The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1847-01-19 00:00:00

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ment of this happy combination (

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We believe, b

wrun real ana solid advar
lity and gentry of Ireland united in a pract____
or their country's prosperity and improve-
must be listened to ; and, if the result be a

mtitution of practical measures for the

which have ever formed the st

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poured down upon them from Lincolnshire and Notting-
hamshire, that they had been obliged to give notice of
their inability to accommodate it. The speaker con-
cluded by seconding the resolution.
A Sheffield proprietor intimated that most of the pr 0.......
....... debate in the Council upon the motion of prietors there were in favour of this movement.
Ir. Sands for an increase of the salary of Mr. A Liverpool proprietor objected to the wording of the
ushton presents some features which, whilst they resolution, inasmuch as it seemed to reflect on the di-
lust have been gratifying to that gentleman, rectors; but on explanation withdrew his objection, and
effect great credit upon the Conservativ the motion was carried unanimously.e portion Mr. FORSYTH moved that a committee should be ap-
of that body. The fact, that both the mover and 4,-;-4-„A 4-- -- ---4-- -4;14, 44,- iir.,-„L_„4..... ______,—__

All which Whig achni

t or sound goo(

sense displayed at this meeting is hroug

)on the

revising of these measures, Nye entertain

no'fear of the success of the movement.

the prop osii
ws that the decision

nservatives,;after which

)S. TERSEYMAN, who appeared as a deputation
..4..4 1.1-

mittee were doing, and expressed his great confidence in
the worth of t

undertaki

whieli-he felt su

become one of the first lines out of Manchester

would

The meeting then proceeded to the appointment of a
committee, when Mr. Nicol, Mr. Townley, and the chair-.
man were moved as members. Ultimately, (Mr. Nicol
not being present,) Mr. Townley, Mr. Forsyth, Mr.
Chapman and the chairman agreed to form such commit-

Mr. Nicol

tee ; and it was arranged that the services of
and Mr. Jack, a large shareholder, should he rear
Thanks were voted

by acclamation to the chairman,- and

EXCESSIVE PRICE OF POTATOES.

We have been shown a sample of potatoes, of excellent
quality, of which we are told a large supply may be had,
at a price very much below .what we are now paying in
this town for a far worse article. The potatoes in ques-
tion have been received by an hotel keeper, from Mirfield,
in Yorkshire, at 9s. per load, of 240 lbs. • and the cost
of conveyance per railway to Liverpool, will add to this
about 2s. per load, making them lls. delivered here,
whilst we are paying 7s. to 7s. Gd. per 90 lbs. for pink-
eyes, or upwards of double the price. Our inform-

.
s done from the confident expect
ns that by that time he will be

and in of

quantities stored up,
award before the new crop
This ought to be a seasnnphip

ier districts, having gi
which must be brought

into the marlet

LU w►e larniers in our amulet, who are holding back
in expectation of still higher prices, not to lose their
present opportunity of realizing, and to consumers gene-
rally to send their orders into the interior of the country,
if they find themselves unable to buy at home on reason-
able terms. The consumers in Manchester are already
"-*

~ as the result

?otatoes there a

SOUTHERN AND TOXTETH HOSPITAL

liament-str

Meeting
linnrd_r

is valuable Charity N

.uring the I

The following t

the operation; of the Institutic

In Out Total
Cured 445 1397 1842
Relieved l2 0 12
Left Hos. at own request 12 0 ' 12
Irregular l3 0 13
Dead 34 11 45
Under treatment. 57 28 85

573 1436 2009

7 13 20
_53 1089 1452
Of the 34 dead, fourteen died within 24 hours after ad
ission, the other twenty surviving for various longe

Dead, when brought to the hospital.... ..
Patients in the hospital during 1845.. ....
Admitted from Ist Jan., 1846, to do. 1847

