The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1846-01-06 00:00:00

to do our duty

t to serve, strong enough
to sway us from the path of rectitude and of truth.
Convictions we had, which we were unwilling to
barter for temporary popularity, or for the pecuniary
reward which it brings. We have boldly expressed
these ; we may, in so doing, have offended some
friends; but the increased support which we have
received throughout the year satisfies us that to be
honest and candid is to earn the approbation of the
friends, of whom we are proud, because they are,
emphatically the friends of honesty.
Upon one particular feature of the year's expe-
rience,—and snccessful experience it has been—we
must remark. We have sustained a pressure—a
rich pressure—of advertising favours, for which we
are most grateful, and which, we 'fear, has often
caused us to disappoint our readers of that ample
mass of information on generally interesting sub-
jects, which is looked for in a newspaper. Such
disappointments, however, we have taken means
which, unless inordinate prosperity sets in upon us
will not recur again. Our publication of this day,
appears printed from a new fount of type, provided
at a considerable expense, and which will give us
more than an additional page to he devoted to news.
Our paper is now, by this aid, inferior to none in
size and contents ; and the mode in which we have
all along conducted it, we trust, will allow us to be
believed, when we say that it shall be our study, in
the present year, and in years to come, to render it
one of the best, if not the best, papers in the loca-
lity for the commercial man, the aivertizer, the
poor man, and, above all, essentially a family paper,
which we pledge ourselves shall not contain a line,
at which modesty itself can blush, or of which reli-
gion can be ashamed.

We had no personal obj

The conclusion of the business here, and the
publication, by our leading brokers, of their annual
circulars, enable us to bring before our readers a
digest of the leading features, which have charac-
terized the operations of 1845, and the opinions of
well-informed men, as to the prospects of the year
upon which we have just entered. As the chief in
importance, we turn first to the year's history of the
great staple trade of the port—the cotton trade.
Messrs. Wrigley and Son, in their circular, thus

