The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1847-10-26 00:00:00

ST. MARTIN'S CHURCH.

TO THE EDITOR OF THE LIVERPOOL STANDARD.
Stn,—l have been advised to require you, as an act of
justice, to publish a contradiction of a number of false
statements which you have thought proper to make against
me in one of your leading articles of Tuesday last ; and
I only consent to take any notice of your remarks under
a protest that I do not consider myself amenable to you
for my conduct, or for the manner in which divine worship
is solemnised- in St. Martin's Church. •

I shall content myself by simply denying the truth of
all and each of the charges you have brought against me,
reserving proofs and explanations for those parties who
have some. right to require them, and who know how to
treat my office at least with common decency, if not with
respect. _ _ _

Pirst, then, I deny that I have been guilty of the
dishonesty of robbing the Corporation of their property.
On the contrary, I maintain that the property in St.
Martin's Church has, by the late alterations, been greatly
improved and rendered more valuable.
Secondly,—l deny that I have destroyed twelve pews
from which a rental of £4O was produced. So far from
it, the same occupants continue to pay the rental,
and have volunteered to pay an increased sum for the en-
larged accommodation now offered, and for the privilege
of kneeling, of which they were before deprived by the
narrowness of the pews.
Thirdly,—l deny that there has been any "misapplica-
tion of the public funds." About £6O was voted for im-
proving the kneeling accommodation, and it was applied
to this objects
Fourthly,—l deny that I havd defrauded the poor of
their rights by "curtailing their free sittings." On the
contrary, I have largely added to the space formerly
occupied by the labonrinc, clasfles, who have now more
ample accommodation, and this in a better situation than
is afforded in any other church in Liverpool.
Fiftl4.—ldeny that the " alterations were made with-
outdue authority." On the contrary we had the authority
of a- resolution of the Church Expenditure Committee,
which the chairman subsequently assured us would
sanction the widening of the peA's, and the consequent
diminution ,of their number. The surveyor was not
troubled in the matter simply because the terms of the
resolution placed the superintendence in the church-
wardens.

Sixthly.—/ dm!' that it is my custom to preach upon
forms. and ceremonies ; or that I preached on this subject
on Sunday week. _

Seventfill-7 deny, also, that the notice given on the
same days had anything to do with " alterations in the
services," as you suppose ; or, again, that the services are
"unacceptable to the congregation."
These seven false charges I distinctly and emphatically
deny As to the last, it is sufficiently known that
.St.
martin's congregation appreciate the devotional character
of our choral service, and they are not a little scandalized
that spies should be sent among them, to mock where
they ought to pray, and turn our sacred rites into ridicule.
To the £6O given by the corporation, they have freely
added about £5OO more of their own to provide chancel
screens of carved oak, and a painted window which is an
ornament to the town, and they reasonably think that
some credit is due to them for thus improving and beau-
tifying the church. Moreover, they have raised no less a
sum than £1,700 to supply National Infant and Com-
mercial Schools for their wretchedly poor district, and
these schools are attached to St. Martin's Church for ever
to be a blessing to the neighbourhood. Nor are they now

maintained without great exertions, the salaries alone
paid to teachers being .C. 301.) a.year. All these things
come from the " empty pews" of our deserted church:
It must at least be admitted that we are respectable in
our poverty.: and possibly we may yet survive the unre.:
kitting malice and unscrupulous attacks of " religious "
newspapers. I am your obedient servant,
CECIL WRAY,
Incumbent of St. Martin's.

MORE PAUPER IMMIGRATION FROM IRELAND.

