The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1847-08-03 00:00:00

THE WOOL MARKET.

(Prom Messrs.Greame-and Co.'s Circular of August 2.)
There has been a fair amount of business done during
the last month, and prices are fully supported ; the excite-
ment always attending. a general election has, how-
ever, for the last ten days, materially interfered with
business operations generally. Considerable sales are re-
ported in Russia and TOrkey Wools, Donskoi Fleece, 7d.
to 7d4. East India Wools are much inquired for, parti-
cularly the better kinds, both white and yellow, which
may be quoted at id. told. higher. In Peruvian Wools
about 2000 bales washed have been sold at 8d to 10d., part
taken for export. For Alpaca we have had a good de-
mand, and considerable sales have been made of, the best
assortments, both in white and colours, at full prices. In
Irish Wools a large Business has been done at our quota-
tions. Not much of the New Clip Scotch Wool has come
to hand yet, and the business of the month has-been to a
limited extent. Public sales, Australian, are fixed to
commence here on the sth, and in London on. the 12th.

Since our last monthly report, provisions have again
fallen materially in price, and, as the weather- continues
to be everything that can be desired for the harvest, we
may, we think, reasonably expect that alarm caused by
the famine prices that have ruled so long will pass away,
and with restored confidence bring about a more healthy
state of trade.
TOTAL IMPORT OF. SHEEP'S WOOL TO THE UNITED KING:

IST JANUARY TO THE IST JULY, 1846

DOM, FROM TR
AND 1847.
July Ist, Is46,—Colonial
do. Foreign

57;878
75,613

July Ist, 1847
do.

Total
.—Colonial ..
Foreign ..

53,491 Bales,

57,573
62,226

FINE SAMPLE OF THIS YEAR'S WHEAT.—A bunch
of wheat in the ear may be seen in our office window,

many harvests past. Some of the ears are 6 inches in
length, remarkably well filled ; and most of the stems are

lg us assurance at once

lent crop of grain and plenty of straw
grown by Mr. Brookfield, of Aigburth.

eel-
The sample is

CAtiTiO

—A gentleman, residing at Egremont, on
Saturday evening last, purchased a quantity of fruit, &c.,
in St. John's Market, and engaged a decent looking boy
whom ha met there to accompany him to the boat.
Turning•round accidentally, however, in Lord-street, to
read a statement of the polling, his carrier and his mar-
keting,vanished, and were not seen again. People should
always employ in such matters some one they
carrier who wears the market badge

k'ULT ON A POLICE-OFFICER.

At the Police-court,

yesterday, a man named Charles Rice was charged with
violently assaulting a police-officer on Saturday night,
during a riot and disturbance-at the end of Porter-street,
which complainant and some of his comrades were.endea-
vouring to quell. Four witnesses were called for-the de-
fence, who attempted to show that the prisoner•was not
the man ; but the other evidence satisfied the- mind of
the magistrate, and the prisoner was fined £5, or in de-
fault to be imprisoned, and he was further required to find
bail, himself in £l5, andtwo sureties in £lO each.
At the Police Court yesterday,
ed with rob-

'oman, named A

bing a cattle dealer, named Arthur WlCewin, of money
to the amount of 475., in notes and gold. The com-
plainant had put the money into a bag in his breast, and
being overcome with drink, went to a lodging house in
Pownall Square,. to lie down. The prisoner was there.
Information was given, and the prisoner was traced to a
house of ill fame in Johnson Street, and upon her was
he money, but a copper Dutch coin which.
it, and which was identified by the corn.-_

was anion
plainant.

SIR DIGBY

MACKWORTH.

TO THE EDITOR OF THE LIVERPOOL STANDARD.
Now that the election is over, and Sir Digby defeated, 1 beg
leave to offer a few brief remarks concerning his defeat, and to

