The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1847-07-06 00:00:00

our fellow-citizens by their in-
are raised to the possession of
measure better cal-

culated than another to produce that state of things so
much deprecated by all true republicans, by which the
rich are daily adding to their hoards, and the poor sinking
into penuary, it is an exclusive metallic currency. Or if
there is a process by which the character of the country
osity and nobleness and feeling may be destroyed
1 necessary toleration of usury,

by the greaf

an
it is an exclusive metallic cum

Take another authority, that of Mr. Cobden, as
given before the committee of the House of Com-

nons on Banks of Issue, in 1840

Are you of opinion that considerable injury has
tsed to trade and commerce by the fluctuations in

the issues of the Bank of England? . My opinion is that
great evils have arisen to the trade and manufactures of
the country from fluctuations in the currency. I believe
great evils have been occasioned to the trade and manu-
factures of the country in 1836 and 1837, and the subse-
it period, by fluctuations in the currency ; greater
—pecuniary, social, and moral—than by the direct
of all the banks of issue since they were first
bed in this country.

establis,

No man conversant with the question can deny,
Is under which we are now labouring
attributable to the working of the bill of 1844 ;
and the author of that bill cannot say that its con-
sequences have not been distinctly predicted. The
following passage, from an able article in Black-
wood's Magazine for the present month, shews that
it was predicted by Mr. Alison two years ago :

that the evi

"We have already shown the manner in which Sir It.
Peel was pleased to treat the respectful remonstrance of
the English bankers, and the total variance of his finan-
cial views from those which were entertained by his ex-
and honoured parent. We now take leave to draw
ention of our readers to a rather remarkable pas-
sage in Mr. Alison's late pamphlet, entitled " England in
1815 and 1845."

We need hardly state our reasons for declining to criti-
cise that work. We agree entirely with the views enter-
tained by that eminent writer ; and we should be happy

indeed, could we state our own arguments with a force
and a precision at all commensurate with his. Sir Robert
Peel, however, in the course of the year 1845, thought
proper to make this pamphlet the subject of his remarks,
and concluded, more alio, with a sneer at Mr. Alison, which,
apart from its propriety, does not strike us as particularly
clever. The point at issue was rather a trivial one ; for
Sir Robert Peel, as usual, did not apply himself to the
main body of the argument : he neither impeached fig
facts nor the conclusions of Mr. Alison, but fastened upon
an incidental point of no great value or importance. The
attack, however, had this good effect, that it elicited a
reply from Mr. Alison, in which he points out so distinctly

the results of the restrictive measure, that we cannot do
better than transfer an extract from his postscript to our
pages. It is proper to observe, that this postscript was
published two years ago, and we leave the public to judge

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should be established and

Perpetuated by acts of parliament ? Does it not annul
the best effects of a paper currency, that of having an
elastic quality which causes it to expand when the metallic

more place himself at our service.
A requisition for this object lies at our office and
at the usual places, for signature by the burgesses
and electors. We need say no more.

We never were in love with Liberalism. Even
the flashy talent of Lord Brougham could never
reconcile us to the heartlessness of the doctrines
which are propounded by the school of politicians
to which he belongs. The rental of the land, he
told us whilst advocating the New Poor-law Bill,
was in danger of beng eaten up by the pauperism
of the agricultural labourer. "Be it so," every
man of common feeling would exclaim, "if the
renter of the land will not pay its cultivator as
much in the shape of wages as will keep his de-
pendants from pauperism. Every man has a duty
to perform to his fellow-man. The labourer has to
toil—to win his bread by the sweat of his brow.
The farmer and the landowner have to pay for that
toil adequately. They have to see that the labourer
can live, provided that he toil.
It suited the views of the excessively liberal and
philosophical, amongst whom Lord BROUGHAM
may be numbered, to proclaim to the world a dif-
feren doctrine. Men were to be punished, although
willing to work, whenever the landowner, the
farmer, or the manufacturer, felt it convenient to
refuse them the opportunity to work. The poor
man was to be degraded for the rich man's selfish-
ness. His affections were to be outraged for the
rich man's shortcomings in circumstances or in
feeling. Poverty, in short, was made a crime ;
and the unfortunate being labouring under suspi-
cion of poverty was to be treated worse than a
convicted felon.

