The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1847-04-27 00:00:00

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viewed, by some parties, as reflecting somewhat
upon the Watch Committee, or upon the head-
constable, Mr. Dowling. Nothing, however, was
further from our thoughts than an idea of re-
flecting upon either. We stated merely facts re-
ported to us, and suggested to the authorities

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authorities to this subject, we were fully aware— COMMERCIAL AND FINANCIAL SUMMARY.
few more so—of the difficulties placed in their way,
and particularly of the additional onerous duties The tightness in the Money Market, produced by
which had devolved upon the head-constable, arising the course taken by the Bank of England to protect
itself from the effect of the drain of bullion to meet the
from the irruption into the town of Irish pauperism, purchases of Foreign bread stuffs is increasing ; and the
requiring to be watched by the officer of justice as consequent restriction of discounts by bankers throughout
well as the administrator of public charity. We the kingdom is seriously depressing commercial energy,
are aware that Mr. Dowling's labours, from this whilste it is. paralysingolate spirit of sptectlilleatii(Lnqtwhiacherhaiss
4, and the calls upon his l' l'is;Toethn
now ns eogrolgable and even that aetxacehpigh rate of interest.ip
however, does not af- Our Cotton "Market, influenced partly by this state of
is things and the still decreasing consumption, has lost during
e the week the advance produced by the arrival of the
1 Hibernia, having declined fully gd. per lb. The sales of
the week, ending Friday, were 23,660 bales, of which
4,800 were on speculation, and 700 for export. The same
influence has operated to deaden our Corn Market, not-
received in the corn-
''et on Friday, stocks

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tha wpal

se whic

,
were freely broug,ht out ; hut sales were sparingly made at
a reduction on Tuesdays prices of 3d. per 70 lb on wheat ;
23. on barrel flour, and ls. to 2s. per 480 lb on Indian

The cotton manufacturing districts exhibit even greater
gloom than we noticed last week, and several additional
stoppages of mills, and a resort in other establishments to
shorter hours of labour, have been the result. On Wed-
nesday, at an adjourned meeting of the millowners of
Stockport, it Wa9 unanimously resolved to work only
three hours a day for a month, and even that course was
only adopted in consideration of the danger likely to
result from entire stoppage'of the factory hands, which
would ' -ters. A similar

ne more profitable o the mas
course is likely to be adopted in most other places in the
district. The condition of the operatives is stated to us
as one of increased and increasing suffering. _

We noticed in our last remarks under this head, the
reported arrival of extensive orders from the United
States, which are confessedly bare of British manufac-
tured goods; and at the same time intimated our fear
that they could not be executed at the limits sent out.
Experience has proved that we were perfectly correct in
this anticipation. Indeed a new element of difficulty has
been superadded in the difficulty experienced in procuring
discounts, at reasonable rates, for the bills sent over t )
purchase with. The result of the two combined difficul-
ties has been the virtual withdrawal of the orders from
this quarter, from which we ought to have expected so
much, buyers being unwilling to buy at any material ad-
vance upon past prices of goods, and sellers unwilling to
sell without an advance, to meet the advanced price which
they have to pay for the raw material. There must be a
re-action shortly, we should expect ; but really, at pre-
sent, there are little signs of its coming.

Look where we will every influence seems to be com-
bined against this country, and more especially against
her manufacturing interest. From India, the accounts
just come are most depressing, and represent the markets
throughout that country as declining for all descriptions
of mminfacturei golds, whilst imports thence, which
ought to serve for their purchase, are only kept back by
the want of shinning to transport them, and even at the
immense rise which has taken place in freights. At
Bombay, holders of piece goods were offering their
stocks freely, whilst dealers were cautious in making
purchases ; and at Calcutta th' reported sales of al-
most all descriptions of similar fabrics are 50 per cent.
less in amount than those of the preceding month. Yet
stocki are gradually becoming exhausted throughout the
country.

N ot;vithstanding all precautions, the demand for bullion
continues to exhaust the treasury of the Bank of England.
By the weekly account in the Frilav's Gazette the stock
of gold and silver has fallen to £8,801,100, being a reduc-
tion in the issue departnient of £135,240 since the last
account, while in the banking department the stock is
only £528,741.

The London bankers are restricting their discount
business to their own regular customers, and the rule is
to keep them as short as possible. The pressure at all
points has much increased, and it has created more
excitement from bankers coming up from the coun-
try to raise money on bills, in which they have generally
failed, however good, if not at very short dates. It is
useless to state the rates of interest current, they are so
various, but six per cent may be considered a low average
for unquestionable paper.

