The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1849-11-20 00:00:00

violently

3 against a

reduction of dock rates. "It will be imp.—
he says, "to resist the demand that the same estate
should be taxed for national purposes." What
national taxation are they likely to be called upon
to submit to ? They always pay, like other people,
the imposts upon every taxable article which they
use; and a large portion of their earnings—the
interest upon their bonded debt—is charged with
income tax.

sible,"

" Unfortunately," says our contemporary, " the cry
for the rating of the docks was one of the two cries nut

forward during the last municipal election, and, still more
unfortunately, the choice of dock committeemen, made
by the Town Council, on Friday last, is such as to leave
no doubt that the majority.of the Council will seize the
first opportunity of rating the docks. Three of the four
gentlemen elected on the dock committee are in favour of
the rating of the docks, and the fourth must be altogether
powerless with such colleagues. Of the three pro-raters
elected, only one has any personal interest in the manage-
ment of the docks—that is Mr. Bernard Hall. Mr.
Preston is a distiller, a totally different department of
business, and Mr. A. F. Jones, the new member for Rod-
ney-straet Ward, is not in business of any sort, and never
was in business in Liverpool. If the question had been—
how a ship of war should be built, Mr. Jones would have
been a very gond authority, having been employed in that
department of the public service all his life; but he has
no knowledge of commerce generally, nor any interest in
the port of Liverpool."

Let us ask, would the Council, had they been in-
clined to override the Dock Committee on the rating
question, have returned Mr. Horsfall, an anti-rater,
when they might as easily have returned four pro-
raters? Certainly not; and their forbearance is
the more ;obvious, when it is considered that the
rating party are still in a minority on the committee.
Our contemporary says, that of three members
favourable to rating, one only, Mr. Hall, " has any
personal '„interest in the docks. Mr. Preston," he
continues, " is a distiller, a totally different depart-
ment of business." Is the Times not perfectly aware
of the fact that Mr. Preston's firm are amongst our
most extensive importers of foreign wines and
spade ? We venture to say that, in dock rates and

like himself might have prevented this illtreated
branch of industry from being knocked about from
pillar to post, removed now to the north, and now
to the south, until it may almost be said to have
been driven from the port. We know of no class
of men whose interests have been so wantonly
sported with by the Dock Committee, of late years,
as the shipbuilders of Liverpool, and we shall be
most happy to see him instrumental in bringing
about a change of policy towards them. But we
would go even further than this, and maintain the
advantage of a few more practical tradesmen in the
committee, not only for the interest of the town at
large, but for that as well of the Dock Estate itself.
The committee have now become emphatically
tradesmen. They are their own lumpers, their own
porters, their own coopers, painters, warehouse-
keepers, &c. Would a little practical knowledge of
these branches be disadvantageous? The committee
are their own masons on a most extensive scale.
They have, at the North Docks alone, some hun-
dreds of workmen employed on daily wages. Is
there any merchant on the Dock Committee able
to assure the public, of his own knowledge, that
these men are fully earning their wages ? Certainly
not. Mr. Hartley, their surveyor, no doubt thinks
so; but the public would be well satisfied by being
further assured of the fact.
Our contemporary proceeds :
" As far as mere personal respectability is concerned,
there is no objection either to Mr. Jones or Mr. Preston ;
but it is the poverty, not the will of the majority of the
Council, which induces them to put a gentleman so totally
unqualified in so high a position at so critical a time.
The pro-rating party are so poor in merchants, and their
whole course of proceeding is so odious to them, that the
merchants and shipowners of the port will have nothing
to do with them. They are, therefore, obliged to place
the management of the pock Trust—the greatest trust in
the country—in the hands of distillers and gentlemen
unconnected with business."

We have shewn that these gentlemen are not
" totally unqualified" for the position which they
hold. They are both infinitely better able to per-
form its duties than the Times to babble about them.
It is not because the rating party are " poor in
merchants" save the mark ! that they have
returned such members, but because they consi-
dered them perfectly qualified for the office.
Our contemporary treats it as a good to the town
that the management of the Dock Estate should
pass from the control of the inhabitants of Liver-
pool into that of strangers. He says :

" Without a total change in the composition and spirit
of the Town Council, its influence in the management of
the Dock Trust will very soon pass away. The interests
of the bondholders of the Dock Estate, those of the mer-
ehants,of the port of Liverpool, those of the inhabitants

and all the great.towns of the interior, are strictly
identi-
cal in this matter ; and if there is no other way of check-
ing parochial and confederate folly in Liverpool, they will
join to check it by taking the management of the docks
out of the hands of men who are giving such indisputable
proofs of their unfitness to manage them."