The awakened good sense and charitable feeling
of the country, however, was beginning to get the
better of the-cold and heartless policy of the sup-
porters and authors of the new Poor Law. Lord
Brougham, however, is imperturbable in his ad-
herence to the cruel provisions of his pet measure;
and, in the debate upon the Amendment Bill the
other night, perpetrated a remark which ought to
crimson his cheek every time he reflects upon the
subject. Speaking of the Bill in question, he said:

" He considered that one of the greatest blots upon the
bill now before them was the clause which had been intro-
duced into it in the other house, providing against the
separation of married paupers above a prescribed age, and
he tendered his respectful but hearty thanks to the Go-
vernment for having gallantly opposed that proposition."

The certain age referred to was sixty years !
Lord Brougham thinks it wrong that poor infirm
wretches of sixty years of age should not be torn
from each other's companionship—that whom God
has joined, man should not tear asunder. This is
liberalism. Keep us from it ; for, if it is liberalism,
it is not Christianity.

Mr. Rushton being absent from the Bench yesterday,
Thomas Booth and Wm. Dixon, Esqrs. presided at the
Police Court.

UNIVERSITY COLLEGE, LONDON.-At the examination
on the Ist inst., our talented young townsman Robert G.
Williams, son Mr. Williams, Basnett-street, was awarded
the senior prize in Hebrew, together with certificates of
of honour in the senior Latin, Greek, and Higher Mathe-
matical classes, and Comparative Grammar. We may
remind our readers that this young gentleman who has so
distinguished himself was educated at one of our most
celebrated institutions in this town, and has distinguished
himself year after year in every branch of his studies at
College.

ROBBERY AT WAVERTREE-ROAD.—John Murphey, a
navie, was, yesterday, committed to the Sessions for
dogging a gentleman, named Robinson, into a lonely part
of the road to Wavertree, on Saturday night, and robbing
him of 15s. The police cannot be too much on the alert
just now to prevent street robberies, as they are becom-
ing very frequent.

EXTRAORDINARY GROWTH OF CORN.—Some splendid
specimens of the oat crop have been left at our office,
which were grown in a field belonging to Mrs. Clegg of
Higher Tranmere, and which promise a most prolific and
early harvest. One of the specimens is 5 full-grown
stems, bearing heavy heads of grain, and grown from one
root ; the other is one stalk measuring 44 feet in height,
and three-eights of an inch in the diameter of the bar-
rel. We counted the quantity of grains on this head

and found that it contained the amazing number of 403:
After this, who despairs of our having cheap markets ?
CAUTION TO SERVANTS.—Mr. Thomas Brown, pub-
lican, yesterday appeared before the borough magistrates
to prefer a charge of robbery against his servant girl--
Mary Livingston by name. It appeared that Mr. Brown
and his wife had gone out on Sunday forenoon to take a
walk, and that he had left £1 7s. 6d. in one of his trousers
pockets ; but on his return, he found that 3s. 6d. of
it bad been abstracted. On the prisoner's being taken
into custody, she returned the money. She was ordered
to be discharged having received a severe reprimand from
the bench.
T' MASTER PORTERS.—For a few days

_ RE AUTHORISED
past the walls of the town were placarded with an an-
nouncement to the effect that the Authorised Master
Porters of Liverpool would hold a meeting .yesterday
evening at 6 o'clock, in the Clarendon-rooms, for the
transaction of important business. In consequence of

this advertisement we last night sent our reporter ther
fnr flip renal TIIII.IIIICO of rannrfincr #boir nrnnnetrlirtrra

h he went there at the time appointed, six o'clock

ted till seven, it turned out to—be a meeting not of

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the room
CASE 1

Yesterday a young lad, well
known in the Police-court, named Flannagan, was brought
up and charged by another lad of most respectable ap-
pearance, with stabbing him with a knife on Saturday
evening last. Robert Leeds, the lad in question, deposed

;wurds,

and when in Lambert-street, he was met bq the prisoner
and another lad, who commenced abusing. him. He en-
deavoured to make his escape, but could not do so for the
violent abuse which he received. After he was knocked

SHORT

The prisoner was committed f

EiTIVE SADLEI

members of the Operative Sadlers' Association of this
town, have issued a temperate and well written address to
view of directing public attention to
hours which they are obliged to work
hops. They have, no doubt, been led
d to the public in consequence of the
ch has attended a similar effort on the part of
Ind it is it be hoped that they will not be less

the public with t
the extremely for

the baker

1. They asked for one hour's reduction a day,
lling to work twelve hours. We understand
Rrs have already agreed to accede
the rest

to the reasonable demand of their viorimen—
should do so immediately.

