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

TO CORRESPONDENTS. as made t aquiry, we have racntained ,m the verdict was returned Wednesday, is not the Rev. Samuel Fenton, of Wavertr cot 7Litnrpoo ' zntbalb. TUESDAY MORNING, APRIL 7, 1846. In calling attention to the misapprehension of the respective duties of two such important bodies as the Council and the Dock Committee, who have under their immediate management two vast estates with distinct and separate interests, we would not be understood to take upon ourselves to decide which, in a legal sense, is in the right or which is in the wrong ; but we venture to give a passing opi nion on what appears before us, arising out of the recent debate in the Town Council. Whatever may he the real amount of power trans ferred to the Dock Committee by the alteration of the dock constitution made by the act 6 Geo. IV., it isagreed by the legal authorities of both bodies that the Dock Committee is not a committee of the council, inasmuch as eight of its members are elected by the dock rate-payers, over whore► the Council cannot exercise the smallest control, either by rejection or an other means is also admitted by both these respected au thorities that nothing whatever can be originated in the Town Council relating to the management of the docks under the existing acts; and that the only controlling power of the council consists in the exer cise of a veto, to annul or confirm the Dock pro ceedings; that a hare majority i.; not sufficient for one or the other ; and that two-thirds alone of the trustees present can give effect to this power. Thus far both parties appear to be perfectly in accord. The difference of opinion arises as to who has the power to originate new matter beyond the existing act of parliament ? 'Who is then to take the initiative ? The Dock Committee claim this power, subject, as in all their proceedings, to the approba tion of the trustees in council assembled. This claim, as far as we know, has always been conceded to the Dock Committee, whether as a matter of convenience or not is not for us to say. We con tent ourselves with recording the fact and expressing our opinion of the reasonableness of such a course ; for who so likely to know, and judge so correctly of, the requirements, 'wants, wishes and demands of the port, as those who have the absolute control and management of the estate, with the reservation of the veto ? Who can be so well qualified ? . On the part of the trustees it is contended that the sole power belongs to them of originating new matter beyond the existing acts of parliament; that they alone can take the initiative to obtain a new act of parliament for dock extension, or any other purpose; and that a bare majority is sufficient for the exercise of this power. This may be so, but it certainly appears to us to he an anomaly that two thirds should be necessary in the cne case, and a bare majority sufficient in the other. It appears, moreover, to be a contention on the part of the trustees, for..a shadow,—for we have yet to learn of their ever having originated any alteration in the deck acts—any new schemes of dock extension—or proposed any new plans,—all, that we are aware of, since the alteration of the dock constitution in the year 1825, having had their origin with, and ema nated from, the Dock Committee. To illustrate the point at issue, by a case anala gous to that of the trustees of the Liverpool docks, we may cite the case of the trustees of the Duke of Bridgewater. The trustees do not originate new docks or basins, canas or railways : these originate in charge of the Bridgewater estate; the trustees approve or disapprove of any pro sed changes ; and so it is, we believe, in all public ampanies where there are trustees, instances of which surround us in this town. We do not, however, take upon ourselves to de le which party is in the right in a strictly legal and, we think, the proposition of the chair man of the Dock Committee was a fair and reason and might have been acceded to, without derogating from the dignity of the cil and its supremacy, as trustees with an ab on all the Dock Committee's proceedings, never been disputed cr brought in ble one The Chairman's proposition was, that the Town Clerk and Dock Solicitor should agree upon a case to be submitted to eminent counsel, well acquainted with the Dock Acts, such as Messrs. Austin, Talbot, and Wilde, and to let such opinions lie binding on both parties. Such a course we do think both fair and just, and ought.to have been acquiesced in with a view to bring the matter to an amicable conclusion. The case of Mr. Woods, editor and proprietor of the Wolverhampton Chronicle, brought d ur ing the .11c. before the notice of the House of Corn is one which really ought to attract legisla tive attention to the present anomalous, and, to our own order, highly dangerous state of the law of libel. The circumstances are briefly these. Sometime complaints were said to exist against the con of themaster of a local free grammar school, ^onduct its public utility was diminished ; I.,sioner, Dr. Allen, was t down to institute an enquiry. The result was lrt by this gentleman, reflecting strongly upon , ter, and imputing the decline of the school 'olent chastisement which he was in the - _ting upon his pupils. Against this ,ne master objected, as injurious to him, and 3roceeded agaidst the commissioner, who was de tended •by the government, his employers, and although subjected to nominal damages, by them borne harmless. The same report, however,—a public document,—had been copied into a local paper, the Wolverhampton. Chronicle, with some editorial remarks appended ; and against the pro prietor of that paper the master recovered a ver c -r5O damages and costs : _ . ast wee rurnent cornmi to the habit of moth With the precise character of the remarks in question we have nothing to do, for it is admitted that they had no effect in determining the verdict. It is for having published a govern ment report, which the Committee of the Privy Council thought so important that they di rected it to be printed in a cheap form and circu lated extensively, that the Chronicle has been mulcted in £5O and the heavy costs of defending an action. There can be no charge of injurious intention against our contemporary—no private malice alleged. He was acting solely in the discharge of a public duty ; and, morally, he was in no greater degree offending than if he had quoted from any of the blue books, issued by parliament, or from the proceedings of parliament themselves. He com mented upon the report, or he affixed a heading to it; and so far in one sense, he placed himself in the position of the government commissioner. The'lat ter, however, had the protection of the public purse held out to him; his employers have the protection of The unfortunate journalist, he ever, has no such protection ; and must either down his usefulness and become a dumb record, 'rcise his vocation at the continual risk of 'Wagged into court by any litigious party a lawyer. their privilege who can raise money to fe Really this state of things cannot he muc'i longer tolerated ; and would not if the public were at all aware of the extent to which t' e honest and faithful journalist is exposed to the mercy of evil-doers. The evidence of the Attorney General, given in the course of this debate, is strongly in favour of an alteration in the existing law. "He knew one case, a perfectly accurate report of an occurrence lad been published ; no exception could be taken to it, but the heading was in these words—' Shameful conduct of an attorney'; and in consequence a ver dict was given for the plaintiff." Is there, we ask, a journal in the kingdom, or one publication of it, n which some lynx-eyed legal practitioner might '-rials for an action under this in wlii :id similar mate libel law ? There scarcely is. We claim no immunity for the press. We