The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1847-08-31 00:00:00

THE' LIVERPOOL STTNDARII.

Corrow FROM INDIA.—The Quintin Leitch, which ar-
rived at Liverpool on Thursday last, from Bombay, has
on board nearly seven hundred hales of cotton, presumed
to be of superior quality, and grown, partly from American,
and partly from native seed, but cleaned in a more care-
ful manner than ordinary. Of this cotton, we understand
five hundred bales belong to the East India Company,
and about two hundred to a mercantile firm in this town.
That belonging to the 'company is consigned to Mr. Hugh
Fleming, the secretary of the Manchester Commercial
Association, and it will be placed for sale under the di-
rection of that body, who, no doubt, will take care to
make such arrangements as will give the trade generally
an early and a sufficient opportunity of seeing the cotton,
and of testing its quality. The two hundred bales be-
longing to private merchants, will also, we believe, be
sold publicly in small lots ; and we have no doubt the
whole will attract considerable attention from the spin-
ners and manufacturers of the district.—Manchester
Guardian.

. STEAM COMMUNICATION BETWEEN LIVERPOOL AND
ALEXANDRIA.—The Mail brings accounts of the screw
steam-ship Nautilus having arrived at Alexandria on the
11th instant, making her passage out nineteen days and a
half, or of actual sailing seventeen days and a half, as
follows :

From Liverpool 23d July, arr. at Gibraltar 30, 71 days.
Sailed from Gibraltar 31st July, arrived at Malta
6th August 6 ff
Sailed from Malta 7th, and arrived at Alexandria
11th August

174- days.
This is the shortest time in which the passage is usually
made by full power steamers.- and proves the advantage of
this mode of propulsion. The Water Witch only arrived
at Alexandria on the Ist August, having met with an
accident to her machinery which detained her three or four
days. Her repairs were, however, effected at the arsenal
of the Pacha, and she would sail on her return about 13th
August, consequently may be looked for in a few days.
These vessels had excited considerable attention, and they
had been visited by numbers of influential people at
Alexandria. The general impression is that they are
admirably adapted to the trade and will command success.
The subject of foreign steam navigation from this port is
beginning to attract great attention ; its importance to
the trade of Liverpool and the manufacturing districts
cannot be too highly appreciated.
THE WATER WITCH.—We have been favoured by
Messrs. M`Tear, Hadfield, and Thompson, with the fol-
lowing extract of a letter from the captain of the Water
Witch, steam-propeller, which had just accomplished her
first voyage from this port to Alexandria, in Egypt, with
very signal success :

" Water Witch Steamer, Alexandria,
9th August, 1847.
" Messrs. AVTear. Hadfield, and Co.
"GENTLEMEN,--I beg to inform you that I arrived here on
the Ist instant, from Malta, having sailed from there on the
evening of the 24th ult. Two hundred miles from Malta, lam
sorry to say, one of our crank pins broke, and before the en-
gines could be stopped, broke two of the side rods, the injection
p►pe, and several gibs and cotters. There was not a breath of
wind at the time, and the water quite smooth ; in a day and a
half the engineers.got an engine to work, the weather still quite
calth and very sultry, when, fortunately, about 12 hours after
the one engine was got to work, a breeze of wind sprung up
from the NAV., which enabled -me to make my passage under
canvas alone, in a far shorter time than I expected when our
accident first occurred. We are getting the repairs of our
engine done at the Dacha's arsenal, which I expect will be
finished before we are ready for sea,—chiefly through the in-
fluence of Messrs. D'Auastasy, who have great interest with
the Dacha, and one of the first houses in Alexandria.

" We have chartered the vessel at Iss. 6d. per quarter, in
full, for Liverpool, to load beans and Indian corn ; and if I find
the vessel loads too deep, or too much by the head, I am to
have flax to fill up : freight to be paid at the same rate as the
corn. 'there is no quarantine now on any description of cargo
shipped from here. We have commenced loading to-day, and
expect to get away on the 13th or 14th instant, and to make
about xl,OOO freight.
" From the reception the vessel met with, and the informa-
tion I have got, at Gibraltar, Malta, and particularly here,
(being the first vessel of the kind that has been here,) I am
certain the line would pay well, provided the vessels were pro-
perly fitted out for if, and comfortable cabin accommodation
for a few passengers. We have had many of tne most influen-
tial people here on board, some from the Pacha's arsenal, who
are intt.2ll pleased with the vessel, particularly her outward ap-
pearance and build."

