The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1846-10-20 00:00:00

Oei, 20, 146.

slave population against their masters ; met he (IVir:
firmly believed, that had it not been fof the peaceful
efforts of Mr. Garrison and other abolitionists, the whole
south would have been by this time in a state of fire and
insurrection. Dr. Meade thus taught slaves as tb what
was softly called " correction :"—" You may deserhs
correction, or you may deserve it not; but in either case
it is your duty to bear it patiently. Suppose you deserve
it, you cannot but say it is right you should receive it;
and suppose you do not on this occasion, you cannot but
think you have deserved a great deal before, and so you
are paid once for all." (A VOICE : " What is the title of
thebook ?") "Familiar Discourses, intended to be read by
Slave-owners to their Slaves, by W. A. Meade. Printed
at Winchester." He (Mr. Douglas) looked upon it as a
gross libel to call such religion as this Christianity. It
was at war with pure and undefiled religion, which was to
visit the fatherless and widows in their afflictions.
By all ties, therefore, he felt himself bound to expose the
slavery of America, for it was at war with Christianity;
and the man who defended it was at war with God. (Hear.)
The speaker then energetically defended the abolition.
ists of America and himself from the charge of infidelity,
and he called upon the public to sustain the efforts of the
" Anti-Slavery League." It was a lie that the American
professors of religion were anxious to circulate the Bible.
Thrice had the American Bible Society refused to send
the Bible among the three millions of slaves at their own
doors. Every Sunday ten thousand pulpits in that
country belched forth a simultaneous lie, "We thank
thee, God, that we dwell in this land of civil and:re-
ligious liberty." What r. with three millions of slaves in
fetters ?—where they denied the institution of marriage?
—where they would not allow their slaves to hold re-
ligious meetings among themselves ?—where they refused
them the privilege of reading the Bible? where they
subjected them to the brutal cat-o'-nine-tails—and lastly,
where the advocacy of abolition exposed a man to death
in fifteen of the states of the Union ? (Tremendous
cheering, amidst which the speaker resumed his seat.) _

The CHAIRMAN stated that he held in his hand a book,
the Narrative of the Life of Frederick Donglas, who had
just addressed them, and which was on sale, price 2s. 6d.
The profits derived from the sale of the work formed the
principal source from which he could defray his travelling
expenses, and support his family in America. (Several
copies of the work were afterwards sold in the room.)

The Rev. JOSHUA V. HYarus next addressed the meet—
ins-, corroborating the statements made by Mr. Douglas. He
said he could not defend the conduct of the alliance in their
proceedings as related to slavery. He was wounded in spirit
when be read the statement of Dr'. Cox, and he believed it
tended to lead the people of England- into• a wrong impression.
on the *object.
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Mr. GARRISON, the Editor of the Liberator, and for many
years well known as the friend and advocate of the slave, spoke
at considerable length, and with no little eloquence, on the
condition of the slave states, and on their laws, which impri-
soned all coloured persons going there, although British sub-
jects and nnaccused of crime. He stated that he .had been
several times in Great Britain and Ireland, and had always
found his opinions on slavery to be well received.
The CHAIRMAN addressed the meeting at great length and
with much energy, dealing out heavy blows•at the Alliance, for
their rejection of the words proposed to be appended to a re-
solution at the Conference, that " slave-holders•should not be
admitted intathe association," and finally rescinding the ori-
ginal resolution, so that the question of slavery was left un-
touched, not a word against it being recorde6 in their pro-
ceedings.
The Rev. Mr. CLARE said that if the Alliance really did not
intend to take slaveholijers into their communion, they should
explicitly state so to the world at once, and vindicate them-
selves. He moved the following resolution :

"That the conduct of the Free Church of Scotland, in taking
the money of slaveholders, and in return extending to them the
sanction of full communion with that body, and that of the
Evangelical Alliance conference recently assembled in London,
first in adopting a proposition that men might be slaveholders
without any fault of their own, and from disinterested motives,
and then, to gratify the pro-slavery spirit of the American de-
legates, erasing from their proceedings all reference to the
subject of slavery, in order to prevent a disunion, evinced
in both cases an utter disregard of the uncompromising spirit
of Christianity, and was a virtual approval of the act;-of those
who, while they profess to be the followers of the Great Re-
deemer, make mercnandise of the bodies and souls of men."
This was seconded by Mr. GARRISON, and unanimously
carried.

