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Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1853-08-02 00:00:00

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now, at the eleventh hour, it would be preposterous. My
information on the all-engrossing subject was only a little
less meagre than the accounts in the newspapers. So far
good. I think it is highly probable, before the publication
of your next broadsheet, that a communication will have
been made to Parliament of a definite character. The
Cabinet sat the whole of Saturday afternoon, arid received
two foreign messengers. One of them certainly a Rus-
sian, who knew what he was about,—knew that Saturday
aftern

oon was the time to arrive,—Ministers expected
him,—and he came. ABERDEEN walked home from the
Council, with his carriage following at a slow pace. Why
not ? The Thane surely could walk a mile and a quarter
to Argyle-house; but why walk, when time and space
might be saved by jumping into his coronetted carriage ?
there was a pair of splendid horses impatiently pawing
the pavement, and giving healthful indications by their
foam,—not that of soap-lather, as we are told, certain

wayside ostlers furtively produce after cribbing a

feed of corn. ABERDEEN walked ! How Prime Minis-
ters wince and twitch at certain periods! There was
a report that ABERDEEN had had a narrow escape
for his life, the day before, in consequence of a cab
coming with great force against him. A Ministerial
paper denies that his Lordship had eny escape on the
evening in question. Oh ! you varlet'

welcome

wizzard ! man-

witch ! thus to juggle. To be sure it was not in the
evening, that the narrow escape took place ; but you know
as well as I do, that it did take place about two o'clock in
the day. ABERDEEN walked home to show he was not
hurt. I have known other Prime Ministers do the same
thing, to show that they were unscathed from other ac-
cidents. Viscount MELBOURNE, for example, rode at an
easy pace through the principal streets,—l mean the
more crowded streets,—whistling, talking to himself, and
singing, the day on which his verdict of acquittal in the
NORTON case appeared in the papers,—as much as to say,
" who's afraid ? " Apropos of accidents; a lady was killed,
smashed at once, on Saturday, by the magnificently

..,,6eruuS swing uoors Of rue tiouse; fit. 6tephens
thing they call it. With few exceptions, I would have the
lot of officials, from the architect downwards

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sewn up in

SPONDENT. and aqua vitcc,—he seeks repose. Proteu.
he was the chief, to be sure, is now dead and gone.
The brilliant compliment—and just, as briiliant,—paid
by Lord BROUGHAM in his place in parliament, the other
evening, to the administration of justice—law, in short,
as exhibited in Ireland, was most gratifying to more than
one Irish lawyer who heard the eulogy, from ray personal
knowledge : I repeat, most just and deserved. " When
he," said Lord BROUGHAM, " looked into the state of the
law in Ireland, the constitution of its courts, and the vast
improvement made there, so that in many respects the
courts in Ireland were half a century in advance of those
in this country, it was. impossible he could do otherwise
thin regard with satisfaction, mingled with admiration,
the course of legislation in the sister country." Odd ex-
pressions these, when we hear and read so much of the
" lawless " Irish. In love, law, and physic, I never
knew an Irish student who did not distinguish himsalf.
In the study of law the Irishman is exact ; intuitively, as
it were, and with great accumen, he seizes his salient
points sooner than other men. In physic he is " Der
Dteirel,"as we say, when we put on the " Guernsey shirt,"
and go to Antwerp. The Irishman's memory of law
points is the thing ; he will, after his seventh tumbler of
" stiff," floor a dozen companions even more educated
and not near so tipsy. Such aptitude matured ; hence
the justice of Lord BROUGHAM'S compliment. Oh !
HARRY, HARRY ! I know you have never been much in
Ireland : they say you mean to take a run over to see the
exhibition. You old dodger : the jolly fellows of Dublin
did not require their law to be lauded to make you
DANIEL O'CoNNEr.r„ who did not like you
much, is gone ' • so is MAURICE, his eldest son. Ohone !
Writing in this way reminds me of a graceful act done
by the Duke of NEWCASTLE—for all his sour looks, one
of the best of the coalition ministers—to the son of the
once famous, and to evil-doers fearful beak, Sir RICHARD
BIRNIE, who told me yesterday he had just received, with
peculiar advantages, the appointment of Advocate-Gene-
ral for Western Australia from his grace. BIRNIE is a
barrister of too long standing not to have had his claims
recognised before this time. Highly educated, highly
irritable, and highly honourable, he was characterised by
an infirmity which uniformly leads to the bottomless pit
—perdition—starvation ; he snapped too much at the
judge, whether at Old Bailey, Middlesex Sessions, Insol-
vent Debtors' Court, Courts in Westminster-hall, indeed,
courts everywhere. It was all vanity to show off superior
nous. My young Liverpool brothers of the bar, eschew
this great evil. Slip out your knowledge before the judge
quietly—idiotically simple, if you like, but don't snap at
" my lord," if you wish to have a brief in your bag above
half-a-crown. However, BIRNIE (the family was known
in Liverpool at one time) toddles to the Western main,
blessing Providence and NEWCASTLE that he has not