be intir

Our contemporary the Mer-

vs to correspondents lastFrid
C.' is of opinio
r representation in the succeed

follows

whatever is

s Mercury

that It

uently too sudd
.ies are past w

,n at the t

last night
not know

to the world must be in, when thousands
Mercury's readers are in the benighted state cl-
cribed, and never get to know what is provided for their
musement during the week until the end of it

have mis
people tl

when

v. ineir tavourite organ what treats they
1! We beg to suggest to these thousands of
advisableness of consulting some other journal,
emporary cannot afford them timely inform._

tion-. How is by--the-bye, illeren;V; trolu'siYands"Clownli
see his Tuesday's publication ? That would be in time,

we should imagine

ety to be ex-
according to the present system, being fully
aware of the importance attached to the subject, which
involves so large an amount of life and property ; but they
respectfully submit that the qualifications named in the
recommendatory paper do not embrace the duties required
of persons commanding steam-vesssls, which differ
materially from sailing vessels. They also state, that the'
present board of examiners, (who are principally teachers
of the theory of navigation, and not practically acquainted
with steam vessels,) are not capable of judging of the quali-
fications requsite in the management. of steam-ships. They
agree that parties commanding vessels' trading to foreigli
countries should be well acquainted with the theory of
navigation, with reference to lunar observations, chrono-
meters, single and double altitudes% &c., but add that
such qualifications are not requisite in the coasting trade,
particularly when the passage is short, or under 24 hours.
They submit a list of qualifications which they consider
requisite in any person having charge of a large steam-
ship ; and beg their lordships, if the memorialists sug-
gestions be approved of, to sanction, without delay. the
appointment of skilled and competent Boards of Examiners
at the principal steam ports. The qualifications which
they point out appear to us to be so sensible and compre-
hensive, that we make no apology for inserting them at
length :

lst.—The party must have been at sea at least ten years, and
not less than three employed in steam, nor less than one year
a first officer, or on probation with an experienced man.
2nd.—Must be able to read and write legibly,
3rd.—Must be a first-raga coasting sailor, well acquainted with
the rocks, shoals, lights, soundings, and various sets of tides,
on the lines he is usually employed upon, and to have a gene-
ral knowledge of most lines on which steamers are employed,
and to be able to conduct his vessel as pilot, without depend_.
ing on others for assistance (as it frequently occurs that pilots
cannot be obtained.)
4th.—Should be able to produce first-rate testimonials as to
character generally, sobriety in particular; must be cool,
cautious, persevenng, and collected, in the discharge of his
various duties.

TO THE EDITOR OF THE LIVERPOOL STANDARD.

Si a paragraph headed "Alarming Prevalence of Fe-
ver,'s in the Liverpool Chronicle of Saturday last, I perceived
a statement announcing the deaths in St. Paul's and Exchange
Wards to he 126 for the last week. As lam the registering
officer for those two wards, which constitute the district of
Dale-street, I conceive it-my imperative duty to the public to
give this statement the most respectful contradiction ; and to
say, that the deaths in both wards for the week alluded to only
numbered 54, of which 26 only were cases of fever.
I am, sir, your most obedient servant,
EDWARD LOVATF, Regiserar.
41, Union-street, sth July, 1847.

NEW RECOMMENDATION FOR A CANDIDATE.—The
Mercury is very wrathful against Sir Digby Mackworth,
and devotes to the, discussion of his claims part of a
leading article and no less than three distinct paragraphs.
The baronet is guilty of the several enormities of being
a military man, of having distinguished himself whilst
serving his country in the field, of having materially con-
tributed to preserve one of the leading ports of the king-
dom from being sacked by a mob, and of having done
various other matters. Mercury's own candidate is
much more favourably situated. No one can say of Sir
Thomas Birch that he ever did anything, or said any-
thing. or wrote anything, to distinguish himself from the
dullest and most commonplace of mankind. What he
may have in him, to be developed hereafter, we know not.
He may have talent sufficient to make a great statesman,
or only just enough to discover that breakfast is ordina-
rily taken before dinner, or that people generally go up
stairs to go to bed. The unexceptionableness of Sir
Thomas's claim appears to be, that nobody knows what
it is, or anything about him.