We noticed last week the increasing influx of paupers
from the sister island, and remarked that those now arriving
were of the worst class, and never likely, if indeed willing,
to become a self-supporting population. This week we have
to notice a further arrival of 1723 men, 935 women, and 475
children—in all 3133 persons, which make up the number,
from the Ist to the 24th, of 11,772 persons, against 10,369;
the total arrivals in all September. A still worse feature
than any which we have hitherto noticed, we learn from Mr.
Dowling, our head constable, attends the present immigra-
tion: Not only are the bulk of them of the most confirmed
description of paupers, ragged, filthy, and half starved,
but from the. moment of their arrival, the women and
children especially, commence the practice of petty pilfer.:
ing around our docks and in our streets. They surround
the carts and waggons, laden with cotton, or make
their way to the bales as they are landed on the quays, or
are hoisted into the warehouses, in such swarms, end with
such determination, that it is found impossible to prevent
portions of the contents being abstracted ; and it is lament-
able to find that such booty, notwithstanding the recent
restrictive regulations, is received by some of the marine
store-keepers. They are still more eager in their attempts
upon any thing in the shape of food—wheat, Indian corn,
&c. ; and as it is well known how large a portion of the
warehousemen of the town and the porters about our
docks are Irish, the public will not be surprised to learn
that, in many instances they are rather encouraged than
suppressed by these parties in their depredations. The
police, we understand, with all their vigilance—and how
active that vigilance is, may be judged from the fact that
fourteen parties were brought up last week by one officer
—cannot, efficiently protect the vast masses of property
scattered over our fourteen miles of lineal dock space, or,
in course of transit through our streets, from such an in-
vasion of pilferers ; and how to get rid of them it is not
not easy to see ; for they do not as last year, present
themselves to receive -relief, and thus enable us to
send them back to their own country. To a number of
those brought up on Saturday at the Police-court, Mr.
Rushton put the question whether they were wishful to
be sent back to their own country. In every case, how-:
, ever, an evasive answer was returned ; and the magistrate
sent them to gaol for a month, intimating his determina-
' thin to continue this course at the risk of filling our pri-
sons, if steps were not taken to remove this nuisance and
cruel burthen bpon the inhabitants oftlie borough.
That to the bulk of the prisoners thus committed, im-
prisonment in a gaol is no punishment, may be inferred
from the fact that, as fast as they. have been released,
hitherto, they' have rushed to the commission of some:
petty crime to entitle them to a few week's more of the!
comfortable lodging and good food which any one of. our
.gaols affords, compared with .the wretchedness to which
they have been accustomed. The women, we are assured,
seem to think their quarters quite enviable ; the only
punishment to which they object being the necessity of
performing the necessary ablutions insisted upon ! Un-
fortunately we possess no means in our borough prison of
either classifying them, or setting them to any labour of
a character and severity to make confinement distasteful
to a class proverbially lazy, confirmed in filthiness, and
satisfied with any lot which affords a supply of merely
animal wants.

COLLISiON'LAST NIGHT OWING TO THE

TEMPESTUOUS WIND,

The fine packet-ship Brooklyn, of Boston, lying oppo-
site the Prince's Pier, was run foul of by the New York
ship, Patrick Henry, and her bowsprit and mainstay
completely carried away. Some little anxiety was,mani-
fested yesterday for the safety of the Brooklyn, a tug-
boat being required to keep :ler up to her moorings, from
the swell of the tide and the force of the wind, which
from the top of her mainstay must ultimately have car-
ried away her masts. Fortunately, from the exertion used,
she was conveyed to a place of safety.

THE CUSTOMS' REVENUE OF THE PORT OF

LIVERPOOL.

The Customs' Revenue of Liverpool for the quarter
ended 10th October, again exhibits a decrease as com-
pared with the corresponding quarter of last year, as
might have been anticipated in the present unfavourable
position of commercial and monetary affairs. The re-
ceipts for the two years were as follows :-
1846. 1847.
July
August .... 324,263
Sep.

£1,016,383 £871,570
Showing a deficiency on the quarter ended 10th October
of £144,813. The total receipts of the three quarters
from Jan. sth have been in 1846, £2,754,308 ; and in 1847,
0n1Y'£2,497,809. The deficiency on the 9 months is, there=
fore £256,499. In the April quarter we had an increase
of £46,638 over the corresponding quarter of 1846. llence
the falling off in the last two quarters has been £303,137.
We had also an increase of about £70,000 in the quarter
ended Jan. sth, 1847, which reduces the year's deficiency
to £186,409 ; bUt at the same time shews that the last
two quarters have decreased £373,137.
In the quarterly return of the revenue for the kingdom
published in our last, the receipts for the year exhibited
an increase of £267,224. There was, however, a decrease
on the quarter ended Oct. 10th of £374,108. Assuming
the deficiency for the kingdom during the past two quar-
ters to have been growing in the same ratio as the dcfi-
'ciency in Liverpool, we may expect to see the next yearly
statement for the four quarters shewing, instead of a small
increase, made' up by the greater productiveness of the
January and April quarters, a large deficiency • we fear,
unless some great alteration takes place immediately in
the state of our commercial affairs, of something approach-
ing to a million.

