The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1847-12-28 00:00:00

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fatly theoretical ; for if a Belgian vessel, returning
borne in ballast, took a cargo to the Isle of Wight
it a reduced freight on her way home, would it
not be a deprivation to our own coasters ?
The Reviewer, brought up in the Manchester
school, of course imagines that the throwing out
of employ of a few thousands of shipwrights and
carpenters should be reckoned as nothing, provided
an equal number of weavers and spinners are
brought into work ; and also seems to regard as
Certain what is extremely doubtful—whether in-
crease of commerce would augment in proportion
the number of British carriers, when all the foreign
shipping of the world was let loose upon us. His
notions of equivalents also seem to be perfectly
one-sided ; for he conceives that the abolition of
so trivial a thing as the 7th section of the present
Navigation Act, and the dispensing with appren-
tices (a matter of very *doubtful policy), would
compensate the British, shipowner for the losses
he would inevitably sustain by the total repeal of
the Navigation Law.
As it is now announced that a modification of
this law is to occupy the early attention of the
legislature, and it is possible that the article at
which we, briefly glanced may have been put
forth as a feeler to the country, we shall enter into
a consideration of the writer's views on a future
occasion.

THE committee appointed to enter into an inves-
tigation of the effect of our system of currency in
producing the commercial difficulties under which
the country has been labouring, have adjourned
their sittings, as we anticipated, until the 4th of
February, when parliament meets again for busi-
ness. The mode in which the enquiry is intended
to be conducted has, no doubt, been determined
upon ; hot, beyond this, nothing has been done.
We greatly fear, therefore, that all that we have to
expect
from its labours for some twelve months to
come is a blue book at the end of the session, by
which time the bank directors will have been enabled
to get up in the country a factitious prosperity,
which will serve to render us forgetful of what we
have recently been suffering ; and that legislation
on the subject will then be postponed for another
year, or probably the question will be cushioned until
the recurrence of another monetary pressure brings
the country once more to its proper senses.
We would urge upon the various commercial
communities to be prepared to defeat the efforts of
the ultra-bullionist party thus to get rid of so all-
important a subject. The question must not be
allowed to,be put to sleep. It should be agitated;
and, most important of all, our leading merchants
and bankers ought to confer with each other, and
to be prepared to lay before parliament a remodi-
fication of our monetary system, which will meet
the altered circumstances of the country. Our
commercial associations ought to debate the ques-
tion. Each member ought to bring to the various
bodies the result of his experience of the working of
`the present laws. There will be found in the
accounts of the many suspended mercantile estab-
lishments striking practical lessons on the subject.
It will he seen from these sources of information
the process by which our large concerns are one
day oppressed with the extent of capital within
their reach for investment or speculation, and at
another time, without any previous warning, are
reduced to the adoption of all sorts of expedients
to avert ruin. A vast mass of information might thus
be got together, and arranged, with the deductions
to be drawn from it, ready to be laid before the
Parliamentary Committee as soon as it meets, or to
be brought before parliament and the country,
should that Committee show a disposition to burke
tha enquiry.
It should he made, too, a point of duty with the
well-informed amongst the mercantile and trading
class to study, and to make themselves thoroughly
conversant with, the subject of currency. There is
no class of the community, from the merchant
prince, the fundowner, and the holder of railway
shares, to the shopkeeper and even the labourer,
who is not deeply interested in the proper adjust-
ment and regulation of the circulating medium.
There is no holder of a contract, no acceptor of a
bill of exchange, no buyer or seller of a commodity,
no man even whose capital is his labour, whose
interests are not at stake—who is not liable to
have all his enterprise rendered nugatory by an
arbitrary turn, or an injudicious relaxing of the
screw, of which the handle is in the bank parlour.
There can be no safety until not only the banker
and the merchant capitalist, but the tradesman and
shopkeeper as well, are able to see before they enter
into engagements, whether they are likely to be able
to meet them—whether, in short, there may not be,
at the very moment they may be making such en-
gagements, an artificial crisis preparing, which will
raise beyond their reach the capital upon which
they are depending.

There is, we verily believe, not a commercial
nation in the world, whose trading classes are more
generally ignorant upon monetary questions, than
the British nation. The subject has been studiedly
mystified, and represented as one with which only
legislators have occasion to be conversant, when, in
fact, the circumstances which affect the demand
for, and supply of, money are as important to be
known, and as simple, as those which affect the
demand and supply of any article of produce or
of merchandize.

