The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1839-08-30 00:00:00

MR. FINCH AND THE SOCIALISTS.

SlR,—There is a letter in to-day's Albion, signed " John
Finch," in which the writer refers to a meeting which took
place a few evenings ago at the Music Hall, and makes soma
remarks upon the observations offered by Mr. Brindley as to
Socialism. Ido not intend to enter into the object of that
meeting, or the speech of Mr. Brindley, or the interruptions
of Mr. Finch, but merely to correct a mistake into which the
writer has fallen, or been led—a mistake so obvious, that Mr.
Finch must be either very ignorant or very dull, to be per-
suaded into it, or not to detect it. Ido not know whether
you will recollect, but some months ago a placard was pasted
up and down the town, exhibiting the proposals for a Build-
ing Club, to be called the Hall of Science, or the Poor Man's
Building Club, and stating the subscription. At this time
it was not known but that a real building club was proposed,
and by the Act of Parliament it is enacted, that an authentic
copy of the rules be enrolled with the proper party in Lon-
don, in order to bring the Society within the protection of
the statute. Mr. Finch in his letter states, (and to those
points I confine myself whatsoever my views may be) that
the Society which meets in Lord Nelson-street, and which is
identical with the one which started as the Hall of Science
Building Society, is enrolled in London as a religiou.v Society,
and that its missionaries and priests have-privileges co-exten-
sive (I write from memory as I have not the paper before
me) with the Church of England. I say that this Society
is not a religious one, and that it is not enrolled as such.
and Mr. Finch either does not know this, and I should be
sorry to say that he does not think so, or else he must he
very ignorant of the construction of the act relating to
building societies. Yours, &c.
VIGILANS.
26th Augt. 1839.

THE NAVAL RESOURCES OF ENGLAND.-It is not gene'
rally known, that a steamer of very large tonnage is to be
launched in a day or two from Chatham dock-yard. It will
have been begun and finished within the incredibly short
space of eight weeks. We are informed, that this extreme
expedition is an experiment under direction of the govern-
ment, in order to ascertain the shortest possible time in which
such a vessel can be completed. The number of hands have
been unlimited; in fact, the men are working on her at the
present moment as thick as bees in a hive, and they are al-
lowed to make as many working hours per day as they can.
The sum apportioned for the labour, we understand, is four
thousand pounds ; and, should it not cost that, the overplus
is to be divided among the men. The experiment has excited
the greatest interest in the neighbourhood.—Greenwich Ga-
zette.

A NEW SURGICAL CASE.—A few days since a boy be-
longing to the British School, Trowbridge, broke a slate
pencil into his ear, and so far had it gone in, and sail so
short was the piece, that it bade defiance to the attempts of
an eminent medical man to extract it; and a second would
not make the attempt, but recommended the mother to take
him to Bath, where he would at the Hospital he sure tomcat
with proper attention and be judiciously treated. Accordingly
she was preparing the boy for a jaunt, and was performing the
due ablutions on his face, when the boy not behaving quite
so well as the mother thought Ile ought, she gave him a smart
box with the palm of her hand on the ear (but not on the
ear which was affected), when strange to tell—out came the
pencil!—The cure was wrought as by magic—the journey
saved, and all by a good sound box on the ear
The operations of the Great Western Railway ConiPiny
in the Bath river, near the Old Rridge are proceeding with
great activity, and a mud barge has been brought up for the
purpose of clearing away the deposit at the bottom, and thus
deepening the bed of the strewn where the barges pass.—
Bristol Journal.
WAREHOUSE PROPERTY E,.7 MANCHESTER.—During the

