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SAILED.

Nov. 11

Nov. 12.

OUTPORTS.
Waterford, Nov. g.—Arrived— Day Star from rola"' were
Holyhead, Nov. ll.—Arrived—Efftnes, from Seville for..ds, Sk
with statieheons carried away, part of bulwarks, shrou
cor
Tolen, Aruta, from Liverpool for Coruona. from atie De
f
Shsdwell Roads, Nov. 9.—Arrived—Sarah Ann, r
Pwlibeli.
Carves, lsicv.ll.—Galuhu, from Liverpool for Stettin.eelirjjes
Glae,nstown, Nov. 40.—Arrive ria Walsh, from :,;,allie j i
"In. from Constantinople for Cork—Ge,rrre..",,e,polo.\d"
,iv -d off —Csravan, from NevvlYnrk f.,r ..i.coseio..oo,
'nv. 'O.—Arrived—Prince Albert, fr 117/o,li I'oo
Ei..rsyth Maria Elliot, Grosfunt, Catherina, EliOb'yquiroxAceSA
and Elise, from Taganrog— K:ng Osrar.ristol--s ;of
- ' ---.—Ahel, from Patras for ;.'o,lo3ilbo
—Rita (,•9'). I

Fa'mouth

layneline,
fi

rom Alexandria for Londo

_ • • - 000
cue
Liverpool—Earl of Dolby. Taciorog, 001 for
Fowey, Nov. 10.—Arrived—Alpha, from Liverp

t. 16 „cf.'
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iverpool to Aden,
Caldera, Oct. 9,

5i

THE CURRENCY QUESTION,

SOMETHING AKIN TO

A•.LAMENTATION OF GOLD

TO TILE EDITOR OP THE NORTHERN TIMES.
i),
I al- N, f 4 , oh ! my friend ! lend me thy helping hand 1 for
Bpirit ten in my own estimation, and cannot rise; my
for inerged in sorrow, and lam like one woebegone ;
uerev
ever I am now, there is commotion and uo peace ;
with ra'n's hearts fail them for fear, and are filled
thol,rY.Y, hatred, and malice; there may be seen a
treaj, ul3 of strife, whose constitnt parts are falsehood,
Y. and wrath, compounded together with the
y of fawning hypocrisy.
ay friend! lend me thy helping hand !
„ ek to propitiate that hateful thing money,
1.,„. which, unfortunately, lam so intimately allied Oh !
gaZ,,siek of my great titles, and weary of being tossed to
Du Ire, as one branded with infamy, for such trickstering
li4l)„Zes as truly make me seem what, in my native
dishl.s', lam not ! 1 My nominal honours and greatness
tiptilrage my sterling qualities, deform my
mQ s, Cover the face of my beauty —*
tak4irit.into a guiph of stip-
p.,

Icophan
for P° ! oh !
m,tewer Rill T

livie a talin

nfl decrepitud

unapparent dotag.,

.:4„ fi a-- uto
ht„,,

me, and en(

tViel,
. t)b• t
814) JCL an.![
My b

thing dwindling in

friend bea

Id my wrougs

I my f

ith irnpot
Oh! th

y and that men coald 1

1 I am

ver every

tBlll4ntifssr,!,
_fettered to their Monev-gods o

ssafr(.

s which,

ble in all theii parts, and

propor-

r a while I

lered void

paid they
rich I am

3mmerc

cues s:71(los of of unchanging colour and richness,
tarnill, "me would not corrode—locality would not
4 over, the dew of heaven would not rust. More—
,,wQllid grace their fair necks with gorgeous chains
their of chastity and truth, and would overlay
the vr altars in dedication to God, who made them what
Vitt' arP -ti of feminine modesty, loveliness, and
to the wide, wide world.
else oh my friend! lend me thy ,helping hand !or
burg ell me with obscurity—shroud me in oblivion, and
fa,pb rae in unfathomable depths—dark, dark, and dreary,
mortal gazes ; where the miser could not hoard
Opt ru'r the trader misuse me ; where the greedy could
illt7avet, an 1 the envious no more would hate for me.
thl,,e,r far to be hoarded up in the bowels of the earth,
loti la the hearts of men, and the strong boxes of money
ha
bank lords, and trade lords. Better far to be out
4t,P11,, %ray, than remain an instrument of mischief for
oetzii"nal, captious, and wicked purposes. Better far to
tialie's,Zrell up, harmless and untouched, than thus con-
ph ;u0 foster-father, as it were, of wrong and robbery,
that Yes I let the earth alone possess and miser me !
ittier 111 wretchedness and misery I may vent forth my
hotll a,ll Bay to you—caverns of darkness, thou art my
ktAlot,:r: and to you impenetrable, inaccessible rocks thou
father ! that I may claim affinity with the unex-
tlerl regions of the globe ; and where Stromboli forges
ri',.cl.lll(l fire, say to the haunts of men—this is my place
and
murefuge, here will I bide! Oh I take me from
mutilating man, and let the crucibles of Etna and
hp a;las be the fining pot of friendship, to free me from
trtiolOss ; there to await for better times ; there to await
You
ePropitious hour and a more enlightened age
Li;„' 4a , PULLE GOLD.
41:4)1, Nov. 10, 1856.
SLAVERY. WHAT IS SLAVERY?

