced, who can have read the able and, at the same time, the revolting statistics of some of these localities contained in the letters of Dr. Watson, from time to time pub lishing in our columns, or of other gentlemen who have preceded him in similar arduous and highly praise-worthy enquiries, without arriving at the con clusion that some such effort as we have pointed out must be made to introduce amongst them not only increased cleanliness but a purer atmosphere as well. That as property in their present state they are worthless, and ought not to be endured, is self apparent ; whereas, by a portion of them being ap propriated to the formation of good thoroughfares, the value and salubrity of those remaining would be greatly increased. WEST INDIES. The Severn. Royal Mail steam-ship, Captain Vincent, arrived at Southampton on Sunday night, at half-past five o'clock, after an umssually rapid passage of 19 days from St. Thomas's, and five and a-half days from Fayal. After leaving the tropics, the Severn encountered very severe weather up to the time of reaching the latter place, and even then she was prevented landing her mail for some hours, in consequence of the gale. The company's steam-ship Trent, Captain Rivett, arrived at St. Thomas's with the homeward mail from Barbadoes and the Northern Isles on the 30th March; sailed on the same evening for Porto Rico. The Tweed arrived at Grenada with the outward mail on the 26th March. The Forth left Jamaica on the 20th March for the Spanish Main. The whole of the West India Islands were generally healthy, but were suffering severely from a long-continued drought. At Berbice, water was so scarce that it fetched a high price even for drinking. The cattle in the agricul tural districts were dying of thirst. The same remarks apply to Demerara, Barbadoes, Antigua, St. Kitt's, and Jamaica. The prospect of the crops, since the last advices, was not so good. In St. Kitts there had been a considerable falling off. There was no appearance of a change of weather when the Severn left. She has scarcely had a shower during her passage, and should there not have been some altera tion ere this, the matter will have assumed a serious aspect. The Court is to leave Windsor Castle, for Buckingham Palace, this afternoon. Lord and Lady St.inley are expected to leave Knowsley Park, where the noble lord and ►ady are visiting the Earl of Derby, for town, on Wednesday or Thursday. The Rev. W. Pollock, of St. Helens, has been appoint ed to the incumbency of St. Mark's, vacant by the death of Mr. Blacow. A special meeting of the Council will be held to-day, to consider the report of the special committee on Lord Lin coln's bill, and the sanatory bill of the Council. Several men were committed yesterday, in default of the payment of heavy fines, for assaulting police officers, for various terms of imprisonment. The Earl of Erroll, hereditary Lord High Constable of Scotland. expired on Sunday at the residence of his son in-law, Viscount Campden, in Portman-square. He was 46. The Rev. J. H. Stewart, of St. Bride's, in this town, has been presented by the patron with the rectory of Limpsfield, near Croydon, Surrey. The Rev. D. D. Stewart, who has for some time officiated as curate at St. Bride's, has been appointed to succeed his re spected father in the incumbency. The New York Papers notice the launch of a splendid new packet-ship, intended for the "old line" between this port and New York. She has been named the Colum bia, and is 1100 tons burthen. She is to be commanded by Captain Hathbone, late of the Oxford. Another fine ship for the London line, called the Margaret Evans, has also left the stocks. After a sermon, on Sunday morning, in St. Andrew's Church, by the Rev. John Jones, the respected incum bent, in behalf of the schools connected with that church, the liberal sum of £72 was collected, which, in addition to the sum of £62 previously collected, after a sermon by the Rev. Hugh M'Neile, on Sunday fortnight, makes a total of £134. MELANCHOLY ACCIDENT.—Mr. Philip Weld, a stu dent of St. Edmund's Roman Catholic College, near Ware, and nephew of the late Cardinal Weld, was on Thursday last accidentally drowned while engaged in the amusement of boating with some of his fellow-collegians at the Rye-hoese, near Broxbounre. He was a very promising youth, about 17 years of age. Dn. WESLEY.—The lectures of this great man at the Collegiate Institution are well attended. All parties speak in the most extatic strains respecting his performance on the organ. We understand that he has consented to give one more performance before he leaves us—after his con cluding lecture, when he will give the overture of the Gatzberflote. On Sunday morning last, handsome collections were made in St. Nicholas', St. Jude's, St. Barnabas', and several other churches, on behalf of the Church of Eng land Schools, established at the time of the introduction of the liberal system of education into the corporation schools, and since continued in very efficient operation. We trust the excellent object will not be lost sight of in the remaining churches MAKING BASE MONEY.