last four or five years the rage for building warehouses has
scarcely known any bounds, and though there are at the pre-
sent time fully upwards of 100 unlet, a majority of which
cannot be worth less than £2OO per annum, and some 20 of
that majority twice that sum, still there is now in the course
of erection, upwards of 20 others, and of considerable mag-
nitude. There would seem no other way to account for the
seeming anomaly, viz. a very depressed trade and extensive
warehouse erections at the same time ; other than capital
must still be most abundant.—Bolton Chronicle.
EXTRAORDINARY WHEAT.—Mr. Mumford, gardener, of
Boston, has now in cultivation an extraordinary species o
wheat, such as is not to be found in any other part of the
country. The ears average about nine or ten inches in length,
and the straw about an inch and a quarter in circumference.
One peck of seed is amply sufficient for an acre, the yield
from which is truly astonishing. Notwithstanding the high
winds and heavy rains which have prevailed, this surprising
wheat has not sustained the least injury. The whole of the
present hop is the produce of a single grain which was sown
by Mr. Mumford three years ago.—Boston Herald.
HYDROPHOBIA AT PLYMOUTH.—A. melancholy case of
hydrophobia has occurred in this town. About 10 weeks
since the individual who has suffered from this dreadful dis-
order (a lad about 12 years of age, called Rode) was walking
on the edge of the bank near Bridges Circus, and whilst so
doing slipped his toot and fell into a garden, in which was
another boy named Turner and a slog. On the boy Turner
perceiving Rode in the garden, he immediately set the dog at
him, which bit the poor boy in two places in the cheek aad
the back of the neck. The boy, much frightened at being
bit, called on his way home at Mr. Gruxeller's, chemist, who
dressed the wounds, and ordered him to have them washed,
when he arrived home. The boy, however, felt pain in the
parts from that time up to Sunday,, the 11th instant, when
symptoms• appeared which induced his parents to call in
Messrs. Square, Hingston and Rundle, surgeons of this town;
and who after carefully examining the boy, gave it as their
opinion that he was labouring under the dreadful malady of
hydrophobia. The poor fellow remained in that state from
Sunday to Thursday last, when death put an end to his suffer-
ings.—Plyinouth Journal.
EXTENT AND VALUE OF THE OPIUM TRADE "WITH
CHlNA.—Opium has been used by the Chinese for thethree
centuries during which Europeans have been acquainted with
them, and even a great deal longer ; for it was conveyed to
them from Arabia and India before they ever saw the face of
an European. Down to the year 1756, its importation was a
legitimate branch of Commerce in China ; the drug being ad-
missible on the payment of a duty, like other commodities.
In that year it was prohibited, and from the same moment
dates the increase of consumption, and the commencement
of the boldest and most extensive system of contraband trade
which the world ever saw. In 1795, the whole consumption
of China was 1,000 chests. In 1816, it was 3,110; and its
value less than a million and a half sterling. At this time
commenced the influx of European capital through the free
trade, the general acquisition of the new provinces producing
opium on the part of the British government in India. In
four years' time the consumption of China rose to 4.700
chests, and the value to £1,753,000. In 1836, the quantity
was upwards of 27,000 chests, and the value upwards of
£3,700,000. In 1837, the consumption is computed at 34,000
chests, while the value exceeded £4,000,000. In the last
years a fresh cause contributed to the augmentation, the
freedom of the China trade. Instead of taking twenty-live
or thirty million pounds of 'tea from the Chinese, as we had
done before, we now took from forty to forty-fix millions ;
and instead of fifty or eighty thousand, we have taken, at
least, a million and a half pounds of raw silk.—Colonial
Gazette.
THE NORWICH CHARTISTS AND THE BISHOP.—III ac-
cordance with a resolution previously passed, the Chartists
of Norwich proceeded on Sunday last to the cathedral, which
was crowded almost to suffocation. The bishop, who preached,
took the opportunity to deliver a most impressive remon-
strance on the folly and danger of their proceedings. He
knew, he said, that many of those whom he addressed were
in want, and as a Christian, a fellovr-countryman, and a
brother, he felt for their condition ; but the vile schemes
which it was pretended would better their condition, would,
if accomplished, render their distress a hundred-fold greater
than it is at present. England must manufacture as cheaply
as other countries to meet them in the general market, and
on this difficult subject, requiring the nicest calculations,
should they disregard the counsels of the wise at the dictation
of hot-headed and evil-minded leaden ? His lordship then
adverted to the manufacturing establishments in Norwich,
one of which alone, he understood, caused nearly £20,000 to
be spent, chiefly in wages, and employed above a thousand
persons. Would they better the condition of the poor by
causing these establishments to be shut up, and stopping the
wages of the persons employed in them ? It had always
been the order of Providence that there should be rich and
and poor, and contentment in his station was the duty of
every man. "My hearers," said the venerable bishop,
have lived the greater part of my life amongst the poor. I
have been, as in duty bound, their conscientious and honest
friend, ever anxious to support the rights and advaate the
liberties of the people, both in public and in private,-through
evil and through good report, defending them against what I
have thought oppression. I have always felt for their dis-
tress and endeavoured to remove it ; but I will not for a little
popularity conceal my opinions of the imprudence of your
course. I will, when I think it right, speak out my feelings
as to the folly and danger of the course you are pursuing in
following the advice of men who have advised you to arm
yourselves. And' for what ? To. bring- ,clown upon you the
punishments of the civil power, and the judgment .of a
righteous God."—Chelmsford Chronicle.