GROWING CONVICTION OF CANDIDATES IN FAVOUR
OF PROTESTANTISM.—Different men of liberal opinions
are freely and explicitly stating their resolution to resist
all further concession to Rome, of whatever kind, and
under whatever pretence : and we are disposed to think
such pledges are being given by some candidates from
conviction of their necessity for the well-being of the
country. Among these, we are inclined to think, is to
be ranked Mr. William Jackson, of Birkenhead, who is
a candidate for Newcastle-under-Lyne. We would re-
commend our clerical friends connected with that borough
to write to Mr. Jackson, as we are informed he will afford
them, on this head, the most complete satisfaction. In
other respects he is a suitable member. And little as we
are disposed to join in the current abuse of Sir Robert
Peel ; high as we regard his talents as a financier and
statesman ; it is our earnest desire to keep him out of
office; simply on this broad and clear ground, that under
his Administration Popery is more likely to make further
lodgment in the British Constitution, and to have greater
facility given her for a complete triumph, than under any
other political arrangement that is likely to arise.
THE WEATHER AND THE CROPS.—With respect to
Lancashire and Cheshire, we but repeat what appears in
all the journals with reference to every county of the land
we live in, when we say that the weather during .the past
week has been most propitious for all growing crops, and
that the country never presented a more promising ap-
pearance for an abundant and, we may add, an early
harvest. Summer has visited us in real earnest, and the
warm suns of the day have put vegetation to an almost
fatiguing, stretch, which, however, has been counteracted
by refreshing and invigorating dews in the night. On
the first five days of the present month, the thermometer
stood in the hottest part of the day, and in the shade,
respectively at 71 deg., fig deg., 78 deg., and 75 deg.,
the last being yesterday. We are indebted for these
statistics to Mr. Abrahafa, of Lord-street, who keeps a
journal of the temperature, &c., for the government_
registration department. The heat on Sunday and yester-
day may be said to have been sultry; buttthe ground is so
generally covered with luxuriant vegetable matter, that
nothing like parching is observable. Great efforts have
been made by dealers in grain to impress the public with
the apprehension that the potato crop would be a dead
failure, and that we had little to expect from other kind
of edible produce, either at home or abroad. The pre-
dictions of these interested hoarders of grain, (for the
purpose of bolstering up prices,) will, we trust, be
utterly falsified. The potatoes, taking the whole breadth
sown, never looked better. Slight disease may have here
and there appeared, but potatoes were never without
partial taint in this country in the most abundant years,
and there is no ground for alarm at present. Wheat and
oats will undoubtedly, unless we are overtaken by an
unexpected unfavourable season at harvest time, yield
above the average bulk, and all other field crops, with
the exception of some barleys, are equally promising.
The sun has been most favourable for haymaking, and
much is already gathered in. The crop is generally
heavy. Turnips and mangels are thriving, and all garden
stuffs are prolific. It will be found by perusing another
column of our paper, that the prospects of farmers in
America and in Europe are equally propitious ; and that
as a much greater breadth of corn and other agricultural
seeds has been sown, the deficiency of last year will not
b e m much a
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receded from exorbitant prices, and we trust, that ere
long, the necessaries of life will be tangible by tle,
humblest a our industrious labourers:
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revival of commercial prosperity from the happy change
brought about by a benign Providence.
IRELAND.—An account from Dublin, dated Ist instant,
states—" Nothing can surpass the beauty of the weather;
one month more of it, and the hay crop would be saved,
the wheat well filled and hard, while the early potatoes
would be placed beyond the reach of danger. The new
supplies are pouring into the markets, and acceptable at
the prices of ordinary years at this period. Fish and
vegetables are also in benignant profusion in the Dublin

sth.—Should be well acquainted with the principle, as well as
the working of the steam engine, and a good judge of cause
and effect, with reference to the action of the engines, in order
to avoid the serious damages so frequently occuring from
want of experience in this branch of steam navigation.
6th.—Must be able to prick off courses, take cross bearings, and
understand the nature and uses of charts generally.

As the undoubted object of the Lords of the Council
in the recommendatory address to masters, is to guaran-
tee to the commercial and voyaging public that security
from loss of property and life which adequate talent, ex-
perience, and good conduct in commanders and mates
can alone supply, we hope and trust that these reasonable
suggestions will be sanctioned by their lordships, and
acted upon as early as possible. Had such qualifications
been required since steam navigation became so general,
we should have been spared the pain of recording, over
the last few years, many disasters, the result of incom-
pancy, or want of due care and caution ; and the confi-
dence of the public in steam-ships would have been more
firmly established, for the benefit not only of the owners
but of the public at large. There need be no "compulsory"
examination, as all competent captains will willingly pre-
erit themselves for examination ; and we shall know in
what light to regard those—few we imagine—who shall
decline the test.

