The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1840-11-10 00:00:00

ASSAULT AND ATTEMPT AT ROBBERY

A rough looking fellow, well known to the police, named
John Stewart, was charged by Mr. Arkwright with assaulting
him, and attempting to rob him. Mr. Arkwright stated that
he was a pork butcher, and had a shop in Whitechapel.' Ile
resides at Windsor. Between ten and eleven o'clock last
t, in going home, he went through Myrtle-street South,
and when at the corner of Chatham-street, the prisoner,
'lng with another man, came up, and one of them, without

I hold of him, and tint his hands over
his eyes and mouth, and knocked his legs from under him.
He fell on his back, and when down he felt hands at his
pockets. He cried out murder, and two gentlemen came to
his assistance. The prisoner and his companion ran off to-
wards Chatham-street, where the prisoner was taken into
custody by Mr. John Moore, stable-keeper, Heath-street.
On the way to bridewell, prisoner said, " It was not me that
intended to rob you; it was Jack Heap." Complainant did
not miss any of his property. The prisoner was committed
to take his trial.

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YESTERDAY

DESPERATE RIOTS AND ASSAULTS AMONGST THE IRIRB

ALAN NEARLY KILLED.-TWELVE
PRISONERS REMANDED TO THE BOROUGH GOAL TO

IN LAC

-STREET-

AWAIT THE RESULT.
Yesterday, at the Police-court, the following twelve pri-
soners were placed before Mr. Rushton and Mr. Ha dinen
Earle, on a charge of rioting in Lace-street, on Sunday, and
attacking a man named Patrick Rafferty, in a maw er so
brutal that his life is in imminent danger :—viz. James Wal-
dron, Thomas Costello, Patrick Malonv, Michael Moran,
Thomas Henry, Harry Moran, John Sweeney, Margaret
Nicholson, Catherine Casey, Margaret Bolton, Catherine
Butler, and Winny O'Brien. The whole of the parties were
of the humbler classes—as might be assumed from the Licality
of the street ; and they appear to have been actuated by that
spirit of desperate feudal hostility which has frequently ma-
nifested itself in faction fights between the northerns and
southerns in the sister isle.
Bridget Finnegan was first called. She said—l keep a
lodging house in Lace-street, in a court. I was standing at
my door when Patrick Rafferty, a hod-carrier, came out with
his hands in his coat pockets It was about two o'clock.
The prisoner, Winny O'Brien, caught him by the collar.
She said—" have my rein nge out of you ;" and then she
took up a big stone and struck him on the ear. The prisoner,
Margaret Nicholson, then came and struck him with a brick
in the face. The elderly prisoner, Catherine Butler, then
came up and threw slutch in his face. Hugh Cowen and
Harry Allison (not in custody) then came out, and both
struck him, the first with a stick anti the other with a poker.
Patrick Malony next caught hold of him, and said—" If he's
not done, we'll do for him," and he then struck him on the
head with a loaded whip, and he (Rafferty) fell down. The
magistrates then had the parties accused by the witness
brought to the front of the dock, and asked them separately
if they had any questions to ask. They all entered into
statements, and elicited nothing favourable to the few ques-
tions they put.
Michael Gilmore, a boy, being sworn said,—l live by
selling things at the docks. Yesterday, about half-past two
o'clock I saw Rafferty in the street. Two men came and
struck him, one with a poker and the other with a stick.
The prisoner Catherine Casey came out and struck him
with a brick. I saw Patrick Malony afterwards pull
Rafferty out of Cubin's house by the legs. Harris had the
poker. The crowd ran down the street.

Casey and Malone asked witness,-ii on his oath, he saw
them strike, and he affirmed that he did.

Mary Kewley sworn.jf live in- Lace-street with my
brothers. There was a crowd, and Rafferty was beaten. He
was afterwards taken into a house for shelter.
Elizabeth Haney called —I live at No, 1, Lace-street, at
the top. I saw Rafferty abused, and heard cries of " Don't
murder the man !" He came up the street with his face to
those striking him, and his hands up to save himself.
Michael Freeman, Tommy Gallagher, and Hugh Coin, (not
nere) struck him. They had all sorts of weapons. In getting
into the house for shelter, he strove to catch the panels of
the door, but fell into the house. If he had not fallen I be-
lieve he would have been killed.

