The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1846-03-10 00:00:00

WARLIKE ASPECT OF AFFAIRS IN INDIA..

The later advices from the theatre of War in the Pun-
jaub have brought us nothing of a decisive character. No
further engagement was known to have taken place, up to
the departure of the mail. So far as our information car-
ries us, however, it is too clear that we have on hand, in
that part of India, a task which it will require our utmost
strength to enable us to perform in such a satisfactory and
triumphant manner as to advance, or even maintain, the
reputation of the British arms and power in India. The
successes achieved by our forces, in the unequal struggle
to which they were submitted at Moodkee and Ferozeshab,
purchased as they were at so vast an expenditure of valua-
ble lives, are events upon which to congratulate ourselves.
They prove that we have amongst those forces, both Euro-
pean and native, the right stuff by which the victories of
Great Britain have ever been gained, and her empire and
influence in the East and throughout the world have been
extended and sec'ired. The result of those successes,
however, we regret, has not been sufficiently great to
bring about the early conclusion of the struggle. We have
checked the insolent invasion of our territories by the
Sikh army ; but we have not struck hard enough as yet
to deter them from the pursuit of their rash enterprise.
They still oecupy, on the opposite bank of the Sutlej, we
find, a formidable attitude. Although 70 of their guns,
and a vast quantity of warlike stores, fell into our hands
as the result of these engagements, they were allowed to
withdraw themselves leisurely from before our wearied
troops, from the circumstance, apparently of their inabi-
lity to follow up the victory which they had achieved.
They were able to construct and retain a strongly fortified
bridge across the river, from which they have already at-
tempted to annoy our troops, by depredatory incursions
into our territory, and, at the date of the last advices, we
are told that they had been enabled so far to recruit their
artillery,that of this branch of their force, whose destructive
power was so fatally felt in the past engagements that
they could bring against us no less than 120 guns.
By the judicious steps taking by the Commander-in-
Chief and the Governor-General, to concentrate the
troops at their disposal, so as to bring to bear against the
enemy an overpowering force, we trust that all anticipa-
tions of a reverse being suffered by oar arms, whenever
our forces may be brought against the enemy, may be
laid aside. But we must bear in mind that, in any event,
the difficulties which we shall have to encounter in the
subjugation of the Punjaub are great, and will call for the
utmost energy of the Indian Government and the valour of
our soldiers to ensure their being surmounted. We have
to do with a people of undoubted bravery, and no trifling
skill in warfare, well provided with the necessary munition,
and extended over a country which presents every facility
for making a prolonged stand. To doubt that we shall
ultimately be successful in our efforts, were to doubt
what has never yet been doubted—the persevering courage
of a British army, and the resolve of the British nation
that its flag shall never be dishonoured before a civilized,
much less before a barbarian foe. But we may look for
still further sacrifices of our gallant soldiers before we
can expect the successful termination of the contest; or,
in other words, the complete subjugation of the Punjaub,
which is now not only necessary, but is resolved upon.
If we cast a glance upon our relations with other quar-
ters of the globe, we find them not without ominous signs
of corning derangements of our present state amity. The
United States of America, under a hot-headed democratic
President, ;threaten a course of insulting policy, which,
if persisted in, must involve us in that worst of all wars—
a war with a people of our own race, sprung from a com-
mon ancestry, and speaking a common tongue. And
this, too, at a time when we are throwing from us the
only point d'appui which we possess upon that continent
—the affections and loyalty of the Canadian people. We
are embroiled, too, in the affairs of the River Plate ; and
we have the prestige of our arms to recover in our Poly-
nesian possessions.
Altogether, the prospect of employment for the naval
and the military arm of Great Britain, for years to come,
is anything but consolatory ; and the question of cost
ought to have some small portion of the consideration of
those statesmen who are so sedulously undermining the
revenue of the country. Perhaps it may be worth the
attention of those who are bawling for remissions of pro-
tective duties, the amount of which will have to fall upon
their shoulders in the shape of direct taxation.

MR. ALDERMAN EVANS AND THE NEW
DOCK PLANS.

The speech of Mr. Eyre Evans, in the Council meeting
of Monday last, in opposition to the projected new docks,
is really scarcely worth the paper and printing-ink which,
in our last, we were compelled by our duty as impartial
journalists to bestow upon it. There is an evident squint
in the worthy ex-alderman's mind upon this subject. He
is the sad victim of a dock-warehouse fever. Were he to
construct an ornamental fishpond in his garden, be would
most certainly have its margin surrounded, with four or
five-story erections, with the necessary cranes, hoists, and
railways, for the landing of his perch or gold or silver fish,
and the expeditious storage of his rods, lines, artificial
flies, and bait.
We have no intention now to go into any lengthened
remarks upon this lame effort—this sad exhibition of a
tortuous perception and wounded vanity. We must,
however, take the liberty of correcting an observation
which fell from him with respect to the danger and the
expense of taking vessels into the river in their passage
from dock to dock. Mr. Evans stated that, "he could
formerly get a ship round for thirty shillings ; but
the expense of getting through the docks proposed would
inevitably cost a great deal more." To all practical
men who are not infatuated with a hobby, this assertion
will appear sufficiently preposterous. We will, however,
give Mr. Evans afacl, which may, perhaps, convince him
how other people regard the cost and danger of getting a
vessel round, by way of the river, as is the existing prac-
tice. When here on her last passage, the American pac-
ket-ship Independence wanted coppering. Rather, how-
ever, than encounter the expense and danger of coming
into the river, in order to get into the graving-dock, she
went out to New York, deficient as she was in her cop-
pering, to have it renewed or repaired there, thus depriv-
ing British shipwrights of employment, and British mer-
chants of the sale of their copper.