LATEST INTELLIGENCE.

(BY EXPRESS.)

THE WEST INDIES

The Trent steamer arrived from the West Indies at
Southampton, yesterday. She has brought 17,000 dollars
and £1,970.
The most important news from Barbadoes is that the
West India Bank suspended payment on the Ist of De-
cember. It was, however, generally supposed the em-
barrassment was only of a temporary nature, and that
the bank would go on again shortly.

VIE DESIGNS OF POPERY AND THE OATH OF

ALLEGIANCE

The legislators of this Protestant country, and our high
functionaries, of fttrious kinds, are required, on their as-
suinption of the official powers, to swear that " no foreign
prince, prelate, or power has, or ought to have, any
authority or jurisdiction within this realm ;" and it must
be admitted that the oath in question—the oath of supre-
macy—is rather a difficult pill for a conscientious man to
swallow. What can we say, for instance, of the hardship
of insisting upon our making a solemn asseveration of the
absence of authority in the Pope of Rome to exercise
spiritual authority within this realm, with the following
paragraph before us, which we take from the columns of
the Morning Post 1—
" The Rev. John H. Newman was to leave Rome on the
9th instant, for England. Mr. Newman is the bearer of
documents of great importance relative to the arrangement
of the Roman Catholic dioceses, and the establishment of
new Bishoprics. He is expected in England in a few days."
If if is not a fact that the Pope of Rome exercises " spi-
ritual authority" over the priesthood of Great Britain and
Ireland, we can scarcely conceive what the term used
means. It has been- said, indeed, in past times, as an
answer to the charge of interference, that the Romish
clergy only acknowledged him as their guide in matters of
faith and doctrine. But here we have him exercising
both a temporal and spiritual authority; re-arranging
Romish dioceses in this country, and establishing new
bishoprics ; exercising, in fact, over the Romish clergy
and church here precisely the same authority which her
Majesty the Queen, her Privy Council and Parliament
exercise by law over the Established Church of England.
There is not a hair's breadth of difference between the
two jurisdictions.
But the Pope, it would seem, contemplates and claims
still further inroads upon the Protestant faith and the
temporal power vested in the Queen, the Lords, and Com-
mons of Great Britain, if we can believe that the leading
organ of British Papists—the Tablet—is in earnest in the
following paragraph contained in one of his recent num-
bers. His holiness asks to be enabled to control not only
his own spiritual subjects, but to dictate to the sovereign
and the legislature of this realm what laws they shall
enact. We quote the paragraph as one of the most
astounding pieces of impudence with which we have
recently met :

" Calm your perturbation, ye excellent individuals, and
submit with decent dignity o the inevitable. It is even
so. It must be so. It will be so yet more and more.
You are only at the beginning of your perplexity. The
Pope will speak more loudly than ever, and what is more,
he will be listened to. He will turn over your musty acts
of parliament with finger and thumb, scrutinising them
with a most irreverent audacity ; examining those which
concern him; and when he has found these, rejecting
some, and tolerating others, with as much freedom as
you use when you handle oranges in a shop, selecting
the soft and sweet, and contemptuously rejecting the
sour and the rotten. And then—oh ! dreadful thought
—he will insist upon being obeyed. The very slates
of Exeter Hall must erect themselves in horror at the
bare thought of such a thing. What ! The bill was
read three times in each session of Parliament : it was
twice passed, engrossed on parchment, garnished with a
waxen appendage by way of seal, and has had over it pro-
nounced by Royal lips the mysterious and creative fiat,
La Reineveut. The Queen wills it—the Lords will it—
the Commons will it. What does it want to complete the
perfect fashion of a law ? Nothing of solemnity, nothing
of force, which the imperial sceptre of the kingdom could
give, is wanting to it. But truly it may want the sanction
of religion ' • the Pope snuffs disdainfully at it ; the Ita-
lian Priest will have none of it ; it trenches upon his
rights, or rather upon his duties : it violates the integrity
of those interests which he is set to guard ; and, there-
fore, Commons, Lords' Queen, wax, parchment and all,
avail it very little. You may call it law, if you please.
You may enter it on your roll. You may print it in the
yearly volume of your statutes. But before long you
will have to repeal or alter it, to procure the sanction of
a foreign potentate, without which it has not, in the end,
the value of a tenpenny nail.
Thrice happy England ! A blessed lot, indeed, it is
which is in store for us, as the repayment of all the con-
cessions which .we have made to this insatiable power.
By and bye, unless British Protestantism awake from its
false arena of security, neither the decisions of a British
parliament, the crown of a British Sovereign, nor the
liberties or lives of a British Protestant people will be—
if we may use the language of this insolent Popish scribe—
"worth a tenpenny nail " !