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There was a death announced in the papers the other
day which could not help drawing out many a recollection,
pleasant and painful, of the past. It was that of young
Hoox, only twenty-nine, at Burdwan Dak Bunglow, a
lieutenant in the 3rd native infantry. How the young
man's father—had both been alive,—would have laughed
at the Burdwan Dak. No one with taste for literature
and good living, in London society, but knew THEODORE
Hoax, the editor of John Bull, the most accomplished,
versatile, witty, humorous, (there is a difference) gay, yet
almost heart-broken—laughing, weeping—apparently rich,
poor—mind at ease, torn to pieces,—five minutesof whose
conversation at five in the morning was worth an equal
number of guineas ; and who never, in this world of care,
had one he could well call his own. Such was THEODORE
Hoox. He ought to have lived in the ward of Candlewick.
Who ever saw him in daylight ? Oh ! yes ; I rememberhim
driving away from piano-forte playing and punch at early
dawn; he perceived the scarcely opened buds on the brown
verdure of the pitiable trees in Soho (or some other)
square, and almost swore at them ; they put him in mind
of the words, sometimes sung to indifferent music:—

Revive the ashes of the urn
THEODORE had been that night to three parties—the lion
at each ; sang, touched the pianoforte, improvised like a
god. His great heart was getting corrugated and mouldy
by this time, for he died soon after. Some half dozen
went to see him buried. "Oh ! don't go yet," said one,
after the last horrid sound of the last clod had rattled on
the coffin lid • " let's go hack to Hoox's house." Who
that knew THEODORE suspected that he was personally
interested in the cares of matrimony and milk scores ?
Few. Back our noble-hearted friends went. There was
a reason ;—they found a dam and six young ones. The
poor lad who died the other day was one of them. Those
were the days when Hoot( hooked it with KITCHINER,
the doctor, the truest epicure I ever met. His Cook's
Oracle, written en backs of letters, gained him half-a-
crown a copy from LONGMAN'S people, who published it.
Many thousands were sold. There was also Tom Coox,
the most exquisite voiceless singer, musician, and wit of
that or of any other period ; JOHN BaexAm, who for
nearly fifty years thanked Providence he never was
proprietor of a theatre, yet all but ruined himself by
becoming one ; SIDNEY Smeru, to describe whom
even in a sentence would be an affront ; BARHAM,
(INGoensny,) Canon of St. Paul's, newspaper critic,
et gourmet ; MAGINN, DICKEY PEAKE the punster,
Tom HOOD, JOHN POOLE (Paul Pry) ; but I get tired
of mentioning names all resplendent at that period.
What a change has come o'er us ! There is some truth
in the much-quoted words about distance lending enchant-
ment to the view. THACKERAY is with us, writing fast
and healthfully ; would he not have done for the Hoot(
Period ? " I believe you, my boy." JERROLD ? Tosi
TAYLOR ? A`BECKETT ? PERCIVAL LEIGH ? MARK LE-
MON ? REACH ? HORACE MAYHEW ? sharpshooters-6-
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flemen, some of them—and all smart. No one can doubt
either, that we have greater men, greater writers now
than in HOOK'S days or nights ;—MACAULEY, CAMPBELL,
BROUGHAM. Still I think your men who live by litera-
ture, as carpenters do by joint-stool construction are not
so good as those of thirty years ago. It cannot t:e denied
that now tact supplies the place of sterner attainments, and
is, withal, the more profitable stock. As fit corollary
take the litterateurs born brothers—the actors—here the
decadence is deplorable. In the past period referred to, one
might have jingled glasses with the two KEMBLES, JOHN
and CHARLES,—taken a cup of tea with their sister,
Mrs. SIDDONS, a drop of " jackey " (kin) with Mrs GLO-
VER, and the "golden Orger;" the twin trees in excellence,
Mrs. BRADSHAW, and Mrs. C. KEAN ; MARIA FOOTE,
erratic angel, falsifying poetry, for if she fell, she rose
again i• RICHARD JONES, EDMUND KEAN, MACREADY,
JEM WALLACK, MUNDEN, DOWTON, CHARLES YOUNG,
your own (victim of metropolitan charlatanry) VANDEN-
HOFF. These and other great ones were all extant then.
Whom have we now to put in the balance ? Not a ghost!
May borrow from the undertaker's board—Resurgam ?