We like this throwing away of the mask. It
tells us what we have to expect from the hands of
the movers in this threatened measure, and the
kind of allies who are about to be banded together
in an attack upon the privileges and property of
the burgesses. Because a few gentlemen are piqued
by the result of an election, and choose to stand
out against the wishes of a decided majority of
their fellow-townsmen, we are to be swamped by
the men of Manchester, Stockport, and other ma-
nufacturing towns. Let us hold the helm, they
say, or we will blow up the ship. The patriotism
of such a position is not very obvious ; but we may
ask is its wisdom more so ? Suppose for an instant
that these parties were successful, and that the
control of cur magnificent docks was handed over
to an alien majority, composed of representatives
of the bondholders, of Manchester cotton-spinners,
and of Jew money-lenders, what would be the pro-
bable policy of such a management of our docks ?
In the first instance to cut down dock rates below
that point required to maintain the efficient work-
ing of the estate, keeping in view, however, the
security of the bondholders interest. Could we
guarantee that adequate provision would be made
for the growing commerce of the port ? We fear
not. But, above all, we fear most injurious results
to the prosperity and trade of the town from the
existence within it of a powerful public body, no
longer having interests in common with the kindred
body and the sister estate of the burgesses. What
would a dock committee thus constituted, care for
the convenience, the interests, or the property of the
people of Liverpool ?
Our contemporary, in another part of his precious
effusions of the same day, attempts to lay the onus
of the present unfortunate posture of affairs at the
door of what he pleases to style " the sham-Con-
servative press." We are not aware whether we
ourselves are included in this charge. But we
must tell the Times that no influence has been so
powerful in producing the state of things which he
affects to deplore, as the disgust and offence created
by his own scurrilous writings. If a respectable
party wish to render themselves obnoxious to the
community in which they live, let them hire the
advocacy of our contemporary.
And now a word or two upon the subject of this
movement to the Manchester Guardian. Our con-
temporary says, in his effort to incite the cupidity
of Manchester to an assault upon the Dock Estate
of Liverpool :

" It must be borne in mind that it is stringently obli-
gatory on the Dock Trustees to apply any surplus revenue
—(after defraying current charges and securing additional
dock accommodation under parliamentary sanction)—in
reduction, not of poor and police rates to the inhabitants
of Liverpool, but of the various dock dues and charges on
the merchants and shipowners of this and other countries;
and thus equitably to give to those from whom the whole
revenue accrues, the benefit of any surplus income that
nifty nrien 01

This is going a little too fast. Our contemporary
in mind that the Dock Estate of this
port is considerably mortgaged just now. There
are a class of people amongst us who are styled
dock bondholders; and before we make any further
reduction of rates, as suggested by the Guardian,
these gentlemen would, perhaps, wish to have their
money paid back to them. It is "stringently obli-
gatory upon the Dock Trustees" to do this, not only
out of their surplus revenue, or their gross earnings,
but out of the property of the estate itself if required.
It is proposed by the bill, in favour of which Man-
chester is asked to gird up its loins for a parliament
struggle that, a portion of the Dock Committee
should consist 'of these same dock bondholders.
Perhaps, on reflection, our contemporary will dis-
cover that these are not the most likely parties to
cut down the rates out of which their interest is
payable, or permanently to provide what the com-
merce of the district most emphatically requires—
abundant and cheap dock accommodation. We
have not the slightest doubt, however, as to the
eagerness with which Manchester is disposed to
enter into the proposed movement. Our neigh-
bours rather like troubled waters, and equally dis-
like this good old town of Liverpool.

must bear

THE LATE T. D. LEWIS, ESQ.—The will of this gentle-
man (the youngest and only surviving son of the celebrated
comedian) has been proved. He has left £lO,OOO to the
National Gallery to provide an eligible place for a portrait
of his father, which represents the late celebrated come-
dian as the Marquis, in the " Midnight Hour." The
pecuniary legacy is directed to be invested upon trust to
pay the dividends to Miss Lewis, the testator's only sur-
viving sister, for life, and at her death the £lO,OOO is to
be transferred to the trustees of the National Gallery.
Miss Lewis is appointed sole executrix of the will, and
(with the exception of the foregoing benefaction, and
legacies to the trustees, Thomas Smith Tarleton, Esq.,
and William Edward Hilliard, Esq.,) has an entire and
uncontrolled power of disposition over the whole property
of every kind whatever, including a valuable collection of
plate. In the event of Miss Lewis not disposing of the
whole or any part of the estate, some contingent legacies
are given to private friends and charities, and the ultimate
residue is to be divided between the deceased's only sur-
viving relatives. The property is sworn under £35,000,
but we understand that in addition to the property passing
under the will, Mr. Lewis, some few years before his
death, presented to his old and constant friend and com-
panion, Thomas Smith Tarleton, Esq., property to a con-
siderable amount.