John Griiiiiil;;;Ornii aniaiabourer and live in the street.
About half-past nine yesterday morning, the prisoners, Pat-
Tick Malone and Michael Moran, were going up and down
the street. Moran had a poker. Two men, named Galla-
gher, and several others (not here) were also amongst them.
Moran was asking who would come against him. They were
all sober. Michael Freeman (not in custody) ran into the
house, got a poker, and joined them. After that they all
went into the house. Thomas Rafferty (the brother of the
man hurt) came down the street, about ten o'clock, with
James Welsh. Thomas Gallagher came into the street and
struck James Welsh. Rafferty (the brother) made his escape.
After that, Mark Burns and two more were going to work at
the docks.* The prisoner, James Waldron, came up and
struck Mark Burns on the temple, and he and his companion
made their escape. There was a second attack about two
o'clock. Patrick Malone and a man named Hornsby came
out and attacked Rafferty, Malone with a whip. Winny
(Winifred) O'Brien came up, and said to Rafferty, " You
may fetch your coffin with you." Winifred O'Brien struck
him with, I think, something she had in her hand ; but of
this lam not quite sure. When he was going into the house,
Malone seized him by the leg, and Hornsby by the collar.
He was beaten by them. I went away. Patrick Malone
said that they had had the street too long to themselves, and
it was time they (his party) should have it to themselves.
Mark Burns said :—I was going to work at tide work at
about two o'clock on that day. Pat Malone and others were
in the street. I went on the other side. The prisoner Wal-
dron came behind me and struck me.

Warburton.—Did you not come up with a spade to my
house and strike me ?

The witness replied in the negative.
Honour Tolly sworn:—l saw the old woman (a prisoner)
come up with two or three bricks, which she put on the road
in readiness. She threw them at Wm. Fanegan, and would
not let him pass till the crowd came up. I saw Margaret
Bolton and Catharine Casey. Mrs. Casey said that she'd be
revenged for the money she had lost, and would wash her
hands in Rafferty's blood. Margaret Nicholson said, " I'll
be revenged for the money that's lost," and she struck Raf.
ferty•with a brick. Her husband came up and struck him
with a poker. 1 saw Mary Moran. She came up with a
small scuttling spade, and struck Rafferty's wife. Margaret
Bolton told the crowd to keep together. Thomas Costello,
the lame man, had his crutches, and said, " if I get a blow at
Rafferty with my crutch with the ferrel on, it will put him
a-sleep." He gave the two other men (Gallagher and Horn-
by,) two sticks, and said to them " Fight like men, and have
one of their lives."

The parties implicated by the last witness were called to
put any questions, but asked nothing, eliciting answer, in
their behalf.

Thomas Burns spoke to seeing Rafferty about ha f-past
two, and every one of them striking him. Costel.o wanted
to give Rafferty a blow when he was down, and said. if be
got it that would be enough.

Biddy Rafferty (the wife of the injured man) being sworn,
was questioned by Margaret Moran as to attacking her with
a scuttle spade. The witness said, she was struck and tum-
bled into the channel, and her cap was torn tram her tread,
but she did not say by whom. They wanted to take her hie,
as well as her husband's.

Several police-officers were then examined. None of them
had seen the tights, but they had been frequently called to the
street, and had three times dispersed the mutt, and, appa-
rently, restored quietness. One of them, Alexander Suther-
land, found Rafferty a little before three o'clock in a cellar,
in an insensible state. John Burn pointed to Warburton as
one of the men who had struck him. The witness produced
a bar of iron, somewhat fashioned like a poker. It was about
a yard long.
On each witness being examined Mr. Rushton enquired
what witnesses they had in their behalf, and their names were
taken down. They were all now called in and examined.
Their testimony did not go to invalidate the evidence against
the prisoners; but in one case, that of Michael Moran, some
time was to be allowed to produce Mr. Teal, sen., and Mr.
Teal, jun., who have the management of the cleaning of the
Clarence Dock and Basins, by whom he said he was employed,
and had worked for two tide ways—including part of the
afternoonin question— which, if it covered the afternoon in
question, would, of course, amount to an alibi.
Mr. Rushton addressing the prisoners, said, that they had
all been clearly proved to be present when the violent assault
was made upon the individual who was now lying danger-
ously ill. It became, therefore, his duty to remand them to
the Borough Gaol until the fate of that unfortunate individual
became known by the result ; and should that be fatal, they
would have to abide their trial by another tribunal.