imptrial Varlianunt.

HOUSE OF LORDS.-MONDAY.

The royal assent was given by commission to various pub-
lic bills—namely, the Administration of Justice (Parts of
Counties) Bill, the Poor Law Commission Continuance
Bill, the Bastardy (Poor Law Amendment) Bill, the Bank-
rupts (Ireland) Bill, the Manchester Police Bill, the Bir-
minillgham Police Bill, and the London Bridge Approaches
B.
Lord STRANGFORD inquired whether measures had been
concerted with the American government to prevent the re-
currence of that frightful system of aggression that had here-
tofore taken place along the Canadian frontier. Also,
Whether there Was any reason to hope for the termination of
the long-protracted hostilitie's between France and the repub-
lid of Buenos Ayres. His lordship intimated that, early next
session, he should direct attention to the indignities and in-
juries which our fellow subjects had endured on the coast of
Africa at the hands of certain local authorities.
'LOrd MELBOURNE answered that every disposition pre-
vailed, both in the United States and Canada, to prevent a
recurrence of those proceedings which had unfortunately
taken.place for the last two years there. With regard to the
iedonJ question, the blockade of the River Plate, he was
aware' there had been no cessation of the conduct that had
been pursued in that part of the globe : but he had the satis-
faction,of assuring the noble lord that the government of
Frnnce was most anxious to bring those proceedings to a
clese, and he was in confident hope that, ere long, that would
be so. As to the proceedings on the western coast of Africa,
he had heretofore expressed his opinion upon that subject,
and he trusted measures would soon be taken to bring it to
a satisfactory result.
'Lord REDESOALE presented a petition from the General
Assembly of Scotland against the system heretofore pro-
pounded by the government for national education.
The Oyster. Fisheries (England and France) Bill was read
tile second time, after the Duke of Wellington had objected
to-this course of hurrying business as unfair to the public.
Xhe Funding of Exchequer Bills Bill was read the second
and some other bills were forwarded a stage.
The Commons' amendment to the Bolton Police Bill was
Afie-ed to, after the Duke of Wellington had complained of
its irregularity, it having been adopted without conference
wjth their lordships.
tarot 13UouGnAm, after a speech delivered with some
ktd rtaist*Ps on the subject of education, moved for the pro-
duetien of a " copy of the charter of University College, in
the Viii,versity of London—the rules of the same—the de-
grees Conferred by the University of London, distinguishing
Ef~3aihrinaries where' the candidates were educated."—
Ordered.
. Their lordships then adjourned.

