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

EXPRESS TRAIN WITH THE MORNING PAPERS. By the spirited exertions of Mr. Pearson, agent for the London Times, and some other news-agents, we expect to receive; by nine o'clock this forenoon, copies of the London papers of this morning, con taining the debate upon Sir Robert Peel'i propo sitions last night.. We shall communicate to our readers the information which they contain in a SECOND EDITION, which will be ready, we expect, about ten o'clock. TO CORRESPONDENTS. Our usual Express pareel did net arrive in time last night. By some:unaccountable mistake, the name or Mr. George Bade nach was omitted, I,st week, iu our list of the Grand Jury at the Quarter Sessi,J,S for the boiongh. Our reporter, how. ever, correctly copied the list furnishe,lto him. We think a good deal may be said, on both sides of the question animadverted upon by "A Honsekeepe ." We would. how ,_ ever, have in•erted his letter, had he, instead of indul.ring in useless recrim nations atainst others, brought forward addi tional facts in support. of hiS opinions. Ebt erpool tantiarb. TUESDAY itITATING,' FEB. 10 , 1846 In a crisis like the Present, when so important a change in the policy of the Government is pend it may be interesting to our readers to learn how that change is regarded by the representatives of this great commercial community. We are the more readily induced to supply the inforthation from the fact that, during the week, some idle gossip has `reached our ears disparaging to one of our lion. members, which none. who have observed his past integrity of conduct ; and his inflexible adherence to those principles, the profession of which secured him the confidence of the Conservative electors of Liverpool, would wish to remain uncontradicted. It has been more than hinted that Sir Howard Douglas, the hon. and gallant member to whom we refer, is prepared to jump round the compass with her Majesty's Ministers upon the subject of pro tection. Sneers against him have been freely in dulged in : and hints have even been thrown out that official sunshine was to be the price of his flexibility and sudden conversion to Free-trade doctrines. We have undoubted authority for denying the imputations levelled against Sir Howard. We know that he entertains strong objections towards the Ministerial propositions, which he regards as preg nant with injury to the true interests of the country; and that he is not prepared to succumb to the dictation of the league, or the Government, by sup porting them. He is not dazzled by the dream of unbounded commercial prosperity, which is held up before us as the price of the sacrifice of the right arm of the country—its agricultural and industrial interest; and is unwilling to be dragged into a forfeiture of his convictions as to the operation of a system of Free Trade ; and is we believe, prepared, should it be necessary, to submit the decision of the question to the proper tribunal—his constituency. Whether this mode of ascertaining the degree of weight to be attached to his vote upon the Govern ment propositions will be urged upon him or not, we cannot of course say. This much, however, we are enabled to assert, that Sir Howard Douglas will not submit to fight under false colours—to call him self a Conservative whilst carrying out measures which he believes to be destructive of the best interests of the country. That the Conservative electors of Liverpool ad mire so manly and constitutional a policy we feel well convinced. The hon. and gallant member has already wm, a meed of gratitude from us, in his staunch assertion of Protestant principle and con sistency, which will not fail him in the hour of trial, and we feel persuaded the mass of his former sup porters will he found with him again, whenever he makes his appeal to them, and however the League and its faggot supporters may crowd to the onset. That we are drifting rapidly towards further in roads upon the constitution, every day furnishes convincing evidence. Concession follows conces sion as wave follows wave ; and the very safeguards which we devised to stay:the progress of the devouring flood, are only erected to be pulled down so soon as its waters reach their base, and they are shown to be capable of usefulness. In this way, for the last twenty years, we have been weakening the fabric of Protestantism in this land,—we cannot weaken its foundations, for they are built upon immutable truth. We conceded to the clamour of dissent the repeal of the Test Acts ; and went on step by step to the fatal - concession of 1529. That measure, how- ever, was too bold, too startling to be adopted with out some offering to the aroused protestant spirit of the nation. We accordingly hedged round the new elements: which we had admitted into the con stitution, with checks and prohibitions ;—checks, which the serpent spirit of Romanism broke through without an effort; and prohibitions which the re creant and cowardly policy of Conservatism shrunk from the task of carrying into effect. There were few, amongst those who had watched the character of the times, and of the men whom those times have produced, who did not anticipate the period when the mocker,- of protection thus set up would be withdrawn,—when the full tide of Popery and popish institutions would he let in upon us and recognised, and legalised by authority. That period, the measures of the last session convinced us was approaching. It has come 1 The present session is to witness the sacrifice of the Protestant' charac ter of the institutions of Great Britain. Can there be a doubt upon this subject? We will adduce facts which ought for ever - to remove that doubt. Passing over the measures of last ses sion—the endowment of Maynooth, and the setting • up of a godles:s system of academical education in Ireland—we ask the reader, in the first place, to re member wbo was the nobleman who, oa the opening .of this session, moved the Address in the House of Commons, and what are his politico-religious lean ings. Lord Francis Egerton we know to be a man talented, amiable in private life, and a sincere lover of his Church and her pure scriptural doctrines. He has never been accused of a leaning either towards Puseyism or Young Englandism — . Yet', ,Lord Francis Egerton stands 'pledged to the endow ment of the Roman Catholic Clergy,—another step towards the recognition of the popish element in our constitution. We ask the reader, next to refer to the letter of Mr. Macaulay upon the recent ministerial crisis, in which he adduces as the greatest consolation to be derived from the circumstance— a melancholy one to a Whig place-hunter—of Lord John Russell having failed in his effort to form an administration, the fact that Sir Robert Peel would be able to carry the endowment of the Roman Ca tholic Clergy, whilst his Lordship would probably • - fail. With such a feeling existing amongst influen- tial men on both sides of the House, the conclusion is irresistible that, in the present session of Parlia ment, Sir iobert Peel will add thi - s measure to the list of his apostacies from Protestant principles. But it is not here that we are to stop. We are also to be asked to resign all the protections— nominal we admit they have been, for they have never been cart led into operation—which were pro , sided by the Emancipation Bill. On Thursday - night, we observe Mr. Watson moved in the House of Commons for leave to bring in a Bill " for the further Repeal of enactments imposing pains and penalties upon her:Majesty's Roman Catholic sub jects, on account of Religion:" and, among the class of pairs and penalties to be removed, he instanced • those imposed by the act of 1529, directed against "the regular clergy, who had come to this country and placed themselves under tnonastic vows since the passing of that •act.',' Of course, one objkt here pointed at is to legali - ze the settlement in this country of the order of the Jesuits,—an or - der which it has been found necessary•to expel from naily 1) every state in Europe, papal .or otherwise; which has been the promoter of revolution, mischief, 'and the darkest crime, in every country where it has been permitted to establish itself. • Yet such a hill, we *find, is not to be opposed by her