- CHOLER 4.--We-regret to state that a letter was received
yesterday, by a medical gentleman at Birkenhead, an-
,. nouneing that a soldier died at Dublin on Saturday of
Asiatic choler?.
EVERTON WARD.—Last night a very enthusiastic meet-
ing of the electors of this ward was held at Halliday's
Coffee-house, at, which resolutions were unanimously
passed, pledging the meeting to use every exertion to so- I
cure Mr. G. G. Hornby's election. The. chairman, Mr.
Kerford, stated•that no such meeting of electors or com-
mittee of the ward, to withdraw Mr. Hornby, as stated in
the Mail, had been held. Mr. Stone said that he -wished
it-to go forth to the public, that since he, had made in- I
quiries as to the cause of Mr. Hornby's separation from
.Great George Ward, he was very desirous of withdrawing
all objection to Mr. Hornby, and he was now very much
in favour of Mr. Hornby.
A QUESTION FOR ONE LEARNED IN THE LAWS OF
CHANCE.—A very interesting question may be started
with respect to the money withdrawn last week from the
banks,—viz.,.how much of it will ever find its way back
again, and escape being stopped in transitu ? The
yielding disposition of tender fathers and husbands will
have to be calculated, and their ability ascertained to
withstand such solicitations as the following :—" Pa, do
buy Jemima and myself new dresses, now that you've
been so fortunate as to get your money from that horrid
bank ;" " Pa, I saw such a love of a shawl at Scurfields ;"
or, "My dear, I'm sure we might treat ourselves with a
new carpet for the drawing-room," &c., &c. The acti-'
vity of the light-fingered- fraternity, together with the
natural tendency of pocket-books to slip from the owners'
pockets, (an occurrence which, very provokingly, almost
always happens at a time when something valuable is in
them.) ought also to be considered. We suspect that the
result would prove that it would have been rather wiser
in all parties to let their deposits remain where they were,
snd allowing interest to be accruing, than to have them
übmitted either to' the domestic or other process of
attenuation, with the risk, besides, of their disappearing
altogether..
THE WEATHER.—Daring the past week the
_weather
was rather broken, but occasionally favourable for field
operations, and the sowing of wheat has been. proceeded
with. A considerable breadth of land on both sides of
the. Mersey yet, however, remains to receive• the seed.
On Saturday night a very heavy shower' of rain mingled
with rain fell. in the neighbourhood—wind strong from
the northward. Sunday morning was tine ; but the af-
. ternoon squally with rain, and about four o'clock we had
a heavy downfal of rain and hail proceeded by thundeid,
and accompanied by squalls from the nortlf. west. The
night was somewhat stormy throughout, but the moon
generally bright. 'Yesterday was a fine dry day. The
farmers are busy getting up their turnips,,which in this
quarter are a fair but not very heavy crop: We had full.
moon on Saturday, and have since had very 'high tides—.
yesterday twenty.feet four inches by the almanack, (the
highest of the year, with the exception of that. of the
26th of September) and it probably rose high from the
pressure of a strong N. W. wind. The Irish Channel
has been very rough for some days, so that not a .few
iiarties, have been deterred
_frprn crossing. The weather
. is, however, seasonable, and we have heard of no damage
on shore, or in the outward approaches to the harbour.
SAD.RESULT OF THE CIIANOn OF THE. TirdEs.—The
porter of the Liverpool Stock R7schange is said to be ex-
cessively affected , by the wearisomeness of his .posi-
tion. A year or two' ago there .was some fun going
on. Mery . was something •steirit.stirring-in the very
Babel-like inharmoniousness of the sounds, which
reached him at his pollboutside the door, at the
close of morning or afternoon meeting. Cries of
" Buy Great Westerns"—"Sell Dover quarters"—
" Buy Dutch Rhenish"—" Seven and a half premium"
—" Any Royal Assurance ?"—" oldham"--.-‘ Bur—
" Two and a Half"—" Diddlesex"—" Junctions"—
"Great Direct"—"Circumbenclibusm—" Squawbash"—
" A hundred"—with ever and anon a peal of laughter, as
some merry speculator bonnetted a member, or split his
coat up to the collar, broke cheerily upon his ear. At
present, however, it is a Monotonous " Sell"—" Sell"--
" Sell"—from the beginning to the end of the list—a
" Sell" altogether, and no buyers. The dreariest part of
the infliction is the occasional horrible effort of some mem-
ber to get up a laugh, which seems to freeze in his throat ;
and it is little less distressing to his feeling to witness the
attempts of the various members to stop the growing
elongation of their faces, and to look cheerful, as they
emerge from the room without a transaction pencilled in
their books. We would suggest to the members to fur-
nish the poor fellow with something to amuse himself
when on duty.. An occasional game of leap frog in the
area, with some of .the junior *members, would, perhaps,
enliven his spirits and theirs as well.

