The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1854-05-16 00:00:00

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must now glance at its ostensible parent, as that indivi- THE tendency of the money market during the
FROM OUR LONDON CORRESPONDENT. dual appeared before the country and the legislature. The
bill was brought forward by the LORD ADVOCATE, the •
week has been to advance, owing, in some measure,
grandson of a distinguished Scottish divine, and the son to the scarcity of stock, and partly to the restored
MONDAY MORNING. of an eminent Scottish judge. The father of the Lord feeling of confidence, now that the measures for
THE past week has been fertile in rumours, and not un- Advocate, Sir JA4ES MONCRIEFF, Bart., more eaten. providing for the expenses of the war have been
prolific in incidents. It opened with a charming display of sively known as Lord MoNcßiErr, was the author of the propounded. The. Funds were gradually rising
financial hocus ocus as that amusement is understood
offamous veto-law, which was in accordance with the views until Thursday, when the announcement that thep ,
the party dissenting from the church, and was the im- Bank
e
and practised by Mr. GLansToNE. The evenina was a . mediate cause of the dissent-his lordship and, so far as I directors had increased the rate of discount
Monday ; the scene, as every one was prepared to know, know, his whole family joining in the secession. Thus we from five to five-and-a-half per cent. had a de-
the House of Commons. Amended financial measures, find his lordship the proximate, though I believe the unin- pressing effect, from which, however, there was a
and explanations of explained budgets, have of late years tentional cause of the disruption, and his son the leader of speedy rally. This step on the part of the Bank
that array by which the church of their fathers, and at has been rendered necessary by the continued
been so common a ministerial divertissement, that any one time their own, is sought to be denuded of its status, of bullion, the returns b
display might be supposed to an •
relish which the mal-adroit d stripped of its power. A propos of this Free Church
, decrease of the stock -
derive from novelty has long since been exhausted, and move, lam happily reminded of the fact that the recently lished on Friday showing a further diminution to
vacant seat on the Scottish bench has been filled up b the extent of £307,847, arising from the state of
the nnpleasing operation comes now before the legislature the appointment of Cullum NEAVES, Esq., to that the exchanges being against this country. The
and the public unrelieved by a single attraction, except honourable office. This gentleman, if fame be not unduly latter circumstance may be attributed to the fin-
the very limited one it may derive from such peculiarity partial to him, played an honourable and a distinguished mense amount of imports, which have considerably
of blundering as the latest professor of the art may be part ionnteheof
the
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- exceeded the exports, and gives rise to reflections
enabled to embellish it with. Under these circumstances land, he was appealed to, it is said, as one of the Crown as to what might have been our monetary condition
it is scarcely to be wondered at that the promise of a new lawyers, by Sir JAMES GRAHAM, then Secretary of State at the present time, had it not been for the huge
trick in fiscal legerdemain is not a taking event in the for the Home Department, to answer a claim of right set influx of gold, which appears to have been absorbed
up by the seceding party:founded in a great measure on
parliamentary programme. Monday's exhibition, how- the principles
embodied in the veto law, but advancing by the great extension of commerce following upon
a generally deficient harvest. It is rather a sin-
ever, presented several new features ; foremost among claims subversive of the ordinary rights of property. This
which was the knowledge that some new taxes must answer, promulgated in the name of Sir JAMES GRAHAM, gular circumstance, that, at the very time when
but in reality prepared by Mr. NEAVES, was a masterly the Bank of England was raising the rate of dis-
be imposed, or that some of the old ones must be solution of all the difficulties involved in a very intricate count, the Bank of France reduced it from five to
greatly augmented,-a sort of matter which, besides spur-, and comprehensive dispute. It was at once adopted and four per cent., and declared an increase in the
ring the curiosity of individual members, was of a kind acted on by the courts of law and maintained by the mil-
whichex-
honourable gentlemen on both sides of the house ecutive ; its principles apd conclusions have been repeat- stock of bullion to the extent of about four
edlyconfirmed by the highest legal tribunals, and actinglions sterling. This circumstance may have the
must be prepared to talk about to their constituents, and on the obvious inductions from those principles peace has effect of reversing the flow of bullion back to this
accordingly a good gathering of them was assembled. been restored to the members, and harmony to the pro- country, and thereby induce the Bank of England
Probably attracted by the antagonism which Mr. GLAD- ceedings of that Church. Besides this claim on the grati- to reduce the rate of discount, though it is thought
atundde off. his
earned the
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STONE'S financial policy had received in the upper houseby some that the Bank of France will shortly re-
at the hands of Lord MONTEAGLE, a few evenings pre- judiciousycounsel, and an able pleader ; and his elev:trion trace its recent step, in order to prevent the efflux
vious, a considerable array of the peerage was mustered to the bench is hailed by his professional brethren and by of gold. There is no immediate cause for any
on the occasion, conspicuous among whom was his lord- all ranks of his countrymen as a circumstance as fortunate serious apprehension, whichever turn the affair may
ship, who planted himself just behind the clock in front of for them as it is honourable to himself. take, for business generally may be considered in
the peers' gallery-thus, as it were, challenging reply In every circle and class of society the progress and
from the right hon. gentleman who was about to unfold prospects of the war are all-prevailing topics of toner- a healthy state, though little has been doing, and
the mazes of what he calls his plan. As no one is wholly cation, and the hopes and fears-the wishes and surmises prices have experienced but slight fluctuation.