Mr. Teal, sen. and Mr. Teal, jun. afterwards appeared in
court and stated that Moran had worked two tides in the
sewerage of the Clarence Dock on Sunday, and that he re.
turned to the second tide-work at about half-past two in the
afternoon.

Mr. Rushton said that he was glad the prisoner stood clear
of being present at the principal assault; but as he was sworn
to as one of those present at the first riot in the morning, he
could not release him without bail—himself in £lO and two
sureties in £5 each.

* We think the Dock Trustees might dispense with men
working in the docks and basins on Sundays.

The Grand Jury at the Stafford Sessions, on Thursday,
returned a true bill against George 'Wynn, the registered
proprietor, and Alfred Jolly Caldicott, the publisher of the
Staffordshire 'Examiner, for publishing in that paper an
article inciting.the populace to riot at the Conservative ban-
quet held at Bilston on the 7th of August last.— Wolver-
hampton Chronicle.

A PROLIFIC Sow.--Mr. Birchby, of the Red Lion Inn,
Euxton, near Chorley, a tenant of J. G. Wainwright, Esq.,
has a sow, (which we noticed in April last) of the Shropshire
breed, that farrowed a few days ago sixteen pigs. This is the
fifth litter, and the total number of the five litters is eighty!
The first two litters she had seventeen each, and the third and
fourth litters were fifteen each.—Preston Chronicle.

DEATH OF GENERAL BLlG.H.—Lieut.-General the Hon.
Edward Bligh died on the 2d instant. He was born in Sep-
tember, 1769, and was grand-uncle of the present Earl of
Darnley. The only record
.we find of his services in " The
Royal Military Calendar, is as follows :—" This officer was
a lieutenant-colonel on. half-pay of the 107th foot, the sth of
March, 1794 ; colonel in the army the Ist of January, 1798 ;
nera
majolrth-ge 4th of June, 18eneral the lst of J
11 anuary, 1805 ; and lieutenant ge-

FACT AND SENTIMENT.--A gentleman, partial to romantic
associations, being informed that a slip from the willow which
has for many years over-shadowed the grave of Napoleon,
was growing in the garden of an inn near Bristol, made a
pilgrimage to the spot. His inquiries after the object of his
search was at first unsuccessful; but ou accosting a labourer
on the premises, the reply was—" Oh, yes I you'll find it
growing, on 'tother side o' the garden—right against the
pigsty.;

THE ROYAL CHEESE.—This celebrated produce of 750
cows progresses rapidly in ripeness and perfection at the farm
of Mr. Dunkerton,
of West Pennard, and still continues to
attract visitors from all parts of the country. No precise
time is fixed for its preeentation to the Queen, nor is it yet
determined in what manner it is to be conveyed to London ;
but it is in contemplation that it shall be drawn thither by
eight of the finest and most beautiful cows the West of En-
land can produce.—Bath Chronicle. g

NORTHALLERTON SESSIONS.—Last week a deaf and dumb
man was tried for felony, and found guilty. The prisoner
will have one advantage—the silent system will not interfere
with his usual organs of speech.— Tyne Afercurii•

. .
And carry me to moments flown away ;
When, at her side, so proudly I would kneel,
Catch from her eye affection's softest ray,
And watch those parent-smiles that on her face would play.
Thus ponder'd I, as sadly I would gaze
On the green sod which rose above her head ;
When I recall'd the joys of other days,
I wept the tears of anguish o'er the dead.
Whom now I lov'd the most, when she, alas! was tied.
Yet, how I prized the spot from whence arose
These madd'ning thoughts, that tore my breast with pain!
It was the sacred place of her repose,
And by her side her child could still remain :
There I could wish her back, though doomed to wish in vain.
The love that drew my tender childhood there—
Beside that grave that made me fondly stay—
That whisper'd stories of a mother's care,
The care that wiped my infant tears away—
That love within my breast maintains its potent sway.
No place so fair to me—no place so dear,
Though gaily decked with beauty's charms it be—
Though Nature in her lovel'est form appear,
Tinged with the brightest colours earth can see—
My mother's lowly grave is dearer far to me.
When Death shall bear my ling'ring breath away,
Obed'ent to His will whose mercy gave ;
When Nature's fabric yields to sure decay,
And slowly sinks beneath life's stormy wave,
Oh, may my dust repose within my Mother's Grave !
Liverpool, Nov. sth, 180. J. M. L.