Majesty's ministers. Oh! no : t: ey only ask to have left •to them the office of carrying its provisions out to the fullest extent themselves. Lord Lyndhurst, Sir James Graham informed the House, had introduced a bill by which Popery would be thoroughly un muzzled ; and he entreated the honourable member to withdraw his motion, and to see how effectively a Conservative_governtnent would do the work of Rome. Lord John Manners, on the part of Young England, put in a plea for the Cistercian -monks, " who devoted their whole time to the benefit of _ their fellow creatures." Mr. Daniel desig nated the prohibition of monastic establishments as "a law to punish devotion to God, and ; the exercise of the highest quality of human nature." (!) And ultimately, Mr. Watson, Mr. B. Eicott, and Lord John Manners were ordered to prepare and bring in the bill ; S'r Robert Inglis being the only Pro testant member to raise his voice against such an invasion of the constitution and the religion of the law. Well may we cease to wonder at the increasing exultation of Popery when such measures can be advocated in the. Parliament of Protestant England, without the utterance of a word of reprobation ! Well may we cease to wonder that judgments 'are visited upon the nation,—that famine is at the door of one portion of our population, and that another is drunk` with delusive hopes of prosperity and wealth ! Well may we cease to wonder that mem bers of our' pure Protestant Church are permitted to sander into soul-destroying error, and that we are bedome the scoff and the scorn of the heresy of Rome! With such a. feeling,—such blindness and fatuity` existing in the British legislature, —we need no longer ask the reason of the fact that Popery in her conduct towards us, is daily throwing off the mask with which she has for generations past sought to cloak her real features. Let us, as afford ing proof of this, direct the attention of our readers to the following paragraph, which is taken from a communication add . ressed from Rome to a German paper : " RoMe, Jan. 19.—0 n the 14th instant, the Vicar-Ge neral of the Catholic Chtuch, Cardinal Fatrixi issued a proclamation to the people of Rome, which runs thus : " Not a few persons distinguished for piety have besought us with urgent prayers to grant permission for the solemn festival of a novena (nine days' service in the Church of the Jesuits;) in order to implore from Almighty God the wider spread and happy increase of the Catholic faith in-England. The. Holy Father has not only listened fa vourably to this pious request, but furthermore has pro mised to all the faithful who take an active part in the ceremony a partial indidaence of 300 days for evert, visit, and a plenary indulgence 10 those who attend the novena five times at least, it being understood that at the same time such persons are to approach the confessional and Lord's supper. This nine days' ceremony is to begin at eleven o'clock a.m on the 17th instant, in the church above-named. Whether ye look, my Christian brethren, at the great and noble aim in behalf of which these pub lic prayers are offered to the Almighty, or whether ye cal culate the gain of the holy indulgences, by means of which we may shorten the punishment due to our sins— in either case you must in overy way, to the best of your strength, interest yourselves in the matter, and take part in this exercise, by praying the Giver of all good, and the Father of all tx.ercy, that He will pour out over that realm and its inhabitants His light and those gifts of grace, for obtaining which alone our prayers will be effectual." 'ill any man, after reading this, say that Rome is changed, except so far as that, in her treatment of us, she no longer feels the necessity of wearing a mask ? Three hundred days' "indulgence,"—three hundred days immunity to sin,—offered to the faith ful who pray for " the wider spread and happy in crease of the Catholic faith in England ! " Bravos of Italy, assassins of Tipperary, what a comfortable creed is yours ! Only pray for the conversion of benighted England, and the blood of your victims is washed from your hands. Experience has shewn that the were perfectly cor rect in our remarks upon the injustice and impolicy of the course insisted upon by the Chancellor of the Exchequer, with respect to the payment of railway deposits into the hands of the Accountant-General of the Board of Trade. We maintained that the spirit of the requirement of the Act of Parliament would be complied with by the lodgment, by the promoters of railway schemes, of valuable securities instead of money. Obviously, it was unlikely that parties would keep the amount of such deposits by them in an unproductive form—in notes or in gold. They would invest them in one or other of the ne gociable securities, publicly recognized as equivalent to cash. It was, therefore, a perfectly useless pro vision, or rather interpre.ation, of the-Act, to re ' quire such investment to be reconverted into money for the purpose of payment into the hands of the Accountant-General; and, the more palpably so, when we consider that the functionary in question can he required immediately to invest the funds lodged with him into profitable stock, pos s ibly th e very same which had to be sold out to meet his demand. The object of Parliament in stipulating for the payment of a deposit upon new railway schemes, was to ensure in every case a responsible proprietary ; and it was surely the duty of Govern ment to see that this object was obtained without the infliction upon the community, or upon indivi duals, of unnecessary and harassing conditions. The only thing which Parliament had to ask was, whether the companies had or had not the required amount paid up, and its value available to hand over to the custody of the officer appointed. In taking the course, which he has determined upon, of insisting upon a cash deposit, we do not mean to insinuate the slightest imputation of an un worthy motive on the part of the Chancellor of the Exchequer, or the Government. But at the same time motives might be imputed. A very little ex amination of the state of the Money and Stock mar kets, during the past fortnight, will suffice to shew that the course pursued. without strengthening one iota the standing of the companies complying with it, has opened a very wide field for those specula tions of capitalists, against which the public have not the least protection, and, at the same time, has inflicted wanton injury upon such companies. We shall perhaps beSt explain our meaning by an ex ample. We will suppose a company whose paid-up de posit upon a million of nominal capital amounts to fifty thousand pounds. his sum has been duly furnished by the shareholders. There has been no malversations °I directors—no stagging—no reserves of shares, nominally for the benefit of landowners, but really as sops for provisional committeemen. The fifty thousand pounds deposit have been in vested in consols; and consols, we know were a few months ago, at par. Now the course which we ' advocated was, that such investments should be re ceived as satisfying the requirements of the act of parliament. The Chancellor of the Exchequer, how ever, has decided otherwise ; and, as the result of that decision, every company has had, in the first in stance, to realise its investments and to produce bank notes or gold for the acceptance of the ac countant of the Board of Trade. So far, then, all the world knew that certain securities had to be sold; and men with any knowledge of business know what is the result of such knowledge. In the case before us, fifty thousand consols are to be ex . changed on a certain day for cash; and the market is influenced accordingly—depressed accordingly. Now what remedy has the party ? The board of directors, compell'd to sell out the best possible se curity which can be afforded it, has the opportunity of purchasing again what t has sold—consols, or whatever &se it may be. Plat; before doing so, parliament must be moved. Al the world, therefore, knows that fifty thousand r ounds have to be re-in vested in stock by a certain company on a certain day; and again the result is against such company. The fifty thousand, invested at par, loses five per cent. when realised in cash. It loses another two and a half per cenit when re-invested. The railway proprietor is thus doubly victimised. We cannot see the sense of this. It is not just. In fact, to this very requirement of the act of Par hartient, which calls for the.deposit of five per cent. upon the capital of railway companies, we suspect may be attributed that favourable position of the public funds which enabled the Chancellor of the Exchequer last year to make that reduction of the three and and it half per cents., the saving of which to the country was not less than a quarter .of a mil lion per annum. In mere gratitude, that func tionary ought not to have exacted the full amount of his bond., The surplus capital of the country enable" him, by its being invested in the national securities, to bestow upon the country a great boori;, and whatever value the doctrine of retributive justice may have in oth.: cases, it ought not to have 'been acted upon here. We repeat that we attribute rib motives of an unl'. - c‘i thy character; but we do not like to see, coin( •.