HOUSE OF COMMONS.—MONDAY.
Mr. WAXLEY stated that Lord John Russell had directed
the attorney-general to investigate the case of Mr. Thomas,
thec.extraordinary conviction of an innocent man, which he
had Irought before the house on a former day ; he doubted
not that the inquiry would be attended with the most satis-
factory result ; and it having been directed, he had no motion
tp. submit respecting the petition.
Mr. WAK LEY then moved for an account of all sums of
money directed to be paid by order of the central criminal
court on the prosecution of Francis Hastings Medhurst,
convicted of manslaughter; distinguishing the payments
made in compliance with the certificates of the local magi-
strates from the allowances that were granted by the court
in respect of the trial ; also for an account of all sums of
money paid by order of the general court of quarter sessions,
Middlesex, for expenses incurred by the coroner in holding
the inqueit on the body of Joseph Alsop, at Hayes, on the
16th and 18th of March, 1839.—Ordered.
Mr. E. J. STANLEY moved for two new writs ; the first
for Cambridge, in the rtiotn of Mr. Spring Rice, who had
vacated by accepting the stewardship of the Chiltern Hun-
dreds ; the second for Waterford, in the room of Mr. T.
Wyse, appointed a lord of the treasury.
Mr. WAR-1312 RTON called the attention of the house to the
subject of any contract or agreement for the conveyance of
the mails to the West Indies and continent of South Aine-
rice for so long a period as ten vears, and involving an expen-
diture of £2,100,000, until full. information shall be obtained
in that important department, and be laid before this house;
which gave rise to a short and interesting conversation.
The house having attended the House of Peers to hear the
royal assent given to various bills, shortly afterwards ad-
journed.

