The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1846-03-10 00:00:00

THE LIVERPOOL STANIAED.

friendship, and cause every word that drops from
him to be weighed and scrutinised, as if behind it
there was a latent meaning, opposed to that which
it conveys when used by candid speakers. In ad-
dition to these unfortunate qualities, there is, in the
Home Secretary, a wilful perverseness f tem-
per, which will not allow him to see and to yield
gracefully to the weight of parliamentary or public
opinion against him, and which not unfrequently
places himself and his colleagues in positions of
nfinite humiliation. An instance of this is before
us, in the result of the debate in the House of Com-
mons upon a motion by Mr. Etwall, the member for
Andover, on Thursday night

The later advices from the theatre of War in the Pun-
jaub have brought us nothing of a decisive character. No
further engagement was known to have taken place, up to
the departure of the mail. So far as our information car-
ries us, however, it is too clear that we have on hand, in
that part of India, a task which it will require our utmost
strength to enable us to perform in such a sat'sfactory and
triumphant manner as to advance, or even maintain, the
reputation of the British arms and power in India. The
successes achieved by our forces, in the unequal struggle
to which they were submitted at Moodkee and Ferozeshab,
purchased as they were at so vast an expenditure of valua-
ble lives, are events upon which to congratulate ourselves.
They prove that we have amongst those forces, both Euro-
pean and native, the right stuff by which the victories of
Great Britain have ever been gained, and her empire and
influence in the East and throughout the world have been
extended and secured. The result of those successes,
however, we regret, has not been sufficiently great to
bring about the early conclusion of the struggle. We have
checked the insolent invasion of our territories by the
Sikh army ; but we have not struck hard enough as yet
to deter them from the pursuit of their rash enterprise.
They still occupy, on the oppositetank of the Sutlej, we
find, a formidable attitude. Although 70 of their guns,
and a vast quantity of warlike stores, fell into our hands

In the course of the last session the public mind
was startled and horrified by the disclosure of a
practice, existing in some of the union workhouses
of this country, and particularly in that of the
Andover Union, disgraceful to humanity, and be-
traying an amount of suffering and degradation
amongst the wretched paupers who were submitted
to it, which few men, not initiated into the secret of
the iniquities of the new poor law system, could
have imagined to be found in a Christian land. We
refer to the practice of employing the paupers in the
disgusting office of pounding putrid bones for
manure. We use the word "pounding" in pre-
ference to "crushing," the latter of which suggests
the application of machinery, when, in the present
case, the bones were pounded in mortars, by hand.
Mr. Mundy, a magistrate, and a member of the
Andover Board of Guardians, deposed o 9 oath that,

STATE OF THE AMERICAN COTTON MARKET,

" Accompanied by two guardians and medical men, he
examined ten paupers; all, with the exception of two, ad-
mitted that they were constantly in the habit of eating the
mirrow and gristle from the bones. They eat it from
old bon's, mraning those that had some moisture remain-
ing in them, but still were in a state of decompositio,
and some had been in heaps two or three months—they
eat it from these as well as from the fresh ones.

The circular of Messrs. Wright and Lewin, of this
town, containing the state of the New York cotton mar-
ket, gives us the dates of February 16, from New York ;
February 4, from New Orleans ; February 7, from Mo-
bile ; February 6, from Savannah. and February 7, from
Charleston. On these dates, freights from New York
to this port were Id. to 5-16 d. ; from New Orleans, 13-32 d.
to 7.16 d. ; Mobile, 7-16 d. ; Savannah, 5-16 d. s. 3-Bd. r. ;
Charleston, 3-Bd. to 7-16. The following is the informa-
tion given us of the state of the New York market :