•nt with the recent state of the money market, t:i,J lately frequent operations of the Government broker. In similar operations by any private party, a motive would be attributed. , . . . 'rife warehouse owners of Liverpool have, for years past, been about the best abused body of men in the country. They opposed the erection by our public authorities, with the public money, of ware houses on the dock quays, the land for whose site was Sold by the corporation, in the days of whig rule, at an insufficient price —at less, in fact, than land !in less favourable localities had been sold to private individuals; and for this were ,branded as selfish men, opposing public improvements from private objects. The Legislature, however, did not think their demands so very inconsistent with justice or so. unreasonable; for it imposed upon the Dock ComMittee, at their suggestion, a clause restricting that body from prosecuting their scheme beyond a certain point, and imposed certain conditions, with whicli it.was imperative to comtily. By. our report of . the last council meeting it will be seen that the warehouse owners have, at length, effectually purged themselves of all liability to be termed selfish in exacting the full amount of their bond. , It may be remembered that some difference arose, a few months ago, between the Dock Com mittee and themselves, as to whether the act had been completely complied with in the erection of the Albert Dock Warehouses. The Committee were restricted to four warehouse floors, and hound to leave a certain portion as open-quay space. They chose, howiever,' contrary to the spirit and letter of the act, as.it was contended, to encroach upon this open quay, by the erection of a half-deck floor, thus increasing their warehousing apace and limiting the extent of the quay room, for Which the public and Parliament had stipulated. On this point they came into collision with the warehouse owners, who had the'power to enforce the carrying out of the strict letter of the act; and might even have gone the length of insisting upon the pulling down of the floors illegally constructed. From the speech of the Chairman of the Dock Committee, however, it will be seen that tl ey have, most creditably and gene rously, abandoned all 'thought of obstru ting progress of the warehouses; and will act harmo niously with the authorities in devoting themselves to the rapid development of the commerce of the port. To use the language of Mr. Bramley Moore, we shall hear no more about "the warehouse inte rest overriding the town." There is ample scope in Liverpool for all parties to live and thrive; and the vast growth of new warehouse property within the past few years shows most satisfactory that its owners have nothing to fear from any course which the Dock Committee may adopt to facilitate the dis charge of shipping, and to accommodate the trade of the port. We would not, from this circumstance, detract one iota from the credit due to the warehouse owners. Their concession to public opinion is most graceful and well-timed; and the more graceful, in asmuch as it has come upon us umprompted and unexpectedly. They will receive, we trust, the only return which is at all adequate to their deservings— the approbation and respect of an entire community, before whom it has been too much the practice to hold them up to obloquy, as incorrigibly selfish, and opponents of the best interests of the port in which their property is so largely invested. THE LIVERPOOL STANDARD. BIRKENHEAD COMMISSIONERS. An adjourned meeting of this body was held last even. ing, in the Board Room, Hamilton-square. Present, J. H. Greene, Esq., chairman; Messrs. W. Laird, Cole, Horner, Brownrigg, Atherton,•Gilbertson, A. A. Dobbs, J. R. Pim, Pike. Mr. W. Cole laid before the Board the following report, accompanied with a very voluminous list of clauses, which it was proposed to have inserted in the amended Improve ment Bill now before parliament. The I . teport was then read by Mr. ATKINSON , as fol lows : " At an adjourned meeting of the Health Committee, held this day, present, Mr. Cole, chairman, Messrs, W. Laird, Ap pleton, Gilbertson, and Adamson, the following Report was unanimously adopted:— REPORT. "Your committee beg to state that they have now completed the revision'of, the Improvement Acts, and have prepared seve ral additions and amendments, which they are unanimously of opinion would be highly desirable, both for the improvement and health of the township, and they , beg to propose that such amendments be introduced, in committee, in the bill now be fore parliament. (Signed) WM. COLE, Chairman. "9th Feb., 1846." Mr. COLA, after observing that the new clauses were so lengthy that it would take up too much of the time of the Com-nissioners to gu over them seriatim. proposed " That the Report be received, and the alterations and amendments proposed by the Health Committee, and now laid before the Board, be forwarded to the Law-clerk with instructions that the same be embodied in the Improvement Bill now before Parliament, and as soon as the Improvement Bill is printed a copy of the same be sent to each Com missioner." Some discussion then ensued respecting the course pro posed to be pursued, but it was understood that the reception of the report would not bind any member to suppoi t it hE,reifter. the Chairman observing that the matter would be much better understood when each member had a printed copy before him, when he could read it acid consider the various clauses at his leisure. Mr. Pim wished something to be introduced into the motion so as not to render it imperative on the law-clerk to introduce all the clauses, as he was afraid their bulk would frighten Lord Shaftesbury. Mr. COLE said, it would not be the bulk his Lordship would look at, but the quality. Mr. GILBERTSON hoped if the law-clerk could not ob tain the isnertion of all the clauses, he would obtain the introduction of the most important. Mr. COLE said it was pretty well understood by the law-clerk what were the wishes of the committee. Mr. WM. LAIRD seconded the motion of Mr. Cole. Mr. BROWNRIGG said he had no objection to the mo tion as it stood, but if it had gone so far as to adopt the report he could not have toted for it, as be bad not read it. Mr. W LAIRD thought the course proposed to be adopted would save much trouble to the Commissioners, for they would be much more likely to come to a proper conclusion on the subject by a careful perusal of the b 11 when in print. _ . The motion was then put and adopted unanimously. Mr. COLE said he understood Mr. W. Laird had some thing to say respecting the Building Act. Mr. W. LAIRD said the committee were engaged on a report respecting the constru2tion of fire-proof ware houses, but they had not yet been able to gti thoroughly into the matter, he should, therefore, wish that the meet ing would adjourn for a week, when he hoped the com mittee would be able to report on the subject. Mr. BROWNRIGG asked whether they had conferred with the law-clerk on the subject, to know how far 1117 were likely to succeed in obtaining the insertion of such clauses. Mr. W. LAIRD said the law•clerk bad been consulted on the subject, and he was of opinion that the clauses might be introduced, provided there were no m'ney clauses in them, of which the committee would beware. He then proposed— - - • "That this meeting do adjourn to Monday, the 16th instant, to receive a further report, from the Health Committee, on the building of warehouses, and to receive a report from the Light ing and Watching Committee upon the proposed amendments in the Lighting and Watching Act." Mr. COLE said the fact w4s, the clauses alluded to were exact'y in the same position as those before the Board at present. Mr. BROWNRIGG hoped that for the future they would not run the matter so very fine. MI HORNER asked when it was necessary that the bill ~hould he before the house ? Mr. BROWNRIGG said the netition had already been presented, and the bill was at present before the House, but it was competent for any commissioner to get s 'me one to move for the insertion of either those or any other clauses, which, if approved of, would be included in the bill. . . . — The motion was then put and adopted, and the Board adjourned. The lion. William Lewis Denman, son of Lord Den man, has entered holy orders, and was ordained by the bishop of Durham on Sunday week. DISSOLUTION OP TOE LIVERPOOL ROYAL STOCK EXCHANGE.