WHAT MERCHANTS AND TRADESMEN MUST
DO FOR, THEMSELVES, AND THE PUBLIC
FOR BOTH.

We communicated in, our last the unsuccessful result of
the applieation for aid• made to Government and to the
Bank by the deputation from the Royal. Bank. Since then
another deputation, accompanied by the Mayor, appointed
to make an appeal to the authorities on behalf of the inte-
rests of the commercial community at large, has had an
interview with the Premier, the Chancellor of the Exche-
quer;and Mr. Labouchere, the result of which tends only
to satisfy us that these Ministers are determined to adhere
strictly to the provisions of the present law, and to leave
the whole commercial and social fabric of the country
to be prostrated in the dust, as they must inevitably be,
unless some favourable circumstances occur to mitigate
the present pressure. We have been relieved, it is truei
from considerable uneasiness by'the assistance afforded by
the bank to Messrs. Littledale and Co. ; and, some san-
guine persons have thence• drawn rather unwarrantable
conclusions as to the disposition of that body generally
towards the commercial world. In relieving the firm in
question the bank has merely secured to itself an excellent
and legitimate account, which any private or joint-stock
bank would have, been glad to have received had it been in
possession of funds in' sufficient amount to conduct it
satisfactorily.
All these concurrent circumstances justify us in coming
to the conclusion that we may expect neither aid nor
sympathy in our sufferings from Government, and that,'
to use the language of the writer of the city article of the
London Times—almost a semi-official authority—we must
be satisfied " to let things return to their proper channel
—to that steady course of pressure which, during the
whole of the present year, would never have been inter-
rupted but for the bad banking of the Bank, and which
must go on until it has entirely crushed the Railway
mania and these people" (who ?) " know their fate." In
plainer language, we are to submit, for a period not very
intelligibly defined, to a pressure which narrowing the
streams of commerce, and decreasing daily the produc-
tive industry of 'the country, spreads insolvency and
pauperism over the face of the land. Let us see, then,
what resources we possess to protect ourselves, and those
dependent upon us, from at least the extreme of suffering,
which such an ordeal might involve.
In the first place, it is clear that prudent men will, as
far as possible, avoid entering into new engagements,
beyond the immediate necessities of the time. For exam-
ple, that this country, we are told, was to have become a
kind of store-house for grain and other commodities which
other countries produce beyond their own wants, and
we may shortly expect to see the bread stuffs of the Ameri-
can continent and of Europe pouring into our ports. As,
however, our working population are to be put upon short
commons, and our own harvest has been more than an
average one, we cannot consume those imported bread
stuffs. As little can we afford to advance upon and store
them in our granaries, so long as the banks discount only
such short-dated paper as may be almost regarded as cash;
and the foreign importer must therefore be told when he
arrives to , trip anchor, and carry his cargoes to other
markets, whose merchants are more .fortunately circum-
stanced. It will be quite as much as, is likely to be in
our power if we can receive the produce furnished us by
our colonists, or such imports as are sent in remittance
for British goods,- or, in which British merchants or the
foreign connections are interested.
We are quite aware that from this process of contrac-
tion much mischief may ensue amongst our working po-
pulation and the small traders in our towns. To some
extent, however, this may be prevented by the establish-
ment of a little confidence amongst ourselves, and for-
bearance one towards another. Let the deposits, which
have been withdrawn from our banks, and are now hoarded
and lying useless in private heads, be restored ; and those
establishments thus enabled to supply the legitimate
wants of the trading community. The extent of the re-
lief,which might thus be afforded, it is of course impossi-
ble to estimate very closely. But it is probable that in
Liverpool alone, if such deposits were returned, and the
banks could be assured against the recurrence of the in-
discriminating panic, which has compelled them to hold
in their coffers so large an amount of specie and bank
notes to meet. it, something very near a million sterling
might be set free, and.the means furnished to avast num-
ber of perfectly solvent tradesmen to fulfil with their
neighbours their mutual engagements.
Especially, in such a crisis as the present, it ought to
be regarded as a bounden duty by all who are in possession
of the means, to strain every nerve to pay promptly those
whose claims, because of the apparent insignificance of
their amount, and partly from habit and thoughtlessness,
have been accustomed to be postponed. Many an in-
dustrious tradesman, with means sufficient for the conduct
of his business, is, at this moment, at a loss to know
whence the money is to come for the payment of the
next Saturday's wages to his work-people ; and is pre-
medititing a reduction of his establishment, or, possibly,
distressing the humbler classes of his customers, rather
than offend, by asking for their long overdue accounts,
those to whom their prompt payment is not an object
worthy of notice. We know of nothing that would diffuse
a greater amount of comfort abroad amongst our indus-
trious working people, and tradesmen, than a prompt
attention at the present time, by the affluent, to the claims
of these cla sea upon their sympathy.

