The Northern Daily Times. — Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1856-11-19 00:00:00

SIR JOHN PAKINGTON'S LECTURE, TFIE MANCHESTER ATHENIEUM, UPON NATIONAL EDUCATION (PROM OUR REPORTER.) ell'e,7 J °ho Pakington delivered a lecture in the Man. sa%;e! Athenmum last night, upon the subject of national Itea 4 ‘ l ° ll . The lecture took place in the library of the the itial o ,. p,, o• At half-past seven the doors were opened, and eigh"" e 'u was soon filled by a numerous audience. At 0 % ttt„oclock Sir John Pakington made his appearance ei,ete'd Platform, accompanied by several m .t _ zens With the institution, and other influential et i , ttic e „ l4 ,_ greeted with loud applause. The chair was then . ~tist i" 0 3 . Sir Elkanah Armitage, president of the institu •. , Alleir C hirMan in a few words introduced the subject of ,Bfr L ing, and the ri g ht h onoura bl e l ecturer. :Nitar"°°ll Pakington came forward, and w as rec e i ve d 1 4 'eneived applause. He said : Mr. P res id en t, l a di es ts% rektitlemen, when the directors o f thi s i ns tit u ti on did tisl,,,..' e ,henour to invite me to come here, to state the sai n w nich I entertain, with respect to the present el;"°Of the great question of national education, I felt Ivlit e i t e ,TY duty, upon public grounds, to accede to the wish ions L ueY were so good as to express. And now, with iso,4)ermission, before I touch upon any other subje9t, ta tt; " a desire to express the deep sense which I entertain, il tp g as I do personally a stranger among you, of the bey::lde kindness, the cordiality, and the hospitality, *hit, ~anYthing to which I had the slightest Flaim, with Op % I have been received. I assure you it has made tiklaoY mind a deep impression, and I most heartily s k ; , k all from whom I he, - ve received this kindness. I toll w ell a ware, Mr. President, how little worthy I am to AYou°6°Pon this platfrerm the able and eminent men whom ir e :" invited fieilia time to time, with a truly liberal Pearrtd_ of ever - fthing like party consideration . s—(hear, Itigs, mil adorn by their eloquence your periodical meet. i ket uber as ,„s by their wisdom your intelligpt 'bat evi, tiat, sir, lam encouraged by the consideration 4 " ' ll i f I had ' the power to do so, I should e io ' sir e LclUence Whir wish upon this question to rival the e; fo r h they have displayed. I have come other ob'ects I have come here as a L °1 4%,„, s uPPorter 3 of ' a cause which trusts not tll „ - ' o quenee of Its advocates, but to the power of its Zee ,: 41 1(1 the magnitude of its interests. (Hear, hear, u ea%Plause.) .1 do not speak to charm you with the byte' Z s of Practical language or historical illustration. I D ir ,, e re to appeala simple phrases will best suit LSNi t - Pose lame to appeal to your hearts, to your 4' to Your judgments, and to your common sense l et he L,ar)—and to ask you how we can best promote an teat an concerns more closely and intimately than ),`,ii * k rtY other, the character, the happiness, and the otoelfare of the labouring man. (Applause.) I came ' 4 e l% ask our assistance to enable every citizen of / ' ll l 4110 cultivate Leh e _ . the powers of reason and of intellect Nail onstitute God's best and most precious gift to the nter hi r t acc, and for the use of which we ought to he i"rte . ",,,'''''re, and we shall have to be responsible here **, (Cheers. I doubt, sir, whether many persons are t sZiOts•;,„_ lt he immense numerical proportion of our fellow -4 I tatt r n Whniare interested in the question of national 0r.... 1 ! . , I doubt whether it Is generally known that 4 Ve.:l;;nteen millions of the population of England tiglai4es, those who possess an income fro m an y source , bee i. tY, or from the wages of lab our , accor di ng t o eas, in formation which is open to us, and accessible el* i ',;1 10 Persons who possess an income of .4'loo kh,,ili t rinineards of £lOO a year, are less, I believe, tot 4,„ - ,ft million I believe the real number to be fanZeuuo. But, t take them at half a million, and *Zul s ,'Y for the ' usual average of five persons to a 10,; ,„ere will remain fifteen and a-half millions of - a m en, kN„_t t e Ztten, and children, in England, who are depen *:olak-"'"0 an income of less than £lOO per year. Now, lt*B Y ° U will agree w ith me, t h at every man whose :Lare less than £lOO a year, nrast look to the means ail% arid good education . f'.. - ,r his children, as among Vesti e _aY necessaries of life. Ido not say a secondary 4% th ,,v , but I say one of the primary necessities of life. t iot ir,,.. 4, surely it follows, therefore, that the question t t „,_ . m.oted, directly speaking, to the poor, or to the Qble t i „ 410, n. We have all heard, at least all who have Visit„‘ t letnselves about the question, very . much of the s it ': ter_ Which exists, of better middle schools. 40);,_the,'T there are, are bad. The tradesman . Vo s. l Ornter pay dear for a very bad article,. and if our t4",`,44 3 rein of England were what it ought to be, 1 % ',414 3 '; being exactly the reverse, there would be, in the 4„,,mp opinion, or there might to be, in every . small lii`„elia,j` in every village in England, schools in which at o cosa bh " t en of the small tradesman and the small farmer, Vtlael l i with the children of the labourer, should learn h _ ot tve the blessings of elementary instruction. It is 114andr countries, and why should it not be so in tte,,itaa. (Rear, hear.) 'Well, gentlemen, there is the 110cia 'of the question. Let me now turn to its 4 0 t,e e i nd its prospects—and where can this be done k v len a or more appropriately than here in the VrY a l - 4 -4 or Manchester ? Not long ago, in addressing oto,lge assemblage in another great city, I took ill'„ l keab" l nsay that which which perhaps is more justly ti t ‘th e " 0 Manchester than it is to any other place— bos% no charities and the splendid institutions of ‘4lf y lP'e,.. at centres of British industry are a most rti Oft at Proof of the soundness of our national character tlks' tk r u anefulness of our national prosperity. (Cheers.) er i t , th ~, of the instituti o n s of Manch es t er , m y belief . is . • hieeki,,, l , B none more entitled to respect, more entitled tit24,,'"on than this Athenmutn, the advantages of I) .th e. ( tat as they are, are not limited to this your own kitlitimpar, hear.) Upon the external walls of this k,vtlea.4B,nescribed the motto " For the difiusion of re, t t e , ' and I understand that this institution is the 1 41 111 00 -e ( Ni de, the metropolitan institution of no less 14 1 4ti li O thers in this wonderful district, in all of which ort„N th ts the manufacturer, the tradesman, the artisan, 01i,, , 1 % ,",,ine the acquisition of knowledge with the relief ktZi - t "„` 4 may seek virtuous recreation in the pleasures SAN, %,", r e and in the study of tho3e great truths of S 'lie ,„,""ieb, studied aright, promote the glory of God Nl9ll,chlders of his works. With such advantages, I ~1 1 1Qbai;e t fould I appeal more fitly in the cause of educa 'lt, r E ,,,,, ° You who derive these advantages and enjoy Nl'? t r i ," ur ees because you have yourselves been edu tiktll, w hom ' could I appeal with greater confidence for there with regard to those thousands who are around S thl tlie,,'„ lk nd around us all everywhere, who are debarred , ;114 1.4„---, Pleasures, and who are debarred from those 11 % 1 1' 1 4a - ht .' Zecause they have been themselves neglected L I VII att. (Hear, hear.) I beg, then, to ask of you, ZO* he, Ai, anchester for the influence of your just and NiktfaVu weight in support of the cause of public Zai l otc,. That cause stands at this moment in a critical ‘a tt ho t 'ud it needs the support of public opinion. the I N "to e l l er nind you, gentlemen, that in the course of . t moL l itib j ',Zate the question of national education has been ' e l 4. -- „ b of r peated and protracted debates in the 74,,,,_1:yrr.rrli,amee-nt. L of a o st ne year the year 1855, I felt it y , our own members, Mr. ne Qgt : and ( so did ..,Nees.' °o cheers)—he and I were two members of isikabiLof Conamons who felt it to be their duty to ~` taZtle ti ' , i to parliament upon the subject of national goainbs . - myself proposed a bill which embodied what Vs a ,:uight possibly be adopted hereafter, at . all i L u ll' - 7 mode of settling the question. iNt lll ' 4 ' 1., - " O P n r e o Proposed led to considerable debate, Neloo division. p In the session of parliment 4 olki, 4 ,t10 1 ,;' , Lord John Russell proposed a series of 14 44. with the same object. The principle of . Lord I%etiwtell's resolutions, and that of the bill which I 141Pose.