We all know that some persons vote according to principle ;
others according to whim or caprice, and that many others are
actuated by baser motives. There are some voters who would
not, on any account, (if they could avoid it,) leave it in the
power of any person to say to them, after the election, that
they had voted for the losino nartv. They wish to vnte with

the:stronger party, so that they may afterwards boaat that their
side has won the day. The necessity, therefore. of showing
STRENGTH earl on the polling day must be sufficiently ob-
vious. Well, indeed, did Mr. Cardwell finish his address at the
M i usic-hall, n Bold-street, when he said, " Gentlemen, you
. _

double favour by voting tnitLy." So they did, and the result
showed that he was right. His coaches (and he had lots of
them) were seen dashing along every street at all hours of the
polling, so that even the display of his hired vehicles was
enough to inspire confidence in his cause, and to weaken the
ardour of those who had intended to vote for any of the weaker
parties. The same observations will nearly apply to Sir Thos.
Birch ; in whose favour, moreover, a most active canvass was
carried on, whilst but very few were solicited to•vote for Sir
Digby. The following facts, however, will throw some light
on this subject. .
At ten o'clock there were at the booth in Stanhope. street,
fifteen of Mr. Cardwell's coaches, and only three of Sir Digby's !
In Toxteth-park, some of Sir Digby'is canvassers consisted
of boys, between sixteen and eighteen years of age

.. . ,
At the booth in Lyceum-place, some electors who had given
plumpers to Sir Digby, being unable to get any refreshment at
his expense, were taken by Sir Thomas''s canvassers into the
Brunswick Hotel, Hanover-street, where they were sumptu
ously regaled.

And last, though not least, there was a small slip of paper,
with lithographic writing on it, sent with Sir Digby's voting
cards, from the Roscoe-street Committer., requesting the elec-
tors in his favour to —what ? To come early? No : but to
attend at different hours of the day. Thus, those whose sur-
name commenced with any of the letters from A to D, both
included, were to poll between eight and nine o'clock; and so
on with the other letters of the alphabet, dividing the time of
polling between eight and four o'clock into eight distinct pe-
riods of voting, so that a certain number only should vote in
each hour. And all this was done, as stated on the paper, to
prevent confusion !
Now, was this the way in which Cardwell and Birch acted?
No: their motto was, Go EARLY TO THE POLL. Really, Sir
Digby's friends would have served his cause much better if
they had requested all who intended to vote for him to do so
at eight o'clock if convenient, or as soon as possible after that
hour.

There have been many serious- mistakes and oversights on
the part of Sir Digby's friends, but all of them of course un-
intentional, as his friends were too staunch in their principles
not to heartily desire his triumphant return ; but I mention

these facts, which have come Under my own observation,
merely to show that Sir Digby's non-election is no proof of the
want of Protestant and Conservative principles in Liverpool,
as• the Radical press would lead the world to believe; but that
his failure is to be chiefly attributed to the want of a little tact
and management on the part of his supporters—a tact and ma-
nagement in which the friends of some of his supporters were
deeply versed, and which they did not fail to exercise to the
aggrandisement of their respective candidates, and to the dis-
comfiture of Sir Digby Mackworth.—Yours, &c.,

PROTESTANS.

SCRIPTURAL POLITICS

TO THE EDITOR OF THE LIVERPOOL STANDARD.
SlR,—Will some one of your numerous readers answer me
this question, fir it is a daily, hourly, puzzle to me :--in what
way do our new members and those who, with them, deprecate
so much what they call "mixing up religion with politics,"—
who make even a war-cry of exclaiming against it.—apply, or
rather escape, the application of this text, to mention no others,
"whether ye eat or drink, or whatever ye do;,' do all to the
glory of God"?' If this does not involve religion with every
mortal action, what can be conceived so to do 7 To be consis-
tent,—and I here address the many, too many Churchmen
among them,—such persons ought to be found leagued with the
staunch opponents of " Church and State," for on no other
ground, except, the duty of "mixing up religion with our poli-
tics," as a nation, can their union; and the existence of a state
church, be demonstrated to be either necessary or useful.
Some people little consider what they give up when they thus
thoughtlessly abandon a principle. Acts and principles may
be, and too often are, at variance, but no sound argument
against the having a thing rightly . to use can be drawn from
even the gro...,^est actual abuse of it. For what purpose, then,
I would ask, hold our bishops their seats in Parliament, ex-
cept that they may season with the salt of divine truth the
otherwise merely secular debates of human expediency?
Grant, even, that they fulfil not this duty, still, this principle,
and this alone, defends them where they are, and keeps them,
whether we see IT clearly or not, before our eyes as a nation,
in their true position. Were not this purpose to be answered,
and were it not a principle of duty to "mix up religion with
politics," surely the end of giving glory to God would be much
better answered by them elsewhere. To be brief. If, then,
such be our duty in all that we do, and if the bible be our
counsellor along the course of that duty, who shall say where
we ought to stop, and prohibit our adviser from accompanying
us further? One admits the benefit of his counsels at church
or chapel, another there not only seeks his direction but en-
courages his influence over his family; a third permits him to
follow him to his shop or counting-house, and is not even
ashamed of his companionship as he walks the public streets,
but one and all testify either indifference or ingratitude, who,
professing themselves christians, seek not alike his approval
and support, on the committee, at the hustings, in the senate.
Mr. Editor, I know from whom I borrow, but I name not
his name lest this feeble tribute to truth should be regarded as
offered solely to him. but I do not hesitate to say that, after
this, you, whether you admit this avowal into your columns;
or not, as partaking in this too common apprehension, will
not doubt me when :I say that, from my soul, I admire tin
noble, dignified, straightforward. conduct of the man whoa
once Protestant Liverpool, to her everlasting shame, has just
" What a contrast !
I am, sir; yours respectfully,