PRESENTATION TO CHARLES EDWARD
RAWLINS, ESQ.

Mr. Mayer, in Lord-street, has just completed a
service of plate, to be given by the members of
the Antimonopoly Association, of this town, to their
late secretary, which is, as a work of art, perhaps the
purest specimen, and the best adapted to illustrate the
subject that has been executed for many years, if we
might not say ever was got up in this country. The
principal piece is a large sized waiter, which is made on
quite an original plan. The centre is a raised flat, on which
is chased a figure of Victoria the First, seated on a rock,
with the British lion at her feet, and a globe, which is
onwreathed with a laurel branch, as showing the blessing
of peace enjoyed by the world at this period. Her right
hand is extended in the act of receiving the four geogra-
phical sisters, Europe, America, Asia, and Africa, with
their characteristic emblems. Then in a lower, or sunken
circle, are represented the principal trading nations of the
earth, bartering and exchanging their manufactures and
the produce of the soil with English merchants, for their
varied articles of necessity, comfort, or elegance. In
one group is the American giving his cotton, tobacco,
&c., for the produce of Manchester and Spitalfields.
Another, the liberated slave, has adopted the European
costume, and is introducing the English merchant to his
sable brethren, and showing them the advantages of com-
merce in exchanging their ivory, palm oil, &c. for calicoes
and articles of domestic comfort. The Asiatic forms
another group, and with his laden camels is transporting
his spices and gums to give in exchange for articles his
unsettled habits of life preclude him from manufactUring
with equal perfection and cheapness. The Chinese is of-
fering his chests of tea and other products of the country
in barter for cloths and other goods he does not make.
Here is a group of Spanish peasants, with their pic-
turesque Andalusian costume, enjoying a harvest home,
after the gathering of the fruit of the vine: whilst in
another group is the haughty Spaniard, in his ample cloak,
arguing the value of his pipes of wine, to be disposed of
for some bales of English manufactured goods, of which
the seller feels equal pride for the superiority of their
quality and fabric.
Each group has its appropriate distinctions in the falls
of Niagara, the shipping and steamers on the Guadal-
quiver, the sugar-canes of Western India, the palm trees
of Africa, the elephant, the camel, and the horse, the
pyramids, the pagoda, and the spire, the proha, the
junk, and the steamer, as each distinguishing the country
to which it is peculiar.
The border is again raised above the chasing, to an
equal height with the centre, and is a broad and richly-
chased band, on which are grouped the various articles
used in domestic, agricultural, mechanical, industrial,
and ornamental convenience or skill. The centre is re-
lieved from the broad flat of chasing by a polished band
of bright silver on which is engraved the following quota-
tion :—" Monopoly is the Parent of scarcity, of dearness,
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peace and good-will to the different nations of the earth
who visit her shores. The ink bottles are formed of the
lotus, to represent the oldest nation, and the cotton plant
as the youngest nation of commercial greatness.
Besides these, there is a beautiful basket enriched in
the same style, together with a large table service of
silver plate.

ST. SAVIOUR'S CHURCH

TO THE EDITOR OF THE LIVERPOOL STANDARD,

SlR,—Having frequently witnessed your able advocacy
of our Scriptural Church of England, I hope you will be
able to afford a small space for a short notice respecting
St. Saviour's Church.

To all those in the town who feel interested in the spread
of the truth, as it is in Jesus, but especially to such inha-
bitants as reside within the district of Falkner-square, it
must be a matter of great joy and thankfulness to notice
its improving circumstances.
It may scarcely become me to say how devoted the re-
spected incumbent seems to his work ; but the fact of the
free seats filling, proves that the Gospel is indeed preached
to the poor, and that when Christ is proclaimed scrip-
turally, faithfully, and affectionately, first, last, and
always, the people will flock to the green pastures of
God's sanctuary, where they may be fed with the bread
and water of life freely.