°cur of proposing in the preceding session, o d Iltially the same ; but it it is not my intention Nefa e i t h a ln you by entering into any of the details 'V to ,i" anY of these roposals. I wish, on the other Itatirtewevote the time which p your kindness has placed I ; t thtlv P°B al, to an object which I consider to be of akiesi;,, greater importance. I wish to avail myself k tte:s*Caoion to draw your attention, and perhaps I :Y4Nit tt iot t ",, t ,,e to add that I hope and wish to draw the ti 14 '',',„the public, to the issue which . was fairly 1 4 ,e(), ,Lne course of the debates, to which . I have 4ilair re b etween those who think that we do impera 114H *ll l ' i tre extended means of national education, and ~,,_ , I ), do not. It has at length been broadly con -11 #l /4 ,l l ll''' has been contended by statesmen of eminence I onse of Commons; it has been in cor t t e r ir de p d uh ty . h, (3 f great and known ability N kt,ltti tp g , i t d more especially in two pamphlets, which '4 .ervedlv attracted a gr( at attention .! , p i aN i k e r il amPhlet of Mr. Baines, of Leeds, and k lt a. , the head of the Homerton College. (I 4 4 1t -le ir , as being two gentlemen most conspicuous 't t% Yam t k !kt% th eir opg those who have resorted to the Press to t k 3 , . % ,„ views.) It has by those . persons been at . last L 'ikt of„` L teucled that no change is now necessary in the 14 I N '"lncation in this country. It has been contended l b h 4 t t hti ", n going on perfectly well, and ought to be 14 41 1 1 ' 4 : : w s are. It has been further contended by the le eathles that if we resort to any means of extending `a "t'eati in ofsupplying deficiencies from It lire lie futon the way iii!ll ~o.o* , f ° ,o d , that that plan would be too not 4"kt s t ,,Ttitl,',L - rY, and that the country cou afford it. &Otrea ab gien, I need not remind you that that argil klter,ed, and that the resolotions proposed in the 4 1 4% - h e rai a " r tnori s by Lord John Russell, were rejected a,„ .'liti t elele majority. Before the last session L koa sio t ha t I t n f P a a p r : a ,'took .. an opportunity of expressing my bZeita, that division would be greatly . misunder- V. ee t ,, h e f e t,, c ' un trY, and that it would excite great alarm kt , seL s etir u , r nde of public education, Those fears have tk t ' i k„ ll 47' 4 I find the friends of extended means of 11 S "dy ressed. I find those whom I confess, however vt , ea it 4 lt obliged to consider as the opponents of N t e ll ~Npae c atl on, elated. (Hear, hear.) I cannot . take el, 1) ) ,° 1 `to 'er without reading speeches and writings e,Q4,l l , t ila,t P d r "e that an extensive impression prevails, tf l ito ''e Of ' v ision in the House of Commons last year, •i',l l 'S ' a,, l hevt'°Pular education has been thrown back for P"Ps ", th e S een an address which most strongly shows et,s:tiebieethelose, with your permission, I select it as an oi l kes e ins e .,_4 been written by a very able and a very Ik itll l 2 krA ue t: of the House of Commons, well know . n ' s l,e sPts use'rig• Mr. Laing, in an address to his ksiga oh "‘ e',s this langua e " Public opinion and the VA ) ; ls'igai,, n ' e ns, by an immense g majority, decided not Sti t C` t4Vit these particular resolutions, faulty as `lt; e ot or tn -r w ere (he is, of course, gentlemen, ‘Oy s tilt t ile ' e i rcl John Russell's resolutions), as S iti N litt lues Pr 'neiPle of attempting, under existing 1,0404 % ~ to le supersede local and private efforts by s l tio it tl k, Il p o °P ° l and centralised system of national tl 5 te%, 18 Dr P the next ten or twenty years, this Cil l t t t ed ae ticall •e , or - t!ca te _ y decided, that.if we want education . , kti l lr, 4. ' N. ourselves. and not trust to the State to 4 lo a ' t 4 r, attc(i'w., gentlemen, I protest against that idea. 41144 cheers.) I protest against the idea that elligible division in an expiring House of NORTHERN TIMES.---LIVERPOOL, WEDNESDAY. Commons, shall settle a great question affecting the vital interests of the people for twenty years. (Hear, hear.) Twenty years I no, not for twenty) months, if public opinion demands its revival. (Cheers.) I can only explain this language on the part of such a man as Mr. Laing, by the recollection on my own pa r t, a n d b y reminding you that Mr. Laing is a Scotchman, and was writing a letter to Scotchmen; and, gentlemen, I am very sorry to say that I can well understand any Scotchman, regarding with something like contempt the state of public education in England, where we are struggling, and struggling in vain, to obtain a system of national educe.• tion, similar in its principles to that which Scotland has enjoyed to the great advantage of her national character for the last two hundred years. (Hear, hear, and cheers.) In the very able speech with which Lord John Russell introduced his resolutions last March, I remember he stated that, when he was residing in Scotland some two or three years before, he asked the minister of his parish how many children were i n the parish who had not received any education. " Why, my lord," said the minister, " there is not a child in the parish of seven years old who cannot read well." Now is there any one parish in England in which we can say that ? (Hear, hear.) There may be—l will not say there is not—but I may say, without hesitation, in the face of this great assembly, that I very strongly doubt it. (Hear, hear.) But, gentlemen, although I refuse to admit, although altogether refuse to admit that that division has settled the question, or that it can bo held to have settled even for a time this Great and most important question; at the same time, I fiamkly admit, I frankly avow, and I think it would be disingenous to deny it, that the lan guage and the views to which I have adverted were held not only by men of high station, but by men, beyond all doubt, of great ability, of high character, and of the most honourable motives. (Hear, hear.) And, therefore, I say that when, in discussing before the public of this great kingdom questions of such Magnitude and impor tance, any man finds that his views are not only contra vened, but are contravened by persons whose opinions are entitled to gttat weight and great authority, it does undoubtedly become him gravely to reconsider the conclusions at which he has arrired. And I beg to say upon my own part that I have done this. I have seriously reconsidered the whole of the ques tion. I have seriously considered the arguments put forth in the great debate of last session. To the best of my humble judgment, after considering the arguments advanced, both in speeches and in writings, I can arrive only at the conclusion, that the views put forth in those speeches and in those writings, are erroneonq, mistaken, and unsound. (Hear, hear, and cheers.) The question then, now before the country, is simply on which side the truth lies. The question must be decided by the trut h• The question is, whether for the interests of the people of England we do stand in need of extended means of edu cation, or whether we do not. Now, I must remark that, happily the language held in the speeches and writings is perfectly plain. There is no ambiguity—there is no possibility of mistake. What does Sir James Graham tsay in his speech—a very able speech. indeed, which produced a great impression upon the House of Commons ? He says :—" My first objection to the proposal is, that it is unnecessary," Now, gentlemen, you will here see that he is not entering into the merits of Lord John Russell's proposal—he is not entering into the question of whether that plan is a good or bad plan. lie says broadly the whole thing is unnecessary, do not touch it. " I contend in the strongest maner," continues Sir James Graham, " that there is no country in Europe in which the progress of education during the last twenty-five years has been so rapid and so satisfactory as it has been in England." There, then, we have the broad issue fairly raised. What does Mr. Baines, of Leeds, another very high authority, say ? He