*ejected!

PIIILALETHES,

Simon, in Gloucester street; will be opened on the 25th
instant, when it is expected that will be preached
by the Rev. Rector Brooks, arid; the Rev. Dr. RUNeile.

ROBBERY PROM 'ME PLu.soza.—At the Police Court
yesterday, a woman, named Fanny Keeley, was com-

abstracted from 1
The Quarter S
on Friday next.

lessions for this borough will commence
They are fixed, we presume, so soon

ast sessions in order to, ettee

fore the next assizes

Livery be-

ASSAULT.—A- man, named Michael Ryan, was yester-
day fined 40s. and costs, (or to be imprisoned twenty-one
days,) for a violent and threatening attack upon an officer,
who had gone to defendant's place, under due authority,
to demand an amount due for rent. The prisoner was
also required to find bail to keep the

RATHER A BOLD ROBBERY.-At twelve o'clock yes-
terday, twcemen, dressed in barragan, entered the office
of Mr. Sorley, Castle Street... One of them seized the
boy, who was in the office, and held his mouth, threaten-

ing to kill him if he made an alarm, while the other mad,
off with abort lls. in silver, whichwas lying on the desk

APPLICATIONS FOR LICENSES.—We learn that no
fewer than. two hundred and fifteen applications for
licenses for public houses have.been handed in to the ma-
gistrates. It is scarcely to be supposed that more than a
very few of these will be granted. The licensing session
will take place on the 30th or 31st of the present month.
THE LATE MR. FELL.—WC are sorry to hear that the
fifty pounds, voted by the t-iluardians of the West Derby
Union, to the widow of the late Mr. Fell, has been finally
disallowed by the district auditor. We are glad to learn,
however, that the subscription which was in part pro-
ceeded with, for the benefit of IMrs. Fell, will be actively
resumed ' • and we trust that• the wealthy classes resident
in the West Derby district will not be found wanting
when the call of- the widow of the medical practitioner,
who first fell a victim to Typhus, in connexion with the
recent influx of Irish paupers, is brought before their
sympathetic consideration.
ASSAULTS ON POLICE OFFICERS.-At the police court
yesterday, several charges were preferred against different
parties, of violent assaults upon police officers, particularly
in the districts chiefly inhabited by the Irish. Four pri
soners—Patrick Gallaghan, James Mahoney, Ellen W-
Cormick, and Mary Lotg----were charged with having, on
Sunday morning week,
.during a riot in Great Crosshali-
street, assaulted and struck: with stones, mud, &c., several
of the officers while in the execution of their duty. The

case being made out, the two male prisoners were each
fined £5, and required to find securities, or be imprisoned;
and the two women were.fineclin 20s. each. Several others
were brought up on similar charges.
't with, Mr. Rusht

and were similarl

.4311 remarxing cnat, in some
aes, the officers clearly stood in danger of their lives ;,a,
hat the court WaS determined, in all such cases, to protect

. . -
OBTAINING GOODS ON FALSE. PRETENCES.—
Police-court, yesterday, a stupid-looking boy,
John Costello, was charged with this offence. It a,

