The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1841-11-05 00:00:00

MEETING OF THE DOCK COMMITTEE

The weekly meeting of the Dock Committee was held yes-
terday, when the following members were present,—Messrs.
Been (chairman), T. Holt, Holmes, Middleton, Smith,
' Booth, Aiken Mellor, Evans, Bulley, Chapman, and Ripley.
A memorial from certain parties engaged in the fruit trade
was read, requesting accommodation to be provided for their
vessels, such as they had been accustomed to have in the
Salthouse Dock ; and suggesting'that the north end of the
King's Dock be appointed. The memorial was received,
and the Harbour Master was ordered to afford every possible
accommodation in the King's Dock to the vessels engaged in
the fruit trade.

The Surveyor was authc
Dock for one week longer.

to keep open the Salthouse

The Solicitor's opinion upon the application of Messrs.
Rankin and Gilmore to return the dock dues upon the ship
Lady Falkland, was read. It stated that the committee
would not under the circumstances be justified in returning
the dues or any part of them.

Mr. T. HOLT reported that the stock of oil was reduced
to 600 gallons.—Some conversation took place relative to the
experiments now going on with the samples, in the course of
which it was stated that there were most remarkable varia-
Awns between the practical proofs and the scientific tests.
—The sub-committee were requested to order the usual
quantity fqr six months, namely, 3,000 gallons.

THE CHAIRMAN'S RETIREMENT.
The ordinary business of the committee having terminated,
Mr. Alderman Benn retired from the chair, which was taken
pro tem., by Mr. Aiken.

- Mr. CHAPDMAN then said the committee ought not to
separate to-day without recording their sense of the manner
in which their worthy chairman had performe the duties of
his office since he had been appointed to preside over the de-
liberations of the committee. He (Mr. Chapman) believed
this was the last occasion on which, as a body, the present
members of the committee would meet together; but before
separating he could only say for himself that during the
whole time Mr. Benn had occupied the chair, his entire con-
duct had been marked with strict impartiality, and with the
greatest desire, whilst providing every accommodation for
the trade of the port, to promote the welfare of the dock estate.
He therefore begged to move that the warmest thanks of the
committee be presented to Mr. Benn for his valuable services
as their chairman, and that the same be recorded upon the
minutes of their proceedings.
Mr. RIPLEY said he quite concurred with Mr. Chapman
in the observations he had made with reference to the con-
duct of the chairman, and he bad, therefore, great pleasure
in seconding the motion.

The motion was immediately adopted.
Mr. Alderman BENN then came forward. and with consi-
derable emotion said, he thanked the committee sincerely for
the honour they had just done him. This was the last occa-
sion on which he should have the honour of meeting the com-
mittee, and he could only say that he had always experienced
the greatest pleasure in meeting them. The greatest kind-
ness had been shewn to him upon the part of every member.
He bad endeavoured to do his duty, and devote as much
time as he possibly could, to the efficient working of the
docks. He derived great pleasure from the reflection that
he had been in the committee, and in the chair, during the
obtainment of a bill, which he had always thought was much
wanting—that was the act to make a dock with warehouses
upon the quays. He did not regret he was leaving the com-
mittee now, for it was at a time when it had a great deal of
work to do ; but he had the satisfaction of knowing that he
was leaving behind him many gentlemen much more compe-
tent to carry out the views embodied in that bill than he
was ; and he hoped he should live to see the completion of a
work which he was confident would be productive of much
advantage to the port. He had one favour to ask. Having
taken great interest in this bill, he should be glad if he
might, after retiring from the committee, visit occasionally
the works without being considered au intruder—that he
might have permission to look within the palings while the
works were going on. He begged to thank the committee
sincerely for the honour they had done him in recording this
vote in his favour. It had been his object to conciliate all,
and he had the satisfaction of reflecting that during the time
he had been in the chair there had not been any discord, nor
one angry word • there had always been in the committee an
unanimity of feeling, and a general desire to promote the in-
terest of the dock estate. Mr. Benn then retired amidst
much applause.
The committee then separated.

LONDON MONEY MARKET AND TRADE

REPORT.