says—" Objection, six. The measure is perfectly unnecessary. We possess official evidence of the great fact of the rapid and steady progress of education during the whole of the present century." Mr. Unwin does not lay it down in terms quite so dogmatic ; but Mr. Unwin, in common with many other men of ability who spoke in debate, or have written upon the subject, holds in substance the same opinions. Well, gentlemen, these speakers and these writers of course felt that whatever their talents, whatever their ability, whatever their position, nothing could justify such language as this in the face of the facts which have been repeatedly submitted to the country, unless their views were supported by some thing like proof. Consequently they have given us their proof, and what is it ? I would not for a moment exaggerate what they have said, but after studying their speeches and writings I find that they rely upon one single fact—that by the census of 1851 it appears that the proportion of persons who were going to school had risen up to one in 81. That is the single fact. It was much lower at the last estimate which was taken —I think nearly twenty years ago. There has been un doubtedly a great increase in the number ; and upon that single fact they mainly rely. Now, let me ask you what it is they omit?—and I believe I am right ; I am speaking now of the voluminous speeches, and extensive writings, and I believe I am right when I say that if you search those speeches and those pamphlets from end to end, you will find nowhere any reference whatever to the quality of the schools to which the people go. (Hear.) Now, in the first place. I say that the number—namely, their boasted one in Bi—is inferior to other countries, is insufficient, and is unsatisfactory. (Hear, hear.) But I deny altogether that this is solely, or even mainly, a ques tion of numbers. I say the numbers become compara tively immaterial, if the schools to which the numbers go are not worth having. (Hear, hear.) Now. I challenge that issue—l do it broadly, I do it fairly. If I tun wrong, let me be convinced ; but let me be convinced by legiti mate and good evidence—and I say the question is only evaded by those who urge that our condition is satisfactory, because we have a certain number of persons going to school. The question I ask is this—from the Tweed to the Land's End, are the schools of England what they ought to be? Where they are good—and no doubt there are many very . good—have we any security whatever for their permanent continuance as good schools ? And what is the prospect, if the present system continue, of their progressive improvement ? But some of the gentlemen who put forward this language have no': been contented with saying that all the plans we proposed are very bad, but some of them have gone a step further, and proposed plans of their own. Mr. Unwin has done so ; and I may remark that I know not, as a stranger, whom I may be addressing here—l may be addressing friends of Mr. Baines, or friends of Mr. Unwin —at all events, I may be addressing those who sympathise with their views—and if so, I hope it will be hardly con sidered necessary that I should disclaim anything like personal disrespect for these gentlemen. (Hear, hear.) They are gentlemen of high and of just reputation. Mr. Baines is a name known in every corner of this country. While I defend the cause which, I believe that of truth, and while speaking, as I am bound to do, with frankness and sincerity on the subject, I challenge their views, and dissent from their conclusions. I respect most sincerely their abilities, and the sincerity of purpose which I know they possess. (Hear, hear.) Sir John Pakington then read an extract from Mr. Unwin's pam phlet, in which the writer maintained that national• educa tion ought to be the work of the people themselves, since the training of children is the essential duty of parents, and that the true object of education would be defeated if on the one hand parties were compelled to educate their offspring, or on the other hand could succeed in compelling their fellow-citizens to educate them. The lecturer asked who had ever deemed that it was the duty of parents to educate their children ? Did Mr. Unwin think that questions of that magnitude, .and, unhappily, of that complication, were to be settled by truisms like that? But the tables published in the reports of the committee of the council on education would show that, under even the present system, this principle was not carried out to the degree of leaving to each individual the charge of paying for the education of his children. Of the children in schools visited by her Majesty's inspectors about 75 per cent paid no more than 2d per week for their education (35 per cent paying Id, and 40 per cent 2d), the remaining 25 per cent paid 3d,. 4d, or perhaps more. But education in that country cost an average of at least 5d or 6d per week. Therefore, although it was the abstract duty of the working classes to educate their children, as well as of all other classes; this demon strated that they were not called on to pay more than one sixth, or at most one-third, of the cost of their children's education. Mr. Baines's argument, that to establish such systems of education, would take away the merit and honour of spontaneous chat - lay, and would be indeed a violation of liberty, Sir John Pakington contended would equally apply to the establishment of workhouses, or of courts of law and prison systems. He cited the opinions of several school inspectors, to prove that only 50 per cent of the schools they inspected, were in a satisfactory con dition. To prove the generally defective state of education in the towns and country parts of England, he quoted the opinions of Dr. McKerrow, of Mr. Tufnel, inspector of the London district, the Dean of Hereford, Rev. Mr. Vaughan, of Bath, Rev. Mr. Clay, of Preston (to whom, in passing, he paid a high tribute), Rev. P. O'Leary, Dr. Guthrie, of Edinburgh, and several other authorities. In the course of his remarks, he stated that two or three days ago he had received a letter from Chatham asking him to subscribe to get up a school, as there were no schools there. He had no hesitation in saying that he sent an indignant refusal. He thought it monstrous that in a town like Chatham, the seat of a garrison, where Government had an arsenal and enormous establishments, they could not establish a school without going begging to Worcestershire country gentleman. (Hear, hear.) It was perfectly monstrous, and it was time to put an end to such a system as that. (Hear, hear, and cheers.) Sir John Pakington paid a high tribute to the exertions of th e c l er gy of all denominations in establishing schools, declaring that for one school founded by a landed proprietor 50 was established by clergymen. He urged that the arg u ment against the e xpense of a national school was contemptuously dis proved by the increase in the prosperity and diminution of the taxes of the country. In 1815, the income tax was 10 per cent ; in 1855, only 6a. The amount raised in 1815 was £13,640,000, and in 1855, £1: . 