We may also take the liberty of setting the Chairman
of the Dock Committee, Mr. Bramley Moore, right with
respect to a vessel which recently capsized during the ope-
ration of removal from dock to dock, and which, in reply
to a question from Mr. Aikin, he stated to have taken
place in the basin. It was in the river that the accident
in question occurred. We may add, as consolatory to
Mr. Evans, that since this last explosion of his on the
subject, we believe that not less than twenty shipowners
of the port have waited upon the Chairman of the Dock
Committee, to express their unqualified approval of the
plans, and to urge upon him to persevere in their accom-
plishment.

THE TIMES, HERALD, STANDARD, AND THE
GOVERNMENT.

The question so long pending as to whether the an-
nouncement in the Times, on the 4th of December last,
of the intention of government to repeal the corn-laws,
was an authorized announcement, or, as stated by the
Morning Herald, and Standard, the then aspirants to
government favour, " an infamous fabrication," has just
been set at rest by the retractation of the term by the lat-
ter, and the expression of their belief that the Times, al-
though apparently Editing against the ministry, has been
all along perfectly informed with respect to forthcoming
measures. In the Standard, of Wednesday evening, the
admission in question is thus made :
" On the evening preceding that announcement of the
Times, which we contradicted by authority, being in-
structed (unconsciously on our part) to " tell a lie in the
words of truth," an insult and an injury which we must
ever remember,—on the evening of the 3rd of December
letters were, we know, despatched to public men of influ-
ence in the United States, by officers of the government,
making announcements similar to that made by the Times
of the 4th. We have, indeed, now little doubt that the
article of the Times proceeded directly from the Treasury,
and that the false part of it, the alleged decision of the
Cabinet, was thrown in with a view to American use."
The charge against government, made in this paragraph,
is a serious one, if it can be substantiated ; and is at least
as well worth being made the subject of a question, or
even a motion for inquiry, in the House of Commons, as
many-questions which occupy the time of that assembly.
If the press is thus to be made the vehicle of diplomatic
deceits, the sooner honest journals cease to aspire to the
honor (?) of ministerial confidence, and place their de-
pendence for information upon their own activity and in-
telligence alone, the sooner they will enjoy the full confi-
dence of the public. The fact, if true, of a government
i
organ being instructed to mislead the public, s something
new in party tactics and in the annals of the press.

LIVERPOOL SHARE MARKET FOR TH E WEEK

ENDING MONDAY (YESTERDAY).

The following is a copy of the circular of the Liverpool
New Stock Exchange, giving the feeling of the market
up to the close yesterday. The transactions on the Old
Stock Exchange will be found in the usual column :
Monday, OM March, 1846.
The market has been in a complete state of stagnation
during the past week : the recent news from America and
the East Indies, together with the continued scarcity of
money, have tended much to produce the depression.
Business in this market has been extremely limited.
In Registered Stock, Chester and Birkenheads were
sold on Saturday last at £5ll, being an advance of 3os
per share since Monday last.—Grand Junction Stock :
fluctuating but little in value, during the past week,
brought from £216 to £213 per share.—Midland Stock :
limited sales effected at £147 South Eastern and Dover
shares neglected.—Leeds and Thirsk have receded to par,
at which price the last sales were done.—Huddersfield
Canal shares have fallen to £5 pm.—Sales to some extent
have been made in Liverpool and Bury shares at £l4 to
£l4l.
In Scrip Shares, a further decline has taken place in
all the marketable descriptions. Goole and Doncasters
are worth 15s pm.—Direct Northerns, dis.—Ormskirks
.£ll pm., and buyers at this price.—Lancashire and Che-
shire Junctions, £2l pm.--Derby and Crewe, £2l pm.—
Dovers half-shares, / pm.—Bank Stock unchanged.—
Royal Insurance are worth 38s 6d pm.—Dutch Rhenish
£l/ pm.
London and Manchester markets continue depressed.
4 P.M.-A heavy fall in all descriptions of shares, as
will be seen on reference to the actual sales.

STATE OF THE AMERICAN COTTON MARKET.