TO THE EDITOR OF THE NORTHERN TIMES.
iNsirCie hthinis question has often occurred
akeable wo:kMs
. ,
Cabin, written so ably by Mrs. H. B. Stowe,
at,
taest revolting, heartrending, demoralising system
ha,Well, now, simply, let me ask what is slavery?
ae9tian object in view in putting this searching
lt• ,"'ll. and, if you will allow me, I will offer an answer
4eltrAlsaaded, as I am, that I shall be enabled, without.
„"'t 4 ;IMEtlity to prove to your numerous readers, with-
-1.43 rrubt tha' t there is as much slavery going on at the
fiNrce",iirne in this great community—our own land—as
• a-h'ilBted in any other part of the world. It will be
}L', Perhaps, if I confine myself to this locality alone
j:011e ",ava we live in—and think, from my own concep.
a ""ieh has been formed, clearly to show how
A"%ib,,Pl'etised. Permit me to argue the question
;tavn-„satelY and dispassionately, and I will steno
• fir to convince you that lam right. Let us, in
72 4;T place, for argument's sake, imagine that
ires 'king a stroll through any of the leading thorough-
this great emporium of trade, and what, I ask, do
th'4.l tiger
attracts the
.admiration and attention of
t.'4cl3? get ?—what oftentimes strikes wonder to our
11,4te qr, Yize those gigantic fabrics, displayin2; the elabo-
,,'"N ,sll.n and skill ot the architect ? And, again, during
'4? Franibulations, what else will frequently occur to
ti
knSwer—the multifarious ways which people have
,-10p3 'ne a living. When we gaze upon thole immense
"e et.'e weir with th imposing fronts of glass ; when, I say,
b," pta •USlllayed in those windows and establishments
"Qtec-irgebus attire, suited to the tastes of the
~,Ihia'aslidious of both sexes; w'
;;ittat. ebt articles of vertu of
.Ith ,leture too numerous to mention, are ....
?ee,ll4„,azeriient ? But while we are contemplating to
ka'llo3;`," array of goods, does it never occur to us from
1.,111 flands they emanate ? Let ns, first of all, after
1.-tIR that beautiful embroidery those chaste mantles, 11,„ ettd),_
"rni variety of attire, take 'a
glimpse behind the
hy?s ce--„ needlewomen, for instance—where are they
iim,olD-(7`41,? The poor, half-starved creatures, doomed
It -"t'a,„,,web employ them to sit in foul atmosphere for
IA;41
~ges, often not exceeding the utmast,
ti„;i.,ay, chained to their seam by the constantly
-Li% like galley slaves to the oar 1
"In poverty, hunger, and dirt,
• Sewing at once, with a double thread
A shroud as well as a shirt."
ti,l,/ it, may I ask, that many of our shopkeepers—
• sech enormous rents, and have such immense
4),°ltld Dart with such large sums, year by year, for
h'14.,,,1ng in the columns of a newspaper, and various
a what they vend—how is it they accumulate
ILaith, unless by that loathsome system of grinding
biAttai.V victims down to the very uttermost?
k'''eaqi I exaggerated this picture ? Capiditus veri
for
those who doubt what I have asserted
ilor themselves. Let them ascend the narrow
4;121.,v10-f%ejl stairs which lead to the obscure garret in
14, W11,4..e back streets of our town,. and there they:will
4 have depicted in all its misery and squalid
L'`eve-,.', S,: rely such a state of things ought not to be
Le exist Christian country like this
hAtit Pat evil, and there is great scope for some werful
hae t°o".ear upon it. We are too prone to go away. from
abuses. We are too apt to assist foreigner
:,'qedr;-!8 befoYre alleviating the sufferings of those more
‘4t.-.•aEelY under our notice. We are, again, I say, too
ih*„411011,11 Tatters of' this kind "to gape at a gnat and
till
re ao., Camel." It is an established. saying, that "we
unto others as we desire to be done unto ;" and
tioi -"se an old proverb, " every labourer is worthy of
tZisrer''„ While looks t the one, we should not lose
othe'r" r, you well know that our
Otrrt:s▪ 1 have spoken. volumes upon the subject of
,; that our eminent divines have nounced it in
`,lterasleible eloquence from their pulpits; that talented
tih4S2 have treated upon the subject in the most heart.
r,„ and soul-stiring language. Cannot these coml.
til,,ltV'eats be brought to bear upon our home slavery ?
0,;/; Dot suppress, in some. way or other that tyranny,
rreaching spirit, which pervade so many of our
tit,t4ilitleta in exacting those lengthened hours of toil which
from the health of the young, and which is,
'4,'„v,?"",! the means of consigning them to a premature
ask, again, what is slavery ? I might go on and
Cli,tllll4 ,11 hateful,—w list of' industrial crimes—for they are
I less —which would occupy a much greater space
• Qiohotild be permitted in your columns; but I have
matter' upon this head for wille. n. o distant
- 'll allow me, I write again on this
„THU WI
iOllrS, &e, VERITAS.
vOOl, Nov. 10, 1856.
141 P-. LIVERPOOL WELLINGTON