3,718,000. Th e d ec l are d rates £51,898,000. ; in 1855, with value of the exports of The i poor f9oEonglandnlBls- In 1855, it was all that vast increase of wealth, was less by £200,000 th an in 1815. He contrasted the manner in which the legislature of the United States, and of our colony of Upper Canada, viewed this question. He expressed a hope that before long they would have a responsible Minister of Education in the House of Commons, to answer for the state of public instruction. Refer r i n g to what was called the religious diffi culty, he contended that that difficulty was not insuperable. Every child should be properly instructed in the first and greatest branch of knowledge, but they must adhere most strictly and rigidly t o th e pr i nc i p l e o f per f ec t toleration, so that no violence should be done to the religious belief of any denomination of Christians, (Applause.) Provid e d these two conditions were strictly and securely guarded, he confessed that ho was himself disposed to adopt any system which would be generally acceptable, and likely to procure general public support. He reminded the meeting how many other great questions—Catholic Emancipation, Parliamentary Reform, Pree Trade, and others, presented great difficulties, but yet were settled ; and in like manner, he declared, would this great question, too, be settled. To secure its adoption, however, he urged that it was imperatively necessary a Government should take it up, and expressed his conviction that the minister who did so would deserve the gratitude of the natbn, an.l that the goof sense of the Parliament would secure his 611CCe 4 F. Sir John Pakington then, w ith an eloquent per o ra , ion, closed a lecture which occupied two hours in delivery, and resumed his seat amid loud applause. A vote of thanks to the rifeit hon. lecturer, closed the proceedings siortly after ten o'clock. To-day, Sir John Pakington will visit some of the prin• &pal public educational institutions of Manchester. He is expected to be present at a ball in the Free-Trade Hall, at night. We understand that tha directors of the J therm= have been enabled to arrange for a series of lectures, at intervals, from some of the most eminent men in the country. Among those who are spoken of as to deliver lectures, at early periods, are—Lord Stanley, Mr. W. M. Thackeray, Judge llaliburton (Sam Slick), and Sir Robert Peel. ANOTHER FRAUD DISCOVERED OF SEVERAL THOUSANDS OF POUNDS. During the past week an extensive fraud has been dis covered in the establishment of Messrs. Bunnett and Corpe, the eminent engineers of New Cross-road, Dept ford, committed by John William Stuart, their foreman and managing man. It appears that for the last eighteen years Stuart has enjoyed the full confidence of his employers, but owing to some suspicion having been excited in the mind of Mr. Stout, the head clerk of the firm, a rigid scrutiny of accounts took place, when some inefficient rendering appearing in the •time" account, Stuart was sent for, who said there was a mistake, which he would immediately rectify with the men. He had no communication with either of the men, but shortly after wards returned, saying he had made it all right, and altered the book. This led to a further search, which resulted in the discovery of fraud to the amount of several thousands of pounds, and the absconding of Stuart. With respect to the method by which Stuart had carried on his fraul for so long a period, it appears that he had made false and ficticious time entries, paying the men from a private list, with stoppages for lost time, but himself charging the full amount. He had also been receiving from ss. to 10s. a week for each engineer's wages more than he had paid over to them, and 2s. a week each in like manner for the labourers. As far as has at present been ascertained this system has been carried o n between twelve and thirteen years, during which period his weekly salary of X. 3 10s. must have amounted to £lO, there b -ing employed upon the premises between two and three hundred men. Stuart had also been in the habit of employing the men and material of the firm in the con struction of lathes, &c., and disposing of them for his own individual benefit. The most heartless portion of the fraud, however, is the receipt by Stuart of a sovereign from Mr. Bunnet for an injured carman, which was never paid over. A search warrant having been obtained, the police proceeded to Stuart's residence, 4, Arnersham-road, New-cross, and brought. away half a cart load of property (recognised by Mr. Bunnett as belonging to him), consist ing of house chandeliers, gas lamps, corrugated iron ornamental articles (including two aquaria, well stocked with fish), manufactured from the material of his employers, with which the house was decorated. Messrs. Bunnett and Corps cannot tell the precise amount of the defalcations, but they at present reach several thousand pounds. EXTRAORDINARY SCENE AT ST. PAUL'S, KNIGHTSBRIDGE. On Sunday morning, during the performance of Divine service at this now notorious church, the fog having rendered the uie of lights necessary, the candles at the desks of the clergy and choir were lighted. Shortly after the commencement of the Litany, Mr. Westerton, one of the churchwardens, directed the beadle to light the gas burners in the church, so that no difficulty might be felt by Mr. Liddell and his curates when they had to perform that part of the Communion service which precede the sermon. While this was being done, and the prayers following the Litany were being monotoned, Mr. Liddell, although ostensibly engaged at his devotions and on his knees in the chancel, ordered the beadle to light the great candles on the altar. It will be remembered that these candles form a portion of the furniture attached to the ceremonial at this church, for which the long-delayed iudgment of Sir John Dodson is looked for in the Arches Court. The beadle having lighted them returned to the other end of the church, and when asked by Mr. Wester ton why he had done so, he replied that Mr. Liddell had ordered him to light them. The practice of having huge candles on the altar is one of the many Puseyite imitations of the Romish ceremonial which has given such offence to the Protestant portion of the parishioners ; and so loudly were they denounced that the late Bishop of London, with that love of compromi e which seems inherent in so many of the authorities of the Church of England, and is so fatal to her best interests, although he objected to them, per mitted them to remain, but forbade Mr. Liddell to light them. Mr. Westerton now telt himself called on to act ; there was not the slightest pretext on the score of dark ness for using these candles, the gas burners he had ordered to be lighted being sufficient for the whole of the church. Ho therefore left his pow, went up the nave, ascended the chancel steps, and, passing by Mr. Liddell, entered the vestry, re—appearing with the extinguisher. Going within the dwarf screen raised for its protection from the unsanctified feet of the laity, he reached the altar and extinguished its monstre lights. Returning the extinguisher to the vestry he then retired to his pew, having done it so quickly and so quietly that not the slightest interruption was caused to the performance of the service. When Mr. Liddell and Messrs. Smith and Westall, his curates, got up at the end of the Morning Prayer to form their usual procession to the altar, Mr. Liddell, to the surprise of the whole congregation, who were then standing while the Sanctus was being chanted by the choir, darted off into the vestry, followed by Mr. Smith. They returned with a lighted candle. They then all went up to the altar, Mr. Smith relighting one of the great candles, and Mr. Westall, before being able to accomplish a similar feat with the other, was obliged to lift it down with its massive candlestick, and light it on the floor—the congregation all this while leaking on with the greatest amazement. The Communion service then proceeded, and Mr. Westerton, feeling that further interference would not only have prevented the service from being carried on, but lead to a personal struggle between himself and the clergy, very wisely and most judiciously remained in his pew. But for this discretion on the part of the "churchwardens a scene must inevitably have ensued which would have added another to the many scandals which the conduct of the clergy both of St Paul's and St. Barnabas has given rise. Where is the new Bishop of London ? For nearly two years, during the indisposition of his predecessor, these Puseyite inovators have been alto¢ved to run riot in the diocese. Of what use are bishops and authorities in the Church if its curates are allowed to do as they please. Can none of the courts tell us the law and enforce its penalties ? Mr. Liddell's sermon, which followed this scene, was the third which, for three successive Sundays, he has tormented his congregation with since the sentence of deprivation was passed on Archdeacon Denison, and in which he has boldly and defiantly upheld him, denounced the judgment of the archbishop's court, and identified himself with his doctrine. Amongst the congregation was the Duchess of Wellington ; and wo are grieved to learn that the Duchess of Sutherland and other ladies and gentlemen who hold posts of honour and confidence about the person of the Queen and her royal relatives are in the habit of for saking their own parish churches and attending this or its chapel of ease, St. Barnabas. Are her Majesty and her Royal relatives aware of these proceedings of these members of their suites and households? Her Majesty is by the law of the land the head of the Reformed Pro testant Church of England, and at this crisis in its history it behoves all who are true to it to avoid giving any countenance whatever to men who, like Jesuits in the guise of clergymen in that Church, are working incessantly to promote its overthrow, by perverting the simplicity of its worship and faith to the ceremonial and doctrines of the Church of Rome. As the people left the church large groups collected together to interchange their opinions and feeling on the extraordinary scene of which they had been witnesses. HANCOCK'S INKsTANn•—One of the most desirable object in an inkstand is to avoid the exposure of the ink to the air as much as possible, so as to ensure its limpid supply. This is accomplished in the above inkstand.