The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1846-03-17 00:00:00

DIED.

Lately, in his 36th year, Mr. WM. WAKEFIELD, late of the
Police force.

Lately, at Brighton, in h's 9,th year, WM, ELY COOK, Esq.
Lately, at Howden, at the advanced age of 95, Mrs. ELIZA-
BETH ENGLAND.

On the 23rd December last, at Sierra Leone, aged 3g, Mr. R.
BLANCHARD, son-in-law of the late Mr. E. Cash, tidewaiter
of this port.

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Same day, at Nagode, Bengal. aged 28, Lieutenant FRANCIS
DRAKE, of the 61st Regiment N. 1., filth son of the late Rev.
W. W. Drake, rector of Malpas.
On the Bth ultimo, at Toronto, Canada, aged 70. Mr. STAN-
DISH O'GRADY BENNETT, formerly of Tankerville, county
of Cork.
On the 15th ultimo, at his residence. Brunswick-pace, Stan-
hope-street, aged 60, Mr. THOMAS KNUDSO
On the 15th ultimo, after a long and lingering consumption,
at Kirkdale, FANNY, eldest daughter of Mr. JOSEPH C.
KINSLEY, late proprietor of the Sligo Mirror.
On the 20th ultimo. at Huntingdon, Canada, FREDERICK,
infant son of Dr. J. WHYTE, formerly of Banff, Scotland.
On the Ist instant, at Douglas. Isle of Man, aged 76 years,
JOSEPH 'LITT, Esq., formerly of Manchester.
On the 2nd instant, aged 2 years and 3 months, JEMIMA,
only daughter, and on the 3rd instant. aged 8 months, THOS.,
only son of Mr. JOHN IVA LSII, Parliament-street.
On the 9rd instant, in Hiehfield.street, aged :59. Mr. ROBT.
BICKERSTET.I, watchmaker, son of the late Mr. J. Dicker-
steth, sailmaker, and In other to Mr. E. Bickersteth, marine-store
dealer, Park lane.

Same day, suddenly, MARY ANN, daughter of Mrs W RIGHT,
of Mercer-court, Redcross street. . _

Same day, at Whitchurch, in the prime of life, ANDREW
BEACALL, Esq., an eminent surgeon. The town and neigh-
bourhood of Whitchurch have been enveloped in gloom and
melancholy in consequence of the decease of the above gentle-
man, for he united to his great professional abilities all the
attributes of a sincere Christian. His loss will be long de-
plored. His interment tock place on Saturday, when, as a small
token of respect, his fell: w-townsmen closed t' cir shops during
the funeral solemnities.

On the 4th instant, at Perney-hall, Shropshire, General Sir
EVAN LLOYD, K.C.H., Colonel of the 7th Dragoons.
On the sth instant. at his residence. Bridge•street, South-
wark, London, TtIOMAS BUL', OCR BURBRIDGE, Esq., of
the Grove, Epsom, many years a magistrate and deputy-Jien-
tenant of the county of Surrey.

Same day, at Fleetwood, in his fifth year, Mr. JOHN HARD-
MAN, superintendent of the goods department of the Prestos
and Wyre Railway.
Same day, at Weymouth, in his 83rd year, Rear Admiral
HANCOCK.

Swale day, at Edgeley, Stockport, aced 74, Mr. JOHN TAT-
TERSALL, father of I\l,s. R. Picklord, late of the Mitre Hotel,
Dale-street, in this town.

On the 6th instant, at Cusherulall, aged 72. MARIA JANE,
wife of the Rev. M. FALLOON. rector of La;•dc, Ireland.
Same day, at Mill Holme, Westmoreland, ged 37, Mr. T.
MEDCALF. for several }eats a faithful c!erli in the employ of
Messrs G. Crosfield and Co., of this town.

Fame day, aged 24 da!'s, JOHN EIFON, son of Mr. J. HALL,
of Mill-street.

Same day, in London, in consequence of drinking essence of
almonds, aged 5 years, EDM UN EO, son of Captain E. Y.
TOM K I NS, late of this town.
Same, day, aged 24. ANNE, wife of Mr. R.. 1. SCOTT, engineer,
Kent-terrace, and only daughter of Mr. J. Griffith, late of
Carnarvon.

On the 7th instant, aged 44 years, Mr. SAMUEL REYNER,
Egremont, eldest son of the late Mr. JOSEPH REYNER, of
Brooksback.

