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order to stop what appears to have led to a sort of spon-
taneous increase in these establishments, the ratio of the
apprentices to the workmen is to be reduced at once from
a fourth to a sixth, while the entries of new apprentices
are to be only in the proportion of one to seven. The ten
hours system of labour is to be introduced ; a change de-
manded both for more regularity, and for the profitable
use of the expensive machinery lately erected. The muster
is to be more exact than it appears to have been hereto-
fore. The superintendence is found to be ex-essive, and
accordingly the gangs are to be increased from fifteen men
to twenty, so as to require so many less leading men
while eleven inspectors and eight foremen may now be
dispensed with."
CHICORY.—EarI Grey is to be memorialised by the
inhabitants of Ceylon to prevent the adulteration of coffee
with chicory. It appears that the home consumption of
coffee suffers to the extent of 60,000 cwt. annually, en-
tailing a loss in customs' duty of £126,489 ! On this
subject a writer in the Ceylon Examiner remarks :—" In
London and Liverpool there are large manufactories of
articles sold by grocers in which adulterating. ingredients
can be introduced without detection. Mustard, chocolate,
chicory, indigo, blue, and hundreds of other things, may
be purchased at all rates corresponding with the propor-
tions of fictitious compounds added to the genuine articles.
This traffic is carried on without the least disguise, and
from what I have been told, I should say that you very
much under-estimated the quantity of coffee lost to the
consumption by this sort of trade. I have a very great
doubt whether much of the stuff sold in the low neigh-
bourhoods of manufacturing towns and at village shops is
coffee at all,—at least half of it may be chicory, or some-
thing so called ; for chicory itself genuine is by no means
a bad thing, and properly prepared would be nearly as
dear as coffee itself at present prices." _

VALUE OF THE COLONIES TO GREAT BRITAIN.—A
certain school of political economists in England, and
their echoes abroad, maintain that the United States, in-
dependent, are, commercially, as useful to Great Britain
as if they had remained dependent colonies to this day,
and that if the present colonies were to become indepen-
dent of her to-morrow, she would lose nothing, commer-
cially, thereby. The official return of exports of British
and Irish produce and manufactures in the year 1847,
will perhaps throw some light on this subject. Taking
the population of the United States at twenty millions,
and that of the British North American Colonies at two
millions, or one tenth of the former, the United States
ought, if this doctrine be orthodox, to consume ten times
as much British produce and manufactures as the British
North American Colonies, The total declared value of
such produce and manufactures exported last year to the
latter was £3,233,134 sterling. The value of similar
exports of the United States ought, therefore, in the
above hypothesis, to have amounted to something like
£32.330,140. But instead of that, it only amounted to
£10,974,162, or a little over one-third of the sum. These
data being admitted, the British North American Colo-
nies, then, consume about thrice as much of British pro-
duce and manufactures, in proportion to their population,
as do the United States.
MR. LABOUCHERE'S NAVIGATION LAW.—This mea-
sure, in sweeping terms, at once proposes to repeal the
act in existence "for the Encouragement of British Ship-
ping and Navigation," which enacts that "no goods shall
be exported from the United Kingdom to any British
possession in Asia, Africa, America, &c., except in British
ships." Upon what grounds, my lord, is this act to be
repealed, by a measure which you are pleased to style, as
one "for the Encouragement of British Shipping 1" If
the words, " British possessions," had been omitted, and
it had been enacted that no goods were to be exported
from this country to Asia, Africa, and America, except in
British ships, there would have been just grounds for an
alteration, as we would in that case have compelled other
countries, if they required our produce or our manufac-
tures, to have shipped them in our vessels, and those
countries would have justly retaliated or created manufac-
tures of their own. But by the act now in force we legis-
late for the carrying trade from this country to our own
colonies only, to which surely, my lord, we are justly en-
titled, and against which no foreign power has ever raised
the voice of censure or threatened to retaliate, if it was
not repealed. I ask not this act to be maintained as a
matter of protection. I demand it as our absolute right,
to which no other country, no other power, has the sha-
dow of a claim, either on the ground of justice, equity. or
policy. I will give a homely case in point. Your lord-
ship possesses a mansion in Richmond Park. I find the
city lanes not particularly salutary in the summer months,
and I think that a room in your lordship's mansion, and
a couple of days' recreation in your lordship's gardens,
lawns, and parks, would be a pleasing change. You find
me so enjoying myself, and request to know my right of
trespass. I have no answer to give except that I literally
followed your law of nations, and that as we were subjects
of the same realm, with a like affinity of feeling, and bur-
dened alike, I had more right to the enjoyment of your
pleasure-grounds than the alien and stranger had to the
carrying trade of our colonies, which were ours by pro-
jointure, and for which we fought, conquered, and paid.
My lord, if you repeal this act, could you say I had not
this right to a share of your lordship's residence ?—Cor-
respondent.

