The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1847-02-09 00:00:00

range dresses of varied colour
eltered from

it for the painter, and falling of them-
ito pictures, as the lower classes of Spaniards and
do. They are either eating and drinking,
-.6 or dancing, for a guitar is never wanting. Mean-
thite the fierce horses dash over the prostrate sheaves,
and realise the splendid simile of Homer, who likens them
to the fiery steeds of Achilles when driven over the Tro-
_.
ont-of-door threshings take place of
;q dry, and generally under a
• • • 1 .

~ run up

3urse when the weather

he wort
During

is ellen
the day the half-clad dusky

fall by torch-ngut.. _
reapers defy the sun and his rage, rejoicing rather in the
heat like salamanders ; it is true that their devotions to
the porous water jar are unremitting, nor is a swill at a
good passenger's bola ever rejected ; all is life and action ;
busy hands and feet, flashitg eyes, and eager screams ;
the light yellow chaff, which in the suns rays glitters like

SW.I. \MO., Gll V U.WIJUO .14111
partially revealed by the fires and mingled with torch
glare, is almost supernatural, as the phantom figures,
now dark in shadows, now crimsoned by the fire flash, flit
to and fro in the vapourous mist. The scene never fails to
rivet and enchant the stranger, who, coming from the pale
north and the commonplace in-door flail, seizes at once
all the novelty of such doings. Eye and ear, open and
I [ awake, become inlets of flew sensations of attention and

to heart and mind the.poetry,

admiration, and con
local colour, movement, grog
Ford's Gatherings irons Spain

on, and attitude

that he sholild ex

countri!

St. Helie

TOE TORY PARTY AND SIR ROBERT FEEL.—And now
one word in reference to the position of the gent.emen
who occupy what is called the oppaltion side of the house,
and who, in point of numbers, as far exceed the strength
of the ministerial party as, through their own misfortune
or the faults of their leaders, they come short of it in moral
power. Is the breach which has severed Lord George
Bentinck from Sir Robert Peel quite irreconcilable ? We
verily believe that it is. We do not think that any con-
tingency can occur, that any pressure from without, any
movement from within; can arise which shall be of suffi-
cient force to bring these gentlemen cordially together.
The Protectionists will never forgive the man who has
twice betrayed them. Sir Robert Peel can neither forgive
norforget the many personal attacks to which he has, by
the Protectionists, been subjected. Benjamin Disraeli is
a thorn in his side. It would be very ridiculous to affect
ignorance of these truths, and worse than absurd to un-
derrate their importance. They have broken the Tory
party to pieces,—at least for the present. They have cru-
elly, wantonly, and most wickedly dissolved a political
alliance, more influential than any which has existed in
this country since the era of the Revolution. Moreover,
look at the thing as we may, we can discover no adequate
reason for it. The country was at peace, the revenue was
flourishing, trade was brisk. public feeling was quiescent,
when all at once, without any previous warning given, Sir
Robert Peel thought fit to declare himself friendly to the
abolition of the corn-laws. He pleaded, as an excuse for
so complete a change of opinion, his fear of a coming fa-
mine. His predictions were ridiculed, his statements dis-
puted and denied ; yet let us not forget, that the very
men who thus scouted the minister's reasoning went far
before him in the measure which they proposed as the
best wherewith to combat an impending calamity. It was
the Protectionists who first suggested the propriety of
suspending the operation of the corn-laws ; it was Sir
Robert Peel, the newly converted enemy to their existence,
who rejected the proposal, and for the time actually ren-
dered them more stringent. Neither party can forget
this. The Protectionists have some right to affirm that
other motives than those which he avowed must have
swayed their then leader in his decisions. Sir Robert
must feel that by resisting their
.proposal he has made

himself, in some sort, the cause of
.the distress which is
desolating Ireland at this moment. And what is the con-
sequence ? At regards Peel, beyond. all question that he
has lost his stutus, in the political.worid. He may affect,
for a while, to play the part of Mentor, and advise both
'ales as calm'-- - took 1 ',it- A in tl•