indifferent to the incident pressure of taxes, the strangers' arising out of the varied conversations being little less This is particularly evident in the great markets
gallery likewise presented a numerous display of that protean in shape or discrepant in character than the ru- for colonial produce, and also in the Corn trade,
audacious public who have sometimes been accused of mours out of which they originate, are diversified in colour where, notwithstanding the recent large importa-
hibouring under "an ignorant impatience of taxation." and conflicting in result. An ironical proverb assures us flour,the ratesboth for
Induced by the largeness of the auditory, and incensed that "all men are born critics, while for practising every
b tdil
probably by the imperturbable nonchalance of Lord other profession a certain amount of initiatory instruction een steadily maintained.
MONTEAGLE, in placing himself conspicuously before the is required." Judging by a pretty wide experience, lam From the manufacturing districts both of Cotton
house, Mr. GLADSTONE launched bolt after bolt of what almost tempted to believe that the spontaneous crop of and Woollen goods, complaints are general of dul-
he intended to pass for sarcastic invective against the noble full-fledged generals and admirals is as extensive and ness of trade and unremunerative prices. Buyers
lord's own financial policy-when, as Mr.SpEixo- RICE, he quite as natural, at the present moment, as critics are on operate with great caution, owing to the uncertain
had the honour of mystifying an inquiring public, as its ordinary occasions. One feature appears common to both
leading financier,-without producing more effect upon classes of those natural products, and that is the in et feeling which prevails as to monetary affairs, and
his lordship than inducing him to look now at one point, 1 rate habit of fault-finding • another, probably peculiar to the resumption of labour by the operatives of
now at another, of the ministerial benches, as a timid the militant race, is a certain celerity in bringing about Preston, Stockport, and other places, has had the
"hear-hear" or a furtive and dubious laugh rewarded and results without the slightest reference to means. In the effect of increasing the supply at the very time
endeavoured to cheer the labouring orator, in his hopeless recess of the saloon, or at the corner of the market-place- when it is less needed. There are, however, signs
effort to defend and exalt his own policy, by attacking and in the dress circle of the opera, or in the gallery of the of improvement in wholly manufactured goods,
depreciating that of his noble predecessor. Throughout theatre-at the coffee-room of the club, or on the floor
the dreary tedium of that long introduction, which con- of the House, the case is still the same, and the and, as the season advances, there is no doubt that
stituted almost the half of his address, and the whole of tardiness of Dolma s, or the proscriptively regulated affairs will present a much more cheering prospect.
his defence, Mr. GLADSTONE was listened to with that re- movements of NAPIER, are discussed with an amplitude The chief drawback will arise from increased taxa-
signed and listless air of attention which says plainly, of details and precision of result which are truly astonish- tion, causing diminished home-consumption, for the
"Well,let him go on; let us hear his own account of his own ing. Of a verity, with so exuberant a redundancy of Board of Trade returns, which we published last
failures ;" but no approving cheer ever broke upon the .military and naval genius abroad among our population, it
monotony of his nnechoed strains. At the close of his de- ,is no matter for wonderment that Britannia should rule week, show that our exports continue to increase.