EXAMINATION OF MASTERS AND MATES:-At a meeting
of the Board of Examiners, held on the 20th inst., Captain
Richard J. Case, late master of the Caledonia of London,
was examined and found duly qualified from his great ex-
perience in seamanship and superior attainments in nau-
tical astronomy, as to entitle him to a first class extra
master's certificate. _ _ . _

,••IWM. N., •
A deputation of shipowners of Liverpool, headed ay
Viscount Sandon, M.P.. Sir Howard Douglas, M.P., and
Mr. William Brown, M.P., and consisting of Mr. John
Miller, Mr. Anderson, Mr. Coulburn, and Mr. Lockett,
(chairman,) had an interview on Saturday, with Viscount
Palmerston, on the subject of an act lately passed by the
Congress of the United States of America, with reference
to the conveyance of passengers to the United States.
FATAL ACCIDENT.—On Saturday, William Rowe, a
ship-carpenter, aged 64, was at work with another man,
at a vessel called the Minerva, in No. 1 Canning. Graving
Dock. While putting a plank on a stage, which was being
fixed alongside, the board overbalanced and fell down,
with deceased along with it, to the bottom of the dock.
He was much hurt about the head, and was insensible.
He was taken to the Northern Hospital, and was found to
labour under concussion of the brain. Inflammation set
in, of which he died on Sunday.
CONMITMENTS AT THE POLICE COVAT.-BeforeSir

Joshua Walmsley, yesterday, (in the absence of Mr.
Rushton,) a woman named Margaret Ness, and a girl
Margaret Cavannah, were charged with stealing,

named

on Saturday; in Banastre-street, from recruiting-sergeant
111`Donald, who had arrived here from Coventry, three
silver watches, of the value of £l6. The articles were in
a parcel, which complainant said the woman took from his
pocket, and on being detected dropped them, when the
x---nwer prisoner who was with her picked them up. The
prisoners
gent for trial.—Catherine Barlow was sent

to the sessions fors',:‘,ll:"l pair of the shop
of Mr. John Jones, • Brrom-stree,,, alAu

I and paid for another pair

FATALITIES.—On Sunday last the body of a young lad,
I John Rigby, was found floating in the King's
It appears that on the 12th December he had been

sent to brink down his master's dinner from Rhyl-street,
Toxteth-park, to the quay, where he was engaged, and
was never seen alive afterwards.—On Sunday, the body
of a still-born female child was found floating in the canal,
near Chisenhale street. No clew has yet been found to
identity.—A man named Michael Shortness went into the
lodging-house, No. 35, Thomas-street, seeking for a bed,
and he was found quite dead on the following day.—On
Sunday evening, a man named Thomas Moss, wbo lived
in Will' C fell he 11^— - ' •

alum Jourt, ten down on ti. .ioor, and instantly
expired.—The inquests on all these cases will be held this

ILLICIT DISTILLATION AND SMUGGLING.— Patrick
Trainer, John Campbell, and Ann Hughes, were yester-
day charged, at the Police-court, with working an illicit
till, which was found at work, with low wines, in a cel-
They were known as old offenders in this way, and
my each a fine of £3O, or to be impri-

luired to

soned for three months.—A foreign sailor, named Henry
Derker, who had arrived at this port, from America, by
the ship Siberia, on Saturday, was charged with attempt-
ing to smuggle upwards of 100 lbs. of foreign manufac-

castle of the vessel. The captain gave him an excellent
character ; stated that the moment he found the ship in
danger of being seized, he voluntarily confessed that he
had brought the tobacco, adding, that he could not bear
to see his captain, who had treated him most kindly,
ed through his fault or ignorance. He was required
a fine of £lOO ; but his case will, no doubt, be fa-
vourably reported, with a view to mitigation, to the law-
officers of the Crown, in London.—Another seaman, for
smuggling 81 lbs. of tobacco amongst some clothes found
in his chest, on board the ship Roscius, lately arrived,
was remanded till Thursday, so that the pleasure of the
Board may be known respecting this case, as it appeared
some other parties were more strongly implicated.
ROBBERY TO A LARGE AMOUNT BY AN APPRENTICE.

