The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1841-08-06 00:00:00

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of the above church.

EXTRAORDINARY FECUNDITY,—A sow, belonging to Mr.
Doming, of " Rainford New Brewery," which is not quite
two years old, has had the large number of 49 young ones
at three farrows. namely, first, 11; second, 16 ; third, 19 ;
total, 19.
LORD ASTILEY

_ This nobernan is now on a tour through
ie districts of Lancashire and Yorkshire,
with the view of acquiring information as to the actual con-

the manufact

dition of the labouring population.
A boiler at the iron foundry of Mr. Lillie, in Manchester,
exploded on Saturday last, and so injured a workman named
George Smallshaw that he expired the same evening. .
FORGERY.-At the Stockport Police-court, on Saturday,
a farmer, named Daniel Lowe, residing at Stone Cottage,
near Whaley, was committed to Kirkdale for trial, on a

charge of having. forged the name of Mr. Joshua l'Zeyner,

corn factor, of Manchester, to a bill of exchange for £l5 lOs

DISEASE OF TOE HEART

—lt cannot fail to interest the

sufferer from diseased heart to fin:fthat Mr. Cronin has be-

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come a resident of Liverpool. The liberality of this gentle-
man's advertisement, in this day's paper, cannot be too
strongly noticed, which we have no hesitation in saying will

provea decided boon to the suffering poor

A person, name unknown, jumped overboard from the
Seacome steam-boat on Tuesday, and was drowned.

_ .
THE BARON DE COSSON'S PICTURES.—A few pictures of

this collection are remaining unsold. Visiters wishing to
inspect them should call on Mr. Wilson in the mornings, as
at that time the sun being in the apartment the light is pre-
ferable, and they are seen to the greatest advantage.

COPYING MACHINE.—RHODES'S NEWLY INVENTED
COPYING MACHINE, advertised by Mr. Smith, of South
Castle-street, is exceedingly simple in construction, and of
great power. Its price also will recommend it to purchasers.

YIANO•FORTE TUNING.—We beg to draw attention to
Mr. Venables's address. As a tuner he may be employed

with confidence

ZOOLOGICAL GARDENS.—These gardens are now in the
height of perfection. The grand Tableau of St. Jean d' Acre
goes off capitally. Several animals have been added to the
collection this week. Amongst them we noticed a wolverine
or mountain cat, a present from Captain Cowing, ship Co-
lumbus ; and a gazelle, given by J. C. Shaw, Esq., Wal-
ton Breck.

WOOL SALES.—At the wool sales yesterday, good prices
were realised. In Australian full Id. per lb. more was ob-
tained at the middle of the sale than at the commencement.
MAP OF THE UNITED STATES.—A very beautiful and
elaborate map of the, United States has just made its appear-
ance. It is without exception one of the handsomest and
most useful we have for some time seen. A careful obser-
vation of it will show how wonderfully the States of late
years have extended. This map will convey a just idea of
the immense tract of country the United States contain.
The work may be obtained on application at our office. It
ought to be hung up in every counting-house and place of
public resort or business, as constant reference is now being
made to North America, in all societies.
WALTON BAZAAR..—Great preparations are now in pro-
gress to make the Walton Bazaar "co off" brilliantly. It

is expected to be one of the most dashing affairs that has
ever taken place in this part of the country. We trust that
the ladies resident in the vicinity of Walton, and those who

have any love for the Church of England, will bestir them-
selves most actively, and contribute largely the commodities
necessary to stock the stalls. If the ladies who are interested
in the matter will do their duty, the committee will be able
to carry out their arrangements. It may he well to remark,
that the 26th is Prince Albert's birthday. This will give a
zest to the occasion. More of this anon.
PRESENCE OF MlND.—There is at present living in the
\Vest-Riding of Yorkshire, a most frugal farmer, whose
name is Thomas Dent, but better known as Torn Dent, of
Pitcher-house, and quite a character in his way, which is
sometimes very uneven. Not a hundred years ago he was
returning home late at night, with a fat sheep in his cart,
when suddenly Thomas and his sheep were upset on the
slope of a very mountainous place called Hill-Gill, the cart
completely inclosing both Tom and the sheep. Tom soon
discovered that his tat sheep was what is there termed
" necked," and in this perilous situation (which reminds us
of a coffin on wheels), he instantly drew his pocket-knife,
and stuck the sheep. The sheep was dressed, and sold to
his neighbours ; the family at Gill-house pronounced it ex-
cellent, and Tom confessed it turned out the most profitable
of his flock.