On the 7th instant. at the house of his grandmother, Hardy-
street. aged 22 years, Mr. EDWARD JOLLY, son of the late
Mr. Edward Jolly, of this town.
Same day, aged 53 years. MARIA, wife of Captain JOHN
WILLIAMS, of the Dubin mail steamer Iron Duke.
Same day, aged 76. KATHERINE, relict of tle late Mr. S.
HILL, of Heath-side, Warrington.

t=ame day, at Holyhead, bAI.AH MARY, wife of , Mr. T.
ROBERTS, Esq.
Same day, at Warrington, aged 13 Tr onths, GEORGE EDWIN,
son of Captain G. PRINGLE, of this town.
On the Bth instant, at Bea.umaris. aged 47. years, ANNE,
second daughter of the late ROBERT PRITCHARD, Esq.,
Llwytharth Esgob, Anglesea. •
Same day, at Hope-street, aged 27 years, MARGARET, wife
of the Rev. W• C. GREENE.

same day, aged 78 years, Mr. WILLIAM AUGUSTUS
WILLIS, Russell-place, Old Kent-road, London, fifty years
clerk in the Bank If England.
Same day, aged 56, Mr. ANTHONY A RMER„ coachman.

Same daY, at the New Lodge, near Hanbury, Staffordshire,
in his 84th year. R. J. HARPER, Esq , Surveyor of Woods far
the Duchy of Lancaster north of the Trent.

On the 9th instant, at Hale, Mr. WILLIAM HOULGRAVIS,
sincerely regretted by all who knew him.

On the gtii instant, at Prospect house, Clitheroe, MARY, wife
of Mr. STEWART, and third daughter of the late JOHN
ODDII3, Esq., of Spring-gardens, Clitheroe.

, + Son *day; at Lancaster, aged 24 years, CHRISTOPHER, eon
of Captain JOHN HOGARTII.
Same day, at Llanfwrog, Ruthin, aged 104 years, EDWARD
JONES,. R pauper. The deceased occupied himsell till lately In
making walking-sticks and horn and bone tobacco-boxes, at
which, notwithstanding his great age, he was very expert.
On the loth instant, aged 2 years and 3 months, ALICE,
daughter of Mr. THOMAS ARMsI BONG. 24, Hope-place.
Same day, in the 65th year of his age, Mr. PHILIP CHRIS-
TIAN, 13, King-street.
Same day, in his 65th year, Mr. ROBE IT WEBSTER.
farmer, of Litherland, father of Mr. D. WEBSTER, of the
Horse and Jockey, Date-street.