Of these were discharged, cured or relieved 482
Dead . 34
Remaining in the hospital Jan. 1, . • 57
The CHAIRMAN said that the committee had to regret
much that several minor cases were excluded from the
benefit of the institution in consequence of the inadequate
accommodation, and the board would require £2060 more
before they would. be able to render the establishment
efficient. They had now accommodation for 60 in-door
patients, but when they had completed the intended
enlargement, there would be twice the number of beds.
He said that unless the call was better responded to in
sent than during the past year, some delay would

unavoidably take place ; and without the sum he had
named it would be morally impossible to meet the wants
of the poor.
The report, which was ordered to be printed, stated
that the cases of extreme distress were more numerous
last year than ever, and many accidents, and a large
number of medical cases, had been excluded,• for want of
accommodation. The committee appealed to shipowners
and gentlemen engaged in the timber and foreign trades
for more sympathy on behalf of the institution, as the
committee consider that the efficient maintenance of the
hospital can be proved in various ways to be essential to
the well-being of Liverpool. The enlargement of the
building must ere long be proceeded with, if it be intended
to keep pace in any degree with the requirements occa-
sioned by the extension of the docks. The committee
express their grateful thanks to the clergy, and especially
to the Rev. Mr. Nolan, their worthy chaplain, for their
effective appeals to their congregations.
It was moved by the Rev. Mr. HESRETH, and seconded
by Mr. EDWARD CROPPER, " That the thanks of the
meeting be given to Jos. B. Yates, for his valuable ser-
vices as President during the past year, and that he be
requested to continue that office."
Several gentlemen present spoke most warmly as to his
ability and zeal for the good of the charity.
A vote of thanks was, voted to the Vice-President,
Mr. Platt, the Treasurer, and the members of the com-
mittee.
The President, Treasurer,_ and several gentlemen, after

le motion of thanks to t

Chaplain, elq

d the deep obl

the tin

NATIONAL EDUCATION,

SIR,—As the subject of education is likely to a
attention of her Maie3tv's Ministers for the en

Jan. 19, 1847. _

BURN'S COMMERCIAL GLANCE

ups AI a late hour last night we received this document,

nt -crisis of the cotton trade, is of unu-
MGSMUIL of rarnament, I deem the present a fitting oppor- sual importance. We therefore hasten to give a few of
tunity to submit to your consideration a mode of providing the most important statistics which it contains, and which
for the national education, and for securing, at the same we regret to find are not calculated to impress us with
time, religious instruction, without wounding the feelings very favourable opinion of the operation of our commerce
or prejudices of Churchmen or Dissenters. during the past year, or of our prospects for the year to
I propose that every religious denomination shall have come.
schools of their own, and maintained at the national The article which ranks No. lin Mr. Burn's tables !is
expense ; and in order that I, as a Churchman, may not that of cotton yarn, one in the manufacture of which the
have my money applied to extend and disseminate religious least amount of industry is employed. Yet this is one of
opinions at variance with my own, or the Dissenters in the only articles of importance in which we find an in-
like manner to disseminate relhArmq nntinnc -e I. A.. • 4-1.

-- 418LOLLJ 1/,11,1U110 aIIvCFMU ; crease of exports (luring tue past year. In 1845 we ex-
theirs, I propose that a tax be levied upon all parties ported of cotton yarn 131,937,9351b5. ; and in the past
assessed to the poor, and that the money paid by the year, 157,130,0251b5—an increase of 25 millions of pounds,
different denominations of Christi.n. hc. nnnliod ti, _

special use _ rur , cac4JG Vl mai, year over tue preceamg was short of two
and the collection of this tax would be easy and simple— million pounds. The increase this year is principally to
it would incur no additional expense by new machinery to Belgium, the Hanse Towns, Holland, India, and China,
bring it into operation ; and the scheme solves the diffi- (from 16,518,987 lbs in 1845, to 24,502,908 lbs.) Naples
culty of giving education and religious instruction at the and Sicily, Sweden and Norway, Sardinia, Tuscany, &c.,
same time, which can never be accomplished where all I Trieste and Austrian ports, Turkey and the Levant: To
denominations are taught togeChristi.,.ther.
;+ Russia there is a considerable and continuous falling off.
Wh

per cent

over the exports of 1815

The in-

;ance is

a purely
evil.

oi secular eaucation,staple ot our manufactures—which exhibits a Ve-r-y
.;ular education I hold to be a great national slight advance, the exports being, in 1846, 618,839,181
yards, against 613,138,645 yards. The slight 'amount of
mode of levying the education tax would be as fol- this increase may be judged of by the fact that the exports
ds, by an additional line or column on the poor-rate of this fabric in 1842 were only 366,010,519 yards; that it
paper, and each person to declare his religion I rose 150 million yards in 1843, and nearly 50 millions more
yards in 1844.
In printed cottons—a more advanced manufacture—we
c.minn—scr •
267,084,797
Ting a falling

John Good

• In the
lesessment. pound. Amount,
d. s d.