—Yesterday, at the Police-court, a rather well-dressed
youth, named Robert Drury, was charged, before Sir
Joshua Walmslev. with having absconded

with £1250, the property of his employers, Messrs. Demp-
sey, Frost and Co., timber- merchants, Queen's Dock. It
appeared, from the evidence of Mr. Wm. Ashcroft, cashier
to Messrs. Dempsey & Co., and other witnesses, that the
Pr

ner was an apprentice to the concern ; and that, on
Wednesday last, he (Mr. A.) counted over before him the
amount stated in Bank of England notes, namely, 1 £5OO
note, 7 £lOO notes, and 1 £5O note, which were enclosed
in a letter addressed to Messrs. Holden and Co., of Lon-
don ; and which he (the prisoner) was to deliver at the
post-office here, and register for forwarding, or, in other
words, to bring back a receipt for the same. The prisoner
did not return to the office, and some uneasiness naturally
arising, inquiry was made at his home. which it was found

he had left-. Mr. Ashcroft started next evening for Lon-
don, and having arrived on the followinz mornin

gave information at the main police-othce, and obtained
assistance of Constable Joseph Thompson; of Bow-

street. They soon succeeded in finding the delinquent at
the London Bridge-street Tavern, where he had taken up
his temporary abode. In his portmanteau, and in a
pocket-book in his top-coat pocket, the greater part of the
money, that is, £1233 155., was found partly in the notes
_ _

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other notes, the prisoner having, it appeared, changed th
£5OO nntrt at thP liranrh Rank here. he sizning on thi

back of it the firm, " Ewart, Myers, 'and Co."- It also
appeared that previous to leaving this town he had pur-
chased a watch, chain, and seal from Mr. Daniel Verley,
of Parker-street, for which he paid in a bank note of £5,
2 sovereigns, and 2 shillings—in all £7 25.. He had
bought himself some new clothes, as an outfit, and stated
to the officer that he had proposed to go to Dover for
some time, and thence embark for America. The pri_
soner did not appear to be much affected by the situ

ation in which he was placed, and declined to say any-
thing at this stage of the inquiry, after receiving the usual
caution. He was committed for trial at the sessions.
ORIENTAL DIVAN, CLAYTON-SQUARE.—The witty
proprietor of this fashionable retreat says he will provide
the choicest steaks for those who lose them at Chester.
We think him equally competent to provide plates and
cups, as his success has proved.
WINES FOR FAMILY CONSUMPTION.—We refer our
readers to the advertisement of Messrs. Ogle, Thompson,
and Co. in our first page to-day, and feel justified. in re-
commending a trial of their wines, not on account of their
prices, but on account of their qualities. We generally
regard a cheap article as an inferior one, but these wines
are an exception to the rule—they are moderate in price
and undeniable in excellence : indeed a single trial will

remove all doubt, and the very fact of their-having
sup-
plied the choicest wines to the Town-hall during the visit
of Prince Albert, and at the dejeaner at Birkenhead on
the opening of the docks, add a reputation to their
names that is by no means unenviable..

TIIE LIVERPOOL STANDARD.

ANNUAL MEETING OF THE CHESTER DIOCESAN
CHURCH BUILDING SOCIETY.

Yesterday, the annual meeting of the members of the
Chester Diocesan Church Building Society was held in the
Board-rooin of the Blue School Institution. At twelve
o'clock, the hour appointed for holding the meeting, there
was but a thin attendance of members ; but shortly after,
the room became pretty much crowded. Amongst those
present, we noticed the following :—The Chancellor of the
Diocese ; Archdeacon Rushton, of Manchester; the Rec-
tors of Liverpool : Rev. Ellis Ashton, Vicar of Huyton
Rev. John Jones, Rev. James North, Rev. C. Lawrence,
Rev. D. D. Stewart, Liverpool ; Rev. R. M. Master,
Vicar of Burnley ; Rev. T. Bold ; C. Groves, Esq. ; John
Johnson, Esq., Runcorn ; and G. Carter, Esq.
The Rev. Jonathan Brooks, senior Rector of Liverpool,
occupied the chair.
The meeting having been opened with prayer by the
Rev. Chas. Lawrence, the Chancellor of the Diocese,
read the folllowing report of the society for the past
year : _

The report after alluding to the growing sense of the need of
increasing church accommodation, states that the committee
had the misfortune of beginning the year 1845 with an apparent
balance against them of ,t'7so. In consequence of thin, little
was done towards encouraging the objects of the society during
the two first quarters of the year just expired. At the meeting
on April 1, two applications from churches (St. Shas's, Harper,
and St. Shnon's, Connor) building in Manchester and in Liver-
pool, were declined, under the conviction that they were not
within the scope of our operations. Applications from the
districts of Coldhurst, in Oldham, of St. Paul's, Lane-bridge, in
Burnley, were declined on other grounds, but chiefly on objec-
tions to the plans proposed as being too expensive. The cases
of Whitworth Chapel, to be rebuilt, and of an offer from gentle-

men, owners of mill property at 'Prestolee, were relu'c'tantly
deferred.