Some of these bones were in a state of decomposition,
having lain in the workhouse yard for two or three
months; and thoup.,h:it was supposed to be the principle
of the Andover Union that dry bones alone should be
crushed, yr.t t ere was no instance on record where fresh
and clean bones were furnished, whether received from a
distance, or collected in Andover and the adjoining villages.
" When a beef bone, or chine bone was turned out of
the heap, there was a scramble for it, described like a
parcel of dogs, and the man who got it was obliged to run
away and hide until he had an opportunity al eating the
marrow. One man fetched two bones which he had hid-
den that very morning in wet ashes; a portion of muscle,
very offensive, was adhering to the ends of the bone. The
men said that it was a considerable time before they could
make up their minds to do so, but after they had once
taken to it, they preferred that description of labour to
any other. because they could get bones to pick."

as the result of these engagements, they were allowed to
withdraw themselves leisurely from before our wearied
troops, from the circumstance, apparently of their inabi-
lity to follow up the victory which they had achieved.
They were able to construct and retain a strongly fortified
bridge across the river, from which they have already at-
tempted to annoy our troops, by depredatory incursions
into our territory, and, at the date of the last advices. we
are told that they had been enabled so far to recruit their
artillery, that of this branch of their force, whose destructive
power was so fatally felt in the past engagements

Since our Circular of the 31st January was issued, we are
without any further intelligence from Europe, our latest date
from Liverpool being 4th January.

The operations in cotton in this market, during the past two
weeks, have been as follows: During that ending 7th instant,
the sales were 7,50 ba'es, about 2,500 bales of which was taken
for Liverpool; some few sales were made for Havre, and the
residue was sold to manufacturers; prices remained without
change from the quotations as given by us on 31st January.
During the week ending 14th instant, buyers for Liverpool with-
drew from the market. in consequence of the advance demanded
by ship-owners in the rates of freight; some few parcels,
t I amounting to about 1,001 bales, were taken towards the close of

they could bring against us no less than 120 guns.
By the judicious steps taking by the Commander-in-
Chief and the Governor-General, to concentrate the
troops at their disposal, so as to bring to bear against the
enemy an overpowering force, we trust that all anticipa-
tions of a reverse being suffered by our arms, whenever
our forces may be brought against the enemy, may be
laid aside. But we must bear in mind that, in any event,
the difficulties which we shall have to encounter in the
subjugation of the Punjaub are great, and will call for the
utmost energy of the Indian Government and the valour of
our soldiers to ensure their being surmounted. We have
to do with a people of undoubted bravery, and no trifling
skill in warfare, well provided with the necessary munition,
and extended over a country which presents every facility
for making a prolonged stand. To doubt that we shall
ultimately be successful in our efforts, were to doubt
what has never yet been doubted—the persevering courage
of a British army, and the resolve of the British nation
that its flag shall never be dishonoured before a civilized,
much less before a barbarian foe. But we may look for
still further sacrifices of our gallant soldiers before we
can expect the successful termination of the contest ; or,
in other words, the complete subjugation of the Punjaub,
which is now not only necessary, but is resolved upon.

the week for Havre, but toe bulk of the business was done by
manufacturers and dealers from the East. The total sales for
the week amount to 4,000 bales ; in prices there is no particular
change, and we continue our quotations, remarking that sellers
generally are more willing to accept the prices on the qualities
"middling" and below, than they have ben for several weeks
past. _ - . .

We have been particular in giving these full de-
tails of the case, even at the risk of repeating what
may be within the recollection of our readers, in
order that they may see more clearly the repulsive-
neis of Sir James Graham's conduct during the
debate in quFstion.
The fact of the existence of this horrible practice
having been divulged in the House of Commons,
by one of the members for Finsbury, nn assistant
Poor-law Commissioner, Mr. Parker, was sent down
to Andover, to institute an inquiry; and, imper-
fectly conducted as this inquiry was, it disclosed, in
addition to the bone-pounding, the existence of
gross peculation and immorality in the treatment of
the inmates by the master of the workhouse. When
it had gone on, however, to a certain stage, and the
reports of the evidence from day to day, given in
the London Times, had created an overwhelming
excitement in the public min', the enquiry was sud-
denly put a stop to by orders from Somerset House;
the delinquent master of the workhouse was per-
mitted to resign his office, and Mr. Parker, the as-
sistant commissioner, who, it seems, had shown too
honest a determination to arrive at the truth, was
summarily dismissed, without being allowed to
know the offence which he had committed.