IMPORTS OF FOOD INTO LIVERPOOL.—A walk through
any of our docks, the northern docks especially, would
strike a party who has not recently visited them with
amazement. The quays are literally piled up with flour,
grain of all kinds, rice, meal, and other articles of food,
discharged from the American .and other vessels which line
them. We regret to say, however, that there is not the
evidence of a corresponding exportof British manufactures.
A cargo of emigrants and ballast is the ruling one; the
shipowner being anxious only to get back for more imports
and the excellent freights which are being paid for food.
CRICKET MATCH.—On Wednesday last, the 30th ult.,
a match was played between the St. Helen's club and the
Olympus, of this town, on the ground of the latter, in
Aigburth-road, in which the St. Helen's were defeated in
one innings, with 100 runs to spare. The batting of the
Olympus wrs decidedly superior, Mr. Ryall having scored
87, Mr. Williams 28, and others a round number, making
a total of 206 ; while the St. Helen's, owing to the
effective bowling of Messrs. Bright and Ryall, managed to
get only 49 runs, and 17 byes and wide balls in their first
innings, and 32 runs and 8 byes in their second, making a
total of 106. The return match will be played at St.
Helen's in a short time.

HEALTH OF TOWNS.—During the last week, parties have
been busy throughout the town in measuring all the ground
—floors, back yards, &c., of the whole of the premises in
the respective streets, for the information of the Health
Committee. The questions arise, with respect to old
buildings on valuable sites that have not area sufficient for
due ventilation, whether the owners are to be required to
pull down or condense their houses and enlarge their yards,
or whether the committee will do this for them, or by
merns of jack-screws extend their walls ? In lieu of, in
most instances, the useless cost of such a survey, we would
suggest that the act relating to new buildings should be
rigidly enforced, and that the window-tax should be greatly
reduced or entirely abrogated, so that the winds of heaven
may pass freely through buildings densely packed.
STREET ROBBERY.—A degraded looking character,
named Robert Howlett, was yesterday brought up and
charged with committing a violent assault and robbery on
the person of one John Lee. The prosecutor stated that
he went into a public house in Vauxhall-road on Saturday
night to have a gill of ale, when he was followed by the
prisoner and another man, the former of whom demanded
a gill of the ale for himself and his friend. To this
demand the prosecutor complied in the hope of getting
rid of them, and left the house ; but he was followed from
thence into Sawney-pope-street, and on into Fontenoy-
street, where the prisoner knocked him down with a "life
preserver "or "colt," and disabled him. He then robbed
him of 3s. 6d. in silver and copper. Shortly after which
he was taken into custody. Committed for trial.

iAatileu
Chas. Howell was charged at the Police-court, by consta-
ble 296, with forcibly entering the dwelling-house of a

uke-street, ant

markets ; and throughout the country, famine, with its
immediate consequences, has ceased to exist. Fever is
among the exceptions, which, though widely prevalent, is
not of a violent character. Belfast, strange to say, is the
chief victim to fever. On Tuesday night, the fever pa-
tients in hospital amounted nearly to 2,000, and half that
) their own houses. Camp tents

amongst which

knives, and other effect

stealing various

o a meerohum pipc
The constable "

in stating the

:toman

priest,) rerusea to come rorwara ana prosecute, and there-
fore he could only prove one branch of the case. It ap-
peared that the constable heard of a robbery about half-
past 8 o'clock on Saturday night, and on going up Duke-
street about half an hour afterwards, he saw the prisoner
going into the kitchen of a man named Cronan, where he
was found. Mrs. Hughes, on being examined. stated

Jeen .e the town, a course which has
been adopted in various other districts, on the recom-
mendation of the Central Board of Health."
STEALING WATCHES.—A female named Wilson, was
yesterday committed for three months for stealing a watch
from the person of a foreign seaman named Nichols ; and
also a cigar manufacturer.

that the parties who robbed her house must have entered
by the back door at an early hour on Sunday morning,
as the servants had been late in going to bed the night
previous. She identified the property stolen, when the
• f• A •

ROBBERY IN PRESTON-STREET.—Yesterday, at the
Borough-court, three prisoners named Peter Mack, Eliza-
beth Singleton, and Ann Morris, were committed for trial
by the magistrates, for robbing a young man named Joseph
Jones, of the sum of ss. 6d., on Saturday night last.
STEALING.—A