—Yesterday, at the Police court, a rough-looking customer named Patrick Roche, was committed for trial, charged with having been acces sary to the uttering of a base sixpence, and also with having in his possession implements for the making of base coin. The prisoner lodged at Lace-street, and there was found up the chimney in his room a plaster-of-Paris mould, and other articles, used in the manufacture of base money. We are happy to find that there is every probability that the ministerial services of the Rev. B. A. Marshall, who will shortly be unconnected with St. Mark's district, by the appointment of Mr. Pollock to the incumbency of that church, are not likely to be lost to our town. The most strenuous exertions are making for the erection or pur. chase of a church, to which it is intended to appoint Mr. Marshall, and already one gentleman has put down his name for £5OO, and two others for £3OO each ; and last evening a meeting was held in furtherance of the good work, at which steps were taken to bring the object to a successful termination. We wish its promoters. God speed. INHABITING UNWHOLESOME CELLARS.—Yes terday, at the Police Court, no fewer than 57 persons, owners or tenants of premises chiefly in Lace's-street, and Free mason's-row, appeared before Mr. Rushton to answer summonses for allowing persons to live and sleep in cel lars of dimensions in height, size, windows, &c., below what is allowed by the local act affecting uch domiciles. The parties had all received legal notice—some of them nearly twelve months ago—and as every case was proved, they were each and severally fined 55., and costs 4s. 6d. (Os. 6d. in all); and it was intimated to them by the Ma gistrate, that the same amount of fine would be imposed for every day hereafter, during which they permitted parties to reside in such confined and unwholesome abodes. He added that poor individuals ejected, would be taken care of by the parish authorities, until they could find other homes. THE TIPPERARY RIOTS.—In another page we have given the particulars of an outbreak in Tipperary, and of some rioting in Clonmel. The Tipperary Constitution of Saturday contains further intelligence from the excited districts. On Wednesday an attack was made on Tuber sheena Mills, but the attacking harty was repulsed by the police, one of whom had to fire, but fortunately without injuring any one. The flour carts were escorted into Clonmel by military and police, and the streets were thronged by idle persons. On Thursday morning an im mense mob began plundering the boats at Kilshellan within four miles of Clonmel, and before they could be subdued a vast quantity of Indian corn was destroyed or made away with, and a quantity of wheat. Thirteen of the rioters were apprehended, and have been lodged in gaol. Stones were flying in all directions, and several soldiers were struck. One hundred pigs on their way from Fethard to Carrick-on-Suir were seized by the country people and carried off. Meetings were being held daily, and com mittees have been appointed, for the purpose of giving employment to the poor at the rate of 4s. per day ; and at the time the last advice left hundreds were at work, and the districts were again peaceable. THE B RIG LADY SALE.--W C some time ago no ti ce d with feelinzs of indignation, the detention, and finally the condemnation, by the Portuguese authorities ' of the brig Lady Sale, of this port, the prope r t y o f our re spected townsman, Mr. Horsfall, on the absurd allega tion that she was fitted up for the slave trade. The Lis bon correspondent of a London paper, in a letter dated the 10th instant, fully explains the whole facts in a man ner entirely exculpatory of the owner, and showing the great injustice of condemning the vessel on such a plea. It appears when the treaty of 1812 opened the Pert's guese colonial ports to British vessels, Mr. Ilorsfall sent out the brig Lalla to Angola, with a suitable cargo, to be excharged for the produce of the country. The return cargo had to be collected from various ports, by other vessels, as British vessels are not allowed to trade at any port but the capital, " Loanda." The detention being necessarily great, the Lalla was very fully provisioned, had a number of casks for palm oil, and large coppers for boiling and purifying it. The fitting out somewhat re sembled that of a slave ship, and this the Pprtuguese au thorities knew, and did not detain her. She made a suc cessful voyage, bringing chiefly palm oil. Mr. Horsfall having found the speculation successful, sent out the Lady Sale, on a similar adventure last autum n, and simi larly fitted out, and she was detained and condemned, on the ground that the coppers, &c., were destined for slaves, though no such trade was at all contemplated. The writer of the letter says in conclusion —" It is scarcely possible that the British government will b s e e f r a c i e t ds subjects t e lf i it pslhunnudl thene d r , eel in this e will outrageousbe an e a n n d d to our trading with the Portuguese African settlements, for no English speculator will venture to send a vessel there, and the immense resources and capabilities !ditch those colonies possess, and which our commercial inter course would be so tendent to develope and bring into action, will continue, as hitherto, dormant and unprofita ble." LOSS OF THE COLONIES OF ENGLAND. (Continued from page 3.) And now with regard to our enemies' second plan of attack, viz., with the figures Of the Board of Trade, I may just refer you to two articles against my letters