The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1846-07-28 00:00:00

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illy 28, 1846.
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. , closest investigation would prove that the interests of the no call for more than £5 per share was required before
imprrial Uarltairmit. public had been carefully attended to. the Ist January, 1848. The balance in the treasurer':
The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER, on the part of bands was;£Bl,o2o. The report was unanimously adopted,
HOUSE OF LORDS.—MorroAle. the Government, aysented to the committee, being per- and the directors who had acted for the past year were re.
The Earl of Powis moved the second reading of his fectly satisfied that the most searching investigation would elected. The sum of £l2OO was voted to them for their
Bill for the Preservation of the Sees of St. Asaph and prove that th. i
the best that could be done had been effected services, to be continued every succeeding year; £5OO
Bangor. for the public nterests, per annum was also voted to the secretary, and £2OO to
The measure was supported by the Bishops of London The motion was then agreed to. the treasurer. In reply to a question, the chairman stated
(who urged the immediate appointment of a Bishop of The house then went into committee of supply, and the that four calls of £1 ss. eacb would be made in 1847, and
Manchester), Bangor, Salisbury, and Oxford, the latter vote of £45,000 for the British Museum was after some the engineer's report showed that the money would be
The Earl of conversation agreed to. employed to carry out the works efficiently. Thanks
of whom spoke with his usual eloquence.
ems having been given to the chairman, the meeting broke up.
Eldon also supported the bill. It was opposed by Lords
FOREIGN AND COLONIAL.
Vivian, Stanley, the Bishop of Norwich, and Earl Grey.ion
-con-
On a division there appeared—Contents, 38;
LOCAL NEW S.
Non-con-
tents, 28 ;—Majority for the second reading, 10.
THE UNITED STATES.
The Marquis of LANSDOWNE, who had opposed. the
By the Montezuma, New York packet ship, arrived on •
bill, then said that after the decision of thehouseit was Tuesday, we have received New York papers to the 2nd The Great Western sailed on Saturday from Liverpool
not his intention to oppose the measure any further.
inst.' A bulletin bad been just received by the electric for New York, taking upwards ot 103 passengers.
HOUSE OF COMMONS.—MoNDAr.
rose and stated his views and propo- telegraph, announcing that a military insurrection bad His Excellency the Minister of the United States
Lord J. RUSSELL,
sition respecting the sugar duties. The noble lord said, if
broken out at Guadalaxara having for its object the over- Louis M'Lane, Esq. being on a visit to Liverpool, the
throw of Paredes, and the substitution of Santa Anna in President and members of the Chamber of Commerce
the present government had consulted their own inte.
his place. The revolt was commenced by the regiment of determined to present him with an address,- expressive of
, -
Logos, and was so far successful that General Dugue and- the strong feelings of respect which they entertain for his
rest, they would not, at this advanced period of the the troops who remained faithful to Paredes were com- character generally, and of their high sense of the ser-
seesion have proposed any alteration of the sugar duties,
pelted to retreat towards the city of Mexico. Don Jose vices rendered by him to the cause of peace during the
but they considered that they. had a public duty thoeper-
Maria Tenet is at the head of the movement. The oath recent negociation respecting the Oregon question.
form, ES considerable evils at present existed; and was imposed by the new authorities includes a clause pledging 'On Thursday last, a man called at the house of Mr.
now about to state to the committee the reasons for the all who take it to assist in repelling the " infamous usur- Edwards, Essex-street, Park, and told the servant girl
plan he should propose for a permanent settlement of petiole" of the Americans. There is no news from the her master had sent him for his hat, coat, and trousers,
these duties. It was a general opinion for years past,. army of General Taylor subsequent to the capture of he wanting them to go on board a ship, with a gentleman.
that the duties on sugar were enormous, and required Reynosa by the American detachment under Colone The girl, supposing the' messenger had been sent by her
alteration and revision. The noble lord then took a re- 'Wilson. The expedition against New Mexico, under, master, gave him the clothes, and it was not till Mr. E.
view of the average price and duty on colonial and foreign
Colonel Hearney, had left Port Leveensworth. The went home in the evening that the poor girl found he was
sugars during the last four years ; and read a number of blockade of Vera Cruz continued as before. There seems a thief.
extracts from the works of Mr. M'Culloch and others, to be no doubt that Paredes had left the capital (on the
been On Saturclayilight, a porter
.named Lindon who had
which consisted entirely of figures. He considered the
Gth of June) to put himself at the head of the army, as-
. apprehended.. the same evening tbr a small th' eft., corn-