—AS a sign of the times the dissolution of this exchange might be adduced as important. It will be seen, however, by our advertising columns, that a n , -ve as sociation opened yesterday, into which we believe the hulk of its members, together with many who have seceded from the association in Rank-buildings, have entered. COMMITMENTS FOR TRIAL AT THE SESSIONS, YES TERDAY.— A man named William Reynolds was yester day committed before Mr. Rushton, on a charge of h ty ing, stolen from the clothing shop of Mrs. Jones, in Nor folk -street, on Saturday night, a hammock and bed, worth 6s. 6d. Toe prisoner made no defecce. Hugh Powell was also committed on a charge of having received 6 sovereiens from a female who keeps a public-house to get changed, and with which, or the change he did not re turn. It appeared he had purchased for himself new shoes, a new shirt, &c. He stated that he had got intex icated, and did not know what had become of the money. ARRIVAL OF THE DUKE OF LANCA"TER.—The fine ship Duke of Lancaster, belonging to Messrs. Stringer and Mann, John Buller, commander, arrived in this river on Sunday morning, after a passage of 94 days, from Can ton. She sailed rom Liverpool on the 28th May last, discharged her cargo in China, took on board a full cargo there, consisting of upwards of 860 tons of tea, and com pleted the voyage in eight men . hs and ten days, being the shortest time on record. This, the first voyage of the Duke ot Lancaster, argues well for what may be expected as regards future passages under the command of Captain Bailey, who. we understand, is note rious for the quick passages made in the ship Thomas Lowry. CHARITABLE SOCIETY.—We regret extremely to hear that the funds of this invaluable society are in a languish ing condition. Last year there were 1634 cases of dis tress relieved from the funds of the society, affording substantial and timely aid to 6195 persons The visits paid by the gentlemen connected wi h the society, who afford their services gratuitously, were 2254, and the amount expended was 4368 6s. We should be glad if we could interest the liberal sympathy of the public in behalf of this society. which distributes its funds at the dwellings of the destitute, but on no occasion without a previous visit to the family, and a searching investigation into the claims and characters of the applicants for r-lief The subscribers' have thus the best guarantee that their donations are judiciously distributed. FACTORIES WALLASEY POOL.—A Radical con temporary of Saturday; upon whose absurd schemes of establishing factories upon the unoccupied land on the margin of Wallasey Pool, we recently remarked, returned to the charge in his last publication, and treated with some derision our assertion, that a want of water for. steam en gines would be felt in such a locality. Perhaps the party in question does not know that fresh water is indispensable for the economical working of factory engines. Where he will find that, in abundance sufficient, in the neigh bourhood of Wallasey Pool, we are at a loss to conceive. On the banks of the Leeds and Liverpool Canal the ex periment of erecting factories might answer ; but for 'Wallasey Pool the project is hopeless. He might as well say the locality is suitable for a sugar plantation. CHARGE OF EMBEZZLEMENT. —YeAerd4V, at the Police Court, a young man named Thomas Leach, a col le.ster in the employ of Mr. John Jones, estate agent, Grafton-street, Toxteth-park, was charged by the latter with having embezzled, chiefly on the 2Gth ultimo, cer tain small sums which he had received from weekly te nants of premises, and for which he had not accounted— making three distinct cases. Several witnesses were called, and from the general evidence it appeared, so far as is yet known, that the prisoner had received XI lls., and had paid over only £1 Is. 61. About 41000 passed through his hands annually, while he was in the employ. It also appeared that to cover the fraud he had made a falas entry in figures in the books. His employer stated that the prisoner (who had been five Years in his service) had received notice to leaie, and had left on Wednesday Ist. the defalcations so far had been discovered since that time ; but mr. Jones added that he strongly sus pected he was guilty of other similar delinquencies, as he was short of £3lO, which lie ought to have received ac cording to his books. Mr. Owen, who defended the prisoner. endeavoured to show - that the whole affair ori ginated in pique, he (the prisoner) having gone to another rival employer. Mr. Ruslyon, decided that be should go for trial, but remanded him so 'that some further evidence, which it was said could be procured, wes brought up. THE IRON TRADE.—The iron trade of South Stafford shire continues in the same prosperous state which we noticed the week before last,land ;we understand that efforts are being mane in various parts of the district, and more particularly in that section of the coal-field lying near Oldbury, to obtain further supple'; of coal and iron stone. For this purpose, several pits, which had long since been considered as worked out, have been re-opened ; and with the aid of increased skill, and improved machi nery, the abandoned mines will, it is expected, yield a fresh supply of their mineral treasures. From the uncer tainty which exists as to the measures of Government, with respect to the numerous projected lines of railway, the ironmasters evince great unwillingness to enter into large contracts ; otherwise, from the abundance of orders, we should have to quote prices considerably above the rates fixed on at the recent quarterly meetings of the trade. As it is, the existing prices can scarcely be adhered to, and we are enabled to state, on the best authority, that there are parties now in South Staffordshire endeavouring to effect purchases for the continent —Germany in parti cular—for several lines of railway, amounting in some ca-es, to 30,000, and in others to 40,000 tons. It is, we , believe, satisfactorily ascertained by the largest manufac turing firms in the kingdom, that the modifications and changes in the tarif with regard to the importation of pro- Oluce from America, will cause such a demand for the con sumption of iron in the United States, as to warrant the assumption that double an& treble the quantities hitherto exported from this country will take place immediately on the new measure coming into operation. The effect of the increased and increasing demand for iron is not confined to our own district, for our Liverpool letters inform us that Scotch pigs fetched 80s. per ton, and that other de scriptions of manufactured iron rate proportionably high. —Birmingham Journal. FALL OF THE WAREHOUSE TN MOOR-STREET. FINDING OF THE BODY OF LARCEY. Since our last publication, a great number of porters and others have been employed by night as well as by day, in getting and carting off the valuable grain, flour, 84c., from the warehouse which fell, with its accumulated load, oh Saturday week—burying in the ruins one