We subjoin the current prices for Liverpool classification.—

New York
Upl'd & Forida.
.. none.

16th February.
Mobile & N. Orl
.. 53 to 6
.. 6i to 62
.. 7 to 7i
.. 72 to 8
.. 84 to Si
.. 9 to to
.. 10 to 1l

Inferior

Ordinary ...
Middling ...
Middling fair

6 to 64
6i to 61

7 to n
to

Good fair
Fine....,

Charleston, Savannah, Mobile,
11th Feb. 11• th Feb. 7th Feb.
51 to 6 .. 51 to 6 .. none.
6k to 6k .. 6k *to 64 .. 51 to 6
to 61 .. 61 to 61 6i to 61
to 7 .. tit to 64 .. 7 to 74

N.Orleans,

Inferior
Ordinary'
Middling.
Middling fair... 6
Fair

6th Feb.. 5
to 5i
51 to 6
6i to 61
7 to 3

Good fair
Fine .....

7} to 7/ .. 7
74 to
none

74 to
none.

74 to 7
S to 8
none.

7i to 7i
Si to 8i
9 to to

A SCENE IN THE HOME OFFICE. - NEW
POOR LAW AND OFFICIAL MORALITY.

The following notes of a scene which occurred in the
Horne Office, between Sir James Graham and sundry new
poor law officials, was brought before the House, on
Thursday night, by Mr. Christie, M.P. for Weymouth,
as having been furnished to him by Mr. Parker, the assis-
tant commissioner employed to conduct the examination
into the circumstances connected with the Andover Union.
If correct, they furnish a curious specimen of the way in
which official matters are occasionally hushed up, or con-
cocted for the House of Commons and the public. We
may remark, that the reply of Sir James Graham, who
was present, was, in the first instance, a complaint of
breech of official confidence, and next a kind of " non mi
recordo" of the precise particulars of the conversation.
After adverting to the facts disclosed in the deposi-
tions, Sir James observed—l've stated to the House of
Commons that the commissioners cannot prevent the
boards of guardians from employing the inmates of work-
houses at this bane crushing ; I was right in saying so,
was I not ?

If we cast a glance upon our relations with other quar-
ters of the globe, we find them not without ominous signs
of coming derangements of our present state amity. The
United States of America, under a hot-headed democratic
President, :threaten a course of insulting policy, which,
if persisted in, must involve us in that worst of all wars—