ask not for it the privilege of prying into private charac ter and exposing the frailties of others. But we do contend that the press should not be utterly an un protected and almost a persecuted thing in the eye of the law. Submit us to some common sense and intelligible restriction of our privilege's ; but do not leave us surrounded with traps into which the most wary cannot avoid falling. Almightv God?" We have heard a good many devices mooted for DR. WE s S o L m EY. — h Th b e name of this talented individual has of rectifying the present state of the Railway Shar e u u te er in h &o a n u n s ex . ion with the noble i t c o es i : a n v S e t. George's rge's late been Market, and dealing with the mass of 'rail v instrument about ac to e lfe ar e a re t c h t e e l d ) sche . mes now before the legislature. Some of wa' Ilan, that the public generally will be glad P ;l o ng y i of hearing him deliver e a course of lectures at I t h se7leflo:l3loern devicesTahre purely selfish. Some are flagrantly thes e un rpo e ss ajp e ezp in ortunities The majority are preposterously absurd, as just. afforded them oilistening to his unsu well as unjust. Sweep away all the new schemes, the organ. Perhaps Mr. William Earle may do himself pleasure of attending. We feel satisfied that he has a soul the for and sanction only " necessary extensions and mal- 1 music in him, and honours genius wherever he may meet it. We perceive that on Tuesday next Dr. Wes le y commences his gam ations," exclaim the holders of new lines a bought ineui course, and that on that evening the illustrat i o ns will com p rise .up at more than their worth , d u r ing the • h e . selections from Mozart, Spar, Back, S, Wesley, St, Ambrose, '"I St. Gregory, &c, the large companies. Postpone the calls for three or five years upon all the new companies,—say some of the later. Both these modes involve selfish ness and injustice. The latest, however, to which the honourable member for Sunderland is said to have given his sanction, is characterized by absurdity and injustice beautifully combined, and, we observe, meets with considerable support. Mr. Hudson's proposal is a clause in each act of Parliament, to enable a given majority of the share holders of any line to wind up the concern, and to divide the funds in hand rateably amongst the holders of the scrip. " A very proper arrange ment !"—we hear some hundreds of provisional committee-men, solicitors, promoters, &c., with not a few of the unsophisticated public, exclaiming " Wind up these concerns, arid rid us of all further responsibility !" Let Mr. Hudson's clause be re trospective as well as prospective. Undoubtedly wise in their generation are the advocates of this mode of righting the railway vessel. But, gentle men, some of the unfortunate scripholders may say, with respect to this summary mode of dealing with what is now their property, why not have done this before you pocketed our premiums of £3 or £4 per share ? Your kind consideration for us and the public is very creditable ; but it comes too late. It may be very much to your interests, now, as pro prietors of the "great circumbendibus" to get rid of the "direct junction" line; but we, who are now the owners of the scrip of the latter would prefer holding on for a while, if you will permit us. We paid you extravagantly for the risk you ran ; do give us a chance, at least, of getting a portion of our money back ! If you have deserted the ship, you are scarcely the proper persons to sell the cargo. _ _ _ And reasonable, too, will be such a rejoinder to such a proposal. It may be all very true that many of the shareholders in once promising concerns, out of which they flattered themselves they had got with a profit, find now that they are not out at all ; and, like Sterne's starling, " can't get out." But Parliament will scarcely, we should think, make a " royal road" for them, by any such prepos terous enactment. Could matters be placed in statu qua', which they cannot be, and premiums refunded, which they will not be, the bulk of the corn panic might easily enough be wound up in the fashion proposed, or some other, equally feasible in appear ance. But the web is now too hopelessly entangled for such a ready straightening of its meshes. Mr. Hudson's proposal, as it stands, to apply the clause prospectively, may pass current ; but along with it, we must have other clauses lo protect the simple public from the dangerous power which Mr. Hud son would place in the hands of projectors, or we shall have their branch of business made more one of trick and chicanery than it has already been. As faithful chroniclers, we feel bound to com municate to our readers the following important announcement, the pomposity of which, we trust, will not startle the faith of the public in its correct ness. When we mention that its author is the Mercury, it will, doubtless, be received with all the authority of an official despatch, or a Ministerial declaration. The announcement ie appropriately headed by an extract from that profound writer " Punch," and thus proceeds our local "Judy"— ''THE OREGON QUESTION. - NO WAR "We were the first to make known the fact of the `Message of Peace' sent out to the United States on the 4th December, independently of, and indeed preceding, any possible despatch of the Times newspaper of that day's date. Our statement was caviled at by the uninformed, but events proved our accuracy in every particular. Look. tog at more recent events on both sides the Atlantic, and availing ourselves of intelligence from the best sources, we have now the satisfaction of intimating to merchants, manufacturers, and all whom it may concern, that we have now NO APPREHENSION WHATEVER Of war between this country and the States. Persons interested may, we implicitly believe, act as if the whole question lately in dispute were settled, and proclaimed by the respective Governments as being finally disposed Although we are really unaware of the circum stance connected with the " Message of Peace," we cannot doubt our contemporary's asseveration of his priority of announcement. The public must, how ever, be abundantly obliged to our contemporary for his intimation "to merchants, manufacturers, and all to whom it may concern, that HE (the Mercury) has now NO APPREHENSION WHATEVER of war be tween this country and the States." Such persons may go on with their business, as if there had been no " cloud rising in the far West." Mercury is sa tisfied : henceforth let no little dog bark The case of Woolmer v. Toby, *tried at Exeter, in which the defendant, who had applied for an allot ment of railway shares, which he subsequently re fused to take up, was compelled by a verdict against him, to pay the full amount of the deposit due, has had the effect of encouraging the provisional com mittees of many of the projected lines, in which a similar default of payment has been made, to resort to the law as the remedy. Circular letters have been flying about in all directions; and hosts of persons, who have previously regarded their liability as non-existent, and consequently have paid no at tention to applications made to them, are just now in a state of considerable trepidation and doubt as to the course they should pursue. As the .subject is, we dare say, of interest to many of our readers, some of whom are, perhaps, relying on the advice of very doubtful authorities urging them to resist even contribution to the expenses in curred, we feel it our duty to give the following opinion upon the question, which appeared in the Law Times of March 28 a journal which is gene rally received, even by the profession, as entitled to considerable weight in its judgement upon legal points : " We think, therefore, that there is little chance of an allottee escaping from the liability he has incurred, upon the merits; he must rest his hopes upon the technical difficulties in the way of maintaining