e day, GEORGE WALKER, Esq., Aughton.
.Same day, aged 2 years and 3 months, ALICE, daughter of
THOS. ARMSTRONG, collector of rates, 24. Hope place.
On the 11th instant, aged 73, A 4N PORTER, wife of James
Porter, Richmond.row.
On the 12th instant, aged 2 ye,,rs and 6 months, CHARLES
'OCTAVIUS, scn of Mr. T. M. SU DLO W.
Same day, at the residence of her son. in South Castle•strect,
in her 95th year, Mrs. ELIZABETH WIG' O.N.
Same day, in her 73rd year, the Right Hon. Lady ELIZA-
BETH FIELDING, sister to the Marchioness of Lansdowne.
Fame day, aged 16 months, A LRIC WILLIAM, . infant son of
Captain W. T. VALE, Price-street, Birkenhead.
On the 13th instant, in his 91st year, Mr. ISAAC HOPE, of
Chester.
On
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the 14th instant.
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8 TH E LIVERPO'
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TO CORRESPONDENTS. the credit of uttering common sense in the support moreover, is presuming that Canada, throwing off
of his views— our connexion, seeks no other. The case is mate-
"A Churchman " is not likely to see the speedy realization of
his wishes. We believe that by the act of parliament the Rev. " What he said was," he explained, "that whereas Par- rially aggravated if, as is most natural and probable,
0. Wray is now the sole incumbent of St. Martin's Church, liament had granted only £lOO,OOO to Ireland—for the she should throw herself into the hands of the
but 'too per annum is allotted for the payment of a curate. rest were only loans—he, on the part of Ireland, declared United States.
We are requested to say that it was never contemplated to pro. that if they would pass a law against the absentees, who .
ut supposing, even, that she adopts none of
duce at Astley's Amphitheatre any such scenic representation were drawing away £4,000,000 or £5,000,000 a year in ie
of the recent conflicts in India, as has been announced in
some of the papers. exports of corn and exports of cattle, of pigs, and of bacon, these courses ; that she clings still, for a while, to
CURIOUS DISCOVXRY.—The 211ercury of Friday contains a pars- —if they would give back to Ireland these £1,000,000 or the British connexion ; where, we ask, is her value
graph headed "A deceased potatoe producing new potatoes £5,000,000, the Irish would allow the whole £lOO,OOO to to us after she has lost her consuming power by the
Inside." This curious tact in natural history, we learn, was remain untouched." destruction of her agricultural prosperity. A people,
discovered at a post mortem examination, held at the Mercury We can assure Mr. O'Brien, "on the part of Eno--
t. who have nothing which they ca , profitably sell,
office, and not as erroneously stated in the paragraph it•-elt,
our contemporary being the anatomist. Nothing, we believe, land," that there is not the slightest objection against
transpired to account for the sudden eh ath of the unfortunate his fellow- countrymen having back again every cannot afford to buy. It is an axiom of the Free
potatoe, which is st II enveloped in mystery. The new pota.Triaders' own philosophy, that a nation can
Quarter of corn, every sheep, pig, or firkin of butter,
toes discove.ed are said to be lively fellows, and the disco- .
very is.creating a great sensation amongst the dealers in st. or their equivalent, which these four or five millions
John's market, who look forward to a considerable reduction represent. Ireland has simply to refund the money of its surplus after the supp'y of its own
wants. If that surplus is five millions, with wheat
in" eailies," provided only some sate and efficacious mode
D id for them—some of which may possibly have
of incub tion can be hit upon, by which the young innocents . a
may in future be ushered into the world without must :g the found its way into the pocket of the hon. member
decease of the unfo, tunate mothers. himself—and the transaction can easily be closed. at 40s. ; and ultimately Canada may not find
.
We are obliged to our kind correspondent near Holywell. Theit worth while, or be able, to have any surplus at all
uotation'in our share list of the Royal Bank is quite correct. But to give back the commodities, whilst Ireland from this source.
at is probably not aware that the shares were fixed originally and Mr. Smith O'Brien, her champion, retain the • •
Our limited space prevents us, at present, going
at .elOOO, but of course the whole amount has not been paid cash, is scarcely a mode of doing business which
up.
-- - ought to be expected. Badinage apart, is it not further into the subject and noticing another of its
most important features. We shall, however, have
in) t it.ibrrpool Otantiar, melancholy that in this advanced stage of the time-
teenth century, a man can be found, occupying the further opportunity. It is one of vast importance
_
station of a member of the British legislature, who
TUESDAY MORNING, MARCH 17, 1846. partial consideration before any fatal step is re-
thus gravely propounds it as a grievance to his own
solved upon.
c
Our advices from the United States, owing to the country that another country buys yearly four to
-non-arrival at Boston of the mails from the South, five millions of its produce? We shall have some REDUCED DUTIES IN OPERATION.
in time for the sailing of the steamer, are very im- of the half-clad weavers of Manchester next, attri-
perfect, the usual files not having came to hand. Muting their want of good shirts and jackets to the .0f
tmhe fo llYesterday a Treasury order was received by the Cas-
t s' department at thiort for the immediate retion
Their tone, however, is upon the whole of a more circumstance that America or China " draws oft " o
pacific character than that which we have observed from this country four or five millions of pieces of owing dutiess cpomprised in Sir Robe td Peel's
financial scheme :
in previous arrivals. Although the proceedings in calico; or Lancashire praying for an absentee tax 1. d.
Buckwheat, per quarter 1 0
Congress, upon the Oregon question still exhibit ato prevent her merchants spending their money in Buckwheat meal, the cwt. 1 0
plentiful amount of those " Words full of sound Birkenhead or New Brighton. Maize or Indian corn, the quarter 1 0
and fury," in which our transatlantic brother is fond Maize meal, the cwt.