fence, the general feeling was palpably that of disappoint- the waves, and rule them well too; now-a-days one cannot The imports of foreign Wheat and Flour have
ment ; and that disappointment rose to a climax when he meet with a coal porter who is not fit to command an been very considerable, notwithstanding which
announced his intended plan for raising the means to pay army, and Lord JOHN is not by any means now the only prices have been steadily maintained. This is so
for the additional supplies. On intimating his intention man ready at a minute's notice to " perform the operation far advantageous, that it will tend to allay any
of doubling the come-tax,-tea measure to some extent of lithotomy or take command of the channel fleet." Our
anticipated by the "knowing few,"-he was received with utilitarian friends have long impressed on us the belief fear as to mercantile failures, which too often result
a silence of the most ominous character. As he went on that the occasion makes the man, and we are only tardily from any sudden re-action in the Corn trade. Large
the growing discontent became more and more marked, arriving at the conviction of its truth. In so absolute a holders have had a fair opportunity of securing
till it reached its climax on his announced intention of the plethora of public wisdom, it is singular that no one ever, themselves from heavy losses, and, no doubt, most
proposal for adding fifty per cent. to the malt-tax. Every publicly at least, steps forward and shows how the "sinews of
themhave a
one felt that here he was tearing open the scar of a wound of war" are to be provided, without the aid of the tax- .
but very imperfectly cicatrised, and one which will produce gatherer. Such a one at the present moment would be a they is still favourable for harvest prospects, and
an incalculable amount of irritation. paragon indeed, and fully deserving of an ovation if he should the hopes of plenty be realised, even the
Out of doors the Exchequer scheme is keenly canvassed, could be found. But alas !so it ever is, that which is most war will prove but a slight drawback to a favour-
and severely commented on. The CHANCELLOR and his wanted is never to be met with; and in consequence our able season.
friends, all of whom may be said to have "a fine healthy merchant princes must submit to the inquisition of the
appetite for support," are drawing around themselves a income-tax commissioners,-our tradesmen content them- The shipping returns of the Board of Trade for
most incoherent and chaotic nines of abettors, in the press selves with thinner beer-and our puddings mast be the month ending the sth of April show again a
and out of it. The. Times sees nothing in the schemes stinted of their sugar. Never mind, if we cannot find large increase in the arrivals and departures to and
but wisdom, nothing in the situation but success. The men to carry on the war without money, we have plenty
from all countries, excepting Russia, as compared
Advertiser grumbles at any interference with the rights who can reduce its duration to any limit they please-if
of beer, and is hostile to an inroad on the privileges of their views are only carried out ! with the corresponding month of last year. From
spirits ; but, on the whole, considers the projects eligible, If war is to be carried on amidst and even in the face Russia the arrivals were only eight vessels, of
because, by enhancing the price of sugar, it will lessen of a scantily furnished exchequer, it would be indeed sin- 2,278 tonnage, against thirty vessels, of 9,450
the consumption of tea, and so stimulate the appetite for I gular, if, with a healthy and powerful people like the tonnage, in April, 1853 ; while the clearances
more stimulating beverages. The Globe meekly enun- English, it had not its accompaniments of pomp; if, by thither were two vessels, of 730 tonnage, against
dates the fact of its approval, not having energy sufficient their bravery and conduct in action, it had not its Sub-
toimme-
say more upon the subject. The Examiner advocates diate exhibitions as well as its final triumphs. It has had nineteen, of 4,450 tonnage in April, 1853.
the increase of the imports as proposed, and seems almost its pomps, and it has already furnished grounds of jubila- joined are the general totals :-
to regret that, under the present favourable circumstances, tion. Notwithstanding the dilatoriness of DUNDAS, and
there are not more augmented or new impositions to the procrastination of ABERDEEN, have we not prizes
ENTERED INWARD.
defend ! In spite of the approbation he meets with from taken at sea and delivered into our ports ? have not more Tonnage for Month ending April 5.
these journals, the feeling in the city becomes stronger captures of the enemy's ships been effected than those isai. 1853. 1854.