that appeared on the Bth and 11th of this month, in that very talented paper, the Manchester Guardian, the great gun of the Anti-Corn-Law League. The Guardian displays the official figures of the twelve years commencing 1832 and ending 1813, thus including both cholera years with the period of the great commer cial distress which ended in 1813, and only coming down to the moment when the advantage given, in 1842, to Ca nadian Wheat, was beginning to tell on our prosperity. The Guardian says " In the last twelve years there has not only been a large actual decrease, but a still larger re lative decrease, in the amount of our goods sent to that market, which, at the most favourable time for such a comparison, took rather more than five-and-a-half per cent. of our entire exports, and on which now the country is actually dependent for a market for three-and-a-quar ter per cent. of its foreign trade!" Now, what stuff it is to tell us, who know the immense increase of the Canada trade, that an actual decrease ex ists anywhere except in the official tables, bad though the twelve years were, and though the United States trade, which had been £12,425.605 in 1836, fell, in 1842, to £3,528,807, in the face of England taking from her double the produce in the last than in the first year the Guardian has selected. To show, however, the utter worthlessness of figures when used (as Sir Robert Peel does) for a purpose, 1 may just give the substance of a contrary statement, which I got my eve on the other day, in the 43rd page of the ap pendix to the 44th edition of M'Culloch's Dictionary. The gross shipments in 1844 were . £58,581,292 The average, 1839 to 1844, was Showing an increase of 111 per cent..... The shipments to British America were, in 1844 .... The average, 1839 to 1844, was . £8,164.363 3,070,861 2,666,374 Showing an increase of 15 1-6th per cent.... £404,487 This is his friend Mr. M'Culloch versus the Manchester Guardian. The exports to British America are thus given by the Manchester Guardian:- 1632 £2,075,725 1838 1833 18114 1835 1836 1837 Now, I assert, and by the return of the present steamer I shall expect from the Montreal and Quebec Custom houses a verification of my assertion, that INTO THE PORTS OF MONTREAL AND QUEBEC ALONE THERE HAS BEEN AS MUCH IMPORTED FROM ENGLAND AS THE AMOUNT OF THE ABOVE OFFICIAL RETURNS FOR ALL BRITISH AMERICA ! If I am correct, the error of the Government returns will amount to neither less nor more than the omission of an amount equal to the whole trade to every port in New Brunswick, Nova Scotia, Prince Edward's Island, and Newfoundland; and these together cannot be far less than the amount of the trade of Montreal and Quebec, or the amount of the whole official returns as above. I, moreover, insist that it ought not to be overlooked by practical men, that, directly and indirectly, our Trade pays more than double the profit to British subjects, that Foreign trade to the same extent does, or in its very na ture can pay as merely manufacturing commerce. And I argue that the excellent and permanent nature of our trade, and its gradual and sure increase, ought to be considered, rather than its present insignificant amount; the latter arising partly from the infancy of the Colonies which remained true to the British Government when the old Colonies revolted, but arising still more from the want of active government, and the two frequent misgovern. ment of British America. To prove the want of management of these Colonies, and to.account for the comparative smallness of the Trade, I need only mention the fact that there is yet scarcely more than half a million of sods in the magnificent pro vince of Upper Canada, than which there is NOT A FINER FIELD FOR WHEAT GROWING IN THE WORLD ; the whole of that Western country being in a more southerly lati tude than Paris. The inhabitants of Canada West consume, per head, more British goods than any Colonial or Foreign popula tion in the world. Even brought down by the lesser consumption of the other Colonies, Lower Canada, consuming very little in proportion to its 750,000 people, the average taken by British America, is yet very surprising compared to what is taken from England by foreigners. There is the following, even from the showing of those official tables, which I consider so fallacious as scarcely to show half the exports to British America : 1844. Countries. Population. Gross Exports. Russia Prussia 14,330,145 505,334 Sid. Germany and Switzerland 45,1 00 , 0. 0 6,151,525 2s. gd. France. Holland Belgium .... Denmark.. Sweden and Norway United States 20,000,000 7,938,079 7s. ltd. North American Colonies West Indies Ido not deprecate foreign trade. I only desire to show that, even wet() we certain to increase it, we should not wontonly cast away our surer Colonial outlets. But I complain that it has not been shown that the in crease of our imports from foreign countries will neces sarily increase our exports, and I assert that the greatest fact is against any such conclusion, seeing that in the twelve years cited above we had no increase of our exports to the United States, though our imports of their produce, which we payfor, has doubled in its yearly amount. You, Colonists, must just coolly make up your minds as to what is your interest, and act accordingly on your own responsibility. _ _ _ . . If Free Trade is adopted in England, I see nothing which you can do but demand Free Trade with the United States. This may bring the Minister to a clearer insight into his dangerous position, as be must know that Free Trade is only a step to Canada becoming politically connected with the American Union. Your movement must, however, be in bodies or masses, and unanimously. Individual colonists, like myself, have no influence here. You talk to a public man, or write to a newspaper, about our simple and practical trade, and they tell you that your position is an o f fence to science. Instead of entering with you into the marrow of your Colonial interests, they try to generalise your premises, and thus prove the reductio ad absurdum, as if your bu siness with them was a matter of pure mathematics, in stead of the simple and practical question, how, in our circumstances, to give most beneficial employment to those who labour for their bread in the mother country and the Colony. _ _ The language of the Free Traders, in fact, just amounts to PERISII THE COLONIES, BUT SAVE OUR PRINCIPLES 1 But it is not the Colonial interests alone that they treat in this way ; and thus I have some gleam of hope that the cotton-weavers of Lancashire may be awakened to a sense of the heartless game being played by the Anti- Corn-Law League, by feeling the same iron obtruding it self into their vital and immediate interest, that now is edging for the stab to the Colonies. In answering the Manchester Guardian, you will ob serve I grappled with the facts of the present precarious position of the cotton trade in Lancashire. I selected, not "two particular descriptions of manufacture," as the Guardian says, but its two staples, forming 194,080,492 lbs. of 202,360,687 lbs., which is the total weight of yarn, in manufactured cotton goods, in 1845. It is also insinuated by the Guardian that I said that " a foreign trade is valuable because it takes off one pro duct of British industry rather than another." What I said and proved, for the information of the manufacturers of Manchester and Lancashire, was, that the Colonial are the most increasing markets. It may be " a point of perfect indifference to the people at large (or for the tables of the Board of Trade) whether the exports to a particular colony consist of printed cali coes or of woollens and hardware," but it surely is a matter of considerable importance to those whose labour produces printed and other calicoes, whether they lose (to enable the theory of political economy to be carried rut) a market, and that their best market for those articles, or not. My argument was, that although the aggregate exports increase, the cotton weaver, spinner, or calico printer may starve, if his interest is overlooked, as will now be the case, by the SUPPLY OF BRITISH NORTH AMERICA AND THE WEST INDIES BEING MADE A PRESENT OF TO THE MANUFACTURERS OF NEW ENGLAND. I cannot agree that it is a matter of national indifference that the present or any other public measures should in terfere injuriously with any branch of the national industry, far less the all-important cotton manufacture, in the car rying on of which vast masses of population have been collected together, and whose industry cannot be directed in the manufacture of hardware or woollen cloth without involving sacrifices and sufferings from which humanity shrinks back. I must, however, refer you to my answer to the Man chester Guardian, for a more minute detail of my view, which is, THAT FREE TRADE, IN ITS VERY NATURE, BEING A VIRTUAL ABANDONMENT OF THE COLONIAL SYSTEM,MUSTLOSE ENGLAND HER COLONIES, GREATLY LESSEN THE EMPLOYMENT OF HER ARTISANS, AND LEAD, BEFORE LONG, TO A NATIONAL BANKRUPTCY, AND THE OVERTHROW OF EVERY INSTITUTION IN THIS COUNTRY. I am, dear sir, your obedient humble servant, ISAAC BUCHANAN. Sir Robert and Lady Peel left their residence in White hall gardens, on Saturday afternoon, for Windsor Castle, on a visit to her Majesty. The Marquis of Salisbury, who is rod-fishing in the Teviot and Tweed near Kelso, caught an enormous sal mon. of above 401bs. weight, which the noble marquis for warded to the Duke of Wellington on Thursday. CAUTION TO BUILDERS.—On Saturday, Mr. John Griffiths appeared before Mr. Rushton to answer an in formation lodged against him for having built five houses in Napier-street, Toxteth-park, in a manner contrary to the local act. That act required that the ground floor should contain 108 superficial feet clear of the staircase. In this case the lower rooms contained only 97 feet 4 inches, superficial, on the average. It appeared, on the defence, by the evidence of the surveyor, that some of the rooms contained 112 feet, and others an average of one inch short of 108 feet; and that the latter might be altered so as to meet the provisions of the act by altering the staircases. Mr. Rushton ordered this to be done, and bound over the defendant in the sum of £5O to complete the alterations within six weeks, under the inspection of the town surveyors. INDIA. BY EXTRAORDINARY EXPRESS FROM MARSEILLES. (FROM YESTERDAY'S TIMES) The intelligence from India which we have received in anticipation of the Bombay mail of the Kith of March, confirms the important intelligence of the pacification of the Punjab. To render our relation of the events which have occurred