The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1847-07-06 00:00:00

THE L

TO THE EDITOR 0

ver,"in the Liverpool Chronicle of Saturday last, I perceived
a statement announcing the deaths in St. Paul's and Exchange
Wards to be 126 for the last week. As lam the registering
officer for those two wards, which constitute the district of
Dale-street, I conceive it my imperative duty to the public to
this statement the most rP- 'ctful contrr 'tin-- to

~ aux.. n ; anu
,ay, that the deaths in both wards for the week alluded to onl)
numbered 54, of which 26 only were cases of fever.
I am, sir, your most obedient servant,
EDWARD LOVATT, Regiserar.
41, Union-street, sth July, 1847.

NEW RECOMMENDATION FOR A CANDIDATE.—The
Mercury is very wrathful against Sir Digby Mackworth,
and devotes to the discussion of his claims part of a

leading article and no less than three distinct paragraphs.
The baronet is guilty of the several enormities of being
a military man, of having distinguished himself whilst

tributed to preserve one of the leading pOrts of the-king-
dom from being sacked by a mob, and of having done
various other matters. Mercury's own candidate is
much more favourably situated. No one can say of Sir
Thomas Birch that he. ever did anything, or said any-
thing. or wrote anything, to distinguish himself from the
dullest and most commonplace of mankind. What he
may have in him, to be developed hereafter, we know not.
Re may have talent sufficient to make a great statesman,
or only just enough to discover that. breakfast is ordina-
rily taken before dinner, or that people generally go up
stairs to go to bed. The unexceptionableness of Sir
Thomas's claim appears to be, that nobody knows what
it is, or anything about him. _

AWING

FAVOUR

ONVICTION OF UANDIDATES In
OF-PROTESTANTISM.—Different men of liberal opinions
are freely and explicitly stating their resolution to resist
all further concession to Rome, of whatever kind, and
under whatever pretence : and we are disposed to think

country. Among these, we are inclined to thia,is&;
be ranked Mr. William Jackson, of Birkenhead, who is
a candidate for Newcastle-under-Lyne. We would re-
commend our clerical friends connected with that borough

them, on this head, the most complete satisfaction. In
other respects he is a suitable member. And little as we
tl to join in the current abuse of Sir Robert
3gard his talents as a financier and

Peel ; high as we re

office, simply on this broad and clear ground, that under
his Administration Popery is more likely to make further

any

facility given her for a complete triumph, than uncle

arrangement that is li

ly to arise

THE WEATHER AND THE CROPS.---With respect to
Lancashire and Cheshire, we but repeat what appears in
all the journals with reference to every county of the land
we live hi, when we say that the weather during the past
week has been most propitious for all growing crops, and
that the country never presented a more promising ap-
pearance -Mr an abundant and, we may add, an early
harvest. Summer has visited us in real earnest, and the
warm suns of the day have put vegetation to an- almost

the first five days of the present month, the thermometer
stood in the hottest part of the day, and in the shade,
respectively at 71'69 deg.,,78 deg., and 71 deg.,
the last being yesterday. We are indebted for these
statistics to Mr. Abraham, of Lord-street, who keeps a
journal of the temperature, Sx., for the government
registration department. The heat on Sunday andlester-
day may be said to have been sultry, but the ground is so
generally, covered with luxuriant vegetable matter, that
nothing like parching is observable. Great efforts have
grain to impress the public with
e potato crop would be a dead
failure, and that we had little to' expect from other kind
of edible produce, either at home or abroad. The pre-
dictions of these interested hoarders of grain, (for the
purpose^ of bolstering up prices,) will, we trust, be
utterly falsified. The potatoes, taking. the whole breadth
sown, never looked better. Slight disease may have here
and there appeared, but potatoes were never without
partial taint in this country in the most abundant years,
and there is no ground for alarm at present. Wheat and
oats will undoubtedly, unless• we are overtaken by an
unexpected unfavourable season at harvest time, yield
above the average bulk, and all other field crops, with
the exception of some barleys, are equally promising.
The' sun has been most favourable for haymaking, and
much is already gathered in. The crop is generally
heavy. Turnips and mangels. are thriving, and all garden
stuffs are prolific. It will be found by perusing another
column of our paper, that the prospects of farmers in
America and in Europe are equally propitious; and that
as a much greater breadth of corn and other agricultural
seeds has been sown, the deficiency of last year will not
be much felt, even if our own potatoes should fail here-
after to a large extent. The food market has already
receded from exorbitant
.prices, and we trust, that ere•
long, the necessaries or ' life will be tangible by the-
humblest of our industrious labourers. We have no
sympathy to spare for those dealers in corn who have, by
false representations, so long extorted undue gains in the_
sale of their commodities; and we look confidently to a,
revival of commercial prosperity from the happy change
brought about by a benign Providence.
IRELAND.-An account from Dublin, dated Ist instant,
states—" Nothing can surpass the beauty of the weather;
i more of it, and the hay cm would be saved

been made

equally entitled to it

He happened, on that
occasion, however, to be in company with some whom he
could not but deem the best friends of their country ; but
he should not do justice to two persons who attended
4- say that