—lllustrated London News. [We have seen the article here referred to, and can safely endorse the description of our London cotemporary. Valuable MSS. are often damaged by careless clerks or ser vants through the upsetting of an inkstand, but the " Paten Pneumatic Inkstand" offers a guarantee against such mis fortunes.] —The Northampton Herald.—Advt. THE CALIFORNIAN PEN.—The everlasting question of " is this a good pen" has been answered by Mr. E. T. Hall of South John street, who has succeeded in producing a metallic pen, which he designates—not inaptly—as above. There is hardly anything more annoying than a bad pen— every one knows the misery. The pen made by Mr. Hall is fit for any hand to use—light or heavy—and, what is of the greatest value, it does not corrode, but will work with equal facility in any ink. From experience of metallic pens, we can say that this one, which is polished as gold, and will last nearly as long, is the best one we have ever used.—Adv AS MANTLES and JACKETS are so very generally worn this Season, J. MAC LENNAN, 36 , CHURCH-STREET, (OPPOSITE PARKER-STREET), Has made arra. gements to have a Case of Parts MANTLES and JACKETS, in Velvets, Reversible Cloths, and all the other Fashionable Materials, delivered Every Week for the next Two Months; therefore, those Ladles desirous of having the Fashions as soon as they make their appearance in Paris, combined with moderation in prices, are respect fully solicited to inspect the Stock. JUST RECEIVED, from London, Two Cases contain ing about 700 MANTLES, commencing at the extraordin arily Low Price of 4s. 11d. each. SHAWL AND MANTLE WAREHOUSE, OPPOSITE - I;XfiVER STREET, MACDIARM I D TRACEIER or NAVIGATION AND NAUTICAL ASTRONOMY, ABLY ASSISTED, PRACTICALLY. BY CAPTAIN A. MACNAUGHTAN, ACADEMY, and the LIVERPOOL MASTER MARINERS' ASSOCIATION'S ROOMS, 24, GREAT GEORGE-SRUARR, LIVERPOOL. ed.* Inquire, or full copy of prospectus at any of the Opticians. IMPORTANT TO EMIGRANT RUNNER?.. A case of considerable importance to emigrants, and emi , grant runners, came on for hearing yesterday before Mr. Mansfield, at the Police Court, and attracted much atten tion. The court was crowded. It was a charge brought by Captain Schomberg, at the suit of Messrs. J smes Baines and a, against Mr. William Weeks, described as an emigrant runner, cf Pail square, fur a violation of the 70th section of the Emigration Act. This section provides that any one using false representation in, order to induct a passenger to go in a certain ship, &c., incurs a penalty of £2O maximum, and not less than £5. Captain Schomberg said, the case was brought under the 70th sec. of the act, and the short facts were these :—A person named William McClelland, applied to Messrs. Baines for a passage to Australia by the ship Joseph Tarratt, having received a ticket and paid £5 to the defendant Weeks, as a portion of the passage momey by that ship. When McClelland ap plied to Messrs. Babes, he was told that Weeks had no authority whatever to book passengers, or issue tickets, for any of their ships, and that Weeks was not ever known at the office. It further appeared that the defendant had cir culated placards over the country, in which he put the names of Mess's. Baines's favourite ships, hut instead of putting them down as belonging to the " Black Ball Line," he advertised them as the " Golden Line" of packets— carefully putting in the names of Messrs. Baines ships, and also those of other lines. This was the cause of the com plaint, and as he (Captain Schomberg) observed that both parties had engag td lawyers in the case, he would not say any more, as no doubt these gentlemen would open, and manage the proceedings better than he cauld, as his simp'e business was to bring the case before the calla as the emi gration officer. Mr Forshaw appeared for Messrs. Baines, and Mr. Godfrey was for the defendant Weeks. Mr. Forshaw then proceeded to say that he had little more to offer than what had been already stated by Capt. Schomberg. The defendant had circulated placards all over the country, in which he inserted the names of Messrs. Baines' ships, without the knowledge or authority of Messrs. Baines, or any one connected with the establishment. The defendant did not, however, call the ships by the name of the line of Messrs. Baines, but he called the line the " Golden Line," but inserted the name of Mr. Baines' ships. This was, he would ,repeat, done in order to deceive passengers, and inflict not only a loss on them, but on the owners also. Passengers should be protected from fraud and deception, and owners from loss. If passengers applied to the owners or recog nised agents of emigrant ships, they would be protected from persons, who, like the defendant, wanted to make money out of the passengers. It appeared, (said he leaned gentle man,) that a person named M Ctellaid, was induced to apply to the defendant, for a passage to Melbourne, and that he paid him a sum of £5 on account of the passage. Now, the defendant was in no way whatever, either directly or indirectly, authorised to take money or book passengers for the Messrs. Baines, by the ship Joseph Tarratt, which which was the name of the vessel in which he booked, or catered the passenger. The sum the defendant had thus received was, so received, under false pretences, and this was contrary to the act; and for which he was charged. The defendant in his placard (exhibited one) had published the names of the most favourite ships of Messrs. Baines' line, and other lines of Australian packets • and by such false means he took all th e passengers h e could, and made money out of them. When he got a passenger, he would go to the owner of the ship and make the best bargain he could— getting all the money he could from the passengers—and thus, for some time, he succeeded in booking passengers, but not as an authorised agent. He (Mr. Forshaw) would call M'Clelland, and his evidence would be more full, and such as to establish the case.—M'Clelland was then called, and stated as follows: About a Week ago, I went to the defendant and told him I wanted to go to Melbourne. He said he could send me; anal I said that I wanted to go in the first ship, and eked him to send me in the Shooting Star. He said I could not go in that, but that he would send rue in the Joseph Tarratt. I a ;reed to that,-and paid him £5 on account, and he gave me this ticket. (Ticket produced.) Cross-examined by Mr. Godfrey : I am from the neighbourhoo I of Dudley, but have been living in Liverpool for five years, and am not quite a stranger in it. I have a wife and two children. I am clerk to Messrs- McAndrews, fruit merchants, and I gave them notice that I would leave. I was not about to take my wife and family with me to Australia. Mr. Godfrey : Did you not go to Mr. Weeks by direction of a clerk in Messrs. Baines's office ? I did not. Did you not go by direction of a clerk in some office ? Yes. Whose office ? Pilkington and Wilson. I was in Mr. Baines's office, bat not until after I paid the £5 to the defendant. When I went to Weeks's office I said I wanted a ticket for Baines's ship, and he gave the ticket, and said he would go to the office with me, but I declined, saying I was in a hurry. I then went to the office of the " White Star Line" and repeated what had happened. Had you a motive for going to Mr. Weeks's office? I had, certainly. Mr. Baines knew I was taking a berth in the ship, but not until after I had taken