Rice, the cwt.
of indulging, we are now more than ever convinced We are glad to find that the observations in our —of and from any British possession, the cwt. 0 6
that, when the time of action arrives, and the Go- last and the i
rough, and in the husk, the quarter 1 0
, quotatons which we gave from the —of and from a British possession, the quarter 0 I
vernment and the people of Great Britain are seen letters of Mr. Isaac Buchanan, with respect to the
The parties releasing goods thus affected are required, of
to be in earnest, they will be found to have partaken effect of the present measures of Government upon
course, to give bond for the return of the amount re-
of the character described by the poet—"signifying the prosperity and continued connexion of the milted, in case of the measure not passing both houses.
nothing." Even in the senate, it is broadly admit- colonies of Great Britain with the mother country, An order for the immediate reduction of the duty on to-
ted that the cause, if determined upon, of giving the have attracted attention in influential quarters, and reign brandy was expected yesterday afternoon.
twelve months' notice to terminate the joint occupa-
.awakened not a few persons from their, utopian
FRENCH TESTIMONIAL TO LIVERPOOL
tion, must be viewed by Great Britain as precluding visions to a sense of their dangerous and destructive HOSPITALITY.
the possibility of an-amicable settlement of all ques- tendency. Amongst a number of our contemporaries,
tions at issue by negotiation; and it is not difficult we observe that the London Standard, the Shtlfield The great work of Ballard, (the French architect,)
to perceive that the more sober-minded of the sena- Mercury, the Gloucestershire Chronicle, the Maccles- "Paris and its Monuments," dedicated to Napoleon, and
tors are beginning to discuss the great disparity in field Courier, and others, have taken up the subject so well known for the surpassing beauty of its illustra-
the present capabilities of the two countries to sus- in the same light in which we placed it before our toa nwsr,e
oh
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tain a hostile collision. On the 19th ultimo we find readers ; and amongst some of our most influential de Rasnbuseau,"Peer of Frhnce. Prefet of the Seine.
Mr. Dix, a senator from New York remarking that— merchants connected with the colonial trade in Li- The bearer of this very gratifying testimonial of good
"If war should arise be would deprecate that fatal verpool, Manchester, Glasgow, and other seats of French feeling was Richard Phibbs, Esq. ; and we feel as
weakness of underrating the strength of our adversary. commerce, who have been all along warm admirers proud of it as Mr. Lawrence can be, for it is a most pleas-
She was never in a better condition for war than now. of the theory of.FrFe.Trade, we have reason. to know ing recognition of the long-famed hospitality of the " good
From her inordinate and over-dis'ended expansion, she old town," which was so well sustained by its worthy
that serious misgivings are beginning to be felt, chief magistrate in the month of October, 1815, when the
contained within herself the vital principle of weakness,
from which she must ultimately fall to pieces; but as yet We hear of one house, having extensive establish- distinguished nobleman above•named, accompanied by
the British empire exhibited no decisive symptoms of ments in the Canadas, the partners of which are Monsieur Buffiere.s, was entertained by the Mayor, and
decay. The senator from Ohio had graphically described seriously meditating the abandonment of those visited the establishments, and saw the great mercantile
the the inordinate burdens imposed upon her subjects, the in- establishrpents, in the event of the Ministerial mea- movements of this home of British. commerce, in admi.ra-
tion of which, and of English institutions and prosperity,
ternal elements of discord ; but these would scarcely res- sores being carried ; and some of our leading he expressed himself both warmly and wise:v ; for it will
train her where her rights, as she conceived, were invaded.
Look at her soldiery. They are not like those of Rome manufacturing and commercial firms in this country, Ibe in the recollection of many who had the honour of
hitherto maintained a profitable
in her bloated distension of power—enervated, idle, and who have business meeting him, that in an eloquent and beautiful speech,
luxurious. No, sir. They are to be found in all quarters intercourse with these valuable possessions, look after his health was proposed by the mayor, the Count
of the globe—under the torrid sun of the equator, and forward with most gloomy anticipations to the i
made some very interesting remarks on the side by side
amid the eternal winter of the arctic circle, resisting all prospect which is now before them. It appears to march of France and England in the career of free nstt-
opposition, of the nations, and of the elements. Yet war - tutions, and in the progress of representative government,
may be near at hand. And we should remember tbat the be now a generally admitted fact that the with- politely alluding to the very early period when England
last struggle of the stronx roan is always the most despe- drawal of protection from the corn of Canada will I began to enjoy the great blessings of her present constitu-
rate, and almost without exception the most dangerous to operate as a fatal blow against the prosperity of that tion, and closed his observations with the hearty exhorta-
his adversary." tion, " Keep to your ancient institutions ! Respect your
colony; that such withdrawal, so shortly after the religion! Respect the throne! Cease never to be Old
And, although, in deference, perhaps, to the vanity
,great compact contained in the Canada Corn Bill England !" Atter which he was loudly cheered; and his
of his fellow-countrymen, he states the condition of of 1842, upon the faith of which a large expenditure good French counsel was responded to by a burst of deep
the defences of their coast as by no means weak, it of money has been applied to the improvement of and English feeling.
is clear that he is not very deeply impressed with a the internal riaeirratinn ,-,r .b...,-...,.... ...:11 t... __-