warehouse rates—and let it be borne in mind that The ship BerlinAence to New Orleans, arrived at that
the Dock Committee have now become warehouse- port with the loss, by cholera, of 43 out of 200 passengers.
men. This The Rev. W. W. Ewbank was, onFriday, presented
the four gentlemen whom the Times mentions as very firm pay as much as any or all .
by the
full suit of canonicals, and a communion service,
being excluded from the committee. Adding to tll ladies of his congregation.
FEMALE ORPHAN ASYLUM.—On the day of public
Mr. Preston, his two colleagues, Mr. Hall and Mr. Thanksgiving, the sum of £2l 7s. 10d. was
collected at
Horsfall, the new members probably pay as much St. Ann's Church, Stanley, after a sermon by the Rev.
as these gentlemen in Dock rates alone. Thomas Gardner; and the sum of £22 Ils. at Huyton
Church, after a sermon by t 1 Rev. George. John Banner,
But Mr. Jones, we are told, is an improper per- Church,
the benefit of this
o interestingcetonirnrsitviatutiionn.
We ar happy to notice son to sit upon the committee, and for a very sin- Demerara, of
gular reason :—He knows " how a ship of war Messrs. J. A. Tinne and W. R. Sandbach, together with
ought to be built. having been in that department the Hon. Mr. Stanley, son of Lord Stanley. They were
awlaifiniidoehdvbeysseCcptain Risien, in the gig of the ship Parker,
of the public service all his life." Why, this is just
left this port on the Bth September, and had
one one of the qualifications we want in a few
members of the committee! If Mr. Jones knows then eireuonnora , days.Ca p Thomson,This intelwlitieenhcearirsivebA•otiligehret
on
how a ship ought to be built, he knows also what Sunday morning, having completed the run from Deme-
kind of accommodation ought to be provided for rara in 31 days. The West India Mail steamer would
leave in three days after her.
shipbuilding. The services of a few more members

SEACOMBE FERRY.—Another fine steamer, the Wal-
lasey, which formerly ran between Liverpool and New
Brighten, was yesterday added to the Seacombe stock of
boats. The appointments of this ferry will thus be made
during the coming winter most effective.
THEATRE ROYAL.—On Monday evening next the
Italian Opera Company, who created so great a sensation
during their -last engagement at this theatre, will com-
mence a series of six performances. Their appearance
will be cordially welcomed by all lovers of music.
An American ship-owner has challenged the screw
steam-ship Ohio to run from New York to Liverpool for
£lO,OOO aside against any steamer afloat.
MR. RICHARD HORNBY.—WC regret to say that this
gentleman, the celebrated chronometer maker, died rather
suddenly on Saturday. at his house at Walton Breck.
He was much esteemed by a large circle of acquaintance ;
and, as a token of respect to his memory, several of the
shops in South Castle-street near to the deceased's estab-
lishment were yesterday partially closed.
EXAMINATION OF MASTERS AND MATES.—At a meet-
ing of a board of examiners held last week, Edward
Ebenezer Osborne, master of the Reliance, of Liverpool,
was found duly qualified for a first class master's certi-
ficate, and Mr. William Henry Watts, chief officer of
the same ship, was found qualified for a first class mate's
certificate.
Our mercantile readers will observe that, to meet the
views of the foreign shippers, Messrs. M'lver have re-
solved to open steam communications with Havre at an
earlier date than had previously been contemplated. It
was in the first instance intended to commence operations
only in the spring of the ensuing year; but, according to
present arrangements, the steam-ship Commodore will
run fortnightly to Havre during December next, and until
the close of March. In April a weekly line will be esta-
blished.
A SINGULAR COTTON SPECULATION.—In the course of
the last ten days, a speculation has been closed which is
almost without a parallel in the obstinacy and fatuity
which it exhibits. A lot of cotton has been sold in our
market, which was originally purchased during the specu-
lative mania of 1825, and which has consequently been
held for 24 years, the owner refusing to sell for less than
it originally cost. The results are as follows. The price
in 1825 was, we believe, Is. 9d. per lb. ; the cost, with
interest, warehousing, &c., when sold, 10s. 6d. ! The

price realised was 71d. The article, when sold, was of
excellent quality, and in good condition. We believe that
the neighbourhood of Manchester furnished the sensible
speculator.
ANOTHER RAILROAD TO THE PACIFIC.—The Com-
pany to whom the Mexican Government granted the
right of constructing a railroad across the Isthmus of
Tehuantepec are proceeding as rapidly as possible with
the preliminary arrangements. -Before five years the
probability is there will be three connections between the
Atlantic and Pacific oceans, namely, the Panama Rail-
road, the Tehuantepec Railroad, and the ship canal on
the Nicaragua route. In ten years from this time few, if
any, vessels will go round Cape Horn.—New York
Herald.

NAVIGATION FROM NEW YORK TO LIVER-
'OOL.—Vast preparations seem to be making on both
sides of the Atlantic, for a future mighty contest between
the United States and England, in traversing the At-
lantic by steam between New York and London. It

;ed Mr,

Cunard, as soon as the American steamers start, to-pro-
ceed direct front Liverpool to New York, without touch-
ing at any port. Good—very good. This contest will begin
as soon as the Collins line of steamers is ready for action,
which will he about next spring. —New York Herald.
PABLO FANQUE'S EQUESTRIAN COMPANY AT THE
ROYAL AMPHITHEATRE.—This company continues to
attract; and some of the performances are of a very first-
rate and astonishingly clever character. The young Her-
mandez is a wonderful equestrian, bold, dashing in his
style, and at the same time graceful and classical in his
riding, The Messrs. Elliot's performances are also most
wonderful ; and, amongst the females, Miss Gee is a very
graceful and clever little girl. This week we have an
entirely new programme, which is full of ability in all the
various departments. One of the most unique of the
feats is the sports:of Atlas, by the brothers Elliot. The
vaulting by the various members of the company is
very good.