, sia. y as if he _ no personal interes, _weir
discussions. But the leader of a great political party he
can never again be, inasmuch as the Whigs themselves
would distrust, were he openly to join them. Neither is
it of the smallest use to speculate on the healing effect of
time in such a case. There are wounds which time can-
not heal, and this is one of them. Had Peel acted with
a little wore of courtesy and candour ; had he reasoned
with the members of the Conservative party in private ;
had he given to their chiefs his confidence, and made out
something like a case, we venture to say that there is
r ily any measure towards the accomplishment of which
he would have failed to command their cooperation ;
none, at least, short of that which drove him out of office ;
aid which, seeing the results to which it would surely
lead, he ought, at all hazards, to have abandoned. For
it is a grievous error to suppose that the accomplishment
of any particular purpose, however important in itself, can
make amends for the dislocation of a loyal and high-

cannot fall wit

the doors of office and influence to men of a far laxer code
of political morals. And we shall be exceedingly glad to
find that the Whigs of 1847 do not make use of the op-
portunity, which seems to have been created to their
hands, for Ole purpose of inserting the small end of the
wedge, during the driving home of which, changes more

sort, be tendered inevitable. In such circumstances, and
amid such an acerbation of feeling, it must be apparent
to himself, and to the most devoted of his followers, that
Sir Robot Peel's continued presence in the lions
Cominciv, can accomplish little good to any on(
scarcely expect to he received by his la(

party as

He can
s their

•
chief any more. It is impossible that he should be con-
tent to play a s?cendary part under the new leaders, who-
ever tln y n ay be, to whom the Tories (for we have., no

Neither is it in the r

ura of things that he shoul

pass over to the ranks of the Whigs ; Or that, passing
over, he should be by them received in a manner worthy
of his acknowledged talents and undoubted habits of bu-
siness. The IN hgs are not in want of leaders. They
have Lord John himself a host ; and, failing him, many
more aspiring youths than can be boasted of by the op-
posite party.. And happy as they will always be to take
advantage of Peel's assistance, and to profit by his speeches
and his votes, when he shall be pleased to speak and vote

BArour, they v

own set to make way for him, or admit him, to the end of
his days, into their confidence. What, then, can he do
in the House of Commons ? Sit apart, and watch for his
country's welfare, like some oracle, created to advise, but

having no power to compel the adoption of his recom
mendations ? Surely such a position will prove very irk
some to himself—undoubtedly it will be the source o

much inconvenience to others. For influence he will have
none, except with some dozen or two of ancient colleagues ;

who, being moved by memories of a happier sort, may
shrink from deserting him in his downfall. The rest of

ley may, wi

speech must tell in any popular assembly, his intimate
acquaintance with parliamentary law and usage will give
him a thousand opportunities of damaging, if he cannot
,_• ~_ _~ ;an nits

,ose himself to the almost irresistible
,et him retire into

temptation of causing this damage.

private me, or accepu vitt: pcu..,.
ready to confer upon him. It will be the noblest act
which he has ever performed since he' first crossed the
threshold of the House of Commons ; for between the

stion on both-sides could not speedily end.—Fraser

@tntral tsrellani2.

The King of Prussia has forwarded the Prussian Order
of Merit to Sir David Brewster, K.H.K.B.
Mr. James Toole, the celebrated toast-master, died on

Monday, much regretted.
Easton Lodge, Essex, the seat of Viscount Maynard
was almost wholly destroyed by fire on Sunday week.
On Tuesday, the price of the 41b loaf was lowered Id
in London.
A wren's nest with eleven eggs was discovered a fey

The Fire King steamer has been purchased by a Spa-
nish company, and is being overhauled prior to leaving
the Clyde for the Mediterranean.