of the labourers. The weather has, on the whole, been rather favourable, for the season of the year, and great progress has been made ; but many days will yet be required to complete the removal of the property and materials. The body of Peter Larcey was found by the labourer: on Saturday morning, in room No. 1, and near the end of it, facing the Old ltopery. Yesterday an inquest was held on the remains, before Mr. Curry, and a special jury ; one princioal object being to arrive at the eau-e of the unex pected fall of the building, which involved such fatal con sequences. The first witness, Thos. Carroll, tt porter, sta ted, that while working at the ruins on Saturday, he saw the legs of a man hanging doWn from room No. 2, into room No. 1, and assisted in getting the body out. The right side of deceased's head was partly carried away. Deceased was at the time of the accident working in No. 2, with several other men, (as before stated). The warehouse was eight stories high, including the cellars. Shortly after it fell deceased was missed. Rooms 3 and 4 were filled with fl mr, in barrels, piled five high, and fifteen a'ross the roam, with a gangway between them. Witness did not consider such a weight too much for the rooms of a well standing warehouse. Nos. 5 and 6 were filled with barley belonging , to Mr. Tipping, thrown down in bulk. No. 7 was filled with wheat and pease, belonging to Messrs. William Steele and Co., both in bulk. No. 2 had wheat. He had known the warehouse for 13 or 14 years. Patrick Scantlin, a porter, knew deceased, and was at work with him in No. 2. Between 11 and 12 o'clock on Saturday week, witness observed two of the beams over his head, and between him and the door, giving way. They broke in the centre, and the floor and everything above it came tumbling in. He made to the door to heave himself out. He got out through the door by a rope, and then found all the warehouse had come down, except the end at the Old Ropery, and part of the roof. It appeared to him to be sound and safe, if not overlo tded.* Tne wheat taken in was Mr. Slattery's. Tne cross-beams were supported by props. Edward Newman, a porter, was in the jigger -loft at the time. There was a'noise like a clap of thunder. Witness was at the Old Ropes , / end of the warehouse. He stopped a moment or two at the jigger. The dust then over powered him, and he got down the stairs as far as No. 2. The stair was choked up with barrels of flour. He made his escape. John Evans, warehouseman to Mr. Dean, who rented the whole warehouse from Mr. Tipping, said Mr. Dean had taken it for three years certain, from the Ist January last, for general purposes, and let off rooms to different persons ; but no lease had been signed, nor was there yet any written agreement. John Sold/in, a porter, was in No. 2, with deceased. There might be in it 1000 sacks of wheat, more or le:s, which covered the better half of the floor, but was in no place near the top. It was trimmed up in the usual way. There was at first a noise like thunder, and then the building fell. Mr. Lawter, warehouseman to Mr. Slattery, said the room (No. 2) was taken from Mr. W. Dean's warehouse man, by witness himself, at 355. a week, and Mr Dean was told it was for wheat, but nothing was said about the quantity. It was a bonded warehouse, but not especially so. The room ought to have contained 2-100 sacks, and he thought there were only about 1371 sacks in it at the time. Its area was 240 yards superficial. It was only about three-fourths filled. Wheat might be placed four teen bricks high from the floor, in the lower rooms. In some parts it was but twelve bricks in this instance, in others more or lesa. A witness stated that the warehouse was propped from the cellars, which,were arched, to the top. Mr. S. Holme, (builder,) being sworn, said he had been sent for by the mayor, on the morning of the 31st January, and proceeded to the warehouse to view it with him. lie found about two-thirds of it had fallen into Moor-street. The direction in which it appeared to have fallen was south-west. About half the western wall was down, and the whole of the front next Moor-street had also fallen: The beams had drawn out of the eastern wall, hut no portion of that wall was disturbed. A part of it was dangerous, and he had it pulled down. He also got his men to prop the front wall at the old ropery, as it was bulged out. He had since gone will Mr. John Stewart. and Mr. Weig,htman, and made an inspection of the warehouse and a sketch ; but they found at present nothing by which they could judge of the cause of the accident. His present impression, judging from am e.ir ances, was that the cause of the accident would never be discovered. It might have arisen from a defect in the bottom props. The coroner here suggested to the jury that the case should he adj9urned for further evidence. He alluded to the late tank accident, on the first inquest relative to which (and involving six lives) only one scientific gentle man had given evidence; yet on a second inquest on another of the sufferers, a very different verdiel was come ro. He thought, therefore, they should have further evidence to satisfy the public mind. He also considered it proper that Mr. Tipping (who had not appeared) should be examined. The jury concurred, and after Mr. Stewart. in reply to the coroner, had stated that he could not account for the accident in the present state of the ruins, the inquest was adjourned till that day fortnight—the 23rd instant—by which time the hoitom of the warehouse may be examined by Mr. Holme and others. We should add that a person presen►, who was questioned by Mr. Holme, said that the iron doors were put into the warehouse about two years ago in a peculiar way ; and Mr. U. said that the fixing of them as stated would not in the slightest degree weaken the The deceased was a widower, aged about 50, and has left five children. COLLISIONS ON THE RIVER YFSTERDAY.— Yes'er day, as the brig Limena, the property of Messrs. Clay pole and Son, bound for Puerto Rico, was under sail on her outward voyage, sha ran foul of the Pearl barque, the property of Watson Brothers, which was being towed out on a voyage for Tohasco. The effect of the collision was, that the Pearl had her main and mizen masts carried away, and the Limena was also injured. Both vessels put back. Last evening, the Hannibal ran foul of an outward bound Spanish vessel, and sprung her bow sprit. She will have to dock. The John Books, an inward bound vessel, lying off the King's Dock, had her bow sprit carried away, by a vessel being towed across her bow. She will have to go to dock. THE EGYPTIAN TRANSIT COMFANY.—The Times of yesterday, after announcing that at the time of the last advice& leaving Alexandria, no tidings of the Bombay mail had arrived there. The Pacha has superseded the Transit Company managed by Mr. Waghorn, and put his grand son, Governor of Cairo, at the head of it, with subordi nate Turks and Egyptians to assist him. Mr. Waghorn built all the stations on the desert, and they are now taken possession of by the Pacha—this will annihilate the whole of the English interests in the overland route, if Lord Aberdeen' does not immediately instruct Colonel Barnett what to do forthwith. All this is the work of French intrigue, and It has been their study to effect this object for the last five years; they have at last taken ad vantage of the Pacha's partial imbecility, for he has not been himself, in the opinion of diplomatists, since his abdication for a whole week in August, 1844 Since then gigantic schemes have arisen under French auspices, and Alexandria, Damietta, and the sea coast have assumed a warlike aspect under French engineers, who have per. suaded the Pacha the English are determined to take his country. Since this order of the Pacha's has gone forth, the chief of one of the Tor tribes has been murdered on the desert, and the greatest consternation existed at all the desert stations in consequence, pat ticularly at No. 2, near which the murder took place. It is said that Mr. Waghorn anticipated this three months ago, and forth with despatched his partner to the Committee of the Bombay Steam Fund, again to obtain the station-houses, which are still vieir property, in order to counteract this unfortunate interruption to our communications with CHANGE OF THE WEATHER.