PRESENTATION OF TWO PORTRAITS TO JOHN HOLMES,
ESQ.—Our readers will recollect that upon the dissolu-
tion of the Highway Board, at the commencement of
this year, a subscription was entered into by the members
and other gentlemen of Liverpool, for the purpose of pre-
senting John Holmes, Esq., who had for a long period
officiated as chairman, with some suitable token of es-
teem, in acknowledgment of the very valuable services
which he had rendered to the parish of Liverpool. It
was only intended at first to present Mr. Holmes with
his 'portrait; but as the subscription increased to upwards of
£250, it was decided by the Testimonial Committee to
present Mr. Holmes with two portraits, the one for his
private use, and the other for presentation to one of the
public institutions of the town. Preliminaries having
been arranged, it was thought desirable that one of the
portraits should be executed by a Liverpool, the other by
a London artist. Accordingly, Mr. John Bishop, of this
town, was selected to paint the first, and Mr. Thomas
Mogford, of London, the second. The portrait by Mr.
Bishop has already been seen by many thousands. It
was placed in the Board-room of the Collegiate Institu-
tion during the late polytechnic exhibition, and will be
presented by Mr. Holmes to that institution. In the
other picture Mr. Holmes is in an erect position, and it is
considered a " speaking likeness." As there is still a
small surplus in hand, 'we understand lithographic copies
will be taken from the painting by Mr. Mogford, and one
presented to each of the subscribers. Wednesday last,
at noon, was fixed for the presentation, at the nouse of
Mr. Holmes, Everton-brow ; and at the hour fixed upon,
a number of the members of the late Highway Board,
and other gentlemen were in attendance, including Mr.
Henry Holmes, Mr. David Hodgson, Mr. Samuel II lilac,
Mr. J. A. Tinne, Mr. J. G. Morris, Mr. Capes Ashlin,
Mr. Thomas Duncan, (assistant engineer of the borough.)
As soon as the company had assembled, the presentation
was made by Mr. James Proctor, in complimentary
terms.—Mr. John Holmes returned thanks.—Speeches
were made by Mr. Samuel Holme, Mr. David Hodgson,
Mr. Henry Holmes, and other gentlemen.—The chair-
man proposed the healths of Mr. Capes Ashlin and Mr.
Thomas Duncan, two faithful servants of the public.—
Those gentlemen returned thanks.---A number of toasts
were given, after which the party broke up.

LOCAL MEETINGS.

TOWN COUNCIL PROCEEDINGS.

A special meeting of the Town Council was held on Fri-
day, in the Council Chamber, for the purpose of determi-
ning upon the report of the special committee appointed
to take all necessary steps for the purchase by the Corpo-
ration of the works, &c.,' of "The Company of the Pro-
prietors of the Liverpool Water Works," and of " The
Company of Proprietors of the Liverpool and Harrington
Water Works ;" and to give such further directions to the
committee as to the Council may seem proper ; and in the
event of the Council disagreeing as to the amount of the
price or consideration to be paid, to appoint an arbitrator
to determine the amount of such price; and to authorise
the committee to take all necessary steps for having the
amount of such price or consideration determined by ar-
bitration.

Mr. A. LACE, previous to the business before the meet-
ing being commenced, stated that there had been inter-
views between the committee and the two water compa-
nies, and certain sums had beeu mentioned by the compa-
nies as the price which they would take for their property;
but it was thought advisable that the sums should not be
named, as that circumstance might have the effect of in-
fluencing the arbitrator. They were met for the purpose
of considering in what way to deal with the report. He
thought that the sum ought not to be allowed to tran-
spire.

The MAYOR said he did not see how they could discuss
the question without mentioning the sum demanded. The
fact was well known out of doors, and was no secret at all
on 'change.
The TOWN-CLERK said it was the request of the com-
panies that the price which they asked for their works
shoud not be made public.
Mr. EARLE asked whether the thing was not perfectly
well known in the town already. This was only a sort of
fictitious squeamishness.
The TOWN-CLERIC then read the report, which staked
that the committee had had freauent interviews with the
Harrington Water Works Company, who had asked the
sum of £400,000 for their works, &c., exclusive of £20,000,
being the debts of the company, after allowing certain as-
sets, stated to be available towards the debts. The corn-
mittee bad offered £300,000, exclusive of the £20,000 ;
and, as the Water Works Company had refused the offer,
it would become necessary for the Corporation to appoint
an arbitrator to settle the amount which they ought to
pay, and the committee recommended that Robert Ste-
phenson, Esq., M.P., be appointed to perform that duty.
The committee also had interviews with the Bootle Water
Works Company, who had asked £220,000 for their works.
The committee declined recommending the Council to
give that sum, and they suggested that Mr. Stephenson
should also settle the amount to be paid in this case.
Upon the motion of Mr. LACE, seconded by Mr. TINNE,
the report was received.
A resolution was then passed in conformity with the
suggestions contained in the report.
The MAYOR said he had been applied to by the Cricket
Club for the loan of a tent belonging to the Botanic Gar-
den, on the occasion of a match to come off on the 3rd of
September. The request was of course conceded by the
Council, and the business concluded.