It cannot fail to I:ejm ost gratifying to the new minister
(Rev. G. W. Warr) to observe the increased congregation
within the past few months ; and it must be a source of
great encouragement to him to persevere in his indefa-
tigable labours. I, for one, should rejoice to see the sa-
cred edifice thronged with devout worshippers, not hearers
or admirers only, but faithful doers of the Word, who will
" so let their light shine before men, that they may see
their good works, and glorify our Father, which is in Hea-
ven ; ' and thus give demonstrable evidence of being " the
living epistles of Christ known and read of all men."
Praying that the Church of Christ may extend on
every side, and that St. Saviour's may prove a great
blessing its neighbourhood ; that its already endeared
pastor, who has the prayers of unknown friends to sustain
him in his arduous duties, may be abundantly " watered
himself while in the act of watering others," and be made
the honoured instrument of winning many souls to
Christ. who shall constitute " his crown of rejoicing in the
Presence of our Lord Jesus Christ at His coming;"
_ I remain, dear sir, your's truly, X X.

[The writer of the foregoing is 'Wwarm friend of the
Church of England, and we gladly comply with his wish
to insert his letter.]

CHARGE OF FELONY.—John.Campbell and John Cash
were charged by Anthony Robinson with having stolen a
quantity of composition nails at the Brunswick Dock.
Mr. Rushton said it was not a case of felony against the
prisoners, (who were discharged,) but observed that it was
one of very serious inquiry against the dockmaster of the
Brunswick (Charles Vas), who had in solve way been a
party to permitting the robbery, and he directed that a
statement of the facts should be sent to Mr. Brumley-
Moore.

THE SHIPOWNERS AND THE IMPORTERLS OF

FOREIGN PRODUCE

For some years past the position in which the shipowner
has found himself placed with the merchant, on the
arrival of his vessel from a foreign port, with respect to,
the payment of his freight, has been felt as one of con-
siderable inconvenience. The former is bound to satisfy,
in the first instance, the claims of his crew for wages,
within a day or two of their being put on shore. He has
various port charges to pay, and he may have to meet
bills drawn upon him by his captain in the port from
which his vessel sailed, or in any other port at which he
may have been driven to put in for water, repairs, &c.
To enable him to fulfil these oblintions, he has, if not a
party of ample capital or credit, to depend in a good mea-
sure upon the collection of his freight, or occasionally to
receive an advance upon it from the broker to whom the

ship is consigned.
In ordinary times, the collection of the freight, al-
though teasing, is not productive of serious difficulty. He
finds a portion of the cargo consigned "to order; ' and
when, as is frequently the case, the merchant holding
such order" and the bill of lading, does not promptly
present himself to own and take away such cargo, but en-
deavours to use the ship itself as a warehouse until he
finds a buyer, delay in discharging occurs, and, indepen-
dentlyof havingto wait anunreasonabletitne for his money,
he may lose, and frequently does lose, an advantageous
outward freight. By the terms of his charter party, the
earnings of the ship are due on the delivery of the cargo
"in good order and condition ; " but in such cases, he
cannot deliver, because he does not know to whom the
cargo has to be handed. The only course then open to
him is, after proper notice given, to warehouse the goods
at the expense of the owners, to be delivered to them on
the payment of freight and charges.
But here a difficulty arises which, in times of pressure
and fluctuation of prices like the present, becomes a seri-
ous one. The shipowner has no power of forcing .a sale to
repay him for his outlay. He has to wait until the state
of the market enables the importer to realise : and thus,
should the voyage have been a long one, and the article
imported a low priced one, of which the freight compoes
a large portion of its value here, he is, in many instances,
finding bona fide capital to a large amount for the use of
the speculator. In many instances, where the market for
a commodity thus shipped has sustained a severe depres-
sion, its saleable value on arrival may be found not to
cover the freight. At this moment we learn that there is
East India produce ( rice) stored in our Albert Dock
warehouses, which has been so far depreciated in price
that, if sold to-morrow, it would not realise the freight
and the rent chargeable. Yet the shipowner has long ago
performed his part of the contract, and paid his wages,
port dues, &c. It is by his Capital that it is now held ;
yet he has no such control over the produce as will enable
him to realise.