—SAILING OF VESSELS YESTERDAY.—For several weeks past we have had at this port and the neighbouring coasts successions of gales or strong winds from the westward, which (as will 'be found by our shippii.g intelligence) have vroved fatal to many fine vessels making for onr port. The same cans , . has detain"d many others, ready for sea, in our docks, which had consequently become unusually crowded, to the exclusion from berths of many large craft which had arrived in our river. On Sunday night (on the eve of lull 'mon), a change took place, the wind veering to the north, and finally, yesterday, to about the N.N.E., grid a sharp black frost set in, which in a short time covered the pools in the town and the ponds in the neighbourhood with ice. This wind being favourable for vessels outward bound. especially after they have passed the Bell-buby, all was yesterday morning before high watFr (which was about eleven o'clock,) in commotion at our dock basins and piers, in hauling out and setting .sail. Steam-tugs were in such requisition that twice the :dispoSable number would have found employment, and many large vessls, bound to various ports abroad, were nects-itated to beat down the streani. About forty vessels sail-d for foreign pors, and nineteen coastwise. These, with many :others inward-bound; or moving about, together with many fine vessels at anchor, including the magnificent Ship Duke of Lar, caster, formed a beautiful and animated: marine lie- Lure. Could'ateam-tugs have been obtained - many more Would have sailed, and if the wind continues in the same quarter to day. we shall.have again to_report a great num ber of departures. The . breeze was rather fresh, and ,the cold—though the sun shone out—most piercing. After. so open a winter, the old saying is verified, that " as the day le; gthens, the cold strengthens." ENGLISH ORNAMENTAL GLASS. —The progress of British ihdttstry and ingenuity is not more fully illustrated than in : the manufacture of ornamental glass. It has hitherto been - considered, that however strong might be the claims of the English artizan to superiotity in manu factoring domestic articles of glass, to Bohemia was con ceded the credit of surpassing all other nations in produding ornamental manufactures. We have now, however, the pleasure of stating, that, by the completion of a series of successful experiments, our little isle is not only able to compete with, but actually to surpass, the continent in manufacturing what may be termed " Bohemian Glass," which, though beautifully rich, will not bear comparison with some specimens we have seen of home manufacthre. The splendid colours produced by the mixture of metal do not in the foreign .appear so well amalgamated, andione other• important superiority in the competing article is, that the psi -ting and gilding with which the glass is ornamented is perfectly durable, being burnt, in—the, only deficiency hitherto urged against the Bohemian manufacture. Mr. Smith, of Bold:-street, "who represents the inventor, has sent two specimens to our office, which may be seen during the day. It is made in a thousand different forms, and is peculiarly adapted for chimney-piece ornaments. . ~ Feb. k DE VAST INCREASE OF THE TIMBER T-- - OF LIVERPOOL. mbarinto the circular of an influential firm, just I , o — ,'„,ber we learn that the foreign and colonial irnportS t "",, of into this port during the past year, have e xceded tol - t he the preceding year by 70,088 tons, and an averar ° of five preceding years by 114,333 tons. On an the ten years preceding the present, it e_mploYed 3 _, 64 l ein• sels with a total of 169,281 tons; and has this Yr"'„ or e. ployed 563 vessels, with 273,646 tons, an increase t i tle cudented in the history of any port in the kingdeo l . the following table contrasts the tonnage employed . 0 timber trade this year with that of the previous 011:;05 From Feb. I, 1845, to Feb.l. 1846 From Feb.l, 1844, to Fe." 4 . 00. Vessels. Tons. Vessels. ; 4 0 Quebec 214 .... 125,325 Quebec. ... 158 •• • • 9 , 4 0 St. John, 239 .... 114,529 Nt. John, . &c. 211 •• " 14 :11 4 Baltic ll3 •• • • 33,792 Baltic ...... 5. 1 •• • 201 55 ; Total 566 .... 273,64 Total ...... 420 ••• • , n tea aerageo. So trifling has been the supply of those woods asertbe for the construction of ships of the first class tbat," / 0 present moment this one of the greatevt m aritime l id in the world, is in the anomalous position of 11 ° t b eri a elfe in stock a single log of foreign wood suitable for a g t he u rag years' ship. There can be no question, theref o re, 0 ! the policy which, by removal of duties, would encoed:o supply of such woods from all aa parts of the world , all events, admit, free of duty, all oaks, hard e a 0° masts, spars, treenails, pitch pine, and such ' l °4oo enter largely and almost exclusively into the c onstr" of sh , s. Tne p following is the extent of the imports dog squared timber for the two years :- 1845. - 1846. t. Quebec........ 3,664,969 feet 5 591,076 fee t• St. John ...... 1,836,021 „ ........ 2,248,:332 " M iramici•i 49,241 . . Other Ports ... 185,925 Red Pine 420,418 „ ....... . 464, 2 ° 2 The mahogany trade is stated to have been nearly Otto bled. he business in Canabian timber is though t ° b the have been remunerative to the importers, owing', r oe unnaturally high prices in the colonies, and the hid° of freights. ot her To-day is the sixth anniversary of the Marr ia g e Majesty and Prince Albert. office of The Marquis of Abercorn has accepted the ,„ the Groom of the Stole to Prince Albert, vacant resignation of the Marquis of Ex. ter. is n °t SOUTH-EASTERN RAILWAY EXTENSIONS. -- ! ditlb .,, the case that these proj cis are doomed in St'",_,to orders Committee. The objection raised against teecti, lidity of the deed, as being one deed for severa l Pr °J is not A Barcelona journal of the 30th publishes an in° col% ble statement ofa collision having taken place a t Ver3 tri° t ' (date not given) between the Spanish brig of war rs_ost and a British frigate, in which the Spaniards bad t° of three men killed arid the British 60. n t6o According to the latest accounts from tbe en . e 0 0' Berne, the population bad declared, by an ityrneh,4 0' jority, in favour of the convocation of a constitusroo setnbly. The excitement was very great; trees of " had been planted on different points. ort v On the 3lst ult. Dr. Roux, the celebrated Paris's so. list, operated on the eldest son of Don Carlos, I °s o is taract, which had manifested itself some years °Lob e one of his eyes The Gazette de Berry mentions ti'..oe operation only lasted a few seconds, and had beer neatly successful. :re The Universal German Gazette announces frg°vAld lernio, 19:h ult., that on that day the Prince 11°, 0 0 Wurtemberg and the Grand Duchess Olga were se gla ce affianced to each other in the Greek chapel of the .es t, of Olinazzo. The Empress of Russia, who was P re sie r ' is said to be so much recovered as now to be out o t V at tb e Letters from Florence of the 27th ult. state , t e u ars ttl extradition of M. Renzi loid caused a very unf o s impression in 'l'uscany. Placards had be , n 13 061 !„ e le the streets of Florence denouncing death against de' rasters. The Grand Duke, visibly affected by thil it e d e monstrations, had left for La Maremma, a distric t 2 7.1). along the Mediterranean, where he was still on AWFULLY SUDDEN DEATHS—On Saturday irk stone. mason, named John Hodge, as he was onu.,ol' home from work, ran into the surgery c f Mr „ Market -street, Birkenhead, and dropped dow n lo b Mr. Lyddon attempts.ld to bleed him, by making4 s o; sion in the jugular vein, hut it was of no avail• ddev fellow is the third person who has died equally 5 " 1 in Birkenhead during the lest f rtnight. is g. tilti d r POTATOES. IMPORTANT F AC T.—It is very f e that while in many places potatoes are so much norl,lrbir; of, so scarce, and so dear. in th e market town w • i boo t i . they are offering weekly, by SCO or 600 bushels v ' t single diseased potatoe ter be Seen, and at from 2s- W „ r e fi t) ; per bushel, heaped measu re ; and, what is st prier. there is the readiest access to Thirsk, by r , isrF from most parts of the kingdom. On Monday 105 quantities went away unsold.