WEDNESDAY EVENING.—The increased demand for
money stocks, with purchases on account of Chancery, has
further improved the English funds to-day. They now pre-
sent a very firm and stable aspect. Consols for money closed
88k, and for the Account, 89 ; Bank Stock, 164 to 165 ; In-
dia Stock, 244 to 245 ; Three per Cents. Reduced, 871 ;
Three and a Half per Cents. Reduced, 67i ; New Three anp
a Half per Cents, 9111 ; and Long Annuities (expiring Janu-
ary 5, 1860), 12 7-16ths.

The foreign securities were not extensively dealt in, but,
nevertheless, the better aspect of things in general rather
improved. Spanish Active closed 211 to t ; Portuguese
Five per Cents., 291 to 30; Dutch Two and a Half per
Cents., 511 toe; Brazilian, 55 to 57 ; Danish, 78 to 79 ;
Colombian, 19 ton ; and Mexican, 251 to 1.
TEA.—The market continues firm. Company's Congous
Is. 101 d. to ls. 16111. per lb. cash.
TALLOW.—The price on the spot is 465. 6d. to 475., and
for the spring 475. 6d. buyers, with very little doing.
SUGAR.—The market is very quiet, and the sales of Bri-
tish plantation under 100hhds. No sales of Mauritius or
Bengal took place.

COFFEE.-30 casks Jamaica sold at 50s to 755. ; GOO bags
and casks Ceylon fetched 68s. to GBs. 6d. ; and for fine West
India kind 85s. to 945. Gd. ; 220 bales Mocha were chiefly
taken in at 101 s. to Io7s. for good to fine ordinary ; 200 bags
Singapore and Java sold at 425. to 50s. ; and in foreign 460
bags very good St. Domingo were taken in at 41s. Gd.
ItrcE.-1,300 bags Bengal sold at 12s. Gd. for good mid-
dling white, which is about 3d. dearer.

PEPPER.-2,900 bags Malabar partly sold, ordinary
shrivelled, 31d. to 31d.; good heavy taken in at 41d. to 41d.

EXTENSIVE ROBBERY OF WATCIIES.—On Sunday even-
ing the following robbery was committed at the shop of Mr.
Keyzor, 17, Upper George-street, Portman-square. It ap-
pears that Mr. Keyzor, who is a watchmaker in an extensive
way of business, has shops in various parts of town, and at
the one in George-street a confidential person is placed
to look after the business. On the evening in question
a respectably dressed young woman knocked at the door,
which was opened by a female servant (the only person then
on the premises), and delivered a message, to the effect that
Mrs. Keyzor was taken suddenly ill, and that she (the ser-
vant) must go down to her immediately to her master's shop
in Tottenham-court-road. Without loss of time she repaired
thither, and to her great surprise discovered that her mistress
was in her usual good state of health. She then returned
home, when it was directly ascertained that during her tem-
porary absence, the front door had been opened by means
of a skeleton key, and that between 70 and 80 silver watches,
valued at nearly £3OO, had been stolen from the shop. It is
imagined that while the thieves were engaged in their work
of plunder, they were disturbed, as a great number of gold
watches and valuable articles of jewellery, &c., were left un-
touched.—Times.