UNIVERSITY AND CLERICAL NEWS,

At the last ordinations 182 deacons and 205 priests were
ordained.

The present Baron Auckland (the earldom being ex-
tinct) will be the first Bishop of Sodor and Man who has
ever sat in the House of Peers.

The Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge has
granted the sum of £l,OOO towards the erection of the
buildings of the Training College, at Carmarthen.
The profits arising from the retail soap and candle busi-
ness, carried on under the name of Roberts, at Chandos-
street, St. Martin's-lane, London, are devoted by the
proprietor to the Church Missionary Society. The first
donation on account of half a year's profit, December,
1847, was £2OO.

CHURCH RATES.—At the annual meeting of the depu-
ties from the Protestant and dissenting congregations,
which was held in London on Friday, the subject of
Church-rates was thus summarily disposed of. The
chairman, in reply to a formal complaint made by a Mr.
Brown, who stated that he represented a dissenting con-
gregation of 2,000 persons, said :—" Gentlemen might
charge the committee with neglect if they pleased ; but
he had no hesitation in telling them, that they had no
chance of carrying the measure (the abolition of church-
rates) at present. In fact, the committee could not yet
any other member of thq House of Commons beside Mr.
Osborne to take up the question. A great nzany members
positively." The truth is, Radicalism is fast finding its
level.
MR. NOEL AND HIS LECTURE ON THE CHURCH
AND THE WORLD.—For the first time since his secession
from the establishment, Mr. Noel appeared last week be-
_

fore an Exeter-ball audience, in order to deliver a " Lec-
ture upon the church and the world." Every artifice was
resorted to in order to give eclat to the occasion. The
seats were at a premium, and excitement was maintained,
now by reports that Mr. Noel would not deliver the pro-
mised lecture to the Young Men's Christian Association,
and anon by assurances that the committee would not re-
lease him from his engagement. The result was that
there was—as there was intended to be—a multitudinous
assemblage, and Mr. Noel appeared before a sea of heads
that welcomed his entry upon the platform with roaring
billows of approving sound. The gathering around him,
however, no longer bore the appearance of the olden
time. The old familiar faces were not there in their ac-
customed numbers. Still Mr. Noel was not entirely for-
saken : the seceder retained some portion of his old staff,
whose fidelity to him betrays a want of it for the church.
Of Wesleyan and Dissenting ministers, generally, there
was, of course, no lack. There was a goodly array of citi-
zens with the outer testimony of broad-cloth, whatever it
might hive been with them as to the " warm heart within."
One or two slips of a more aristocratical lineage gave that
sanction to the proceedings of which Dissenters are usu-
ally so fond, and which they generally affect to despise.
The Rev. Mr. Bickersteth and the Rev. Mr. Mortimer
arenamed as havingattended.—Church and State Gazette.

LAW INTELLIGENCE.

BAIL COURT.-THURSDAY

Before Mr. Justice Erie.