NEW DISPENSARY, FOR CONSUMPTION AND DISEASES
OF THE HEART.—In consequence of the prevalence of
disease of the heart and lungs, a few philanthropic gentlemen
in town have determined upon establishing a dispensary for
the relief of persons labouring under these disorders. Mr.
Cronin, whose name is no doubt familiar to our readers,
and who has been very successful in such cases, has consented
to accept the surgeoncy of the infant establishment. His
services are gratuitous, and he appears very desirous of as-
sisting in every way possible the gentlemen engaged in the
matter. A large house has been taken in Lime-street, and
operations will be immediately commenced. In the mean
time, the poor can obtain advice and medicine at Mr. Cro-
nin's residence, in Oldham-street. In about a month the
dispensary will be ready. We hope that our wealthy mer-
chants will come forward and support the institution, a
prospectus of which will shortly appear in our columns.
THE. CONVICT FROST.—A gentleman who lately arrived
from Van Dieman's Land say--Frost was, in spite of as-
sertions to the contrary, an overseer of convicts, but he is no
longer so. About ten days previous to my informant's de-
parture, Frost, with a gang of his fellow-prisoners, was
missing. They had procured a whaling-boat, with which they
attempted to escape. After a week of very great privations,
they returned to Hobart Town and surrendered themselves.
Notwithstanding the declarations of the others that they had
forced him to accompany them, lie had been deprived of his
appointment, and has been sent to the penal settlement of
Port Arthur. The government believe that he must have had
some foreknowledge of the attempt.—Blackburn Standard.
SCHOOL FOR THE DEAF AND DUMB.—The collection at
St. Anti's Church, West Derby, on Wednesday evening,
after an excellent sermon by the Rev. Thos. Gardner, in be-
half of this institution, amounted to £lO 19s 9d, and several
more names wereliven in as new annual subscribers.
ELECTION OF A COUNCILLOR FOR EVERTON AND
KIRKDALE WARD.—Yesterday being the day appointed for
the election of a member to represent Ever ton and Kirk-
dale Ward, in the Common Council, in the room of Mr.
Quayle, who had resigned; the friends of Conservative
principles met at Mr. Halliday's, Everton Coffee House, at
half past eight in the morning, and nominated Mr. John
Walker to fill the vacancy. No opposition was offered, and
that _ gentleman was declared to be duly appointed. The
conservatives have thus gained another member in our local
parliament, equal to two votes on their side. William Shand
Esq., it will be remembered, disputed the election of Mr.
Quayle, in November, 1839, and the latter has, by his resig-
nation, shrunk from the legal inquiry appointed by the Court
of Queen's Bench. Had Mr. Shand been in the country, he
would doubtless have been elected on this occasion, as Mr.
Walker would not in such case have presented himself.
THEATRE ROYAL.—Last night the sterling old comedy
of " The Rivals " was admirably played. The house was
very full. To-night " London Assurance. " will be repeated
for the benefit of Mr. Charles Mathews. On Monday,
Mr. Harley, that most eccentric, droll, and clever actor, wil,
take his benefit. _ Madame and her company, it will be seenl

OUR MANUFACTURING SIISTEM

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f crashing articles, in exposition of the foreign
commercial policy of Lord Palmerston, which have appeared
within the past fortnight in the columns of the Morning
Herald, have demonstrated sufficiently how large a portion
of the distress, which our " liberal" merchants and manu-
facturers attribute solely to the operation of the existing
corn-laws, may be placed to the imbecile and criminal negli-

gence with which the foreign department of the government

has of late years been administered. The result of the re-

cent elections in London, Liverpool, Hull, and even Glas-
gow, may be attributed in part to the existence of such an
opinion in the minds of the enlightened merchants of these
great outlets of our export trade. These gentlemen were too
well acquainted with the impediments which Whig legislation
has thrown in the, way of their daily operations in foreign
markets to be deluded by any attempts to raise the cry of

" free trade" as a bait to entrap their votes in favour of men
whose policy has been so ruinous to trade throughout; and
whatever might be their opinions with respect to the revision

and remodification of our commercial tariff, those opinions

they have been quite prepared to wave, as secondary in im-
portance to the necessity of rescuing the affairs of.the nation
from this incapable faction. " Out with the whigs !" has
been the cry of the foreign merchant, whether Brazilian or

Baltic, whether East or West Indian, whether African or
Chinese ; and Sir Robert Peel, when insisting upon this as
the leading demand of conservatism, evinces a perfect un-
derstanding of the sentiments of the commercial portion, at
least, of the constituency.