such an action. But reliance on technicalities is never creditable to the party or his legal adviser, never safe, for the courts will defeat it if they can. The advantage of success is not to be measured against the hazard of defeat, especially where even success is dishonour. Far better will it be for allot tees to pay the trifling sum in most cases required of them, as their contribution towards the expenses, than to risk a law-suit, with its costs and anxieties. Distributed among so many, these expenses will fall lightly upon each; thrown upon a few, they are ruinous. We therefore re commend our readers, in all cases, to urge their clients to pay any reasonable contribution towards fair expenses, as being not only the most honest and honourable, but the most prudent course they cm adopt." Of course we have no opinion of our own to offer upon the subject. There may, in some instances, he special exceptions, in which companies by mal versation, or breach of the terms of the prospectus, upon the faith of which the application of the allot tee was made, have forfeited their claim. " The glorious uncertainty of the law" however is prover bial ; and people ought to pause before they tempt its consequences. THE QUARTERLY RECEIPTS AT THE LIVER- POOL CUSTOM HOUSI We have again at this port a decreasing quarterly revenue, arising principally from the reductions in raw materials and articles of consumption in this district. The gross revenue of the corresponding quarter of last year, viz., the three months ending the sth April, 1845, amounted to £928,973. To the 4th April this year, up to which date the return is made up, the re ceipts are only £793,424, thus showing a deficit of £135,549. The Liverpool Stock Exchange will be closed from Thursday next until the following Tuesday morning. The Rev. Walter Fletcher, Chancellor of the diocese of Car lisle, died on Wednesday, at the advanced age of 79. Yesterday, the Committee on Group 21 decided the preamble of the London and Oxford line, promoted by the Great Wes tern, not proved. THE EVANGELICAL ALLIANCE.—A public meeting was held at Birmingham, on Friday, which was numerously attended. Among other parties present, were the Revs. W. Ewbank, J. H. Stewart, and J. Todd Brown ' of this town. The poor-law commissioners have appointed J. T. Graves, Esq., barrister-at-law, of the Inner Temple, to be an assistant poor-law commissioner, in the place of Mr. Tufnell, who has resigned. Lord and Lady Stanley were to leaVe BelvoirCastle, where they have been visiting the Duke of Rutland, on Friday, for the Earl of Derby's, Knowsley Hall, with the intention of passing the holidays with the noble earl. Potocki, one of the leaders of the late revolt in Poland, has been condemned to death, and executed at Siedlce. SIR HENRY HARDINGE.—It is understood that the title of Sir Henry Hardinge will be Baron Penshurst, of Penshurst, in the county of Kent. OUR INDIAN VICTORIES.—A correspondent in yesterday's Times asks with brevity, but very pertinently, " May I inquire what amount of victory THE LIVERPOOL STANDARD. FAMINE AND FEVER LOSS OF THE COLONIES OF ENGLAND. [We are requested to insert the following letter to the Board of Trade at Hamilton, Canada West, from Mr. Isaac Buchanan, who is, or has up till this time been, its president.] Glasgow, 2d April, 1846. MACNAB, ESQ•, VICE•PRESIDENT, BOARD OF TRADE, HAMILTON. DEAR SlR,—Since I wrote you, indeed, since the end of January, try brother and 1 have continually been in London (either the one or the other of us), endeavouring to bring the Ministers, the Legislators, and the public, to a sense of the critical position into which free trade will undoubtedly bring all the colonies, but Canada in parti cular. I think I may say that, in awakening the people in this country to their own danger. we have been more success ful than we could possibly have expected, considering the gross ignorance that pervades English society on the sub ject 4 - 1 the colonies, and the consequent reluctance with which any colonist is listened to. And I may safely say that the CASE OF CANADA- was entirely overlooked by Lord John Russell when he wrote his ill-judged letter to the city of London, nor has it been any more CONS DERED by Sir Robert Peel, in framing his present measure. In fact, the present system of managing, (or managing to retard, to speak more correctly) the colonies, seems to me so farcical, that I see no hope of England retaining her colonies (even if free trade is not introduced into the empire) without the introduction of an im proved machi nery in Downing-street. You will observe, in my printed correspondence, that I propose that Government have two private secretaries for Canada, each to be three years at Montreal and three in London alternately. The general opinion in London (as to the way PEEL'S MEASURE will be shown to have been received in the col ony) is that the Canadian, like the Home INDUSTRY, will have its vital interests betrayed by the Judas kiss of its professing friends. " Keen were his pangs: but keener far to feel, He nursed the pinion which impelled the steel; While the same plumage that had warmed his nest Drank the last lite-drop of his bleeding breast." But at present I am far too serious to have any reference to Sir Robert Peel's allusion to the trade in feathers; himself, alas, now only a political feather, and used for Lord John Russell and O'Connell's purpose. It seems to have leaked out, or to be guessed at, that the Colonial Minister has been made to write out so strongly to the Colonial government to GET UP a demon stration in favour of, or at all events, to KEEP BACK any demonstration against, Free Trade, that the accounts per Ist April steamer will rather strengthen Sir Robert Peel's hands than otherwise! for the people of England will go no further into the matter than just to say—" Why the Parlia ment of Canada says so and so." Yon and I know that no member will be returned again who betrays " native indus try," but his present vote will be viewed as constitutional public opinion in the meantime, just as the votes of Sir Robert Peel's hundred and twelve apostates count none the worse for their not agreeing with the strongly-expressed wishes,.and the most vital interests of their constituents. If the Canadian legislature, and the Montreal mercan tile interest, prove true to the body-politic of Canada—the agriculturists—some protection to the home and colonial grower and mechanic, could still be got, I feel assured, for the public here are beginning to have some idea of the value to the empire, directly and indirectly, of the colonies, and of the fact, that THEY ARE THE ONLY COUNTRIES IN THE WORLD WHERE BRITISH MANUFACTURES HAVE PROTECTION YIELDED TO THEM—a privilege which the adoption of Free Trade here must withdraw, as a matter of course, even during the short period of their remaining colonies. —.