The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1846-11-24 00:00:00

TOWNSHIP OF TRANMERE.

As much misconception exists relative to the recent
proceedings for lighting and watching this township,
which has been perhaps occasioned in some measure by
the partial reports which have appeared in the public
prints, we have been induced, as far as possible, to obtain
the real facts of the case, more especially in consequence
of the following editorial remark, appended by the Chro-
nicle of Saturday week to a report of a township meeting
held the Thursday previously :
" Since the above was in type, we have been informed
that, after the public meeting was dispersed, a hole-and-
corner meeting' of the CliP.on-park people was held in a
private room up stairs, at which, by the advice of an
attorney, they magnanimously passed resolutions for
lighting Clifton-park at the expense of the township! If
this were not intended for a joke, it is as good an imita-
tion of one as we have met with for some time, even in
Punch. We know that any rate, attempted to be levied
upon such an authority, will be resisted to the death.
We shall probably have a word or two more to say on
this subject another time."
There can be no doubt as to who is the attorney al-
luded to, upon whom our contemporary has im-
posed the responsibility of the meeting's proceedings, as
it is sufficiently notorious who was the legal adviser of the
meeting. His professional reputation and personal inte-
grity, however, stand too high to be damaged by such an
insinuation. We deem it, however, but justice to give
the following plain narrative of facts, which will set the
whole affair in its proper light.
In March, 1845, the then overseers of the township,
having previously received a requisition from certain
ratepayers, called a public meeting to determine whether
the Lighting and Watching Act, 3 and 4 William IV.,
should be adopted in the whole township. At that public
meeting, a majority of the ratepayers present determined
that the act should not be adopted in the township. On
looking over the list of persons who, in March 1845,
voted against the adoption of the act, we find that the
whole of such persons so voting were (with, we believe,
only one exception) persons residing in Upper and Lower
Tranmere; and we further find that the majority of the
persons who have this year signed the requisition to the
overseers to call the late township meeting did last year
vote against the adoption of the act in the township.
Now Upper and Lower Tranmere are not either of them
within the limits of the district proposed to be lighted and
, watched by the Clifton-park " people," as designated in
I the Chronicle's report. And on looking over the list of
persons who, in March 1845, voted for the adoption of
the act, we find that all the ratepayers residing in Clifton-
park, who were present at that meeting, voted (with, we
believe, only one exception) for the adoption of the act
in the whole township. How these same Upper and
Loner Tranmere ratepayers, who are now endeavouring
to have the whole township lighted, are to justify them-
selves against the charge of inconsistency, we know not.
With the result of last year's attempt to light and watch
the whole township fresh upon their memories, what were
the Clifton-park and Holt-hill ratepayers to do? Remain
in the dark, or light themselves.
The act authorises the ratepayers of any part of a town-
ship to light and watch such part, the ratepayers residing
there being alone responsible for all the charges.
Some of the inhabitants of Clifton-park and Holt-hill,
therefore, having in October last come to the determina-
tion of endeavouring to effect the measure within their
own immediate neighbourhood, the attorney referred to
was retained to prepare an application to the overseers to
call a meeting of the inhabitants of that part of the town-
ship in which it was intended to be brought into opera-
tion. The requisition was prepared accordingly, and was
delivered to the overseers on the 24th day of October last.
Notice in pursuance of this requisition was given by the
overseers upon the church-doors and other usual places,
, dated the 26th of October last, for a meeting of the inha-
bitants of Clifton-park and Holt-hill, to be held on the
12th instant, at twelve o'clock at noon; and at that hour
the ratepayers of Clifton-park and Holt-hill, in pursuance
of such notice, assembled in a room, provided, it is pre-
sumed, by the overseers; a chairman was duly appointed
and the business proceeded with, as directed by the act.
So much for the meeting being a " hole-and-corner
meeting," and held " after the public meeting was dis-
persed."
And as regards the impression attempted to be con-
veyed, that the money to be raised for the lighting and
watching of Clifton Park and Holt Hiil, is intended to be
levied upon the whole township—suffice it to say, that no
such advice was ever given, and that the act gives no au-
thority t' the overseers for that purpose. Those only who
claim the protection which the act affords, must pay for it.