There is another direction, however, in which we must
look, before we can arrive at the seat of the evil which affects

in particular our manufacturing interest. Undoubtedly a
wise foreign policy can do much to give an impulse to the
demand for British goods abroad—to open new markets and
facilitate commercial operations in old ones—but it cannot
do all which is required. The glut created by over-production
and -over-trading may be created for a time. A fleeting
prosperity may again cause our ,factories to work full time,
and restore plenty to our over-tasked factory population ;
but a permapent prosperity legislation can scarcely achieve,
unless aidedby the co-operation of our manufacturers them-
selves. We have no right to demand, even if we had the
power to extort, tariffs or commercial treaties in favour of
British manufactures as against those of other countries ;
and if it be—as the league-men tell us it is—that we cannot

successfully compete with the continental manufacturers in
foreign markets, we can point to no remedy except one which
the manufacturer has within his own hands. The abolition
of the corn-laws, the favourite specific, can afford only a
temporary stimulus, granting all the advantages which its
advocates contend for, unless the inherent evil, which exists
in the manufacturing system itself, be first corrected.

We do not at present—we admit the fact—maintain the
ground which we formerly held in foreign markets generally.
But we must demur to the assertion, that it is on the ground
of cheapness merely that we fail in doing so. On the con-
trary, we produce the cheapest—i. e. the lowest priced—
goods of any manufacturing nation. Our goods are notori-
ously the rubbish of half the markets of the world, and the
least in estimation. It is no longer a recommendation for
any article to be of British manufacture ; but, on the con-
trary, the term stamps it to be of doubtful and spurious qua-
lity. We have become. quack imitators of other men's wares,
and pirates of other men's patterns and fabrics. We steal
even their labels and adopt their names ; and, as a natural
result, when we do produce and offer for sale an article of our
own it is viewed with suspicion, and purchased :only at a de-
preciated price. From the consequences of such a system of
carrying on our operations in foreign markets, it is that we
To this cause at least is to be attributed
great portion of our distress. We have for years been
nflicted with a mania for producing at a cheap rate ; and as
s the case of all venders of cheap wares, the buyers have be-
come tired of exchanging their money for trash.
We know that the men of the league have a ready way of
meeting this view of the case. The British manufacturer,
they tell us, cannot afford to manufacture an article of which
labour is a large component part. He cannot afford to sell a
good article. In part we disbelieve them ; and for the rest
we are quite aware of the reason. The British manufacturer
bears a tainted name; and for this very reason his goods,
even when of equal quality to those of other manufacturers,
will not bring an equal price. There are merchants in Li-
verpool well acquainted with the fact that some British ma-
nufacturers, who have never stooped to those tricks which
have injured the reputation of British goods generally, can at
all times command a remunerating sale. We could ourselves
particularize many such. But it is not the men who form the
Anti-Corn-Law League—the men whose ambition it is to
make large returns from small capital, and grow rich in a
day, who enjoy this favoured preeminence in foreign markets.
These men it is, on the contrary, who, whilst stimulating an
already bloated manufacturing system to an extent which
every day threatens to engulf us in civil commotion, unless
we consent to throw down every bulwark of our internal

are now suffering

prosperity to give it scope, are step by step sapping the very
vitals of our great commercial system.
The manufacturing interest must reform this suicidal sys-
tem if it wishes to attain any permanent and really valuable
prosperity. The reputation of British manufactures in Fo-
reign markets must at least be attempted to be retrieved be-
fore we can safely make any great concessions in their favor.
In such an endeavour the legislature can aid them in many
e/ays, which we may hereafter point out; but we can disco-
ver no propriety—tio safety even—in adventuring upon mea-
sures for the advantage of a class who seek only present ex-
orbitant gain to the certain ultimate ruin of those whose
interests and whose very existence thay drag along with them
into peril. It is nothing to us that a few individuals, who
assume to brawl in the name of the manufacturing body in
general, have invested their hundreds of thousands in build-
ings and machinery, with money borrowed from joint stock
banks, and now threaten us with civil commotion unless we
will aid them in their giant schemes of aggrandisement. We
will not be bullied into the notion that the commerce which
these men wish to further is that by which a nation is made
great and a people happy ; and we are not disposed to peril
England's permanent welfare for such. The commerce
which we recognise as valuable is one which will diffuse more
widely its advantages; which erects itself upon more stable
foundations ; which has in view the welfare of the many and
not the few; and, in shott, is not the commerce which a
greedy millocracy is anxious to build upon the ruins of
England's aristocracy and local yeomanry ; upon the loss of
her commercial good name, and upon the wreck of the com-
forts of her honest and industrious working population.