A SUSPICIOUS CHARACTER.—The neighbourhood of
Mill-street has long been infested by a set of irregular and
disorderly characters, and scarcely a night passes without
the perpetration of some daring act of street robbery being
committed in that locality. One of this genus, named
William Parr, was brougnt up and charged by constable
Wilson as being one of a gang of thieves who were the
terror of the neighbourhood. From Wilson's statement
it appeared that, on Saturday night last, a " knock down"
robbery had been committed, and that whilst in quest of
the perpetrators of it, he found the prisoner—one whom
he knew to be a dangerous character, and therefore ar-
rested him, with the view of tracing the robbery, in which,
however, he failed. The prisoner stated that he worked
in the employment of Mr. Gooldson, of Chatham-street
and that he had nothing to do with the robbery in question
Mr. Parkinson said the prisoner had been often before
court, but had never been convicted. He was accordit
discharged with a severe caution.
LEIGH HUNT.—An amateur. perf9rn2am
Charles Dickens, Douglas Jerold

young, but well-known offender was
again brought up and charged by Robert Crooks,
greengrocer, with pilfering from his shop some potatoes,
gooseberries, and other articles. The offence having been
fully proved, the prisoner was committed for three months.
STEALING A WATCH.—A cigar maker, late of Rich-
mond-row, named William H. Harrison, was, yesterday,
committed for two months, for stealing a watch, the pro-
perty of Atho Wilhelm Orland, of the ship Newville, now
lying in the Queen's Dock.

ZOOLOGICAL GARDENS.—This popular place of amuse-
ment—to the credit of its proprietors, who cater for the
public with such liberality—is drawing the support of all
parties. The prOgramme for this week is a rich one.
Independently of the usual entertainments, on Wednes-
Madame Warton gives a performance for the benefit
r corps dramatique. On Thursday, a splendid gala
le held by the order of Odd-fellows, who will exhi-
eir splendid paraphernalia; and, on Saturday, the

nd other literary cha:

Je opened by arrangement with the pro-
iturday Evening Concerts, the charge
An extra display of fireworks

gardens are to I
moters of the S
being reduced to sixpence

racters are to appear, will take place in
last week of the present month. The p
dedicated to Mr. Leigh Hunt.
_The foil(

Se given on the occasion

*rom a letter, written by Mr. Dickens to a gent

CONCERT-HALL, LORD NELSON-STREET.--OR Satur-
day and yesterday vocal and instrumental concerts were
given in this hall by Mrs. Sunderland, Mr. Ryalls, Signor
Sapio, and Mr. Goodall, pupil of De Beriot ; Mr. Rohner
presiding at the piano-forte. They went off well ; and
the various artistes were received by a discriminating audi-
ence with hearty applause. Where all was good, it is
difficult to select what to praise. Mr. Goodall's " Ke-
molo on a theme of Beethoven." however, deserves to be

ng of a

this town, trea

dect
that tin,

You will, per_.
haps, be aware be-fore reading thi lovernment, in
recognition of Mr. Leigh Hunt's literary success, has just
granted him a pension of £2OO a-year. This most gene-
rous and worthy act of a liberal administration relieves the
gentlemen associated in the proposed performance for Mr.
Hunt's benefit from the necessity of acting in London

inasmuch as the large receipts expected at Covent-garden
Theatre are no longer necessary to his support and com-
fort. But we do not propose -to relinquish the intended
vonrocoan+o+irvn in T .itresynnni and Mane.hPster.

noticed. The piece is one of immense difficulty, and has
always been considered as one which no other violinist
except Vieuxtemps could master. Mr. Goodall, however,
....2 ill JLIIV ca 'Av.,. .... % '
went through triumphantly. We need not say that Mrs.
reasons which render them still exceedingly desirable and Sunderland's singing was beautiful throughout. Mr.
I
useful." Active preparations
the performaeee interesting. are already on foot to render Ryall's "Mother, he's going away?"
, first night. was the gem of the