estimate of the quantity of sugar in bond to amount to sembling at Monterey, to resist the Americans. It is said
forty thousand tons, and that the importation next year
he will be at the head of 16,000. ' . mitted suicide in the main bridewell, by banging himself.
from the West Indies and other colonies in all probability By the packet ship Independence, we have received He was quite dead when found, and it appeared that be
would amount to two hundred and thirty thousapd tons, further news to the 7th inst. The only information that had lain down on the ground, and by fastening his hand-
whilst the estimates give a consumption of 252,000 tons, • she brings of any interest is, that the Tariff Bill of Mr. kerchief round one of the top bars of the guard, and by
being a deficiency of 22,000 tons ;the question, therefore,
was, how was this deficiency to be made up. (Hear.) M. Kay had passed the House of Representatives, after placing his neck in the noose, he produced, it was thought,
striking out tea and coffee, which are'to. be admitted free instant death.
He should propose the admission of other foreign sugars of duty. Considerable efforts were made to put salt on CAUTION TO WAREHOUSE-OWNERS.—During the fire
into this country on certain terms, so as to allow the peo- the same footing, and, after several votes, it was ulti- in Cooper's-row, which occurred on the morning of
ple-to buy -in the cheapest market. (Hear.) He was mately placed in the schedule, admitting it at twenty per Wednesday week, the police observed that the shutters of
aware that much would be said about the encouragement
of slavery by admitting sugars the growth of slave labour, cent. ad valorem. The letters by the Britannia, from several warehouses were then unclosed. On Saturday,
Liverpool, were. delivered in New York on the •fitll, but four of the warehouse-owners were summoned before Mr:
but none of those arguments were used in respect to the had failed to in the market. Rushton to answer the • first information under the act,
noble lord then read extracts from several publications on
importation of cotton, &c., the growth of stale labour. The ,
which subjects them to a penalty of £5 for not closing
' COMMERCIAL INTELLIGENCE.
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thesubject of the sugar duties, and other impart duties. If their windows. Mr. Rushton ordered, as it was the first
(From the New York. Journal of Commerce.)
England were to say to the United States, they would
Cotton,, but few sales. The news has damped the market a information, that they should pay a fine of ss. each and
little
costs.
not take their cotton wool the produce of slave labour, it More doing in Flour; 500 C brls. were taken for export at 4 GRAND ORDER OF MODERN DRUIDS.—The second
dollars for good Michigan, and 4 dollars 6 cents fur Genessee ; anniversary of the Britannia Lodge, No. 160 Nantwich
-would be an act of fussily—(hear,)—au most detrimen-
tal to the beat interests of this country. The same re- mixed Michigan at 3 dollars 94 cents; 15.00 brls.. Georgetown, t District, was held at the Commercial Inn, Crewe, on
mark would apply to forbidding the importation of cop- 4 dollars, now held better; and the feeling is in general a little
Saturday, the 25th inst., when about seventy sat clown to
better for I,' . .
it
..
a sumptuous dinner, provided by Host Harobin; and •
per-and other ores raised by slaves. It would be injurious
There are large arrivals of Wheat, very little of fit to ship.
to all nations who had treaties with this country. He
,
We hear of no tales, thohgh a large number of samples are served up in his usual splendid style. The cloth being
admitted that there Were reasons forbidding immediate We
75 to SO eents is the quotation for most of it. removed, and the usual loyal toasts being eiven, D. G. M.
George Peers, of Nantwich, (who has filled the office of
‘equalisation of the duties. The West India body most ' Large orders have been received from Germany for Rye. The
justly urged the zreat change produced by the emancipa- buyers offer 65 cents, but holders demand 67 cents. Corn is Grand Master fir five years,) proceeded, in an excellent
tion of their slaves, and- the losses they had sustained in plenty andalowere;enbtright Western was sold at 47 to 48 cents per
speech, to give an account of the flourishing state of the
consequence, and the interferference of this country to 56Peibrsk.
gOdet -
dollars
ii s5O cents, and 7 dollars 75 cents, sellers; Igo Order, which he did with great satisfaction ; after which
prevent their obtaining a supply of free labour, against brls. good Laid sold at e 2 cents per lb: the health of the several officers both of the district and
this immediate equalisation, and these reasons were entitled , Whisky 18 ito 19 cents, lodges, were drunk with great applause : likewise the
to great consideration ;there were likewise financial rea- ASh9s 3 dollars 50 cents to 3 dollars 55 cents; and 4 dollars to Health, Wealth, and Prosperity of the- Grand Junction
sons against any sudden and abrupt change. He shou'd, 4 dollars 6 cents.
Railway Company was received with deafening cheers, as
therefore, propose a cPmplete withdrawal of the present atl.m7ielemreenitiains foreign. exchanges. •