HOUSE OF LORDS.—TUESDAY.
PROROGATION OP PARLIAMENT.
This being the day at length fixed for the prorogation of
parliament by the Queen in person, long before the doors
were thrown open a string of carriages was to be seen ex-
tending across New and Old Palace-Yard, up Parliament-
street, containing parties anxious for admittance, who had
obtained the lord great chamberlain's (Lord Willoughby
d'Eresby) admission cards for the different parts of the house—
:le:erne being for the body of the house, as the interior, where
the peers sit is called; others for the strangers' gallery,
;,which was presently graced with the presence of ladies; and
,
ethers again for the royal gallery, to witness the procession
slang that portion of the house.
The Lord Chancellor took his seat on the woolsack as
early as eleven, and immediately afterwards a committee of
.privileges sat, to consider the Camoys peerage case.
Prayers were read by the Bishop of Peterborough, after
which
The LORD CHANCELLOR gave judgment in three appeal
causes.
The Bank-of Ireland Act Continuance Bill, the Fisheries
(England and France) Bill, and the Exchequer Bills Funding
Bill, were then severally read a third time and passed.
At 12 o'clock the doors were thrown open for the admission
of those ladies and gentlemen possessing the lord great cham-
..berlain's cards of admission.
e_ Lord LYNDHURST presented three petitions, but in con-
sequence of the conversation carried on in the gallery among
e the ladies, the gallery being by this time full, we could not
_hear to what subjects they related.
Seats were secured on the benches on the opposition side
.7.0 f the house for the following peeresses :—The Duchess of
~omerset, the Marchioness of Westminster, the Countess of
~,,eilbeutarle, the Countess of Essex, the Countess of Carlisle,
~.,tl4e, Coi,tess of Galwey, the Countess of Beverley, the
, corintess of Munster, the Countess of Charlemont, Lady
spare LadyVerulam, Lady St. Germains, Lady Morley,
. Lady ' Grenville, Lady Lilford, Lady Cottenham, Lady Me-
„thuen, and Lady Lyndhurst
014 a short bench near the throne sat Madame Vander
:WeYei-; the lady of the Belgian minister, Baroness Meyen-
.
s —aorff, and the Duchess de Berwick.
1; .Shortly after one, the Duchess of Kent, with her attend-
,,,antr La,dy Charlotte Dundas, arrived. Their seats fronted
-„Ahnthrone, dos-a-dos to the lord chancellor's on the wool-
,Lisicit. The Duke of Cambridge entered the house about the
utn game time. The foreign ministers were all present before
hlf-past one.
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So lry
‘this time every seat in the house was occupied. Nearly
,$I the ministers who are peers were also assembled.
ARRIVAL 05' THE QUEEN.
0,0 bout two o'clock salvoes of artillery announced the arri-
ifs "iefthe Queen, and shortly afterwards her Majesty entered
be eheitse. attended by the great officers of state, and took
14.
eAterareet on the throne. She wore a white satin dress under
ostep-hes, trimmed with geld, a stomacher of diamonds, and
- a pearl necklace. The royal crovsrn decorated her brow.
O On her Majesty's left stood the Marquis of Normanby and
. Lord Melbourne, bearing the sword of state ; and on her
~eight.the Lord Chancellor and the Earl of Shaftesbury, car-
4ryieg the cap of maintenance. In the rear on each side were
..the officers of the household. Near the throne, but some-
I" what behind it, stood the Duchess of Sutherland, the mis-
s tress of the robes, and Lady Lyttelton, the lady in waiting.
As soon as her Majesty had taken her seat, she addressed
ee
ae their lordships, saying, " I beg your lordships to be seated."
t„, It is almost needless to add that the request was immedi-
es ately complied with ; and, then Sir Augustus Clifford, the
...Lusher of the black rod, kneeling at the foot of the throne,
.!Kreeeived her Majesty's command to summon the members
4, of the llouse of Commons.
s
, In the course of five minutes, the Speaker, with a large
~.body of members, entered the house, and the right hon.
gentleman took his, position at the bar.
THE SPEAKER'S ADDRESS TO THE QUEEN.
/. The SPEAKER, addressing her Majesty, said,—
" Most gracious Sovereign,—We, your Majesty's most
.. faithful Commons of Great Britain and Ireland, attend your
Majesty with our last bill of supply for the service of the
present year.
. " Various and important measures have occupied our at-
tention during this protracted and laborious session ; but
none more important affecting the interests of the commu-
nity than those which have for their object the prevention
and punishment of crime.
" NVe have given the most careful consideration to all
those improvements which have been suggested to us by
7. 'experience and prudent investigation with respect to the
'metropolis and city police, enlarging the extent and accu-
rately defining the duties of the force, to give increased seen-
, rity to the property of the inhabitants of this metropolis,
without in any degree infringing the liberty of the subject.
" An improvement in the management and discipline of
our prisons, both in England and Scotland, has formed the
subject of our most anxious deliberation ; we have endea-
voured to make such alterations on the one hand as will
render punishment effectual, whilst on the other we have
paid due regard to the welfare of the prisoners, and to their
moral improvement.
" The attempts which have been lately made in many
, parts of the country to excite disaffection, accompanied by
riots in some instances, have rendered it necessary to adopt
- such measures as shall prevent a recurrence of similar dis-
turbances. We have accordingly provided the means of in-
' -,- creasing your Majesty's military force, and to strengthen
.'e the civil authority, by enabling the magistrates of England
. ' and Wales to organise a paid constabulary force where the
4, state of the counties shall require it.
" We have the satisfaction of announcing to your Majesty
ee that, although the circumstances of the country have not est-
i* abled us to make any material reduction in the public bur-
,- dens, yet we have endeavoured to alleviate their pressure by
se making a most important modification in that,branch of the
revenue derivable from the Post-office. -By reducing the
e duty to a low and uniform rate, we not only give encourage-
ment to the industry and resources of the community, but
we have conferred social advantages of the highest character
upon the poorer classes of your Majesty's subjects.
" We have given our willing aid in furtherance of your
Majesty's gracious wishes to abolish the slave trade by pro-
tecting from legal proceedings the officers employed under
your Majesty's orders for the Suppression of that nefarious
traffic. We earnestly hope that it may be reserved for your
Majesty to perfect the great design which originated with
your Majesty's royal predecessors in the purest spirit of be-
nevolence, and that the final result may shed a bright and
enduring lustre on your Majesty's most auspicious reign.
" It now only remains for me to present to your Majesty
two bills—the one intituled ' An Act to appropriate the
Surplus of the Ways and Means for the Year 1839;' the
other intituled ' An Act for raising the sum of £12,026,050
for the Service of the Year 1839,' to which, with all humility,
we pray your Majesty's royal assent."
Her MAessret then gave her assent to the two bills, as
well as the following, viz., the Exchequer Bills Funding Bill,
the Fisheries (England and France) Bill, the Bank of Ireland
Continuance Bill, the Fines and Penalties (Ireland) Bill, the
Bolton Police Bill, the County and District Constables Bill,
and the Duke of Marlborough's Pension Bill.
/ •
HER MAJESTY'S SPEECH.
Her MAJESTY then, in her own very happy manner, read
the following speech :
" My Lords and Gentlemen,
" The public business having been brought to a close, I
have now to perform the satisfactory duty of releasing you
from your long and laborious attendance in parliament.
" I rejoice that a definitive treaty between Holland and
Belgium, negotiated by the mediation of the five powers, has
settled the differences between those two countries, and has
secured the peace of Europe from dangers to which it had so
long been exposed. The same concord which brought these
intricate questions to a peaceful termination prevails with re-
gard to the affairs of the Levant. The five powers are alike
determined to uphold the independence and integrity of the
, Ottoman empire, and I trust that this union will ensure a
satisfactory settlement of matters which are of the deepest
importance to the whole of Europe.
" It has afforded me the sincerest pleasure to have been
able to assist in effecting a reconciliation between France and
Mexico. Intent upon preserving for my subjects the bless-
ings of peace, I am highly gratified when I can avail myself
of an opportunity of removing misunderstandings between
other powers:

" I have recently concluded with the king of the French a
convention calculated to put an end to differences which
have arisen of late years between the fishermen of Great
Britain and France. This convention, by removing causes
of dispute, will tend to cement the union between the two
countries which is so advantageous to both, and so conducive
to the general interest of Europe.
" I shall continue to pursue with perseverance the negoti-
ations in which I am engaged, to persuade all the powers of
Christendom to unite in a general league for the entire
extinction of the slave-trade, and I trust that, with the
blessing of Providence, my efforts in so righteous a cause
will be rewarded with success.

" I regret that the differences which led to the withdrawal
of my minister from the court of Teheran have not yet been
satisfactorily adjusted by the government of Persia.
In order to fulfil the engagements announced to you at
the opening of the present session, the governor-general of
India has moved an army across the. Indus, and I have much
satisfaction in being, able to inform you that the advance of
that expedition has been hitherto unopposed, and there is
every reason to hope that the important objects for which
these military operations have been undertaken will be
finally obtained.

" I have observed with much approbation the attention
which you have bestowed upon the internal state and condi-
tion of the country. I entirely concur in the measures
which you have framed for the preservation of order, the
repression of crime, and the better administration of justice
in this metropolis ; and I have given a cordial assent to the
bills which you have presented to me for the establishment
of a more efficient constabulary force in those towns which
peculiarly require it, and for effecting the important object
of generally extending the civil power throughout the
country.

" Gentlemen of the House of Commons,
" I thank you for the zeal and readiness with which you
have voted the supplies for the service of the year.
" It has been with satisfaction that I have given my con-
sent to a reduction of the postage duties. I trust that the
act which has passed on this subject will be a relief and en-
couragement to trade, and that by facilitating intercourse and
correspondence it will be productive of much social advatY-
tage and improvement. I have given directions that the pre-
liminary steps should be taken to give effect to the intention
of parliament as soon as the inquiries and arrangemotts re-
quired for this purpose shall have been completed.
" The advantageous terms upon which a considerable
amount of the unfunded debt has been converted into stock
afford a satisfactory proof of the reliance 'Aced on the credit
and resources of the country, as well as on your determina-
tion to preserve inviolate the national faith.
" My Lords and Gentlemen,

" It is with great pain that I have found myself compelled
to enforce the law against those who no longer concealed
their design of resisting by force the lawful authorities, and
of subverting the institutions of the country. The solemn
proceedings of courts of justice, and the fearless administra-
tion of the law by all who are engaged in that duty, have
checked the first attempts at insubordination ; and I rely se-
curely upon the good sense of my people, and upon their at-
tachment to the constitution, for the maintenance of law and
order, which are as necessary for the protection of the poor
as for the welfare of the wealthier classes of the community."
The LORD CHANCELLOR, addressing both houses, then
said—

" It is her Majesty's royal will and pleasure that this par-
liament be prorogued to Thursday, the 24th day of October,
to be then and there holden, and this parliament is accord-
jugly prorogued to Thursday, the 24th day of October next."
Her Majesty descended the throne and quitted the house,
attended in the same manner as on her enterinc, ; and the
peers and peeresses began to depart, but a considerable time
elapsed before the house was completely cleared.