CONTEMPORARY PRESS

THE MUNICIPAL ELECTIONS,
(From the Lancaster Gazette.)

What will 'the ministerial people say now ? Their
last hope in England—the municipal reform claptrap—
is taken from them. Never was anything more deci-
sive than the result of the struggle on Monday last.
A glance at the return will show that iu every direc-

tion the good cause has triumphed. Amongst other
boroughs which on this occasion have vindicated their
loyalty and sound constitutional principles, the good
old town in which we live has not been the last. In
Lancaster we have gained four seats out of six, and on
a division at the council board we shall be found to
stand pretty near equal. When we call to mind how
exclusively radical was the constitution of the council
at the first, and for some time after, and reflect upon
the almost hopeless state of things at that period, we
cannot but feel truly gratified with our present posi-
tion. There is, however, nothing in it to astonish
anybody. The evil was sure to find its own remedy in
time. But mind, when we do say that, we must
not b_: supposed to subscribe to the doctrine that,
therefore, the conservative party had nothing to do but
fold their arms and look on. Quite the contrary. In
conservative exertion alone can the remedy be found.
True enough that general disgust must, in the order of
things, spring out of such exhibitions as " municipal
reform" has given rise to in this and other boroughs,
but conservative influence is the instrument through
which the popular indignation is to icnake itself felt as
well as known. It was nonsense, mischievous non-
sence, for conservatives to turn up their noses and talk
of the thing as beneath their notice, and as a nuisance
which, left alone, would cure itself. If, for instance,
in this town the system had been left to work its own
way, the entire council board would in time have been
occupied by the sort of persons whom all friends to
order and the respectability of the town desire to see
kept out of it. That was only to be prevented by the
interferance of the conservative party. The respecta-
ble portion of the radical party—the men who aspire
to the genteel, and sigh to escape the queer company
into which their unfortunate destiny has cast them—
these few persons have no power of themselves to keep
out the oanaille, and in that case the duty of the con-
servatives is obvious.: It is for them to come forth in
the strength of their commanding influence and save
the town from the disgrace that impends. They have
done, on this occasion, and by their exertions the evil
is to a great extent corrected.

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WHIG CORPORATION REFORM.
(From the Times.)
Of all the practical blunders ever committed by the
Melbourne ministry, probably that which has been the
most fatal to their own interests was the bill for reform-
ing the English corporations. We do not mean to
discuss its intrinsic merits, irrespective of its bearing
on party politics. It is not thus that the Whigs look
at such questions. The corporation reform bill was
brought forward by them, just after their repossession
of power, in 1835, declaredly as a scheme for regaining
some of their lost popularity, and at the same time for
increasing their " borough interest." It was no sooner
passed and brought into operation, than the treasury
journals openly boasted that it would gain them 40
votes at the very next election. That election, when it
came, speedily dissipated these hopes ; but it is only
now. after the lapse of five years, that we are beginning
thoroughly to understand the extent of folly exhibited
by the Whigs in bringing forward that measure, as a
political manoeuvre, intended to strengthen their own
interest.