We are glad to perceive, from a communication ad-
dressed by a Liverpool shipowner to the London Times,
that this great grievance is exciting the attention of the
parties most interested, and that efforts are about being
commenced for its redress. It ought to be taken up not
only by the shipowners and charterers of vessels them-
selves, but by those merchants as well, who are in the
habit of rendering themselves fully responsible for their
transactions. A legitimate import trade can never be
done whilst the man of no means, or of indifferent honesty,
is allowed by this loose system to conduct large operations
without, at the same time, being compelled to assume a
proper amount of responsibility for their result. We ap-
prehend that the mercantile community and the ship-
owners have the remedy within their own reach. A power
of sale, within a reasonable limit, and with just regulations
as to the mode of conducting such sale, might be given in
all charter-parties. If this, however, cannot be done, or
if the necessary amount of unanimity upon the subject
cannot be insured, we cannot think that the legislature
would refuse interference if the case were fairly brought
before its notice.

POPERY AND SUPERSTITION STILL ALLIED.

Under this head we last week inserted a brief article,
shewing that " in the Swiss quarrel, one of the strongest
weapons used by the priesthood in the Romish cantons,
to urge their flocks to resistance, was an assurance of an
especial divine protection, vouchsafed to all who should
fight in the church's cause." Amulets were, forsooth,
to be sold, at half-a-crown each, represented as efficacious
in turning aside bullets from the person of the wearer.
We also said that a similar amulet had been recently
found at Birkenhead. In consequence of our notice of
these facts, we have received (as a further confirmation)
a curious little tract, of eight pages, entitled, " Two
Divine Revelations, revealed to St. Augustine, St. Brid-
get, and St. Anne, by our Lord and Saviour Jesus
Christ," and " printed in the present year," so far as
we can make out the type. The document, which has a
large staring cross on the first page, is much worn, soiled,
and tattered, having been worn as a bosom friend, and
often perused by the owner, a labourer at some buildings
in this town, in whose bag, accidentally dropped, it was
found. In the second page an attempt is made to explain
the authenticity of the ' revelations," and it is stated that
" The second explains the Twelve Golden Fridays in the
year, and the Devotions, together with some salutary
Acts, by the late Rev. Father Murphy, D.D.,—revised
and improved by several learned and eminent Divines of
the Church of Rome, and now published for the general
benefit of all pious Catholics, from a manuscript carefully
translated from the Italian ;" thus giving an authority
and a sanction, in the eyes of the ignorant, to the super-
stitious and blasphemous asseverations which it sets forth.
The " charm" assumed to belong to personal possession
of this piece of paper is thus set forth within brackets

.
" All Christians are here to note the virtues of this reve-
lation are such, that what man or woman soever who
shall carry it about them, fulfilling the requests of our
Holy Mother of the Church, shall not only be free from
their enemies, but also from a sudden and unprovided
death ; and if a woman travailling with child shall have it
about her, she will not only be safely delivered, but like-
wise be free from the fear of death in childbed ; and what
house or place it is kept in shall be free from evil spirits.
And to him or her who shall carry it about them, the
Blessed Virgin will appear, and forewarn them of their
future blessed state." The concluding words are " Chris-
tians, pray for the souls of C. and M. C." We need offer
no comment on this unmanly and anti-Christian entrap-
ment of the ignorant mind, and all the harm we wish the
cunning priest or priests who have framed it, is that one
of them should be kept in each of their houses, so that
(by their own asseveration) it " shall be free from evil
spirits."

