The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1849-01-23 00:00:00

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each in-patient only 19s. 11d.
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Sit, has just held
meeting. The ordinary number of policies
issued by associations of high standing lies between ~_
and 600 ; the.numbcr issued last year by the National
Provident was 1423, and this was not occasioned by a too
ready acceptance of every proposal offered, for 113 were
last year declined. The annual premiums derived from
the 1423 policies issued by the National Provident Insti-
tution during the last year, amount to £24,475 ss. 5d.,
bringing the annual income of the society lip to £126,232
44.—and tuis, too, in the face of a reduction of
6d. to those members whose date of policy

Z 10,72,

has brought them into participation of profits. The total
capital ofthe institution at the present time is £440,028
15s. 3d. We lay no particular stress upon this amount of
capital, as several offices could be named, from length of
standing, with much larger assets ; but as an index of
progressive action, it may be stated that the Equitable,
the most successful institution of the kind in Europe, at
the end of its first twenty years only
i found itself in pos-
session of £150,000, the basis of its present millions ;
whilst the National Provident, at the end of 13 years. has
invested, in real and government securities, nearly treble
that amount. As our report of the proceedings is much
curtailed, it may be desirable, in this place, to state that
the balance of receipts over disbursements for the year is
£72,855 19s. 3d. ; whilst the sum on claims for policies
during that period is £16,250 10s., exclusive of £7,742 for
a like purpose, not yet applied for.

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MR. COBDEN IN 1836. R. COBDEN IN 1849.
But we have remarked an He wished to express his
inclination on the part of the sympathy with the farmers in
landed interest to slight—to their efforts to get rid of a tax
use the mildest possible term they considered the greatest
—the public creditor, a feeling obstacle to their business—
that shone forth in the motion the malt tax. They said the
of the Marquis of Chandos to not having malt to give to
remove the malt tax thus their cattle was a great obsta-
aiming at the insolvency of the cle to their perfect feeding.
Chancellor of the Exchequer— He saw one of the ablest far-
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without caring first to inquire mers in the country the other
by what fresh imposts he day, who said he bought a large
should meet the engagements quantity of malt-dust every
of the country. These unre- week to mix with the food
fleeting minds are, we appre- given to his lambs, for it was
hend, quite incapable of esti- one of the best ingredients for
mating the consequences that fattening. He never would
will ensue if ever we should be tolerate one shilling of protec-
found unable to meet the into- tion in the way of a corn law ;
rest of the debt,—in other and he would co-operate as
words, if the British nation heartily with them as they did
should be declared bankrupt. among themselves to get rid
of an obnoxious tax that ob-
structed them in their busi-

THE BIRMINGHAM CURRENCY MEN
CHEAP GOLD.

Our remarks, a fortnight ago, upon the change which
had come over the spirit of these gentlemen's dreams,
since the discovery of the new Gold Region of California,
has called forth a reply from a writer in the Midland
Counties' Herald (Justitia), upon whose previous effu-
sion in the same paper we commented. Justitia is a little
Anderson, the tra- I sort

and we ourselves, he says, have been " illiberal and
unjust" in interpreting him. We are sorry that we can-
not plead guilty to the impeachment; sorry that our in-
terpretation was but too just, inasmuch as, if Justitia re-
presents faithfully the views of the Birmingham Currency
Reformers, we must submit to be without their aid in the
effort to establish a sound monetary system.
Our Birmingham writer repudiates the charge of wish-
ing to pay to the credit interest less than its due. We
refer him back to his declaration that the credit interest
must have " its bond and nothing more"—a " certain
number of grains of gold" for each pound, whatever may
be the deterioration produced in the value of the commo-
dity, whether the pound in gold be worth 20s. or only
15s. The original idea of the Birmingham Currency
writer, he says, was that the country's obligations—debts
and taxes—should be "discharged in money of the same
value as that in which they were contracted ;" an idea
which might have had some shew of justice, as applied to
the adjustment of the standard on the return to cash pay-
ments ; but Justitia's idea is to insist upon paying the
country's and individual obligations in money of a differ-
ent value to that in which they were contracted, viz. in
gold no longer worth £3 17s. 10d. per ounce, but more
probably reduced to £2 17s. 10d.
We cannot permit this writer, whilst defending himself,
to misrepresent us. It is true that ,a e are "an advocate
of paper money not convertible into gold"—that is to say
at a fixed price ; but we are not on that account amenable
to the charge of " a desire to defraud the credit interest,
inasmuch as we propose to pay that interest in a currency

same value as the securities which it
ble of ideas," which Justitia imagines
ph of our article, is

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Journal enters into an et
important subject, from which we take some of the prin-
cipal heads. It appears that during the year 1848, the
number of persons (exclusive of contractors) who crossed
by Woodside Ferry alone was 1,877,870 ; and the number
of contractors 912,500, making a total of 2,790,370. The
Birkenhead Commissioners have come to a resolution
that the present system shall be continued. The ferry
has been worked for the last six months at Id., previously
at 2d. The experiment has not had sufficient time to
allow a complete development (of its effects, but our con-
temporary fully anticipates " the ultimate and steady suc-
cess of the reduction." By a variety of tabular and ex-
planatory statements, comparing the receipts in 1847 and
1848, and allowing as probable that if the 2d. fare had
been retained the receipts of 1848 would have been one-
fourth less than those of 1847 ; and taking the receipts at
the ld. rate for the six months, he arrives at the result
that had the higher charge been continued, the amount
received would have been considerably smaller than that
actually received with the penny fare. After a variety of
comparative statements, which appear to bear out the
writer's conclusions as reasonable and probable, he states
that the reports which had raised apprehensions in the
minds of some of the bondholders that their interests had
been sacrificed by the reduction of the ferry charge, are
proved by the facts adduced to be at least grossly exagge-
rated ; and be concludes by showing that the commis-
sioners of Birkenhead have taken every means to serve
them by economizing the expenditure of the township and
the ferry. The reduction of expenditure in the township
1848-1849, is £5209, and that of the expenditure of the
ferry £4067, making in all, and almost wholly since June
last £9276. _ _ _

On Tuesday night the body of a new born male child
was found in Barclay's-court, Johnson-street. It was
quite naked, and there were no marks of violence on the
body. The child was born alive, and died from exposure.
The Hostess of the Roe Buck Inn gave a ball to her
numerous friends on Wednesday last. The ball-room
was beautaully decorated with evergreens, &c., under the
superintendence of Mr. Whitfields. _

IRISH POPLIN TABINET.—We would draw the atten-
tion of our fair readers to the advertisement under the
above heading. This beautiful fabric, so rich in texture,
is manufactured in every shade and colour, and does great
credit to the Irish loom. The gold and silver tissues for
gentlemen's waistcoats are really beautiful, and we are
sure that many of them will be worn at the Mayor's
soiree And on other festive occasions,