—... I am - scarcely believed here when I assure people how strait-laced protectionists the Americans are in their own country, for in England the Americans array them selves, AS ONE MAN, for Free Trade, which I should think might be viewed as proof that they suppose it will not prove for the benefit of England, or for the permanency of her institutions. The Irish papers of last week more strongly than ever deny that there is any ground for the wide-spread apprehensions of the desolating effects of famine and fever. With respect to the former, the Dublin Mad— an excellent authority—confidently asserts that the "cry is conceived in faction and is attempted to be sustained by fabrication." In the County Down the country in general is free from fever, and the districts are much more healthy than usual. In King's County there is much less of sickness, and especially of fever, than there has been for several years. The same accounts are received from other quarters. As regards the fa mine cry, we give the following brief summary of facts, premising that the Irish journals give long statistical tables on the subject. In thirteen of the principal mar ket towns of Ireland, including Dublin, Cork, Wa terford, Limerick, and Belfast, potatoes are now selling at the average price of 4id. per stone. Oat meal in the same towns is selling at the average price of 14s. 9d.per cwt., and the Belfast Mer cantile Journal—a purely commercial paper—in re cording the fact, adds this pregnant observation, " This is far from the price in times rf scarcity." The whole county of Armagh, first by the resolution of its Grand Jury, and then by the proceedings of a general meet ing convened on the subject, has rejected the idea of scarcity or the necessity of having recourse to the pre cautions of Government, one of the resolutions stating that there are sufficient provisions for the county and ample employment for the people. The great counties of Down and Antrim had already come to the same decision. In Cork county we find, on the authority of the Cork Relief Committee, that the alarm is artificial. At a meeting of the committee it was stated that there was an abundance of potatoes in the neighbourhood, but the people were keeping them in the hope of get ting large prices, and one woman, who holds a large quantity, has been heard to say she will keep them until she gets a farthing a piece. The large arrivals of Indian corn meal are, however, now driving the farmers to market with their potatoes, and last week potatoes were shipping at Cork for England. At Waterford the price of potatoes is an average one, and last market day there was a supply equal to three weeks' consump tion, and on an average of good qUality. At Dungannon market there was a large supply. At Dublin there are vessels now lying laden with potatoes sound and good as ever were eaten. At Aberayon, Cardiganshire, North Wales, placards are posted that a ship load of excellent potatoes, from Ireland, are on sale at that town, and it has been pertinently asked, " How is the exportation of a ship load of potatoes from Ireland at this time of the year reconcileable with the failure of more than two-thirds of the crop ?" We do not, then, see any just grounds of apprehending a famine in Ireland ; and had we space for the insertion of the carefully compiled statistics from which we have condensed these few par ticulars, they would absolutely negative the assertion of even a scarcity. In making out the patriotic selfishness of the Ameri cans, and in illustrating their notions of Free Trade, I have been not a little served by the fact, that the other year, (1842), when timber became scarce on the south side of our Lakes, and rose in the United States two or three dollars the thousand feet of plank, the Americans raised the duty to 30 per cent., thus giving the rise to THEIR custom-house, and not to the Canadian lumberer.* Mr. Macgregor, of the Board of Trade, is the arch= enemy of the British American colonies. Having himself failed of success in our trade, be seems to grudge pros perity in - it to every one else; aad the whole object of his ambition seems to be to strip the timber trade of its remaining, and far from adequate protection (but for the present spurt from railways), as if his own bad success was from too great, and not from too small, profits! This official, having injured, verifies the adage, and now hates the Canadas and New Brunswick ; and goes very little, if any, short of saying that England would be better without them! although she; has no other supply of timber that he or any one else can point out. There is no doubt that, when Canada is lost to the em pire, the price of timber will be double what it is now, but this will suit the iron-masters; so you see how involved are the interests of England. I hope and trust that your Board has done its duty, or will immediately do so, in standing up for those who are your real constituents—the farmers and mechanics of Canada. . . . . . THE ELEVEN HOURS' (FACTORY) EXPERI- Al ENT, Even if homely and sound principles are banished from England, it can only be FOR A TIME, till the political quack doctors destroy a few of their more prominent patients. Let it never be forgotten, then, that the originating principle both of the Toronto and of the Hamilton Board of Trade was, that OUR OWN LAND IS THE BASIS UPON WHICH COMMERCIAL ENTERPRISE CAN ALONE SE CURELY AND PERMANENTLY REST. Even if mere commerce had been open to the province of Upper Canada, as a source of national wealth, we would have valued it, as permanent, only to the extent that it flowed from the cultivation of our own lands. Before us we had the example of Holland, whose com merce has sunk into the comparatively insignificant dimen sions of her own home and colonial territory, ALTHOUGH SHE WAS, DURING THE LAST CENTURY, THE MOST Messrs. Horrockses, Miller, and Co., the highly re spectable mill-owners, of Preston, who have adopted the eleven hours' experiment, have, in order to gratify the public, published the following statistical account of the result in one of their establishments (the Moss Factory), for the month during which it has been in operation:— COMMERCIAL COUNTRY IN THE WORLD. Indeed, had Lord Castlereagh retained Java as a❑ English colony, the commerce of Holland would have been all but annihilated. So much for the permanency of foreign trade ! The United States Transit Bill allowing Upper Canada to send ler flour to England via New York in bond, is an immense boon to you. . _ Counts of Yarn Spun, 30's to 40's . . Quantity spun in 69 hours, Hand Self-acting Thros average of 4 weeks, ending Mules. Mules. ties. February 21 Quantity spun in 64 hours, average of 4 weeks, ending 287,016 do. 658 lb. 665 lb. March 27.... The proportionate quantity for 64 hours, as against 69 285,210 do. 662 lb. 668 i lb, hours, should be Thus, it appears, there has been a slight proportional gain in hand mules, to the amount of 24 minutes per week, and a loss in the self-acting mules and throstles of about 20 minutes per week. The latter, Messrs. Hor rockses and Co. say, arises from the machinery requiring the same daily cleaning, whatever may be the hours of working. During the time the experiment has been going on, the speeds have not been altered, nor any change made in the quality or fineness of the yarns. A contemporary remaiks upon this statement:— " This result is more unfavourable to a reduction of time than we should have expected, especially upon hand mules, where, it might reasonably have been supposed that the increased exer tions of the hands would have made up a much larger portion of the loss. It seems to us quite clear that, subject to such results, workpeople in factories, who are paid according to the quantity which they produce, would not willingly consent to a diminution of the hours of labour, except under an augmented rate of payment for their work." We are, however, not at all convinced that this state ment is conclusive, or that the workpeople or the public will think thatthe only matters to be considered are the amount of production and the relative amount of wages earned. The comforts, the health-, the increased oppor tunities for moral culture gained by the working classes from this relaxation of an hour in t.ieir hours of labour, are material considerations which our contemporary ap pears to leave entirely out of sight. Nor are we told whether it is not the fact, that the yarn spun has been more equal, and the deductions for spoilt work less. Besides, it is difficult to see how twelve hours' work is to be got from either mules or thro3tles in eleven hours, without some slight intrease in the speed of the machi nery. DIVINE SERVICE ON EASTER EVE. TO THE EDITOR OF THE LIVERPOOL STANDARD ---- SIR,—I was glad to see a correspondent in your paper, last week, pointing out the propriety (in my opinion, the duty) of having divine service in our churches on Satur day evening next (Easter Eve). A strong argument in its favour is, that in the Prayer Book there is a special service for the day, namely, Col lect, Epistle, and Gospel—an argument which ought to have much weight with many of our clergy.