The door thus shut upon the public, concealing
the true extent of the enormities practised, was, on
Tuesday night, sought to be opened by a motion
brought before the house by the member for An-
dover, calling for the appointment of a committee to
enquire into the whole facts of the case. Was such
a motion unreasonable ? Was it one which any mi-
nister, seriously bent upon securing for our un-
fortunate poor the humane administration of a law,
acknowledged to be one capable of being made the
instrument of great cruelty, or who was willing to
pay a just deference to the voice of the outraged
feelings of an entire people, ought to have resisted
Certainly not. Yet, mark the flippant, the heart-
less, the insulting tone in which Sir James Graham
rises to interpose the authority of his office between
the demands alike of a whole people and of justice
itself, for enquiry. •` I confess, Sir," commenced
the right honourable baronet, and we can picture to
ourselves the air of supercilious assurance with
which the words were uttered:—
" I confess, sir, I cannot help thinking that it is
meancholy, at the present junction, and in the existing
state of pale affairs, that so much of the precious time of
this house should have been consumed in a matter which
after all is only, I was about to call it, a workhouse
nu-IWe in the south of England. (' Hear, hear,' and
' Oh, oh.' ")
Now we too " confess," and our confession is at
least as sincere as that of the right honourable ba-
ronet, that we feel a great difficulty in expressing in
polite, or even in allowable phrase, our opinion of
this " melancholy" exhibition of a British Minister's
flippancy and heartlessness. "A workhouse squab-
ble I" The question whether the poor of England,
in a hundred workhouses, for to that extent the prac-
tice is acknowledged to have existed, are to be driven
by famine to gnaw the foul and putrid bones, which
the very dogs have abandoned, is one upon the so-
lution of which it is "melancholy" that the pre-
cious time of Parliament should be occupied !
Leave such mere " workhouse squabbles" to be set-
tled between the Boards of Guardians and the
three kings of Somerset House ! Why should the
effluvia of rotting bones and the picture of lean
paupers, scrambling like famished beasts for the
filthy meal, be permitted to come " between the
wind and our nobility,"—to mar the bright vision
of free trade and commercial prosperity with which
a recreant ministry are deluding their country ?
Sir James Graham—we tell you that never did the
bitterest Republican strike a heavier blow against
the British constitution—never did the most level-
ling demagogue inflict a more deadly wound upon
the feeling of respect, affection, and confidence,
with which the British people have been accustomed
to look up to that branch of the legislature of
which you are a prominent member, than has been
inflicted by that unfortunate and cruel speech !

a war with a people of our own race, sprung from a com-
mon ancestry, and speaking a common tongue. And
this, too, at a time when we are throwing from us the
only point d'appui which we possess upon that continent
—the affections and loyalty of the Canadian people. We
are embroiled, too, in the affairs of the River Plate ; and
we have the prestige of our arms to recover in our Poly-
nesian possessions.

" Mr. Parker.—l think not ; I have no doubt whatever
that the commissioners possess authority to issue regula-
tions by which such labour may be put on a proper toot-
ing.
" Sir James.—ls that so? Are you sure you are right?
" Mr. Parker... 7! am very confident in my opinion. _

Altogether, the prospect of employment for the naval
and the military arm of Great Britain, for years to come,
is anything but consolatory ; and the question of cost
ought to have some small portion of the consideration of
those statesmen who are so sedulously undermining the
revenue of the country. Perhaps it may be worth the
attention of those who are bawling for remissions of pro-
tective duties, the amount of which will have to fall upon
their shoulders in the shape of direct taxation.

" Sir Edmund Head, one of the Poor Law Commis-
sioners, was announced, and Sir James Graham repeated
to him what he had said in the House of Commons rt-s-
-pecting the powers of boards of guardians to employ the
inmates of workhouses in bone crushing ; adding, ' Mr.
Parker thinks the commissioners have power to control
this kind of labour.'
" Sir Edmund.—l think we can do so, but
_ _

MR. ALDERMAN EVANS AND THE NEW

" Sir James.—l do not like the kind of employment in
workhouses; we shall have some confounded disturbance
about it.

DOCK PLANS

"Sir Edmund.—l am sorry to hear you say so.

The speech of Mr. Eyre Evans, in the Council meeting
of Monday last, in opposition to the projected new docks,
is really scarcely worth the paper and printing-ink which,
in our last, we were compelled by our duty as impartial
journalists to bestow upon it. There is an evident squint
in the woolly ex-alderman's mind upon this subject. He
is the sad victim of a dock-warehouse fever. Were be to
construct an ornamental fishpond in his garden, he would
most certainly have its margin surrounded, with four or
five-story erections, with the necessary cranes, hoists, and
railways, for the landing of his perch or gold or silver fish,
and the expeditious storage of his rods, lines, artificial
flies, and bait.

" Sir Janies.—Yes ; this case will be stcck-in-trade for
The Times for the next six months; but you have not
countenanced. this description of labour, have yt u ?
" Sir Edmund.—No ; but we have not discouraged it.

