The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1838-05-29 00:00:00

THE NEWSPAPER PRESS.

To the sheet of paper which you see on your tables, served to
You so regularly, and studied by you with so much ease, the
four quarters of the globe contribute all the treasures of their
intelligence. Is one fact valuable to mankind discovered by
some scholar in the farthest ends of the earth ? Ten to one but
you will see it firstannounced in a paragraph of your newspaper.
Is there any abuse in your laws, it is the newspaper press that
drags it to day. Is there any invention that will augment your
comforts, or sharpen your industry ?—it is in the newspaper that
it becomes familiar to you all. The newspaper' is the chronicle
of civilization, the common reservoir into which every stream
pours its living waters, and at which every man may come to
drink. It is in the newspaper that gives to liberty its practical
life. its constant observation, its perpetual vigilance,, its Imre-
faxing activity. The newspaper is a daily and a sleepless watch-
man, that reports to you every danger which menaces the institu-
tions of your country, and its interests at home and abroad.
The newspaper informs legislation of public opinion, and it in-
forms the people of the acts of legislation ; thus keeping up that
constant sympathy, that good understanding between people
and legislators,, which conduces to the maintenance of order,
and prevents the stern necessity of revolution. Dionysitis the
tyrant had a chamber constructed iu.the form of a human ear,
so that he might learn every rumour, every whisper, that cir-
culated in the market place. What his chamber was to the
tyrant, the newspaper press is to the government of a free
people;
,it tells them our wishes-,it apprises them of our wants
—it carries to the ear of power the blessings of the grateful or
the murmurs of the oppressed. And this is not all. The news-
paper teems with the most,practical morality; in its reports of
crime and punishment, you find a daily warning against tempta-
tion; nota case in the police court, nut asingle trial ofa wretched
outcast or a trembling felon, that does not preach usfthe- awful
lesson how imprudence leads to error, how error conducts to
guilt, how guilt reaps its bitter fruit of anguish and degradation.
Nor is. even this all. The newspaper is the familiar bond that
hinds together man and man—no matter what may be the dis-
•tanee Of climate or the difference of race. Here it is that we
have learned how to sympathise. with the slave, how to battle
for his rights—how to wrest the scourge from his taskmaster.
Over land and over sea the voice of. outraged humanity has
reached to the great.heart of England, and raised ttp.a host of
freeman as the liberators of the enslaved and tortUrediegro !
It is a law-book for the indolent, a sermon for the thoughtless, a
library for the pool : it may stimulate the. most indifferent—in
may instruct the most profound. Such are the real adiantages,
the substantial utility of the newspaper press. These, in spite
of nit its abuses, have made it the boast of liberty, the glory of
civilization. For these it is that it has been justly likened to the
air we breathe; for, like the air, it is the circulatorof light; and,
like the air, it dispenses to us all, to the meanest and to the
proudest, the common glory of the sun of truth.—E. L. Bulwer's
Address at the opening of the Lincoln Tradesmen's Newsroom.