to them they owed thanks for the Britannia Lodge at
prohibitory duty on slave labour sugar, and then a very . P been little done in Cotton today. The ga-
slight alteration from year to year until the duties should .
neral —feeling of business-men is more cheerful on the news Crewe, on account of, 'the. works being established at
Iliac have been no sales of Flour this afternoon. Crewe. Several popular sonas'Were sung during the even-
be equalised.. He would propose at once to reduce
ing, and a vote of thanks being given to the chairman,
the duty on all foreign Muscovado sugar to 21s per
WEST INDIES. D. G. M. Peers, and the vice-chair, P. A. Joseph Alli-
cwt., to be diminished from sth July, 1847, to sth July, By the Trent, royal mail steamer, which arrived at son, the party broke up, at a late hour, highly satisfied at 1
1848, to 205., from sth _July, 1848, to IBs. 6d. ; Southampton on Tuesday with Jamaica dates* of June 23, the proceedings.
from 1849 to 175., from 1850 to 155.Ge1., and that from
,
we have no political news•of importance. It is, however, THE APPROACHING SHOOTING SEASON.—Young par- •
the sth July, 1851, the duty on all sugars, foreign and cheering to report that a favourable change had taken, tridges are now as well grown (in'this neighbourhood at 1
colonial should be 14s. The reduction of a clayed and place in the weather, and that the long drought had been 'least) as they were last year on the Ist of September, and
refined sugar would be in a similar proportion, and succeeded by copious and seasonable rains in almost every what covers we have seen are large ones. The . early
would be diminished likewise from year to year. The island; it had, as a matter of course, put the inhabitants mowing has been the cause of very great destruction
'West Indians complained greatly of the interference in gpod spirits, and the prospects of the crops are more. amongst the eggs during the time of incubation; one I
of the government in preventing the immigration of Hill encouraging. At Trinidad, 19,000 hogsheads of sugar had keeper,- on the. Cleves' Hills, a limited district near t
Coolies. Now he propoted that the Coolies should have been shipped for England; the crop will be about 22,000 Ormskirke has had upwards of two hundred eggs brought I
permission to emigrate on certain conditions. He also hogsheads.: At Barbadoes, the-crop of sugar shipped-for to -him which were mown over, and, if we may judge from I
proposed to diminish the present differential duty on England amounted to 15,000 hogsheads, and 10 or 12 yes- the number of barren pairs in other districts, there will e
rum from Is. 6d. to Is. The West Indians also asked sels were still loading. In Demerara the crop will be not be, by any means, that abundance of partridges which 1
that no molasses should be permitted to be used in brewe-
ries or distilleries free of duty, but there were such
practical about a quarter short of last year, oa account of the long the very -favourable breeding season would lead us to ex-
.
difECulties in the way that he could not comply withrt, dry weather.
pact. Pheasants, as they generally form their nests in
.
He also proposed to enable the colOnists to procure the - INDIA. strong covers and in hedgerows, will be very plentiful in
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provisions and timber in the cheapest market, and to do i
The Overland M the preserves; and, as these beautiful birds invariably sail; an abstract of the news by which
stray away to some distance from the place they were
away with differential duties in favour of British produce 'we gave last week, brings intelligence of a fearful accident
impOrted into the colonies. According to the statement which had occurred during a hurricane at Londianah, on bred, during the first ten days in October, (caused, in ali I,
probability, by the falling of decayed -leaves, and the -1
of the late Chancellor of the Exchequer, there was every the 20th of May. The barracks there were blown down, rustling of the wind amongst deceving vegetation,) the
probability of a financial deficiency in he year 1847-48, and 84 men, women, and children, of her Majesty's 50th shooter who has no preserve will have a chance of an co- r
audit was, therefore, -extremely desirable to increase the regiment, had perished.; 135 have been wounded, and four casional bag on the borders of these sacred precincts. p
income of tee country, more especially if it be privates are missing. The Calcutta Englishman of the Hares are abundant, almost beyond former precedent:
done without increasing the burdens of the people. Ist of June states that the 21st of may had been fixed for Pose OFFICE REFORM.—On Wednesday a meeting of tg
With regard to the supply, not more than from the surrender of Kangra. The place, it is said, will be 8,000 to .10,000 tons of the foreign sugar now in bond given up unconditionegv. The ship Bombay Castle bad members of the Liverpool Guardian Society was held at 3
would be admissible on account of the navigation been destroyed by fire
ets the. 28th of May at Saugur. the Portico, to consider the propriety of petitioning Go-
laws. - Takin the whole revenue to be derived from su ar vernment on the' present injurious post-office arrange. al
g g,