TRIAL OF 112 MEN FOR MURDER.—The correspondent
of the Illinois Free Trader gives an account of the trial of
the persons charged with the murder of the Driskalls, John
and William, from which we make a few extracts. He says,
" The September term of the Ogle Circuit Court has just
closed, and its session has been marked by a trial which, in
the number of the accused tried in one indictment for the
crime of murder, is without parallel. 112 men were indicted
for the murder of John Driskall and William Driskall, in
June last, near Washington Grove, in this county. About
100 pleaded not guilty, and were put upon their trial. Judge
Ford, whatever might have been his feelings, (the accused
were his neighbours, Judge Ford living in Ogle county,)
exhibited upon the bench a stern determination that the
accused should be fully and fairly tried. However, the very
fact of the great confusion occasioned by so many names in
the indictment, left the accused without any evidence to
contend against. The two or three first witnesses whose
names were endorsed upon the indictment, (and by the laws
of this state none, except those whose names are so endorsed,
can be called to prove the substantive part of the acuusation,)
only knew some of the preparatory steps taken which led to
the supposed offence." The case was submitted to the jury,
who, without leaving their seats, returned a verdict of " not
guilty." This verdict was given partially from a want of
evidence, and from what the jury considered the absolute
necessity of the case.—New York paper.
GALLANT CAPTURE OF A BRAZILIAN SLAVER BY RER
MAJESTY'S BRIGANTINE DOLPIIIN.—A despatch has been
received at the Admiralty from Captain Tucker, senior officer
of her Majesty's ships on the coast of Western Africa, en-
closing a duplicate letter to himself from Lieut. Littlehales,
of the brigantine Dolphin. The latter officer describes a
most dashing capture of the Brazilian slaver Firme, by fifteen
men and officers in a small gig and cutter of the Dolphin, in
the open sea. These gallant men were despatched on Sun-
day, the 30th of May, and after a harrassing pull of two hours
and a half's duration, in a squally, rainy morning, under a
vertical sun, and without breakfast, they came up with the
chase, which bore down upon them and opened a brisk fire
of musquetry, which was quickly returned, and, after steadily
reloading under the slaver's continued fire, the men cheered
and attempted to board on each quarter. Mr. Murray, mate,
was the first to board, but was quickly knocked with the butt-
end of a musket, which broke his collar bone, back into the
boat; he immediately clambered up again, and in spite of
two cutlass blows, one of which nearly severed his left hand
from his wrist, and by the assistance of Mr. Rees from
the other side, who bad fortunately gained the deck
with his party, and who at once cut down one of Mr.
Murray's opponents, that officer was then also enabled to
get fairly on deck. The party thus on deck consisted of the
two officers and four or five men. Before them the crew of the
slaver showed no continued assistance, but ran below, dis-
charging their muskets as they scampered down. Two sailors
of the Dolphin's boats were, however, unfortunately shot in
the attempt to board. The boarding was one of uncommon
difficulty, the sweeps of the slaver being rigged out, which
prevented the party boarding by the chains, and only allowed
the boat's crews to get up the sides singly, or at most in pairs.
The resistance lasted twenty minutes, the shots from the
Firme falling in every direction among the British boats and
men, killing two, and wounding one severely and six slightly.
Within three hours of the time when the boats made the
slaver, their gallant crews rejoined their own vessel with their
prize. She proved to be a newly-built Baltimore clipper, of
179 tons, from Bahia, and had on board the regular official
papers and the Brazilian flag ; she had an unusual number of
passengers and several slave agents on board.—The Admi-
ralty has, we are glad to observe, promptly evinced their ap-
preciation of this display of British naval skill and valour, by
promoting Mr. Murray to the rank of lieutenant, Mr. Rees
to that of master, and John Smith, a first-rate seaman, who,
when his right arm was disabled, continued to fight with his
left, to be boatswain._

BIRMINGHAM, MONDAY—FATAL GUN ACCIDENT.—
Considerable consternation was created in the western part of
this town this morning by a report that a boy named John
Swan. residing with his parents at the Cup public-house, in
Smallbrook-street, had shot his mother while sitting at break-
fast. Such, however, Nsrei.e not the dreadful facts of the case,
although the event, afflicting as it is, cannot be otherwise than
universally deplored. It appears that an elderly woman,
named Snape, was in the habit of daily going to the Cup to
assist in cleansing the house. She was so employed for some
hours this morning, and at 10 o'clock sat ciowrito breakfast
in the club-room up stairs, in company with a servant girl
named Mary Hartland. The woman and girl were joined by
John Swan, a lad about 15 years of age, and the son of the
landlord. During the time of breakfast he went into an ad-
joining room, separated by a removable wooden partition,
and brought out a fowling-piece in a woollen case. The boy,
evidently ignorant of the piece being loaded, took it out of
the case, placed a percussion-cap upon the nipple, and after
saying, " Look out, or up, Snape, I'll shoot you," put the
gun to his shoulder. 'rise wdman, nothing alarmed., ex-
claimed, " You may, it will not hurt me.' Young Swan
then pulled the trigger, bat the gun missed fire. He then
placed another cap upon the nipple, and again taking aim at
the woman pulled the trigger ; the gun went off, and the un-
fortunate woman fell dead upon the floor. The unhappy
youth, as soon as he saw the dreadful consequences of his
rashness, darted down stairs exclaiming, " Mother, I've
shot Mrs. Snape." At the door of the house he met his
father, (who in the street had been alarmnd by the discharge
of the gun,)to whom he made similar exclamations, and then
ran off to fetch Mr. Wilcox, the surgeon, with whom lie re-
turned. On entering the room in which the occurrence took
pl ice, Mr. Wilcox found the woman quite dead. One eye
was completely blown out. The shot had entered the tore-
part of the head and mutilated the cheek in a most shocking
manner.