DOCK COMMITTEE, THURSDAY.—Tenders were pro-
duced from three insurance companies, stating the terms
on which they would insure the Albert Dock Warehouses.
The Royal Insurance Company offered to take £35,000 at
ss. per cent. ; the Liverpool and London £35,000, and
the Yorkshire £30,000, at the same per centage. Mr.
Horsfall said that was the sum asked before, but since
that time there had been a reduction made in commercial
risks of from twenty to forty per cent. Mr. Mann
thought it would be unfair in the companies to charge
more than they did upon the London dock warehouses,
where the risk was much greater, and yet the premiums
were only 2s. 6d. per cent. Several others of the mem-
bers said they considered the premium far too high, and
the subject was again referred.—lt was ordered that, in
consequence of the frequent injury to which it washable,
the parapet wall at the Prince's pier-head, from the Sea-
combe steps to the next flight of steps, should be removed,
and chainsand posts placed in its stead. The alteration
is rendered necessary in consequence of that place being
now greatly used for the landing and embarking of pas-
sengers.—The sub-committee reported that they could
not recommend the placing of buoys at the north-west
and south-west of Pluckington bank, because the rise
and fall of the tide was so great, that the buoys would be
of no use at all. At least seven fathoms of chain would
be required to each buoy, and at low water, or even at
half flood, the position of the bank would not be cor-
rectly indicated by the buoys,