since the date of our previous accounts more clear, it will, perhaps, be better that we should recapitulate a few of the more important particulars subsequent to the great victory at the bridge of Sobraon, which decided the fate of the Punjab. This battle, by which the Sikhs were driven across the Sutlej, took place on the 10th of February. The first division of the British army entered the Punjab on that day. On the 14th, the Governor-general was at Kussoor, where he issued a proclamation declaring the independence of that country. The alarm of the Sikh government was great ; Gholab Singh, the Wuzeer, re presented to the Queen-mother that the defeat of the Khalsa was attended with the loss of 20,000 men. He was commissioned to make terms. He sent word to the British authorities, and promised to be at Kussoor, where the Governor-general was waiting for the remainder of his army. Gholab Singh arrived four hours after his time, and was received with coldness, and was referred to the Secretary, Mr. Currie, and to Major Lawrence, the Poli tical Agent, with whom he remained in close conference until past midnight. The terms of convention prescribed to him were the cession of all the country to the east of the Beas, in addition to the provinces declared in De cember to have been confiscated ; the payment of a mil lion and a half sterling ; the surrender of all the cannon used against the British ; and the total disbanding of the 'Chaise army. Gholab Singh had another long conference on the 17th. The presence of the young King, Dhuleep Singh, was required in the British camp, which, on the 18th, advanced to within eighteen miles of Lahore. Dhuleep Singh came there, and was received without any salute. He then " expressed his contrition for the late hostile proceedings, and his acquiescence in all the terms and conditions imposed by the British Government." The Governor-general then ordered a royal salute to be fired, and issued a proclamation, that " the inhabitants of the Punjab were perfectly safe in person and property from any molestation by the British troops, and might dismiss apprehension and follow their respective callings with all confidence." On the morning of the 20thjthe British army appeared under the walls of Lahore, where no resistance was shown. Preparations were made for sending Dhuleep Singh to his palace, under an escort of the British troops. The report of Mr. Currie of the ceremony of introducing Maharajah Dhuleep Singh into his palace is highly interesting. He says, that he proceeded with eighteen officers on elephants, and several troops of cavalry, to the encampment of the Maharajah, and " on reaching the Maharajah's camp, the troops of our escort drew up, and the Maharajah, with Bhee Ram Singh on the same elephant, came forward from his tent, accompanied by several chiefs. After the usual salutations and complimentary questions and replies, I placed the Maharajah's elephant next to mine, and the troops having fallen in, as at first, proceeded round the walls of the city to the gate of the citadel. On arriving, Brigadier Cureton drew up the escort in line in front of the 'gateway, and I took the Maharajah, accompanied by the officers enumerated iu the former part of this letter, with Rajah Gholab Singh and the other chiefs, into the interior of the citadel, and to the inner door of his palace. I then observed to the Maharajah and chiefs, that by order of the Right Honourable the Governor-general, I had thus brought the Maharajah, conducted by the British army, to his palace, which his Highness had left for the purpose of tendering submission to the British Govern ment, and for placing himself, his capital, and his country, at the mercy of the Governor-general, and requesting pardon for the insult that had been offered ; and that the Governor-general had thus restored him to his palace as a mark of the favour which he desired to show to the descendants of the late Maharajah Runjeet Singh. A salute of 21 guns was then fired by the Horse Artillery. We then took leave of the Maharajah at the gate of his palace and returning to theoutside of the city we continued our pro gress roundlLahor , ,'hus returned to our camp.' They then made the entire circuit of Lahore, which was considered preferable to going through the city, as the streets, being very narrow, the progress of so large an escort would have been impeded. On the 22d the citadel of Lahore and a part of the Palace was formally taken possession of by the British authorities. On the 15th the Governor-General issued the next im portant general order to the British army. It contains the expression of thanks for the triumphant successes obtained, and orders twelve months' batta to the troops. This was accompanied by a general order from the Governor-General, which, after recapitulating the va►ious successes of the British arms, has the following :—" The Governor-General being determined, however, to mark with reprobation the perfidious character of the war, has required and will exact that every remaining piece of Sikh artillery which has been pointed against the British army during this campaign shall be surrendered. The Sikh army, whose inordinate conduct is one of the chief causes of the anarchy and misrule which have brought the Sikh state to the brink of destruction, is about to be disbanded." The