We are authorised to state, in reference to an allusion
in the Mail, that the Rev. Samuel Fenton had nothing
whatever to do with the address from the clergy of Liver-
pool approving of Dr. Hampden's promotion. The rev.
gentleman never even saw the address.
GRATIFYING TESTIMONIAL.—On Christmas-day the
churchwardens (Messrs. Robinson and M'Culloch) of St.
Mary's, Bootle, on behalf of the congregation, presented
their valued incumbent, the Rev. John Crump, with a
purse containing one hundred guineas : a substantial to-
ken of their approbation of his untiring zeal in the service
of his flock. The testimonial is not the less gratifying to
one and complimentary to the other, froinott3ciiiric=l:
stance of Mr. Crump's recent appointment t
to cement the
bency, where we hope to see tin o
' n already so auspiciously formed between pastor and
um.
people.
SUDDEN DEATHS.—Yesterday an inquest was held be-
fore Mr. Curry, on view of the body of Thomas Fair-
dough, the son of a rigger living in Henderson-street,
Toxteth-park. On the afternoon of Saturday deceased
fell asleep, and was put to bed in apparently his usual
health ;—he was found dead shortly afterwards. He was
a delicate child, and, it appeared, had died from convul-
sions.—Another inquest was held yesterday, on the body
of James Ellams Standish, eight months old, who lived
with his parents in Warwick-street. Deceased had had
an affection of the bowels. He was found dead in bed
early on Sunday morning. Verdict—" Death from na-
tural causes."
FAREWELL SERMON AT ST. JUDE'S OF THE REV.
DRUMMOND ANDERSON.—On Christmas evening, the
Rev. Mr. Anderson, who has most ably and acceptably
officiated for about four years as Curate of St. Jude's
Church, preached his farewell sermon to a numerous
assemblage of the congregation, to the whole of whom he
had most deservedly become affectionately attached. His
discourse was most feeling and impressive, and was
highly creditable to his heart as well as his head. He
referred in a most grateful manner to the kindness and
consideration of those among whom he had had the fortune
to officiate ministerially, and wished them all the happi-
ness which this world can afford. The rev. gentleman
immediately enters upon his important duties as Chaplain
of the Workhouse, to which he was recently appointed by
the Select Vestry, and for the discharge of which he pos-
sesses, in an eminent degree, every necessary qualification.
OBTAINING MONEY UNDER FALSE PRETENCES FROM
THE PARISII-OFFlCE.—Yesterday, a woman, named Ann
Turner, was charged by Mr. Gray, of the Parish-Office,
and another gentleman of the same establishment, with
baying obtained parish relief, from the 25th of May last,
and for ten weeks afterwards. at the rate of six shillings
a-week ; she represented herself as being friendless and
destitute, though it appeared that her husband was in
good work at a foundry. She stated that she had had
sickness and distress in her family, which was large—
also two deaths amongst them, and that this induced her
to make the application. Mr. Gray admitted that she
had a large family, but said that the Parish-Office was
overrun with oases of imposition. Mr. Rushton said the
vigilance of the pariah office was not exerted to the ut-
most, otherwise cases of the kind would not occur. He
remanded the prisoner for further evidence.
CHARGE OF STEALING A BALE OF COTTON.—At the
police court yesterday, a man of respectable appearance,
named Edward Moore, was placed before Mr. Rushton,
on a charge of having in his possession, and having dis-
posed of a bale of cotton, which had arrived' at
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after the venue, from information received, and traced it
to the warehouse of a Mr. Smith, who kept a cotton stove,
and who, it appeared, bought it in an honourable way of
trade as a bale returned from Manchester—paying for it
"at once 4d. per lb. Mr. Davenport defended the pri-
soner, and elicited from the prosecutor that he had known
him for several Years, and was not aware of anything
wrong in his character. The prisoner, under the circum-
stances, was remanded until Wednesday, so that further
enquiry might be made into the case. Mr. Rushton re-
marked that Mr. Smith ought to have exercised mope
discretion on purchasing the bale. Mr. Smith said that
the marks were so obliterated that, in addition to what he
was told, he felt assured that it was a returned bale, and
as such he had purchased it at a fair price.

Dec• 28, 1847.

LATEST FOREIGN AND COLONIAL

AMERICA.
The packet-ship Mary Ann, Captain Patten, arrived its
the Zersey yesterday, fr3m Boston, with advices from
that port, to the 6th instant, and from New York to the
4th, inclusive. She brings no specie on freight.
lad Reyu,b/icano, published at the capital on the 4th,
says" that A, sufficient number of members had arrived at
Queretaro, on the Ist of November fir the transaction of
business. A lettOr from Queretaro direct announces that
Congress had organizBd on the 2d of November, and that
Senor L. Jos Marial Eodev, a deputy from Guanaxuato,
had been selected president, and Senor D. Jos Maria
11,rnandes, a deputy from Durango, was elected vice.
president."