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against the CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER every day, which have reached our shores? and has not Odessa been
British vessels ....... 243,768 347,884 356,544
and the opinion among the practical men there gains I bombarded ?It is, indeed, I believe, true that Cronstadt Foreign vessels
ground that it is unsafe to entrust the finances of the , has not fallen before NAPIER'S broadsides, as has been _- --
country in the hands of a man whose projects the public ' rumoured; but that gallant admiral and sagacious war- 406,784 548,531 633,183 ,
verdict has again and again declared to be empirical, un- rior has declared his belief that that fortress, on which
safe, and, worse than all, in a financier, unsuccessful. Russian pride and autocratic obstinacy so greatly depend C.L.E. ARE:O4,O7:ITWA OUTWARD.
495,879
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They are indignant at the free-and-easy manner in which for their support, is not invulnerable, and with such a 1852. 1853. 1854.
this gentleman harangues the nation on the necessity for declaration to its disadvantage, were the fortress mine, I
making each current year of the war pay the current ex- should look on its days as numbered; and, so let me tell British vessels
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penses of that year's war, and clinches the argument by you, do many others, whose means of judging are of a Foreign vessels ....... 157,986 195,683 248,817
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first bringing down the Income-tax to parties receiving I more practical character than any I can individually 562,737 555,672 744,696
£lOO per annum, and then doubling the amount of that ! advance. A telegraphic despatch from Stockholm of the
tax, and declaring it permanent-who, proclaiming the 9th bids us " expect important news from Admiral With regard to the coasting trade, the returns show
moral and political beauty of treating all classes alike, NAPIER in a few days;" and few people who know him that the tonnage entered inward was 1,080,337 in
illustrates his proposition by fixing on a small class of doubt that so soon as opportunity serves Sir CHARLES
native producers-the growers of barley-and calling on will attempt, in his country's phrase, "to make a spoon, the month ending April 5, 1852 ; 1,184,368 in 1853;
and 1,124,674 in 1854. The clearances outward
them to furnish a large proportion of the extra necessary or spoil the horn."
revenue-commits •
next an injustice upon another class of Among the fashionable world the past week has been a were 1,181,892 in April, 1852 ; 1,234,966 in 1853 ,
producers, the West Indian cultivators, and calls upon busy and a gay one : the most magnificent of the displays and 1,193,938 in 1854.
them also to contribute in an undue degree to the same being HER MAJESTY'S Drawing-room, the third of the
extra contingent-and who, lastly, resorts to the plan of ! season, held on Thursday afternoon; on which occasion ln our SHARE MARKET there has been great
borrowing, which at first he affected to denounce-who St. James' Palace was resplendent with more than even inactivity, !
but the week on the whole shows an 1
condemns a "loan," but has no objection to "borrowing" its customary lustre. The presentations were a hundred advance. The raising of the rate by the bank i
4m Exchequer Bonds. Such conduct they designate, and i and twenty-nine in number, and included numerous took the operators by surprise, and caused a tern-
freely designate, as rash and arrogant. Many who, in foreigners of distinction of both sexes ; and a large number
similar, or ever harsher terms, condemn his policy, and of the female aristocracy and gentry of the United King- porary decline of one per cent, but from this prices
resent his mode of pursuing, it, look with hopeful antici- i dom. HER MAJESTY'S first state ball for the season have. since recovered. A portion of the business
pp tion to the further discussion of the same subject in the ; takes place on Wednesday, at Buckingham Palace ; it is has been speculative, but there has also been pur-
hmse to-night, and expect that the hollowness of his pre- ! to be on a scale of unusual splendour and magnificence, chases to a small extent for investment, while there
tsnsions will be clearly displayed, and that the pertness of . and no fewer than twelve hundred invitations have been is very little real selling. French shares continue
his sophistry will be denuded of its mystical robes. issued. On the following morning, HER MAJESTY will
In the House of Lords several matters less or more per- hold a Drawing-room, and on Saturday another, this latter very firm, and show a tendency to improve. Our
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tanning to the conduct or consequences of the present war in celebration of HER MAJESTY'S thirty-fifth birth-day. local. stocks are also good, especially gas shares,
have been discussed, foremost among which, on Tuesday By far the most imposing spectacle of the week, or at all which are much in demand at higher rates. We
night, Lord CAMPBELL'S bill for the prevention of an- ' events that which has proved most fertile to the lovers of annex this day's prices :-Caledomans, 27* 7_ k 7
authorised negotiations, occupied their lordships' atten- small talk, has been the bal costumes given on Friday -1 i ; Lancashire and Yorkshire, 601 860 :3 4 ;
tion. On this subject "plain JOHN CAMPBELL," as he evening at the French embassy at Albert Gate by the London Stock, 96; Midland Stock, 581 c 188 78
delighted to proclaim himself, when soliciting "the sweet I Count and Countess WALEWSKI. This fete has been Q i Ise;
North British, 71-c ; South Eastern, 171;
voices" of the "Auld Reekie" whigs, gave unmistakeable looked forward to with intense interest, not by 'l-
- of his truly whig predilections. No sooner is the parties immediately concerned alone, but by many East Lancashire pref. fifths second issue, 4 13-16.