" Mr. Parker, handing Sir Edmund a copy of the com-
missioners' order requiring wayfarers and such casual
paupers to break a certain quantity of bones before leav-
ing the Andover workhouse, said, ' In the cases of mendi-
cants, such labour has been directed by an order of the
commissioners, upon the certificate of the surgeon thst it
was innocuous.'

" Sir James (taking the paper from Sir Edmund), ' Is
that so ?—why it makes the case worse.'
" Sir Edmund observed, that he regretted that Sir
James entertained such an opinion, and that he did not
think such labour could be abandoned without giving of-
fence to boards cf guardians.
" Sir James.—Now, what am Ito tell the house about
this business? It will never do to produce Mr. Parker's
report and these depositions. I will tell yc,u what I will
say. I will begin by adverting to bone-crushint4 in work-
houses ; then go on to say that I lost no time in commu-
nicating with the commissioners, who forthwith replied
that no information of the practices mentioned by Mr.
Wakley had reached them ; that Mr. Parker had been
directed to make inquiries on the spot ; that I had had an
interview with Mr. Parker, who verbally reported to me
the result of his investigation ; that some of the inmates
of the workhouse of depraved appetite had eaten meat off
the bones ; and when the guardians heard of it they di-
rected an investigation by their medical man; that the
other workhouse officers bad been enjoined to be careful
to prevent inmates of depraved appetites gaining ac2ess to
the bone store. If I say that the assistant-commissioner
made this communication orally that will possibly suffice.
This report must not be produced. It must be treated
as if it had never been made." (!)
By way of discrediting the only witness likely to
" peach,' we suppose it wr

We have no intention now to go into any lengthened
remarks upon this lame effort—this sad exhibition of a
tortuous perception and wounded vanity. We must,
however, take the liberty of correcting an observation
which felt from him with respect to the danger and the
expense of taking vessels into the river in their passage
from dock to dock. Mr. Evans stated that, "he could
formerly get a ship round for thirty shillings ; but
the expense of getting through the docks proposed would
inevitably cost a great deal more." To all practical
men who are not infatuated with a hobby, this assertion
will appear sufficiently preposterous. We will, however,
give Mr. Evans afact, which may, perhaps, convince him
how other people regard the cost and danger c f getting a
vessel round, by way of the river, as is the existing prac-
tice. When here on her last passage, the American pac-
ket-ship Independence wanted coppering. Rather, how-
ever, than encounter the expense and danger of coming
into the river, in order to get into the graving-dock, she
went out to New York, deficient as she was in her cop-
pering, to have it renewed or repaired there, thus depriv-
ing British shipwrights of employment, and British mer-
chants of the sale of their copper.

" If the Commissioners, urged Mr. Wakley, did possess
the unlimited power which the right hon. baronet said
they did, in Heaven's name let the house and the country
see how they exercised it. (Hear, hear.) If they did
not, they gave up, not merely the assistant-commissioner,
but the poor also, to the mercy of this arbitrary power."
Happily the indignant House rose up against the
Right Hon. Baronet, and thus, in part, wiped off
the stigma which he had brought upon it, of treat-
ing with slight and mockery questions affecting the
interests of our suffering poor. First, Mr. Wakley,
by adducing a mass of startling facts within his own
knowle!ge, t,tript the question before the House of
the flimsy covering under which Sir James endea-
voured to conjure it away from their observation.
The hon. member for Weymouth, Mr. Christie,
next made some startling revelations, disclosing the
mode in which things are managed between the
Poor Law Commissioners and the Home Office,
and bearing upon the nature of the offence, for
which the too-straightforward Assistant Commis-
sioner, Mr. Parker, received his dismissal. Mr.
Ferrand, in a telling speech, explained the tricky
process by which he was himself sought to be crushed
with respect to the case of the Keighley Union ;
and was followed by other members, when at length
the poor badgered Secretary was forced to exclaim,
" Will the House allow me to interpose ?" and
finally to accede to the motion for the Committee
prayed for ! Unlucky to the last, however, Sir
James Gral:am must needs make a reservation.
He remarked—

Assistant_

. ..
Commissioner Parker was dismissed. How instructive is
the whole affair if, correctly reported, with respect to the
credit to be given to the explanations of some ministers.
It is easy to treat reports as if they were never made.