And, although, in deference, perhaps, to the vanity
of his fellow-countrymen, he states the condition of
the defences of their coast as by no means weak, it
is clear that he is not very deeply impressed with a
favourable opinion of his country's chance of suc-
,;gle as that to which hotheaded
—Autiess blusterers would willingly impel her.
The firmest guarantee of peace, however, we find
in the returning good sense of the American people.
The announcement of our new commercial policy
appears to have awakened the calculating cupidity
of brother Jonathan. He sees in prospect a vast
field of profitable commerce opened to the American
agriculture`

cess in st

and the

, merchant, and shipowner,

Already

he sees the settler of the western states enjoying
the markets, hitherto enjoyed almost exclusively by
the British farmer; and the ports upon the Ameri-
can seaboard filled with its shipping destined far
British ports. Oregon may he a tempting bait for
the squatting population of the back woods to blus-
ter for. It may be a taking theme for party to
dilate upon. It may make a political fortune for a
presidential candidate, or an aspirant to place and
pay. But the god which the American worships is
dollars. There are dollars to be picked up in the
cultivation of friendly relations with Great Britain,
under her free trade policy; and our lately irascible
brother will lay
,aside for a while his visions of nau-
tical aggrandizement, to enjoy, so long as it is af-
forded to him, the harvest which we are offering for
his acceptance. Negociation, will settle all our dif-
ferences, unless, indeed, America presumes more
upon our forbearance than Great Britain can endure
—a piece of hardihood and folly which we scarcely
think it will venture upon.

The task of alleviating the real distress of Ireland
appears likely to he as difficult as the present and
half a dozen previous administrations have found
that of removing her imaginary grievances. If we
tie the hands of her unruly peasantry, and restrain
them from murdering their landlords, or one another,
we are assailed with complaints of " coercion " If,
on the other hand, we give full toleration to the
national pastime—allow here a landlord to be shot,
and there an agent to be bludgeoned—if justice
stands idly by whilst lawlessness covers the face of
the land, and the usual result of the insecurity of
life and property ensues ; we are overwhelmed with
denunciations of the evils of absenteeism, and the
hardship of allowing proprietors of the soil to spend
their incomes in countries where they can go to bed
at night with the tolerable assu'ance of rising in the
morning without the dis,greeable accident of a bullet,
or half a dozen slugs, finding their way through the
window shutters. Coax disaffection and wink at
turbulence, and forthwith we are twitted with
cowardice) repress or punish them, and we are

We are glad to find that the observations in our
last, and the quotations which we gave from the
letters of Mr. Isaac Buchanan, with respect to the
effect of the present measures of Government upon
the prosperity and continued connexion of the
colonies of Great Britain with the mother country,
have attracted attention in influential quarters, and
awakened not a few persons from their, utopian
visions to a sense of their dangerous and destructive
tendency. Amongst a number of our contemporaries,
we observe that the London Standard, the Sheffield
Mercury, the Gloucestershire Chronicle, the Maccles-
field Courier, and others, have taken up the subject
in the same light in which we placed it before our
readers ; and amongst some of our most influential
merchants connected with the colonial trade in Li-
verpool, Manchester, Glasgow, and other seats of
commerce, who have been all along warm admirers
of the theory of Free Trade, we have reason to know
that serious misgivings are beginning to be felt.
We hear of one house, having extensive establish-
ments in the Canadas, the partners of which are
seriously meditating the abandonment of those
establishtpents, in the event of the Ministerial me,.
sures being carried ; and some of our leading
manufacturing and commercial firms in this country,
who have hitherto maintained a profitable business
intercourse with these valuable possessions, look
forward with most gloomy anticipations to the
prospect which is now before them. It appears to
be now a generally admitted fact that the with-
drawal of protection from the corn of Canada will
operate as a fatal blow against the prosperity of that
colony; that such withdrawal, so shortly after the
great compact contained in the Canada Corn Bill
of 1842, upon the faith of which a large expenditure
of money has been applied to the improvement of
the internal navigation of the country, will be re-
garded by the people of Canada as not only in-
jurious but insulting, and that ultimately, and at no
distant period, the course which we are pursuing
must inevitably be productive of an amount of
bitterness of feeling towards Great Britain, which
must cause the disruption of the tie by which she
holds at present that most valuable possession.
It is no doubt true that there are some people
who may be disposed to shut their eyes to the ex-
treme probability—we may say the certainty —of
this calamity. They have made up their minds
that such magnificent results are to arise from the
carrying out their pet theory of Free Trade, to Great
Britain, and to themselves in particular, that they
cannot believe in the possibility of its failure to
benefit every portion and every Interest of our ex-
tended empire. They see as the result of the
measures of government an expansion of the gross
amount of our exports; but they are resolved not
to see, either the possibility of a violent evulsion, or
the certainty that grievous and fatal injury to cer-
tain interests must ensue. We propose to address
a few remarks to this class of selfish or giddy
dreamers.