41.1116, 111 10
yards, against 310,850,697 yards in 1815
—cc _c

Elibited a ;very slight

.i. ms CUII/U UC .ecuitnieu Jur, to a commission in every on 01 in per cent. The year 1845 ex.
town or district of sufficient importanCe, and applied ac- falling off as compared with 1844.
cordi There is a falling off in the exports of cotton thread,
ngly
- .4,-,,..:,...t0 each denomination. •
i^ +hat I forbear to damasks and diapers, cambrics and muslins, counterpanes,
quilts, cotton and linen mixed, gingham; (nearly 50 per

One great good

aosiery, shawls and handkerchiefs, 6,pas and une-
numerated goods : and a slip-ht. inerpo.n _ •

to result from this plan would be, that cent)

station they occupy in society. Gentlemen who talk so The
loudly in favour of enlightenment and education, but who and ti
contribute nothing, will be silenced, and the few who now against
.-. • 1 1

,rds an,

weight of yarn in manufactured goods, yarn
, exported in 1846, was 354,291,749 lbs.,
in 1815, the increase being.

336,866

nave to give so largely, would be able to direct their bene- more man accounted for by the additional exports of
volence into other channels. yarn. The value of the cotton goods exported in 1846
The tax on the community would be trifling, the ad- was £23,475,941, against £22,063,898 in 1845. The con-
vantages and gain to the nation incalculable; by training sumption per week in 1846, Mr. Burn estimates at 31,793
up children in the way in which they should go—by mak- bales, against 30,933 in 1845. The quantity of yarn spun
-- them good husbands,
in 1846 he makes 495,033,109 lbs., against 494,766,487 lbs.
-R of society, instead of a curse to themselves and in 1845. Deducting from these respective amounts the
yarn exported, we have manufactured into goods in 18-4 f b.
" 903,084 lbs. of yarn, against 362,828,552 lbs. in 1845,
...
- -•fr of 25,000,000 lbs. of yarn, the ma-

memo;

.w..,,,.. vi vvulcu Into goons nas been lost to our
In the corporation schools, the numbers on the books working. population. Deducting the total weight ex-
are 1709, but the number in actual attendance is 1221, ported in yarn and goods from the total yarn spun, we
and the cost of maintenance amounts to £1244, or about have 140,741,360 lbs. manufactured and consumed in
£1 per head. 1846 by the home trade, aninst 157,9')0,160 consumed
by us last year—a falling off in our home consumption of
According to the evidence of Dr. Collins, (corporation
inquiry, p. 462), the number of children attending the 17,000,000 lbs of yarn.
Roman Catholic schools in Liverpool, was 1478, and the
cost of the whole amounted to £798, or rather less than
lls. per head. At this inquiry it was shown the number
of children deriving instruction from all the public schools
was 9484 ; if we estimate them, therefore, now to amount
„ - --- . ..
t9be,.l3s. per head, we should
'leir maintenance, with

rents in I

,255, but.the actual amou

being 65,471

r, at this rate, would be £9540; th

, -
as to leave ample margin to increase

0 F F ICIAL INQUIRY AT BIRKENHEAD

beyond my estimate

Stich a scheme would throw the burden equally, and
the tax fall so lightly, that none but " born grumblers "

er day, Henry Robert Goldfinch, Esq., barrister-at-
nd George Rennie, Esq., civil engineer, presided at
wn-hall, Birkenhead, for the purpose of examining
es and reporting to both Houses of Parliament re-
o an intended application to Parliament for an act
to the Birkenhead Improvement Water Works.
witn t iry was held pursuant to the provisions of an act
ument passed in the last session, intituled " An
i aking preliminary inquiries in certain cases of
The in(' •' for loco bills.
Mr. John Buck Lloyd, Solicitor, appeared on behalf
of the promoters of the bill, who are the commissioners
of the M.. r-L- T -!--i

sy3tem of education

relating ''

and several others of the commissioners were on the same
side. Mr. William Jackson, Mr. Mortimer, Mr. Hicklin,
and Mr. Highfield appeared as ratepayers and opponents,
and cross-examined the several witnesses at considerable

These are important points to corn-
hooe•n4.e.

and denominations meet

fallacy to su

sated where only secular education is afforded, and to
look for blessings being showered on the nation, where