I DON'T LIKE To Saa—A dirty shirt covered with a clean
dickey ; a working man who has two hats wearing the best
everyday; windows patched with paper, rags, or turf; a hearse
standing, at a landlord's, door;, a sweep pressing through a
crowd; a woman's boot-lace dangling Dose; orange-peels
thrown on the footpath; a man summoned before the mtigis-
trates
.for potatoe tithes to the amount of fivepence; an orphan
girl tempted to walk the streets for the purpose of prostitution ;
good meat thrown to the doga; Ai workhouse funeral almost
without attendance; a woman beating her child because it had
nearly been run over : a country overseer putting out a poor
woman by the shoulders; two men fighting a pitched! battle on
a Sunday, afternoon ; a man, after breaking a square of glass
in a window, running away to escape detection ; a child crying
•for hours together in the cradle; a poor lad .oingtO the factory
very much out of health ; man stuffed with' rich food until his
legs are obliged to be tied up ; a bed-room comb left fu ll'of hair;
a servant waiting at the table with dilly hands; a woman slip.'
ping in at the back door of a pablic-house,.with a little jug, at
tea time ; a justice fining persons for getting drunk, who fre-
quently gets fresh himself; a gold ring on the little finger of a
dissenting minister; a bishop riding in a carriage and four;
! Catholic priest with a smart voung lady on his arm ; a beggar
exhibiting his wounds and deformations on the road side ; an
old man of 70 and a girl of 17 going to the church to be married;
a drunken coachman driving his horses at full gallop down the
street ; obscene and immoral prints in a bookseller's shop win-
dow; poor men pressing into the shop where the most violent
newspaper is to be sold ; clothes lying to he moth eaten, while
there are so many backs without covering; a coach-horse wirh
bleeding shoulders; a dog in a poor man's house, who gets•re-
lief from the parish; children's shoes unbuttoned, and stockings
out at the heels; an umbrella on a windy day with two broken
bones; a shop with dirty windows ; the bailiffs carrying the bed
and chairs of a poor widow to the Obelisk, to sell tor rent; a
poor ragged wife seeking her husband at twelve on a Saturday
night.—Educational Magazine.

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EAST INDIES, CAPE OF GOOD HOPE, kc,
Emily, (461) C Dunbar, from Calcutta, 2120 bags sugar, Rawson
and co-10.0 do, Livingston, Millman and co-320 do, Forbes, Forbes
and co-3150 do, 2344 bundles rattans, order-1250 sacks flour, (of
which. about 125 sacks thrown overboard) Rawson and co—P
Tlleodosia, (299) E Underwood, Hon] Calcutta, 190 bags sugar, T
Ilolt-405 do, J Gladstone awl co-551) do, Crawford, Colvin and co-
-250 do. Ogilvy, Gillanders and • co-176 order-309 do, Robinson and
co-32 chests Inc dye. Crawford, Colvin and co-343 bags saltpetre,
Ogilvy, Gillanders and cd-450 sacks flour. Rawson and co-500 bales
jute, A craman, Briggs and co-700 bags rice, order-4 packages sun-
dries, E Underwood—P.D

LIVERPOOL. PROVISION, MARKET, MAY 28.
The demand for new Grass Butter continues brisk ; the wants of
the dealers have, however, with an increasing supply, been freely
met by importers, and we therefore may, with propriety, call prices
Is to 2s lower. Prime Carlow, Kilkenny. and Waterford 108 s to 110 s.
Pickled' Butter much inquired for and readily brings 10(!s. Indeed,
during the present scarcity of the article, we think 102 s may he had.
—Henry Beef and prime Pork fully support late quotations. in light
and inferior there is but little doing. Belfast Bacon commands 50s to
52s with a fair consumptive demand. •
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LIVERPOOL kGRICULTIIRAL MARKET', MAY 28.
s. d. s. d. S. d. s.
•
(1., ,
o .0 (Do 1t 40,1t111. rotlttOeS • 1 0m 3 - 'i tr IJOII.
0 0 0 0- Catili, Potatoes 1 4 1 6--
0 7 010 - Turnips 0 0 0 0 per ton
0 6 0 7 - Carrots -
0 51' 0 6 - 1 Mangiewurzle 0 0 0 0 -
0 44 0 5 - ' Manure 9 010 0-

ota XTh •- -
New nay
Clover Hay—
Straw, Wheat
Straw, Oat
Straw, Barley

LONDON GAZETTE.-FRIDAY, MAY 25.

PA ;ITNERSII I I'S DISSOLVETI.
J. Iran and C. Oldham, Manchester, silk-throwsters.

INSOLVENTS.
May 22—Edwin Underdown and Henry BowdieTe, Whitechapel-road,
London, chees emonger.
May 24—John Morgan, Newport, Monmouthshire, provision-mer 4
chant.

BANKRUPTCY ENLARGED.
George Evans, Carnarvon, innkeeper, from May 8 to June 19.
BANKRUPTCY SUPERSEDED.
Ann Foster, Barton-hill, Yorkshire, innkeeper.