At .the quarterly meeting, June 30, an additional grant of
.428 was granted for the completion of the church at Birkle, in
Middleton, and .4300 for a new church at Whitworth, in the
parish of Rochdale. The case of this chapel was included in
the last year's report, but it may he well to recapitulate here,
that the population of the chapelry is 4570, the old chapel has

426 sittiiigi, but none free, except those 'which are placed in
the aisles. A plan for the enlargement of the chapel had been
submitted to the Incorporated society, but as they saw reason

pared for their approbation, which offered 1139 sittings for the
sum of £2,300. The local subscriptions have only reached
..e7OO the sum expected from the Incorporated Society was
e.:500, and your committee agrees to promise £3OO, under
the hope that private benefactions may yet be drawn
out, which might supply the apparent deficiency. At the
same meeting several orders, for the payment of grants, were

been already alluded to

Attlie quarterly meetinF,

,ptember

20th, the ca's'e of the West Leigh Church, fa the parish of Leigh,
was brought before the committee by the Rev. the Vicar, who
stated that, in compliance with the requirements of the Incor-
porated tociety, thoiplan had been enlarged, so that the church
• • - of line: q- wit' 't zalleries, and that

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the probable cost of the church would be ..e2500, the population
of the district being 2500; and, in consideration of these changes,
the grant of £2BO was confirmed, with an addition of .t5O more.
An application was also made from the newly appointed minis-
ter of the district of Portwood, in Stockport, mentioning the
difficulties with which he was surrounded, but that he had suc-
ceeded in raising the sum of .eBOO, applicable towards the build-
ing of a church, and in the consideration of the peculiar cir-
cumstances of the place, the difficulty of obtaining a site, and
the total want of local resources, it was resolved that £BOO
should be applicable to the purposes of that district.
Another application was made from the incumbent of the
district of Coldhurst, in Oldham, requesting some further as-
sistance, in order to complete the church. The grant of the
Incorporate Society of ..200 involved the outlay of 180 in the
construction of a chancel; and though the church, which is
calculated to hold five hundred people, is to be finished with
this addition for £l4OO, the building fund fell so short, that it
was deemed necessary to assist it by the grant of an additional
_ _ _

At the same meeting applications were received from the dis-
trict of Hurst, in Ashton-under-Lyne, and from the district of
Dane Bridge, in Northwich, which were not deemed admissible,
on account of the extensive scale of the building; and the vote
of a grant to St. James's, Congieton, was renewed, on a letter
from the incumbent encouraging hopes that the work would be
speedily proceeded in.
At the quarterly meeting, on December 30, payments were
ordered of the grants made to St. Paul's, Macclesfield, of the re-
maining moiety of the grant to the church at Whitehaven, and
of .tlOO to the church at Waterhead, in Oldham.
At the same time, the returns from the collections made dur-
ing the preceding summer, under the authority of the Bishop's
letter, were presented, and it appeared that the collections al-
ready paid and notified amounted to £1,020. Under this state-
ment, your committee feel themselves justified in meeting the
awlications before them with a greater liberality, and the fol-

lowing grants were made
To the district of Christ Church, in Denton, a grant was made
of £4OO. In this parish the population amounts to 8000, and
the old chapel only offers 300 sittings. The new church is
pla med to hold 860. Subscriptions have been raised to the
amount of £1425, and the Incorporated Society has promised
£4OO. _ _

1 o St. Mark's district, in Duckenfield, the same sum of £4OO
was voted. The population of this district is 7000. Local sub-
scriptions only amount to .t 4150. Her Majesty's Co►nmis-
sioners have made a grant of £230, the Incorporated Society
of .41350, and an unknown benefactor, through the bishop, has
given 'BOO. .

To the district of St. Paul's, in Burnley, and of Hurst, in
Ashton-under-Lyne, grants of X3OO were voted. _ _

To Bridge, in ;Non wich, and to .••.! carisbrick, Ormskirk, .200
each.