The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1841-05-11 00:00:00

RAILWAY INTELLIGENCE

BRISTOL AND EXETRR RAILWAY.—The contracts for
the completion of the railway to Taunton are all taken and
to be completed by Midsummer, 1542. Taunton will then
be within six hours of the metropolis'

ND GLOUCESTER RAILWAY

-At th,

BIRMINGHAM IL, -
special meeting on Tuesday, resolutions were passed, auth,
rising an increase of capital to the amount of £175,000 in
10,000 scrip certificatesirof £l7 lOs each. The traffic was
reported as increasing favourably.
GLASGOW, PAISLEY, AND GREENOCK RAILWAY.—A
meeting was held on Wednesday week, for the purpose of
authorising the directors to raise £lOO,OOO in 8000 half shares
of .£l2 10s. each. The chairman congratulated the meeting

,ects of the railway

on the auspicious pr,„
NEWCASTLE AND CARLISLE RAILWAY.—On Tuesd
meeting was held of this company to consider the bill now
before Parliament, mid to authorise the directors to raise
£300,000, to construct branch lineS, and enlarge the stations.
The resolutions were unanimously adopted, and the meeting

ation at the continued im-

separated, expressing their gra
provement of the company's af.
MARYPORT AND CARLISLE RAILWAY.—The money for
the formation of this line, we learn from the Whitehaven
Herald, at the eastern end, has been advanced with great
promptitude, and in their next they expect to publish the
letting of the contracts for the construction of the railway
from Carlisle to Wigton.
SHEFFIELD AND MANCHESTER RAILWAY.—The York-
shire Gazette says, "'We have great pleasure in announcing
that the works are proceeding very favourably, and that the
directors feel confident in being able to'open the line eight
miles out of Manchester in the first week of September in
this year. The carriages and engines are contracted for to
be on the line by the first of September, so that the active
working of this important line may be confidently relied on."

BRIGHTON RAILWAY.—We may remind our readers that
it has been decided by the directors of the London and
Brighton Railway to open 20 miles of that line from London
to Hayward's-heath, in June. The whole work will be com-
pleted and opened to the public in August.
RAILWAY CHASE EXTRAORDINARY.—OH Thursday last,
a person named George Conley (having with him his wife
and six children) took places for himself and family by the
eleven o'clock railway train from Gloucester to Birmingham.
Soon after the train had started, Mr. W. Gillman, of North
Nibley, arrived at the station-house, in the hope of inter-
cepting Mr. Comley, who, he stated, had executed a forgery
upon him to the amount of £40., and had also committed
other fraudulent delinquencies, and was then en route for
Liverpool, where it was understood he had engaged a passage
for America. After a short consultation with Mr. Walker,
police superintendent, on the best steps to be adopted, a pur-
suit was resolved upon, and for a payment of £lO. an engine
was immediately got ready, with which Mr. Gillman and Mr.
Walker started, at high pressure speed, in the hope of over-
taking the train, which by that time had had the advantage
of about twenty minutes' start. After a fine chase, they suc-
ceeded in getting sight of the train at Ashchurcb, and fol-
lowed close in its wake to the Spetchley station, where, much
to the surprise and consternation of the fugitive, his pursuers
came up with him, and sadly deranged the plans he had so
cleverly laid for his escape. The remainder of his journey to
Birmingham was performed in the Company of Mr. Gillman,
who on arriving in that town, gave him into the custody of
the police on the charge of forgery. On Mr. Walker's return
to the Gloucester station, he found that the prisoner's land-
lord had a little too late sent a distress, in the hope of laying
an embargo on his runaway tenant's luggage. It would ap-
pear that he had been carrying on the business of a clothier
at North Nibley, till he suddenly decamped as above stated.
Yesterday afternoon he was brought to this city in the cus-
tody of Mr. Stephens, superintendent of the Birmingham
police force, and conveyed before the magistrates of the dis-
trict where the offences are alleged to have been committed.
His wife accompanies him back to Nibley, but his large and
nnfortunate family are left behind at Birmingham.

ECCLESIASTICAL AND_ UNIVERSITY

INTELLIGENCE

(From Me Oxford Herald.)
PROMOTIONS.

