The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1841-01-22 00:00:00

The sinful character of all the tribes of men, and the in-
dividuals composing them, would remain determined by the
most abundant and painfully demonstrated proofs, in the
history of all times or nations. The way and manner in
which moral corruption thus infected all men, under their
several heads of primeval ancestry, would he an inscrutable
mystery—(which it is now;)—but the need of Divine mercy,
and the duty to seek it, would be the same; the same neces-
sity would exist of a Saviour, a redemption, and a renova-
tion of, the internal character by efficacious grace.

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That the Saviour was. in his human nature, a descendant
of Adam, would not militate against his being a proper re-
deemer for all the races of mankind, any more than his being
a descendant of Abraham, Judah, and David, at all di-
minishes his perfection to save us " sinners of the Gen-
tiles."

Some difficulties in the Scripture history would be taken
away ; such as the sons of Adam obtaining wives, not their
own sisters; Cain's acquiring instruments of husbandry,
which must have been furnished by miracle immediately from
God upon the usual supposition ; his apprehensions of punish-
ment (" any man that findeth me will slay me'') ; his fleeing
into another region, of which Josephus so understands the
text as to affirm that Cain obtained confederates, and became
a plunderer and robber, implying the existence of a popula-
tion beyond his own family; and his building a city.
The characteristic differences of the great divisions of man-
kind, physical and intellectual, would create no difficulty in
our reasoning : for instance, the mental distinctions laid down
by Dr. Morton : " The Caucasian race ; distinguished for the
facility with which it attains die highest intellectual endow-
ments. [ls there no flattery here? Are the effects of cen-
turies of cultivation sufficiently considered ? The Mongo-
lian ;—ingenious, imitative, and highly susceptible of culti-
vation.—The Malay ; active and ingenious, and possessing
all the habits of a migratory, predaceous, and maritime peo-
ple.—The American ; averse to cultivation, slow in acquiring
knowledge, restless, revengeful, fond of war, and wholly des-
titute of maritime adventure.—The Ethiopian ; joyous, flexi-
ble, and indolent ; the many nations which compose this race,
presenting a singular diversity of intellectual character, of
which the far extreme is the lowest grade of humanity." The
hypothesis will almost diminish our surprise, but not our sor-
row, that many fine nations of men have appeared incapable
of being persuaded by all the attempts of wisdom and hu-
manity, as well as the stern demands of want; so that they
prefer to perish by inches, rather than to cultivate the soil,
and adopt those habits of civilized life by which they might
be preserved ; and that thus they appear to have had no share
in the divine appointment to " increase and multiply and
replenish the earth." See reflections upon this fact, at the
close of a very interesting article entitled " The Red Man,"
in the Quarterly Review, March, 1840. In like manner it
would furnish a solution to the question, why any tribes of
men refuse to fix themselves in climes, warm, fertile, and
comfortable, and in which there were no impediments to
their stay, and should push on to such countries as Tirra del
Fuego, where they miserably exist, with scarcely shelter,
clothing, and food. Even the purifying and ennobling in-
fluence of Christianity, of which the Americans in particular
have shown themselves powerfully susceptible, has not sur-
mounted these difficulties. But, allowing to the utmost
these confessedly very remarkable disagreements, Dr. Prit-
chard is of opinion that they afford no proof of diversity of
origin, and that differences equally great may be pointed out
as not only characterising individuals, but making families in
the bosom of English society.

With regard to Acts xviii. 26, it cannot be proved that
" one blood" necessarily signifies descent from a common
ancestry; for, admitting a specific identity, though having
proceeded from distinct foci of creation, both the physical
and the mental characteristics would be the same in all es-
sential qualities.
Thus, if this great question should ever be determined in
the way opposite to what we now think the verdict of truth,
the highest interests of man will not be affected.