The quantity of barley made into malt for brewing
purposes last year, in Great Britain and Ireland, was

5,247,375 quarters.
Bread made with four parts of parsnip to five of wheat

flour, the parsnips being boiled and mashed before mixing,
is said to be very light, pleasant, and nutritious.
A donkey, belonging to Mr. Gaudey, 68, Upper Bed-
ford-street, Brighton, died on Monday week, at the ad-
vanced age of 100 years !
The Colonelcy of the 47th Foot, vacant by the demise
of the late Sir William Anson, has been conferred on
Moinr cipnemi Sir Harry Smith. Bart.. the hero of

Lord Shrewsbury (the premier Earl of England) is
iting to Popish priests in Ireland, assuring them that

the English Government are doing nothing for that

IRISH SUPPLIES.—Five vessels arrived in the River
Thames on Monday from the Irish ports, laden with
provisions, which fact will appear singular at the present

time.
A new steam-tug boat has been plying on the Birming-
ham canal during the past week, and toe to the
• . ;‘, . t
h 1 be completely

Led by a very simple contrivance.
total amount contributed in Sunderland to the Irish
notch Relief Fund to the present time is nearly
), being the largest sum ever raised in that town for

On Monday, so many spra.
Billingsgate, that the forme]
•

were retailed in London at

Mb for one, penny, anc

Messrs. Darby and Sim, of Colebrookdale, who recently
launched a vessel which they christened Richard Cobden,
have another iron ship on the stocks, which they intend
to call John Bright.

Sir John Ross has proposed to the Admiralty and to
the Royal Astronomical Society a plan by which he ex-
pects, with sledges drawn by Swedish horses, to be ena-
bled to reach the North Pole. .
A-meeting has been held at Calcutta in honour of the
memory of the late Dvvarkanauth Tagore ; and it has been
resolved to raise a fund, to be called the " Dwarlianauth
Endowment Fund," for enabling the Hindoo youths to
complete their education at the University College, London.
The fifth subscription list for tho relief Af Ireland and
Scotland amounts to £115,000. The additional sums ap-
pended to this list make the actual total above £120,000.
Independently of this amount, the subscriptions through
the National Club are nearly £12,000.
An accident of a most lamentable nature, and attended
with the loss of six lives,' occurred on Friday week,
at one of the Dailey Main Coal Company's pits, at
Worsbrough Dale, about four miles from the town of
Barnsley, and ten from Sheffield. _ _

The key. Dr. Wolff has addressed a letter to the free.
masons, which body he has just joined, offering to deliver
lectures in the different towns of England, for the benefi
of the poor in the United Kingdom. The reverend gen
tleman wishes for no return except his expenses for ti
yelling in third-class carriages.
SOLITARY CONFINEMENT.—Sir Peter. Laurie state
that, during the last ten years, forty lunatics have beer
sent from the Penitentiary to Bethlehem, while in thi
preceding ten years only fourteen were sent. Sir Pete
attributes the increase to the adoption of the separat,
system.
_ _ _

W, claims s the merit of having first adop-te

the plan of producing unconsciousness by the inhalaio]
of stimulating and narcotic vapours, and of having per
formed many surgical operations without giNing pain t
patients in that state.

VALUE OF THE REFUSE OF TOWNS.-" Taking a ge
Tal view of the subject, we may assume a clear revenu,

all to.

habitant, either in a direct money return, or partly to th
inhabitants in a reduced price, from the increased abund
ance of produce."—Evidence of J. Smith, Esq., q
Deanstoi.
IN RE DONALD MACLEAN, M. P. —ln the London
Court-of Bankruptcy of the 27th of January, a further ad
journment for the surrender of this bankrupt was grante,
cm. fblona months_ on the frrnunfl of enotinuptl ill healt]

.._. _.....__
of the bankrupt,who is stilt in Italy. It was stated in the
course of the case that the funds in hand were only £lOO
and that the debts proved were £70,000.

labour

-On Friday night, George Hampson and Su-an Morton,
who ILA betrothed for about three years, tied them-
selves together with four handkerchiefs, threw themselves
into the Barnsley Canal, near Wakefield, and were
drowned. No reason is alleged for the wicked act, which
has thrown two respectable families into a state of the
deepest distress.