it from the df fendant and paid him the £5 on account of it. Mr. Weeks gave me tho ticket for the Joseph Tarratt, but he did not make any attempt to deceive me. Did you know that Messrs. Baines, and Messrs. Pilkington & Wilson, were eager to catch hold of Mr. Weeks? I did not. Did you hear anything about Mr. Weeks's respectability? No, I heard nothing about his respectability; but I paid him the and he issued a ticket to me for a ship which he had no right to do—if that be respectable! Was it not to involve him in some difficulty that you went to his office ? It was, so far only as I am concerned. Mr. Baines went with me to Captain Schomberg's office, and we saw Week's there. Was he dishonest ? I do not know ; he may be as highly respectable and as honest as any man in Liverpool, or he may be other wise, for all I can say of him. I got £lOO a year salary. I have two children. It was not a note, but five sovereigns I gave him. Mr. Godfrey: On your oath, from whom did you get the sovereigns : Witness : Mr. Mansfield, am I to answer that question? Mr. Mansfield: Yes, you may answer it. Witness : I got them from a clerk in the " White Star Line," in Pilkington and Wilson's office. I don't know his name, although I have had conversations with him. I have a few pounds of my own at home. Know some persons in Dudley; but I do not know if Mr. Baines has a* agent there. To Mr. Mansfield: I simply iorlrd. N . :i t / 3 111es that I knew some persons at Dudley, and / got the ticket to try the responsibility of Weeks as an agent to Mr. Baines. Mr. Godfrey : That was a dodge to bring, him into a court of law. Mr. Mansfield : When you went to Mr. Baines, and told him you hail paid the 1 5 to Weeks, if he (Mr. B.) hid said, pay me 19 Snore and you may go in the ship, would you have gone in her ? Witness : I would not. employment of ex A a re i s a s e r s d . B iw a i n A e l s r. a n F d ° C r s o h . a a w s e : g r la a in n t i s n u ptehre int enden t. I know Weeks, but not by name or personally' only by seeing him. Mr. Forshaw : Has he, or has he had, any authority, directly or indirectly, from Mr. Baines, or any, ono in his employment, to book Passengers for any of his ships ? Witness : Not to my knowledge. I remember his coming to the office, and 4 wanting to book a passenger, and I should have booked him, but that I received instructions that no more third class possengers were to be taken in the ship—the Joseph Tarratt. The ticket produced by M'Clelland was not recognised at all at our office. Cross-examined :by Mr. Godfrey : I have seen him in our office somtimes, and the cash keeper, by directions, has paid him commission. Mr. Godfrey: Do you mean as an agent ? Witness : No ; I mean as a " man ea' cher." Mr. James was cross examined at considerable length length with a view of establishing the fact that the defendant was an a•gent of Mr. Baines, but the witness denied that he was known at the office even by name, except that ho now and then called, liko other " man catchers," and booked an occasional passenger. He admitted that, in the present case, he (the witness) took down a book to enter the passenger from the defendant (as is usual), when a clerk called him into another room, and said that was Weeks ; he did not know who he was before, and he refused to take any passengers from him. The witness had previously seen the ticket issued by the defendant. The placards issued by the defendant were here exhibited, when the witness said, these bills would most likely lead passengers astray. Mr. James Baines was examined, and said, in reply to Mr. Forshaw : I do not know William Weeks ; I never saw him to know until the other day. [ did not, directly nor indirectly, authorise him to take any passengers, or book any. or issue any tickets for any of our ships. Cross-examined by Mr. Godfrey : The Joseph Tarratt was not one of our own ships, but an extra chartered ship. Mr. Godfrey : How many of the ships on this bill (Dill of defendant produced) are your own? Two; the James Baines and Marco Polo. I saw M'Clelland the same evening, in the office. Mr. Mansfield: Would the ticket be available for the ship, if he had a notion of going in her,? Witness : It would not. Mr. Mansfield : Then it was a sham ticket issued by Weeks ? Witness : It was a a ere sham ticket, and nothing else. Mr. Godfrey went on to cross-examine Mr. Baines at much length, the following being the points. He said a gr ea t many persons ca ll e d at the office and booked passengers, but these were mere runners, and not at all' agents to the house. When passengers came to the office in that way he could take or reject them, just as he pleased, as he was not bound to the persons who brought them. Weeks might have come just in that way, and likely he did so ; but he totally repudiated the idea of allowing any one like him to issue tickets for the house. He went with M'Clellanal to Captain Schomberg's office, and saw Weeks there. Mr. Godfrey : Do you not know that he is a highly respectable man? Mr. Baines : I know nothing whatever about his respectability ; in fact, I did not know him at all until that morning. lk has placarded the county with bills, in which he has intro duced the na mes of our favourite and well known ships, and those of other lines also, without a particle of authority to do so. When Captain Schomberg asked him (Weeks) at his office if he had placarded other ships than his (Mr. Baines's), lie replied he had not, and then the captain showed him a bill, on which was the names of other favourite ships belonging to other lines and ho (Mr. Baines) bad brought the defendant here on this charge, under the section of the Act, in order to show him that he (Weeks) could not be allowed to use the names of these vessels against their owners, and for his (Weeks') profit without authority. Mr. Godfrey : You pay some hundreds yearly for commissions ; have you looked at your books to ascertain how much ? Mr. Baines: I have not; but it is thousands instead of hundreds. Mr. Godfrey contended that there was no ease made out against his client. There was no false pre tense resorted to on his part. He argued that if any fals• pretence was resorted to, it was done by McClellan, and that the ticket given by Weeks was merely a protection to , prevent a strange emigrant, as he imagined McClellan to be, from being swindled in Liverpool. Mr. Forshaw con tended that the act was violated by a man issuing a ticket and taking money on it without any authority. The defendant had entered into an engagement with McClellan for a passage in the Joseph Tarratt, and taken money under false pretences ; for he had no power what ever to book passengers for that vessel. He argued that, by such conduct, emigrants would be defrauded by the defendant. After a short desultory conversational dis. cussion between the learned gentlemen at both sides, Mr. Mansfield said he was of opinion that if McClellan had been really an intending emigrant, the defendant would have, by his act, incurred the full penalty of the law. But it appeared ho was not going to Australia, but went to the defendant for another purpose. Therefore he was of opinion that the defendant ought to be acquitted. Case dismissed. POLICE INTELLIGENCE LIVERPOOL. (BEFORE MR MANSFIELD A RUFFIAN PROPERLY PUNISHED.