LEECH /7. FOSBROKE.—Privilege:of Attorneys.—Mr.
Cowlin-, applied for a rule calling on the defendant in this
case to ;how cause why a writ of privilege he had obtained,
directed to the judges at the County Court of Lancaster,
should not be quashed. The action came on to be tried
in November last, and the defendant being an attorney of
this court had obtained a writ of privilege, which had the
effect of causing the judges to refrain from hearing the
case.

His Lordship observed that if the plaintiff had been an
attorney, and had applied for a writ of privilege, its ope-
ration would have been effective; but such would not
be the case if an attorney stood in the position of a de-
fendant; and, as the writ had issued from that Court, he
(the Learned Judge) should grant a rule nisi.—Rule
granted.

CURIOUS CASE.—In the Liverpool County Court, last
week, a case came on in which a Mr. Jones was the
plaintiff, and Mr. M. G. Dowling, the commissioner of
police, the defendant, for the recovery of £lO, the amount
of a reward which was offered in October last. A consi-
derable quantity of linen had been stolen, and the reward
was offered to any person or persons who would give such
information as would lead to the conviction of the thief
or thieves, and on the recovery of the stolen property.
In the notice offering the reward, it was stated that the
reward would be paid upon application at the affice of the
Commissioner of police, in High-street, Liverpool. The
defendant submitted—lst. That he was not personally
liable ; that he merely allowed the owner of the property
the use of his office, without intending to incur any per-
sonal responsibility ; and that the plaintiffs right of action
was against the owners of the linen. 2d. That as the
whole of the stolen property was not recovered, the
plaintiff was not entitled to the reward, or any portion of
it. On the latter plea the learned judge decided in favour
of the defendant.

BARTON, IRLAM, AND HIGGINSON'S
the Liverpool District Court of Bankruptcy, on Tuesday,
Mr. Lowndes, solicitor for the assignees, appeared before
his honour, for the purpose of ascertaining how the rail-
way shares, purchased by Mr. Jonathan Higginson, were
to be treated—whether they were to be considered as be-
longing to the joint or separate estate ? A very large sum
of money, being not less than £lOO,OOO, had been taken
from the joint concern by Mr. Higginson. and appro-
priated by him in the purchase of railway shares, the
amount being entered in the books of Barton, Irlam, and
Higginson. under the head of " Jonathan Higginson's
private share account." That account was not in any
way mixed up with the private accounts of Mr. Higginson,
also entered in the partnership books, haying reference
to various domestic and other transactions, but was kept
altogether separate as Mr. Higginson's share account.
He (Mr. Lowndes) contended, that if this was to be con-

sidered as belonging to the private estate of Mr. Higgin-
son, the assignees, on behalf of the creditors of the joint
estate, should have a right of proof. Mr. Blair, barrister,
appeared for certain creditors on the private estate to
oppose the application made by Mr. Lowndes. He con-
tended that the money had not been fraudulently taken
out of the joint estate by Mr. Higginson, but that it had
been all entered in the books in a regular manner, every
transaction being distinctly recorded. A lengthened ar-
gument took place between Mr. Lowndes and Mr. Blair;
and, after some observations from the commissioner, Mr.
Lowndes replied. His honour delayed judgment, as he
was not well acquainted with the case. He ordered the
official assignee to draw up various papers.
The long-disputed suit relative to Lady Hewley's
charity has at length terminated, by means of a compro-
mise between the English and Scotch " orthodox dis-
senters," they having agreed that the charity should ex-
tend to " poor and godly preachers of Christ's holy
gospel" in England and Wales.
WARNING TO BANKRUPTS.—The case of J. T. Clay, a
bankrupt, who recently appeared in the Leeds District
Court, before Mr. Commissioner Ayrton. on the question
of his certificate, has attracted some attention in conse-
quence of the large outlay which this party had made in
connexion with property at Birkenhead. The measure of
punishment awarded by the court for his conduct towards
some of his largest creditors was the refusal of his certi-
ficate, in delivering judgment on which Mr. Commissioner
Ayrton severely animadverted on his having been guilty
not only of a fraudulent preference, but a breach of trust,
at the time of committing which he admitted that he was
worth £40,000. He said. " Was it not grasping avarice
that led him to do this ?—a wish to double or treble his
fortune ? If I let this bankrupt escape without the
slightest punishment I can inflict, how can I ever inflict
any punishment on a poor man who fancies he comes with