DAY OF HUMILIATION.—Friday, the 20th November,
having been appointed by the church as a day of humilia-
tion and prayer all over Ireland, divine service was per-
formed in the churches, in accordance with the instruc-
tions prescribed in the circular of the Lord Primate.
Business at the Banks, Exchanges, Corn-markets, and
all public offices, was suspended, and the shops of the
Protestant citizens were almost generally closed.
A MANIFESTO FROM CARIRMOYLE.—Mr. Smith
O'Brien has now fairly entered upon his functions as a (it
not the) leader of the Irish people, and, " treading in the
footsteps " of the " father of Repeal," has begun to indite
manifestoes from his retirement at Cahirmoyle. The
first of these, addressed to the " Landed Proprietors of
Ireland," appears in his chosen organ, the Nation. It
commences in right regal style, and, being headed " Let-
ter indicates the commencement of a brisk epistolary
campaign.

Standard-office, Two o'clock.

LIVERPOOL CORN EXCHANGE.—This DAY.

Since our report of Friday, we have experienced an en-
tire change in the weather, with extremely heavy tains
and very severe gales from the west ; which having
brought in several vessels, previously detained by adverse
winds, the imports from abroad, collectively, include a
fair supply of Wheat, Beans, Pease, and Indian Corn, and
a good accession of Flour, chiefly from the United States ;
whilst the arrivals coas►twise and from Ireland, though
somewhat larger than of late, are still but moderate.
Wheats are better sold to-day, and a small advance
made upon some qualiti es.
Flour has improved Is. per barrel, and a considerable
business transacted in bonded parcels.
Indian Corn in fair retail demand, the holders giving
way about 2s. per quarter from the closing quotations of
Friday.
Oats and Oatmeal in very slow request, and both rather
cheaper.
Other articles without material change.

From the

ARRIVALS OF CORN,

7th to the 23d November, inclusive

CANADA,U.STATS
Ins- (COAST-
AND I AND TOTAL.
LAND. WISE.
COLON'S EUROPE.
Wheat.. Ors. 763 1623 478 5128 7992
Barley Qrs. 192 192
Malt Qrs. 25 460 485
Oats Qrs. 2967 84 3051
Rye Qrs.
Beans Qrs. 90 930 1020
Pease Qrs. 69s 624 853 2175
ShelledßarleyQrs.
Indian Corn. Qrs. 8140 8140
Oatmeal .. Loads 1558 101 1659
Flour. .... Sacks 2639 556 - 3185
Ditto Brls. 1598 17826 19424

EXPORTS.—Foreign. Wheat.— qrs. ; Barley,— qrs. ; Pease,
qrs. ; Oats, qrs.; Indian Corn, qrs.; Oatmeal,
sacks ; Flour, 42 brls.—lreland. Wheat, 1201 qrs. ; Bar.
ley, qrs.; Beans, —frs ; Oats,— qrs ; Indian Corn, 832
qrs. ; Oatmeal, sks; Flour, 43 scks 1852 brls. —Coastwise.
Wheat, 787 qrs. ; Barley, qrs.; Malt, qrs.; Oats,
qrs.; Beans, 208 qrs.; Pease,ls qrs.; Oatmeal, sacks
Indian Corn, 20 qrs. ; Flour, 314 sacks 1356 brls.

Average prices of Grain, for the week ending Nov. 14, 1846.
Wheat 61s. ad. 1 Barley 445. 6d. I Oats 265. 3d. I Rye 395. Bd.
Beans.. 455. Bd, j Pease.. 495. 2d..
Aggregate average of the six weeks.
Wheat 60s. 6d. 1 Barley 41s. Id. j Oats.. 265. 3d. I Rye 39 .Bd.
Beans.. 455. Bd. I Pease.. 495.2 d.
Duty on Foreign Producethis week
- -

Wheat 430 d I
I
Barley 2s od Oats .. is 6:1 Rye.. 2s Od
Beans 2s Od `Pease .. 2s Od Ind. Corn Os Od Flom a2s4id

Duty on British Colonial.
Wheat.. Is. Od. I Barley.. ls. od. I Oats, is. Od. I Rye... Is. Od.
Beans.. Is. od. I Pease.. Is. od. I Flour. Ofd. cwt.
Liverpool Averages, week ending Nov. 10, 1846.