—A fellow named Johnston Davis, dressed as a respectable mechanic, was charged by a pretty and intelligent girl, named Hannah Wall, who lives at No. 41, Seacombe-street, with having been guilty of a gross outrage. The complainant was going from school, when she was called by a woman to fetch a police officer to take the prisoner into custody for very scandalous conduct. The prisoner acted in the same way towards the girl, and she called a policeman and gave him into custody. Mr. Mansfield said the girl had acted quite right. The public should be protected from such ruffians. He sentenced the prisoner to three months' imprisonment, with hard labour. [We trust that the praiseworthy conduct of this girl will be fol lowed by such females as may be insulted by a pack of scoundrels, who are now prowling about the suburbs, outraging public decency by their abominable behaviour. The town would soon be rid of them, if those whom they insult had the courage to have them taken up ; but the rascals calculate on escape, in consequence of the delicacy of the females whom they so outrageously offend.] A BAILIFF " PROPERLY SERVED." —A bailiff, named Thomas Sherwood, was charged with having committed a violent assault on a boy named Thomas Bretherton, in Night street, in the Park. It appeared that the prisoner went to the house of the boy's mother, to obtain some debt that she owed. She had not the money at the moment, and some altercation took place, when the prisoner struck the boy a heavy blow with a stick on the back of the head. Surgeon Garnett, of the Southern Hospital, stated that the boy had a severe laceratel wound on the back of the head. It appeared that the buy, who seemed to have suffered severely, was asleep on a chair when the prisoner struck him. In reply to his Worship, the boy said he was asleep when he was struck, and the blow awoke him. In answer to the charge, the prisoner said I did it in my own defence. Mr. Mansfield? Doyou mean to say that the child attacked you ? Prisoner: The blow was intended for another person. Mr. Mansfield : You are a great ruffian to strike a child like that, such a heavy blow on the head. I sentence you to pay a fine of £lO, or to be imprisoned for three months. A Love FOR TTIE SEA.—An intelligent-looking lad, named Maurice Jenks, aged 14, was brought up in custody, charged under the following circumstances : In 1854, he was in the employment of Mr. J mathan Lee, publican, of Duncan-street, and in September of that year he was sent by his employer for a post-office order for £4 15s. He absconded with the 'money, and nothing was heard of him until a few day since, Mr. Lee read his name in the newspapers as having been one of the witnesses against the mates of the Ocean Monarch. He at once gave information to the police, and the boy was immediately afterwards arrested. He did not deny the offence, but it would seem that he had committed it through a desire, very common with boys of his age, to go to sea. He was sent for trial. BEFORE MR. JAMES AIKEN AND MR. W. EARLE. STEALING COPPER FROM SHIPS.—A lazy looking fellow, named John Perry, was charged by police officer 706 with stealing a quantity of copper from the Golden Age, now lying in the Brunswick Dock. He was committed for three months. This is the seventeenth. time the prisoner has been in jail for minor offences. BIRKENHEAD. BEFORB R. BRYANS, ESQ DOCKED tOE STEALING LEAD. —John Cooper, and Frede• rick John Steele, two strong, healthy looking lads, belonging to the ship D.meterious, lying in Clayton's New U raving Dock, were charged with stealing lead. Officer Clarke said : that he apprehended the prisoners at a marine storo dealer's, offering the lead for sale; and upon being asked to give an account of where they got it from, stated that they had found it at the docks. He then locked them up, and learned that they belonged to the before-mentioned vessel, but that the lead had been stolen from one of the yards of the dock. The captain under whom they were, stated, that Cooper was an exceedingly good lad, but as for Steele, he could not say as much ; and he feared that Cooper had been led into the scrape through him. The prisoners, who appeared to feel their position, were ordered to be remanded until Wednesday— (this day.) STEALING CHILDUENS' CLOTH SS. —Cat 'mine Campbell, an Irishiroman, with three young children, one of them at the breast, was charged with stealing several little frocks, belonging to Mary Scholes, of Market-street, Birkenhead. In conse quence of the great number of pawn-tickets found on her, she was ordered to bo remanded for farther enquiry. Prisoner said, her husband had gone to Ireland, and left her ; and that she was now destitute; and she hoped, the magistrate would send to Ireland, where her mother was living. BIS:HIDER LY PROSTITUTE. -( lathetine Kelly, charged with being a drunk and disorderly prostitute, and attempting to pass a base half-crown, at the vaults of the Queen's Arms, near Woodside Ferry, was ordered to be imprisoned for two months, with hard labour, at Knuteford. BANKRUPTS WILLIAM CHARLES STU kRT, tailor, Cambridg'. MARIA KAY, hosier, ' Tottenham-court-road. WILLIAM FOSTER, builder, Birmingham. CHARLES VAN LOBE, warehous"man, Bread-street, City. TilamAs EfowirT, licensed victualler, Sheffield. CHARLES HAWKINS, camp equipage manufacturer, Strand. GEORGE KELLY KING, dealer in embossing presses, Brighton. JAMES Forum, licensed victualler, Charlton, Dover. WILLIAM limurnßiEs, innkeeper, Brierly Hill, Stafford.. shire. JAMES HAunisoar, coffee-house keeper, Southport, Lanca shire, Dec. 1 and 23, at eleven, at the Liverpool Dis trict Court. Morgan, official assignee, Liverpool ; Neal and Martin, Liverpool. JAMES MACKENZIE and STI PIIEN COTTON, machine makers, L'eeds. BENJAMIN BARER, dairyman, Combo Down, Monckton Combe, Somersetshire. WILLIAM WILLIFORD, wine and spirit merchant, Scar borough, Yorkshire. Coinmerctal rittelligtnre. LIVERPOOL COTTON MARKET.—Nov 18. The market continues without change, the demand has been fair, and, with an average supply, prices are main tained. The sales—including 20 Pernambucos 71d, 80 Bahias 61d to 61d, 20 Maranhams 71d, 130 Egyptians 61d to Bjd, 500 Surats 5d to 53d—are reported 5,000 bales, of which 1,000 are on speculation and for export. LIVERPOOL PRODUCE MARKET.—Nov. 18 SUGAR : There is no change in our market, which con tinues quiet, and the sales are confined to 550 bags yellow Cossipore, at 54s 6d per cwt. Mor.assEs, RUM. AND COFFEE : No sales to report. _ RICE : 1,600 bags pinky Madras to arrive aro reported at lOs 6d ; 2 930 bags, Arracan, at auction, with all faults, sold at 9s 6d for Ist class damaged Necransie, also 1,700 bags Arracan Paddy, all faults, at 6s 6d per cwt for Ist class. SALTPETRE : 750 bags have been placed at 453 per cwt for 2i per cent refraction. JUTE : The quantity offered by auction this morning met with good competition, and about 1.200 bales were sold, at prices ranging from £l5 5s to £2l 103 por ton, being rather dearer. LINSEED : We have also to report a small lot of Bom bay at 70s per qr. LIVERPOOL (SooTen) PIG IRON NI kRKET.—Nov. 18, Our market for warrants closes at 70s cash, and 71s 93, 3 months open. The business reoorted is 1,000 tons, 3 months open, at the quotations. The following is a return of the Shipments from Glasgow last week...,..- lO,OOO Do. do. corresponding week, 1855.. Do. do. do. 1854 7,504 Aggregate shipments from Glasgow from Jan.,"1856, to date, 456,394 Same period, 1855 Decrease Price this time last year, 77s ... 23,915 AGRICULTURAL PRODUCE MARKET.—Nov 18 Per stone, 201bs. ' Per 0114 s. P. d• ad. . s. d. "s. 4. Po'atoen, Seeilings 30to 3 4 Hay, 01d...... oBto 0 9 Ditto, Remps .... 32t0 3 4 Ditto, new.. 0 7 to oiB3 Ditto, Whiterocits.. 2 9 to 210 Ditto, clover 0 6 to 07s Ditto, Balshaws .. 2 8 to 2 g Green Clover 0 0 to 0 0 Ditto, Beldrums... 2 6 to 2 8 Vetches 0 0 to 0 0 Ditto, cattle Straw, wheat...... 0 3i to 0 4 Per ton. Ditto, oat ........ 0 3i to 0 4 Turnips Ditto, barley .... 0 0 to 0 0 Carrots Oats, in straw .... 00to 0 0 \lank wurLel 2O oto 0 0 NI anur e 5 () to 7 0 LIVERPOOL CORN MARKET.—N ov . 18 . We had a fair attendance of millers and dealers at this day's market, but few were buyers of wheat in quantity, and upon a moderate amount of business, prices were hardly so good as on Friday, being 3d to 4d per bushel cheaper on the week. Barrel flour is again nominally somewhat lower, and sack flour 2s cheaper, with the trade extremely dull. Egyptian beans still advance, 405 bein g paid for prime qualit y . Oats and oatmeal slow o f sale, anything inferior of the former article unsaleable except at a reduction. Mixed and yellow Indian corn has again given way, in value, but fine white rather exceeds the rates of Tuesday last, :upon a retail business in: ail descriptions. MANCHESTER TRADE REPORT.—Nov. 18. There is no change for the better in this market. The sales of both goods and yarns are trifling. Prices tend downwards, and the market closed with flitness.: LONDON PRODUCE ➢ZARKET. —Nov. 18. Suoart : The market has opened with a steady appear ance, and the public sales are progressing without showing any material alteration in prices. The refined market firm at last week's curren c y ; l umps, 59s to 62i. COFFEE : The large public sales of East India are pro gressing steadily. TEA : The trade continue to buy steadily of Congou from Is to Is 3d, but the demand for common is very limited, the quotation is 9d, partly nominal. SALTPETRE: 1,300 bags Bombay refraction, 23.1 to 38k, sold a 34s 6d to 35s 6d, which were very high prices for this description. NITRATE OF SODA : 700 bags offered, and bought in, at 17s 6d to 18i. RICE : 3,000 bags Benpl were offered, and chiefly bought in above the market value, but the article generally has a very firm appearance. R onz : The market is firm. COTTON : The demand is limite l ; 100 bales only sold. ] In other articles no material alteration. LONDON TALLOW MARKET.