THE CORN TRADE

E

TO THE EDITOR OF THE NORTHERN TIMES.

Sir,— The concurring testimony of the several agricultural
reports of the United Kingdom lead to the mclusion that
the harvest of this year has been an average crop. South of
the Humber it appears to have been well and safely
gathered north of that estuary, the rains of the late
autumn fell at reaping-time, and caused -considerable
inju y, much of the grim vegetated in the sheaf, and, both
in quantity and quality, waste and deterioration was the
consequence, not, however, to such an extent as to invalidate
the opinion entertained of an average produce. Indeed, it
has been affirmed by Mr. 11. J. Turner, of Richmond, in
Yorkshire, a singularly accurate authority on agriculture!
affairs, that, although injury and logs have occurred to
individual farmers from the wet weather at harvest, no
national loss has been caused; that the crop, on the
whole, is a good one, and exceeds that of the previous year
by two millions of quarters of bread corn. Some inductions
have been deduced from the short quantity reported in the
zette, as it is rendered in connection with the
of prices which govern the fixed duty of

per quarter, campared with the car-
res2onding months of oo'er years, and that decrease
;a rin 'Dom '

one shy'

an sixty thousand gin
months of September and October, 1
It by no means follows, however, f,

per rr

ent to till,

,t este

rqtn the damp, unmarketa

• -
both of 1854 and 1835.
'rpm such facts, that th(

well as

It may be accounted for

rain until the frosts and drying winds of have;ran
iered it fit for grinding. With the exception otFiance and
SpA I—no mean exc.,ption—the crops are generally good
Europe; whilst, in America, they are said to
only last year, but all other years, fully ten per
cent. And when we are informed that the vantity in the
United States of America is almost illimitable—that their
exportation of breadstuffi is only restricted by price—and

hroughou

exceed,

ere remunerative, reserving to theme- !yes little more than
maize to meet their consumption—it will be apparent that we

not on

)e pre3erv6

'rom any wan', but be prepared with

ulenty. Already the imp .mration of grain is es'ea;sive, and
fir a head of late years, eel wh itriver in iv hav> b sen the
destruction of grain on the shores of the Sea of Azoff, or of
the neglected agriculture of the Russian dominions, during
the late war, the present large exportations from thence
proves that there have been serfs to cultivate the lands and
reap the harvest. To this brief general view may be added
(with the clearest apprehension of our healthy large manu-
facturers, and increasing exportation of them) another most
important reason against any advance in the prices of the
food of the people, but for their decline, and that is the
peculiar precuniary position of the B ►nk of England, in the
financial history of the country unparalleled and embarras-
ing, and pregnant with danger so great. as to point for
relief only in the repeal of the Bank Restriction Act of
1844.—Yours, &c. A CORN MERCHANT.
' Nov. 10, 1856.