your whigling confronted by an unusual circumstance, or to whom such an event is personally of little con- The return from the Bank of England for the
met by a seeming difficulty, than he at once resorts to the sequence. It was attended by Her MAJESTY and
expedient of having " a law made" to provide against all Prince ALBERT, and all the Corps .Diplomatique ; by week ending the 6th of May gives the following
results, when compared with the previous week :-
similar contingencies, forgetful of the fact, that to legis- most of the Ministers, many of the leading members
Public deposits . . £2,338,822; Increase £320,329
late for individual cases is only to encumber the statute of both branches of the legislature, and a large circle
book. His lordship discovers that certain ci-devant bank- of ladies of rank. The scene, as might have been ex- Other deposits ... 10,688,531; Decrease 628,274
err and would-be-great merchants of London having a petted, was a gay one ; but, under present circumstances, Rest 3204862- Increase 32,679
quiet view to personal benefit, and a burning desire to the attendance of Her MAJESTY is looked on as of more On the other side of the account-
occupy a large space in the public eye, make a pilgrimage than usual significance, and inferences are drawn from it Government securities £12,566,607; Decrease £514,072
to Paris, and misrepresent themselves to the Emperor; which are in all probability greatly in excess of the truth. Other securities ... 14,749,460; Increase 311,268
and the wisdom of STRITHEDEN'S oracle is shaken ; yet, Among the coming events to which expectation points Notes unemployed ... 3,900,430; Decrease 40,710
a little time, and a deputation of " friends," under the and revels in anticipated pleasure, is the opening of the
leading of the great PEASE, waits upon the AUTOCRAT of Crystal Palace at Sydenham, which has been fixed for the The amount of notes in circulation is £21,974,300,
Russia, and in the imperial palace at St. Petersburgh they 10th of June. The inauguration ceremony will be a grand being a decrease of 2273,020; and the stock of
instruct him as to the opinions of war in general, and of and imposing one, and will be honoured by the presence bullion in both departments is £12,608,079, showing
his conduct in particular, as entertained by the mobocracy of Her MAJESTY, who hastimated her intention of tak-
a decrease
of quakerdom, and lo ! in
the Fifian lawgiver can endure ing a part on the interesting occasion. The arrangements of £307,847, when compared with the
the impropriety no longer, but will "have a law made" to and preparations for the opening ceremony are already in preceding return.
prohibit such proceedings till time shall be no more. The an advanced state of progress, and million-headed London. ISSUE DEPARTMENT.
countryman of "Aikin Drum," a worthy, who, according is now busy in calculating the means most readily within Notes issued ... £25,874,730 Governmt. Debt £11,015,100
to tradition, is said to have "rode upon a razor," reach, for securing full enjoyment of the magnificent Other Securities 2,984,900
cannot be brought to understand that it' virtue is occa- spectaclewhich will be presented to the admiring multitude. Gold coin & bu11'n.11,874,730
signally its own reward, folly and presumption are certain Silver bullion ... .„
to produce their own punishment; nor to see that the
DEPARTURE OP THE LIGHTNING.-This magnificent
amount of ridicule incurred by the members of both depu. -
ship, belonging to the Black Ball line, which has created £25,874,730 £25,874,730
tations was sufficient castigation of their folly. The bill so much interest among all classes in' this town, left the BANKING DEPARTMENT.