VOLly, all VI IJIIG luau icayrk.uaunity, praying min moose re-
solutions which were intended to be submitted to the
house might not be carried into effect. He begged leave
to state his opinion, that the petitioners were the best
judges of such a measure. He would add, also, that al-
though they were intimately connected with all that con-
cerned the welfare of the country, the most experienced
men, and the best qualified from their connexion with our
manufactures and commerce, yet they had not been exa-
mined by the committee ; he hoped, therefore, that be-
fore a measure so destructive of the commercial interests
of the country was passed (and when he said that, hon.
members would conclude every other interest to be com-
bined with those, and to go along with them), the house
would pause awhile in order to collect that information
which they so particularly wanted. In looking at the re-
ports which had been published on the subject, he must
say, that the witnesses were not men likely to give any
information to government, not men acquainted with the
state of the country ; the last men who should have been
questioned, if government wanted to arrive at the merits
of the case. In attending, lately, a meeting in London,
he begged it might be understood, that that was the only
one he was ever interested in, except the meeting of 1797,
and the latter one was considered of consequence enough
to have, saved the country. If then, that was a meeting
which deserved the attention of the house, he hoped the
present one which originated this petition would be con-
sidered as equally entitled to it. He happened, on that
occasion, however, to be in company with some whom he
could not but deem the best friends of their country ; but
he should not do justice to two persons who attended
there, Messrs. Hunt and Wooler, if he did not say that
they behaved in a manner the least disorderly in the
world, which he attributed to their new and singular alli-
ance with his majesty's ministers, for they supported
the measure in question: they inveighed against
any attempt at deferring the period of resuming
cash payments. He must confess that the circumstances
so new of these men being supporters of the administration
constituted the outline of a very good caricature. To see
the noble lord and his honourable friends on the one
hand, Messrs. Hunt and Wooler on the other, united in
their attempt to pull down the mighty fabric erected by
the immortal Pitt, was at once ludicrous and painful. He
would implore the House to pause before any rash step
was taken which might forward such an attempt. He
really thought the resolutions were of a very extraordinary
character. It was true that he should have to oppose a
very near and dear relation. But while it was his own
sentiment that he had a duty to perform, he respected
those who did theirs, and who considered them to be pa-
ramount. The gentlemen who opposed him at the meet-
ing of which he had spoken, were rather indignant at his
mentioning the name of Mr. Pitt. His own impression
was certainly a strong one in his favour ; he always thought
him the first man in the country. All of us had some ,
bias ; and he should not quarrel with those who preferred
some other name. He well remembered, when that near
and dear relation was only a child, he observed to some
friends who were standing near him, that the man who
discharged his duty to his country in the manner in which.
Mr. Pitt had, did most to be admired, and was to be imi-
tated; and he thought at that moment, if his own life and
that of his near relation should be spared, he would one day
present him to his country, to follow in the same path.
It was very natural that such should be his wishes, al-
though those who did their duty might at once be con-
tented with their conduct. He was well satisfied that the
head and heart of that relation were in their right place,
and that though he had deviated a little from the path of
propriety, in this instance, he would soon be restored to
it. He had entered more largely into the subject than he
had intended ; any other observation he should reserve to
a future opportunity, and concluded by moving that the
petition be brought up."

CORK ELECTION.—The repealer has won the day. The
gross poll at the close on Saturday was, for Dr. Power,
831, and for Mr. Leader 550, being a majority for the
former of 281. The election was to fill the place of the
late Daniel O'Connell, for the county. It is stated that
Mr. Leader resigned on finding himself so far behind,—
the term allowed for the election not having expired. We
were mistaken in supposing that the constituency of Cork
after losine, their champion, wanted a " Leader." It
appears they only wanted " Power." The election is
available merely as a feeler for the county, and will prob-
ably supercede a contest at the great struggle after the
dissolution of the present House of Commons.
LONDON DocKs.—A dividend at the rate of 5 per cent.
per annum was declared on Friday for the half-year end.
ing May 31, at the meeting of the directors and proprie-
tors, held at the Company's house, in Prince's-street.
Mr. J. D. Powles, the secretary, read the report of re-
ceipts expenditure, &c. The income of the company
for the six months, to May 31, was £198,626 lls. 5d.,
against £191,246 12s. 7d.. in the corresponding period of
1846. The expenditure for the six months was £108,114
3s. Bd., being about £lO,OOO more than to May, 1846,
owing to the payment of additional taxes, &c. The
number of loaded vessels which entered the docks during
the six months was 548, of 150,570 tons. For the half-
year to May 31, 1846, the number of ships was 593, and
the tonnage 142,533 tons. The stock of goods in the
London Dock warehouses on May 31st last was 103,106
tons, or about 2,000 tons less than at the corresponding
date of 1846.