according to his plan, during the next year he would take The new Pasha of Salonica has been already dismissed merits as 'regards the dispatch and delivery of letters in 13
various parts of the kingdom. The chair was occupied by Cl
it at £4,200,000, being, £725,509 more than. the revenue from that office for cruelty to two members of the Jewish various
W. Brown, Esq , M. P. and a considerable number of g
which would arise under the present system, and which persuasion.' It is so rare a thing in the east to find
tradesmen were -present. Mr. John Smith, in•proposing B
would at once turn the apprehended deficiency into a sur- powerful pasha punished for an act of injustice to. that
the first resolution, pointed out instances at various p
plus. If the proposed duties should pass in committee, despised race_, that the affair has created some sensation. the
places of great inattention and delay in the departures of
be should propose to make the settlement a permanent About_ an fortnight ago the following sad event. tookl
the mails and the deliveryof letters. For want of regular it
one by introducing a bill making the duties permanent, place at T k y,eln Hungary:;a ae a newly married coup e
mails, to wit; Ormskirk, the mail communication Letween hr
and would propose some other source of revenue to be were leaving th c lurch, disappointed suitor, whohad
concealed himself, fired a double-barrelled` gun at the that town and Liverpool (only 13 miles) was about the T
made the subject of an annual vote instead of the
bride,. and killed her : before the murderer. could be seized, same. as between the latter and London. To many towns -
sugar duties, so as not to depart from the great
constitutional principle of making a great part of the re- own head, blew
be discharged the other
_barrel at hisand , inLancashire, es ireoan ales,letters
Ch Is. d W posted at a I.
venue dependant upon an annual vote of the House. out his brains.business hour were not conveyed, in effect, at a mile
.an is'
boar. The resolution applauded the penny postage, but I'
The noble lord concluded by proposing a resolution for LUCK IN ODD NUmßEßS.—Wliile Sir Robert Schom-
regretted that letters were so tardily posted- and delivered ,
the temporary continuance of the present duties for one burgh and B. T. Young, Esq.,
_-vecr.eton their, wayd to the 1
in many localities, &c. Carried. Mr. Councillor Thine
month, at the same time laying on the table the resolution !linneTiegilirvLbry,
ae . agriculturaltoi ic„, c 7..:,),,,lesicohnvLugirt Saturday even- I moved that it Ti-rig desirable that letters and new:paper. pi
which he should propose for the permanent settlement of
'avuigth the
vehicle in l'which these gentleman %sere as com- should be dispatched by all the railway trains, at all rear E
the question, to Vl itich, if the house should agree, her Ma-
pletcly to lift it off its bed, and precipitate them to the sortable hours. Agreed to. Mr. Robertson, in moving a L
jestf's Ministers, however short might he their term of
ground. Sir Robert fortunately escaped unhurt, this resolution shelved the anomalies in respect to arrival of ee
office, would not 'have administered the affairs of the na-
being his third accident.—The Barbadian. letters from this town to many other towns, in proportion -'''
tion in vain. _ . . to their respective distances. Southampton, tot), was a dr
Mr. Gouenuasr would not go into the discussion until
he hid considered the plan proposed. The Right lion. , IRELAND. most inconvenient place for receiving the foreign mails.
If the letters were landed at. Liverpool, they would be M
Gentleman having put some questions as to the details of '
. sooner delivered over the country, as it .was more central.
the pleas The Romish papers of Ireland have made much of an Fatally, a resolution was passed to the effect that a pant- ,
Lord JoHN RUSSELL said that he did not propose to expression alleged to have been used by the Bishop of tion to the' Commons, and
.a memorial to the Lords, and "'
alter the navigation laws at all.
th
Cashel in a recent charge--" The lowest scum of earth." an address to the Post-master General, setting forth the
Lord GEORGE RENTINCK would eupport the motion It turns out, however, that his lordship used no such evils complained of, should be prepared i—the petition to re
for a temporary renewal of the duties; but the protee- words.
be presented by W. Brown,*Esq., to whom thanks were
tioniet party would not support any measure for taki Mr. Vlalevin, an old and active member of the Repeal voted and the meeting separated. Do
away from the East and West India interests the protec Association, died last week under melancholy circum- re
lion which they at present enjoyed. . _ . . . .., .
stances Lately a favourite son died suddenly, and this hn
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Mr. M`Nevin an old and active member of the Repeal
Association, died last week under melancholy circum-
stances. Lately a favourite son died suddenly, and
had scarcely happened when another son, a promising
youth, was attacked with insanity ; and under the accumu-
lated sorrow the poor old man sunk.
REPEAL ASSOCIATION.—The weekly meeting on Mon-
day was wretchedly thin in all parts of the building, as it
almost invariably is in the absence of n'Conr
who left for London on 're 4ay.