Khalsa troops after their defeat at Sobraon retired towards Umritsir. Their commander, Tej Singh, was twice wounded in their last conflict, and, seeing no advan tage from further resistance, gave in. The remnant of the Khalsa army was obliged to surrender their cannon, and to disperse. The surrender of their guns was a proof of their conquest, for on them their great reliance was placed in battle. Groans and tears attended their departure from Lahore. _ The Wuzeer Gholab Singh was the chief agent, but the queen-mother wishes to promote her paramour Lall Singh to the wuzeership, and Gholab is discontented. Intrigues are busy. ' The first instalment of the money had not been paid on the Ist of March, but it was daily expected. The with drawal of the British army was to take place about the 10th. The state of the country round Lahore is described as tranquil, but there were bands of armed men prowling in the aistricts. Permission was given in the general orders of the 25th of February to the men of the 16th: Lancers and of the 31st Foot to volunteer into other corps. These regiments are to come by water to Bombay, and there to embark for Europe. Arrangements were fast making for the occupation of the conquered country, which is exceedingly fertile, and and will yield an annual revenue of £400,000. The chief town is Jullinder, with 40,000 inhabitants; Phulloor, Pug warra, and Sultanpore are also of note. The cantonments of the British will not be far distant from Lahore, so as to be able to keep down all attempts at insurrection. The news from Scinde is not of remarkable interest. Sir Charles Napier, having been fired at on going up the river Sutlej, landed at 006, and proceeded to Bhawul pore, where he landed on the 20th of February, visited the Rajah, and set out on:the 22nd for Ferozepore to join the Governor-General. The distance is 230 miles. He had not arrived at Lahore on the Ist of March. General M`Laren died of his wounds at Ferozepore. The Adju tant-General of the Bengal Army, Sir J. R. Lumley, died also at Ferozepore. The Nizam's dominions are in a state of inextricable confusion. The Governor of Bombay, Sir G. Arthur, has had a severe fit of illness, but was recovering. The native ba zaar master at Poonah had, after a trial of several months, been convicted of extortion, and sentenced to six years' imprisonment. Lord Elphinstone had reached Delhi, en route, to join the Governor-General's camp. The barks continued to pay high interest on their capi tal. The Benares Bank has declared a dividend of 10, and the Agra Bank of 142 per cent. NEW ZEALAND. We have received with our Indian dispatches, by the overland mail, advices from New Zealand and Australia, the former to the end of November, the latter to the 13th December. We gather from the local journals, that a truce had been agreed to with the hostile tribes at the Bay of Islands, preparatory to a settlement of differences ; but the intelligence from this quarter is so distorted and obscured by the partisan feelings of the New Zealand and Austrialian journalists, that it is difficult to get at the real truth. THE WORKMEN'S STRIKE.-At the Police Court, yes terday, a Mr. Jones, a master joiner, brousht before Mr. Rushton the case of one of his workmen of the same name, who had, in going to his work under the Mount, on the same morning, been shouted at, without provocation, by a workman who had left the same employ, with cries of " Bah ! There goes a black sheep !" &c., which was considered by the complaining parties to amount to a threat. No violence was, however, offered. Mr. Rushton said that such conduct was extremely improper. Hitherto the turn-outs had (with one exception that had come under his notice) conducted themselves in a peaceable manner. He ordered a warrant to be issued for the de linquent, adding that it should be well understood, that, apart from any difference between the masters and their men, the law would and must protect any one of the latter in pursuing his vocation without annoyance, at whatever amount of wages he chose to accept. COOPERS' STRIKE.—We regret now to have to in clude this industrious body of operatives amongst those who are at issue with their employers. The number of them at present ordinarily engaged in Liverpool is, we find, about 400 ; and we are informed that about nine tenths of them work piece work , by which they are able to earn about 425. per week. For some time it a pp ears that considerable dissatisfaction has prevail e d amongs t them, upon the subject of their wages or the conditions of their employment; and this dissatisfaction has at length resulted in a strike. It cannot be too much de plored that this step should have been resorted to. Such wages as 425., for even the hard work of the artizan, will generally be . considered liberal as compared with those of other traoes ; and we would really urge upon our fellow-townsmen, the coopers of Liverpool, to reconsider the step they have take n, and to ma k e an effort to come to a reconciliation with the masters. They will by doing so be far better consulting their own interests and those of their families, than, by persevering in their present unadvised course, d r i v i ng th e tra d e to ot h er an d c h ea p er localities, or causing the introduction of other work men into the town to compete with them for