• I am glad to find that the hint was not altogether in vain, as at the church I attend notice was yesterday given of a service every evening this week.—Yours. &c. April 6. P.S.—lt is not too late for notice of a service on Satur day evening, as the same can be given on Good Friday. You will save a dollar per barrel of the immense ex- - .-----. pense of transport hitherto incurred via Montreal. COLLEGIATE INSTITUTION•-0G Friday last, C. Cragie This is a great blow to English shipping; yet the Go- Halket, Esq., of Fifeshire, commenced a course of six vernment here (too much occupied by its own struggles lectures on Landscape Gardening, The attendance was for existence) gives no indication of throwing the St. not numerous, and before the close of the lecture it had Lawrence Canal open, toll free, the cnly measure that become extremely reduced, the greater part of the audience can save our inland and Atlantic shipping. having proved themselves equally deficient in reli3h for The canal alluded to will, I presume, be finished in the subject, and knowledge of good breeding. We must September next, but unless Government makes some allow that the lecturer himself was not wholly free from grand movement SHOWING A DETERMINATION TO RE- blame in the matter. An enthusiast in his art, he forgot TAIN THE TR,asE OF CANADA WEST TO THE ST. LAW- his audience ; and while his discourse evinced a perfect RENCE, no prudent man will prepare craft for its improved knowledge of the subject, together with the most correct navigation ; and the trade, once diverted to New York, principles, and the most cultivated taste, it could not will never be regained. but prove anything but entertaining to persons having no As a house we would be glad to join with the great previous acquaintance with the study, and no inducement shippers and shipowners, and pay is. per foot outward to enter upon it beyond the immediate justification of freight (like the shippers to New York by the liners) hearing it explained to them, and the advantage which a instead of 7d., as at present, so as to enable the Canada knowledge of' its general principles might afford. After a traders to bring flour as cheap from Montreal as New plea for indulgence, which we do think ought to have been York, more generously responded to, the lecturer made some However, in the firm conviction that we have, that severe remarks upon country gentlemen who insist upon FREE TRADE LOSES CANADA TO THE EMPIRE, there being "their own landscape gardeners," and only afford seems no use in the merchants making any efforts dic tated by any patriotic or British considerations; and from proof that wealth cannot confer taste, but that opulence and ignorance may go hand in hand. He then showed the inactivity of Government, it looks very much like as the distinction between landscape gardening, and land if they were now of the same mind. scape painting, which by some were thought to be I remain, dear Sir, identical in their principles and requirements. A good Your obedient humble servant, landscape painter, might make a good landscape gar- ISAAC BUCHANAN. dener, if the landscape were to be looked at only from * This shows that the Yankees are wise in their gene- one point of view • but this was not the case. The guiding ration, and that theirs is the political economy of the principles were the same, but there was a marked dif nineteenth and not of the eighteenth century, or, in other ference in the execution. The task of the gardener was words, theirs is the economy of COMMON SENSE. by far the most difficult. He was confined to certain Never let us forget tbat the Americans are a GREAT objects, and within a certain scope; he had - only the rude PEOPLE (because individually intelligent and comfortable) materials of nature to work with ;;he must combine orna although a WEAR GOVERNMENT. They are too wise a merit with utility, and his work must bear inspection people to believe Sir Robert Peel, that, by any legislation from every point of view. What he had chiefly to aim at of theirs, they can permanently affect the extent of the was, the judicious combination of the several parts of the imports or :exports of foreign countries ;or control the landscape into an effective, well-connected, congruous prices of these, which the foreign country's own circura- whole. From these general observations the lecturer pro stances and legislation can alone effect. ceeded to an enumeration of the various objects to be Their object was, and they attained it (as they always attended to in properly laying out a piece of ground. He do their just objects), to retain for their own people the described the different styles of architecture, and the sort employment of sawing the timber. They admit the logs of country to which they were respectively adapted, the or raw material FREE, but they HEAVILY TAX the manu- Grecian being most suited to tame and Level scenery, the factured article. Gothic to the wild and rugged, &c. In determining the At the period I allude to, they saw that, IF THEY HAD position of the house, climate was entitled to consideration; THROWN OPEN THEIR PORTS to Canadian lumber, THEIR the principal rooms should front the south or southeast: OWN MILLING INTEREST WOULD HAVE BEEN EXTIR- the worst exposure in this country was the southwest. PATED, by inadequate remuneration, on the first occasion The retaining of much wood about a house was decidedly of money becoming scarcer (more valuable) in Canada objectionable, rendering the air damp and stagnant, and than the United States. consequently unwholesome. An artistical connexion. They saw, in fact, that their millers, in the first instance, between the house and the grounds was indispensable, a and their consumers in the second, would have had to handsome house rising in naked grandeur from the middle suffer in the flesh, whenever (through bad legislation or of a lawn resembling nothing so ouch as a pork steak otherwise) Canada becomes distressed on the one hand, or stuck upon spinage. An intermediate link of architec artificially prosperous on the other, as having, by the ruin tural terraces, &c., should always be maintained. The of the American miller, a temporary monopoly of the choice of plants, their arrangement and distances, next United States market for boards, in addition to her usual occupied attention ; after which, fountains and vases, . permanent or home demand. pleasure-grounds, gardens, rockeries, bridges, lakes, ap- The Americans, in fact, k n ow that they cannot regulate proaches, and lodges, were successively treated of, and prices by legislation; and the:sole object of theirbatriotic errors o f t a ste in respect to them unsparingly lashed. In legislation is what ours ought to be, to LEGISL %TE ONLY speaking of rockeries, Mr. Halket observed, that they FOR THOSE WHO ARE LABOURERS AS WELL AS CONSU- were seldom beauties, and could only be allowed in pe- MERS ; securing the consu mer the greatest amount of culiar localities. The celebrated roekery at Chatsworth, competition, consistent with the GREATEST AMOUNT OF ho w e ver we iheeecuted as a monstrosity, was egregiously EMPLOYMENT TO THEIR OWN MANUFACTURING OR LA- out of pl a e between the mansion and the conservatory, DOERING POPULATION. and could only be regarded as a regular-built deformity. The Americans don't take England for their model, a EFFECT OF THE WEATHER ON CRIME IN A LARGE country so proud of its masses of gold in the hands of a Towee.