The Rev. Hugh MCeile's important work, entitled
"The Church and the Churches; or the Church of God
in Christ, and the Church of Christ Militant litre on
earth," will be published in a few days.

We may also take the liberty of setting the Chairman
of the Dock Committee, Mr. Bramley Moore, right with
respect to a vessel which recently capsized during the ope-
ration of removal from dock to dock, and which, in reply
to a question from Mr. Aikin, he stated to have taken
place in the basin. It was in the rirer that the accident
in question occurred. We may add, as consolatory to
Mr. Evans, that since this last explosion of his on the
subject, we believe that not less than twenty shipowners
of the port have waited upon the Chairman of the Dock
Committee, to express their unqualified approval of the
plans, and to urge upon him to persevere in their accom-
plishment.

CHARGE OF ROBBERY AGAIN'IT A SERVANT.—Yes-
terday, Mary Kelly, a girl in the service of I‘l rs. R.
Mc Mister, publican, Richmond-street, was charged be-
fore Mr. Rushton with having stolen £3 15s. from her
mistress. It appeared that on Friday night the money
was missed from a drawer, and suspicion falling upon the
prisoner, she was given into custody on Saturday evening.
She was remanded for further evidence.
LECTURES oN ROMANISM.—The lecture at the Concert
Hall, Lord Nelson-street, will be delivered this evening
by the Rev. Henry Carpenter—the subject being, " The
superstition of the Church of Rome in the veneration cf
relics." The reverend gentleman has given too many
proofs of his ability to demonstrate the fallacies of Romish
corruption, to cause the slightest doubt that he will on this
occasion exhibit with withering effect, the absurd idolatry
of the Papacy in immediate connection with the subject in
hand. We are very glad to find that these lectures are
extremely well attended, and that they are producing good
results.

THE TIMES, HERALD, STANDARD, AND THE

GOVERNMENT.

The question so lonz pending as to whether the an-
nouncement in the Times, on the 4th of December last,
of the intention of government to repeal the corn-laws,
was an authorized announcement, or, vs stated by the
Morning Herald, and Standard, the then aspirants to
government favour, " an infamous fabrication," has just
been set at rest by the retractation of the term by the lat-
ter, and the expression of their belief that the Times, al-
though apparently
informed with respect to forthcoming
measures. In the Standard, of Wednesday evening, the
admission in question is thus made :
" On the evening preceding that announcement of the
Times, which we contradicted by authority, being in-
structed (unconsciously on our part) to " tell a lie in the
words of truth," an insult and an injury which we must
ever remember,—on the evening of the 3rd of December
letters were, we know, despatched to public men of influ-
ence in the United States, by officers of the government,
making announcements similar to that made by the Times
of the 4th. We have, indeed, now little doubt that the
article of the Times proceeded directly from the Treasury,
and that the false part of it, the alleged decision of the
Cabinet, was thrown in with a view to Amer:can use."
The charge against government, made in this paragraph,
is a serious one, if it can be substantiated ; and is at least
as well worth being made the subject of a question, or
even a motion for inquiry, in the House of Commons, as
many questions which occupy the time of that assembly.
If the press is thus to be made the vehicle of diplomatic
deceits, the sooner honest journals cease to aspire to the
honor (?) of ministerial confidence, and place their de-
pendence for information upon their own activity and in-
telligence alone, the sooner they will enjoy the full confi-
dence of the public. The fact, if true, of
is a government
organ being instructed to mislead the public, something
new in party tactics and in the annals of the press.