speak of it

"In the annals of the cotton trade we believe no single
year can be pointed out in which the market has exhibited
such an uniform steadiness of prices as the one now nearly
closing. The fluctuations in American and Surat cotton,
from the lowest to the highest point, have not exceeded a
id. per lb., and in Brazil and Egyptian ld. per lb. The A new year has just opened upon us, pregnant
year opened under very favourable auspices; cotton was with more important problems to be solved, and
low in price, all descriptions of food moderate, and as a difficulties to be surmounted, than ever before pre-
consequence of these two important elements, trade was sented themselves, in any one year, throughout the
in a healthy and improving condition. As spinners found history of Britis legislation. And brief, more-
opportunities of making contracts for yarn, they supplied
over, has been the warning given to us of their ap-
themselves freely with cotton, so that the progressive im-
provement in trade during the first three quarters of the proach, and short the period which is left for states-
year, induced them to hold far larger stocks of cotton manship to devise and to act in the emergency,
than they were ever known to possess at any former which circumstances ha' e partly hurried on, and
period ; indeed, they may be said to have bought during which it has partly created for itself. A few months
the first nine months more than sufficient for their annual
consumption. I ago, the political horizon was without a cloud, save
That the general prosperity of trade should not have that small one in the "far west" which was seized
enhanced the value of the raw material in a greater degree, upon as the pretext of sending " a message of
may be accounted for by the heavy crop of 1844, and the peace" to disaffected popery in Ireland. A minis-
his country; more- mati
consequent accumulation of stock in t
try, stronger than ever, held the helm of the state, whici
over, the desire to secure the handsome profit on importa-
tions, was an inducement to bring the cotton freely on the sate secure and confident in office. Prosperity al- with
'gr
aleinsss
market, so that the periods of extensive speculation, of most unbounded, extended through every branch
which there were some duric; the year, passed away of industry and commerce. We had a full exche•
without giving any material impulse to prices." quer, full garners, and unexampled credit, amidst
The same influential firm account, in part, for which, the national enterprise put forth all its ener- THE CORPORATION SCHOOLS.—An evening school for
adults is about being opened by the Education Commit-
this feature in the trade in the same way as we have gies for the developement of the country's resources
done several times, when remarking in the columns and the people's social amelioration and comfort. tee of
Corporation
Tiono;crilloCauncil, in connection with the South
of the Liverpool Standard upon the inordinate spe- Yet this vast and imposing fabric of power and At the meetine of the council to-morrow, Mr. Alder-
culations in railway shares, which we viewed as prosperity, the caprice of one man—its chief ar- man Bramley Moore will bring forward a motion for the
a timely safety valve, provided to check, and, chitect—has been sufficient to destroy, and without granting of five hundred guineas, for the Dispenoaries,
at the worst, more harmless in its results than even a glimmering of the reason which can have out of the surplus fund. We sincerely hope it will be
would have been the application :of the surplus ca- brought about so total a change in his political con- TITHEti . c
OMMUTATION.—It appears from an official
pital of the manufacturing community to an enor- victions and purposes, the country has, within the statement of the averages for the seven years to Christmas
mous extension of their means of producing manu- last three weeks, seen the helm put down. and the last, which have been published in the London Gazette,
factured fabrics. vessel of the state directed upon a new course, l viz.:—Wheat 7s. 4d., Barley 4s. 111, Oats 2s. 9d. per
"It is fortunate," they say, " for those engaged in the which its steersman, throughout his past public imperial bushel ;—that each £lOO or rent-charge will, for
cotton trade that the abundance of unemployed capital life, has declared to be full of dangerous shoals, and the year 1846, amount to £lO2 I7s. Me or about one per
obtained vent in the multitude of new schemes to which to lead to assured destruction of its most valued in- cent. less than last year.
the difficulty of finding profitable investment gave rise; stitutions, and the comfort, the liberties, and the NOTICE.—At the police-court, yesterday, a man was
had this new channel not been opened, there is little charged with stealing a sack of oats, which was found in
his cellar, in Simpson-street. The property was identi-
doubt that all sorts of produce would have become the happiness of the people.
fied, and he would have been committed forthwith for
objects of speculation, and more disastrous results have At the instigation, and as the act, we repeat, of onewws berriesstated byv i
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ensued, by causing distress amongst the labouring com- man, the legislature, in the approaching session, is
munity, than is likely to follow the unprecedented extra- about to venture upon the momentous experiment of reign cigars,ye were also founda ain the place, and for owfhic°l;
vagance of the recent railway bubbles, the failure of remodeling the entire social fabric, and reversing owners had not yet been found, he was remanded, to give
which is more immediate)y felt by the middle classes." completely that policy which has characterised the le- i time for enquiry.
Another circumstance which checked an advance gislation of Great Britain for centuries; under which IMPORTANT TO VOTERS FOR COUNTIES.—We are
confidently informed that a bill is in preparation, and will
in the raw material was the fact of the crop ex- she has grown up to be first in arts, in arms, in
mbeebntrouretofi?..rewctarodfewarhlrclinitshet ensuing session of parlia.
ceeding in amount the general anticipations. The commerce, and territorial greatnes4, amongst the oporfevveontitngthfeorsnaomune house