—We have frequently remarked that if the weather few, as not to be ashamed of the proportionate masses of be severe o v er night, the number of prisoners brought distress in the homes of the many ; but, with wisdom and before our stipendiary magistrate on the following day is humanity, prefer to form themselves upon the model of almost invariably below the average. This is to be ac such countries as S w it zer l an d, w hi c h, th oug h small in a counted for by the fact that in very bad weather parties national point of view, are great in the only true wealth, after the hours of business keep as much as possible THE HAPP INESS AND PERFECT INDEPE NDENCE OF within doors, and evil doers, street walkers, and pick- EVERY MAN WHO CHOOSES TO BE INDUSTRIOUS. pockets, so far follow their example, not only from Ic. B. motives of comfort, but from being aware that their chances of prey will be but scanty. This was exemplified by the returns of prisoners from the several police stations yesterday and Sunday. It is not unusual for Mr. Rush ton to have from 150 to 160 cases of one kind or other to dispose of on the Monday—the accumulation of two nights and a day. It rained incessantly during Saturday night, Sunday and Sunday night, and the total number of pri soners brought up yesterday was only 68 ! Sunday night was extremely cold, wet, and windy, and i t i s an unpa ralleled fact that only four prisoners were taken on that night to all the out police stations, to be brought up yes terday foreboon for examination. Mr. P. Buchanan and Major Fagan had interviews yesterday with Mr. Secretary Gladstone, at the Colonial office.—London papers of 7 hursday. The Cork Cinstitution denies that Sir Harry Smith is an Irishman, and after admitting that he is an English man, says, "We are sorry for it." Why? Sir R. H. Inglis, M.P. for Oxford, attended divine service on Sunday morning at St. Bride's church. The hon. bart. was at St. Andrew's church in the evening, when the Rev. Hugh M'Neile preached for the schools in connection with that church. THE EASTER VESTRY-ATTEMPT TO BRING THE PA:IISH UNDER THE DOMINATION OF THE POOR LAW COMMISSIONERS. The inhabitants and the unfortunate poor of our town are already beginning to reap the fruits of the admission of " liberalism" into the management of their affairs. Amongst the forthcoming movements of the party who have "fair play" for their motto, the most astounding is announced in the following handbill : PARISH OF LIVERPOOL. April 4th, 1846. NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN, That at the Annual General Vestry to be held' on Easter Tues day next, a Motion will be submitted to the Inhabitants to the following effect : . That application be made to Parliament to Repeal the Act of the sth and 6th Victoria, intituled, "An Act for the better Adtninistration of the Laws for the Relief and Management of the Poor of the Parish of Liverpool." WILLIAM EARLE, }Overseers, THOS. URQUHART, It will be seen that this announcement bears the stamp of authority. The public would suppose that it expresses he views of the parochial authorities. It is headed. " Parish of Liverpool." It is printed by the tradesman who, for some reason which we cannot divine, executes nearly all the Select Vestry's printing ; and, in every respect bears, upon the face of it, the appearance of an official document. Yet, the public who know nothing of our local politics, will be surprised to learn that the two gentlemen, who have thus usurped the authority of the body to which they belong, are merely a miserable minority of that body. The churchwardens refused to sanction the project which Messrs. Earle and Urquhart have in view ; and of the remaining overseers, one is unwell and the other out of town—neither were consulted, we believe, previously to the placard being issued. There is trickery therefore in the announcement of this movement, in the first instance. And now let us see what is the benefit which these two " liberal" gentlemen propose, by taking out of the hands of the parishioners the management of their own affairs. Can the central commissioners manage our affairs be: ter than we can ourselves ? We will give a little of our recent experience in reply. Over and over again the reports of our Vestry meetings show that letters requesting instruc tion upon particular matters of emergency, have been left unanswered, until the emergency has passed. The whole machinery has been shown to be utterly incapable of being applied to the direction of poor-law matters in this town. The most recent and flagrant case was connected with the application of the Vestry to the commissioners, as to the course to be taken for the purpose of making the ware houses round the new docks liable to the local rates. A reply was received, virtually referring the matter to the discretion of the local body ; but that reply was not re ceived, and, in fact, was not sent off until the whole offair was settled in Parliament So much for centralization. We are threatened, at the approaching Easter Vestry, with a further infusion of that " liberal" material, of which the movement above noticed is one of the first fruits. What, however, has been the experience of last year's " fair play ?" Why, of the gentlemen of " liberal" politics placed upon the Vestry, three have forfeited their seats for non-attendance to their duties. A party triumph they might be willing enough to lend themselves to ; but in the vulgar matter of pauper and parish registration, such refined spirits refused to interfere! Mr. John Smith, we suspect, will find little sympathy with his cry for " fair play," if this year he proposes at the annual Vestry men who won't work at all. With the Andover bone-crushing affair fresh in the minds of our fellow townsmen, perhaps even they may not be so enamoured of "liberal" vestry men, as he imagines. DANIEL THE STRIKE IN THE BUILDING TRNDES. Up to the hour at'which we write, we hear of nothing to show that this unfortunate strike is drawing to a con clusion. A considerable number have signed the declar ation proposed by the masters. In one large concern, that of Samuel and James Holme, above 50 joiners have signed and are now at work. A number of bricklayers have also signed, and about 100 labourers—a class, the least able to endure deprivation of work, and therefore the most cruelly situated, being totally dependent upon the course taken by the other trades. The masters con tinue firm, with the exception of one gentleman—Mr. Ilaigh—who has addressed the following letter to his bro ther tradesmen : "TO THE MASTER TRADESMEN IN THE BUILDING DEPA RTMENT " GENTLEIVIEN,—Upon the assembling of my workmen last evening, pursuant to the resolutions adopted by your body at the late meeting, and subsequently by myself, I found that there did not exist among them the alleged evil ' the resolutions' were intended to cure. " That amongst the men in my employ there was no dissatis faction nor any encouragement or support given to the dissatis fied, or the ' turn outs,' in their own or any other branch of the building trade, either in this town or Birkenhead; that, more over, having been solicited to support the joiners of Birkenhead during their strike, they had positively refused to do so. "I further received the strongest assurance, written and otherwise expressed, that they had no such intentions as those by which, in the terms of your second resolution, they had been judged. Therefore.l did not add injustice to error. II mean my own,) which the certain consequence of requiring them to sub scribe' the resolutions' would have involved, namely, that of throwing the unotrending and content out of employment. " I am, gentlemen, respectfully, yours, .rnomAs HAIGH." On Tuesday night an overflowing public meeting of the operative trades was held in the Commercial Flail, Glou cester-street, at which resolutions were passed upholding trades unions and their principles., and determined not to accede to the demands of the masters. The masters met on Thursday at the Portico, Newington, in great force, about 100 being present, Mr. Tomkinson in the chair, very firm resolutions were passed on the subject of the de claration, and the speeches in