The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1846-01-06 00:00:00

THE LIVERPOOL STANDARD.

sugar ?, How defend the differential duties upon
foreign and colonial timber ? These, and other si-
milar duties, devised for the protection of British

industry from foreign competition, must be swept
away; and then will come the question of the re-
venue. How are the five or six millions extracted
from the Customs to be replaced ? By an increased
tax upon income property, we presume ; for we can
see no other source to which we can look with any
degree of confidence. That the nation, at large,
will cheerfully submit to this imposition, as the price
of their cheap loaf, or cheap sugar, is doubtful. It
has winced unmistakably at the tax, as at present
fixed, as oppressive and inquisitorial ; and that dou-
bling it will take away or mitigate these, its unpo-
pular features, is scarcely consistent with probabi-
lity or common sense. It will require all Sir Ro-
bert's cleverness and plausibility to persuade us that
we are not paying too dear for our whistle, when
we give it for the permanence and increase of the
tax in question

Alone with these difficulties of the position, into
which Sir Robert Peel has brought his ministry,
are several which are by no means to be lightly re-
garded. The settlement of the Oregon question
will require delicate handling; and Ireland is far
from offering an object of pleasant contemplation to
a minister. View the position of Sir Robert Peel,
as we will, indeed ; and it is one which any but a
bold man, or one reckless of consequences, would
regard with dismay and shrinking.i

CUSTOMS REVENUE OF THE PORT OF LIVER-
POOL FOR THE YEAR ENDED STH JAN.,1846.

The Customs Revenue of this port, for the year ended
yesterday, we are enabled to state, has produced, as nearly
as can at present be made out, the sum of £3,433,112,
against £4,487,664, the amount received last year, thus
sheaving a deficiency during the past year of £1,054,552.
This would be a disheartening fact, as leading to the con-
clusion that the commerce of the port has declined in
proportion to the customs revenue, were it not capable of
being fully explained ; and to prevent any such misunder-
standing arising we proceed to shew how the deficiency in
question has arisen. On the Bth of May, 1845, a bill received
the Royal assent repealing the duties upon a variety of raw
materials, including the important item of cotton wool, a
quantity of dyes and minerals furniture woods, &c• It
came into operation, however, by an order in council on the
20th March, and the act has, therefore, had upwards of
nine months' effect upon our customs. The article of
cotton wool alone produced last year to; the customers of
this port about £600,000. From this source, therefore,
we may safely set down a loss of nearly £500,000 during
the nine months, or little short of half the deficiency. The
other articles upon which the duties were repealed, about
200 in number, will make up a considerable portion of
the balance, though probably not the whole. For the re-
maining deficiency, therefore, we look to the alteration in
the sugar duties, which, with several others provided for
by the tariff act of the previous year. only came into full
effect during the past twelve months. The loss of the
revenue from these will more than make up the entire
deficiency. In addition, however, it is known that the
amended corn law has not this year produced so much as
last year. Taking all these concurrent circumstances,
therefore, into considerrtion, it is satisfactory to be able
to assure ourselves that so far from any decrease in the
commerce having taken place it has increased, and shows
every sign of extending itself still further. That this is
the opinion of men better able to judge than ourselves,
the efforts now making to provide increased dock and
other accommodation for our shipping abundantly proves.

ANTIDOTE TO THE FAMINE-CRY OF
THE LEAGUE.

We have again and again repeated our conviction, de-
rived from the best sources of information, and even
vouched for by the state for weeks past of our leading
corn-markets, that the cry of scarcity, with which the
hirelings of the League have been attempting to fright the
country from its calm senses, is utterly without foudation.
We are glad to be enabled to adduce, in proof of our posi-
tion, the following paragraph from the annual circular of
a leading provision firm in this town—Messrs. Adams and
Banks :—" Nothing," remark these gentlemen, " can be
said at present about the corn trade, except that it is a
great hardship for all classes connected with it, to have a
momentous business like it virtually suspended either by
want of confidence, or defection in legislative enectments.
The quantity of bread stuff coming from the United
States is great, so that with the bonded grain now in the
kingdom and that on the way, the granaries in England
are likely to be sufficiently stored for the consumption of
the country until the next harvest.

We may add, from good authority, that the quantity of
unthrashed corn in farmers' hands throughout the coun-
try is unprecedentedly large.

MURDER AT ST. HELEN'S

CHURCH EXTENSION MEETING IN TOXTETH
PARK, LAST NIGHT.

A meeting of the Operatives of Toxteth-park, was held
last night, in St. Bride's School-room, Grey-street, con.
vened for the purpose of promoting the movement for
Church Extension in the districts of St. James's, and St.
Thomas's. Although the circulars were addressed to the
operatives particularly, we were glad to observe a fair
sprinkling of the leading tradesmen and gentry of the
neighbourhood present. On the motion of Mr. Chilton,
the Chair was take► by Mr. Glazebrook, one of the
Councillors of Toxteth; who called upon the llev. D. D.
Stewart to ask a blessing, after which he opened the
business of the evening in an appropriate speech, and
then called upon the Rev. H. Hampton, incumbent of
St. James's, to address the meeting.