Rev. Henry Sudcliffe, 8.A., Curate of Brereton, to the
-Perpetual Curacy of Keele, Staffordshire ; patron, R. Sneyd,
Esq.
Rev. William Dannett, 8.A., to the Rectory of Naunton
Beauchamp, Worcestershire, vacant by the death of the Rev.
C. Copner ; patron, the Lord Chancellor.
Rev. W. Pashlev, 8.A., to the Recory of Aston Somer-
ville, Gloucestershire, vacant by the cession of the Hon. and
Rev. Wm. Somerville ; patron, Lord Somerville.
Rev. Richard Brough Maltby, 8.A., of St. John's Col-
lege, Cambridge, and of Whatton, to the Curacy of Kirkby
Woodhouse, Notts.
Rev. Charles Upham Barry, 8.A., of Trinity Hall, Cam-
bridge, to be Incumbent of St. Edward's, Cambridge; pa-
trons, the Master and Fellows of Trinity Hall.
The Archbishop of Canterbury has granted a dispensation
to the Rev. F. Simpson, of Queen's College, Cambridge, to
hold the Vicarage of Carnaby, and Chapelry of Fraisthope,
Yorkshire, together with the Vicarage of Boynton, in the
same county ; patron, Sir George Strickland, Bart., M.P.
Rev. Joseph Oldknow, of Christ's College, Cambridge, to
the Incumbency of Trinity Chapel, Bordesley.
Rev. W. Brocklebank, late of Queen's College, Cambridge,
to the Perpetual Curacy of Udimore, Sussex.
Rev. J. Donton, to the Vicarage of Biggleswade, Beds.

Rev. T. S:Evans, to the Vicarage of Si. Leonard. Shore-
ditch, London, vacant by the death of the Rev. H. Plimley ;
patron, the Archdeacon of London.
Rev. John M'Coniich, to the Perpetual Curacy of Coal-
vine Church, Northamptonshire, lately erected.
Rev. D. Mead, to the Perpetual Curacy of Brewham, So-
mersetshire ; patron, Sir Hugh Hoare, Bart.

Rev. Robert Bond, to thee Vicarage of Briston, Norfolk,
vacant by the death',of the Rev. George Preston; patron,
the Bishop of Norwich, by lapse.
Rev. Richard Davis Evans, M.A., to the •Rectory of
Kingston, Herefordshire, vacant by the cession of his father,
the Rev. William Evans.

SUGAR DUTIES

(From the Times of Friday, May 7:)

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The course which ministers propose this evening to pursue
in favour of slave grown sugar is certainly without a parallel
evert in the annals of whig infatuation and perfidy. To ex-
tirpate the practical evils of slavery, the people of this coun-
try consented, at the instigation of the whigs, to make the
enormous sacrifice of twenty millions sterling? and, at
length, when our national finances have become considerably
embarrassed in consequence of that arrangement, we are
gravely told by those same whigs, that in order to make up
the deficit, it is now necessary to ecourage the importation of
slave-grown sugar at a suitable duty, and thus to draw from
the slave produce of foreign colonies the fiscal resources that
may pay for its suppression in our own ! If this be not a
more flagitious instance of the thimble-rig than any they
have yet practised, we must protest that we are wholly igno-
rant of that elegant and dexterous art. Whether its low
chicanery, or its grievous injustice, or its loathsome inconsis-
tency be the more revolting and reprehensible, it may be dif-
ficult to say. Of this at least there can be no doubt, that
three important parties are deliberately insulted and defraud-
ed by the proposal—namely, the West India proprietors, the
British philanthropists, and the negro race.
A few years ago, when, naturally apprehensive of the de-
preciation and distress which property often sustains from an
experimental interference with the economy of labour, the
owners of West India estates came forward with great doubts
to assent to the premature termination of negro apprentice-
ship, they did so on a bond fide understanding that every
effort which paternal government could make might be con-
fidently relied on, not only to protect their interest from
further injury, but to give them a gaatifying proof of the
much-vaunted theory that free labour is really the most pro-
fitable to the proprietor. Since that period, contrary to the
flattering hopes which were held ont by the whigs and eman-
cipationists, the value of West India property has been stea-
dily and ruinously declining. The proceeds of many estates
in Jamaica, Antigua, Demerara, and Barbadoes, have hardly
paid the expense of cultivation. All that remained to sus-
tain the disheartened proprietors was the hope of a brighter
future; and now, after having generously anticipated the
wishes of their country by spontaneously terminating the
apprenticeship system, they are to be rewarded only four
years afterwards by seeing their free-grown sugars put out of
the market by the introduction of the slave produce of fo-
reigners.