THE MANIFESTED ONENESS OF THE CHURCH OF
CHRIST. -A SERMON BY THE REV. HUGH AI'NEILE.
—We had in prepatation some remarks upon this most
effective and convincing exposure of the fallacious nature
of the proposed Scriptural Alliance, of which a third edi-
tion will be ready this day, with an introductory preface,
and an appendix. The pressure upon our space, how-
ever, and circumstances incidental to newspaper manage-
ment, we regret, prevent us this week doing more than
directing the attention of Churchmen to a work full of
sound scriptural views, and well calculated to warn the reli-
gious world against the snares which are daily being
spread before their feet.

" I am perfectly willing to withdraw my amendment, to
make it a substantive motion, and to acquiesce in the mo-
tion of the hon. member for Andover. (Cheers.) I am
afraid I shall not be met with such cheers, when I add,
that. with respect to the motion of the hon. member for
Fymouth ( Mr. Christie), for the extension of the in-
quiry to the cause that led to the resignation of Mr. Par-
ker, which I admit was virtually a dismissal, I must offer
a decided opposition to it. ( Murmurs ) The power of ap-
pointment of the Assistant Poor-lain Commissioners is
vested absolutely in the commissioners—the responsibility
of the selection rests with them exclusively ; they are res-
ponsible for all the acts of the Assistant Commissioners ;
and I repeat my deliberate opinion that it is impossible for
the. commissioners to execute the duties of their office
either safely or satisfactorily if there be any interference
with reference to the selection of their subordinates, or
their summary dismissal. This will be a subsequent ques_
tion ; but I cannot, consistently with my duty, consent to
,that extension of the inquiry."
Ibis bold enunciation of the arbitrary constitution
of the Poor Law Commission, and theirrespon-
sible character of its head authorities, though by
no means new in fact, had the natural effect of im-
pelling the House to the task of a thorough investi-

ROBBERY OF COTTON.—Yesterday, four lads, Edward
Mc. Culley, William Halworth, William Noble, and
George Reynolds, were brought up at the Police-court,
on suspicion of having stolen a quantity of cotton, some
spun yarn, and half a hundred weight of oakum. The
property belonged to Messrs. Fletcher and Messrs. Hum-
ble and Milcrest, and had been stolen a few days previ-
ously to the prisoners being brought up. They were ap-
prehended at a marine store warehouse, in Perry-street,
kept by a person named Riley, where the property was
also found. It was stated by the officer, that Riley, who
had only come out of gaol a few days since, had de•
camped. The prisoner had the keys of the marine store,
and apparently carried on the business. On Culley
making his appearance in the dock, lie was recognized as
haring stolen eighty-four guano sacks, from Messrs. Hal-
bead and Lord's shed, Sefton-street. Culley was com-
mitted for trial on account of the sacks ; the other pri-
soners were remanded.

March 10, 1846.