BANKRUPTS,
John Souter, Exeter-street, St. Luke, Chelsea' builder.
gollVdsilmliaitmh.Kempton, Smith street, Northampton,,quare, London.
Thomas ChM, Garlick-bill, London, chemist.
Robert Thomas Latham. Andover, surgeon.
William 11Iadden, jun. Manchester, drysalter.
SAnuel Long, Cheltenham. licensed-victualler.
Richard Crowther, Birmingham, builder.

DIVIDENDS.
June 18, J. Boe,Wells, Somersetshire. draper—June 11, It.
Trump-street, London, worehouseman—June 1:5, J.
_ ayne and B
Payne, Great Queen-street, Lincoln's Inn-fields, London, coach-lace:::
manufacturers—June 15, T. D. Latham end J . Parry Devonshire
square, London, merchants—June 15. J. Stevens and E. Baker,Whlt.
comb-street, London, brewers—July 16, B.
Wells, Gracechuach-street,
Knowles
London, brewers—July 16, J. H. Bunn, Spicer-street, SPitalfields,
London, cabinet-maker—June 16,1 V. King, aux la V 111 Brewery,
Lambeth; London, common brewer—June 23, S. Marshall, She Meld
manufacturer of cutlery—June 18, It. Lowe, Worcester, skinner—
June 18, J. Nicholls, Worcester, hotel-keeper-,--June 19, J. Schofield,
Oldham, Lancash,ite;grocer—June 16, M Kineh and It. Kinch, Man-,
chester, warehonsemen—June 18, G. Olilvy, Kidderminster, carpet-
manufacturer-4une, 20, C. Kurtz, SalforcV manufacturing chemist—
June 22, H. Shuckburgh, Bristol, grocer—June 19, G. Weston, Not'
tingham, builder. South

CERTI FICATES
To be granted, unless cause be shown to the contrary, on or before the
' 15th day of June.
J. Yates, Flixton, Lancashire, dyewood-grinder—D. Dakeyne,
Manchester, flax-spinner—J. West, Shoreditch, London, grocer—J•
R. Anderson, Quadrant, Regent-street, Londcrn music-publisher-'
T. Johnston, Panton-street, Haymarket, London,'tailors—W. W. Oar'
lick, Manchester, plumber.
AVERAGE PRICE OF SUGAR.
The average price of Brown or Muscovado Sugar, computed frOril
the returns made in the week ending May 22, 1938, is 32s 6d ve:
hundred weight, exclusive of the duties of Customs paid or PaYaDl
thereon on the importation thereof into Great Britain,

MEETINGS OF CREDITORS.

_ _ - ---.
MAY.
001/11
29. Patrick Magee, (2d)
31. Ditto, (special) ......,....,...LittledateCi nr
30. Joseph Reward, (div.)
.Rwoeoimp
ss: 0 1
Clarendon Rooms, I
30. John . Mulholland and Co Ditto.... • 1
JUNE.

1. Thomas B. Walden, (div.) ... ... bitto lt
1. James G. Trevitt
, Ditto 1
5. James W. Bogie, (2d) ...... ..•. .............. Ditto 1
5. M. and J. C. Hatton, (2d) Ditto 1
5. Joseph Garner
Ditto 1
7. James Hill, (fur. div.) • ....Ditto if
7. William M'Cartney Ditto l2
8. Joshua Ecroyd, (special) Mr. Booker's. 11 '

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LATEST DATES AT LIVERPOOL.
k'rom )- Direct. lndirect. From Direct. Indirct.
Calcutta March ..17 Pernam... April .. 6 ......
Bombay March..3o Maranham April .. 8 .. ‘ ... ,
China N. Orleans
Madritids .. Feb ....20 1%1 obile .. April ..31
St. Helena.. Savannah.
Rio Janeiro.
Bahia