WEST DERBY GUARDIANS.—On Wednesday, at the
usual weekly meeting of the aboveboard, the report of the
fever hospital was read, from which it appeared that there
were remaining in the house last week, 131; admitted
during the week, 3d; -dismissed, cured, 40; died, 4; re-
maining in the house, 123 ; and that the patient% with
one or two exceptions, are doing well, On the motion of
Mr. Roskell, it was resolved, that the following gentle-
men,—Messrs. Sheppard, Pye, Edwards, Peers, and Clea-
ver be appointed a deputation to visit Haydock Lodge and
Lancaster Asylum, and to report thereon.—Mr. Roskell
moved that the salary of Mr. Johnson, the medical officer
for Kirkdale, be increased 12s. per week. He also moved
that the salary of Mr. Reid be increased ss. per week.
The two motions were seconded by the Rev. Mr. Badnall,
and carried.—The Rev. Mr. Badnall urgently impressed
upon the board the great necessity which existed for the
immediate erection of an hospital in connexion with the
workhouse, and read a statement, from which it appeared
that from the Ist of April to the 30th of June, no less than
twenty-two deaths had taken place in the house from
measles alone, all of which deaths might have been avoided
if an hospital had existed to which they could have been
removed. He said that he did not wish to hold out any
threat to the board, but unless some steps were taken, he
should consider it his duty to lay the whole matter before
the Poor-law Commissioners.—The chairman perfectly
agreed with Mr. Badnall. The plans had been prepared,
tenders had been got, but after all, nothing had been
done. He considered the mode in which the guardians
were going on as nothing- less than child's play.
SELECT VESTRY, TVESDAY.—The Chairman announced
that the Select Vestry were now indebted to the bank in
the sum of £15,237, and that they should be obliged to
press for the parish rates as fast as possible, in order to
meet this large outstanding liability.—Mr. Williams, the
pay-clerk, to whom Mr. Blanchard, Mr. Riley, and Mr.
Fairclough had paid silver and copper to the amount of
£282, for which they cannot as yet obtain repayment,
wrote to say that indisposition would prevent him from
appearing before the committee until Saturday, and the
inquiry into his conduct was accordingly postponed until
that day, when Mr. Gray was requested to be present to
afford all the information in his power on this very im-
portant subject. Mr. Hart observed that, during the
time he was on a deputation to London, Mr. Williams
had written to him to say that he could not discharge the
heavy amount of business he had to perform without
assistance. Mr. Millward was accordingly appointed as
his assistant, and since then he (Millward) had been put
to the responsible duty of relieving the poor.—The Irish
Relief Committee reported that great delay had been ex-
perienced in the sending of the workhouse van for persons
lying sick in the street. Fever patients were reported to
be on the decrease, the total number of indoor and out-
door patients being reduced to 1971. Orders were issued
that no more sick eases from shore should be sent to any
of the lazarettoes, and that the contract with the steamer
Windermere. for conveytng the patients to and from the
lazarettoes, be terminated. Mr. Swainson asked what
number of patients were at present on board the lazaret-
toes ? The Chairman replied 384. The Committee re-
ported that Mr. Rounthwaite, of the City of Dublin
Company, had made application for a discontinuance of
the practice of sending surgeons on board the steamers
coming from Ireland, to ascertain if there were any fever
patients among the passengers ; and, in consequence of
an assurance being given that the Irish Steam Packet
Companies would use the same precautions they were
using at present, the committee consented to recommend
a discontinuance of -the quarantine regulations at this
port. After some conversation the minutes were con-
firmed.—The Poor-law Commissioners wrote to say that
they had received a letter from the Select Vestry relative
to the purchase of a cemetery for the interment of paupers
dying within the parish of Liverpool. They observed
that they had been unable to find any express authority
given by the law to make any such purchase, as the land
in question was not to be adjacent to the workhouse.
They added, that cemeteries might be provided out of
the church-rates, in which rich and poor might alike be
buried. The letter was referred to the Finance Commit-
tee, after several members had expressed their opinions
relative to the vague and unsatisfactory manner in which
it was worded.—Mr. Hart said that some time ago it had
been arranged that the parish should be divided into 12
districts, and that a new vaccinator should be appointed
to each. The new vaccinators were appointed, and the
old ones had received notice that their services would be
dispensed with, but that notice having been deemed in-
valid. both the new and the old continued to operate and
charge accordingly. A new notice was ordered to be is-
sued, to the effect that after 28 days the services of the
old vaccinators would no longer be required.—The arri-
vals of persons from Ireland during the past week were
reported to be as follow :—August 16th, 374 ' • 17th, 460 ;
18th, 291 ; 19th, 562 ; 20th, 373 ; 21st, 483; 23rd, 538.
Total, 3080. The exports were reported to be :—On the
17th of August, 39 ; 18th, 55 ; 19th, 89 ; 20th, 65 ; 21st,
86 ; 23rd, 55. Total, 389.

SIR DIGBY MACKWORTH'S • REPLY TO MR.

VAUGHAN.

Sir Digby Mackworth has sent to Mr. Bellamy, the se-
cretary of the National Club, the following complete .re-
futation of the charges made against him by a Mr.
Vaughan :

Glen. Uske, Caerleon, August 24, 1847.
My DEAR MR. BELLAMY,—But for your note of yes-
terday, containing Mr. J. H. Jones' to you, I should not
have thought of replying to the calumnies uttered by Mr.
Vaughan, a violent Romanist of this county, at the meet-
in.- of Liverpool Romanists to prevent my election for
that borough. I had heard of them, but my Liverpool
friends had represented them as so violent and absurd as.
not to need a reply ; so I only read them yesterday for the
first time.

My own impression still is that they are unworthy of
notice, but ifour committee think otherwise, they are at
perfect liberty to make the best use they please of this
statement.

My "antiquated bigotry," &c., means, of course, what
I fully admit, that I would never sanction any public
grant of money to educate the Romish priests, or give the
Romanists an ungodly education, not based on th word
of God.