-.—Nov. IS The market is firm at the subjoined quotations :—Town tallow, 56s 61 net cash ; Petersburgh Y.C. on the spot, 563 9d; November and December, 5Gs 93; January to March, LONDON MINING MARKE r.—Nov. The transactions in home mining stocks have been morn numerous during the last day or two, but have led to little change in prices. Tincroft shares have met with more enquiry, and are firmer. I k the Sock Exehang2, to-day, National Brazilian (Cocaes) shares have been dealt in at 31, and United Mexican at 31. Subjoined is a list of yesterday's transactions in the Mining Exchange :—Coancellorsville. 6s 63, 6s 9d; Ding Dung, 32, I, 33i ; East Basset, 61, 62, 60, 61 ; Great Alfred, 9b I, 9 16; Lady I3‘.rtha, 19s, 20s ; Molland, 23 31, 2s 63; Rosewarne and Herland, 22, d, R ; Sortridge Consols, 21, 2; Sou:h C3rn Brea, 114, 2, ¢ ; Tincroft, 31: Wheal Edward, 21 2; Wheal Grenville, 23s 6d; Wheal Wrey, 7, 2, 1. In the Sock Exchange :--North Roskear, 80, 85 ; Wheal Buller, 2521, 2571; Wheal Margaret, 391; Ding Dong, 33 ; Tincroft, 3i, ; Sortridge Consols, 21 ; Great Wheal Alfred, 91 ; Wheal Edward, 21 ' • South Carn Brea, 111 • Lady Bertha, 191, 20s ; Molland, 2s 91 ; Sortridge and Bedford, is 61; Chancellorsville, 66 31, 6s 61 LEEDS CORN MARKET.—Nov. 18. Although the supplies of grain of all kinds brought td our market were only small, there was a sluggish market. Wheat met a slow sale, and the little business done was at about the rates of last week. Barley was dull, and except the finer qualities. rather gave way in price. Beans remained unchanged, and other articles did not materially vary from the currency of last week. HULL CORN MARKET.—Nov. 18 This market was barely supplied with wheat, oats, or barley. There was a languid trade ; we, therefore, report wheat, 23 to 3s per quarter lower; barley, Is to 2s, and beans 2s. Other articles held at nominal tatel. DUBLIN CORN MARKET.—Nov. 18. Of home-grown wheat and oats we had but a modeiai4 supply at this morning's market. The tone of the market was dull, and the price of all descriptions of grain and grain produce was the turn cheaper. Indian corn being in pretty fair request, remains unchanged in value. CORK CORN MARKET.—Nov. 18. The imports, together with the home supplies of the past week, have been to a moderate extent, and prices tend downwards. The rates paid to-day were :—Whit. wheat, 33s to 35s ; red, 32s to 35s per 20 stones ; barley, 21s to 23s per 16 stones ; and oats, 14s to 15s per 14 stones. CORK BUTTER MARKET.—Nov. 18 Supplies to-day are rather limited, the quantity brought forward this morning being only 1,100 kegs and firkins. The market remains perfectly steady at the following currency :—Firsts 116 s Seconds, 1I4s; Thirds, 103 s ; Fourths, 103 s ; and Fifths, 99s per cwt. GLASGOW PIG IRON MARKET.—Nov. 18. This market continues most inanimate ; several lots of forfeited were sold at 70s, cash ; both buyers and sellers are reported scarce. The shipments of the week are 10,000 tons. SHIPPING INTELLIGENCE LIVERPOOL, Novskinza 19 MOH WATS a—Morn. 4 6—Even. 4 98—Height, 11 ft. 11 In. • ARRIVED. Nov. 17 Favourite St. John, N.B, gannet (z.z.) Elizabeth .. Pudyona Heather Bell Eyry........ Rotterdam Sines Minerva Nov. 18. Constatilinopl, William and Maria Taganrog Gomer St. John, N.B. Jam9a Charleatni Onyx Alexandri,• lohn Hendura' R.llz t Wicklow ..Newry .. Newry ..Bantry Norman .. Shakespeare Snowdon .. , Glasgow Milnthorne .. Falmouth SAILED. Nov. 17. Danube Rio Grande New Orleans Heindahl Akyab Margaretha Arendira ....Trieste Havre Moult.. Pearl . . ....• Calcutt,l Gleaner .. Galway ...... Trieste Pra.vidence Calcutta Gipsey Queen .... GlEsgow ...Valparaiso Sarah .. . • ..Corunna Star of the Sea .. Dublin ...New York Jane ▪ _Bomb , y Young Gipsey... Newport N. w Orleans Pursuit Newport Stettin Margaret Whitehaven Mobile Fuel Whitehaven .......Lime Venture Glasgow .New Orleans Mary Glasgow .. Malts Sarah Bragg .. Whitehaven ~... .. New York Liverpool... . Belfast . Calcutta Gipsey .. . Drogheda New Orleans Sir D. Campbell.... Newry Gibraltari Tim 0ur.... Flamingo .. Balbec (s s.) Nov. 18 Albanian (s.s.) Shepherdess Nautilus Tejo (s.s.) Colombia . Queen of the East Paragon Aeolus Vanguard Eleenora Egyptian (a.s ) London Martaban Gladiator Allgro de Minh ENTERED FOR LOADING. Jane Sincerity . • . . Cherbourg Rite Elizabeth .... ConstantinopleCoquttte Florde Marie Lisbon [M05c0w........ Lucy.. Lisbon and C. of Good Hope , Alice Cleator (a.) Santander. &c iitroughton Hall Pomon Nov. 17. ... Rotterdam San Sebastian . Sierra Leone Smyrna . .Tampico Melbourne . Singapore OUTPORTS. Queenstown, Nov. 16.—Arrived—Norman Morrison. Orchard, from Woolwich f6r Bermuda. Nov. JS.—Nary Annie,from Rabat. Falmouth, Nov. 16.—Arrived—Conquest, Parkman. from Alexan dria for London—Mechens. Haslet% Alexandria—Lambert, Kramer, Galata—Brothers. Adle, Odessa. Dublin, Nov. 17.—Arrived—Don Aff •nso . from Lisbon. D ,ver, Nov. 16.—Arrived—Za , g en Vlyt, Malden. from Liverpool for Rotterdam. Folkestone, Nov. Erichson, from I iverpool for Neustadt. Rye. Nov. 15.—Off—Duo Freres, Olsen, from Liverpool for Copenhagen ; was supplied with water and proceeded. Milford, Nov. 16.—Arrived—Clasaina Ardina. Wirtzes, from Lis. bou for Liverpool. Nov. 17.—Hermit, and Neptune, from Liverpool. rastletown, Nov. 14.—Arrived—Marie Louise, Connoly, from Qn (+bee. Greenock. Nov. 17.—Arrived—Agnes, Corra Linn. and Thrusonia, from New York—Fame, and Samuel P. Mason, from St. John. N.B. —Maria Eugenia, Sawander—Telegraph, Naples—Lord Byron, Quebec. Sailed, Nov. lE.—Dennis Hill, for bfoulmeln. Belfast, Nov. le.—Arrived—Braut, from Taganrog. MARITIME EXTRACTS, - Liverpool, Nov. 18.—The ury (s. tug), and a Lump, arrived to day from the S. M. Fox, with about 200 tons of goods. The Chevalier, that arrived here yesterday from Bombay, passed Ascension Sept. 23, and on Oct 23 was In lat. 31 N., lon. 34 W. From Aug. 6 to Sept. 1, fr-m lat. 34 S., lon. 29 E., till within sight of Table Mountain, experienced hard gales, chiefly from N. W. St. Petersburgh, Nov. B.—About 3,000 deals, ex the Flierslle, Cole; on shore at Cronstadt, have been saved. Nov. 17.—The weather has become warmer, and the steamers and sailing vessels which have been detained by the ice are putting to sea. SPOKEN. Polynesia, of Liverpool. Nov. 6, in lat. 50 N., lon. lg W. Clangregor, hence to Afri'a, Sept. il, off Mouravia. Parker, hence to Demerara. Oct. 21, in 14.31 N., lon. 28 W. Mauritius, from Clyde to Mauritius, Oct. 3, In lat. 7 N., 22 W. King Arthur. from Bristji to St. Michaels, Oct. 3, In lat. 41 N., lon. 22 W. Pequot, hence to San Fra , cl co, Sept. 12, in lat. 7 N. Gannett (s e.), Raines, from Rotterdam at Liverpool. On Nov. 5, off iron Head, signalised ship No. 9701 k Lord Raglan ), outward bound. Nov. 17, ship No. 7483 (Lydia), on . the Bishops, Inward bound, FOREIGN PORTS, Paneora, Waite, hence at Santa Martha. Ebro, hence at Marseilles. Pelican (s a.), hence at thief:let. Milford, hence at Rouen. --.... Industrie i Union, and E spo i r—all hence at Ostend. al, r re Eagle called from Vera C ruz f or Laguna, Oct. 9; Ifs— Imp Oct. 9 ; and Rninutu% Oct. 18. Progress, hence at Schelde. Alliance, hence at Genoa. Elgin railed fro m P a ' ermo for Liverpool. Nov. 7.4 s. 4 , Malakoff, from L'O r i ent; an d Aff g ha r b Ha"hence—both at St. John, N.B. Ripley toiled from Buenos Ayres for veri i ,001. Nov. 16. At:guile sailed from Terneeae for - from Calcutta at Nov. 3. London. Sabrina, and Gran' Trianon — both Ceylon Marion, Macintyre, from at London. BIRTH. On the lsth Inst., the wife of Mr. Peter Stubbs, Canning-street, Everton, of a son. pp Births. atarriazea, and Deaths, are only insertedyrben sent to our Office duly authenticated. SPORTING INTELLIGENCF SHREWSBURY RACES.-YESTERDAY. Laverna RACING PLATE. 1 1 Bold Buccleuch Four ran. .