The British Press; or, Morning Literary Advertiser.
London, England, 1825-01-19 00:00:00

LIVERPOOL, Mommy Evimixs.

Wind, S.W. and SAlL—High Water, SIS tn. put 9.
Arrived the Globe, Hamilton, from Savannah ; Flora,
Farrand, from Buenos Ayres ; Shamrock, M'Kibben,
from Belfast ; Henry Bell, Johnson, from Glasgow ; New
Jersey, from Philadelphia ; Nassau, from Waterford ;
Elizabeth, from Honduras ; F:nterprize, from Pictou ;
Bachelor, from St. Andrews, N.B. ; Fame, Cook, from
Berbice ; Richard, from London ; Susannah, from Poole ;
Lion, Shaw, from Glasgow ; Minerva, from Nova Scotia ;
Martin, from Bristol ; Britannia, from Messina ; Jane,
from Drogheda; Promise, from St. John's, N.B.
Four brigs off at half-past four—Private signal—Belfast
Trader.

His Majesty's ship Aurora, from Valparaiso, for Rio de
Janeiro and England, sailed loth October.
The Martha sailed from Buenos Ayres a few days before
the Flora, for Liverpool.

IRO.V 771.4 DR.

[From the Devonshire Preeholder.l
It was with surprise, and we confess with some doubt
as to the correctness of the statement, that we read in
Treirman's Flying Past of the 13th inst., the extraordi-
nary advance that has taken place on iron, and, n nwith-
standing the caution and great respectability of that jour-
nal, we were disposed to consider they laboured under some
erroneous information, and so we should have considered
at this time, had we not been assured, by a Gentleman on
whose veracity we can place the utmost reliance, that in
stating " Bars, which some time since met a dull sale at
7!. per ton, can now scarcely be obtained for 13/., while
pig iron has even exceeded this, being now more than one
hundred and twenty-one per cent. beyond what it was a
short time since," they were correct.
That this article, in times like the present, when the d&-
mends of the Ordnance and the Navy are, for the present,
unknown, should experience such a rise, is, to many, matter
of astonishment ; but we conceive a little reflection will
easily account for what perhaps is not within the re-
cords of history to parallel, and will likewise continue, if
not to the extreme of the prices now quoted, at least
very near them.
The legitimate effects of peace arc now beginning to be
enjoyed throughout a large part of the civilized world, and
the children of genius, enterprise, and industry, are calling
into action those powers for which our country stands un-
rivalled. To give full effect to this, a great demand is ne-
cessarily made for this most valuable of all metals, as not
any improvement of much importance can be effected with-
out receiving its important aid.
Two rail-roads alone, now contemplated to be eligible for
" tradin and commercial purposes, one from London to
Edinburgh, and the other from Birmingham to Liverpool,
with the necessary carriages for the conveyance of goods
on them, will, we are informed by a correspondent, re-
quire little if any thing less than Two Hundred Thousand
Tons!!

This, with a commerce extending now in every direc-
tion, with every possible encouragement, calls on the ma-
nufacturer to supply what must be produced by the in-
ventive ingenuity of the mechanic, who, in his turn, to
carry into effect the plan he has contemplated, must apply
to the mine for this soul of his invention ; and when we
consider that those efforts, however boundless and colossal
they may be in extent, are not, as in other countries,
cramped and shackled for want of means to bring them to
maturity, as the countless millions of our capitalists are
ever ready to support any measure that carries with it the
least probability of a moderate reward for the sum investee
in the speculation ; this encouragement too, instead of de-
creasing, has a contrary effect every year, from the decreas-
ing value of money in our public funds, which stimulates
its tells of thousands to activity and usefulness, which the
maddening influence of war had rendered hardened and in-
different to every valuable pursuit.
Those are a few of the reasons which induce us to con-
clude that iron will continue to maintain high prices.

Our worthy collector, John Gordon, Esq. had the plena-
ing information to communicate to the Earl of Liverpool,
that the receipts of Customs for the port of Bristol, in the
past year, exceeded those of the year preceding by 40,000/.
Bristol Mirror.