support of them were of a most determined character. A deputation from the Man chester Association attended, one of whom, Mr. D. Bell house, gave some accounts of the proceedings in Man chester. It was stated that numbers of workmen were kept out by fear of the acts of others. It was determined to print the proceedings of the meeting for distribution among the workmen. On Tuesday, a workman named Raeburn was taken before Mr. Rushton, on a charge of having violently assaulted Wm. Davies, a painter who had continued at work, and the charge being made out, he was committed for trial at the sessions, the magis trates making some very severe remarks for the informa tion of the turn-outs. It will be seen from a paragraph that another case of assault was heard before Mr. Rush ton yesterday. At Bradford, in Yorkshire, the strike still continues. The mne asked 4s. a-week in the first instance, but have since made overtures, by advice, to their masters, to take 2s. ; a meeting was the consequence, but the negotiation ended unsatisfactorily. On Tuesday last, the labourers employed on the Bolton and Blackburn railway turned out for an advance of 6d. and 9d. per day : they yet re main on the strike. The various trades in the neigh bouring towns of Manchester get worse every week. Up to Saturday it was estimated that 200 men had signed the declaration at Manchester, about half of whom were turn-outs. The joiners on strike at Manchester are 785, and the other trades are dependent on them, so that, though the plasterers, painters, and plumbers, are able to get hands, the advantage is of little benefit to the masters. One of the first building firms in Manchester has engaged a number of men, and is about to bring over many more from Cornwall. It is said that one or two of the firms in that town have received threatening letters. It is expected that the men engaged in the various branches of the building trade in Birmingham will very soon be out on strike for an advance of wages. The bricklayers have already demanded an advance of 3s. per week, and most of them have struck work. The strike is said to be the result of an understanding with the men in other parts of the country. It seems that there has been a considerable demand for men at the Birkenhead works and Manchester, and that this demand has led to an inducement on the part of the general committee of the building trade to effect an advance of wages through out the kingdom. The master builders of Birmingham held a meeting on Thursday, and considered the demand unreasonable, but it was stated that there was a great scarcity of bricks, and it was eventually resolved that the demands made by the bricklayers are greater than the price of provisions or the state of trade warrant, but that the builders are willing to advance the bricklayers one shiiling per week upon their present rate of wages, on condition that they comply with this offer on or before Monday. An Abstract of Britain, in tl April, 1845 a crease thereof THE REVENUE. the Net Produce of the Revenue of Great he Years and Quarters ended the sth of and 1846, showing the Increase or De- YEARS ENDED APRIL 5. 1845. 1846. Incr. Decr. £ £ £ £ Customs 20,176.731 17,664,618 .... 2,512,113 Excise. Stamps Taxes Property Tax 5,104,448 5, 0 8 4, 7 41 .... 19,707 Post Office 679.0'.'0 768,000 89,000 .... Crown Lans 125,000 130.000 5,000 . Miscellaneous. 1,067,3 5 4 939,747 .... 127,607 Total Ordinary Revenue 50,310,028 47,792,751 480,972 2,998,249 Imprest &other Moneys . Repayments of Advances Total Income 31,807,703 49,480,484 930,085 3,257,304 Deduct Increase Decrease on the Year.. 2.327219 QV ARTERS ENDED APRIL 5. 1845. 1846. 1 Incr. I Decr. 'X Customs .... 4,402,506 3.961,918 .... 440,588 Excise Stamps Taxes.... Property Tax Post Office Crown Lands Miscellaneous 415,016 91,522 .... 323,494 Total Ordinary Revenue 10,742,124 9,735,790 105,3681,111,702 Imprest&other Moneys 206,007 52,909 .• • . 153,098 Repayments of Advances „ 418,545 456,473 37,928 .... --- 1 Total Income 11,366,676 10,245,172 143,296" 1,264,800 Deduct ncrease 143,296 Decrees on t h e Qua; LATEST INTELLIGENCE. (BY EXPRESS.) LONDON CORN EXCII AN.7IE The supply of English Wheat, by land carriage sample, this morning was small, and sold at the rates of this day se'nnight free foreign, in consequence, was more in demand, and realised former prices ; in bonded there did not appear any thing doing. Fine Barley supports our quotations, but ordinary qualities are almost unsaleable. White Peas nominally unaltered, and grey rather dearer. The Oat trade is flat, and the advance of last Monday not maintained. Certificates are in demand at 13s. UP 13s. 6d. Beans sell slowly, and are the turn lower. SOUTHERN HOSPITAL.—We understand that several members of the congregation of St. Ann's church, Aig burth, have through their pastor, the lieu. H. J. Pardon, made a request to the ltev. T. Nolan, strongly urging him to publish the sermon he preached before them 113 behalf of the Southern and Toxteth Hospital, on the 14th of March last, the collection after which, including dona tions since sent to the rev. gentleman, has reached the handsome sum of £l2l. We a . e sure that this announce ment will be hailed with delight by the numerous ad mirers of the faithful labourer in the service of his Divine Master, and doubt not that the sale wil more than justify such a request being made, more particularly when we add that any profit which may arise, will be handed to the treasurer of ihe Southern and Toxteth Hospital, for the benefit of that rising institution. We hope, in a short time, to be able to announce that the sermon is published• Mr. Hammond opens the new theatre, in Christian.. street, on Monday next. COMMITMENTS.-At the police-court, yesterday, a man, ?lamed John Heagan, was committed to gaol for one month, for stealing a coat, the t roperty of police officer Samuel Falkner, from the house of the father of the latter, in Dale-street.—Richard Parry was committed for a like time, for stealing a horse-brush and other arti cles from a stable in Roscoe-lane, to which he had been admitted by the hostler, to light his pipe. IRISH PROVISIONS,—The following is the list of articles of consumption imported into the port of Liverpool frond the Irish ports during the last week, being from the 20t11 to the 26th lit. inclusive :-2,853 firkins, 144 half-firkins, 502 baskets, and 131 boxes of butter; 28 bags, 70 tons weight, and 2,323 bushels of wheat ; 5,485 sacks and 75 tons weight of flour; 48 tons weight, 130 bags, and 233 barrels of oats ; 20 bags, 150 other packages, and 75 tons weight of oatmeal; 532 sacks and 100 quarters of malt; 15 barrels of beef; 18 barrels and 14 kegs of general pro visions ; 61 kegs and 157 barrels of pork ' • 49 hhds., 9 tierces, 8 bales, and 4 barrels of hams; 20 packages of tongues ; 403 barrels of bacon ; 715 boxes and tierces, 59 bales, and 15 other packages of linens and cottons ; 98 puncheons, 13 hhds., and 2 other packages of whiskey ; 3 8 casks, 70 firkins, and 358 kegs of lard : 60 sacks of farina, and other articles of minor importance. CASE AGAINST A BENEFIT SOCIETY.—A respectable looking man yesterday preferred a complaint, before Mr. Rushton, against the officers of a benefit society, called " The Free Brethren," for refusing to pay him the sum of £2, due to him over a number of weeks as sick money, at the rate of 103. per week. A. case of a similar nature had been before the court a few days before. The de fence was that only 15s. were due, as the applicant had agreed to receive a smaller sum per week than that stated. The complainant said that he bad certainly agreed to d., 0 so in order, owing to represe n t a ti ons ma d e t o hi m th a t 11 he did not the society would be broken up, and as he vvs , unwilling that it should he so, he consented to receive s smaller amount, which the officers agreed to pay. Afters however, paying him two or three small sums, they broke up the society, and stopped all further payment. He added that part of the money left in the box at the time was spent in drink. He had signed no paper consenting to the society being broken up. The officers said they had nothing to pay with, and all ti , e other parties declined to pay. Mr. Rushton said they were all individually and collectively liable. He knew of nothing more shabby or dishonest than for such societies to take working men S money when they were in health, and to break up the so ciety, with a view to their receiving nothing back when they became ill. If the claimant %ere not paid the £2 due to him, within a reasonable time, he (Mr. Rushton) shouid distrain upon one or two more of the parties, and sell their goods f )t• the amount. WIGAN ELECTION PETITION.