extenuating circumstances.
In the Queen's Bench, on Thursday, in an action, Tur-
rill v. Crawley, it was decided by Lord Denman that a
landlord of an .hotel has a lien upon the goods of a third
party for a debt contracted by him. The defendant bad
detained a carriage belonging to the plaintiff, for expences
incurred at his hotel by a Miss Jordan, who had hired the
vehicle of the plaintiff, a coachmaker in Long Acre.
A HARD CASE.—In the London Court of Bankruptcy
on Wednesday, the case of Mr. Maclean, late M.P. for
Oxford, came on for hearing. The debts and liabilities
amount to £120,000. The assets will not, under the most
favourable circumstances, realise more than 3s. in the
pound. The bankrupt, who is the son of the late Sir G.
F. Maclean, was member of parliament for Oxford up to
the last general election. He is a barrister. Previous to
his bankruptcy he engaged in a great variety of specu-
lations—he was director of the Marylebone Bank, a brick-
maker, owner of two collieries which he worked, and was,
it is reported, a director in several projected railway com-
panies. Several applications for an adjournment of the
last examination were made by the bankrupt's solicitor,
Mr. Lawrence, and it was alleged that Mr. Maclean, who
was then in Italy, was unable to attend in consequence of
ill health. Certificates to that effect had often been made,
but the bankrupt neither attended nor was cause shown
for his absence, and outlawry was the result. There has
been, of course, no balance sheet filed, and no explana-
tion given of the numerous transactions in which he was
engaged. The principal claimant is Miss Maitland, the
bankrupt's niece. Her claim, a proof of which was ten-
dered by Mr. Loader, amounts to £67,090. She was his
ward, and the money was borrowed from her when she
came of age. Miss Maitland holds a variety of securities,
but they are not of great value, and she will be almost
destitute. The further hearing was adjourned.

SPORTING INTELLIGENCE,

STOURTON STEEPLE CHASES

On Wednesday the annual Steeple Chases came off at
Stourton. The Hooton-park Steeple Chase came off
first. It was a handicap sweepstakes of 10 sovs. each,
with 50 sovs. added ; about three miles. Nine horses
started, and a more excellent race we never witnessed.
The horses took the leaps in capital style. Dicky Misfor-
tune led a considerable way round, but towards the close
he fell back, and Rover came up, winning in gallant style
by about half a length. The horses were placed as follows :
Rover ..

The second was the Stourton Steeple Chase • a sweep-
stakes of 20 sovs. each, with 100 sovs. added ; four miles.
Nine horses were entered for this race, but only seven
started ; Wolverhampton and Victim not having shown
up. This also was a good race, and it differed from the
other races of the day in this particular,—that one of the
horses, Prince George, fell, and threw his rider, the cele-
brated jockey. Oliver. The following was the result :
_

Peter simple 1 La Syl'Phide 2
Knight of Gwynne
Peter Simple won on the post by a bare head.
The third race of the day was a sweepstakes of 5 sovs.
each, with 30 sovs. added, for horses the boncl-fide pro-
perty of the Liverpool Hunt Club, to be ridden by mem-
bers of the club.; three miles. Four horses started, and
they kept well together until within about a length of
home. The horses were placed as fellows
Johnny Boy ...... 1 I Banshee 0
Petticoats

will meet to-

THE CHASE.—The Cheshire Houn
morrow (Wednesday), at Staighton ; on Thursday, at
Tarporley ; on Saturday, at Dutton-hall, each day at half-
past ten.—Sir W. W. Wynn's Hounds will meet to-
morrow (Wednesday), at New Bridge ; Friday, at Carden ;
and Saturday, at Baschurch-station, each day at half-past
ten.—Sir Thomas Hesketh's Harriers will meet this
day, (Tuesday,) Jan. 30th, at Burseough Tollgate ;
Thursday, Feb. Ist, at Walmer Bridge, Longton ; Satur-
day, Feb. 3rd, at Eccleston. Each day at eleven o'clock.