IS THE " PROTESTANT QUESTION TO BE LAID

ASIDE

A few weeks ago we were asked, even by men professing
Conservative and Protestant principles, " Why agitate the
Protestant question now! why keep up any longer your Pro-
testant Associations, when a Conservative administration
holds the reins of power, and the O'Connell influence in the
cabinet is prostrated for ever ?'' Our answer was, that, not-
withstanding the check which it had sustained, the evil spirit

of Popery is still busy in its vocation, and that an unrelaxing
watchfulness is, therefore, still the duty of every Protestant

community. True, it may be, that the great prizes of the

government are, for the present, withdrawn beyond its reach.
It has no longer judgeships or commissionerships wherewith
to feed the rapacity of its follo►eers. It sits no longer at the
council board of the Sovereign. It can no longer infuse its
dark poiso:► into the stream of national education. It is
maimed, and shorn of its beams; but it has not, therefore,
become innocuous, and requires to be watched with, perhaps,
even greater vigilance, since its path is no longer in the sun-
shine, and its seat in high places.
The position occupied by the Church of Rome in Great

Britain is not one from which she can be dislodged in an

hour, or by any single effort. Her power of damaging Pro-
testantism is not one which the mere possession of a parlia-
mentary majority will enable us to put down ; for although
we may reduce that power so far as to prevent her from pur-
suing, in a direct course, the cherished objects of her ambi-
tion, yet indirectly, and perhaps with even greater certainty,
under the mask of some popular delusion, she may still be
advancing towards their achievement. That, at the present
moment, her influence is lent to the fomenters of anti-corn
law agitation in the manufacturing districts, is indisputable ;
and it will scarcely be denied, either, how powerful that in-
fluence is. That Manchester, Salford, Bolton, Stockport,
&c., with one-third of their populations composed of Irish
Roman Catholics, and, to a man, voting in accordance with
the dictation of their priesthood, return exclusively anti-corn
law candidates to parliament, is to be attributed solely to the
power which Popery has erected for herself, even here, in
England. Nor is that subtle spirit to be satisfied with thus
controlling the return of representatives to parliament only.
There are local prizes as well, in the bestowal of which she
has a more direct and immediate interest, and for the power
of controlling these she has been for years past, and is still,
assiduously working. There are municipal constituencies to
be overborne, and municipal prizes to be carried off; and for
none of those prizes is Rome more assiduous in her efforts,
than those which attain for her the power of grafting her own
dark and debasing superstitions upon the minds of the chil-
dren of our labouring poor.
Can we then, we ask, or aught we, merely because we have
put down the influence of popery iu the government, cease
from the pursuit of any and every means to decrease that in-
fluence in the community? The answer is before us practi-
cally, at this moment. We eannot, consistently with the
safety of our Protestant institutions, and with the preserva-
tion cf protestantism in the state and amongst the commu-
nity, lay aside for one moment the watchful attitude which
the concession of 1829 has imposed upon us. We must con-
tinue to agitate the Protestant mind of the empire, while
popery continues, either openly or covertly, her system of
aggression against the national faith. Let popery confine
her turbulent waters within their own banks—let her cease
from the struggle for political supremacy—and protestantism
will cease to agitate against her. But, until she do so, we
must cease—never! She has not done this. She will not
do this. For upon what ground, we ask—upon what quar-
rel—was the contest fought which has just been brought to
issue, within our own borough ? For what has Rome lent
her powerful aid to liberalism at the late and in former muni-
cipal struggles ? The answer is obvious. Her reign in the
town council—her reign in the education committee—her
quasi monopoly of the corporation schools was threatened.
A conservative council will not cut down the religious edu-
cation of the children of the poor of all persuasions to the
precise pattern which it may please popery to dictate ; and
hence the inundation of the municipal registers with her ser-
vile adherents. The defunct thing, whiggery, may indeed
plume itself that it has still some participation in the direc-
tion of the army by which protestantism is assailed, and that
it will share in the spoil. Its shallow and flippant philoso-
phers may spout forth their free trade dogmas, and prate of
their economy, their liberality, or their surpassing wisdom,
but the p,•esiding genius of the field is the Church of Rome
herself. It was her hand which set the battle in array ; and
it was her banner which was designed to wave over the heads
of the vanquished, if the energies of protestantism had not
been put forth to avert so dire a calamity.
With such practical evidence before us of their continued
necessity, are we to be told that our Protestant associations
should be discontinued ? No, no! To the spirit aroused
throughout the land by those associations we owe it that
popery has been cast out of the high places ; that it no
longer raises its truculent hopes to the throne itself; and
that spirit must not be crushed—the voice. of Protestant
warning must not cease to agitate the heart of England—so
long as vitality enough remains in the noxious thing, to dese-
crate and render impure even the humble stream, from which
the children of the poor come to be filled with the waters of
saving knowledge.