It was stated that another meeting, at which Mr. Garrison
would more fully adiitess a Liverpool audience, wc,uld be
held on the 3d November, prior to his departure for America
on the following day. The meeting then dispersed,"and a col-
lection was made towards defraying the expenses of the room.

LATEST INTELLIGENCE
(BY EXPRESS.)

The Cabinet dinner, which was announced to be given Thy
Lord John Russell on Tuesday, the 27th instant, is postponed
to the following day.
The clergy of the diocese of Dublin are about to meet 'and.
petition the Queen to adopt measures for the appointment of tt
bishop to the vacant see of Kildare. Under Lord Stanley's.
Irish Church Act, this see merges into that of Dublin.
The new Irish Poor Law Commissioner is a son of Mr. JOs-
tice Ball, of the Irish Bench..
LONDON CORN EXCIIANGE.—YESTERDAY.
There was a moderate supply of English wheat from Essex,
Kent, and Suffolk, this morning, which was cleared at fully the
prices of last week. For free fOreign the business was not ex-
tensive, but our extreme quotations were realised.
Barrel Flour continues rather neglected. Barley of every
description is 2s. to 3s. 6d. per quarter higher. Beans and Peas
were in small supply, and their value unaltered. Oats met an.
improved demand, and are fully as dear.

,-YESTERDAY

SMITFIFIELD CATTLE MARKET.
The supply of home-fed Beasts on offer to-day was verY
ex-
tensive, but of middling quality. Of foreign stock the sh
embraced 600 Beasts, 690 Akeep, and 20 Calves. The Pri.Tenit
other kinds were heavy, and the prices were 2(1.d
Scots, &c., moved off slowly, a last week's quotations; uuL
per 81b. lower
than on this day se'nnight. Ache close of the market a clear-

ante was not effected. -
from
mrotmh
et hweesntoerrtnh northern
midlanddistricts
nrteiceesi,vB7,lo
122IMfsohrdorts,
Devons, &c. ; and from all parts of England, 700 of various
breeds. bon's
Although the numbers of Sheep were comparatively small,
the Mutton trade was by no means so active as on Monday
last ; yet that day's prices were mostly supported.
The number of Calves was Tod; while the Veal trade wsur;:

;eavv at Friday's reduced fig

wed off slowly,

Nearly 200 Beasts have been sr.
pin Holland during the past week

)thered on

The banking establishments in Sheffield have agreed ta
allow their clerks a half-holiday every Thursday.
It is said that Mr. Rowland Hill has been offered the
situation of Secretary to the Post-office in Ireland. The
salary is £BOO per annum.
At a meeting of the burgesses of Scotland Ward, ott
Friday. it was resolved to bring forward Mr. James Holm?
in opposition to Mr. William Thornhill. Mr. Hole
address will be found in our advertising columns.
The mayor entertained a select party to dinner at the
Town-hall, on Thursday evening, and has issued invita-
tions to the gentlemen of the bar, attending the next sea-
sions, and a number of others, for his last official dinner,-
which will take place on Thtrsday, the 29th instant.
SPLENDID SPECIMEN OF INDIAN CORN.-1 Magnifi:

.nt specimen of Indian corn, grown in the open air, upo

the farm of Mr. Thomas Baines, proprietor of our con-
temporary, the Liverpool Times, was exhibited in the E%
change, yesterday.
The Cork Examiner, radical paper, of last week, after
a more recent examination of the potato crop, again de—
clares its conviction that the evil has been overrated. Ite
for " famine," says our contemporary, " it is a bugbear
which a few months will remove.
Two sailors are now at Cork wbo were taken off the
mast of a vessel called the Rose, which had been wrecker'
at sea. They state the horrible fact that a third man, 00
of their companions, who was with them on the spar, Wll5
eaten by them, they being driven to that frightful extra"
mity by excess of hunger.
EXTENSIVE CONTRACTS..—The Irish Board of Works
have issued advertisements calling for contracts to be sqlt
in on or before the 30th instant, for supplying some 60,0 W
or 70,000 wheelbarrows, immense quantities of clay-picitar
quarry-picks, and other implements for road labour,
There are about 100 towns named at which these tools are
to be delivered. At Dundalk, for instance, 1500 barrowor
with a corresponding number of picks, &c., are to be de'
livered. At Dublin, 1000; Cork, 1000; Youghal, 1000 ;
at several of the smaller towns 500 each, and a few are,
marked down for 250 each. The mere manufacture of
these articles will give immense employment, but the
portance of the advertisement is in the assumption tbs'
the implements are to be supplied gratuitously to the la:
bourers, and that they are to be instructed in a higher
class of work than mere digging and shoveling

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SHIPPING INTELLIGENCE.
MONDAY, Igth OCTOBER.—Wind S., fresh.
ARRIVED.—Fanny, Wheeler, from Cape of Good Hope—git.
ridan, Cornish, New York—Glencoe, Gailbraith, Quebec—Lt.."'
Milton, Hayes. and Laurence Forestal, Poo* Pictou—Oce.""
(steamer,) Hall, Havre, and Norfolk Hero, from Belfast.
SAlLED.—Melicete, Hunter, for New Orleans, and EN
Graham, Fergeson, Oporto

4th Sept. Left the Mary Queen of Scots loading for this Tor
Ratchford, of Waterford, abandoned. On 7th
Hopewell, Carter, from Maranham at this port : sailed on
ittle.
On 6th October, in lat. 46, long. 33, passed the wreck °f 11 lat.
Oct of r,
oaebec,
47, long. 31, passed the wreck of the EuphrosPe, -
also abandonea.
eQ

Ann, Johnston, hence at Maranham. h WI.
Minalto, Tregarthen, from Rio Grande at. rairriOUt .
mainmast sprung, and loss of bulwarks mailed 24th AagtlSt, 10
company with the Belle Barbaric, for this port. The Adino, of
Dundee, was to sail for this port in about 14 days.

LIVERPOOL CATTLE
We have had a fair average

T, Oc

lay. The supply of Sheep, partic;
imited. With a numerous attemtar
)r nearly so, was sold at little or
statement. Beef, Sid to 6d per lb. ;

- -
market to-
quality, We
astomers, the whew."
ation from our line

LIVERPOOL COTTON MARKET, OcT. 19.
The Cotton market for some time past has puzzled the riles
wary observer; each morning the demand has been very olltA
rate, and as the day has advanced, the excitement has incre
to fever height. To-day, for instance, the inquiry was, eatT
but very moderate, but we close with a bus ness of 14,000 hal"'
one-half of it on speculation.

LIVERPOOL HAY AND POTATO MARKET,
OCT. 19, 1846. ‘..
s. d. s. d. s. d. le
Hay, old 2016 0 B@o 10 ,Potatoes, y, 901 b. $ $
New 0 si 0 9 i Kemp
Clover 0 6 0 7 , New 0 0— 0 i•
Grass
Straw, Wheat... 03— 0 4 Shoit Tops .. 39 4 0
Oat e 3 0 4 i Cattle
Barley
.
Carrots

MARRIED.
Yesterday, at Rock Ferry Church. by the Rev. Mr. Redhe6_,
Mr. JNO. ORTON HUDSON, flour dealer, Scotland.road,
ELLEN, only daughter of Mr,WM. LEA, New Ferry, Cheat°

ED
of the barque Nith, of this
On the 15th instant, aged 41 years, Captain JOHN GRAH-
Ag;
pDorlt..
On the 16th irstant, at Belle-rue, Shrewsbury, in her
'ear, SALLY --lint of Mr. JOSEPH EDGERLEY, of that

year, ac. _., relict of _
Yesterday, aged 4 years, ARNOLD, infant son of Mr. J.,
GAGE, Kirkdale.

LIVERPOOL :
TUESDAY, OCT. 20, 1846.
PRINTED AND PUBLISHED al
EVERY TUESDAY MORNI-‘
IT
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