American American crop, variously estimated at the corn- nations of the world, Who can look forward to or other propertyj giving the right
mencement of the year 2,100,000 and 2,200,000 the issue of that experiment without a feeling of more titan two persons at the same time. We do not
bales, is now found to be (we take the figures trepidation and of doubt ? The repeal of the ex- know whether the bill will have a retrospective effect or
from the circular of Messrs. Heywood and Mac- isting system of protection to the native producer w
not ; if it should, the labours of the Anti-corn-law League
Viccar) 2,394,500 bales, exclusive of 25,900 bales of food, is virtually a revolution which must °lie• ill have been almost in vain.
from Texas. The same firm, from whose cir- QtUALlFfirfu! 1 QUALIFY !! QUALIFY !!!—VOtes are the
rate upon the fortunes and the social position of
cular we first quoted, thus wind up their account of"'ve be of arguments; and if the Protection Som.
every man, woman, and child, throughout the Bri- etiesrnos would useful bodies, they will immediately take
the year, and state their opinions of the prospects tish every
and ultimately change and re-distribute steps to multiply votes! If they would compel a govern-
of the present : the elements of which our social fabric itself is 1 merit by a gentle restraint to adopt, or would support it
" The partial failure of the harvest and the injurious composed. Nor can it stop here. It deals not lin the.pursuit of, a particular line of policy, let the Con-
effects of the railway mania in deranging the operations of 'servatives make their opinions known through the number
only with financial considerations 'and the re-ar- and the unmistakeable tone of their votes. The electors
the money market, having given a severe check during
the last two or three months to the prosperity of the rangement of the relative positions and privileges , rule representatives, and the representatives guide the
cotton trade, consumers, during that period, have been of the various classes into which the community is minister. There is no time.to be lost. A general elec-
working up their stocks of cotton, and it is now calculated divided, but will effect also an entire change in those tion is at hand ; and unless qualifications are secured by
the 31st instant, the effort will be too late.
that the quantity on hand in the country does not exceed feelin s and associations—prejudices if you will— ALGERlA.—Despatche3 have been received from this
that held at the same period last year. Almost all the of the national heart, upon which the institutions of quarter to the 25th ult. They announce that on the 18th
old mills, which had been for some time standing, being
the country have been based, and by which, for General Bedeau had a warm engagement on the left bank
at work again, several new ones erected, and the con-
suming power still extending, there is a considerable in- centuries, they have been secured. Upon wealth of the Iser, with Ben Salem, who had advanced within
sight of Algiers. The Arabs were completely routed,
crease in the consumption for the year ;it is estimated at embarked in the ownership of the soil is founded
with the loss of 40 killed, and in their flight abandoned a
157,781 bales, or 3,031 per week. The weekly consume- those feelings of traditional respect with which we
quantity of arms and ammunition. In the province of
lion of 1844, was 27,326 bales ; during the present year it
look upon that order in whose hands we have placed Oran General Korte accomplished some successful razzias.
has reached 30,360 bales.
a third share in the administration of the national which were followed by the submission of numerous
Although the new year may be ushered in with pros- tribes. Marshal Bugeaud was at Ain Paskeira, eight
pects somewhat less encouragine perhaps than the last, affairs, and with whom, principally, we have sur-
still we see no cause for despondency. Our unusually rounded the person of the sovereign—amongst leagues from Teniet-el-Had, where he had proceeded to
procure a supply of provisions with the intention of form-
heavy stock of cotton, and the certainty of a good crop whom have we been accustomed to look for our ing a junction with General Joussouf, who was still in
having been again secured in A 3 clic, are sufficient most eminent statesmen and the leaders of our army pursuit of Abd-el.Kader in the south.
guarantee for moderate prices during die next twelve and our fleets. Concedethat
months; the clouds too, in the political horizon seem to
be gradually dispersing, and although we may have to .severe. will be struck at the landed aristocracy of well-dressed young man, named John Martin Kelsh, was
contend against the effect of a scarcity of agricultural pro- the country, by the repeal of the corn laws, and yesterday charged before Mr. Rushton with this offence.
It appeared that he had gone to Mr. Joseph Blain, sta-
duce, it is to be hoped that this will in some decree be you concede the wakening of the power of the
neutralized by liberal and enlightened measures about to house o: peers to withstand the aggression of de- Lilo tr,n Southare o
of
C rt I e st i
Lockett,t, and
merchant,obta i obtained e dKatnlooasntre ofe t 2 s . we.
be introduced during the ensuing parliamentary session." rnocracy, and thus destroy the nicely adjusted ba- had also obtained 2s. from Mr. Isaac Jones Drill;nore,
The profits reaped by the spinners during the lance and counter-check of the three branches of watchmaker, Hanover-street, in the name of Mr. Smith,
year may be estimated by the fact mentioned in the constitution. That the strikinX of a sudden wine-merchant. The representations made were, in
Messrs. Heywood and MacViccar's circular, that blow is the object contetnplated as the result of each case, that he was in the employ of the parties named,
and that it was wanted for an immediate imtnergency or
at one time of the year they were realizing from 2d. the removal of protection from agriculture is noto- I convenience to save time. Neither of the parties whom
to 3d. per lb ! rious. It is evident, from the tone in which the ad- he said he represented had authorised the request, nor.
Another rapidly rising trade in Liverpool, whose vocates of free trade launch their philippics against indeed, knew aught of the prisoner. The prisoner, who