MELANCHOLY ACCIDENT—Loss OF THREE LIVES.—
On Wednesday last a fishing boat, of 43 tons, left South-
port in command of Mr. Jackson, the owner, with whom
were his two sons, their object being to pursue their usual
avocations in the neighbouring channels while the tide
served. On the same night a dense fog set in along the
whole line of coast, and as the boat did not return at her
usual time, nor has since been heard of, the strong appre-
hension is (especially as a ship was previously seen in the
channel, apparently bound for Liverpool) that the boat
was either accidentally run down by that vessel; or other-
wise came into collision with her, so that she sank, and
all on board perished ; or, as a storm took place on the
same night, and it is not improbable that the boat pe-
rished in it. None of the bodies were found up to yester-
day morning. The missing parties were industrious men,
and much respected in Southport.

THE SELECT VESTRY AND THE COTTAGE-OWNERS.—
On Saturday another meeting of the committee of the
Select Vestry and the deputation from the Houseowners'
Guardian Society was held to receive evidence and make
inquiries relative to certain charges mada against the col-
lectors of rates on cottage property, of having improperly
interfered with the tenants. The committees have now
had several sittings, the result of which has already been
made public through the newspapers. The chair was oc-
cupied by Mr. Willmer. The object of the present meet.
ing was more particularly to allow the collectors an oppor-
tunity of rebutting the charges which had been brohght
against them. Mr. Christian, one of the collectors who
had been brought forward prominently in the inquiry,
entered upon his defence, and produced evidence to show
that the allegations brought against him by the House-
owners' Guardian Society were unfounded ; that he had
never done anything illegal or gone beyond the instruc-
tions he had received for the recovery of the rates ; and
that he had always acted with the greatest leniency con-
sistent with the duty he had to discharge. Three other
collectors read exculpatory statements and endeavoured to
show that the cottage-owners had interfered with the
tenants in order to prevent them paying the rates. Some
discussion ensued, which was carried on with some warmth
by some of the speakers, and the strongest personalities
were indulged in. The interference of the chairman was
frequently required, and it was with difficulty that in some
cases anything like order could be maintained. The
whole of the evidence and the statements, both pro and
con, have now been received. These will be considered
by the committee of the Vestry, and the report will be
drawn up and laid before a meeting to be called for that
purpose.

ROBBERY UNDER EXTRAORDINARY AND SUSPICIOUS
CIRCUMSTANCES.—On Saturday, Maria Ball was charged
before the magistrates with having been concerned in a
robbery of £B5 from, as is suspected, a man, who, some
days ago, was found drowned near New Brighton. Sus-
picion was roused in the following singular manner :—On
Friday night, police-officer Tuck met the prisoner in
Castle-street, who beckoned him into Sweeting-street,
saying she had something to say. She told him that she
and her husband lived in Redcross-street, and that on
Tuesday night a gentleman came there, whom her husband
robbed of £BO, of which he gave her £5. She requested
Tuck to get the note (a£s one of the Leedsbank) changed,
and to say nothing about it. She was taken to the police-
office, but, no report of the robbery having been received,
her story was disbelieved. On inquiry, it was found that,
on Tuesday night, a person, who gave the name of George
Richardson, had been booked for safety, and had com-
plained of being robbed. This man was that night found
in a tap-room in Redcross-street, where the prisoner lived.
The officer who took him could elicit nothing from him
that was satisfactory, and he was discharged on Wednes-
day, and it was not known what afterwards became of
him. Mr. Superintendent Clough found a clue to his
friends in Leeds, and learned that on the 30th October he
had drawn from £l3O to £l4O from the Leeds bank, since
which time they had not heard of him. From further
inquiries it appeared that the man found drowned answered
the description of Richardson exactly. A brother-in-law
identified some of his clothes. An inquest was held on
the body, when, there being a want of definite evidence,
a verdict of " found drowned" was returned. It appeared
that on Wednesday (the day after the robbery) the pri-
soner's husband left her and went to the neighbourhood
of Wallasey, near where the body was found. Mr. Rush-
ton ordered the prisoner to be remanded, observing that
the case was one requiring the most serious investiga-
tion. He gave directions for an examination of the body
and other inquiries necessary to be made in order to the
clearing up of the mystery in which the affair is at present
involved.—Yesterday, Mr. Superintenden: Clough, of our
police, went to Wallasey, and had the body of Richardson
exhumed for a post mortem examination, which was ac-
complished. The surgeons found two wounds on the
back of the head, both of which bled a little when the
body was picked up, but they were not of a nature to
cause death, and the scalp, or skull, was not injured. The
viscera were healthy, but some specks appeared on the
membrane of the stomach, and the contents of the
latter appeared so unusual that the examiners carefully
abstracted the whole for analyzation. Their opinion will
not, however, be expressed until they appear at the
second inquest, which will be held this day, at the Cheshire
Cheese Ton, Wallasey village. No one has been found
who saw the man Ball and the deceased together, at or
near New Brighton, and Ball is no where to be found ;
but it is ascertained that Mrs. Ball sent her brother across
to that neighbourhood to look for her huslaand, and the
question arises how did she know that he had gone across
the water ? Every exertion has been used, and will be
continued, to fathom the mystery, but the police authori-
ties are not sanguine of being enabled to fix upon the
guilty party—if there be one ; for it is possible that the
deceased, from depression of spirits on losing his money,
might have resorted to self-destruction.