Wheat, qrs., price os. Od ; Barley, ~ qrs., price Os. Od. ;
Oats, 272 qrs., price 305. sd. ; Rye, qrs., price Os. Gd. ;
Beans, 99 qrs., 535. 4d. ; Pease, qrs., price Os. Od.
Duties paid in Liverpool, week ending Nov. 19.
Foreign.—Wheat, 2647 qrs.; Barley, 143 qrs.; Malt,
qrs. ; Oats, 45 qrs ; Rye, 6 qrs. ; Beans, 1498 qrs ; Pease, 353
qrs.; Indian Corn, 5267 qrs.; Oatmeal, loads ; Flour, 4 480
barrels. _

Colonial.—Wheat, 1000 qrs.; Pease, qrs.; Flour,l4643brls

TESTIMONIAL OF RESPECT TO MR. A.
APPLETON. :

A very numerous and highly respectable meeting of
country gentlemen, landholders, and farmers of the town-
ships of Crouton and the adjacent townships, took place
on the 16th instant, at Mr. William Molyneux's Union
Inn, in Crouton, for the purpose of presenting to Mr.
Appleton a handsome silver cup, .as a small but genuine
token of their respect for his extraordinary and successful
exertions in destroying rats in these townships, by a new
and successful process of his own.
The company sat down at five o'clock to a sumptuous
dinner, which included the primest of English fare, all
served up in the best style. After the removal of the cloth,
the president, Mr. James Glover, gave successively the
usual loyal toasts, and finally proposed the health of Mr.
Appleton, which was met by three times three hearty
cheers. In introducing the toast, the chairman elo-
quently and facetiously alluded to the talent and success
of Mr. Appleton in his endeavours to destroy the de-
structive vermin alluded to, within even a few months,
and expressed his opinion that twelve months of equal
vigour would entirely eradicate them from the town-
ships. He urged that the townships should join in per-
petuating Mr. Appleton's exertions, and concluded
by presenting that gentleman with a splendid silver
cup from the inhabitants of the township, as a mark
of their respect and esteem. Mr. Appleton's health fol-
lowed with three times three.

Mr. APPLETON replied in most feeling and appropriate
terms. After expressing his great gratitude and sense of
the kindness imposed upon him, he adduced several, in-
teresting instances of his success in destroying rats upon
farms. The crops of the farmers in that locality had
that year been warehoused with little or no damage from
the rats, and he should continue his exertions to put
down all annoyance from such vermin,—the destroyers
of a large portion of the food of the people. He al-
luded to many cases (naming the individuals con-
cerned) whose farms had been cleansed of the vermin,
and the owners of which bad most liberally considered his
services. These vermin consumed a large amount of
grain, &c., which would otherwise enable the tenant to
readily pay his rent. He adduced some valuable statistics
showing the great devastation of these vermin, and the
great advantage of destroying them. His invention was
original and efficacious for their destruction, and more-
over practicable throughout the kingdom. (Cheers.)
The cup—an elegant and costly piece of plate—was in-
scribed in appropriate lines of poetry, highly complimen-
tary to Mr. Appleton.
We need scarcely add, that the evening was passed in
the most delightful and convivial manner by all present,
and we have only to regret that our limited space pre-
cludes our insertion of the several addresses at length.

The sermon at St. Barnabas Church, for the Southern
Hospital will be preached by Mr. Nolan on the 20th Dec.,
the Mayor having to attend church with the Judges on the
13th, the day previously fixed.
THE FRENCH EMBASSY.—For some weeks past, there
has been the greatest activity apparent in the chancellerie
of the embassy, cabinet couriers arriving and departing as
often as four times in the course of the day. A. courier
is hourly expected at Hertford House from Paris, and it is
imagined he will be the bearer of M. Guizot's answer to
Viscount Palmerston's last note.

WRECKING.—More than twenty persons have been
summarily committed to Bodmin gaol, with hard labour
tor from three to five months, for plundering from the
brig Samaritan and her cargo washed in by the sea,
wrecked off St. Eval, near Padstow, during the late gales.
—Falmouth Packet.