— Leeds ACTION BY A SHAREDROKER.— On Fl , ' — dict, Rooney, a stock and share-brt ker. obtained c e p r ,orse;; the Court of Queen's Bench, Dublin, against P r ' 'tot' i. for £1390 Ils. 3d. damages, with costs, the a tvout`;ol,; of account for railway: shares. Mr. Napier, Q. C ";;rifc. s t objection to the validity of the transactions , co"' lines which were not provisionally registered• took a rota of the ohj-ction. foe' 1 ,„ le r e, SOMETHING WRONG.—The following rernarre-cbcros appear from the report of the Northern Railway 0 ' „,eet, ° 4 read at the meeting of last week :—l-t, the n u ,.," e '.ti"'.t shares transferred amount to 571,741, being ( „ ) ",,d, ' 1 ;69 more than the total amount of shares issusd ; 11, 4 0 the buyers are to the sellers in the preporti", .„tt l buyers to 8,884 sellers. On the 31st of linuarY 400,000 shares issued were possessed by 18, 000 being in the proportion of 22 shares to each holder' . 10 4' The Canterbury branch of the South-Eastern T i t ,' ti t about fifteen miles long, was opened on Friday, wit aton e great rejoicings. A dinner in celebration ( 14 t t1 ,: e 3,1 0° ,,, was giv. n at Canterbury by the Corporation, t";: presiding, and supported on his right by Mr. gregor, Chairman of the South-Eastern Conlp,!„%el; l ` r , delivered a very interesting address. Amongst n"a , sent were Lord Torrington, the Dean of Canterbury J. and Mr. J. Buchanan, of Liverpool. I,' a 00 MR. BRIGHT, M. P. AND THE TEN HOUR% 6 71 '0 iridig On Tuesday night, the operatives employed in m il t , ner's (a strong advocate of the ten hours' bill) co on t o Preston, met and passed resolutions emphatica ll y r et i° ,o dieting the statement made by Mr. Bright, on th' P t Thu , sday evening, in the House of Commons " i L g s Mr. Gardner reduced the hours of w o rk to 1 1, ic," e s n Gardner) increased the speed of his steatme" l- 0 01% other machinery, and made up for lost time h, ) ", some minutes from the meal hours of his people' grid 1 :0 DESTRUCTIVE FIRE AT SUNDERLAND. --0 1, morning, about six o'clo c k, a d es t ruct i ve fi re brtitece the extrusive p , per manuf a ct or y b e l ong ing t° ; ,ais t s: Hutton, Fletcher, and Co.. s it ua t e a t D ept 'Ord, to borough of Sunderland. N o thi ng cou ld be done did o, anything of value ; and the whole of the proper t Y i n r be worth from £6OOO to .£BOOO. was, in an hour destroyed. There was a g r ea t s t oc k of paper , a orTis tured, on the premises, b es id es a b ou t 100 tons ni rn ° u se' • and a great weight of rags and other materials paper making, all of which burnt with. rapiditY• o n t a il A deputation, respecting a reduction of dnti r joi" o o had an interview with Sir Robert Peel, on Sit his official residence in Downing-street. The ve oP l l o o' was headed by Lord Sandon, M.P., Sir Howar d 0 1, „ li t M.P., and included a deputation from Livernetbe sisting of Mr. Charles urner, Chairman nf i . India and China Association; Mr. William ,Niec'',! Ott' v thf, Chairman; Messrs. William Potter, William 1;1 8 ',... 0 1 , 0 1 Christopher Rawson, and John Scott, meriw e :sti ll " s t; association; a deputation from Manchester, en n- t hrile Mr. Robert' Gardiner and Mr. Robert James 4Ce ° s 3' and a deputation from Lonlion, consistini , of ` ins A Larpent, Chairmen of the East India and ciation, ann Mr. Samuel Greg,son, Deputy-Cl air e nor,d BRITISH MANUFACTURFC. — A concesa , on .t ":4 Lance of which to the manufacturers ge perallY r e d 1 kind of ornamental and useful article- in this co tin, e 0 0 not well be over estimated, has lately been On' (:ail v ill‘; the government. By the regulations of the on n.i tt e, department, patterns and samples of foreign CO 00,0 woollen, or other manufactures in the loom , are Pro' (of to be imported into this country free of dotY . , t le o ale that the articles are of so small a size as to h e %er any other purpose; but all o ther a r ticles, w he e l P', 1 10; of glass, china, or metal, which may/be intenr t `bstg, e purp 'se of patterns, are, upon, importation r ae nv o tt with the duties legally due thereon.' In o°s° oo lll earnest remonstrances on this subject, g overn de l detertnitied to admit such samples and pattern - p i e ill'? introduced into the country, free of qti dutv•, the P,ef' to Renee, in the first inaoe, is to be confin e° of London, Liverpool. Bristol, Hull, Leith, Dublin,. Cork, and Belfast. or Rto MAR RlRD.—Yesterday, at St. Nicholas's Churl,icro, Mr. Philips. Mr W. Davison. C orn an d Pro , ia 113 ,?,, ‘1 l ot e Martha, eldest daughter of Mr. I). E. C. Dir''' - ' , master of French park, County Roscommon• d • A B°3s' BiRTII.—On the Bth instant, the wife of Rob ert of a son and heir.' 9: of 't or LIVERPOOL CATTLE MA RICO I...., g rite t oc e .itO We .have had a good supply of Beasts at ou r ";, t last et 0 4 for the time of the year, which met with dn:lsale. r ol e O tt o' prices.. The supply of Sheep was small. t h e ; i , brisk side at' ligh prices. Beef bid to 61d n or to Bd. f - LIVERPOOL COTTON MARKET.:„Eite4eitefi, The Cotton market bas not been quite so an ) ;" t , nevertheless a good sti , ady business has tic?..n o, ef it of boon bates, at full prices. The better descripte ands¢ trip can are not showing quite so freely as 0 la t pr ces have been obtained. The •trade seem t°Pl' ton e and altogether the market haw a firm and steady LIVERPOOL: 10 ' . TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 10, - ',4 ,G; PRINTED AND PUBLIS HED sI ' EVERY TUESDAY goit al, d ' BY tref o t % JOSHUA FLETCHER LACE, of 53. Grove'. a d LEONARD ADDISON, of 14 Great Orford `ire i , ypr ce t At No. 4, Si'. GISOROU'S CaNiCZNYA LOS SI° : /4el i t ,ftrCr Orders and Advertisements are received by hte, s ,!„ l.-. 0, e ,, e . 1500 . , y d B e i r n c h i i i !i t; 1 a m n o e n ; d, Jos eph 7 i, Thomas, Co , Warwick-square ; Barker and VV",rbA r h `l 4 ll; li r a , Deacon, Walbrook Renell, ChancerY - l ap' ' cor o l4eco f ;. court, Fleet-street ; Lewis and Lowe,.3. Cas tle git ,c ,,ter r iCt, hill; at the London Commetcial Coact-WIZ C1,1,010(1:, at the Jerusalem Co ff ee-house, Core d but MitC•le _o ip cOl e fee-house, Paternoster-row ; North - sm. . 9 ,i• f) tf e, Coffee house, Threadneedle-street ; rtr 3 ,,,S in ,"; Qll o ,:et J e ile,l lane, London ; Johnston and Co-. r ur i e- - S i r oo°. - 0 . arstlieFetin;ch-190-11' I° ' 0 0 ' 1 , ' Wheeler, Exchange-street, and C. 1F 1 _,,,,. 't, - ,,,,t . h. " v oig Manchester Haddock, and J. and w• " pji Warrington: Clarke, Pilot-office, PL-cst:o I Dain, Herald-office, Birmingham., ,„,.,,..._.......:._ s ttrEA Untie ' Sec ond - N. brury_i period, THIS P will bo I Of the ', Ltr o Ifoß 1 44 e _ “an and co b e t° s tPonel host ko 1,1.0 costly Atir ti es , ,„ °cities. °e ‘ tr lc E• C lasC a bran It willeblec)o, play Until A' I'lriti)lllolevse.:6(l° a,e II ( f to ors to b rn Mence Il e 110 x. ( Rlee, whet r,j' s, th e h e o • Chi] the b usiness LIVER F IRST ki ss -Wa PLANOFOI e Oh _o t, 8 1 ,: fer r.: e‘cloiCßlP 4t4744.ab1e at fined at See Co, na CCIN CER Y anci G R ON p ßii In wt hiss et 'and ),YEAL] ano-t Tieerved Sei ktAiZt: Sy CANCER' GR. o2v aic NEThe P rogram 'leo LNG, ILV k u s i a l llA r ti 8t t s erved o clod SO/R EE G tiAl l7 bk,e2(ets to be PLA.T li tPo 52 Ir3l lit al ways eHim fit} si ft ; Nlw a tlkprz „i ti l t: 3 the g 1 e will be ( B eroonisse TEE FOREIGN CORN MARKETS. The monthly circular of Messrs. Body and Co., just published, gives some data with respect to the present state of the foreign corn markets, which, if they can be depended on as accurate, shew that, from the continent r.f Europe at least, we need be under no immediate expec tation of such supplies as will cause a large reduction in the price of corn for some time to conic. Only five grain. laden vessels for English ports hail passed the Sound and Belt between the 20!h and the 26th of January; and it would appear that most of the wheat stored in the prin cipal European markets will be wanted for home or Euro pean consumption. The French ports are now !Ten at the lowest duty of 7d. per quarter ; and it is anticipated that, with the scarcity of grain in the country, Franc must buy largely in a few months, and probably outbid all other countries in the markets from which her supplies are to be