CHARGE OF OBTAINING 12,000 WORTH OF BILLS
UNDER FRAUDULENT PRETENCES, FROM PRINCE NA-
POLEON BONAPARTE.—On Friday, Prince Napoleon Louis
Bonaparte attended to prefer a charge against Charles
Pollard, gentleman, of No. 10, Exeter-street, Strand, for
having obtained from him, under false pretences, two bills
of exchange £l,OOO each. His Highness wished to defer
the charge until he had an opportunity of obtaining the
professional advice of his solicitor. Mr. Hardwick
said, before he could remand the prisoner, he must
have some statement on which to act. His Highness
said—On the 14th of June, the prisoner called on him
at his apartments, in King-street, St. James's, and stated
he was a money-lender. After some conversation, the
. pri-
soner induced him to give £2,000, in two of
LT:2
each, into his hands, for the purpose of getting discounted.
The prisoner,
w oeld
s gant the
te
sbaimllse,thi time, said,
'brit igleh(iltnnheee
Napo-
leon) money
on the following day. He signed the bills. The prisoner
called the next day to say he could not bring the money
that day, but he would the day after. Since that period
he had neither seen the bills nor the prisoner. The bills
in question were drawn by the prisoner, who, at the first
interview, was provided with stamps. The Prince stated
that Messrs. Bush and Co., his solicitors, were in. posses-
sion of letters which would throw a complete light on the
transaction; and he should wish to defer the imperfect
explanation he could give until a future day.—Mr. Hard-
wick appointed next day to go into the charge.
THE GREAT BRITAIN. —TYRELLA, WEDNESDAY,
JUNE 30.—The weather for the last few days has been
remarkably fine, and the wind light, consequently the
tides have at length ebbed out sufficiently to allow all the
work outside and inside the ship to be proceeded with,
but the boxes not being all up, and none of them having
been filled, no attempt has been made to raise her higher ;
the springs did not rise to the calculated height. By the
next springs, it appears by the progress made, fourteen
boxes being in places, and two more on the move, that
their power will be tested. The small spars have been
rapidly disappearitbyr from off the breakwater, and are
used up as shores to the upright bulks, or the boxes them-
selves ; and many have, under Mr. Bremner's direction,
been brought down to the rock, in a line of. four or five
yards—abreast of the engines, remarkably close together—
between and beyond the boxes, spars, thereabout, to which
they are attached by a stout beech tree, resting on the top,
and abreast of them smaller ones, and about six feet high.
This, at first. gave an idea they were intended to sustain
the spars against the sea, should a sudden gale come on
from the southward ; -but Captain Claxton kindly ex-
plained-to us that they were intended for a fulcrum, on
which the large spars of the breakwater were to rest with
the butts under the bilge keel, at an angle of 45 degree
i at th- 'hese tree.

anc _--..e upper ends cf these trees weights were either
to be suspended, or ballast laid on stages--=it is presumed
in bags, so as to act like ballast-levers. The large spars
of the breakwateo were, a good many of them, taken
down yesterday, and a dozen or two are being placed to-
day on this fulcrum ; as they are more than 50 feet long,
and as the butts will touch the ship at about seven or

eight feet from the fulcrum, the leverage wi
great, it is said, equal to 200 tons, and as a set of American
elm bulks are being braced together on the strand for
a similar purpose, at the stem of the ship, propably the
power will be doubled, while the 20 boxes, it is said, will
be good for 800 or 1000 tons. An officer of the Royal
Engineers, whose name we could not learn, came down
to the ship with Captain Claxton on Monday, and passed
some hours on the foundation of the breakwater, and
and afterwards in the ship. Yesterday he was to be seen
taking notes and making measurements with Mr. Brem-
ner and Captain Claxton ; he is still here. Since my last
communication nothing could be much worse, as far as
the ebbing of the tides went, for the. operations. For

remove the remaining portion of the breakwater could
not work upon it ; and Mr. Crew, the head man of the smiths
or boiler-makers, said he had not been able to do any-
thing further inside ; all hands, however, since Monday
3eem to have had their hands full, and are mal-'

most of the smooth water
crease, if one may judge

_ing the
The interest seems to in.

of carriazes

the coming springs (about ten or twelve days hence,) it i$
not likely to fall off. A large lot of stones has been col-.
lected to place under her, after the plan adopted by Capt.
Claxton, which has succeeded, in keeping her up, nearly
five feet. It is said Mr. Bremner has contrived a very
ingenious mode of assisting this operation, but I have not
been abb4 to learn the process ; by my next I hope to do
so, as al; connected with the, ship are obliging, and
comngaiicativec—NetiTY. TelegraYh•

PORTUGAL.
LATEST FROM OPORTO.—The Queen's authority has
been fully established at and near Lisbon. The prisoners
taken by the British forces have in great numbers volun-
teered into the royal service. The rest are sent to their
homes. The Government had issued a decree to the mer-
chants in expectation of raising a loan on payment of the
duties at Oporto, but money was very scarce. The har-
vest is promising. There is no fruit for shipment. The
ships Royal Tar, Mindello, Oporto, and Eighth of July,
captured in the employ of the insurgents, were all given
up, and are now recommissioned by the Portuguese Go-
vernment. The Spaniards under General Concha were
virtually in possession of Oporto. The English residents
are respected and protected at Oporto. At Vigo the
English ships which have been detained by blockade were
about to sail on the 30th ult., for Oporto.