The London and Northwestern Railway Company
offered, it is said, to make compensation to Mr. Haywood
for the injuries sustained by him through an accident on
the line, hut they were unable to induce him to send in
any statement of the amount of injury received, or of the
compensation claimed.
ECONOMIC CONVEYANCE COMPANY.—We are glad
to learn that the shares in this company are being rapidly
applied for. The feasibility of the scheme is daily becom-
ing more apparent to the public,—and the fact of their
calculations proves that if the omnibusses carry only
one-third their complement of passengers the return will
be sufficient to pay all expenses, and yield a handsome in-
terest. A model machine, of a novel and ingenious con-
struction, has been exhibited in town for some days past
It runs on eight wheels, and is divided into three com-
partments—the centre one being for first-class passengers.
It will turn in half the space of an ordinary omnibus, and
has numerous other advantages.
MOST IMPORTANT.—The Birkenhead correspondent
of the Mercury informs us that he was in error recently,
in stating that Messrs. J. S. Jackson, and C. Bentham
had resigned their seats upon the Board of the Chester
and Birkenhead Railway, and in " describing their sup•
posed manner of walking out of the loom in a manner
calculated to produce false impressions"! Mr. Bentham
has not resigned at all, and, '• instead of walking out in
the manner alleged, he remained in the room, and was
conversing with Mr. William Jackson till nearly the
close of the proceedings." How relieved the mind of
Birkenhead must feel on the receipt of this important in-
telligence! By the bye, we are not told how Mr. J. S.
Jackson walked out on the occasion.

CHARGE OF BURGLARY.—Yesterday, at the Police-
court, four men, named Martin, Wright, Fitzmaurice,
and Davies, were brought before Mr. Rushton, on the
serious charge of having broken. into a house, appropri-
ated certain articles, and others in view, in the receipt of
which they were checkmated by interruption. The fol-
lowing is a brief statement of the facts, so far as they
transpired :—Mr. James Tracey is the occupant of the
spirit and ale vaults attached to the Feathers Hotel, in
Clayton-square, and these vaults form a corner of Leigh-
street and Parker-street. No one sleeps on the premises,
and they were closed, and left apparently secure, shortly
after twelve o'clock on Saturday night. Soon after that
time a respectable young woman, Mary Ann Kelly, a
servant of Mr Sinclair, whose house is in Parker-street,
immediately opposite the vaults, was about to retire to
bed in an attic of the house, when she observed some
men in the premises alluded to, in front of her master's
domicile, and suspecting some mischief, she properly and
promptly gave the alarm, so that the policemen were soon
on the search. It was past one o'clock before these last
could get up ; but they eventually, accompanied by
Mr. Inspector Savage and Mr. Superintendent Leverett,
succeeded in discovering on the premises, and appre-
hending the whole of the four prisoners, one of whom
(Davies) was found secreted under the kitchen-table of
the vault. It appeared that they had effected an entry by
forcing, or breaking the lock of a yard-door between the
hotel and the vaults. They had procured lights within,
and had drunk two bottles of port wine from two decan-
ters. The till drawer in the vaults was found to be forced
open, but no defalcation appeared in the copper left in it
—about 10s. or 12s. On the outside door to Parker-
street, the padlock had been forced away, and another
one substituted, which would not open with the same
key. The depredators, (and this is the worst feature of
the case,) had also, by means of chisels, &c., which were
found, made an apparent effort, by picking off the mortar,
to arrive through a brick wall into a watch manufactory
adjoining ; but the alarm given, and their subsequent ap-
prehension, probably deterred them. The case occupied
a large portion of the time of the court, but will probably
result in a conviction for larceny only, as the premises
were not inhabited during the night. The punishment
may, however, be a long term of transportation. The
whole of the prisoners were committed for trial at the
sessions.

Nov. 24, 1846.

LATEST INTELLIGENCE.
(BY EXPRESS.)

STILL LATER FROM PORTUGAL.
We learn that Evora, the bombardment of which by the
Queen's troops was to have commenced on the 7th instant, The
destruction of which was confidently predicted, is still in the
possession of the insurgents, General predicted,
having raised
the siege, being obliged to march to Almeirim, in order, if
possible, to cut off Antas's supplies ; and that the inhabitants
of St. Michael's, (Azores,) together with a portion of the troops,
had joined the insurrectionists.