The Rev. Gentleman, in a most eloquent speech, to
which, in the crowded state of our columns, we regret
that we cannot do justice, laid before his hearers the im-
possibility of the clergy of the district performing their
duty to their own satisfaction, or to the advantage of reli-
gion, from the impossibility of their visiting flocks so dis-
proportionately 1 arge compared with the number of pas-
tors. He referred to the zeal which members of the
League and other parties displayed for the accomplish-
ment of political objects ; and called upon the merchants
of Liverpool to make similar efforts for the advancement
of religion and morality amongst the people. After an
energetic appeal to the operatives to put their shoulder to
the wheel and to help themselves—for the cause he told
them was their own. He concluded by advising them to
make an effort in the first instance to erect a church in
Harrington, the worst and most destitute neighbourhood
in the district.

The Rev. WALTER BuTLEß,lncumbentof St. Thomas's,
after an able and feeling appeal, gave some most startling
evidences, derived from his own experience and observa-
tion, as to the gross ignorance and irreligion which pre-
vailed in his district. _ _

The meeting was subsequently addressed by Mr.
Keates (Newton, Lyon, and Co.), and by Mr: J. Torr,
the treasurer, who laid down, for the guidance of the
operations present, the best mode in which they might
advance the good work. The Rev. D. D. STEWART fol-
lowed in a most eloquent speech, in which he showed that
the Gospel is not preached until every man is provided
with a seat in the house of God, which he can call his own,
and with a paster to advise with him and to be his friend
in all the difficulties of life. Mr. Stewart gave a most in-
teresting account of his own exertions in the neighbour-
hood, and concluded by paying a deserved compliment to
the operations who bad met at the Toxteth Hall. and had
since volunteered so excellent a canvas of part of the
district as to take half the labour off their hands.

Thanks were then voted to the chairman, and the
meeting separated.

AMOUNT OF BRITISH AND FOREIGN TON-
NAGE SAILED OUTWARDS FROM LIVER-
POOL DURING THE YEARS 1843, 1844, & 1845.

From a valuable compilation, made by Mr. Court, Se-
cretary to the Underwriters' Association of Liverpool,
we gather the following :
Vessels

British. Foreign. British. Foreign.
Sailed outwards, 1843.. 2624 1092 .. 760,056 448,999
Do. 1844.. 2956 1028 .. 869,359 391,734

Do. 1845.. 2860 1232 895,198 469,387
There has thus been an increase in the number of British
vessels, from 1843 to 1845, of 236, and of foreign vessels
in the same period of 140. The increase of British ton-
nage has been 134,142 tons, or upwards of one-sixth in
the two years; the increase in foreign tonnage 20,388
tons, or less than one-twentieth.
_

We give, as likely to be of interest to our readers, the
clearances outwards to the following places for the past
year :

British. Foreign.
25,431 967
2,355 43,140
1,903 238
8,055 14,857
10,598 571
12,266 no;
13,611 none
23,088 none
17,709 3,983
13,898 none

MEMORIAL RELATIVE TO THE NIGHTLY CLOSING
OF THE MARKETS.—Yesterday, a memorial, (which
has for a short time been before the public) urging the
earlier closing of the public markets, was presented to
our worthy Mayor by Mr. Flower. It was signed by 627
shop-keepers, besides medical men and others, including
many of the market people themselves, And suggested
that the closing hour should be seven o'clock every night,
excepting Saturday, when these marts might be kept open
until nine o'clock. Mr. Flower was Most graciously re-
ceived by his worship, who expressed himself strongly in
favour of earlier hours of closing, and promised his best
endeavours ; but as it appeared that many of the market
people, though they fully agreed to the proposed closing
at 7 o'clock on the first five nights of the business week,
considered that they should be open until eleven on Sa-
turday night—the probability is that a compromise will
be come to, to divide the difference,—so that the
finishing hour on that night will be ten o'clock. We
should strongly urge upon the members of the council
the propriety of assenting to the prayer of this memorial,
modifiified perhaps as to Saturday nights. There
are, it is well known difficulties with respect
to the mode of payment of working men on this
night which, as human nature is constituted, are not
easily got over ; and we should be only too glad to get the
beat terms practicable, without stickling for perfection in
our social arrangements.