bread. We trust that the masters, too, will meet such an attempt, if made, in a proper spirit. Already several orders, which would have been executed in thi s town, have been sent to Scot land, and it is only reasonable to suppose that unless some arrangement is speedily come to, the journeymen coopers in this town will continue to lose in this way their means of employment. The average wages of a coo per in Scotland are, we are informed, only 16s. per week. A few days ago a man sold his wife in the market-place at Apt (Vaucluse), for four years, receiving .100 f. for the bargain. April 21, 1846. GOVERNESSES' BENEVOLENT INSTITUTION. (Continuation from page 5.) - - - - with irresistible impulse. Man entered into society, or sought retirement according to his taste; arts and sciences were cultivated to minister to his enjoyment ; the honours, dis' tinctions .-moluments, o gnities of society, were all channels through which unceasing efforts were made to procure enjoY ment. All classes of the community, the great and the mean , the educated and the ignorant, the rich and the poor, from the sovereign on the throne, to the mechanic in the workshop, Oa the labourer in the field—all were pursuing after enjoymen t ' (Hear, hear.) Now he had a proposal to make to the meeting , and if adopted it would be a source of enjoyment to alt present. It was a gratifying proposal to make, and if he succeeded i n , carrying it, he should contribute to the enjoyment of each 01 them It would afford a higher sense of enjoyment than he could give, and place a higher value upon all their pro' perty. He said this upon the very highest authoritfr upon the authority of Him who said, It is more blessed to give than to receive." (Cheers.) His proposal therefore wag' that they should all give. (Loud cheers). The motion was seconded by Mr. CHARLES INMAN, an d unanimously adopted. Thanks were then voted to the chairman, and the meeting separated. LATEST INTELLIGENCE. (BY EXPRESS.) LONDON CORN EXCHAN3E.-YESTERDAY. The supply of English wheat by land carriage samples tb' s morning was moderate, and fine qualitie s b e i ng in request cora' mantled an advance of Is. per quarter; free foreign meta re' tail demand, and bonded were taken by the millers in the same manner, at its free value, less the duty. Beans and Peas stlP° port their former value. The Oat trade improves, and enables factors to realize 6d. to is. more than this day se'unight. SMITHFIELD CATTLE MARKET.—YesTEnDAY. From our own grazing districts the arrivals of beasts fresh up to day were on the increase, an of inferior quality. at though the attendance of both town Mbd country buyers sel" numerous, and the beef trade was in a very sluggish state! However, the primest lots, &c., was most'y disposed of at last week's prices; but most other breeds suffered a decline of 2d.• per 8 lbs., and much difficulty was experienced in effecting a demand. The numbers of sheep were again on the increase, and unusually prime duality, yet the mutton trr.de was compara tively steady, and previous rates were supported in every stance. From the Isle of White 50 lambs came to hand per railwai , while the arrivals of that description of stock from other quart' ers were moderate. The lamb trade was steady, at last MOW day's currencies. Calves were in short supply and sluggish inquiry, yet price§ were supported. In pigs very little was doing above quotations. THE TURN-OUT IN THE BUILDING TRADE. This stake still continues, nor is there any appearance of its termination. But it is not confined to this town and neighbourhood, for it extends to Manchester, Brad ford, Sheffield, Birmingham, and other places, in all of which the builders and their workmen are at issue. The men who are employed have to contribute very largely towards the support of those who are standin g out, an men have been engaged during the week distributing papers and soliciting subscriptions, not only from house: keepers, shopkeepers, and others, but also from person s in the streets. The latter class of solicitors are g eneral' , the labourers. By a letter which is published in another column, it will be seen that the unions hove absolute control over men who are hundreds of miles distant, an d that masons have been prohibited coming from Aberdeen to set the columns at the New Assize Courts. All the avenues of the town—the railway station, the dock gags' and the pierheads—are closely watched, lest stranger' should come here in search of employment ; and picquel are set who keep watch upon all the principal builders establishments, so as to prevent, if possible, any ras n from entering. Yet, in spite of these precautions, marl; of the large employers are procuring hands, and ever' day brings an accession. It seems to be pretty we known, that but for the terror of the trades' u nions , the great majority of the workmen would gladly re" sume their work ; and it is lamentable that, during this struggle, buildings are standing still in every dire' tion, not merely in Liverpool, but i n var i ous p ar t s of the country. The men object to quit the unions, an d tb masters say that they have no security in undertakin i g o contracts so long as their men are influenced by the le' ers of these combinations. of A startling fact appears in the letter of the P r e s ident the order of Forresters which is published in another co' lumn, viz. :—that more than one million of adult men are enrolled in secret benefit societies in this country. 