The elections for the present year have just taken
place, and never was there a more total rout than that
which has been the lot of the whigs and whig-radicals
in every part of the kingdom. Whether we value the
corporations themselves at much or little, no one can
doubt the importance of such an annual encounter of
parties as this, even were it merely to afford to states-
men of every class an opportunity of judging of the state
and progress of public opinion. Even within these
few days have the ministerial journals ventured to coun-
terfeit a degree of the most blissful ignorance as to the
odour in which their masters were held by the people
generally. But after the transactions of this week, to
assume the existence of the least doubt upon the sub-
ject will exhibit an amount of effrontery which we are
hardly warranted in anticipating, even among the
lackies of Downing-street itself.
These municipal elections, be it remembered, are be-
yond all questions the most popular appeals that are
ever made to any English constituency. They are not
confined to the ilo householders, like the parliamentary
elections, nor yet to the freemen of the boroughs—still
less to £5O tenants or freeholders, as in the counties.
They rest upon household suffrage—the very point
which some of our ultra-reformers are now proposing
as an improvement on the franchise conferred by the
Reform Bill. And what has been the response just
given by this large and unexclusive body of electors in
a series of contesls which, in every part of the island, as
the ministerial journals themselves confess, have con-
stantly resolved themselves into a choice between
" tones " or conservatives, and " liberals," alias mini-
sterialists or whig-radicals ?
The answer is of this kind :—ln Manchester and Bir-
mingham the conservatives contest the validity of the
charters, and consequently refuse to interfere in the
elections. But with these two exceptions, and perhaps
one or two others in which the conservatives have made
no exertions, every town in England of the first class,
and almost every one of the second and third classes,
has given a verdict of reprobation of the ministerial ad-
herents. Even a moment's recollection, without look-
ing to the reports, recalls to mind Liverpool, Bristol,
Leeds, York, Exeter, Oxford, Cambridge, Ipswich,
Bath, Macclesfield, Stockport, Wigan, Colchester,
Maidstone, Hertford, Bury, Boston, Bedford, Preston,
Bridgewater, Windsor, Totnes, Walsall, Shrewsbury,
Southampton, Weymouth, Warwick, besides a variety
of smaller ones. Constantly, as we have already said,
the respective candidates have been opposed to each
other on political grounds, as " liberal,' or " conser-
tive," and it is abundantly clear that the victory re•
mains, in a great majority of eases, with the latter.
But we have said that the institution of these annual
contests, be they wholesome or unwholesome, was a
most unwise step on the part of the whigs, with respect
to their bearing on the interests of that party, and yet
we all know, that if it had not been for the hope that it
would serve those interests, we should never have seen
a line of the Municipal Reform Bill. The error appears
to have been of the following kind :
It organised, and drew up, and banded together, in
hostile, aiay, the two great parties, " liberal " and

• -
A Liverpool correspondent reminds us that the anticipa-
tions we expressed in the early part of the year, that the then
current session of the parliament would not elapse without
the duties on timber imported from Sierra Leone and the
British settlements at Honduras being equalised, has not
been fulfilled. While we regret we cannot contradict our
correspondent, we must express an opinion that some pro-
gress towards an assimilation has been made. The facts
stated in the memorials from the shipwrights and timber
merchants of Liverpool, Bristol, and the Clyde, presented
in July last to the Board of Trade, urging the necessity of
such a measure, have rendered it imperative on Mr. Labou-
chere to take up the subject early in the ensuing session.
For ourselves, we are utterly at a loss to discover on what
principle a continuance of the differential duties on Sierra
Leone Teakwood and Honduras Mahogany can be justified—
why the good and essentially useful timber of our American
should be longer subjected to nearly 300 per cent. duty over
that of the inferior wood of our African settlement. It is
surely both just and expedient that the woods of two pro-
vinces standing in the like relation to Great Britain, should
be admitted to consumption through the assimilated scale of
duty. If, indeed, any differential duty ought to be tolerated,
Honduras has better claims to the advantage than Sierra
Leone. By far the greater proportion of the Teak exported
from the latter is not procured in the colony, though cleared
at its Customhouse ; and every ten logs, it has been calcu-
lated, imported into this country from that charnel-house
costs one seaman's life. The Mahogany exported from
Belize is, if not actually grown in a British settlement, (for
of late years the exportation of mahogany has been extended
to that cut on the whole extent of the Mosquito shore ; and,
we believe, the liberty of clearing at the various ports, as far
as Touxills, has also been granted) is cut by the British en-
terprise, and paid for with British capital and merchandize.
Besides, Honduras is comparatively a salubrious climate,
stands in such an admirable position that, as regards British
commerce, it may be termed the toll-gate of Central Ame-
rica, and presents an inexhaustible supply of wood. The
one province, after being bolstered up for thirty years, at the
expense of £1,670,000, is for all useful purposes a complete
failure ; on the other province, neglected and despised by
government, we are dependent for the supply of an indispen-
sable article. _ _ - .