The Royal Agricultural Society of England's prize of
£5O, for the best Essay on the Construction of Farm
Buildings, has been awarded to Sir Thomas Tancred, Batt

1 GENERAL TRADE REPORT.

Nov. 20, 1V49.

ST. BARNABAS' CHURCH. - DEPARTURE

THE REV. T

NOLAN.

Nolan
Our readers are aware that the Rev. T.
_,sdw,
appointed to the ministry of St. John's, Iletn 1100
London, the former sphere of the labours of th
eet
and Rev. Baptist Noel. On Sunday last the 114;e
reverend gentleman, whose talents have gained formed.
brilliant reputation, and whose Christian virtues
endeared him to every member of his congreens
whether rich or poor, performed the functions eta
ir,
sacred office for the last time in St. Barnabas' nuT
In the morning his worship the mayor was present, _es
several members of the corporation, amongst whom Isff,
Mr. G. H. Horsfall, Mr. R. L. Jones, Mr. Wfgast the
Mr. Thomson, &c. The mayor and his party mel „re.
school-rooms, in Parliament-street, whence they rim
ceeded to the church. They were accompanied fe hi tee
Town-clerk, the Deputy Town-clerk, the Clerk 0 lion,
Peace, and several other of the officials of the corporaecerg
The municipal regalia was borne by the different 0:",61
who headed the procession. The church was d, 7ceta
crowded. The reverend preacher took his text boa
Matt., chap. iv., verse 4.—" Man shall not live by
_utb
alone, but by every word that proceedeth out of the ow,ie.
of God." After enunciating the great and leading Pthe
ciples embodied in his text, he called attention to
schools connected with the church, and gave a brief b'lt
tory of their origin in 1845 and subsequent progress'—a
appears that the present average attendance of scholeeli
is about GOO ; and, previous to the schools being forming
there were above 2000 children in the district receNti
no education whatever. In consequence of the inanbe
of the poor, a few years ago, to contribute eveneebt
smallest sum for the education of their children, IV,' be
had been incurred, which it was very desirable shou'uoe
liquidated. Their present liabilities were about .#;...;
The rev. gentleman briefly alluded, in very Werra
terms, to
co the circumstance of his being about to sepal's;
from his ngregation, and from whom he had receive'
many proofs of kindness. A collection was made, ,
flit
me
close of the service, in aid of the school fund, the rfsed.
of which was highly satisfactory, £7O having been recee•et,
The evening service was still better attended, note
withstanding the extreme wet night ; every seat in
church was occupied, and the aisles, as well as otherby,
available space, were choked up with most resPeettele
persons, who were compelled to stand during the w bet
of the service ; a little relief was afforded by
e.a nuellede
of forms being introduced into the church. ion' f.
were compelled to leave for want of room. The Rev....* e
Parry officiated in the reading-desk, and in diffe,,,,i;
parts of the church were seated several of Mr. NomP'e
brethren of the ministry, who (no doubt to their greas
inconvenience) thus seized the opportunity of PaYingtea
parting tribute of esteem totheir deservedly-resPeede,
coadjutor. The text on the occasion was from
v., /re
20 and 21 " But ye, beloved, building up yourseo
on your most holy faith, praying in the Holy Ghost—" of
yourselves in the love of God, looking for the mere)" eel
our Lord Jesus Christ unto eternal life." The revere
gentleman commenced his discourse by addressing an the:
audience as the congregation of St. Barnabas' Church +'
made this remark because he perceived very manY Per.'
sons beyond the usual number that attended worship
there. He desired to address all as making part of the r,
selves that night, first because it was difficult to make'd,
distinction, and secondly because he did not deem A ato
visable to make a distinction. He then proceedecle,'4'e
touch on the connexion which had subsisted between
the
congregation and himself for 8i years, that beingeThe
lapse of time since the consecration of the church. ,Vie
purport of the remarks on this subject was to remind
hearers, as he had often done before, that they had new
left that place as they came into it ; if they had not ice-
proved they were made worse, the Word of God being
either a saviour of life or death. It was with that 64
viction he desired to speak t) them that night, and
might be possible that through God's spirit some
there might be brought home saved and sanctifi_e_
Repeating the first clause of the text, " But ye, bele/e";
building up, &c.," he went on to explain the metaph°,,,,,"
observing that sometimes the words " living stone" ,re'-
tle
made use of, and it was by this latter use the aP°' a
would apply the word to each individual. The reverena
preacher continued in a strain of eloquence not oftet
equalled, to elucidate the subject matter of his text, b°
for several reasons we are unable to afford that Ogle
the
space in our columns which an elaborate sketch of tUn'
discourse would render necessary. Towards the latterr
part of his sermon, Mr. Nolan introduced the following
remarks on the Prayer Book. We ought to be thanid