CORRESPONDENCE.

A RADICAL DISAPPOINTMENT.

TO THE EDITOR OF THE LIVERPOOL STANDARD.

Stet,—l understand that a certain radical alderman, who
anticipated the honour of filling the civic chair for the ensu.
ing year, and of course reasonably expected to be made at
least a baronet, took a house in Shaw-street, Everton, and
actually invited a titled female relative to do a graceful pre-
sidency for him at several contemplated festive banquets and
balls. His disappointment is great—his ire beyond bounds.
lie must console himself as do Cato and Cincinnatus Ash-
croft, who exclaim that

" The post of honour is a private station."
A VOTER.

PRINT SHOPS

TO THE EDITOR OF THE LIVERPOOL STANDARD

SlR,—Among other nuisances demanding the attention of
our conservative council, and which it is hoped they will be
successful in promptly removing, is the public exhibition of
indecent prints and books. These do not meet the eye so
frequently as in some other towns ; but if any one doubts
the existence of a case calling for magisterial interference, a
look. at a shop in Park lane will be sufficient to convince him
of its necessity. The foot pavement before it is frequently
so crowded with gazers at the obscenity in the windows, as
to obstruct the thoroughfare.—Your constant reader,
Liverpool, Nov. 3. A FATHER.

NUISANCE

TO 7'HE EDITOR OF THE LIVERPOOL STANDARD.

Strt,-1 wish through the medium of your excellent jour-
nal, to call the attention of those of our public authorities
whom it concerns, to a very great nuisance now prevailing in
the neighbourhood of Abercromby-square, and Oxford, and
Bedford-streets. It is that of the firing of guns or the
noisy ignition in some other way of combustible materials at
late hours of the night. The sounds produced are so loud
and alarming as in several instances that have come to my
knowledge, to interrupt the repose of sleeping children, or
most painfully disturb suffering invalids. Such an evil can
proceed only from foolish and idle, or rude and mischievous
persons ; and a material benefit would be conferred on many,
by its being arrested and put a stop to by the interference of
the competent authorities.—l am, sir, &c.
Oct. 30, 1811. VERAX.

THE PROTECTORS

TO THE EDUTER OF THE STANARD

Sult,—l think it rite to let vu no the whey we have been
treated—that is the Pertecturs. Wen we was axed to jine
the society, we was lead to bleive tht it uld be for our gud ;
but we have ad no gud. We have lost our tim, sur, without
any recom pease : we have lost our tim in paing our muney
in, drorin,g it out, and pying ur tackses. We have lost more
time in wateing to no if we was to be pade for our tim ; and
when the day of elecktion came, they would not pa us for
goeing to vote, whitch oncet for all is a grate sham, as we
concider that if it was worth wile to get us to pa, it was
worth wile to pa us for votcing, whitch we expected foolly.
Stir, I tell you this cos they waddnt pa us for our votes, whitch
we expected, and so we did not vote for nobody. Sur, lam
no skollard, and hop you will spell this rite if you put it in
the pepper. A PURTECKTUR.
New Burd-slreet, Twoesday.