The introduction of Teak into certain parts of ships,
which were to be classified as entitled to remain on the first
letter for twelve years, was, until lately, indispensable. The
uncertainty of the supply of Teak—(in July last there was
not a single log in the hands of the Liverpool importers)—
frequently rendered the shipwrights unable to complete the
vessels in progress of construction. Experiments, however,
having proved that the heaviness of Teak and the lightness
of Cedar were objections to which Mahogany is not liable ;
that it expanded less from saturation, and shrank less from
heat than any other wood, and that it was naturally com-
pletely exempt from dry rot, by a late regulation of Lloyd's
Mahogany has been admitted to the classification as the best
description of Teak, and in consequence has been extensively
used by many shipwrights. The high rate of duty has,
however, operated to its prejudice, and limited its consump-
tion for naval purposes. A reduction of per ton on Hon-
duras Mahogany is therefore sought as an object of vital
importance to our commercial navy. This reduction would
nearly assimilate the duty to that on African Teak, and bring
it to the same scale as that on Cuba and Mobile Cedar, both
of which foreign woods are subject to only 10s. per ton duty.
In our opinion, the reduction sought is too moderate ; why
should not colonial and foreign timber used in ship-building
be admitted on the same terms as that for church-building—
free of all duty ; or, at all events, why should not ships be
built of materials in bond ? France not only admits foreign
timber duty free, for ship-building purposes, but has, by a
late enactment—objectionable and absurd, doubtless, but
indicative of the encouragement given to its marine—has
imposed an export duty of tenpence per foot on native tim-
ber, which is equivalent to a prohibition.
The manufacturing as well as the shipping interest ate in-
terested in the reduction of the duty on Honduras Mahogany,
as that wood is indispensable for making those large and
valuable machines to which we owe so much of our manu-
facturing pre-eminence'
But, in fact, the whole scale of duties on Mahogany re-
quires immediate revision and reduction. There are three
duties on Mahogany ; upon Mahogany from Honduras, 30s ;
from other British possessions, £4 ; and from foreign coun-
tries, f.,5 per ton. The effect of these duties has been totally
to destroy a large portion of the business of the cabinet-
maker of this country—the export of furniture. Formerly,
Great Britain had a most extensive import of furniture to its
colonies, South America and India; now it has a considera-
ble import, and many of our modern houses are adorned
with Hamburgh furniture, for the sale of which there are
large establishments in Birmingham. Now, for this revul-
sion we have not the poor and ordinary excuses of protection
to our colonies, or increase to our revenue, because the qua-
lities of Honduras, Jamaica, Cuba, and St. Domingo Maho-
gany are so different and distinct, that they can scarcely be
said to interfere with each other; the Mahogany of the
British possessions cannot for an instant be compared with
that of Cuba or St. Domingo. The high duties on foreign
does not increase the consumption of our colonial Mahogany,
for from it the better description of furniture cannot be
made, and the duty defeats its purpose, as regards revenue,
by limiting the consumption of the article on which it is
levied. The total loss of our export furniture trade, and the
injury inflicted on our home trade, are solely caused by the
duties on foreign Mahogany. Cuba and St. Domingo Maho-
gany is imported into Hamburgh comparatively untaxed,
is there manufactured, and is actually admitted into this
country in the shape of foreign furniture, on payment of
duty less in proportion than the English cabinet-maker has
to pay for the log or curl in its uncut state! Formerly it
was the practice to carry Mahogany from Cuba and St.
Domingo to one of our colonies, and land it there and bring
it to England in the same way as Coffee is brought through
the Cape of Good Hope from foreign countries, and Spice
from the Moluccas through Penang ; this the late President
of the Board of Trade, Lord Sydenham, effectually pre-
vented. It is, we trust, the intention of the present Presi-
dent to remedy all the evils of this subject. This he may
the more readily do, as the revenue to be affected by any
change is altogether unworthy of consideration in comparison
to the manifest advantages. _

Without entering into the general question of the
Timber duties, we may here call public attention to the
injurious effect of the working of the present Customs
scale of duty in another particular. The duty for the
fir log is 55s per load ; now the duty on planks admits a
load of fir timber in that form at two-thirds the rate required
on the log. " Thus," writes the intelligent correspondent
who has drawn our attention to the absurdity, " the Prussian
merchant, by merely running three cuts up his long logs.
has actually remitted to him in duty a bonus of 50 per cent.
for shipping his manufactured, instead of what may be
termed his raw material, facilitating thereby its transport
(and that, too, always in his own ship), making it, without
fin they labour, at once suitable for the British joiner to use.
While the principle for the regulation of the duties on tim-
ber—when not cut into plank, bct imported in the form of
log—is decidedly protective as regards colonial, and prohi-
bitory in regard of Baltic, still we have been good customers
to the Prussian for his manufactured wood; and now on the
Liverpool quay the anomaly may be witnessed of the house-
builder having to pay for the load of Dantsic middling square
timber £5 12s 6d, against £4 15s 3d per load for the first
quality of well manufactured plank, adapted through the
foreign mill, free from all defect and refuse. Three or four
mills in Manchester and Liverpool suffice for what remains
to be manufactured on all the foreign woods imported and
consumed in this quarter, because of the premium granted
to the importer of the already made planks abroad."