Dr. Charles Henry Lovell and Mrs. Hope Betts, were
tried on the coroner's inquisition, (the grand jury having
ignored the bill preferred against them,) at the Central
Criminal Court, before Mr. Justice Cresswell, for the
manslaughter of Martha Hobbs by the hydropathic sys-
tem. The evidence was very weak against the prisoners,
and the jury returned a verdict of not guilty.
The Duke of Cleveland is making extensive improve-
ments in the gardens at Raby Castle, Durham, and under
the direction of Mr. Roberts, his grace's head gardener, a
very spacious range of vineries have been erected, the bor...
ders of which embrace five thousand feet, and which have
been planted with the choicest grape vines, to be culti-
vated on the system so successfully practised by Mr.
Roberts.

On Wednesday, a remarkable accident occurred at the
Tunbridge station of the South-eastern Railway. The
Maidstone noon up-train had just arrived at the station,
and the engine went forward to rake in a supply of fuel
and water ; while the engine was passing over the turn-
table, the table split, and a large piece separated, throw-
ing the engine off the rails, and stopping all traffic for a
time, but happily causing no personal injury.

ELOPEMENT TO GREiNA GREEN.—On the 23rd ult.,
Mr. William Hope, son of Lomax Hope, Esq., of Boluilme
Cannoby, was married, at the above place, to Miss Jane
Donaldson, daughter of the Rev. James Donaldson, of
Cannoby Manse. The fair lady, it would appear, had
been narrowly watched, or rather confined to her room,
for some weeks, but " love laughs at locksmiths," and
she effected her escape.—Carlisle Patriot.
A curious hoax was played on a farmer near Bridgnorth
last week, by some neighbours spreading a report that he
had given leave to the poor of the town to gather turnips
from one of his fields. The consequence was, hat a fine
field of Swede. turnips was densely thronged by parties
availing themselves of the opportunity ; and it•was
full two acres had been cleared of the crop, that the owner
was apprised of what was going on, and enabled to stop
the appropriation of his roots.

IMPROVED SIGNS OF THE TIMES.—At the weekly
meeting of the board of guardians for the Nottingham
Union, on Tuesday last, the returns showed a decrease of
70 inmates of the workhouse within the previous seven
days, and the number of applications for relief was very
much fewer than on the preceding Tuesday. Corn had
dropped 4s. per qr. The people had become more gene-
rally employed, and signs of improvement were becoming
decidedly manifest.

THE LATE
.SEVERE WEATHER.—A correspondent at
Harewood, in this county, informs us, that in carelessly
looking at an old wall, at Harewood, he saw therein a
small hole and drew from thence four tom-tits, one hedge-
sparrow, one robin, and one wren, which birds be sup-
posed were driven into companionship by the severity of
the weather; and had perished from the cold. The
circumstance is the more remarkable, as the pugnacious

;position of the robin towards other birds is Weir known
Hereford Times.

An inquest was held last week in Middlesex, upon a lady
named Potts, whose delight was not only to take all the
medicines she could obtain, but to compel others to do
the- same. When she visited a sick friend she would empty
the physic bottles and pill boxes. Aloes constituted her
favourite physic, and a physician stated tha he had pre-

. .
pared in twelve months as much aloes for her as would
have supplied the town of Uxbridge. Amongst those
whom she induced to take medicine was a boy, to whom

she paid a shilling to allow her to salivate him.
A more novel, but equally successful application of the
inhalation of ether is recorded in the Edinburgh Journal.
Professor Simpson had administered it in a case of difficult
The patient was deformed, and on a former oc-

asion had suffered dreadfully in labour during three or
Air days : on the present occasion the patient was deli-

id in as many minutes. - A remarkable circumstance
r►ted out in the case by Dr. Simpson was, that, whilst
athing the ether, the labour-throes continued, and yet

At an inquest held on Saturday, in St.. Giles'
Wakley told the jury that he had discovered a manufac-
tory of oranges, at which bad oranges could be made into
apparently good ones. The process pursued was the sub-
mitting of unripe and inferior oranges to the action of
steam, or parboiling them. This made them swell, tilled
out their rinds, and made them thin, the usual external
sign that the fruit was good. To give them the last po-
lish, and heighten the outward attraction, they were
rubbed
,with agreasy piece of flannel, or with something