_~►----

THE MAYOR'S STIPEND

TO TIIE EDITOR OF TILE LIVERPOOL STANDARD

SlR,—Bcfore the Mayor makes his last bow to the Com-
mon Council, and takes his final leave of the public, permit
me through the medium of your columns to draw attention
to the very large sum that must be standing to the credit of
his worship, unexpended, out of the handsome allowance of
£2,000 granted from the corporation funds, for the purpose
of maintaining the dignity of the high office in a manner be-
coming the importance of our town. You are probably not
aware, sir, that the official allowance under the old regime
was £1,200 only, and that this amount was made the subject
of considerable vituperation by the immaculate whigs of
those days as being outrageously extravagant, and as chal-
lenging the earliest attention of the new common council. I t
had that attention pretty early, but it was only to increase
the £1,200 to £2,000.

. _
Now, sir, the selfishness of whiggery is too well esta-
blished to call for proof at my hands—it is upon record a
hundred times repeated. I am not now going to argue the
propriety of the increase ; it might or might not have been
necessary ; but this is very certain, that the stipend was de-
signed to confer the power on our first magistrate to display,
not a poor meagre charity—not a fourpenny veal pie enter-
taiument—but a (I was on the point of writing liberal ; that
word, however, has been so prostituted that 1 shall substi-
tute another, namely,) munificent hospitality that should do
credit to the representative of a princely corporate estate,
enabling that individual to entertain his townsmen hand-
somely, and the foreigner of distinction magnificently, when-
ever circumstances shall bring the latter within the precincts
of tie Town-hall.

That the hospitality of our present Mayor has been of a
more circumscribed character than any within the previous
twenty years is beyond dispute ; and the corollary is inevi-
table, that a very large portion of the £2,000 must inevitably
he unexpended. Now I beg to inferno his worship, that the
public eye is upon him ; that the community will not allow
an appropriation of that £1,500 or X 1,806 to private pur-
poses without marking the act with its indignant reproba-
tion. 'What has become of the corporation carriage, and
what of the homes ?—all arc laid aside—and the parapher-
nalia that was wont to be properly exhibited on the Sunday,
challenging and receiving the respect, as well of the respect-
able citizens, as of the plain and honest, but clean and re-
putable artizan, each on his way to the national temple, all
this has been placed in the corporation chest, the emblem of
a former state, and significant of the dignity and importance
of the situation filled by the personage before whom it was
borne. _

The time has now arrived, however, fora resumption of
the good old practice of visiting a Christian temple, and for
bringing forth the insignia of office ; and a glorious sight it is,
sir, as well as a fitting example for those who are called upon
to submit to the authority of him who ought to be a terror to
evil doers.

I shall not trespass on a fallen foe, although our present
chief magistrate has provoked that disposition beyond his
predecessors—it were needless to draw the picture of his
faults, positive and negative—they are in the memory of the
present generation, and will serve only to furnish a contrast
to his successors in office. I shall only again remind him
that the eyes of the community are upon him—the public
charities are waiting, open mouthed, for the very large funds
which his official parsimony has placed at his disposal.
___

ARGUS

aßttrP.

VERSES ON THE FIFTH OF NOVEMBER

'For the Liverpool Standard)

rk November shews his face again,
him brings his streams of turbid rain ;
mds and hanging mists his looks pourtray,
nal fogs bedim the shortened day.
er, dreary month ! yet dear to boys—
me of pleasure—source of endless joys—
l's fond chronicler ! Who cannot remember
-ions Fifth, and bonfires of November ?
_he pile, upraised with faggots high,
The monster black, Guy Fawkes. in torments lie,
(Who threatened once our land, our laws, our king,)
Whilst the rent skies with shouts and clamours ring.
Black was the scheme, and deeply was it laid;
But God on high, from heaven, his throne, surveyed,—
Pierced the dark plot, and on that very night
Spread the bright beams of his revealing light.

And dis
Novemt

Fleeting and short are joys of mortals here :
Serpents may fade, and rockets melt in air ;
Bonfires may fail,—but who will not remember
The hours of youth, and boyhood's bright November?

4,1841

R. C., A NOVICE

LITERARY NOTICES,

Fraser's Magazine for November. Fraser, London

We once remember hearing of a conceited and arrogant
Frenchman who boasted that Napoleon had won the battle
But," said his antagonist, "if he did so, he
Non nzonsieur,replied the Gaul;

of Waterloo

nd his men ran away