PACKET BOATS.—FALMOUTH STATION,
GENERAL. POST-OFFICE.—May 25, 1837.
•
Alaas made r Last Packets Neat Packet
DESTINATION. up m - Loudon'. Sailed. Due.:,, :.:
_____.....—
Holland Tues. & Fri. Mon. & Thurs
Hamburg & Swed Tues. &TH. Tues. hz Satur"
Lisbon
Madeira Saturdays .. .
1 Liverpool, Iberia,
Spain & ,ibralt.
Malta and Greece.. 2nd Saturday Mai2l. May 27.
May 14. ..
Egypt and India .. 4th Saturday
Madeira
Brazil & ii. Ayres each month May 4. June 29.
America lst Wednes. Sheldralce,Mny 5 Swift • . June 9
5 Jarnai L'ward
Ist day of
1 Isl. & Hayti.. 11. M. B. Pigeon, B. Mutine.
Lagnira
Mexico :11d 11a- t 15th day of H.M.S. Linnet. B. Delight,
vans... ... •.• .1 each month. May 17. June 25.
S Jarnai• L'w"sll 15th day of 11.M.8. Man.net B. Lapwing.
C Isl. & Hayti. ).
each month. May 17'. '
Carthagena July 8.
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PREMIUMS OF• INSURANCE AT LLOYD'S.

LONDON & LIVERPOOL,
. before Ith Jan.

Outward,

Home.

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New Orleans
Havana 12th Jan,
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British North America
Newfoundland
Br: zits
River Plate
East Indies
Company's Ships
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New South Vales
Cape of Good Hope
Africa
Gibraltar
Lima, Valparaiso, &c.
Malta, Sicily, &c.
Smyrna and Constantinople
Malaga
Western Isles, Cape de Verds
Lisbon
Cadiz
France
Holland
Hamburg, Bremen, &c.
Gottenburg, Stockholm
Petersburg, Riga. &c.
Oporto

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NORTHERN HOSPITAL WEEKLY REPORT.

For the neck ending MaY 26, 1838.

PATIENTS ADDIITTED. 1 PATIENTS DISCHARGED.
3
Accidents without recommen- Cured
dation . .
Medicaland Sumealcases with 12
recommendation
2) 3
Remaining in the Hospital
inneeliiieraveldie & made Out-patients 132

House Visitors, Charks Warner, Esq. and E. G. Deane, Esq.
Chaplain, Rev. 11. S. Joseph.—Treasurer, R. W. Bateson, Esq.
House Surgeon—Mr. Benjamin Blower.

onations and Subscriptions received by Messrs. Arthur Heywood,-
Sons, and Cu., and at all the Liverpool Banks,

BIS.
On the 21st instant, at Kirkdaß
le,T thHe
lady of Captain Alsop, of a
daughter.
On the 26th instant, at Oak-dale, Seaeomhe, the lady of Francis B.
Ogden, Esq., the United States Consul at this port, of a daughter.

MARRIED.
On the 13th instant, at St. Nicholas's Church, Mr. John Carpenter,
of London, to Ann. eldest daughter of Mr. S. Howard, Sandforth
Bridge, near Nantwich.
On the 19th instant, at St. Peter's Catholic Chapel, Seel-street, Mr.
Charles Melia to Elizabeth Fitzmauris, of Bridgewater-street.
On the 20th instant, at St. Phillip's Church, Mr. Charles Chandler,
ironmonger, to Emma, eldest daughter of Capt. Robert Bence, Dup—
can-street, St. James's.

On the iI st instant, 1;t Walton-on-the-Hill, Daniel Bell, Esq., third
son of the late Joseph Bell, Esq., of the Hollins. near Whitehaven, to
Ann, second daughter of Mrs. Matthews, West Derby-street.
• On the 22nd instant, by special license, at North Mimm's Church,
the Hon. Edmund Phipps, brother to his-Excellency the Earl of Mul-
grave, to the Hon. Mrs. Charles Norton, eldest daughter of his Ex-
cellency Sir Colin Campbell. K.C.8., Governor of Nova Scotia.
On the 23rd instant, at Fitz, Shropshire, by the Rev. Wm. 110p—
kins, M.A., Mr, John L. Arrowsmith, merchant of this town, to Ann,
the youngest daughter of the late John Denston, Esq., of Grafton.
Salop.