On Tuesday last a most difficult case of aneurism of
he femoral artery was performed by Mr. Lightfoot, sur-
zeon, of Newcastle, in the presence of Mr. Frost and
Mr. Annandale, whilst the patient was under the influence
3f ether. The incision was nearly two inches deep and
Rye inches long, and during the whole of the operation
the patient did not evince the slightest sensation of pain
-)r feeling, and h :s since declared th It he was quite unco

fallen asleep, a
led into a field

ous of any such operation having taken place ; the
ly thought he had was that he had been attending a
Arewcastle Courant,

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urn of the aggregate
Ireland into England

Feb. 9, 1F47.

PIANTING POTATOES IN THE AUTUMN.—Mr. Jones,.
(At plat.i.d some potatoes in tb,
autumn, called " Summer Manly," they have been in th•
ground, four inches beneath the surface, c'ttring the lats,
severe frosts, and are perfectly sound. aho_Fe planted
deeper are in good condition, but those nearerthe surfact
were injured, and those just covered with soil were eliv
tirely destroyed. We are informed that it is bestto sod
potatoes in November or December, nine inches deep,
with a little dry straw placed over them, and then tho
earth to follow. Before planting, (lust the seed with slack
lime, finely powdered.

SUBSTANTIAL SOUP AND PORRIDGE FROM Flsx.l
A gentleman writing to the Cork Constitution says, thai
as beef and veal may become scarce, an excellent substi-
tute, one which would give vast employment and reirl•
nerative wages to thousands, may be found in the articlo
of fish ! Some years since past, he says, being wind-
bound in my yacht in the Clyde, I became the guest of
Scotch gentleman, who gave me every day for dinner
capital soup M different kinds, in which a particle of meat
was never used. It was made of all kinds of fish as the/
came to hand. The fish being washed, and the entrails
removed, was cut into junks and boiled in a digester until
the boneswere dissolved. The skin and oil being skimmed
off, salt, pepper, onions, peas, meal, Scotch Barley,
bruised carrots, or whatever pleased were added. And
excellent soup of different kinds was the 'result. Fish
boiled into mummy in a-digester affords rich gelatine,
which added to " beans' meal, bruised peas, rice, and 3
small portion of commissariat biscuit," according to Mr,
Barry's receipt, would make nu

Live soup

A POET IN DISTRESS.—On Saturday, a boot-closer,
70 years of age, preferred a complaint at the Mansion-
house, London, against a relieving officer. The applicant
said his name was Thomas Mills, his age upwards of 70,
and his profession, poetry. He had written a great deal
of verse upon subjects moral, rural, and lyrical, and he
had received the highest praise for his compositions, which
were in every respect calculated to serve as well as to
amuse society. In consequence of some particular cir-
cumstances, which it was unnecessary to detail, but which
arose from his ottachment to the muse,. he had been
obliged to leave, temporarily, in the possession of a sta-
tioner, at Bethnal-green, 1000 copies of verse.* which lit
felt assured wottld make him independent. He applied
to a relieving officer to advance him £2 to release them,
but the applicant was met by an exclamation of " such
nonsense," and the offer of the Shoreditch Workhouse.
Mills expressed to the lord mayor a strong conviction
that if his verses were released, and he had a fair chance
of writing, he could in future make £l5OO a-year. On°
of his pieces was on the uses and beauty of the gra, ite
stone, and others are on the uses of steam and gas. The
lord mayor, after a conversation which only the more ex-
hibited the• disorder of the applicant's mind, intimated
that he could not interfere.
HIGHLAND DESTITUTION.—From a report just issued
by the committee in Scotland for the relief of the desti-
tute in that country, we make the following extract
" It will be fotsid, from the above statement of facts, aria
while some of the most distressed districts are not in'
eluded, such as both the Uists, Harris and Barra; not to
speak of the whole of Orkney and Shetland, that a popu-
lation of 145,331 are involved in the destitution ; and 01
all of these, by far the greater number--=indeed the whole,
with but few exceptions—must now be suffering under
the calamity. The number of cottar families in the stone

