The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1846-01-27 00:00:00

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Sig ROBERT'S TACT.—A. Manchester contemporary
says that Mr. Cuiquhoun was prepared with an amend-
ment to the address, and as soon as Mr. Beckett Denison,
the seconder of the address, had sat down, he rose with
his amendment in his band, evidently prepared to move
it. At the same moment, however, Sir Robert Peel, with
admirable tact, presented himself to the house ;•and being
called upon by the speaker, commenced his speech. •
THE " PRESIDENT'? STEAMER.—SODID Spanish fishing
boats lately picked up a bottle at sea, containing some pa-
pers; but the following fragments, which hare been pub-
lished in the Madrid Gazette, are all that could be made
of them :—" Ship President, We are blocked upon Tre..
and .. • ... we cant live much time....... . What time !
Kind friend will acquaint 0ur...... We are dying of hun-
ger..
THE WEARDALE MiNgus.—A numerous meeting was
held on the 9th instant, in a field adjoining St. John's
Chapel, when the deputation appointed to wait upon Mr.
Sopwith made their report, which gave great satisfaction
to the miners. It is expected that £2 per month subsist-
ence-money will be allowed at the next binding, and that
each miner will be allowed to earn 15s. per week, exclusive
of charges for blacksmith, powder; and candles.—Gates-
head Observer.
The magistrates at Whitehaven have decided in a case
which lately came before them at the public office, that if
the captain of a vessel should not, on his arrival in port,
or within a reasonable time thereafter, give notice to a
seaman who had been contracted to assist in putting out
ballast, that he is not to remain in the vessel, such sea-
man has a right to claim the wages to which he would
have been entitled if he had assisted in vatting out the
ballast, although he may not have performed that part of
the contract.

ig it for-some-distance, st

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inanity, we are still more at a loss to palliate the conduct
of those whose barbarity set her an example of cruelty
which, at the worst, she did but imitate. The suggesters

cally that thelfe of her infant was not worth oaring for

THE DAILY NEWS.--We have received the numbers of
this journal since its commencement on Wednesday. It

much of its space to railway matters. It resembles very
much in its general appearance the Times and Herald,
and its only new feature consists of " Travelling Letters,
written on the road," by Charles Dickens. It is the ge-
neral opinion that the new candidate for public favour has

not come up to the expectation formed of it. An Edin-
burgh paper says that it starts with a capital of £lOO,OOO,
which has been subscribed in four sums of £25,000. Mr.

head, the great railway proprietor, are two of the subscri-
bers. Messrs. Bradbury and Evans, the proprietors of
Punch, subscribe another fourth. The great feature of
interest will be Mr. Dickens's contributions. It is said
that he is to receive £2 000 a-year, an is to bring out his
works in the cancans of the paper, which will adopt the
fashion of the French feuilleton. (a de'partrnent devoted to
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coadjutor in the
. Mr. Dudley

onblanque and his literaz,
Examiner, Mr. Foster, are mentioned.
Costello is to superintend the foreign department,

►RIFF OF 1612.—1 n explaining
the circumstances which had brought him to advocate
free trade, Sir Robert Peel, in his speech on Thursday

PERATION OF THE

night, remarked
•` In 1844 ther

were imported 2,800 oxen and cows,
and in eleven months of the year 1845 there were not less
than 15,000 imported, showing avery great increase.

responding degree or in any by this large ithportation? In
1£344 the contract price for the victualling stores in the
navy for salt beef was £3 18•,. 21. ; the contract price en-
tered into for the navy in December, 1815, was, I regret
to say, £6 Bs. 81. The salt pork th
This sea- i in 1544 was £3 15s. 101. a tierce

J it was

£6 12a. The contract price for fresh beef for the navy
1811 was I,ls. 9.1. ; the contract price in 1845 was
£2 2s. 2d. Now, all this increase in price was attended
with increased importation ; one prophecy, if I recollect
rightly, was, that there would be an importation into this
country of 3,500,000 pigs, and that the price of salt pork

would be immensely reduced. There was no article last
year that caused so much alarm as lard. In 1840 there
were 97 cwt. of foreign lard imported into this country.
In 1842 the duty was reduced from Bs. to 2s. a cwt., and
there were then imported 48,312 cwt. ; in 1814, 76,000
cwt. were imported ; and in 1845 the importation had
reached aboye 80,000 cwt. And what has been the price
of domestic lard at Belfast during that period ? In 1844
it was 48s. a cwt. ; in 1845 it was 675. ; and in January of
thelpresent year, notwithstanding the increase caused by
this importation, the price has risen from 48s. in 1844. to
625. Another article of great importance was that of
wool. We proposed in 18-14 that the duty on foreign wool
should be altogether done away with, and we were again
met with the argument that wool would suffer from the
reduction But here again there has been a wholly dif-
ferent result. In 1842 there were 45,880,0001 b. of foreign
wool imported ; in 1814 there were 65,079,0001 b. ; and in
ten months of the last year it amounted to 65,216,0001 b.,
—all in consequence of the reduction of the duty. Now,
what has been the price of wool ? In 1842 the price of
South Down wool was 111 d. per pound ; long wool was
]od. per pound. In 1843 South Down wool was lld. ;
in 1844 it was Is. 2d. ; long wool was also Is. 2d. ; and in
December, 1845, eighteen months after the reduction, the
price of South Down wool rose to ls. 41d. per pound, and
the price of common wopl was Is. 2d. per pound. Such
has been the effect of those reductions that were made in
1842 and 1844, and which were regarded as a protection
to domestic industry.

The Sun states that immediately after Sir Robert Pegl's
announcement of his plans, Lord Delawar, the Lord
Chamberlain ; the Marquis of Exeter, Groom of the Stole
to Prince Albert; and Lord Arthur Lennox, will retire
from the government.

The Earl of Essex, in consequence of the present un-
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certain state of his health, bas been forced to-decline the
offer tendered to him by Sir Robert Peel of the
Lord Lieutenancy of the county of Hertford, vacant by
the demise of the Earl of Verulam.

MODEST !-Mr. Ward the Member for Sheffield, gave
on Thursday what he calls the annual account of his
Stewardship in the House of Commons, at the conclusion
of which Mr. Biggs, who seems to have been rather dis-
satisfied, proposed that the government should lend to the
labouring population a sum of £20,000,000, in owl--
afford them or
soil, the governme'

ortunities for finding employment on the

arrow the money at f

cent., the-people to pay t
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