then how are the whig ministers keeping faith with the
anti-slavery societies, and with that immense proportion of
the British community, who having realised their benevolent
intentions in our own dominions, are now directing their ef-
forts against negro bondage in other quarters of the world.
It cannot be too strongly impressed on the pnblic mind
that the main purpose and inevitable effect of the proposal
which the whigs are this evening to bring forward, is to en-
courage the importation of slave-grown sugars. Now let it
be remembered that " at the period when Wilberforce and
Clarkson began their philanthopic exertions against the slave
trade, and up to the period of its abolition in 1807, the ut-
most extent of the annual importation of slaves into all the
colonies, (English, French, Danish, Dutch. Spanish, and
Portuguese) did not exceed 70,000 ; whereas at the present
moment, the Spanish and Brazilian possessions alone, whose
sugars are now to be relieved from a part of the existing du-
ties, import annually no fewer than 150,000 slaves !" With
these latter States this country has conducted a series of ne-
gotiations. during a long course of years, with a view to the
complete extinction of slavery. The whig government, in
particular, has professed to be indefatigably zealous in this
Christian enterprise. The anti-slavery societies, the whole
community of Quakers, and other dissenting denominations,
have reposed such confidence in the honest intentions of the
ministry, that they have latterly left the matter entirely in
their own hands ; and when the whigs, on a late occasion,
advised Prince Albert to preside at the great gathering at Ex-
eter-hall, they seemed to leave the philanthropic party no-
thing further to desire. What, then, must be the astonish-
ment of the country on finding that the wretched impostors
who misconduct their affairs are now actually proposing to
put a bounty upon slavery, by encouraging the importation
of its iniquitous produce ? Where are the members of parli-
ament who will venture to support such an enormity, and
yet have the courage to face their dnped and indignant con-
stituents ?

It is quite manifest that the interests of the negro race in
this question command little commiseration from her n?a-
jesty s ministers ; but, umless we totally mistake the British
character, it will be far otherwise with our countrymen at
large. That their sympathies on behalf of suffering humanity
will be revived and prosecuted with untiring energy, as well
in regard to Spanish and Brazilian colonies as with reference
to our own, we cannot for a moment doubt : and as it is no-
torious that the condition of the negroes in those quarters is
infinitely worse than it ever was in any part of the English
dominions, we may reasonably infer that the friends of free-
dom will proportionably exert themselves to resist and defeat
whatever may tend to prolong its abominations. As long as
the wkigs made no overture for encouraging the system,
little could be done towards its removal or amelioration:
but now when a positive movement is made by them to pro-
mote and reward negro oppression by opening a market for
its produce, it is impossible but that all the nobler virtues of
our countrymen must rise up in righteous displeasure to
frustrate this guilty attempt, and to consign its authors to
to irretrievable infamy.

Pray how will Dr. Lushington, Mr. O'Connell, Mr. Pease,
and the anti-slavery orators vote upon this occasion? Let
the echoes of Exeter-hall give us an honest answer !