—On Friday, the Speaker informed the House of Commons that the recognisanceS entered into by the petitioners against the return, for ths borough of Wigan were reported to be unexceptionable. AN - OUT-AND-OUT DISSENTER.—The Gloucester Chronicle states that Mr. James Hart, a farmer, of Elton, took a lad in his employ before the magistrates, , and pre ferred a complaint against him for going to church instead of the Wesleyan chapel. The magistrates, however, de clared that the lad had just as much right, to go to his parish church as his master had to frequent the Wesleyan. chapel, and dismissed the complaint, mulcting the master in the expenses. Mr. Hart, it is said, has since dismissed the boy from his service. EMIGRATION.—The tide f emigration to America• from Ireland, has set in this year earlier than usual. The quays at Cork are crowded to inconvenience with passen gers and their luggage. Already one vessel has sailed with a full complement of passengers, and twenty-three others, with nearly four thousand emigrants are preparing at that port for sea. In addition to these, vessels are taking in emigrants at the Shannon, Bantry. Skibbereen, Kinsale, Youghal, Dungarvan, Watedord, and at all the large ports round the coast. The large mass of emigrants are parties having the appearance of respectable farmers, all of whom are taking with them sums of money from £5OO to £lO each. The Gardener arrived at Cork, with Indian Corn on Tuesday, and when discharged will be fitted out for passenger.: This WEATHER.-Within the last few days we have, in this neighbourhood, been unexpectedly visited by what may be termed many of the rigours of winter—severe - frost happily excepted. On Saturday (as indeed for some days previously) the air was chilly for the season, indicat ing that the atmosphere above was charged with m att which must either be discharged by downtill, or othern l 7 - dispersed, before the kindly warmth of spring advenff Accordingly, on that day, about noon, a cold rain, MI": gled occasionally with sleet, set in, and continued :rot' little or no intermission during the whole day and night: V,Ary early on Sunday morning a •change took place, b ut it was only from heavy rain to thick snow, which at da" had covered the streets and house-tops to the depth of sont' inches. In the fields and grounds round the town it b a d in some places obtained a depth of perhaps six inche a s ; as in others, where drifted, from eight inches to fo?t• About eleven o'clock the downfall again alternated to rain,' which fell heavily and without cessition during the who day, during the night, and during the whole of yesterday The snow rapidly disappeared in the town after the rain set in. During the whole time the atmosphere, which Wa s necessarily extremely damp, was withal as cold to pereer lion as if it had been freezing. B o ih S un d a y a nd yester' day were truly dismal days. The old adage that "it is anill wind that blows nobody good" was fully veal for never did the owners of cabs, coaches. omnibuses: a n other " public" vehicles derive a richer harvest w ithin given time. The streets, yesterday especially, were Olen; with the constant din of wheels. We have not yet learn en what effect this " storm" has had on the growing 000: though we fear the wheats, which are generally very fo r, ward, must have suffered, but not perhaps very mart rially. The low lands, that have but an imperfect outi& for the water, will no doubt be flooded. The gardens art ,' be little injured, if at all, there having been ncructual trot; to nip the blossom of the forward fruit trees, and. fe other of their productions are tangible by mere rain of snow. We learn that snow fell thickly, and partly 11 0 lies on the Welsh uplands and hills, also on the high 1a d e on the east of this county, in Yorkshire, and genera t„ throughout the north of England. In some parts of S c° ,o land it,had accumulated " undrifted" to a height of thr- t feet, but in others little or none had fallen. It is still OA the time we wrote) cold and wet; but from the advance; period of the spring o we may expect, when a change tak place, to be suddenly transported, as it were into the CO"'" parative warmth of summer April 7, 1846. SHIPPING INTELLIGENCE MONDAY, APRIL 6.—Wind E.N.E. for .—Spartan, Thompson, and Hillsborough, Latn'".pti St. John, N.B.—James Stewart, Laird; St. George, Poole. ,7 0 t. Sea Bird, Lyall, fur Newfoundland—Hendrika, Gurt. fo r "00 terdam—Renfrewshire, Burns, for Quebec—Jeune Bel l v A tf Sirrea, for Marseilles—Luna, Redmond, for Grenada— 0.." Ann, Drew, for Dordt—Mensageiro, Soutilino, for Vial' it/ Alarm, Tupper, for Palermo—Frances Yates, Brown, for lli ) 100 —Corsair, Daly, for Halifax—Mematope, Renouf, for Pais b —Safeguard, Smith, and Baron of Bramber, Flinn, for ilsov treal—Providence, Ford, for Malta— D'Arcy, Garrick, ' for t o , burg—Julia, Atwool, for Dordt—Panope, Candler, for Co p tinople—P.R.C. Sedgaick, and Guy, Baird, for Cape pr e lee % Fisherman,. Hocquoil, and Diton, Le Gressley, for Bay C,.h t a o, lot —Roa Harmonia, Tinoco, for Vianna—Wm. Duke, P"'berte Beirout—Elizabeth, Brereton. and Christina Hano, Sti ll ' for Dordt. SAILED, I Pascoe, Mitchell, from Charente‘at M.lford James, Reavens, hence for Havri, at Kingstown LIVERPOOL COTTON MARKET, A1'1 10 ' 0 ( 6. 1' 51 The good demand experienced throughout the who le .. .A ek t . week' has been experienced to.day from both the trade ' - f 11 5 . porters. The sales reach 600 bales at the full prices ° big;bet week. For the lower descriptions of American rathe r at 011 4* prices have been obtained. The market closes with gre 6• all , ft LIVERPOOL PROVISION• MARKET, Ar,:ithoilf,6 The Butter market assumes a more healthy tone, and " o rs PIA a positive advance in price cannot be noted. purcha..he o it more difficult to operate. No doubt exists that alVi i ttal ° stock will be worked off before the appearance of new . tits . ' u' to LIVERPOOL CATTLE MARKET. A" I our i g We have had little or no alteration to quote trolli.,.bein4 statements. ALythiog prime, either in Beef or Ntutlo6"4 to " eagerly sought after, and fetching high prices. ne er per lb. Mottor LIVERPOOL HAY AND POTATO +- APRIL 6, 1846. s. d. s. d. 3 9 5 £ Hay, old 201, .. 0 7 @ 0 gi 'Potatoes, as golb._ 6 .2 ~ , 440,588 clover .. 06— 0 8 Kemps ...... :!. 6 .' 1 Vetches • 0 0— 0 0 Short Tops.• ',! 9--", % 291,027 ~„ Grass oo— 0 0 Cups ...... .: 8 -- 7 0 • 2 56 5 93 Straw, Wheat o3— 0 4 Pink Eyes.. •• I 7 -- 8 : 197 •• • • Oat 0 3 0 3i Cattle ..... • 1 8 0 X O 9 58,171 .• • • Barley 29 2 o 1-37 8 Turnips , 7. t . °. ..... 37,000 •• • • Carrots 10,000 .• • . A o D' i 323,494 BIRTHS. mrs. H 0 0 D n G th s e1 4. Ist instant, a son.stant,at Breckfield lodge, Evertors, On the sth instant, at Kirkdale, FOSTER, of her Majesty's Excise, of a son 1 153,098 1 fl".' di d e Wir e Of gr. JOSOit LIVERPOOL: Ev E TU ESDAY, S T D: E Y S , D APRIL A. : , 0 1 : 4 :• - K • i PRINTED AND PUBLISHED -, k r 1 . 143,296 i 1,264,800 By 143,296 JOSHUA FLETCHER LACE, of O. Grove-sn e e t , LEONARD ADDISON, of 14, Great O rford -B.w , . ter. 2 1.121,504 At No. 4, Si'. Gxonoes CASICZNY: Li fl '' ''" r9O