to God we possessed it, forrnext to the Bible, our NNW'
was the most precious boon we could have. We were no
to value it merely because it came to us from our paren,"'
although that circumstance was not altogether to be
over,:
looked—he could well understand a man regarding it wit:
peculiar attachment from the recollection of having been
guided by a mother's hand, to some precious collect of
formulary of our church ; still the Prayer Book ought t°
be endeared to us for some deeper reason than this-0°
should love the Bible first, because it is the book of Cod."
truth, and we should love the Prayer Book because it
conceived in the same spirit and cast in the same moel"s
Here followed some remarks on the part taken a fet
years ago by a certain party to pervert the Prayer 13°e
from its integrity, but he conjured his hearers to 110 A
it sacred, since it was derived from the Scriptures, an
bore the impress of the word of God. The rev. gentlema!
went on to show the regard which sincere members of t 1":
church must naturally have for the prayer-book, and
adduced instances among the poor, where the scriptel
readers were struck at finding so much joyful attache:le!,
to that book, under circumstances of temporal miser'
such as his hearers could scarcely realise in their coneer
tions. From this subject Mr. Nolan glanced to the esPe-
cial object of his discourse, namely, to appeal to his ne
gregation on behalf of the schools in connexion with his
church. He explained that it was then four years since
the idea of erecting those schools to the glory of God vreg
first attempted to be carried out. He confessed that at
i
that time he was almost afraid to encourage the boPe °
realising so desirable an object, but their dear friend thee
(the Rev. F. Parry) urged on the good work, and his sub'
scription was the first contribution received for the purPlew
The schools were brought into operation ; but during wa.
depression of 1847 their funds became insufficient, area
they then were in the position of either being comPel'
to restrict the usefulness of the school, or incur a debt+
the latter alternative was chosen ; hence the desire new
felt to liquidate the liabilities with which they were en:
cumbered, so that no impediment might be cast in the /it
of him who was to succeed to the ministry of that chum'''.
There was a necessity for great liberality ; for althout
the collection in the morning had been received fro;
generous hands, it we; to be feared the proceeds of how
collections would be insufficient to meet the heavy de-
mands against them.
Mr. Nolan here became deeply affected as he touchei
on his aproaching separation from them ; he expressee
himself afraid of trusting his feelings to the trial, and then
proceeded proceeded to say that he had designed to have visited as
his congregation, but his,arrangements in that respect lieo
been frustrated by a fortnight's indisposition which
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bad suffered recently. He confessed himself conscions.
incapacity for the efficient discharge of those sacred dee,'
with which he had been invested, yet if, and be hoPea
such had been the case, any sinners were brought too,
sense of their position, through his humble ministratiout
it was to him a source of joy. Their separation was bre
temporary, and for a season. They must remember thev
was a time coming when they should all meet face to fr.
again. In a strain of unalloyed eloquence the rev. gent; eb
man then proceeded to characterise the connexion svbto
had subsisted between himself and his flock. When
was parted from them, each Lord's Day as he offered nr
prayers to Almighty God, a reminiscence would be fig),
nished of the joy he bad experienced in his feinis.eel
among them, and never would those prayers be offe''ef
up without their being recommended to the protection ;,r
heaven. Those prayers should cease only when the silvia
cord should be loosened ; when the golden bowl shottio
be broken, and when he should go not from Liverpcole
London, not from St. Barnabas' to St. John's, but when
he should g) to his long home : when the dust should .s°,
to the dust from whence it came, and when the sPliel
should go to the God who gave it. Mr. Nolan conch' te
with a short benediction, breathing the most fervent Pie;e,
and affection for those to whom he was bidding farewe:t
Throughout the discourse the indications of sorrow,
losing their much esteemed castor, were general and
phatic. This was evidently perceived by their minister'
who, affected as he was by his own feelings, in vain str or;
to conceal the effect the vibration of such a chord wtt
likely to produce. When the farewell was pronoutls;
there was scarcely a dry eye in the church, and we
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persuaded that, whilst the congregation will never ee „
to remember the benefits of Mr. Nolan's scriptural tear's,
ing, their regret at his separation from them will be us
lasting as it is now deep and sincere. They will join,;s
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sphere in the metropolis.
The collection in the evening amounted to £3O Ns' •