At the

that the prisoner had over the whole period between the
10th February: and the 27th ultimo, gone from,time to
time to the shop of. Mr. Philips, baker, Copperas-hill, and
obtained a quantity of bread,' (generally three loaves at
once,) which he represented to be for the Rev. Dr. Booth,
of Netherfield-road, who, he said, had sent him. As the

ud was not detected: until a few

value of 434 15s. 2d. He had previously been employed
by Dr. Booth in the menial capacity of brushing shoes,
cleaning knives, &c. The case was proved against him,
and he was committed for trial at the sessions.
EGRUMONT FERRY.—We are glad to say that the plans
of our ingenious nautical townsman Mr. Winspear (of the
firm of Winspear, Hyde, and Co., boiler-makers, &c.,
Victoria-road,) have been carried out, under his own
merintendence, to improve this landing-place; and that
had so long " hung fire," was yes-

the new stage
terday found to work to admiration. The stage is milled
up and down to meet the steam-boats, by means of a
strong endless chain, passing through a huge iron block
at the extremity of the projecting inclined plane. The
slip is, however, to be yet a little further prolonged in
stone-work, so that the block may be fixed yet further out,
and steamers may land and embark their passengers at all
times (without requiring a small boat for that purpose)
and have plenty of water to spare. The advantage to the
numerous and growing population of Egremont,• Liscard,
Wallasey, &c., will be obvious. The chain passes round
an immense iron drum, at the top of the plane, worked

by an engine of eighteen horse power.
TELE .CROPS.—We have to report another we
finest possible summer weather for the advanc
the crops in the surrounding districts—warm al
almost through, followed nightly by a fine clear

I sunny

Sunday wa

ripening
Fhe sky was
.evailed
lv a

unobscured by a cloud ; light ai
on the heights, whilst in the
breath ; and the tcrnperatu

s of wind onl

mllows there

with an ar
sionally equalled, the gl
have already b

.hed, and o
conics. Wheat aim

felt within

yeuuw,
and, excepting on the colder soils, much of it will be cut
within ten days. The hay is nearly all stacked, that re-
maining out being generally over ripe ; so that if the
owners should be overtaken by rain, they have themselves
to blame. Barley, turnips—and, indeed, all field crops—
are also most promising. Fine new potatoes have been
abundantly brought to market, and on Saturday were sold,
in many parts of the town, at the greatly reduced price of
3s. per measure of 901bs. So much of the bugbear of the
disease. The late sorts will be very large. Vegetables of
all kinds are proportionably abundant, cheap, and we may
add, excellent in quality. We had some fine rain yester-
day morning, which will do great good after the drought,
especially to turnips and other green crops, The day
afterwards turned out beautifully fine,

INDIA.
BY EXPRESS FROM MARSEILLES

We have received by our ordinary semi-monthly courier
Marseilles our despatches in anticipation of the

Overland Mail from Bombay, of the 20th of June,
The intelligence thus received is of considerable interest.
It is the more so as two attempts to send letters from
Bombay to Europe, via" Madras, had failed. The express
from Bombay was robbed on the Bhore Ghaut on the
.1 3 T

3rd of June ; and a second express, of the sth of June,
arrived too late in Madras for the Bentinck steamer, on
her voyage from Calcutta to Suez.

From the Punjaub we learn that an exchange of terri-
. . .
)etween Gholab Singh and the

been effeete

erritory given up by Gholab
consists of certain mountain (Hazareh) districts, the
chiefs of which were by no means inclined to submit to
his rule. He had obtained a slice of territory called the
Kurree Kurreealee. Gholaj had taken up his residence
at Cashmere, and appeared to wish to be called the Maha-
rajah of Cashmere, rather than of Jamoo. He had
received Colonel Steinbaeh into his service. His system
of taxation was not calculated to render his government
popular.

vernrnent

In Lahore there had been talk of a conspiracy, the de-
tails of which are not exactly known. Its object was
said to be to avenge the insults received by the Ranee
(Queen-Mother) on Tej Singh,. Runjoor Singh (the
Chief Justice of Lahore) having- been dismissed, had
threatened to excite a fanatical war ; but the British
officers were on the alert. A rumour was in circulation
that some serious disturbances might be expected in La-
hore after the next Dessera. At Peshawar, the return, of
Sultan Mab.ommed Khan, which was effected by the in-
fluence of the English, had produced the best impression
on the inhabitants, and even on the neighbouring Affghtur
tribes, the chiefs of which had proposed terms of friend-
ship and alliance. Major Lawrence, who acts for the
Governor-General at Peshawur, had ordered Aspar Singh,
the late Governor, Li return to Lahore.