STATE OF TRADE

MANCHESTER.—The advices just received from the
United States, by the Caledonia steamer, pretty generally
concur in representing the amount of the coming crop of
cotton as somewhat less than had been previously supposed ;
and the most trustworthy estimates are generally from
1,700,000 to 1,750,000 bags, and the prices have advanced in
all the markets of the United States. It must be recollected,
however, that these estimates are founded upon the repre-
sentations of the planters, who are interested in reducing the
apparent amount of the crop. Hitherto, they do not seem
to have produced any effect upon prices either in Liverpool
or Manchester,—cotton, as well as yarn and goods, having
generally continued perfectly steady since their arrival.
Yesterday, there was a moderate demand in this market, and
a fair amount of business was done at previous rates, which
are still, especially in reeled yarn, decidedly below the rela-
tive prices of cotton ; the advance in the latter being gene-
rally about 11d. per pound, whilst yarns generally have
advanced little more than three farthings. The spinners are,
consequently, in a worse condition than before, and the fo-
reign buyers show very little inclination to give increased
prices.

ROCHDALE FLANNEL MARKET, Monday, Jan. 18.—To-
day we have had a dull market, and thinly attended by buyers.
There is no change in prices. The wool market is much the
same as that of last Monday.

THE COMING SESSION OF PARLIAMENT.—The royal
speech, we are told, will recommend to Parliament the deci-
mal system of moneys," weights, and measures. A very
elaborate report on this, one of the most important COM-
n-itrcial questions, has been presented to the Treasury by the
commission of scientific gentlemen who were appointed two
years since.

A private correspondent, who dates from Marmorica Bay,
states that the Turkish fleet will be escorted to Constanti-
nople by the British squadron, and that' the Sultan proposes
to seek that opportunity of conferring a decoration on all
our superior officers in acknowledgment of the important
services they have rendered him.—United Service Gazette.

THE MURRAIN.-_The murrain still exists in this quarter,
but in a very modified degree ; and out of many hundred head
of stock, which have passed the ordeal in the city and neigh-
bourhood, we have not heard of more than half-a-dozen deaths
in all. The cattle market is regularly surveyed every Mon-
day morning, and though the stock on an average cannot
amount to less than 500 cattle and 2000 sheep, the inspector
has only in one instance seen a suspicious case. Every cow
and bullock in the byre and yard of a respectable feeder in
Duke-street were affected with the trouble, but so slightly
that they only left their food for a day or two, and could not
be said to have lost flesh. And the same may be said of
many others in Glasgow and its neighbourhood.—Scottish
Guardian.

THE RAILWAY POST-OFFICE.—On the London and Bir-
mingham Railway the post-office is fitted up in two compart-
ments ; the one as the sorting-room, and the other chiefly
for the letter-bags, which are distributed and collected at the
different places along the line. The sorting-room is fitted
up with a mahogany counter and drawers ; above the counter
are several tiers of shelves with vertical divisions, forming
proper compartments for the proper arrangement of letters
and newspapers, each compartment having the name of the
place neatly labelled on the outside, for whi▪
ch the letters or
newspapers are respectively intended. The assistant has a
small desk or counter in the bags compartment, and also a
contrivance of net-work without, for receiving the letters .
from the different postmasters along the without stopping
the train. The bags are left at the requisite places while the
train is in motion. We had an opportuni▪ ty last winter of
accompanying one of the post-office clerks for some miles on
his journey ; and he most politely explained to us the whole
system of sorting, leaving, and collecting the letters, which
appeared to us susceptible of very little improvement ; but
one thing forcibly struck us, viz., the necessity of warming
this carriage, which, during the winter months, is miserably
cold. The length of the post-office is 16 feet, and including
buffers 18 feet 9 inches • the width is 7 feet fai inches ; the
height of body 6 feet 6 inches, and, including under frame, '
7 feet 6 inches. The weight is 4 tons, 1 cwt., 2 qrs. The
weight of the clerks, bags, &c., is estimated at 2 tons, 7 cwt.,
3 qrs. The post-office is companied by a tender, something
similar to a horse-box in size ; its weight is 2 tons, 7 cwt.,
3 qrs. The gross weight of the post-office establishment is
taken at 9 tons, 1 cwt.—Wu/haw on Railways.