It will not be denied, we think, that the Canadian
market has been, and is, one at least of the most
important markets which the British manufacturer
and the British merchant possesses. It is valuable
as partaking more than any other of the character
of that best of all markets, the home market. Our
exports thither, we believe, contain, relatively to
extent, a greater amount of skilled labour, and thus
contribute more to the support of the national in-
dustry, than the exports to any other quarter of the
globe. It is, moreover, a market whose capability
of increase is only restricted by the boundless capa-
bility of the soil to feed and afford homes for the
industry of the human race. Its commerce em-
ployed almost exclusively, and would continue to
employ, British shipping and British seamen. Its
population consumed exclusively, and would conti-
nue to consume, British products. It afforded
almost limitless fields for the profitable employment
of British capital, and the means of comfort and
ultimate affluence for increasing millions of the Bri-
tish race. There was, and would continue to exist,
between its hardy and enterprising population and
our own, a community of habits and feeling, and a
community of loyalty. Canada is happily planted,
too, as a check upon the grasping policy of the
United States. It affords us a powerful point d'
appui from our communication with the entire
western continent. In peace it is the most fertile
source of the prosperity of our transatlantic com-
merce, and in war it would furnish us, as it has
furnished us in past seasons of trial and danger,
with an invaluable source of safety and of strength.
We may go further: however, than this. Com-
mercially, it affords us the most powerful lever with
which to effect the gradual breaking down of the
prohibitory fiscal policy of the United States. With
a land boundary, from the River St. Lawrence at
Montreal to the mouth of the Columbia River, ex-
tending abcut three thousand miles, it is utterly
impossible that the United States can long maintain
intact its present high rates of duty. The proximity
of Canada, which admits the manufactured and
other products of Great Britain at nominal duties,
is clearly incompatible, even at present, with the
preservation, by America, of the customs upon pro-
ducts consumed along this frontier ; and, with the
improvements going on in the inlani comtnunica-
tions of our own colony such preservation will
sho:tly become an impossibility, except by the aid
of such a vast preventive force as no gover, ment
cotid afford, or would be absurd enough to make
the attempt to support.

THE FOREIGN CORN MARKETS

The state of the continental corn markets, as given in
Messrs. B'dy and Co.,s circular, does not appear to be
such as to warrant us in anticipating-any material supply
or reduction of price from that quarter. The number of
grain laden vessels which passed the Sound and Belt, for
England, from the 26th of February to the 3rd of March,
were three of wheat and one of barley. The markets ge-
nerally were quiet, with prices ranging a little above ours,
and

ittle doing. although the navigation was rapidly open-
ing. At Dar,tzic, good b'gh priced wheat was quoted at
545. to 55. r. per quarter for small parcels only. holders
being unwilling to sell at less than 2s. to 3s. advance.
At Elbing, Stettin, and Rostock, there was no disposi-
tion to give way in prices ; 611 b. to 62 b. red Uckermark
is held at 475. ; 621 b. to 631 b. Pomeranian at 48s. to 48s.
6d. per quarter, free on board ; fre;ght, 3s. 6d. to 3s. 9d.
per quarter to London.
The Hamburgh, Dutch, and Belgian markets were dull
—prices drooping.
Great activity was manifested at Odessa in the corn
trade. No purchases were made for England ; Italian and
Greek houses were the only buyers, and prices are one
rouble per chet. higher. The good sorts of Polish wheat
cost 375. per quarter, free on board.
The prices of wheat in the Mediterranean ports are
much too high for England, and nothing can be imported
now through the Straits of Gibraltar from the countrie
eastward, without leaving a very heavy loss of from 10 to
15 per cent. ; the prices advance at Odessa, in the face of
a serious decline quoted from England.

OUR TALK ON 'CHANGE

(CONDENSED PROM A CONTEMPORARY.)