Thoso of your readers who arc conversant with the
French language—as, I suppose, mostly all of them are
when they visit London—ought once to dine at one or
other of the restaurants at the west end. 1 could mention
three or four such, but for obvious reasons do not. A
thorough English eater will abhor fifteen out of twenty
dishes which comprise his dinner, n'importe. There is
always one piece de resistance. The restaurateur, if at
all popular, finds that ho must have " rosbif" or "gigot"
for his English, Scotch, or Irish visitors. The Frenchman
will slabber a pailful of thin dish-washing, in the name of
soup, and then eat meat as innocent of nutrition as a
boiled cork; but then he has his kickshaws—abominations.
However, it is not for the materiel of the dinner I here
disport ; it is the people, the sentiment, the conversation.
The hatred and fury with which the name of Lours
NAPOLEON is hailed is perfectly demoniacal. At one of
these reunions, the other day, I sat next to the avocat
B—, expelled France because he loved a Republic,
and hated LOUIS BONAPARTE more. They are
all full of faith and hope, give little impromptu chansons
after—a long way it may be—the manner of IIERRANGER.
Their temperance is not to be imitated ; they drink
nothing, yet " mine host" seems to like them better
than his English customers. VICTOR Huoo, who is
living cheap at Jersey, is a great man among them ; last
week especially so, in consequence of his glowing elope
at the burial of LOUISE JULIEN, a character, though
little other than a cripple-beggar, also expelled France
by the EMPEROR. VICTOR'S oration is almost got by
heart by the refugees about Regent-street. The perora-
tion is startling, though not half so much so in English.
Of Lours BONAPARTE (mark the omission of NAPOLEON),
VICTOR Hiroo exclaims—" No scaffold when the day of
victory comes, but a long and degrading expiation to that
villain. A curse under every sky in every clime, in
France, in Austria, Lombardy, Sicily, Rome, Poland,
Hungary," and so on, awfully, till each particular hair
stands on end ! VICTOR concludes "To curse tyrants
is to bless nations." There's a fine spirit among these
fellows. Forgive me, my " Corsican Brother" NAP.,
for drinking with them in Burgundy the health of Le Duc
de CHAMBORD.

LIVERPOOL TOWN COUNCIL.—At the usual monthly
(
meeting to-morrow the following matters will be taken into
consideration :—The proceedings, resolutions, and reports
of the Finance Committee,com prising a recommendation to
increase the salary of Mr. Francis Venn to £5OO per an-
num, the consideration of which was postponed at the last
monthly Council, pursuant to the standing-orders ; cor-
respondence with Mr. Gore, Commissioner of Woods, &c.,
relative to alleged rights of the Crown to the foreshore at
Birkenhead, and recommendation to comply with an appli-
cation of Mr. Wilson to surrender the lease granted to him
of property in Birkenhead , in consequenceof the delay which
will take place in settling the question of title to that fore-
shore by the refusal of the officers of Woods, eee., to agree to
the arrangement proposed by the committee by which the
works under Mr. Wilson's lease might have been at once
proceeded with ; recommendation to purchase freehold of-
fices, shops, public-house, and premises in Oldhall-
street and Tithebarn-street, belonging to Mr. Boult-
bee, for the sum of £7,350 ; and report of interview
with deputation from the Select Vestry as to ma-
gistrates' clerks' fees for parochial business, and
further consideration of recommendation on resolutions
of the magistrates as to arrangements consequent on the
resignation of Mr. Lowndes. The election. nomination,
and appointment of four members of the Council to be
members of the committee for the affairs of the estate of
the trustees of the Liverpool docks, in the place of Messrs.
Royden, Robertson Gladstone, Matthew Gregson, and
Thos. Littledale, who retire from the committee this day.
The proceedings, resolutions, and reports of the Educa-
tion Committee, comprising a recommendation to increase
the salary of Mr. John Dalzel. junior master of the South
Corporation School, from £25 to £4O per annum. The
proceedings of the Health Committee, comprising a re-
commendation to grant an increase of salary to the fol-
lowing persons :—ln the Borough-engineer's department :
from £l5O to £175 per annum ; John
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£l5O to £175 ; James Saunderson, from
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£l2O to £l4O ; William Walker, from £7O to £9O ; Richard
from
Blade, £l2O to £l3O ; John Pickavance, from 245. to
263. per week. In thelNnsupiecntoereo,
fomfrNuixsain7coestoDepartment :
T. Fresh, Inspector of sa
nuns ; H. A. Aynsley, and Robt. Higgins, from 2essi.y to 30s.
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per week, that the other officers in this department be
promoted according to seniority of service, and that Ed-
ward Freeny be paid the salary of his predecenor, namely,
£1 MG per week.