STATE CiF DUSINESS IN LTVETtPOOL

DEPRECIATED PRICES OF THE PROPERTY OF
. THE COUNTRY DURING THE PRESENT YEAR'.

We propose here to endeavour to convey to our readers
an idea of the extent of the depreciation which has taken
place in the property of the country since the commencement
of the present year; and of the sacrifices which must have
been made by its owners of all-classes. To do this it will
not be necessary for us to take more than a few leading
staples, the prices of which we shall give at three periods,
the first week in the year, the first week in July, and the
middle of October. We might have carried it down to
the past week ; but under the circumstances of the local
excitement prevailing, in addition to the general pressure,
and the transactions having been in,ignificant at very
irregular prices, the result would have been scarcely a fair
one.

PRICES OF THE FOLLOWING ARTICLES OF PRODUCE IN
THE FIRST WEEKS OF JAN., JULY, AND OCT.
(From the Liverpool Brokers' Circular.)

Jan. 1

July 2.

Articles
COFFEE, per cwt. in bond
Jamaica good fine & ord
middling
• go( d middling
Brazil ordinary
mid. to fine mid.
Corrox per lb.
Boweds. fair to good fair 71-d 7yd /7,11 /7i
New Orleans do 7l 8 Mt /71
Sea Islands do l5 16 /16 /18
FLoun per 1961b5.
U. S. new, x duty
Do. sour ...... 30/1 32/1 29/ 30/
Canadian new 34/ 36/ 30/ 34/
WHEAT, Eng. red p. 701bs

45/ 55/
58 65
70 90
27 30
42 60

Oct. 15.

50/ 63/-
65/ 85/
65/ 85/
28/ 33/
42/ 70/

40/ 50/
55/ 80/
55/ 80/
28/ 33/ ,
42/ 70/
/51. /51
/6k /61
/12/ /141
26/ 27/
21/ 22/
25/ 25/6

x duty. •
Canada.
Foreign
OIL Palm per ton.
Pale Seal
Galipoli
SUGAR, Brit. Plan., p cwt.
Muscovado middling..
good ....
Mauritius brown ..
good & fine yellow
E.I. Bengal low to mid.
good to fine yellow
Manilla, duty paid....
Havannah yellow, d 0...
Brazil yellow, d 0...

9/3 10/ 9/6 10/61 7/6 8/4
8/9 10/ 8/9 10/ I 6/ 7/
7/10 10/ 8/ 11/3 4/ 8/6
770/ 780/ 740/ 750/ 600/ 620/
nominal 540/ 550/ 560/
960/ 970/ 920/ 920/ 940/ 960/
46/ 48/ 1. 39/6 42/6 37/6 40/
49/ 51/ 43/6 45/6 41/ 43/
42/ 43/ 36/ 38/ 33/ 35/
48/ 52/ 42/ 47/ • 40/ 45/
44/ 46/ 41/ 43/ 36/ 40/
50/ 52/ 44/ 45/ 46/6 48/
43/ 47/ 40/ 43/ 37/ 40/
48/ 54/ , 44/ 47/ 43/ 46/
45/ 48/: 42/ 45/ 40/ 42/

PRICES OF LEADING RAIL"

VAY STOCK IN THE FOLLOWING
S OF 1847.

MONTH