ABERYSTWITII—TREMENDOUS TULIND ER STORM.—This
town and neighbourhood was on Wednesday, the 28th ult.,
visited with one of the most awful thunder ie
:torteslre that has
ever been witnessed by the oldest inhabitants
on about four in the afternoon, accompanied with It camelightning
and rain, and continued with different degrees of intensity,
until seven, when it abated. At nine, it came' on again, and
raged with the greatest violence till eleven. This gust was
tremendous. " The spirit of the storm' was fairly abroad,
and thunder, lightning, and rain seemed to vie with each
other, as to which should contribute most to the fury of the
tempest, while night with her " sable pall" stood over the
warring elements communicating to the whole a sense of al-
most unimaginable gloom and sublimity. The effect of the
rain was everywhere visible the next morning, particularly on
roads where there was a fall, many of which were grooved as
if a sub-soil plough had gone through them. We understand
that a cottage was carried off by the flood, near Llanrhystyd,
while the inmates, with difficulty, saved themselves. Such
was the power of the flood at this place, that a cart was
fairly carried off by it to the sea. Llanifar bridge was con-
siderably damaged, and foot-bridges without number were
swept off. We have not heard of any lives being lost, ex-
cept that of a poor woman near Llangeitho, but whether that
was occasioned by the flood or the lightning, we have not
been able to ascertain.— C rik an Journal.

MISCELLANEOUS

Admiral Elliot has reached England from China, in ti
Volage.

OVERLAND MAILS TWICE A MONTII.—We have just
learned that the Government of India have resolved to apply
to the Court of Directors for the despatch of overland mail
packets twice a month. This, if permitted, will prove a most
important and beneficial change.—Bombay paper.

RATHER DOUBTFUL !—At the in at Greta bridge, kept by
Mr. Atkinson, may be seen, pendant from a hat peg, the
identical wooden bowl and spoon used at Dotheboys Hall,
for the purpose of containing and doling out the treacle-and-
brimstone to the young tyros, as described by the inimitable
." Boz" in his Nicholas Nickleby.
THE ORCHARDS.—Herefordshire has now assumed its
most beautiful appearance. The " blow" in the orchards is
very abundant, and sheets of blossom every where meet the
eye, giving that delightful aspect to the landscape which is
nowhere else to be met with ; if but one half of the blossom
stands, the crops will be very abundant.—Worcester Journal.

TILE MIN ISTRY.—A gentleman, meeting the Duke of
Wellington after the late disgraceful discomfiture experienced
by the ministers, accosted him thus :—Well, your grace, the
ministers will surely go out after this division;" to which
the duke promptly rejoined, " Not at all ; they will never go
out till driven out by a division of police."
By the Alert packet the advices from Rio Janeiro come to
the 14th of March. In the Journal do Commercio, of the
Bth of that month, there are some interesting returns of the
public revenue. They show that the import duties of Rio
had considerably increased. In the year 1836 they amounted
to 4,200 contos of reis, and in 1840 reached upwards of 6,930
contos, thus showing an increase of 63 per cent. The export
duties amounted in 1836 to 1,255 contos of reis, and in 1810
to 1,900 contos, showing an increase of 52 per cent.

CHURCH MISSIONARY SOCIETY.—On Tuesday the an-
nual meeting of this society took place in Exeter Hall, Lon-
don, at which the Right Hon. the Earl of Chichester pre-
sided. Amongst the noblemen and gentlemen on the plat-
form were—Lord Viscount Sandon, Lord Glenelg, the Bishop
of Winchester, the Bishop of Chester, Mr. Plumptre. M.P.,
Sir G. Rose, and a large number of clergymen. The hall was
completely filled. At six o'clock in the evening another
large meeting of this society was held at the above-mentioned
place, on which occasion the Marquis of Cholmondeley was
voted to the chair, when numerous speeches were made in
support of other resolutions, and the proceedings did not ter-
minate till nearly 10 o'clock.

THREE BROTHERS AND A SISTER DROWNED.—WICK,
APRIL 30.—We have seen a letter dated Lochinver, Suther-
land, 27th instant, addressed to a gentleman of this place
(Wilk), from which the following is an extract :—" A boat
loaded with sea weed, on board of which there were three
brothers and their sister, of the name of M`Kenzie, as also a
young man named Matheson, was upset on the evening of
Saturday last, the 24th inst., when crossing from the south
to the north side of Lochinver. a distance of not more than a
mile. The accident was seen from the shore, and a crew im-
mediately put off in order to render them assistance, but un-
fortunately, before they arrived at the scene of the sad catas-
trophe, the boat and those in her had sunk. None of the
bodies have as yet been found."—Wick paper.