CORRESPONDENCE

PROTECTION TO GOODS ON

THE DOCK QUAYS

TO THE EDITOR OF THE LIVERPOOL STANDARD.

SlR,—About twelve months ago I addressed a letter,
through one of the public journals, regarding a loss I
sustained from some of my goods being stolen from the
quay on the west side of George's Dock, and pointing out
a mode by which thefts of a similar nature might be obvi-
ated, viz., having sliding doors to the sheds around the
various docks, and particularly that part of the George's
Dock, the west side. I observe that this improvement,
suggested at the time by me, has actually taken place,
but not without robberies of far greater magnitude having
previously taken place ; and I trust the Dock Committee
will see the propriety of having all the docks which are
similarly exposed as the west side of the George's Dock
was, to be closed in, and thus protect the merchant and
consignee from loss for the future.—Yours, &c.,
STEPHEN MOORE, Shipbroker.
Liverpool, 22nd January, 1849.

ON THE SUPPLY OF WATER IN THE RED
ROCK, AND SUGGESTIONS FOR SETTLING
THE WATER DISPUTE.

TO THE EDITOR OF THE LIVERPOOL STANDARD.
SIAM How it can be asserted that the rock under and
about Liverpool will not yield water in sufficient abun-
dance for a constant supply of the town, perplexes me.
The least-experienced miner would not hesitate to stake
his existence on the contrary being the fact. I have been
told that Dr. Buckland and Professor Ansted have given
an opinion decidedly condemnatory of a reliance on the
red rock. I hesitate to believe that these gentlemen ha-
zarded such an opinion ; but supposing they did, in
judging of the value of it, we must take into considera-
tion that they have had no underground experience;
and I am confident no miner will contradict me when I
say, that a man without underground experience is inca-
pable of pronouncing a sound opinion on the point.
Miners know well, and many to their sorrow, that the
red rock holds immense stores of water, the lower strata
being particularly wet. The Liverpool wells are in the
upper strata of the series of rocks that make up the new
red sandstone formation, and as sinks they are mere hen,
scratches ; but insignificant as they are, and execrably
fitted as they are, it appears they are nearly adequate to
the wants of the town. What, then, would they be, if
sent lower, and fitted with efficient machinery ? Un-
questionably they would produce more water than could
be fairly consumed, and amply demonstrate bow little
reliance can be placed on the authority of bookmen and
chamber geologists.
I do not mean to say that all the wells could be sent
down advantageously, neither do I pretend to know which
could ; but, from the nature of the case, it is certain the
majority would be improved very much by being sent
down ' • and if it were found necessary to abandon any, a
skilful miner, one combining science with practice, would
readily select sites for one or more new ones. BAing at
the bottom of the wells for the purpose of increasing the
water, as recommended by some, would be found an ex-
pensive farce. They should be sent down fairly, or not
touched.
In the anonymous papers that were so plentifully pub-
lished a few months back, the pro-Pike advocates rung a
thousand changes on faults, dykes, and other subterra-
nean difficulties, representing them as insuperable obsta-
cles to any plan for supplying the town with water from
beneath, and even to deepening the present wells. To
the empiric, faults and dykes would be a sore trouble and
bewilderment ; but the scientific miner would find little
difficulty in not only avoiding the destructive conse-
quences of being ignorant of their position, but would
frequently turn them to advantage.
Mr. Dunn may well exclaim, " When the immense
area of country in question comes to be considered, how
very inadequate are the trials hitherto made, with a view
of procuring a supply of water !"
To settle this " Water Question," and to put things in
their true position, I suggest-
-Ist. That Messrs. Lean, of Marazion, Cornwall, the
gentlemen who report the duty of the engines of the
principal Cornish mines, be engaged to report the duty
of the engines at the wells. I consider it would be far
more satisfactory to employ strangers from a distance;
and as the Messrs. Lean are entirely engaged on report-
ing engine duty, more efficient men could not be named.
2nd. That a scientific, well-practised miner—such a
man as Mr. Dunn—be instructed to survey the district
and the existing wells, and report on the capabilities of
both, as well as on the practicability of improving the
latter. Water is the miner's greatest foe, and ic, is only
the miner who knows where most to expect it.
3rd. That finding it possible to obtain an ample supply
of water,—and such would surely be the result,—the
existing engines and pitworks should be substituted by
the latest Cornish improvements, such as Messrs. Hock-
ing and Loam, Harvey and West, or Mr. Sims, would
readily inform any gentleman of, that chose to apply.
It is notorious that the Cornish engineers have no supe-
riors in the manufacture of pumping engines. No engines
in the world do the same duty at the same expense. The
expense of working the Liverpool waterworks engines is
e110:1110110.