Monday Night.
By the arrival of the Europa we bare a week's later
news from the United States, an abstract of which will be
found in another column. The accounts respecting the
probable yield of the cotton crop are very conflicting.
We refer both to public estimates and the representations
made in private letters. The account which we give from
the New York Courier and Enquirer, estimates the crop
at 2.100,000 bales ; and the impression conveyed by the
private letters of some of our cotton houses, favours this
view. From a very influential source, however, we have
an estimate of from 2,300,000 to 2,400,000 bales ; and the
feeling in the market yesterday, seems to favour an
opinion on the part of the trade that a crop greater than
was at first reported is expected. The weather through-
out the union was genial and warm : and a short time be-
fore the sailing of the packet a telegraphic dispatch had
been received, contradicting the reported setting in of
frost in South Carolina, as announced elsewhere. All
the accounts agree in representing the quality of this
year's crop as very superior.
Exchange upon England was generally a little lower.
First-class bills however, which were scarce, continued to
command previous rates. The packet brings extensive
orders for British goods.
The Corn market here remains without change from
Friday's prices ; but a feeling of dulness prevails. In the
country markets and principal places of consumption the
rates are slightly drooping ; but in Ireland they remain
firm, with a tendency to advance. The advices by the
Europa have not influenced this market.

There has been a steady demand for produce during the
pagt week, both for export and the home trade, and prices
have been fully supported. With an easy money market,
cheap food, and peace and quietness on the continent, it
is not unreasonable to look for a revival of that confidence
which is so essential to the development of our commercial
and manufacturing energies. Since Friday there has been
a fair inquiry both for sugar and rum. Coffee has been
rather in less favour. Tea is without change. In other
articles there is little passing. Saltpetre is firmly held,
and there are buyers of nitrate at lls. 6d. per cwt. to
arrive.

The article of cotton blows all statistical calculations to
the winds, and pursues its capricious course according to
the whiff of public opinion. The steamer's advices are
of a very assuring nature, and yet their effect here to-day
has been to put a wet blanket upon the market, which has
not only dashed for :.he moment the cup of higher prices
from.the lips of speculators, but has even made the steady-
going man pause, and seriously ask how is it, and what is
to be done ? Very little doing. Sales do not exceed
2,500 to 3,000 bales, and prices are irregular—certainly
lower than on Saturday.

The Share Market Of the week has been quiet, with
some good buying. Sales towards the end of the week
preponderated, but they have been altogether the opera-
tions of the bears—no bona fide stock having been sold.
At the close this evening there is a tendency to reaction.
Business has been done during the day at the following
prices :—Chester and Birkenhead, 13 ; Cheshire Junction,
10 dis ; Caledonian pref., 74 ; Edinburgh and Glasgow, 30 :
Great Northern, 13 dis., pref., 2 16 3 dis. ; Leeds, sths,
6f dis. ; North and South Wales Bank, 3 ; London Stock,
113, 1124, 1-shares, 1, 6/3, 4 pm.; Midland, 47, 1-shares,
211, 16 3, 22, 224, 4 ; Dover, (No. 2,) 16 dis., No. 4, 64,
Is. 3d., k.

The arrivals from British America during the past week
consist of 18 vessels, 12,460 tons.
The market continues with little alteration, as in our
last report ; from the upper ports having now almost
closed, prices, and on a knowledge of stock in port being
acquired, assume a steadier bearing. Pine of all descrip-
tions it is probable will experience a slight decline; on
the other hand the import of Deals having been compara-
tively light lately, prices will most likely improve. A
slight improvement having taken place already, Mahogany
and Furniture woods sold last week, by auction, at Bir-
kenhead, at fair prices—A cargo of Baywood sold at
d 8 11.32 d. per foot average; a parcel at 5d., and one at
d 5 5-32 d. ; Bahia Rosewood sold at from £7 ss. to
£2O 15s. per ton ; St. Domingo Mahogany—a parcel sold
at d 8 29-32 d. per foot average; Lancewood spars at 5s 6d
and 5s 9d each.

THE COTTON

MARKET,

The remarkable position of this article is beginning to
attract the serious attention of all parties connected with
the Cotton trade. That spinners and manufacturers have
a good trade there can be little doubt, and what further
advance in the value of Cotton it will take to seriously
check consumption remains yet to be determined ; that
the advance so far has not consummated the prophecies
of spinners is quite clear.
The stock in this market on Friday last was 390,000
bales, against 461,000 same period last year. The supply
for the next two or three months will be quite inadequate
to the consumption. By the "Europa," arrived yester-
day, from America, the shipments for England, for the
week, had been only 4000 bales,—making the total quan-
tity now afloat for this country 14,000 bales, against
97,000 last year. The rivers were high, and the receipts
at the ports had increased. On receipt of the Europa's
accounts out there, transmitted south, per telegraph,
prices had further advanced, which would tend to preclude
the execution of the orders sent out by the previous
steamer, the letters of which conveyance had not come to
hand at New Orleans, at the time of the receipt of the
accounts per "Europa." This circumstance is of the
utmost consequence to the merchants of this country,
and, no doubt, will demand their early and serious consi-
deration, as it is calculated to lead to serious disputes.
The very idea of Brother Jonathan" being in possession of
a week's later news than parties in this country at the
time they dispatched their letters and orders, is too
startling to contemplate coolly on the first hearing of it.

POLICE COURT -YESTERDAY - - ESTERDAT

CRUELTY TO HORSES.--4 carter, named John Robin-
son, was charged with cruelly beating his horse, and cut-
ting it on the nose with the butt end of his whip, until
the blood issued from the wound. The striking was not
denied, but it was urged in extenuation that the animal
had become stupid and provoked the punishment. Mr.
Rushton fined the inflictor 20s. and costs. There was
another case of cruelty—working horses on whose backs
or breasts there were raw sores, but this was postponed for
further evidence.