districts fall to be considered as already entirely destitute?
being in number about 7000, and representing a popula;
tion of nearly 35,000 souls. It must also be considered
that in many of the returns the number of 'these is nos
specifically given, and accordingly not included in the
above summation of the cottar class. The number of
families reported as actually destitute of food, at the date 9
of the several returns, was nearly 3000; and taking the
omissions made.-in this department also in many of the
returns, and where, at the same time, in accompanyia
communications they are represented as numerous, the
extreme pressure of destitution and actual famine muii
be considered as now really endured by upwards of sisti
thousand souls, in these districts of the Highlands and
Islands. And it cannot fail to be observed, how mar the
full pressure of destitution, in most of the distria3,
apprehended to be."

A COACHMAN IN TROUBLI
Hastings, on Wednesday weel
gentleman from his lordship's residence at
stable- to
_the railway terminus at Norwi

was direct

emdantoodfriLveol

Feb. 9

• TtJtSDK
The schoone
got aground or
apparent dania
Earl of Lek,
15th January.
Breeze, Pu'l
Janulr "N'

Eii;.a:*Stut/
"sails, spars,
'Sir John Ili
nous.

Circassian, (
toss of butwarl
John Knox,
tiainbcrom, sai
,as fallen in
=ed, and the
oft the Men
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for Li;
tear this place
I:niz Jan
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came wreck!'

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the 11th Dee •
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plied her with
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On the 18th, ay.
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struck or
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on Cranstrf
she becalm
lost.—The

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Le, a village about

no one to dris°
stay
UP'

and young family living at LenV
way from Melton to Norwich. Ravi'
back, he dAermiuei to go to his wife's cott
there, putting up his horses at I
fortunately he did not keep E
from Norfok Hotel, in a som
about eleven at night. (

fiber iri Norwiei

nd the horses turned into a bye-lane, whic
. Here they seem to have wandered aka!!

with Hay lett sleeping on the box, the track of the wheel 9
the next morning showing that the. carriage, on one occa'
sion, passed within a few inches of the edge of a deep'
marl-pit. However, they' found their way out of the field
again, attempted to ford a wide stream, and were carried
away by it. At this time Haylett appears to have been .
asleep upon the box, and when he awoke, about four
the morning, he found himself in the midst of the watert Toln
both the horses being drowned, ant the carriage severed, 411,1
the"fore from the hind wheels. His screams brought as,'
sistance, and the horses and carriage were got out. HO' V 47., at rnulr
- .-a Ov
left was in the greatest distress, awl.'

would probably bay'
done himself some mischief but for the police, who strictlf
guarded him. The horses were very valuable, his lord'
ship having a few days before been offered £l5O for one

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POOD PROSPECTS.=-Corn has evidently seen its tuP
price. The opening of the ports produced the first effect'
But the reduction was slight. A falling market, howes"o
is always best supplied. And the quantities brought f 0
ward at most markets during the week, seem to show 03"
there has been an universal holding back for some Owe;
Should this be the case, prices will tall yet lower. And it

