The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1847-08-10 00:00:00

before had sold at 6121, declined to 5
at the close of business there were buyers a

was taken at 63 cents. In cotton, the receipt of the Bri-
tannia's intelligence enabled holders to realise an advance
of cent per lb., and at that figure 500 bales were sold,
though generally merchants were holding back
-until the

receipt of their letters. Ashes were firm at 612,
Liverpool salt was wanted. Provisions dull.
At Baltimore the stock of flour amounted to 30,000 brl.
The exports from New York to Great Britain for the week
ending 16th ultimo were :—Flour, 113,918 barrels
221,980 bushels ; wheat, 156,387 ditto ; meal, 4
cheese, 29,998 lbs. ; hams, 127,488 P

for pearls

corn,
tr 2 brls.;

barley, 44,ciu Ultzuria _
6,572 ditto ; rice, 5,300 ditto ; peas, 469 bushels ; h
SO bales. The receipts from the Hudson River, on
17th, had been :—Flour, 21,419 barrels ; wheat, 10,L
bushels; corn meal, 313 barrels; corn, 20,693 bushel.
The ship Sarah Sands arrived out at New York on the 19th
The accounts from Canada are unimportant.
had been issued at Havana, reducing the duty on rice im-
ported to one-half, and removing altogetherifrom pigs, or
pork.

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WEST INDIES
The Royal Mail 1 stear
arrived at S
Ivon brings

AND MEXICO.
ship Avon,_ from the West

outhampton on Wednesday
286,016 dollars on merchat

gold, 1,603 ounces of silver, 2,648 ounces of gold-dust,
127 cases of cigars, 101 serons of cochineal, 69 cases of
pines, 30 liveturtle,.&(

luick passage home

The ....-..---
She sighted the Experimental Squadron 14 miles off the
Lizard, with two steamers ahead.
The accounts from the islands are rather contradictory
as to the weather ; on the whole, the rains appear to have
generally visited the various ocalities, though far too
scanty in some districts. Great complaints continued in
consequence of the scarcity of shipping, and of course
the colonists were suffering great losses from non-realiza-
tion of produce. The want of money was severely felt.
On the departure of the Avon from the Gulf the fol-
the most recent intelligence :

monitor

v. James Matthias Woodmason, to the perpetual
curacy of Wythrop, in the county of Cumberland.
The Rev. William Whitworth, to the perpetual curacy
of St. James's Church, Clitheroe, Lancashire
The Rev. John Charles Wood, to the sti
e army I of Accrington, in the county of Lancaste

penthar

curacy

NEW CHURCHES.—In the 27th annual report of the
commissioners for building new churches (just published)

been completed, in which accommodation has been pro-
vided for 17,872 persons, including 13.292 free seats for
the use of the poor. Thus, in the whole, 391 churches
have now been completed, and provision has therein been
made for 440,957 persons, including 251,388 free seats
annrouriated to the use of the poor.

THE GOVERNMENT EDUCATION PLAN

Mr. Kay Shuttleworth has just published, in the name
of the Committee of Council on Education, a long letter
addressed to the Inspectors of Schools. The best way to
judge of a scheme is to look at a bit of its working, in
prospect, at least, if not in reality. Here is a bit, the
bare imagination of which would once have been sufficient
to drive all the clergy into open rebellion. When the in-
spector comes to a town or a populous neighbourhood,
where schools lie thick together, in case of their applying

for apprentices, i. e., for stipends on that accounf,lie Is
not to conclude the examination of the candidates at once
in each school, but he is to take them altogether, and sub-
ject Church schools, Dissenters' schools, and British and
Foreign schools to a common and a public examination.
He is to put down the names of the most eligible scholars,
appoint a day, procure a large room in the town, or other
public place, for example the Town-hall, or the Mecha-
nics' Institute, and examine them, all together, exclu-

schools of the Dissenters, particularly th
tained by the Society of Friends, than wt
been usual in the schools of the Church.

at has hitherto
In the present

attention entirely to intellectual attainments, leaving ques-
tions of moral and religious character to the local authori-

The following are a few passages from this important
document :

It is important that the scholars and their parents should,
from the mode in which the examination of the school is
conducted, place implicit confidence in the impartiality

are discriminated. Their lordships consider the local au-
thorities as the proper arbitrers of everything that relates
to the moral and religious character of the apprentices,
but that it is the province of the inspector to determine
their comparative intellectual qualifications. With this
view it will be your duty, after an examination of the

whole school, to point out those scholars whom you con-
sider to be intellectually best qualified, and it will be the
duty of the clergyman and managers, or of the managers,

therefore practically concur in the recommendation of the
candidate for the office of pupil teacher or stipendiary

The explanations in the last paragraph do not apply to
the class of schools which are admitted to the benefits of
their lordship's grants by the supplementary minute of
July 10, 1847.
When you have determined which scholars are most
eligible for apprenticeship, it will be necessary, when the
parish is isolated, that you should complete the examina-
tion of the candidates before proceeding to another school ;
but when several schools applying for apprentices lie
within a moderate distance of a town my lords request you
to pursue the following course. You will take down the