UNRULY CONDUCT AT THE WORKHOUSE.—Three girls,
who had been admitted for food and shelter into the sheds
at the Workhouse, were charged with gross and unruly
conduct, on being refused leave to go out on Saturday
night. It appeared that they and others, having had
leave on former occasions, bad gone into the streets in a
dissolute manner, and returned drunk and riotous. They
were each sent to gaol for twenty-one days.
STEALING MONEY.—Mary Riley was charged with rob-
bing a female, with whom she lived, of three sovereigns,
in Wright-street. She denied the charge, and the sove-
reigns were not found ; but, just before being brought
into court, she handed over the identical (new) coin to one
of the turnkeys._ She was committed for trial.

SMUGGLING TOBACCO.—The master of a ship in
George's Dock was fined £5, for having, amongst his
dirty linen, 51b. of foreign manufactured tobacco.

JUVENILE DEPRAVITY.—A female child of only nine
years of age was charged with having dexterously picked
the pocket of a lady in St. John's Market on Saturday,—
a second offence of the same kind I The mother was in
court, and seemed distressed at such conduct in her
child, whom (she said) she sent to school daily, and to a
place of worship on Sunday, so that she could only account
for such crime by her contact with bad company. Mr.
Rushton could not help thinking that the offender was
nal strictly looked after; but after strongly admonishing
the mother ordered the child to be given up to her, so
that she might yet endeavour to reclaim her.
STEALING DRINK FROM A PUBLIC-HOUSE.—A man
r amed Murphy, and a woman and girl named Renslay,
were charged with stealing several bottles containing
whiskey, rum, and porter, from the public-house of a Mrs.
Dowling, on Sunday morning. They were sent to gaol
for a month.

THEFT FROM A SHOP.—A woman, named Catharine
Kelly, with an infant in her arms, was cha ged with
having stolen a quantity of glass and fancy china ware,
from the shop of Mr. Henry Cotton, 21, Cleveland-square.
A police-officer observed her with a basket in Great Cross-
hall-street, and on asking her what it contained, her an-
swers excited suspicion, which led to the tracing of the
property. She had purchased some trifling articles at
the shop, and took the opportunity to purloin the rest,—
worth 10s.—Trial at the sessions.

STEALING FROM A LODGING-HOUSE.---A servant girl
named Elizabeth Bold, was charged by a lady who keeps
a captains' lodging-house in Bridgewater-street, with
stealing a sovereign and some articles of clothiug. The
prisoner had been in the service of complainant, but
she had generally behaved well, the charge

Its not

pressed to any punishment beyond a warning

She was

-committed for 21 days

THEFT FROM A DOCK SHED.—A man named Michael
Callaghan was charged with breaking open a package of
linen at the north end of the Prince's Dock, and stealing
from it several pieces. He was seen on Saturday by a
police-officer passing through one of the gates, and two
pieces of linen (14 yards in all) were found upon him.
He was committed to gaol for three months,
Ilerapath's Journal, which is rather given to make ex-
travagant statements, says that there is a strong impres-
sion that the Chester and Holyhead Railway must be
shut up, in consequence of its not paying. The govern-
ment refuse to pay £3,000 a year for carrying the mails,
and the Conway and Britannia tubes have cost such
immense sums of money.

MARRIED. 110'
On the 19th instant, at St. John's Church, by the .7_loo
bert Warren Wolseley, BA., Mr. EVAN BALDWIN, l"
CICELY BALDWIN.
119 At the same time and place, Mr. WILLIAM NORRI—
NG
STAVELEY, to Miss MARGARET HIGHTON, Csr
Same day, at St. Michael's Church, by the Rev. He 0605
penter, A. 8., Mr. WILLIAM POTTER, mariner, to
ELIZABETH PRUTIIAUGH.

DIED

On the I7th inst., WILLIAM RAVENSCROFT, Es'
Parkfield, Birkenhead, aged 70.

Mr. R. Somerset, son of Lord Fitzroy Somerset, has
accepted the post of private secretary to the King of
Hanover.

LIVERPOOL
TUESDAY, NOV.

Sin JOHN FRANKLIN.—The Rev. Dr. Scoresby has
just delivered a speech at the Whitby Institute, in which
he states very confidently his hopes for the safety of Sir
John Franklin, grounding them upon the considerations
that it was not likely some little band out of 140 scientific
and hardy men should not have made their way, had there
been a catastrophe, within the range of some fishing sta-
tion ; and that had the vessels been destroyed in the inte-
rior ices the very bodies of ice would afford platforms for
escape, and because supposing no catastrophe, they might,
just the same as Sir J. Ross, remain sealed up and unheard
of for a like period, and yet be safe. The probability, too,
was, though he would receive the details with doubt, that
the general story of the Esquimaux is true, from the accu-
racy of their delineations of localities. The season was,
no doubt, wearing away, but there was still time for ships
or boats behind the Enterprise and Investigator to get
out even within the time of stay of the residue of the
whalers. He thought one of the returned whalers should
be sent out with supplies to winter at Disco. A grand
source of hope was in the mercy and goodness of Divine
Providence which had worked such wonders in the case of
other adventurers, and there were those amongst our ab-
sent countrymen who were God-fearing men, the com-
mander being eminently so.

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