ndTorc{,~

12',14,1*Y Hart

bOttiNSailec
141{ern,7, for Ntan
Slukkaestre.
lord r,:troli

Lord George. Bentinck could desire. We have noticed,
for two weeks past, the large quantity of wheat held bao.
in Wakefield. Accounts from most of the principal con'
markets concur in stating the same fact. On Fri
week a granary in Glasgow fell down with the enormous
,
weight of its contents. Persons whose business has cap,
them to visit or, pass through the agricultural districts'
also describe the corn stacks as being more abundant tbSO
usual at this time of the year. The farmers have 1301
holding back, it is said, even in some cases the wheat of
1845. And it will be seen by our market reports, that in
many cases they left large stocks on hand in last Satut;
day's country markets rather than submit to the she"
fall which then occurred. The subsequent fall in Mark'
lane of ss. on Monday, and another shilling on Wedne,
dai, may be expected to change their tone. At Colchesto
wheat has undergone a depression of 7s. a quarter ; and?„
Suffolk and Essex a fall of Bs. on barley is noticed. The
prospect of supplies from abroad is also much brighter.:
The relaxation of the navigation laws will open to ow
temporary use the Dutch ships in the ports of Amsterduoir
and Rotterdam. Three have been already chartered fuj
America, where they can wry Java coffee free
the Bankers' Circular states, that in the most prolit4
corn yielding district of Holland the farmers have s%
scarcely any of their last crops. The arrivals of grain
e
Liverpool are already enormously great, exceeding in 95
two past weeks 580,000 barrels of flour ; 200.000 bilbooo
and 10,000 quarters of wheat ; 390,000 bushels, 43,
sacks, and 12,000 quarters of Indian corn ; and 45,',""
barrels of Indian corn meal.
CARRYING BUSINESS—MEETING IN BIRMINGU
A numerous and influential meeting of the merchant!:
traders, and manufacturers of Birmingham was held or„
Tuesday, at the public office in that town, for the purpof;
of considering whether any, and what, measures should L;
taken for averting the monopoly in the carriage of golf
by railway companies, and for preserving and improo'
the means of canal communicatiop.-111r. J. Browne
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been convened, he commenced by observing, that
public grounds, whilst they were desirous of doing o:flit
with railway conveyance, they wished that every tacill"t
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convenience. It was then moved and carried unanimol
" That a monopoly in the carriage of goods by railo
companies ought to be averted."-LMr. W. it. 1:0d,
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traders, and manufacturers of Birmingham were invoN
in the question,—partiei of greater influence than him s 5
—but he might be allowed to say that freightage Ws,' •
very important article in-his trade. Havire, seen the 1."-01
portance of railways in extending the trade and trafficiio
Birmingham, he was extremely anxious that they ell°,..tr
be continued% but he was at the same time an advov'j
for competition. He need not remind any gentlelay
present that many trades.were fostered, if not abs0111!";i,
created, in Birmingham, lay the low price of freightf:d
Already, the cost of carrying some descriptions of 25,
goods to the, coast was greater than tha....t of c•ge
across the Atlantic. The speaker proceeded to alliw
the amicable arrangement likely to take place between bi
London and North-Western Railway companies, de.
which he contended that, having " laid their heads lir
ther," they would be enabled to divide the plunder.o
twecn them, to the great injury of the carrying, tra4l,l,
and manufacturing interests. When such a inonoP",o'
this existed, or in all probability would exist,—a 01°,0
poly which over-rode Queen, Lords, and Commons' di,
was then time that the public should interfere. Afte„rt
lating on the injustice to the public of all railway nwift,
polies, he proposed the folloWing resolution, which oe
carried unanimously, " That the serious attention ofor
Government should be directed to the fact of the c'',"
naous amalgamations of railway companies with e
other, which are, in the opinion of this meeting, 1318"01P
of grave importance, not only to merchants, traders'Asi
manufacturers; but to the public at large, inasinu.,!'"olP
such amalgamations tend to create an absolute moiniit
by placing under the absolute control of the few in
duals composing the direction of a railway compaillof.
only existing means of support, both of passenger%ii.
goods, and - without the possibility of compe_tillocifl
After a few words from Mr. Blewes and Mr. WW;
it was resolved, " That such being the opinion (0,04`;
meeting, it-is expedient that strenuous exertions be P",,eo"
to maintain the canals of the kingdom, and to Preie:i
canal companies, amalgamating with railway, coineip.
in all cases where the canal forms a link in a chain 01.%)0r'
communication." The fourth, fifth, and sixth resolatipe'
all of which were carried nem. dis., condemned
quality of tolls carried by canal companies, as being 4.te"
rious to their interests, and recommended that the tr„00,;
thin of- canal proprietors should be directed to the
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on their lines might be improved ; and after deprJv tr:
the loss and inconvenience incurred by the public, y,0,0.,
unsafe and irregular manner in which goods wer',..e V,14
veyed on railways, pledged themselves to encni,rillter'
every means in their
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preference to railway carriage for such purposes.

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