SIR \VM. BURNETT'S PATENT FOR THE
PRESERVATION OF TIMBER, &c.

We observe that an establishment has been opened in
Fazakerley-street, for the purpose of submittiug canvas,
cordage, and other materials connected with the construction
of ships to a preparation discovered by Sir William Burnett,
Physician-General to the Navy, by means of which they
shall be enabled to resist the action of decay, mildew, and

dry rot.
The result of previous attempts to obtain this object would
in some degree render us sceptical in placing an entire faith
in the efficacy of the plan now proposed, but we are obliged
to confess that the testimonials which we have had an oppor-
tunity of seeing are of such a character, and constitute so
favourable a body of evidence, that we really believe we are
likely to do oar fellow-townsmen a service by drawing their
attention to the subject.

(Signed) J. PARKER.
To SIR WILLIAM BURNETT, K.C.H., F.R.S., &c. &c

Woolwich Yard, 15111 July, 1841

We may mention, en passant, that the Admiralty, (albeit
slow to adopt improvement) has taken steps for the con-
struction of tanks in the dock yards, and for the erection of
an hydraulic machine at Portsmouth.
The following is a copy of a report made to the Superin-
tendent of Woolwich Yard, by order of the Lords Commis-
sioners of the Admiralty, on six pieces of wood which had
remained in the fungus pit of that yard nearly five years :
Important Official Documents respecting the condition of
some prepared and unprepared TIMBER, WHICH HAD
BEEN IN THE FUNGUS PIT NEARLY FIVE YEARS.
Admiralty, 26th July, 1811.
SIR,—I am commanded by my Lords Commissioners of
the Admiralty to send herewith, for your information, a copy
of a Report received from the Officers of the Woolwich
Yard, on the state of the timber prepared under your Patent,
which had been deposited in the fungus pit.—l am, Sir,
your most humble servant,

SlR,—Agreeably to your memo. of this day's date, we
have to acquaint you, that we have examined the several
specimens of timber which have been prepared by Sir William
BurnettB and deposited in the fungus pit at this Yard, and
find their state to be as follows, viz. :

PREPARED. UNPREPARED.
ENGLISH OAK.—Perfectly ENGLISH OAK.—Has a small
sound. spot of fungus on the end.
ENGLISH ELM.—Perfectly ENGLISH ELM.—Doaty.
sound. DANTZIC FlR.—Has fungus
DANTSIC FlR.—Perfectly on the outside, and is de-
sound. cayed in the heart.
—We are, Sir, your most obedient servants,
0. LANG, Master Shipwright.
R. ABETHELL, Assistant to the Master Shipwright.
P.S.—The prepared and unprepared deposited in the pit
the 25th August, 1836.
To CAPT. SUPERINTENDENT ITORNBY, R•N•, C.B.
N.B.—Soule pieces of prepared and unprepared canvas
and calico were also placed in the fungus pit at the same
time, and, on its being opened in May, 1838, for the inspec-
tion of its contents, the Official Report stated, that, as re-
garded the canvas and calico, the experiment was decisive
and conclusive, the prepared being but slightly injured, and
in some cases not at all, whilst the unprepared was entirely
destroyed.
The tests to which both canvas and cordage have been put,
in order to compare their strength with that of similar un-
prepared materials, exhibit also very striking results. The
following is a letter from the Lords of the Admiralty on this
head :

Particular attention is requested to the following important
Letter from the LORDS COMMISSIONERS OF THE AD-
MIRALTY, relative to some of the trials made at PORTS-
MOUTH DOCKYARD. _

Admiralty, 13th July, 1841.
SlR,—With reference to your letter of the 29th of last
month, I am commanded by my Lords Commissioners of
the Admiralty to acquaint you, that from the report of the
trials of the strength of the Cordage and Canvas prepared
with the solution on your plan, as compared with that un-
prepared, it appears that after both wsre equally exposed to
wet and damp, as well as to the effects of the atmosphere,
the prepared Co, dage* is on the average about one-
twelfth
stronger, and the Canvas about two-thirds stronger than
the unprepared.—l am, &c. &c.
H. E. AMEDROZ, Pro-Secretary.
SIR WILLIAM BURNETT, K. C. H., F. It. S. &c. &C.
The Cordage, in this instance, was submitted to the