prosperity may fairly be stated to form a fair index the, landlords, rather than at the law which protects attempted an impudent and improbable defence, was com-
of that of important masses of the community is the'in. . Ostensibly, the triumphs of the league is , milted for trial at the sessions.
the wool trade. We give the state of this trade one which is to• secure a better and a cheaper sup- it At a meeting
ivs cr thofatthe Londofn li)otckorohmepadnly last w.eeot
from Messrs. Gartside and Co.'s annual circular : ply of food for the people :in reality, it is one whose bewparsesrentea to the cahparremeaon ortaheecoutrt ofidiareecotofrs43the
" From the commencement of the year until the month result is to unable:democracy to plant its heel upon deputy chairman, and treasurer ; and that to each of the
of October we experienced a good demand for all de- the prostrate form of aristocracy and obtain a pre- directors a piece of plate of the value of £lOO be presented,
scriptions of wool ; since that period very little has been
ponderating inquence over the direction of national as
.a testimony of the high approbation of the court of pro-
done. The extent of railway speculation during the prietors. [We should be proud to see some movement
earlier part of the year and its subsequent effects, the affairs. made for presenting similar testimonials to the chairman,
supposed failure in the potato crop, the changes in the This is the movement, at the head of which Sir deputy chairman, and other mumbers of our owu dock
ministry, and the probabilities of an American war, have Robert Peel has so unaccountably placed himself. committee. Their comprehensive views and practical de-
all tended to destroy confidence, and have caused the This—the reduction of the proud and honoured termination to meet, and even anticipate, the wantapf
woollen manufacturers to reduce their consumption of - the port are beyond all praise, and ought not to be for=
the raw material, and they are in many cases working aristocracy of Great Britain—of the descendants of
gotten. The effective services of the secretary, treasurer,
short time. the warriors of Cressy and Agincourt—to a level, and surveyor, are also deserving of suitable acknowledge-
Our imports this year into Liverpool exceed by 24,318 in political power, with the mushroom millionaires ment. The directors and officers of the London dock
bales the quantity received in 1844 ; the present stock also of the spinning jenny and the power loom, is the 1 company cannot have been more efficient than the gentle-
shows a considerable increase upon that on hand at the Price which he is prepared to bid for a new lease of ' men to whom we have taken the liberty thus publicly to
end of last year, though not in so great a proportion, and '
power and a triumph over men by whom, in consi
that increase is principally in Alpaca and Peruvian. THE FATALITY BY THE BURSTING OF THE HUGE
aeration only of his political cleverness, his claims TANK w w
The quantity of wool imported into England from the IN ATER-STREET.— e regret to say that
Australian and South African colonies reaches about to rank with :them is grudgingly tolerated. That another has been added to the list of those who have lost
fll,OOO bales, of which only 6060 bales have come to this he will be successful in carrying out his measures is their lives by the tank catastrophe,—Ann Devaney. wife
market; this is to be the more regretted, when we con- as yet an unsolved problem. We may assume, of Joseph Devaney, who inhabited a house
hone Rock-
eider that a larger quantity was received here eight yearsthat he has confidence in
however,
ago, and the growth in the meanwhile has more than
doubled. sufficient warrant from the past, for the required (as we stated) entertained, at the Southern Hospital where
she then lay, that she would recover, but she afterwards
We are now receiving considerable supplies of fine amount of suicidal infatuation. to enable him to lure sank, and died on Saturday. The event involved, of
wool from the United States. As we stated in our cir- on the credulous believers in his pre-eminent con- course, another coroner's inquisition, which was to take
cular of the 28th ultimo, the quality and working pro- ning, to their own destruction. place yesterday ; but in consequence of the verdict given
perties of these descriptions are not yet known, and buyers Admitting, then, the successful achievement of in the former cases, arising from the same cause, having
only take them to a limited extent, consequently what has
this first and great step towards the establishment been rmewhat. severely commented. upon publicly,. and
hitherto been done in them cannot be taken as a fair the witnesses in this case not being conveniently got
criterion of value when they become properly known, of pure democractical institutions, are the difficul- together in time, (with such other additional evidence as
Should the Government of the United States reduce their ties of his position as a minister surmounted? By may be deemed necessary to satisfy all parties interested)
import duties on woollen manufactures, we may look for no means. The cry for cheap bread is not the only the inquiry was postponed until this day. We have beard
an improved business with that country next year. but by mere rumour only, that the coroner himself has
cry of the party into whose hands he has thrown
On comparing the list of prices with that of this period been put into a false position by his charge to the jury
himself. The rinci le of protection once given up
est year, we find•on the whole very little alteration. ' not having been reported, Some additional evidence as
obtained in the highest point of the upon what pleaP
can Phe defend the continuance of to the efficiency of the tank, and on other points will, we
although the rates
market during the spring and summer have not in general the differential duties upon foreign and colonial learn, be adduced.

We thank Earl Grey, therefore, for averting from
the country the infliction of so dangerous a diplo-
It is a deed—whether intended or not—
which will weigh with the present generation, and
with generations to come, as a powerful set-off
against his lordship's unpleasant politics, and scarce-
ly less unpleasant manners.