THE GREAT BEGGAR OF THE AGE.—Of all men under
the sun, Daniel O'Connell is the person who ought to make
his allusions to mendicity the most delicate. Is he not the
leading mendicant of Britain—the prince of beggarmen,
whose wallets are open to all accessions, from a potato to a
pound sterling—who lives by begging, speaks for begging,
agitates for bogging, bullies, blarneys, and blasphemes for
begging—to whom begging is air, eloquence, life, hope—all ?
Does this man accommodate his mouth to mention spoils,
and peculation, and plunder, presumed to be perpetrated by
tones ? Daniel O'Connell, and none else, could have mus-
tered impudence to do so. This, in fact, is one striking cha-
racteristic of a depraved and ruined character—that such can
steal, and yet preach homilies against theft ; murder, and
harangue, about the Ratheormic slaughter ; rob the poor,
and weep over their oppressions ; cry, " Liberty for ever !"
and the meanwhile add another rivet.—Fraser's Magazine.

DREADFUL FIRE IN LONDON—Two LIVES LOST.—
On Tuesday morning, at about ten minutes after twelve
o'clock, the inhabitants of the eastern part of London were
thrown into the most painful excitement in consequence of a
fire of a terrible description, and involving a lamentable sa-
crifice of human life, breaking out in Church-lane, White-
chapel, adjacent to the church. The circumstances con-
nected with the unfortunate calamity are most deplorable,
and occasioned throughout the whole day the deepest interest
in the neighbourhood. The premises in which the fire com-
menced were situate on the west side of Church-lane, and
comprised a brick building three stories high, containing a
shop at the basement, and five rooms above. They were
occupied by Mr. Abraham Berlyn, slipper-maker and dealer
in marine stores, who let a portion of the first and second
floor to a middle-aged female named Wheller, whose chil-
dren (two boys, one 16 years of age, and the other 8) perished
in the flames.
DESTRUCTIVE FIRE IN LONDON.—On Friday night, a
few minutes before nine o'clock, a fire broke out in the lower
part of the St. George's Hotel, Albemarle-street. The in-
mates had barely time to escape from the premises ere the
flames gained a great ascendancy, and, extending to the rear,
caught to the house in Dover-stret, which formed a part of
the hotel. In a short time, several engines belonging to the
first brigade establishment were on the spot, and, there being
a plentiful supply of water, they were immediately put into
requisition. About ten o'clock the roofs of both houses fell
in with a loud crash, and then, the flames having flee vent,
the sky was illumined for milts round. Happily the fire was
confined to the hotel, and at eleven o'clock the flames were
so far got under as to allay all fear of other houses being in-
cluded in the conflagragation. Thousands of persons as-
sembled to witness the scene, amongst the most active of
whom were the light-fingered gentry, many of whom, how-
ever, were taken into custody. The house was furnished in the
most costly style, and property to the amount of some thou-
sands of pounds has been destroyed. It is supposed that the
fire originated in the kitchen; but in what way, of course,
in the confusion and alarm that ensued, it has been impossi-
ble to ascertain. Mr. Stewart, the proprietor of the hotel,
is insured. The loss of property occasioned by this dreadful
occurrence may be estimated at about £lO,OOO.
A. YOUTH SHOT BY HIS FATHER l—For a long time past
depredations of an extensive nature have been committed in
the gardens of Mr. Cooke, of Weston, near Bath, to the
perpetrators of which no clue could be obtained. On Mon-
day night, Mr. C. was alarmed on hearing some one on his
premises, and he accordingly got up, and, armed with a
loaded gun, proceeded to scour the gardens in search of the
untimely intruders. After a brief search he observed some
one making off from the cucumber frames. He shouted
" Stop," but the trespasser did not heed the cry, and Mr.
Cooke accordingly levelled his gun and fired. The object
immediately dropped, and on Mr. Cooke seizing him, he was
shocked at beholding his own son ! It is necessary to state
that this unfortunate youth is one of the worst description of
characters, having been more than once placed at the bar for
offences of a very serious nature ; and there is too much rea-
son to fear that through him the robberies in his father's gar-
den have been effected. It is a melancholy circumstance,
but the youth has become so utterly incorrigible as to repel,
all sympathy in bis behalf. On examining his person at the
station-house, the charge of the gun was found to have struck
his neck and shoulders, though not to any dangerous extent.
He was taken before the magistrates, at Chandos-house, on
the following day, but the unhappy father declining to appear
against him, he was discharged with a severe admonition.