proposed by Lord CAMPBELL was read a second time in
Mersey on Sunday, on her first voyage to Australia, under Prop Capital ... £14,553,000'G0v. Securities £12,666,607
opposition to the remonstrances of Lord LYNDHURST,
the most favourable auspices. She had on board 416 adult Rest. 3 204 862 Other Securities 14,749,460
and referred to a select committee ;so that, unless some second and third class passengers, and fifty in the saloon, Publi il posi. 2338'822 Notes ...
fortunate accident should intervene, the self-conceit of who were in the most joyous spirits, and delighted with 3 900 430
OthereDeepo" Deposits 10,68431 Gold & Silver Coin '733,349
those would-be deputationists, instead of being chronicled the arrangements which had been made for their accom-
among the follies of the day, will be embalmed, and 7-day & other bills 1,1(14,631
modation. As the Royal Mail steamship Asia entered
bably buried in that unfathomable sepulchre. "pro.Th the river she saluted the Marco Polo and the Lightning, £31,949,846 £31,919,846
statutes at large." The other questions referred to arose which compliment the commanders of both vessels duly
more legitimately out of the proceedings of the war. On COTTON.--During the early part of the week
acknowledged. The Lightning was towed out to sea by
Thursday Lord ELLENBOROUGH drew attention to the two steamers, which will accompany her to Cape Clear, the trade was comparatively brisk, strengthened,
large sum appropriated to the transport service-con- weather permitting. As she passed down the river she in some measure, by the reports from the other
trasting the largeness of the sum voted with the
small number of troops and horses conveyed. He like- exchanged compliments with the Marco Polo, belonging side, of higher prices and limited supplies. The
to the same line. An additional steamer accompanied
wise commented with some severity on the inadequacy the Lightning as far as the Ormshead, and then returned advance in the rate of discount, and the dull state
of means provided for landing the troops, together with to Liverpool. Should the Lightning make the passage in of the Manchester markets, have, however, had a
the artillery and horses. These queries were ffippantly the time less than 70 days, advices will have
put aside by the Duke of NEWCASTLE stating that an- expected, todepressing effect on this market, though no alte-
swering them would be detrimental to the public service ; been conveyed and from Australia'by the ships of the ration has taken place in prices. The sales during
" Black Ball" line in 163 days, or five months and three the week, up to Friday, amounted to 54,560 bales ;
his grace gave a similar conge to the Earl of MALMESBURY, days. which 4,560 were on speculation, and 7,570 for
in answer to a question relative to the cause which imme- 'A
CASE IN BANKRUPTCY-OH Friday Mr. Commissione 0f..„.„„,.4.
diately led to the bombardment of Odessa. When such Stevenson delivered an important judgment in the bankr- '"'1"-''''''' g 42,430 for the trade. TO-DAY the
treatment is accorded to the " brave Peers of England,
pillars of the state," men are tempted to exclaim ruptcy' of George Pearson, who had been a grocer at Bir- advices,lepeathr Asia, were received, with accounts of
kenhead. A question arose at the certificate meeting of lower prices in the American markets.'; but these.
----Can such things be ! yesterday week as to the validity of a power of attorney,by have now less influence than formerly on this
And overcome us like a summer cloud, which goods, to the value of £179, were faker from Pear-affected by the state of
Without our special wonder?
Our educational institutions appear to have received son, prior to the bankruptcy, by Mr. William Duckworth, trade • Manchester market, which is chiefly a
some protective attention at the hands of the Commons of this town, to whom the insolvent a coffee merchant, _
during the past week. On Thursday,the . Oxford Univer-
was indebted in the amount named. After reviewing the East. The
in an the state of affairs in the
.
sity was protected from an intrusion of the illiterate e!e- whole circums nces ' ta of the case, the Commissioner con- and the market was steady. The following are
meat at the instigation of Mr. JAMES HEYWOOD,(f who eluded :-" Taking 'therefore every view of the petition, it present rates compared with the corresponding
tried hard to secure the future pramul atio appears to me clearly that this must be deemed to be a period of last year
versity statutes in English, instead of in L:tinLaasneaat übpiuriree-- case within the provisions of the section in question, and 1853. 1854.
sent. Of course, the hon. member for North
countenance of all the advocates' of therefore lam bound to dismiss this petition, leaving both New Orleans, middling 5 15-16 d. sid.
received the aid and parties to pay their own costs, the costs of the assignees fair 6ld. 6id.