My not having been known to have been inside "my
parish church scarcely once in three months," is purely a
gratuitous untruth ; nor can I suppose any one would
wish me to prove it by a certificate from the Rev. Wm.
Powell, my esteemed and honoured clergyman.
" Sir Digby, in the year 1831, was a great Reformer.—
an ardent Liberal." I approved, and do approve of most
of the principles of the reform in parliament. I did not
and do not wholly approve of the act ; but I did and do
prefer it to no reform at all, as was then the alternative.
Of the meeting in the Town-hall, Uske, on the 27th
October, 1831, as I was not present, being at Bristol, and
engaged two days afterwards in helping to repress the
riots there, I really can say nothing. The riots and their
results engaged me for weeks afterwards ; and what Mr.
Vaughan means by asserting that I " expressed my con-
currence in the proceedings," when Mr. Hall, the Radical
member for Marylebone, said that the wicked bench of
bishops stood between the people an 4 their rights," and
that though I "did not necessarily approve of that par-
ticular expression," yet that I "approved of the general
purport of the meeting," I am quite at a loss to imagine.
But Mr. Vaughan says, " The bonne bouche was last
of all :" and it is this—that in 1846 Sir Digby wrote to
Mr. Williams " to say that he was prepared and desirous
of supporting Lord Granville Somerset, the free-trade
candidate: but now, in 1847, that was a long time for
Sir Digby—his name figured as one of the committee of
the Protectionists, Captain Somerset, the Duke of Beau-
fort's nominee."
The reply is very simple. When Sir Digby Mack-
worth wrote in 1846, Lord Granville was a Protectionist.
In 1847, when Sir Digby Mackworth gave his name as a
member of Captain Somerset's and Mr. Morgan's com-
mittee, Mr. Granville was a Free-trader. Which is the
inconsistent man ?

" But this, though the most recent, was not the most
glaring act. The most ungracious piece, of inconsistency
ever heard of was, when the Hon. Mr. Tracey was in-
duced to comcforward on the Liberal interest for Mon-
mouthshire, one inducement was, because the requisition
to him 21,18 signed by Sir Digby Mackworth." " Before
the in'. was well dry with which he had written the docu-
ment, he went about canvassing for Mr. Tracey 's o po
nent, and actually proposed him on the hustiisg Src-
Mark how a plain tale will put this down. When Mr.
Williams, member for the county on the Liberal
interest, retired from ill health, his intention was known
many weeks beforehand. At the time no Conser-
vative candidate could be found for Monmouthshire.
Many Conservative gentlemen dreaded lest Sir Benjamin
Hall, whose church principles have been already casually
alluded to by Mr. Vaughan, should set up himself for it,
and walk over the course. Sir D. Mackworth, who pro-
fessedly and actually never joined any party in the state,
though ever holding moderate Conservative principles,
heard from good authority that the Hon. Mr. Tracey,
nephew to the Lord Lieutenant, though a Whig, was by
no means strongly so, and was a sincere friend to the
church. On this, rather than risk the having Sir B. Hall,
Sir Digby and several others of the Conservative clergy
and gentry did invite Mr. Tracey to come forward for the
county. Mr. Tracey invited Sir Digby to propose him.
Sir Digby asked Mr. Tracey his opinion on church rates,
which were then violently assaulted by the-Dissenters, and
supported by many of the Whigs. Mr. Tracey wrote in
reply, " I view the existence of church rates as a serious
evil, and a growing one in proportion to the spread of
dissent." To this Sir Digby answered, " You will see
why, though I joined in inviting you cordially to become
our representative, and though I have the highest personal
esteem and respect for you, yet, knowing, as I now do,
your sentiments on this vital point, and they remaining
unchanged, it is impossible for me to give you further
political support." Sir D. M. wrote further, that after
what had passed, he would assuredly not oppose Mr.
Tracey, but would absent himself from the county. After
all this, Mr. Octavius Morgan came forward on Conser-
vative principles, when Mr. Tracey withdrew from the
contest. and then, and not till then, Sir D. M. agreed to
propose Mr. Morgan.
It is quite untrue that Sir D. M. ever canvassed for Mr.
Morgan, before or after these things ; never, indeed, at
all, until the contest last week.
In conclusion, Sir D. M. is not aware that he ever
changed—not five times, but once—his political opinions.
He never belonged to any party, and this was his chief
offence. He is simply a Church Protestant of moderate
conservatism, and cared little for men or parties, except
as they carried out their paramount principles. This is
the real key to his political views and acts ; and he only
laments that it should be deemed necessary by his friends
to inflict on them so long a statement in reply to the de-
sultory, unfair, and in some points, untrue charges
against him.
Sir D. M. adds copies of the original correspondence
between the Hon. Mr. Tracy and himself, and it is very
true that having been selected by the conservative gentry
of Glamorgan, in 1840, as their provisional candidate,

he forfeited their favour rather than abandon his princi-
ples for the sake of gratifying a party.
Such, my dear Mr. Bellamy, is a history, as conciseas
possible (though explanatory statements must needs be
somewhat lengthy), of the political consistency of a pri-
vate gentleman for sixteen years. I only wish some of
our leading public men had been half as consistent, and
we should not have been menaced as we are by the
Popery, Pu seyi am , and political expediency of the present
day.—l remain, very sincerely yours,
DIGBY MACKWORTH.