BURGLARY WITH VIOLENCE.—A daring outrage was per-
petrated on Monday last at the residence of a farmer, named
Bayman, residing near Tring, on the borders of Hefts, in the
county of Bucks. Mr. Bayman and his family retired to
rest at their usual hour, and about one o'clock on the Tues-
day morning they were alarmed by a noise as of some person
being in the house, and immediately afterwards three men,
with their faces blackened, rushed into Mr. Bayman's bed-
room. He jumped out of bed, when the first man, who had
a candle in one hand and a pistol in the other, pointed the
pistol at him, and threatened to blow his brains out if he did
not be quiet and give up his money. They then forced him
on the bed, and, with the most dreadful oaths, declared they
would murder him if he did not give them money. Mr.
Bayman, finding resistance to be hopeless, gave the villains
ten sovereigns and some silver; and one of them then stood
guard over him, while the two others proceeded to the bed-
room of Miss Bayman, the daughter of Mr. Bayman, of
whom they demanded money, and, upon her telling them she
had not got any, they used most horrible imprecations, and
broke open every box and drawer in the room in the expec-
tation of finding some money. The ruffians then proceeded
to the lower part of the premises, and for nearly two hours
they were employed in ransacking the house, and when they
had packed up a quantity of valuable property, consisting of
wearing apparel, silver spoons, watches, &c., they again
went to the bed-room of Mr. Bayman, and one of the men
produced his gun, and loaded it in his presence, and told him
that they would fire it off as a signal when they had left the
premises ; and they told him that if he went down stairs, or
gave any alarm before the morning, they would return and
murder him. The villains then decamped. Three men
were afterwards taken into custody for the robbery—and
gfter a long investigation were committed for trial.
TREMENDOUS HURRICANE.—On Saturday morning last
it blew a dreadful hurricane from about six o'clock. At one
o'clock it was at its height, and slates, chimneys, &c. were
falling in all directions. A great part of the beautiful new
church of this town, the walls of which were nearly finished,
was blown down. For some minutes before the building
gave way, it struggled with the storm, to the admiration and
astonishment of many persons who witnessed it ; at length
the side-wall came down with a tremendous crash, in a solid
piece. Never was a finer piece of mason-work seen ; it was
ornamental, and would be permanent had it got time to take
bond. The building would have been roofed in the course
of the ensuing month. Several large trees were blown down
throughout the county; many cains were razed to the
ground, and larger houses unroofed. We have not heard of
any loss of life. At six o'clock in the evening the hurricane
having wasted its fury, the weather moderated, and has since
become mild and warm.—Ballyshannon Herald.

DISTRESSING ACCIDENT AT GREENOCK.—Monday noon.
—A most distressing accident, attended with loss of life, has
just occurred here, at the large cotton-mill on the Shaws
water. As Mr. Ludovic Grant, the excellent manager of
the work, was showing the great wheel, and interior of the
the wheel-house, to Mr. Muir, of the saw-mill, Glasgow.
they observed two small pieces of stone falling from the
upper part of the wall, and while stooping to lift them, the
whole eastern side wall of the wheel-house gave way, and
buried the party, together with about half a dozen of the
workmen, in the ruins. At first it was believed that the
whole would have been killed, but Mr. Muir escaped in a
most miraculous manner, as did several of the workmen,
leaving Mr. Grant and two masons covered with the rubbish.
After the lapse of an hour or more, the lifeless corpse of Mr.
Grant, together with one of the workmen, were dug out
dreadfully disfigured. The third was taken out all but dead,
and three of the others were severely injured, but not dan-
gerously. The event, which has not yet been properly ac-
counted for, has thrown a deep gloom over the whole com-
munity, as all were interested in the welfare and prosperity
of the work. Mr. Grant and his friends had not been five
minutes in the wheel-house when the accident happened.