~ learning made easy," who could be mustered within the petition to be paid out of the bankrupt's estate. f
of pp.
Uplands, middling 5 15-16 d. 6t d.
walls of the house. His attempted invasion for behoof of was then made by Mr. Bremner, on behalf the petitioner, fair
the un
learned was repelled by 155 to 131 votes. The fol- that the certificate meeting might be adjourned, in order
that Mr. Duckworth might have an opportunity of proving SALES. IMPORTS. STOCK
lowing evening witnessed. the' defeat of the Scotch Edn-
aof only'9 votes. This bill his debt, and coming in for his share of the assets along
the ear was,
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cation Bill by majoritY
y s beyond with the other creditors. After considerable discussion, it
day next. DESCRIPTION. PRICES. Week Frevi- Week Tbis
for happily bered with " *
was agreed that the case should be adjourned until Satur- ending ously ending y;;„.. Mayl2
the flood,'r sictairscenlyowlersisumno.table for its parentage and thereprehensible May 12 thiayr. May 12
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its covert
circumstances of its nativity, than it. was
THE LITERARY AND PHILOSOPHICAL SOCIETY.-The,
in its avowed objects, and dangerous in its
design. last meeting but f th I 580 20083 264470
of Scotland was greatly agi- one or e present season of this society, Stained .... - -
Sea.lsland .. 10 @32 530 8010
Some years ago, the Church
• tof 1 • was held last night, at the Royal Institution, Dr. Dicker- Boweds .... 32 6.2 15130 144140
tated by a discussion on an important porn ecc esms- 1 son
m.
into a serious dis- ' the chair. The last presentation consisted in a Mobile 3l 6* 954°1 70930 } 32815 520034 569730
tical polity, which ultimately ripened
' the dissentof volume of the proceedings of the Royal Astronomical So-
met New Orleans. 31 72 16370, 304540
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pate, and eleven years ago eventuated in a y. The Rev. Dr. Hume exhibited a bronze awl, with Pernams, &c. 6k Bil
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large and active body of its members, who, in their seces-
o' the 1 a stone handle, as an antiquity and called attention to the
fact that some Bahia, &c 6i -
old Danish antiquarian had divided the Demerara,&c - - - ' 330 ' -
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sion, endeavoured to arrogate to themselves erao_ nw- Maranham
meats, as well as the privileges of the Church, as by 'fa objects, or rather the materials of human industry, into Egyptian 5
were signally and totally three classes,-the stone, the bone, and the bronze. This Coni.W.Latc. 61 -
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established. In this attempt theylo, 2120 9, 1186 3240
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asked why Pronunciationas spelt with the ph, whereas
defeated, ever since which period they have been unceasing was a combination of two of the elements. Dr. Ihne Surat
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in their efforts for the overthrow and utter annihilation of
strictly, in p, the p would serve. Dr. Hume Madras
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the Church, which they were unable either to control or
adduced similar instances of the corruption of language,
to despoil. To accomplish this object they united with the
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other dissenting bodies, from which at first they held dis- showing bow the word " chaffer" had become " chopper"
dainfully aloof, and, being aware of the power that in the present day. The Rev. Dr. Hume then read the PRODUCE.-The Sugar trade has been quite
church derives from having controul of the parish schools, paper of the evening, which was the second part of one on unsettled, owing to the change of duties proposed
the whole of the dissenting bodies in Scotland have made the Dialects of England. All present acknowledged its
common cause in an endeavour to cripple the church, value, and, after a very interesting discussion, in which bytheChancellor of the
Exchequer. Palm Oil is
which they would destroy, by wresting from its ministers particular expressions were carped at, the proceedings rather lower, and Tallow is dull.markets
Other
-,rl mpmbers the manae-Pes--' -1 --- - • itendence of closed, present few features worthy of note, To-DAT