T would abandon the Pike, even if the obtainingo
.10fi
supply from the rock cost as much as the Pike ry
would. Surface water is the horridest stuff that eall tl
sent down the throat of a human being. I have see°o
much surface water as most individuals, but I neversio
saw it used for cooking or drinking, when well-watf
attainable. Even by the side of mountain strew:o-'6i
run every yard of their course over rock and gray fci
well, if it can be bad, is resorted to • and no wonder
the the one is sickly and insipid, the other brisk and rep:o
ing ; and if the weather is at all warm, the different
remarkably striking. Ague, dysentery, and eholers'ho
as often the results of drinking surface water as anYt '11;
else. The Nith, at Dumfries, has furnished a recent abo
dreadful example. Surface water must of necessity
loaded with impurities, and saturated with foul gases:o
The miserly calculations of the loss in soap atl„,
from the use of hard water, are unworthy of attenti°:
In conclusion, I again urge, that the determinatie'et
the capability of the red rock under and around Li v
jh
pool, to supply the town with water, can be satisfaetuGe,
accomplished by experienced scientific miners only bo
ologists and geology are all very well in their war;
without practical experience in mining, the opintn,n,
fit
surveys of geologists, in cases like the one before n-••
of small value. I have the greatest respect for gel 111
and geology, but I have no disposition to blink fse4o
flatter them, and I must assert that the science "
more to miners than miners owe to it. dti
The gentlemen I have named, I am under no k-Pdat
obligation to ; and it is only under an impression
l;I
naming them might serve the " good old town," that
/so,
ventured on it. Mr. Dunn I should not know, if
my head against him ; but I am acquainted with s°P'"ii
his works. He is the author of an elaborate treatise 0
Winning and Working Collieries; and I believe 13eco
the same Mr. Dunn who in 1832 received the first ail
medal of the Edinburgh Society of Arts, for the 01).1,40
tion of cast-iron tubbing in a Scotch colliery, and V
also introduced the practice of tubbing back water
the Irish collieries.
I hope, sir, you will " tub back " all anonymous Al
ters on this question. An opinion is worth no more
a name than without, but a name guarantees facts,
compels a writer to foot fair.

With thanks for your past indulgence, I remni,o'
obediently yours, B. DONBAVX.'
Glanadda, January 25, 1849.