From Affghanistan there is now news of importance-
Dhost Mahommed, having settled the disputes in the
neighbourhood of Jellalabad, had returned to.Cabul. His
son Hyder Khan, had been appointed Governor 'on the
frontier near the Khyber pass. The death of the late
Wuzeer, Akhbar Khan, had brought about a cessation of
hostilities in that part of Affghanistan, and there was a
chance of peace during the lifetime of the old most-
He had allowed agents from the Governor-Gernerai to
take up their stations, under the name of news-writers,
at various places in his, dominions.

In Scinde the utmost tranquillity prevailed. The trade
by the Indus was likely to obtain soon a remarkable in-
crease, for the Bombay authorities had, by orders of the
Supreme Government, issued a notification declaring.tbat
goods coming by way of Scinde shall be admitted. free
into Bombay. This is a great advantage to the trade of
the Indus. Sir C. Napier was at Kurrachee.
The Governor-General was at Simla, where he intended.
to remain during the rainy season. Lord and Lady Gough
were also there.

The robber Dhongur had recommenced his depredit-
dons ; he had plundered some caravans.
The disturbances which were lately apprehended in the.
Deccan had passed over. In consequence of the Nizam'S.
having given up for the time his intrigues, arrangements,
had been made, by establishing a bank at Hyderabad,
and by opening a loan, to make provisions for the wants
of the treasury. In the Gosmoor country fresh distur-
bances had broken out ; the infuriated fanatics were again
in arms, and had offered up more human sacrifices. Mr..
Grant, of the Bengal Civil Service, had been ordered to
examine into the grounds of the disputes between_l3riga-
dier Dyce and the other officers employed in pacifying
these districts.

The efforts made by Akhbar Khan to induce the Schah
of l'rsia to enter into a Moslem war rgainst the British
in the east had failed. The Cajar Sovereign of Persia
told Akhbar's emissaries, on hearing them state the
object of their mission, that he placed no confidence either
in the Affghans or in their promises. Some fanciful
rumours had been current relative to the interference of
Russia, but nothing certain was known on the subject.
The governor-general was about to send a political
mission to the capital of Thibet, in order to open peaceful
relations with the government of,the grand Lama at
Lassa.

The reduction of the British troops in India is Spoken
of. Six regiments of her Majesty's army were, as it was
reported, to be sent to Europe at the close of this year.
40,000 sepoys had been removed from the army within the
last six months, which diminution, together with that of
the Royal regiments, will lighten the:burdens of the Indian
finances. The Five per Cent. Loan still continued open,
but as it was already at a discount, very little was then
being subscribed to it.
No later intelligence from China was known in Bom-
bay than that which came by the last mail.
The death of Sir:David Pollock, the Chief-Justice of
Bombay, is quoted as an example which ought to deter
elderly gentlemen from trying a tropical •climate. ' Sir E.
Perry has since discharged the duties of the Supreme
Court to the satisfaction of all parties ; he is expected
to succeed as Chief-Justice, to which his legal know-
ledge and his experience of India fully entitle him.

The Governor and Commander-fn-Chief of Bombay
were at Poona, where they intended to remain during the

The monsoon had set in at Bombay with an, unusual
fall of rain; of which about 25 inches had fallen before
the 19th of June.
In a postscript, dated the 20th of June, our corres-
pondent states that the steamer was delayed for nearly 21
hours in consequence of the non-arrival of the Governor's

The only point of political importance to which our
correspondent alludes is the state of Hyderabad, in the
Deccan. Violence and bloodshed were the order of the
leneral

w

Frazer had endeavoured to induce to leave the Nizam's
country, were returning by degrees to it. They were
implicated in several gang robberies, and ordered to be
deported. They came near the cantonment, quarrelled
amongst themselves, when Hassein-ood-Deen Khan was
killed ; his assassin was cut to pieces.
Letters from Dinopore mention that the cholera was
ravaging her Majesty s 98th Regiment ; 64 persons died
in the month of May ; there were 170 in the hospital
daily.

tine, which consumed the British Hotel, a
building well known, in one of the principal thoroughfares.