The talk during the past week has been considerably
about America and the Oregon question. The talk is
that Brother Jonathan will go to war with us for the whole
territory. The further talk is that he won't go to war at
all about that or any other matter. The general talk is
that he will do neither; and between the three different
talks the public are rather at a nonplus. The prevailing
opinion is that, before giving an opinion one way or the
other, we had better wait and see the event.

accused of tyranny.
The proceedings of the House of Commons, on
Friday night, were relieved of a portion of their
tedium by an exhibition of this unreasonableness of
the Irish temper, the occasion of which was a motion
by Sir James Graham for leave to make provision
for the treatment of destitute persons afflicted with
fever in that country. The Right Hon. Secretary
stated that almost in every county in Ireland, and
in various localities throughout those different
counties, fever, in many cases to a formidable ex-
tent, had made its appearance, the result of distress,
insufficient food, and deficient sanitary regulations.
To meet, and if possible alleviate, this calamity, he
proposed the establishment of a board of health for
the entire country, and the appointment of a medical
officer in every union, to he paid at the public ex-
pense. He also asked for permission for the Boards
of Guardians to provide fever hospitals, and to take
such other steps as were advisable and necessary,
in the case of a population incapable, from their
poverty, of assisting themselves. If ever ther: was
a question upon which Irish members could meet
their British fellow-legislators in amity, and without
the infusion into it of national bitterness, here, one
would imagine, was such question. If ever there
was an opportunity presented for doing justice to
the provident care of the British Parliament for
Irish suffering, here was such an opportunity.
Such, however, was not the light in which the
occasion was regarded by Mr. Smith O'Brien, who,
after six weeks' utter neglect of his legislative
duties,—six weeks devoted to declamation in Con-
ciliation Hall whilst his abused fellow-countrymen
were demanding his services in Parliament to aid
in warding off from them impending suffering and
want,—has at length made his appearance in the
House of Commons. With one breath this genuine
Hibernian told the house that "one hundred thou-
sand of his fellow-creatures in Ireland were famish-
ing," and with the next he repudiated the generosity
of the British legislature and the British people.
He considered that the Irish people, and amongst
them, of course, the hundred thousand who were
famishing, " could provide for the calamity, with
which they were visited, out of the national re-
sources of Ireland." He would "compel the Irish
landlords to return home, and do their duty to the.
neople." He would give compensation to tenants
who had expended capital upon improvements of
their farms. He would do any thing, in fact, to
avoid the disagreeable necessity of acknowledging
that any thing good or kind towards Ireland could
come from British hands, or of allowing the duped
people of Ireland to see that, whilst the treacherous
demagogues whom they trust have been vapouring
in Conciliation Hall, and draining their pockets
weekly for the purposes of an insane agitation,
British Ministers and a British Parliament have
been sedulously tracing out their real wants and
sufferings, and devising measures for their removal.
We cannot even give this wrongheaded gentleman

The talk in the early part—
of the week was that the
Lords would insist upon a fixed duty, and overthrow Sir
Robert Peel's measure. The further talk was that the
parties who inclined to such an opinion bad the fact com-
municated to them direct from the Duke of Wellington
himself. The general talk, however, was that the Duke
is not a likely man to tell tales out of school. The prayer
is that all this may be true. _ _ .

These provinces, so productive of profit to Great
Britain as a manufacturing and commercial nation,
so valuable as affording employment to our industri-
ous and hardy emigrants, and furnishing us, as they
do, with a check against the grasping policy of the
United States, both political and fiscal, we are about
to alienate. We may be told, however, that they
will still remain extensive consumers of the products
of this country. How this can be we must confess
our inability to perceive. The League will, no
doubt, tell us that the British manufacturer will
still be able to command ' their markets, by the
greater cheapness of British goods. Let us see
how this will be.

There has been a great deal of talk about things in ge-
neral ; but, as the weather is fine and the flags wide,
opinions have been very different and conflicting. Under
the piazzas things were regarded with a much more com-
fortable feeling, whilst the north-west wind and a few
showers considerably damped the feeling in the area.
There was some talk, some further talk, and some
general talk, about Dock matters ; but we were unable
to gather what was the prevailing opinion, therefore
cannot record it.