ola
FOREIGNERS' AND JOHN BULL'S NATI-

CONSOLS NOff

n4lO TO THE EDITOR OF THE LIVERPOOL STAY--
SIR,—" Mentor," by his letter in the Liverpool 3.5
cury of the 26th instant, is afraid that foreigners w.O
place no faith in John Bull's promises, which have
yet been repudiated.
A national note, based upon 3 per cent. consols'A
both in this and foreign countries doubtless circulateD
equal facility and favour, as our present Bank of Bora
notes or sovereigns, and so long as that proposed "-gel
exists, its representative (legal tender note) cannot be,r
se, depreciated. This paper pound, like our present
lei
pound, will sometimes command more, and at others
corn, and other commodities, according to the Pit's,
thereof in the market, as exclusively governed by
supply of and demand for the same.
Foreigners do not take our gold back for their pro
.001
in doubt of England's solvency, but only when it isseJl
cheapest commodity we can give them in exchange,lo
knowing they can rely upon its fixed legal value so loon,
our present monetary laws continue to disgrace our e.""i
they are tempted to secure such protection, and warty;
seek for a more convenient season, and will, perhaPsto
led to a foreign market to supply their wants theresV4
and thus we too frequently lose the benefit of their tsW
our products or commodities in exchange for theirs. ,ief,
Americans send their vessels to the EAst and W?st
round the Horn, and to load at all the foreign ports ?,A
trade on mere letters of credit, never requiring a sover`si.
or bank note in all the transactions incident thereto, ~4
big on board an experienced mercantile gentleman as
representative and super cargo. They surpass the l 3
merchants in their foreign maritime adventures. td4
One hundred such consol notes would invariably rej
three pounds per annum ; and if Mentor preferret`ty
receive for such interest, 15 dwts. 9 grs. of gold 01,
pesent standard fineness, the nation might enact that,
should be paid for it, for therein the nation $Olll,
likely to make a good bargain with the fundholders, of
a'',
all probability, the supplies from California will, ere l 'lel
enable them to buy more gold with a consol note t
5 dwts. 3 grs. ; besides, if gold ceases to be the sta°ori
0.
at a fixed price, we shall soon have it in sufficient a,u,o of
dance and cheapness, independent of any new sourcei; is,
supply. It has already become a proverb, that
,1°.,1i
California is only worth its weight in bread. c.e
am at a loss to conceive how either greater diffieultw-:,
obstructions could arise than those which mar be ew,,,
rienced with our present circulating medium ; but, so."eotici
contrary, I am of opinion that much less inconve°lo
and loss would result from the proposed change, w
appears to nie would be as simple in its operations as
circulating medium that could be devised.
The quantity of gold in a sovereign (viz., 5 dwts.
is all that the national creditor can ask for each Pbi
,6
owing to him. The nation may give him the weight,
it is not bound to maintain its value to him ; "Ebro,
would be to protect and keep up the value of his re 11
property in the funds, which is not done for theoer.
land, building, products, or commodities of anY kind;,
Mentor objects to the necessity of " calculationaoh
arise from the proposed currency, but does not show 41
those will be, or whether more difficult than any ,
are now required in trade. and keeping accounts of n3Ptpli
It must be self-evident there can be none other—f° r 43
operation of the purchase of gold, as a commodity, "
the proposed consol notes, would be precisely as we
buy any commodity with sovereigns or bank notes. Jo
Then, as the said consol note will buy any comm°,4,
or serve for any purpose of trade, and also comma°;ty,
,
the will of the holder, whenever reinvested in the Juoi
3 per cent, per annum, it is clear they will perfectl/0
adequately perform all the functions required of a 50%plt‘
based national legal tender circulating medium, the 01 Joel
office of which is to facilitate the exchange of one Pr°id
or commodity for another, nationally and internally, ,
er
with them the foreigner adventuring his products or Po(
chandise hither, can purchase, or order his English ago
to purchase, any commodity he may require or prey;(gold or whatever else,) as the elective proceeds of
exchange, with or without importation into England.
Hence, it is manifest, notwithstanding Mentor's aPt
rently unconquerable fears, how easily the ber/atwrt
trade could be adjusted with the proposed currency 0;,
much more to our advantage than by our present .gor
laws, which deprive us of an adequate commercial Cltit
rating medium, and hunger and keep idling the would.
ty
employed and industrious portion of our fellow_meNe
producers of the national wealth ; and, if not reperip,
will exhaust all the honey, and s'arve to death 9„l`tit
working bees of our national hive. Surely, then, 3-ebd
most perceive that the consol note would be the
l
pivot for all national and international traffic. al
Having shewn that the proposed legal tender note w° e
ccrrectly and efficiently represent weight, meastire:,r,
capacity, of and for all commodities, it may seem unfit
cessary for me to refer to what " Mentor" states,
oil
" he cannot understand how the purchasing power ,
pound note can be fixed, unless the saleable value cctiri!
property on which it is based be unalterable." rfol,
then, if the phasis of his ideas on this subject be fait'ett
conveyed by the language in which he has essayed to ,4
vey them to the public, he will probably have disce.e 170
from what is above stated, that the purchasing Po',,,t?
the consol note is fixed, as one hundred such notes
always command three pounds per centum per 01;4,4,
which he may convert into gold or coin, or anything
joe
as, when, and where he determines. Secondly.—ffe,of
not forget that our present gold sovereign has not roof
the same purchasing power; because the comnwurd
which we may purchase with it, does not and cannot,.':i
the well-known elements of supply and demand, rasp'
unalterable saleable value.
Let us not expect to indulge in the imbecilitiegip
Midas. and yet escape his fate-- Auriculas asini
habet." Obi
The fruits of labour and the vegetable products
.ide
earth, are more valuable than the finest gold ; be'ylc
being essentials for the sustenance of man, which g°
not, legal paper money equally as gold money will P",
wages of labour.