Santa Anna was believed to be secreted at Vera Cruz,
waiting to escape. There bad been a political emeute at
Guadalaxara.

There had been little doing in foreign exchanges at New
York, on the The rates were 10 to 10k.

CITY TRADE

NEW YORK, FRIDAY AFTERNOON, DEC. 3.
The markets since the Ist, have continued very dull, and
the business now going forward is extremely light, even
tbr this period of the season, in which there is usually but
little doing. The recurrence too of mild and rainy weather
has suspended the activity in domestic produce noticed in
our last. The Erie Canal, at last accounts, was navigable
from Buffalo to Albany.

The weather again proved very inclement, and a steady
rain fell durinc, the greater part of the day, which inter-
rupted all out-door' business. Flour was steady at yester-
day's quotations, with a fair amount of sales. Wheat re-
mained about the same, without sales of moment. Corn
sold to a moderate extent, at previous rates. Meal con•
tinued steady, with considerable sales. Rye sold at yes-
terday's prices. Oats were somewhat less firm, and sales
made on terms slightly in favour of purchasers. Provisions
were inactive. '‘`Pork was nominally the same, while sales
of all kinds were very limited. There was nothing new
in Groceries. The rain storm prevented sales by auction
in the streets.

Corrox.—The market remains dull, and sales were
effected with difficulty at the quotations annexed.
LIVERPOOL CLASSIFICATION. New Orlealit,
Uplands. Florida. Mob., 4r TeX.
none. none. none.
64 to 64 64 to 64 64 to 6
7 to 74 7 to 7t 74 to 7i
- - to 71 74 to 71 74 to 71

Inferior
Ordinary
Middling
Good Middling

Fully Fair
Good Fair.

Bif to 8

8 to 8

81 to 8i
si to 9
9 to a

FREIGHTS.-800 brls. flour were engaged for Glasgow,
and 500 ditto for Liverpool, at Is. 6d. to each port. It
was said 9d. was offered for corn in bulk to Ireland. To
London, previous rates continued to be demanded. To
Antwerp, ashes were taken at 305., while to Havre there
was no change.

NEW ORLEANS, Nov. 25.
The Cotton market is quiet ; prices rule in favour of the
buyer. Sugar is without change. Molasses : sales at 181
to Mt cents, with but little in first hands for sale. Flour
is dull at previous prices. Corn : sales at 44 and 46 cents..
In freights we have no new engagements to report. &-
changes : no alteration in previous rates.

MRS. H. BEALE'S CONCERT AT THE ROYAL
ASSEMBLY ROOMS, GT. GEORGE-STREET.

Last evening, this lady gave her annual concert, at the
above rooms, which we were, as showing, on the part of
our fellow-townsmen, an appreciation for fine classical
music, glad to see very well and fashionably attended.
The music selected was principal .v from the first German
composers, and comprised some of the latest pieces of the
lamented Mendelsshon. The gem of the first part, which
alone we were able to stay to hear, was a manuscriet
song, written by this great composer in Miss ware
album, which was sung by that lady with touching
sweetness and encored. Another song 'from Mozart's
Figaro, " Al desio," was also given in her own splendid
style.

The trio in C minor by Mrs. H. Beale (piano forte),
and Messrs. Herrmann and Haddock (violin and violin-
cello), was finely played, and narrowly escaped an encore.
The part closed with a fantasie on airs from Lucia di
Lammermoor, by Sig. G. Regondi, on the concertina,
which was a wonderful effort. The concert gave unqu*•
lified satisfaction.

The Earl of Ellesmere has addressed a long letter to the
Times respecting our national defences, the means of
which, his Lordship urges we have very grievously neg-
lected.

The first of the series of concerts at the Collegiate In-
stitution was given last night. It went off with spirit,
and several pieces were encored: The charge for admis-
sion is the lowest ever made to a Liverpool public.
ROBBERIES IN SHOE SHOPS.—A female named Mary
Cloke was yesterday charged before Mr. Rushton with
purloining two pair of boots, from two different shops, itt
Whitechapel and Marybone. Each pair were stated to be
worth ss. She was committed for trial at the sessions.
THE WEATHER, since our last publication, has, upos
the whole, been cold, but more seasonable—a slight frost
having set in on Sunday night. We have nothing new to
note in the agricultural world, beyond the fact that our
neighbouring farmers are busily engaged when the climate
permits, in draining, manuring, and preparing their lands
for the spring.
WRECK. OF TUE . FAKSILX

was

cvrec':ed at the moat' or the river, about three weeks
ago, is now lying broadside near the Waterloo shore. She
was purchased on speculation a week or two ago, for be-
tween £2OO and £3OO, by a party who thought he could
raise her, and bring her into port; but we learn that,
after several ineffectual attempts, it has been decided to
break her up. She was a new vessel, and was on her first
homeward voyage from Alexandria.