drawn. In Norway and Sweden serious want exists. Common barley, for the consumption of these countries, is shipping in the Danish islands et 2fis. per qr. In the Baltic barley is selling at 255. W., rye at 365., and oats at '2os. per quarter, which is their full value. duty paid, in England. In Ho'lond prices 'were run up 3s. per quarter on receipt of intelligence of Sir Robert Peel's pro positions; and grain of all kinds is high in price, and very firmly held. In Odessa the finest wheats were quoted on the 4th January at 355. fid. to 38s. 6d. fiee on board, and would have brought higher rates, but for a scarcity of shipping. Secondary qualities were worth about 345. Prices, however, have since advanced considtr , bly, and as the stocks, which are not large, are eagerly taken up for the north of Europe, there seems little chance of any great quantity finding its way to Great Britain. THE POTAIOE DISEASE IN IRELAND. A report of the commissioners of inquiry into matters connected with the failure of the potatoe crop in IrPlant]. was laid on the table of the House of Common: , on Friday night, on the motion of Mr. O'Connell ; and certainly contains Some revelations of a startling character. " It appears from undoubted authority," says the re. port, " that of 32 counties in Ireland, not one has escaped failure in the potatoe crop; of 132 Poor-law unions, not one is exempt; of 2,058 electoral divisions, above 1,400 are certainly reported as having suffered ; and we have no certainty until the receipt of the more minute returns now in progress of completion, that the remaining 600 have altogether escaped." How this alarmiag state of things is to b' met is not very clearly indicated, or apprehended, by the Commis sioners. The poor-houses, at present tar from full, appear to be looked to as affording some promise of usefulness. The employment.of the people in public works, however. is their main reliance to preserve the country from famine; but the employment must be upon a most extensive scale, and will require very complicated arrangements to regu late it. Sir John M`Neill, the celebrated engineer, who has been consulted, expresses his opinion that the employ ment on such public works rarely extends its bens-fits over a gre.tter distance than five miles from the locality of such employment. If this is the c.se something dif ferent 'from railway works will have to be provided ; ut what that may be the Commissioners appear at a loss to state. Draining or road making, we presume, must be had recourse to; but the difficulty will be to provide the requisite surveys in time, and to ascertain upon whom the cost will have to fall. It is clear that we cannot support the people of Ireland until n-xt harvest without some con tribution from the owner of the bish soil; and they do not betray any great inclination to bear their portion of the burthen. From the feeling which prevails, with res pect to the export of food from the con' try , it is not at all unlikely that the peasantry will themselves cut the Gordian knot, by taking the matter 'lnto their own hands. A starving people very readily get rid of their notions of the difference between meurn and tuum. The subject of the lecture at Sc. Anirew's Church, this evening, is " The use and abuse of Forms." THE MERCURY'S CROTCHETS.—Our contemporary makes but a lame eff , rt to get out of his blunder of last week, as to the million sterling of taxation which would be the effect of the duty of a shilling per quarter upon foreign wheat. The Mercury cannot have read the poli cal economists, or he would have known that the position be has taken refuge in is not tenable. l'oli>ical econo mists almost unanimously agree in the doctrine, that small duties for revenue do not come out of the pockets of the consumer. We would recommend him to consult M'Cul loch. THE EVANGELICAL ALLIANCE.—The Rev. J. West. chaplain to Dr. Whately, archbishop of Dublin, in the course of a letter announcing the opposition of his grace to the Alliance, says." At a party of deny recently as sembled, I called attention to the Rev. Mr. M'Neile's valuable statement of his reasons for declining to join the Evangelical Alliance.' The archbishop quite agrees with Mr. M'Neile in considering that the elements which are to compose this a Hance, are such as to render unity in .any course of action impracticable, and that its progress in the direction supposed to be aimed at, must terminate at the first step—the mere profession of union. For ii is not so much in general principles that men differ as in the application of them." RAILWAY DEPOSITS.—On Wednesday night the total sum actually passed to the credit of the Accountant. Ge neral with the Bank did not much exceed £5 000,000; but as the bankers' deposits, which are generally a little more or less than £1,000,000, were at that time full £5,000,000, it was concluded that at least £4,000,000 was waiting orders to be transferred to the railway deposit ac count, all parties in fact deferring them to the latest mo ment possible, in the hope of receiving some light on the policy of the Government from the report of the select committees. On'Thursday, there being no syniptom of its appearance, the payments went on with great rapidity, and they had reached on the ef , ernoon of that day to nearly £10,500,000. Th receipts of Friday, the last day, made up the amount to £11,492,000. ST. JOHN'S CHURCH SCHOOLS, GREAT CROSSHALL STREET.—The friends of scriptural education in this town will be gratified to learn that these schools, which Were opened a fortnight since in a most densely-populated ald depraved part of the town, are now completely filled. At present, 260 children, many of whom up to this time were perishing for lack of knowledge, are there be ne hist, ucted in the wev which leadeth unto life eternal, and trained also to do their duty in that state of life unto which it shall please God to call them But we are pained at being compelled to add that the accommodation afforded by the present rooms is by no means commensurate with the wants of the district. Yesterday upwards of 40 parents in the neighbourhoOd applied for admittance for their children, but applied in vain. The schools are filled to overflowing. Regard to the comfort and health of the children compels the committee to else the doors against all applicants. Further accommodation is loudly called for, and we think the cry, will not be unheeded iu Liver pool. The present sch ool-rooms are only rented, and they must soon, we think, he exchanged for others more spacious and commodious, in permanent connexion with St. John's Church and'dietrict. THE BRITISH SALT TRADE.—The proprietors of the extensive salt works in Cheshire, Worcestershire, and other court ies where this most necessary article is pro duced, are doing all they possibly can ta render it a most important branch of British commercial industry. The opening of the salt trade with China, via Hong Kong, and the increasing dema d making for our presidencies in India, has given an extraordinary impetus to the'manu facture of the article. The constructing of railways will have the most beneficial result to the mining interest, not only in our copper. iron, tin, lead, and coal districts, but the salt as well. The great commercial port of Liverpool has hitherto had nearly the whole of the salt export trade; but a rival is now starting op in the city of Gloucester. The transmission Of brine from the Worcestershire salt works by rail to Gloucester for exportation has, for some time past, been one of the grand projects of the manu facturers of that county. The quantity made in WorceS tershire is, on an average, about 100,000 tons of white, salt, more than one third of which is shipped even now ato Gloucester; and the trade is: rapidly improving. The expense of fuel, in consequence of the high price of con veyance, has. been a great 'drawback to the counties of Chester, Worcester., and Gloucester, althoug h there is plenty of coal. NN hen the Dean Forest Railway is com pleted, the latter city will be mord, adiantageously situated, as it will possess an inexhaustible supply of cheap carbonic mineral, which can be delivered direct from the tram to 1 the salt works.—Minisp Journal. 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