.unt and

he did n,

they behaved in a manner the least disorderly in the
world, which he attributed to.their new and singular alli-
ance with his majesty's ministers, for they supported
the xneasure in question: they inveighed against
any attempt at defeiring the period of resuming
cash payments. He must confess that the circumstances
so new of these men being supporters of the administration
constituted the outline of a very good caricature

the noble lord and his honoui:atle friends on the one
hand, Messrs.. Hunt and Wooler on the other, united in
their attempt to pull down the_ mighty fabric erected by

would implore the House to pause
was taken which might forward si

before any rash st
uch an attempt. I

really thought the resolutions were of a very extraordinary
character. It was true that he should have to oppose-a
very near and dear relation. But while it was his own
sentiment that he had a duty to perform, he respected
those who did theirs, and who considered them to be pa-,
ramount. The gentlemen who opposed him at the meet-.
ing of which he had spoken, were rather indignant at his
mentioning the name of Mr. Pitt. His own impression

was certainly a strong one in his favour ; he always thought
him the first man in the country. All of us had some
bias ; and he shouldpot quarrel with those who preferred

e observed to some
friends who were standing near him, that the man who
discharged his duty to his country in the manner in which
Mr. Pitt had, did most to be admired, and was to be imi-
tated ; and he thought at that moment, if his own life and
I that of his near relation should be spared, he would one day

Le same path

It was very natural that inch. should be his wishe;, al-
though those who did their duty might at once be con-
tented with their conduct. He was well satisfied that the
head and heart of that relation were in their right plac
and that though he had deviated a little from the patl

propriety, in this instance, he would soon be restored to
it. He had entered more largely into the subject than he
had intended ; any other observation he should reserve to
a future opportunity, and concluded by moving that the
petition be brought up."

CORK ELECTION.—The repealer has won the day. The
gross poll at the close on Saturday was, for Dr. Power,
831, and for Mr. Leader 550, being a majority for the

former of 281. The election was to fill the place of the
late Daniel O'Connell, for the county. It is stated that
Mr. Leader resigned on finding himself so far behind,—

the term allowed for the electron not having expired. We
were mistaken in supposing that the constituency of Cork
after losing their champion, wanted a " Leader." It
appears they- only wanted " Power." The election is
available merely as a feeler .for the county,. and will prob-
ably supercede a contest at the great Aruggle after the

m was c

he half

eclared on Friday to, —year end-
ing May-31, at the meeting of the directors and proprie-
tors, held at the Company's house, in Prince's-street.
Mr. J. D. Fowles, the secretary, read the report of re-
ceipts, expenditure, &c. The income of the company
for the six months, to May 31, was £198,626 lls. 5d.,
against £191,246 12s. 7d. in the corresponding period of
1846. The expenditure for the six months was £108,114
3s. 8d.,.. being about £lO,OOO more than to May, 1846,
owing to the payment of additional taxes, &c. The
number of loaded vessol which entered the docks during
the six-months was 548, of 150,570.t0n5. For the half-
year to May 31, 1846, the number of ships was 593, and
the tonnage 142,533 tons. The stock •df goods in the
London Dock warehouses on May-431st last was 103,106
tons, or about 2,000 tons less than, at the corresponding
date of 1846.

CHARGE OF ORTAIN/NG 12,000 ;:VMRTII OF BILLS
UNDER FRAUDULENT_ PRETENCES, PROM' PRINCE NA-

POLEON BoNapauTE.--On Friday, l'inee Napoleon Louis
Bonaparte attended to prefer a charge against Charles
Pollard, gentleman, of No. 10, Exeter-street, Strand, for
having obtained from, him, under false pretences, two bills
of exchange £l,OOO each. His Highness wished to defer
the charge until he had an opportunity of obtaining the
professional advice of his solicitor. Mr. Hardwick
said, before he could remand the prisoner, he must
have some statement on which to act. His Highness
said—On the 14th. of June, the prisoner called on him
at his apartments, in King-street, St. James's, and stated
he was a money-lender. After some conversation, the pri-
soner induced him, to give X 2,000, in two bills of £l,OOO
each, into his hands, for the purpose of getting discounted.
The prisoner, at the same time, said, if he (Prince Napo-
leon) would sign the bills, he would bring him the money
on the following day.
say he couldsign not bringedthebilis the
The prisoner
called the next day to
that day, but he would the day after. Since that period
he had neither seen the bills nor-the prisoner. The bills

he priso

in question were drawn h_
interview, was provided with statn,
that Messrs. Bush and Co. his soli_ _
sion of letters-which would throw a coral
transaction; and he should wish to de.,,.
explanation he could give until,a future day .
wick appointed next day to go into the tharg(
THE GREAT BRITAI

the imperfect
Mr. Hard-

DELLA, WEDNESDAY,
Last few days has been

remarkably. fine, and the wind light, consequently the-
tides have at length ebbed out sufficiently to allow all the
work outside and inside the ship to be proceeded with,
but the boxes not being all up,, and none of them having
been filled, no attempt has beenmade to raise her higher ;

the springs did not rise to the calculated height
next springs, it appears by the progress made, fourteen
boxes being in places, and two more on the move, that
their power will be tested. The small spars have been
rapidly, disappearing, from off the breakwater, aud are
used up as shores to the upright bulks, or the boxes thetn-
.

selves; and many have, under Mr. Bremner's direction,
been- brought down to the rock, in a line of four or five
yards—abreast ofi the engines, remarkably close together—
between and beyond the boxes, spars, thsreabout, to which
they are attached by a stout beech tree, resting on the top,
and abreast of them. smaller ones, and. about six feet high.
This, at first. gave an idea they were-intended. to sustain
the spars against the sea, should a sudden gale come on
from the southward ; but Captain Claxton kindly ex-

plained to us that t
which the large spar
the butts under the

re intc

breakwater were to rest with

and at the upper (

Te either

to be suspended, or ballast laid
in bags, so as to act like ballast

it is presumed

down .fk

ng placed

day on this fuleivm

) feet 1

'out seven

'erage will be

1 as a. set of American
tram]. for

rower will

20 boxe

the Royal

Engineers, whose name we could .pot le,
to the ship with Captain Claxton on Mor
some hours on die. foundation of the •
and afterwards in the ship. Yesterday I
taking

,nd passe,
water, ani

notes and making -mep
and Captain Claxton ; h€
:ornmunication nothing
the ebbing of tl

went, for the c