RUIN FOR IRELAND.—REPEAL OF THE CORN LAWS.—
It was announced by Lord John Russell, on Friday night,
that it was his intention to repeal the corn laws, and establish
a fixed duty on foreign importation, in place of the price be-
ing regulated, as heretofore, by a scale depending upon ave-
rages. The country will be stunned to hear it. Ireland, in
particular, may start on hearing the news, as a merchant,
whose all is embarked in a single ship, might start to see her
suddenly arrested in the course of a prosperous voyage, and
drifting broadside on towards the rockiest promontory that
breaks the wave of the Atlantic. Every penny we are worth
is at stake. If that protection be withdrawn from us, which
has hitherto given us a market for our agricultural produce—
our only produce—all we have in the world to depend upon
—if that protection be withdrawn, and ministers now openly
declare themselves prepared to deprive us of it, Ireland will
be left as utterly and as irremediably beggared as ever was
the uninsured merchant, whose all was embarked in the one
ship, and that ship gone to the bottom. Our whole worldly
means—all that we possess under the canopy of heaven—do
not amount to forty-five millions a-year, and of that more
than forty
consist in agricultural produce. If ministers re-
duce the price of that sort of produce twenty-five per cent.,
it wouldibe ten millions a-year gone to us and our posterity
for ever . They
might as well take five-and-twenty per cent.
i off the income of a day
labourer
reatKsiinxgpdeonmce aw-eday.
liAttsle compared with the rest of the u
bet-
ter off than such a labourer, compared with one who regu-
larly earns a pound a-week. They may be able to bear It ;
we cannot. NA, e must break, the best of us—many, very
many of us must STARVE, if ministers succeed in stripping
us of the protection ot the corn law.—Dublin Evening Mail.

‘ .
Wheat Qrs. 2486 20920 23406
.
Barley Qrs. 1 613 53 666
Malt
Qrs., 3172 3172
Oats
Rye Qrs. 1
Beans Qrs.! 852 4265 5117

Pease. Qrs. 45 1 45
Shelled Barley . Qrs.
Indian Corn .. Qrs.
Rapeseed Qrs.
Oatmeal .. . . Loads 1 7253 6 7259
Flom . Sacks 149 n i 16u
Ditto . Brls. 1 5481 5481

Into Runcorn, Ireland and Coastwise :—Wheat, qrs. ; Beans,
qrs. ; Oats, 140 qrs. ; Oatmeal, 560 Ids. ; Flour, sacks.

EXPORTS.—Foreign. Oats, 21 qrs. ; Pease. 18 qrs. ; Oatmeal,
42 loads ; Flour, 639 brls.--Ireland. Wheat, 942 qrs. ; Barley,
qrs. ; Rye, qrs.; Beans, qrs. ; Indian Corn, qrs.; Oat-
meal, loads.—Coastwise. Wheat, 1604 qrs. ; Barley, 40 qrs. I
Oats, 25 qrs. ; Rye, 60 qrs.; Pease, 158 qrs, ; Beans, 31 quarters;
Oatmeal, 15 loads; Flour, 325 sacks 874 brls.

Average prices of Grain, for the week ending May 3, 1841.
Wheat.. 635. Bd. I Barley 31s. Bd. I Oats.. 235. ad. I Rye.. 355. Od
Beans.. 38s. Bd. I Pease.. 38s. Id.

Aggregate average of the six weeks

Wheat 635. Ild.lßa7ley 325. 6d. Oats..23s. Id. Rye.. 355. 3d

Beans.. 395. 3d. Pease.. 38s. 9d.
Duty on Foreign Grain, &c. this week.
Wheat 235.8 d. I Barley 13s. 10d. 1 Oats .. 12s. 3d. I Rye.. 16s. 9(1
Beans 11s. Od. Pease.. 12s. 6d. I Ind. Corol3s.lod. Flourl4s.2ld
Liverpool Averages, week ending May 4. 1841.
Wheat. j Barley. Oats. Beans. 1 Pease.
Qrs I 1228 294
Prices