gation of the whole system. Other members pressed LIVERPOOL SHARE MARKET FOR THE WEEK LATEST INTELLIGENCE.
on the House the same views; yet, with his ENDING MONDAY (YESTERDAY). (BY EXPRESS.)
usual perverieness, the Right Hon. Baronet refused
to give way, and, on a division of the House, the The following is a copy of the circular of the Liverpool LONDON CORN EXCllAN:4E.—YssrganAr.
,is
result Was a majority against ministers of 23. New Stock Exchange, giving the feeling of the market The snpp yof English wheat by land carriage B=los tiiat
Unfortunate Sir James! We wouldn't undergo up to the close yesterday. The transactions on the Old morning was very small, and the condition being samew ,
imroved an advance of Rely is. per quarter was realisedut,.
the schooling, you must since have had, for your Stock Exchange will be found in the usual column •: the white, but red and damp qualities cannot be noted hlglinot
next quarters' salary. Monday, 9th March, 1846. Free foreign continues in gond request. In bonded weodrign.....
,—.--,..... The market has been in a complete state of stagnation hear of any transactions. Fine barley sells freely, hutjean, 2"nd
WARLIKE ASPECT OF AFFAIRS IN INDIA. during the past week : the recent news from America and descriptions are odffered at low figures. . The showr orfon
alt sots
'
I BOrti
waereresdcuccceo.nriuttonnsdlLpeegidalities mast
the East Indies, together with the continued scarcity of Oats grtVlaastter. good ')
money, have tended much to produce the depression. be written 6d. per quarterardeaier.ng a
The later advices from the theatre of War in the Pun- Business in this market has been extremely limited
jaub have brought us nothing of a decisive character. No In Registered Stock, Chester and Birkenhead; were SMITHFIELD CATTLE MARKET.—YssYgnnAv.
further engagement was known to have taken place, up to sold on Saturday last at £614, being an advance of 3os The last week's imports of live stock into the metropolishar
the departure of the mail. So far as our information car-
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dhe l
apnalt
sr
eece I,
war
tshaFe since Monday last.—Grand Junction Stock : been moderately good, viz., 30 oxen and 119 sheep fri),lnonntttifert
ugiiiittinfrgembuxt2lAttlee tilrlpueer,
sic3laurreing
ries us, however, it is too clear that we have on hand, in c Dutch Sgrot I: sinfrisiinr HoNa,orraliveenc,on d
andt7l°.XllloB-CliadycreSilard an off. ecc
brought
220 oxen and cows, together with 190 sheep, recently. it.r:r„llleof
that part of India, a task which it will require our utmost limited sales effected at £l47.—South Eastern and Dover
strength to enable us to perform in such a sat'sfactory and shares neglected.—Leeds and Thirsk have receded to par ffroorievnhesteooclnl:entaemFaonrcinwolst qualities of each deia'n"up.
steady, and prices had
at whlich price the last sales were done.—Huddersfield wadtendency.
triumphant manner as to advance, or even maintain, the 1 ares have fallen to £5 pm.—Sales to some extent
reputation of the British arms and power in India. The
haveana
beene made in Liverpool
Pigs moved off freely, and last week's quotations sere
The supply of calves was smkill, while the veal trade was
On
successes achieved by our forces, in the unequal struggle £144.
alllitihScrip rtarese, a further. decline has taken place in suppo e
to which they were submitted at Moodkee and Ferozeshah,
marketable descriptions. il
ere.i Goole
+dlan.d Door nmzscitrekras Per rstihds. to sink the offal:—Coarse and inferior beasts 25/001
purchased as they were at so vast an expenditure of value- are woertmh t3os 3s 2d, second quality do. 3s 4d to 3s 6d, prime later and
purchased
sheep 4s
LrizetoSc:stsdd,Sisco4nsd2riduatolity4
d 0.68 470100141,
ble lives, are events upon which to congratulate ourselves. .£li- pm., and buyers at this price.—Lancashire and Che-
shire Junctions, £24 pm.—Derby and Crewe, £24 pm.—
iiik Stock_ unchanged.--
They prove that we have amongst those forces, both Euro-
pean and native, the right stuff by which the victories of goys!)o ve r sin
ahaarlaf-esehea raerse,
11v
oprmth. pm.—Bank
small ditto-4i.815cF. to 4s.
cirir.sTarcgaelvheogs 3sss.o3dd. 1 4 r,d
to 4.5'
lid pm. —Dutch t h Rhenish neat small porkers 4s. Bd. to ss. '2d., suckling calves._ll3s3,
pi„Lodrin.,nepsgtsnlezoroses-w7lleld sheep ss. 04. to 55. 2di.,prioi
,:. cli'd.,
Great Britain have ever been gained, and her empire and Xl* pm. 315., and quarter-old store pigs 16s. to 21s. each. Beasts
influence in the East and throughout the world have been London and Manchester markets continue depressed. sheep 17430.
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4 P.M.—A heavy fall in all desciiptions of shares, as
extended and secured. The result of those successes, .
will be seen on reference to the actual sales.
. .