Nearly a hundred of the distressed emigrants alluded
to in our last sailed for New York, in the Fidelia, on
Saturday. Twenty have returned to their homes, and
thirteen are still detained at Southampton by illness.
COLLEGIATE INSTITUTION.—Our readers will perceive
that Dr. Rimbault will open the lecture season next Fri-
day, with a course of musical lectures, in which he will be
assisted by Miss Thornton, of London, one of the most
charming ballad-singers of the day, Mr. Barnett, the cele•
brated Manchester tenor, and the highest local talent. In-
deed' the array of lecturing talent advertised to appear at
this institution has never been previously surpassed, and
deserves, as we are sure from former experience it will re-
ceive, the most extended support.
THE GERMAN DWARFS.—These three natives of Ger-
many, and members of one family, who have been in this
country about twelve months, made their appearance at
the Concert-hall, Lord Nelson-street, on Wednesday
evening last, before a numerous and respectable audience.
The curious little people went throzgh their performances
in a highly crelitable manner. Mr. Malone Raymond's
sketches of Irish character, together with the illustrations
of Mrs. Raymond and daughter, make the evening spent
at the hall an extremely agreeable one. Some of our
contemporaries have stated that Mr. Raymond pays them
£2,000 a year.

RAILWAY PROPERTY.—The gradnal development of
railway property is best shown by the increase in its re-
tnrns, and the year 1845 has been marked by extraor-
dinary success in that respect. Taking the present lines
as 50 in number, and only 1800 miles in length, their
weekly receipts averaged during the summer months about
£BO,OOO for passengers, nearly £30.000 for goods, and
above £60,000 for " goods and passengers" combined
(some of the companies keeping their accounts so imper-
fectly as to defy the statistician, but this sum being on
"goods" lines rather than "passengers lines," the greater
part may be assumed to be for goods) • these make
total weekly receipt of above £170,000, and a weekly in-
crease of £30,000 over the corresponding week of 1844.
In the winter months the passenger receipts. are less, but
the weekly receipts exhibit a large increase over 1844 ;--
thus, in December last, our week's receipts were ; for
passengers, £58,000 • for goods, £30,000 ; and for goods
and passengers, £30,000, making a total weekly receipt of
about £llB,OOO, and an increase over the corresponding
week of last year of above £lB,OOO. Taking then for
1800 miles of railway £130,000, as a mean total receipt
week, we have a total yearly receipt of about £6,750,000
for passengers and goods, and taking only £20,000 as s
mean weekly increase over 1841, we have a yearly increase
of above £1,000,000. As to the goods, taking a mean
weekly receipt £30,000, and only a moiety of the other
£60,000 ( amalgamated for " passengers and goods"),
together making as a mean weekly receipt for goods
£60,000 at least, the total yearly receipt for goods would
be about £3,000,000 sterling, of an average of Id. per mile
per ton. Ak hen the 3600 miles already sanctioned, and
not less than 5000 to be sanctioned in the next sessioe,
are completed, with the increase consequent on increased
trade, who can doubt but that this species of property will
fast supersede other investments, and that the subject
will, if it does not now, interest every one?—Railway
Carrying and Carriers' Law.
COLLEGIATE BAZAAR.—We are glad to find this Bs-
zaar announced to take place in Easter-week. It will be
upon a greater scale than anything of the kind previously
held in Liverpool, and, from the high patronage which it,
enjoys, will, in all probability, be very productive, and
thus enable the directors to procure for the members the
benefit of a good and extensive lending library. The of'
fair has our warmest wishes, and we commend it accord'
ingly to the attention of our fair friends, teeling conscioul,
how much of its success it must owe to the operation et
their delicate fingers.

TWELFTH NIGHT CAKES.-Mr. Horsfall, of Church'
street, has this year manufactured a number of these de',
licious cakes. In consequence of the immense demand or
last year he has speculated more largely, and we mat
venture to anticipate, from their general reputation, 6
great sale. They will be displayed this evening, (Nwelftb
Night).

MEETINGS OF CREDITORS FOR LIVERPOOL'

JANUARY

6, William Guy Taylor and Co
6, John Lea an Co. (special).

District Court, j)
Ditto, I!

g, William Neilson (special
13, William Oceleston, 2nd
13, George Atkins

. W. Bird's,
District Court,
Ditto, !,

16, Frederick Corduroy, 2nd
16, Robert Headlington, Ist ..
,5
17, Benjamin Baldwin, 2nd. Court of Bankruptcy, LondoO,

LIVERPOOL COTTON MARKET, JAN. 5.
The demand for Cotton continues to be good, and prices 8r"
well supported. Since stock-taking a par ial advance has tae
place. The sales to-day reach 601 0 bales, all to the trade. vi
quantity offered is only just sufficient to give the purchaserS,
fair choice. The import is coming in freely, and several vessels
are daily reported from Cotton ports

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LIVERPOOL PROVISION MARKET, JAN. 5'
Our Putter trade still continues in a state of great depressiotu ,
and prices nominally as last quoted. Beef without altesati°
Pork is in demand, and prices rather look up.

LIVERPOOL CATTLE MARKET, JAN. s.vith
We have had a fair supply of Beasts at market to-day, t,
a small supply of Sheep ; the whole sold at high prices.
ton 7d tond per lb. Beef 6d to 61d.