HOUSE OF LORDS.—TUESDAY.
The Marquis of BREADALBANE presented 296 petitions,
with 39,781 signitures, complaining of the refusal of sites
to congregations of the Free Church of Scotland. He
trusted that their lordships would take into consideration
• '
the case of the Henri.,„....—Li

LONDON GAZETTE.-TUESDAY, JULY 21.

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PARTNERSDIPS DISSOLVED

T. and J. English, Liverpool, bio.ck-ii a,

F.,Rioners, ann would be able to provide
some means of remedying the great evil and grievance of
which they now complained.
The Marquis of LANSDOWNE said that although he had
not the least objection to the reception of this petition,
yet he was not prepared to say that he saw any parliamen-
tary means that could at present be devised by which these
petitioners could come into the possession of any right to
establish chapels where they might think proper, indepen-
dent of the will of the proprietor.
The Duke of BUCCLEUCH protested against the Dv'

rhunna, ..)pon the motion of
Mr. O'Neill, seconded by Mr. Matter. the chair v
taken by Captain Brodrick. There were frequent so'
blp. a.L

lectro

—Walke-,

and Co

Brother, Bury. Lancashire, iioniounders (sc

ca Lurougnout tne proceedings, showing anything but a
'conciliation between the Young and Old Ireland party.
he rent was announced to be £129 7e. 2d.
ANOTHER CRUMB OF COMFORT TO THE DELUDER.
.Mr. O'Connell has sold—disposed of, is the more par-
mentarY phrase—the borough of Dundalk to the Whigs
•Lord John Russell requiring a law officer of his own to
. .

head, drysalter

DECLARATIONS OF DIVIDENDS.
G. Robertson, J. Gal row, and J. Aleiandcr, Liverpool, ship,
andler.

J. I
S. Vertt

ke, Liverpool, cupper

merchant,

ple of permitting these parties to seize upon any part of a
landholder's estate which they might think convenient for
their purpose.

_. •• • •••••-• D.. • • 1.40.., WA ,ULIJIIIIJIIb i
and Mr. Monahan, the solicitor-general and anti-Re-
pealer, is to be the member—young Danie—the " last
pledge of connubial love"—being " ordered to stand aside
-r- 'l-

John Caines, Chilton Cakelo, Soma

3ANKRUPTCIES ANNULLED..
;, Narbeth, Pembrokeshire, core-merchant

The petitions were ordered to lie on

vening 3;

HOUSE OF COMMONS
On the order of the day for eoinr

Mr. O'Connell has published a lengthened reply to
Lord Milltown's request, that he would suspend the re-
peal agitation for a year, in order to. form an Irish Harty.

HURSDAY

BANKRUPTS.
Pullman, Strand, hosier.
Ward, Lillypot-lane, City, lasting-manufacturer.
Green, Dorset-place, Dorset square, boarding hoe

Poor Removal Bill. Mr. WODEH
bill ought to be postponed till nex
the order of th day ha

for the put

the fulfilment 'of Sir Robert

on, and moved tha

quality for Irelan

.used v;ctualler

Mr. HUM

seconded the amendment, on the ground
that as a general revision of the law was to take place next
session they ought not to legislate partially.
A— discussion of a very desultory nature ensued.
Amongst the supporters of the Ministers, Mr. I'owlet
Scrope, Mr. Strutt, and Mr. Horsrnan, ureed the post-
Peuernent of the bill; and Mr. EVELYN DENISON de-
clared his conviction that industrial unaccomr
union settlement would be productive of mist.,
Sir G. GREY

as_attempts to form c

~tien-

John Stendall, ilacknelLE

er.Huthwaite, Nottiuel►

number of Irishmen mee

the Re

William Poldsworth, Riple
William Wood, Shrewsbury

Aug. 14

pauied b

and the CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER
avowed the detnrmination of the government to proceed
with the bill, which, though nut a perfect measure, was a
step in the right direction.

KINOTON supported