44.° address has been widely disseminated amongst the worlri ins classes, calling on them to preserve their rights, 8 , 1 ,' this bears the signature of Tho mas S. D uncom b e , r'r President. In fact, although the Master Builders in Lancashire s°, other places are the first to feel th e e ff ec t s o f th e brad"" Unions, it is evident that a wide spread organisation 0 1 ; ists throughout the country, and if th e mas t er t ia destneg in this locality shrink from the struggle the !demands 5 the millions ill spread like wild fire throughout the 104 and general confusion will be the result ; or otherwise price of labour must be so much advanced that the of fects will soon be apparent in Railway calls, and monets" difficulties will ensue. In Ireland, as we find by the Irish papers—one lAci tion of the peasantry are stated to be i n wan t o f food--et' a the stone masons are discontented with 4s. 6d. a day, an have actually struck for ss. a day. We fear that a% advice which we may tender will be thrown away, for in excitement of a turn out few men will listen to reaso n- Combinations seem at present to be the order of the a s tn " and we much fear that they will be carried so fat a e ruin trade. They have already laid a very heavy tax 11P° — the operatives themselves, and we fe ar th a t t h ey ere pre ° paring much subsequent distress for the workmen CO' gaged in them. The masons are still the most determined in standil i g out, but it appears, by facts that have come within Or t r , knowledge, that their obstinacy will render them great loosers than the masters, who are willing to employ tu` a , on reasonable terms. As a proof of this, we may I:n ° .4 tion that the principal engineer on the Liverpool a le Bury Line, has struck out, (or dispensed with,) the f ile,' of the masonry of the foundations of the bridges, of on the line, and the quoins of the piers, purposing, j o substitute concrete, (a mixture of lime and pebblesil t ho place of the intended stone-work fixed upon le t t he original plans. In fact, about three-fourths te j f masonary that would have otherwise been eXe i c u .,4 is to be dispensed with. In Ireland, too, the uv o sO contracts taken by Mr. M'Cormick o n man y railoo are, for the same season and necessity, t o b e reducer& cost to the contractor by the adoption of similar triens'br The men in the employment of this ge n tle m an had , , 0 1 fore he engaged them, only 3 s . 6d. a day. He Ow their wages to 4s. and they have now " struck" for ss• 0 i4 stead, therefore, of turni ng th e arc h es o f t h e b r idge d to stone-work, as was int en d e d, it h as b een d eterm ine , " use iron beams of cas t-i ron. to prevent r e l ay i n the c 01 pletion of the work. It should be added, that 0 %, of the architect s th roug h ou t t h e emp i re are recluc ri d, or doing aw a y w i t h, a grea t amount o f the InaSetbal being of opini on th a t th e d eman d s o f t h e workmen'''. al' department are most unreasonable. The s rike ha s the ready prevented many parties from building who bad 601 intention, but have abandoned the id ea f or the PI tbe season. The masters had a meeting yesterday, an the/ general feeling was that a crisis had arrived w hen must protect their interest to the utmost. ROBBERY OF LODGERS.—At the Police-court, YB s btl day, a married woman, named Maria Stevenson, anios daughter, a good-looking girl, were charged with r t iolf taken some articles of clothing from the chests c, of lodgers, and pledged them. The value of the c .l° ,, e rtj found was £1 75., but pawn tickets for similar pr o ` were found in the house, to the amount of aboo t : ,., tb• The girl, who had been made a mere instrument R jjotli pledging, was discharged. The mother was fined in ar ble the amount of the clothes pledged or to be inlP"s -one month. eft: FOUR GENERATIOISIS UNDER ONE ,The t family residing at Shardlow, nearly Derby, coroprisulbeff following individuals : a boy, 6 years old • his r f ° 9 o ' aged 30; grandmother, 50; and great-grandmothe LIVERPOOL CATTLE MARKET, API"' ~tio The supply of cattle at market to-day has Leen stfl A iioc e last week, which met with dull sale, at a shade of al p er price from our last quotations. B ee f, saa to 61' Mutton, 7d to lid. ST i D POTATO AIA.It it 0, 1846. LIVERPOOL HAY AN r. i, APRIL 21 s. d. 5. d. s. d' 6 i i Nay, old 2‘'lb 0 7@o 11 !Potatoes, r solb• 60 - Clover 0 6 508 Kemps Vetches ! 10 ' . :; 1 11 0 0— 0 0 Short Tops .• ' g 4 n Grass Straw, Wheat... 0 31— 0 4 Pink Eycs.••• ~ 3 l7 ' !o 0 . Oat ... ... 0 3 0 2} Cattle ...... i 0 9 Barley Carrots 2B 0 —3O 0 !Manure ...... , e 0 LIVERPOOL COTTON MARKET, ii- p , 1 :1005 ti The great demand experienced th roug h ou t the we e b oe, o ; e• perieuccd again tc-day, and th e sa l es Teac h 70u° if of them on speculation, and the tone of the market healthy, with rather more stirring than last week. TELEGRAPH OFFICE, APRIL ,daW4il' Wind at Holyhead, East, light breeze, all eltlY., 4, ~g, ,- Off Point Lynas, at 2 p.m., (have pilots,) No. /V, 4 ,, I , • ) te' ship; No. yus.i, Ocean Bride, barque, 4 p.m• , f r ote'„ip, _Jr licte, ship, at 6 p.m. (have not telegraphed where t o, 6. 0 0 Y. 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