on, of which I CO-11XE IiCIAL AND MONETARY iVEIi

MONDAY NIGHT.
THE long-protracted settlement of political affairs
in the East, notwithstanding the greater probabili-
ties of its reaching a peaceful termination, has pre-
vented any return of the public funds to higher
prices ; but, on the contrary, they have receded in
value. This result may be partly attributable to
other circumstances which have had considerable
influence, and are likely to operate in a still greater
degree upon the money market. The receipts of
gold from Australia are as yet very small compared
with the large amount which was expected, and the
weekly returns of the Bank of England again show
a diminution in the stock of bullion, arising, it is
believed, from a demand for exportation, in order to
meet the balance of trade against this country.
Money is, in consequence, less easy for commercial
purposes, and Exchequer Bills have been as low as
43 discount. Much apprehension, however, for the
future is caused by the unsettled state of the
weather at a time when the productiveness of the
corn-harvest is materially affected by it ; and the
value of money will, in a great degree, depend upon
the next three or four weeks, as, should the harvest
be considerably injured, a large amount of our
present stock of bullion will be absorbed in the

purchase of additional foreign supplies. On the
contrary, if the weather should be prosperous, and
the wheat crop secured in good condition, a large
amount of capital will be set free for ordinary com-
mercial purposes. The scheme of the Chancellor
of the Exchequer to provide for the large amount
of South Sea Stock, to be paid off next year, is not
viewed with unmixed satisfaction. It is evident
that his financial policy has been a failure, notwith-
standing the ingenuity of his attempts to account
for it, and public confidence in his ability has
thereby been destroyed, as shown in the decline
of Exchequer Bills, notwithstanding the very large
amount withdrawn from circulation, and the utter
indifference with which the new Stocks have been
received. Some relief will be afforded by the re-
investments by the Commissioners for the Reduc-
tion of tile. National DATA who havea largo n,,nount
at their disposal this quarter, and larger still next
quarter, when it will reach £892,155.
The state of the Cotton trade in Liverpool has
been most satisfactory, owing to the general de-
mand from the manufacturers, who are laying
in their stocks, and the now settled convic-
tion that the supply, instead of being in excess,
will probably be unequal to the demand. It is
true that the returns show a stock nominally
greater than at the corresponding period of last
year ; but allowances must be made for the fact,
that by far the greater portion is of unsaleable qua-
lity, according to the present requirements of the
trade ; and there is also the probability that the
stock is over-estimated, as was proved to be the
case to a considerable extent on both the last occa-
sions, when the stock was actually taken owing to
the quantities transmitted from vessels direct to
the manufacturers, without going through the
hands of the Liverpool brokers. It will be re-
membered that a few months since, when some
doubt rested on the probable supply, and early
shipments induced productions of a great excess,
the Manchester manufacturers made some serious
attempts to affect the market here by alarming the
holders of Cotton. They reduced their working
time to four days a week ; and, following the ad-
vice of their organ, the Manchester Guardian,
refrained from buying more than would supply
their immediate necessities, confidently asserting that
the market must fall, and doing their best to accom-
plish the prediction. We then took an opposite
view of the subject; we exposed the erroneous con-
clusions of our Manchester contemporary, and the
object of the movement of the manufacturers, and
cautioned the Liverpool holders against being de-
ceived into a precipitous sacrifice, as the best con-
sideration of the probabilities which would affect
the market showed rather a tendency to rise. The
result has justified the correctness of our opinion,
and the manufacturers who delayed to replenish
their stocks are now experiencing the consequences
in having to purchase at higher prices, with the
prospect of a further rise.