SOLVV

TIDE TABLE.
v,
DAYS. MORN. I EVENG.I HGHT. I HOLY DA

Jan.' h. m. h. m. ft. in.
Tuesday.... 30' 247 3 11 16 2
Wednesday.3l 335 4 4 15 4
Thurs. Feb. 1 433 5 8 14 3 Friday .... 2 544 624 13 9 Purification ofd
Saturday .. 3 7 3 743 jl4 1
Sunday .... 4 819 854 14 9 ,SeptuagesiMas°v,
Monday.... 5 923 951 ,16 0

PACKET LIST, GENERAL POST-OFFICE, JAN

-1-147
Mails desp'diLast Packet Nel2,/.lye.
from London sailed.

Destination

S'HAMPTON STATION
ligi
Lisbon
7th, 17th, 'lberia Next i.et,
Madeira
Spain
Gibraltar
Malta &lonian Islands 3rd and 20th Indus 1
Greece and Egypt.... of every
Jan. 20 due • • •
India, Ceylon,-&-China, month.
(1) Brit.Col.in W. Ind. 10
pi 441
(except Honduras & 2nd and 17th Gt. Western ~ vj ---t I-
Bermuda,) For. Col. of eve Jan. 17 due •'in W. Indies, except month
Havana, Venezuela,
and Madeira
..i!

----- i
„„. ,rt g
(2) Mexico& Havana . } 2nd of every/Severn .... r. e." tr
(3) Bermuda St. Juan month only.) Jan. 2 due •' t
1,0
• x
de Nicaragua, and 17th of every Gt. Western Ne• le
New Grenada
FALMOUTH STATION.
HM
re,t,
Madeira, Brazil, and Evng. of 4th llMPenguin ..-- ft,.
Buenos Ayres } every month Jan. 6
LIVERPOOL STATION.'
Bait. N. America, Ber- . Every Fri-
muda, and U States } I day

;Ician'arn.
I 'Jan

I_r

CHRIST OPHER NORTH.--Wilson is by nature a -I,i
will be to the end of the chapter. His stalwart f
unbent by age, passes along our streets the imasc

ton amongst the The long flowing hair, 'V,
grizzled by the enemy, escapes from beneath the
eaves of his beaver, and descends like the snake-01f 511
locks of an antique Jupiter. over the snowy petals 914
collar that flank the breadths of his ambrosial vfto
giving altogether a peculiar and picturesque aspcneiri
head and its arrangements. This massive capital, ,e bll,
on Atlantean shoulders, and the most gigant'olo/01
borne along with speed and firmness of step, be. 7.- 0
dauntlessness and decision of character, sufficient,/
the man.— Taies Maydzine.