Admirals Stopford, Bandeira, and Walker, were at Bey-
rout on the 12th instant, with five British and one Turkish
ship of the line, and an Austrian frigate.
All the north of Mount Lebanon, with the exception of
Tripoli, is in the power of the allies and the mountaineers.
The Emir Bechir, who had been for some time in communi-
cation with the allies, concluded a convention on the sth ult.
with the Seraskier Isset Pasha and Admiral Stopford. The
Prince of the Druses required that his life and property should
be secured to him, and in return he engaged to serve his mas-
ter the sultan with fidelity. On the Bth ult, he sent his two
sons as hostages, until he could arrive himself, from which he
was then prevented by the presence of Ibrahim Pasha. On
the 11th instant, the Emir Bechir arrived at Sidon, and on
the information being given to Admiral Stopford, he, on the
12th, sent two steamers to receive him, in which he embarked,
and thus has finally carried his promise into execution.
The Emir el Kasim has been named successor to the Emig
Bechir, and was, with a large body of mountaineers, in pur-
suit of Ibrahim Pasha, who has little or no chance of escape.
The camp at Djuni Bay is broken up. The only vessels
now remaining there are Vice-Admiral Walker's and the two
Turkish frigates, one of which, with 800 prisoners on board,
is to be sent immediately to Constantinople. Commodore
Napier, in the Powerful, with the steamers Gorgon and
Cyclops, have quitted Djuni Bay to attack Tripoli.
Reports of deserters from the fortress of Acre announce
the impossibility of its being able to hold out, in consequence
of the continual desertions, and of its present enfeebled state,
Captain Berkeley, of the Thunderer, commands at Sidon,
which is so well fortified as to defy the attacks of 15,000 men.
The Archduke Frederick is also there. The Turkish troops
have given proofs of their courage.
The Tahiri Bahiri, Ottoman government steamer, having
on beard the standard of Ibrahim Pasha, taken in the action
with him on the 10th, Colonel Hodges (who took part in that
affair), and 120 Egyptian officers, arrived at Constantinople
on the 18th instant. A letter from that city, of that date,
says :—" The porte, however, goes on sending away for Syria
troops as fast as possible. 5,000 more have already gone,
and at this instant three squadrons of dismounted cavalry
and a regiment of infantry are ready to embark in sailing ves-
sels the moment the wind, which is contrary, comes round."
The Malta Times (Supplement) of Oct. 27, states, 'that
"the Great Liverpool, steamer, arrived at Alexandria on the
18th instant. Her despatches and letters were taken into
port by a French corvette, and she remained outside. There
appears a hope that she willbring the India mail, but, in that
case, it will most probably be the last. The Fulton proceeds
to-day to Toulon."

FOREIGN AND COLONIAL MISCELLANY

The works of the fortifications of Paris are going on very
slowly, according to the Commerce, which observes :
" There are not now employed upon them more than 1,200
or 1,500 men, civil and military."
Extract of a letter from St. Helena, dated Sept. 19 :
" An American barque, Jane, lying in these roads, was taken
possession of by H. M. sloop Dolphin, and sent away (not
known where). The captain and supercargo were not al-
lowed to go on board of her."
The Toulonnais states, that the English are making great
preparations for putting Gibraltar in a state of complete
security against a coup de main, in the event of a war break-
ing out between France and the combined Powers. The
garrison has been considerably augmented.
A letter from Constantinople of the 6th October, published
in the Austrian Observer, in reference to the defection of
Emir Beschir, says :—" The inhabitants of the mountains
were fatigued by his exactions, which were of small profit to
Mehemet Ali, because of the 30,000 purses which he levied
only a tenth part reached the coffers of the Bey ; the conse-
quence was that Ibrahim Pacha could only reduce a small
part of the taxes levied on the people."