The proceedings were opened by Mr. J. B. Lloyd
reading the Commission from the Woods and Forests,
under which Messrs. Goldfinch and Rennie were mit-

would, indeed, be to gather grapes from thistles.
Before I conclude, permit me to give you a practical
illustration of the fruits of secular and religious education.
I might quote several of the Judges, the most learned
men, clerical arid lay, to prove the danger of giving
secular instruction only to the rising generation, but I
will confine myself within smaller limits, and first shew
the state of crime, at two distinct periods, in this county,
-1 1843, which are the latest in my possession.

powered to act in the capacity of surveying officers.
Mr. GOLDFINCH read the instructions himself, and his
colleague had been furnished with them. These instruc-
tions were to the effect that they should survey the &S.-
' ' ld report to both Houses of

;, examine witness,

Committed Neiti

980 1111 122 10

Parliament, prior to the 4th of March. The ()bject of
the inquiry was to institute inquiries, and obtain more
trustworthy informations, preliminary to any investigation
before committees of the house. It was believed that
this course of proceeding would save expense, and that
in
.the result the interest of all parties would be fully

45 cent. 76 p et. 76 cent
From these returns you will perceive, that N

amounted to 45 per cent
among those who can read

, it is swelled to 76 per cent;

" well;" or, in other words, crime has increased at a ra-
tio of 31 per cent. with those who have received the spu-
rious education of the times, over and above those who

'e received no instruction whatever

every case I' have examined, to be against those who can
read imperfectly" and " well."
I cannot resist quoting the following from one of Mr.
Justice Coleridge's charges : it is brief, and is much to the

re a ver

This shows that such an e

that it was of no avail unless the persons who received it
-1-rt to employ it properly, and that it would be

were tait
of very lit

was founded upon morality and religion,"
I will conclude by giving one more illustration of the
effects of secular and religious instruction, and refer to the
evidence of Mr. Cook and Mr. Huish, given before the
Poor-law Commissioners as regards the boys in the work-
houses of St. Clement Danes and St. George's, South-
wark. It would be too long to quote the evidence, and
sufficient to state the fact, that in St. Clement's, where
there was no religious instruction, nearly all the boys
turned out bad, whilst on the other hand, the boys from
St. George's, who received religious instruction, turned
out generally well ; and of those apprenticed to different
tradesmen, about 80 per cent. of them obtained pre-
miums and rewards.

I think I have sufficiently shown the advantages of a
sound religious education over one merely secular ; and,
as the former is more easily to be obtained, by my plan of
a general tax, and without trenching in any way on the
rights and liberties of the most scrupulous in religious
matters, I venture to commend it to youi consideration.
I have the honor to be, Sir,
Your very obedient Servant,
(Signed,) J. BRAMLEY MOORE.
To the Right Honourable Sir George Grey, Bart, M.P.,
&c., &c., Secretary of State, Lom.lon.

MR. COBDEN'S PRIVATE REASONS FOR NOT
COMING FORWARD AS A CANDIDATE FOR
MANCHESTER.

Our readers will probably remember a passage of co-
quetry which took place when the announcement was

-
made public that Mr. Mark Philips did not intend to pre-
sent himself again as a candidate for Manchester,.between
the Reforiners of that town and Mr. Cobden. The latter

offered him of being brought
seat. Our contemporary, the Manchester Courier, givt
the following hints for a guide to the real state of affi
" What were the reasons of a private nature that prove,
Mr. Cobden from condescending to be put in nomination
We have promised to keep our hands off Mr. Bright's
private affairs and transactions: We will keep that pro-
mise literally, becatise; privately,' we owe the man no
ill-
will

although he essayed a puny effort to injure us in our
property. There was fair provocation to retaliate then.
After much reflection, we have arrived at the conclusion
that we have too long refrained from asking Mr. Bright a
question, which'relates, indeed, to a private transaction,
or perhaps a series of private transactions (the cause from
long hesitation), but which, on reflection, appears to us
to assume rather a public than a private complexion, since

it ;elates to the reason why Mr. Cobden has hitherto
refused to stand in the way of Mr. Bright's known designs
upon the constituency. We shall put the question with
sufficient plainness, if we ask Mr. Bright (as we now ask
him, and expect an answer too), whether Mr. Cobden is
not, or has not been under PECULIAR obligations to him ?
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