The reports from the manufacturing districts
show that, notwithstanding the still unsettled state
of affairs in the East, there is an increasing demand
both for yarns and wholly manufactured goods, at
improving prices. This might have been antici-
pated from the general employment throughout the
country at high wages, the great demand for ex-
portation to our Australian Colonies, the United
States, and other distant markets, and the fact of
the previous shortness of stocks, while the conti-
nuation of the turn-out of operatives at Stockport
must have tended to diminish the supply. In the
Woollen districts there is a steady trade, without
any material change in prices. The Lace and
Hosiery trades are in their previous quiescent state;
but confident expectations are entertained of speedy
improvement, owing to the shipments to Australia
and America having commanded large profits.
The return from the Bank of England, for the
week ending the 23rd of July, gives the following
results, when compared with the previous week :
Public deposits .. £1,849,658; Decrease £483,156
Other deposits .. 13,179,838 ; Decrease 242,166
Rest .. 3,243,581 ; Increase 3,361
On the other side of the account—
Government securities £13,537,333 ; Decrease 220,000
Other securities .. 12,553,013 ; Decrease 511,297
Notes unemployed .. 7,832,995; Increase 171,200
The amount of notes in circulation is £23,627,090,
being a decrease of £260,970 ; and the stock of
bullion in both departments is £17,829,279, show-
ing a decrease of £194,069, when compared with
the preceding return.

ISSUE DEp
Notes issued .. £31,460,085

'ARTM ENT,

Govrnt. Debt.. £11,015,100
Other securities 2,984,900
Gold coin& bu1n.17,440,931
Silver bullion .. 19,154

£31,460,085

£31,460,085
BANKING DEPARTMENT.
Prop.'s capita1.X14,553,000 Gov. securities..£l3,s37,333
Re5t....
Public deposits. 1,849,658 Notes
Other deposits . 13,179,838 Gold & silt'. coin 369,194
7-day, &c. bills. 1,466,458
--
£34,292,535 £34,292,535
In our SHARE MARKET during the week we
have had less business than ever, prices, however,
remaining very firm. Both buyers and sellers
appear determined to wait the result of the Eastern
negociations. Local Stocks are in demand for
investment, for which good prices would be given,
especially Insurance and Bank Shares. We annex
prices—Chester and Birkenhead, ; Blackburn,
6i; Chester and Holyhead, 221 ; Lancashire and
Yorkshire, 78 771 ; London Stock, 116 lc ;
Midland Stock, 71-1-; North British, 8 5-16;
Dover Stock, 21i a ; York, Newcastle, and
Berwick, 171 ; Lancashire and Yorkshire pref.
£l6, id.

COTTON.—The sales during the week have
averaged 12,000 bales daily, of which about one-
third have been on speculation and for export.
The better classes, or those above middling, have
been in fair demand, and prices have daily hardened,
but all other sorts below 6d. are slow of sale, and
abundantly offered. The present excess in our
stocks consist principally in low American, Egyptian
and Surat:Cotton. Of the better classes of American,
which are most in demand, the stock is compara-
tively small, and as little of this description will
come in during the next three months, the supply
will not he found adequate to the requirements of
the present consumption. TO-DAY the advices per
America had but little effect. The market remains
firm, but with rather less doing. The sales amounted
to about 8,000 bales, including 2,000 for specula-
tion and export at steady prices.
PRODUCE.—The demand for sugar has rather
improved, and the sales consist of 850 hhds. B. P.,
4000 bags Bengal, 300 bags Mauritius and 740
bags Madras, and an advance of 6d has been
obtained on the better descriptions of Bengal.—
For foreign a good inquiry, especially for the better
qualities, has been experienced, and the sales com-
prise 3850 boxes Havanna (No. 11) at 21s 6d from
the quay, 250 hhds. Cuba Muscovado at 34s to
36s 9d, and 170 hhds. Surinam at 32e 3d to 34s
per cwt.—For Molasses the quotations, though
reduced, are almost nominal.—No business done
in Coffee.—Pimento and Pepper rather dearer.—Of
Rice 50 tcs. Carolina sold at 255, Bengal at 11s 3d
to 12s 3d for middling to fine white, and 2500 bags
of Arracan at 9s 9d per cwt.—For Rum a further
advance of ld per gallon has been paid.—Tea : The
telegraph accounts just received from China caused
a decidedly better feeling, and several parcels of
common to blackish kinds of Congou have met
with buyers at a slight advance.—The sales in Salt-
petre consist of about 1200 bags, at 25s 6d for 7i,
and 27s per cwt. for 51 per cent. refraction.—More
has been done in Nitrate of Soda at 15s 6d to 16s.
No sales in Turpentine, but of Stockholm Tar,
2000 brls. have been sold at 18s per brl.—American
Rosin in regular demand.—A good demand for
Ashes at 25s to 25s 6d for old pot, and at 26s ad per
cwt. for new of both sorts.—Of Hides at public
sale, salted River Plate found buyers at rad to 51d,
dry salted Ceara at sid to Gd, and Bahia at 5111 to
Sid per lb.—There has been more request for Olive
Oil, and the sales have been about 100 tunas—A