,
THEFT OF 13-UTTER.—At tne police court, yesterday, ts
man named John Morgan, was charged with having
stolen from the shop of Mr. Patrick Tool, of Marybone, a
firkin of butter. The prisoner had gone into the shop on
Friday night, at a late hour, when it was full of customers,
and boldly took up and carried off the cask. He had been
previously suspected, and being watched, was discovered
and apprehended in a court in Addison-street. He 'ma
committed for trial.

DEATH BY BURNING, OF AN ELDERLY JEWISH LADY.*
—An inquest was yesterday held before Mr. Curry, touch-
ing the death of Sarah Lemon, a Jewish female, aged SS
years. Deceased lived with her brother in St. Andrew-
street. On Sunday night deceased was in her room, in
which there was a fire ; in the morning she was found
lying on the floor before the fire, quite dead, and burnt to
a cinder. She was quite sober. Verdict—" Death by
how originated no evidence to show."

)urning,

TIDE TABLE.
MOAN. lEVENG.I HOHT. I HOLYDAY!, ETC

Tuesday.... 28
Wednesday. 29
Thursday .. 30
Friday .... 31
Saturday .. 1
Sunday .... 2
Monday.... 3

h. m. k. as. ft. in.
33
537 4
812 8
3 128 14 2 Innocent's Day.
4 48 5 19 11 11
5 52 6 27 11 7
87
95
87
3367
1121 72 Circumcision.3dsiißday aft christ.
9 1 925 13 1 [mas.

METEOROLOGICAL REGISTER,
BY MR. C. H. CHADBURN, 71, LORD-STREET,

ATMOSPHERI

Temperature in
shade by self-re- Humidity at
Pressure at giatering Noon.
Thermometer.

DailylDirec
1 tio*

Fall of
Wing
of at
Nine Six Dry Wet Rain. Nool6
a.m. p.m. Max. Min. bulb. bulb.
In. In. Deg. Deg. Deg. Deg. In.
29'63 29'58 36 32 36 34 -- 9.1.1.
29'78129'98 36 33 36 34 5-
29'86 29'64 37 33 36

Dec.
21
22
23
24
25
26
27

29'94 30'12 43
30'30 30'30 43

30'30 30'27

- 9.16
0.02 N. 0.
--
N.K.

Z WZATHBR.-21st : foggy; night, frost.-22nd: sligkt
nd frost.-23rd : fine, frost, with breeze.-24th : slight fog,
t rain.-25th : cloudy.-26th : frosty.-27th : frosty.

SHIPPING INTELLIGENCE

MONDAY, 27th Dacsmaaa,—Wind S.S.E., moderate,

Annivzro.--i'acket, from St.tDomingo —Mary Ann, Patten,
from Boston ; sailed 6th Dec.—Gazelle, Lakey, from Patras—
Sofia. Giacobbe, Messina—Mary Pring, Oporto—Fanny, °eke...
and Jeannette, Doordt, from Antwerp—Bathurst, Honduras—'
Emperor, Carder, from Jersey.

Charlotte, Hawkins, from Bombay, at this port, towed in
dismasted, from Long Island Channel, S.W. coast of Ireland.
Charlotte, Smith, and Waldron, Moore, hence at N. Orleatul,
Magnificent, Verrill, from London at ditto.
Povvhatten, Hayden, hence at Baltimore.
Potomac, Claggitt, hence at Hampton Roads.
Tarquin, Reardon, hence at Boston.
Aurora, Clarkson, from Tatmagonche, at Cove.
Two masts, heals upwards, apparently belonging to a schooner
of about 80 tons, and attached to the wreck, were passed yes-
terday, two miles N.N.W. of the Bell Buoy, by the President,
steam-tug.