We ship now to Canada large Quantities of heavy
cottons, coarse woollens, and linens. The imperial
duty upon the first is, by the tariff now before the
house, 10 per cent. ad valorem, upon the second
and third 15 per cent. The provincial duty, which
British goods pay only, is 5 per cent. We have,
therefore, a protection on the first of 10 per cent.,
and upon the other two commodities 15 per cent.
Now, it is utterly impossible that, with no imperial
duty to protect our trade—and Canada will scarcely
continue such protection after we have taken from
her the equivalent protection in our own market—
this country will be able to command the trade in
any of these three classes of manufaetureq, America
beats us now in the South American and Eastern
markets in the article of heavy cottons ; her coarse
woollens will be preferred to ours in the Canadian
market, and Germany will take her trade in the
heavier fabrics of linen—France, perhaps, in the
finer fabrics. We could go through the list of
articles enumerated in the tariff, and show that the
hosiery of Saxony, the cutlery of Germany, the silk
goods of France, &c.—all of which run us close,
and in some instances beat us in neutral markets—
must supersede us in the Canadian market. This,

The Rev. Chancellor Raikes has been pleased to ap-
point the Rev. W. M. galloon, Incumbent of St. John's,
in this town, a surrogate for the granting of marriage li-
censes, probate of wills, &c. &c.
PROTESTANT LECTURES.—The Rev. Wm. Pollock,
incumbent of St. Helens, will deliver this evening the
fifth of the course of lectures, going forward at the Con-
cert-hell, Lord Nelson-street. The important subject of
of Mr. Pollock's address is, " The vain pretensions of the
Church of Rome to infallibility, &c." The reverend
gentleman is well known as an eloquent and powerful de-
fender of Protestant truth. The lecture delivered by the
Rev. Henry Carpenter, on Tuesday lost, is considered to
be such an unanswerable exposure of the " Superstition of
the Church of Rome in the veneration of relics," that the
Committee of the Protestant Operative Association have
obtained Mr. Carpenter's permission to publish it at the
low charge of two pence, and we are happy to find that it
is being extensively circulated.
NEWSPAPER PUFFERY.—YANKEE versus THE OLD
COUNTRY.—What a wretchedly poor figure the newspaper
puffery of this country cuts when compared with that of
our lively Brother Jonathan. The Mrs. Caudle of Lord-
street, when she sits down to dilate upon her excessive
wisdom and unparallelled circulation, is but a puny dri-
veller compared with the Mrs. Candles of the other con-
tinent, when they assume the boastful vein. John Gordon
Bennett beats poor Mercury at his favourite weapons.
tie is as immeasurably greeter than our contemporary in
the science of Bobadilism as the Rocky Mountains are
greater than the largest potato that ever was exhibited in
the Mercury's window. Take the best bit of boasting our
contemporary ever perpetrated—take any of his " paper
and a half for sixpenny" brags ; and see how immeasurably
Bennett leaves him behind in the followitig racy bit of
bombast :—" This unprecedented express was arranged
and run throughout by Mr. L. Bigelow, of the Boston,
Fitchburg, and Montreal Express line. It was the fastest
express ever run in the country, and cannot be beaten by
any live. Yankee. The whole running time between the
two cities, was seven hours and five minutes—distance two
hundred and fifty miles." There is actually poetry in the
description. The feat of the New Yorker " cannot be
beaten by any live Yankee"—thereby suggesting the idea
that, if necessary, he could employ the disembodied spi-
rits of dead Yankees in carrying his expresses. Our con-
temporary at home is prosaic even in the inventive an-
nouncements wbich he makes of his extraordinary suc-
cesses.

How TO BUILD A CHURCH.—This is a secret worth
knowing, and we think the St. Simon's Building Com-
mittee have published it for the good of others. They ad-
vertised, " Subscribe on condition that a certain sum be
raised," or in other words, " Give me £3 if I can raise
£3000." Many did subscribe; the committee worked;
their motto was "a long pull, and a strong pull, and a
pall altogether ;" and they have raised the sum they at
first required. They are now. as appears by their adver-
tiseinFrit in to•dav's paper, calling for a fu'filment of all
promises ; but we regret to see that they are labouring
under pecuniary embarrassment. The corporation of
Liverpool cannot make them a free grant of the site.
They expected this as the church is to be a poor man's
church; but alas the resolutionwhich they received from the
Finance Committee is neither more nor less than a bill
for £214. Again, the advanced price of labour increases
their expenditure. They have taken severalimportant
steps : they have purchased their ground ; they have se-
lected their plans; they have applied to the public so-
cieties ; the first stone, we hope, will shortly be laid, and
we are sure that the zeal and enthusiasm which marked
the commencement of the work, will not cool until the
flag of England will float upon the steeple and our excel-
lent bishop will dedicate it to the worship of Almighty
God.

THE LIVERPOOL sTANbAltli.