The circular of Messrs. Wright and Lewin, of this
town, containing the state of the New York cotton mar-
ket, gives us the dates of February 16, from New York ;
February 4, from New Orleans ; February 7, from Mo-
bile ; February 6, from Savannah, and February 7, from
Charleston. On these dates, freights from New York
to this port were d. to 5-16 d. ' • from New Orleans, 13-32 d.
to 7-16 d. ; Mobile, 7-16 d. ; Savannah, 5-16 d. s. 3-Bd. r. ;
Charleston, 3-Bd. to 7-16. The following is the informa-
tion given us of the state of the New York market :

Since our Circular of the 31st January was issued, we are
without any further intelligence from Europe, our latest date
from Liverpool being 4th January.
The operations in cotton in this market, during the past two
weeks, have been as follows: During that ending 7th instant,
the sales were 7,509 bales, about 2,500 bales of which was taken
for Liverpool; some few sales were made for Havre, and the
residue was sold to manufacturers; prices remained without
change from the quotations as given by us on 31st January.
Durinr, the week ending 14th instant, buyers for Liverpool with-
drew from the market, in consequence of the advance demanded
by ship-owners in the rates of freight; some few parcels,
amounting to about 1,000 bales, were taken towards the close of
the week for Ilavre, but tne bulk of the business was done by
manufacturers and dealers from the East. The total sales for
the week amount to 4,000 bales ; in prices there is no particular
change, and we continue our quotations, remarking that sellers
generally are more willing to accept the prices on the qualities
" middling" and below, than they have beau for several weeks
past.
. _ _

We subjoin the current prices for Liverpool classification.—
New York, 16th February.
Upl'd & Forida. Mobile & N. Orl.
Inferior none. .. 5i to 6

Ordinary
Middling
Middling fair ... 7to 74 .. 7/ to 8
Fair 74 to 7/ .. 81 to 84
Good fair
Fine nom. .. 104 to 11
Charleston, Savannah, Mobile, N.Orleans,
11th Feb. loth Feb. 7th Feb. 6th Feb.
Inferior
Ordinary:— .
Middling.
Middling fair 6s to 7 .. 64 to 6$ .. 7 to 71 .. 7 to 74
Fair 74 to 71 .. 7 to 74 .. 74 to 71 .. 74 to 71
Good fair
Fine. none. .. none. .. none. .. 9 to 10

A SCENE IN THE HOME OFFICE. - NEW
POOR LAW AND OFFICIAL MORALITY.

The following notes of a scene which occurred in the
Home Office, between Sir James Graham and sundry new
poor law officials, was brought before the House, on
Thursday night, by Mr. Christie, M.P. for Weymouth,
as having been furnished to him by Mr. Parker, the assis-
tant commissioner employed to conduct the examination
into the circumstances connected with the Andover Union.
If correct, they furnish a curious specimen of the way in
which official matters are occasionally hushed up, or con-
cocted for the House of Commons and the public. We
may remark, that the reply of Sir James Graham, who
was present, was, in the first instance, a complaint of
breach of official confidence, and next a kind of " non mi
recordo" of the precise particulars of the conversation.
"After adverting to the facts disclosed in the deposi-
tions, Sir James observed—l've stated to the House of
Commons that the commissioners cannot prevent the
boards of guardians from employing the inmates of work-
houses at this bone crushing ; I was right in saying so,
was I not ?

"Mr. Parker.—l think not; I have no doubt whatever
that the commissioners possess authority to issue regula-
tions by which such labour may be put on a proper foot-
ing. . .

Sir James.—ls that so? Are you sure you are right?
" Mr. Parker.—l am very confident in my opinion.
" Sir Edmund Head, one of the Pour Law Commis-
sioners, was announced, and Sir James Graham repeated
to him what he had said in the House of Commons res-
pecting the powers of boards of guardians to employ the
inmates of workhouses in bone-crushing; adding, "Mr.
Parker thinks the commissioners have power to control
this kind of labour.' _ _

"Sir Edmund.—l think we can do so, but
" Sir James.—l do not like the kind of employment in
workhouses; we shall have some confounded disturbance
about it.

" Sir Edmund.—l am sorry to hear you say so.
" Sir James.—Yes ; this case will be stock-in-trade for
The Times for the next six months ; but you have not
countenanced this description of labour, have you ?
" Sir Edmund.—No ; but we have not discouraged it.
" Mr. Parker, handing Sir Edmund a copy of the com-
missioners' order requiring wayfarers and such casual
paupers to break a certain quantity of bones before leav-
ing the Andover workhouse, said, In the cases of mendi-
cants, such labour has been directed by an order of the
commissioners, upon the certificate of the surgeon that it
was innocuous.'
" Sir James (taking the paper from Sir Edmund), Is
that so ?—why it makes the case worse.'
" Sir Edmund observed, that he regretted that Sir
James entertained such an opinion, and that he did not
think such labour could be abandoned without giving of-
fence to boards of guardians. .

" Sir James.-1S ' iow what am Ito tell the house about
this business? It will never do to produce Mr. Parker's
report and these depositions. I will tell you what I will
say. I will begin by adverting to bone-crushing in work-
houses ; then go on to say that I lost no time in commu-
nicating with the commissioners, who forthwith replied
that no information of the practices mentioned by Mr.
Wakley had reached them ; that Mr. Parker had been
directed to make inquiries on the spot; that I had had an
interview with Mr. Parker, who verbally reported to me
the result of his investigation ; that some of the inmates
of the workhouse of depraved appetite had eaten meat off
the bones ; and when the guardians heard of it they di-
rected an investigation by their medical man; that the
other workho'ise officers had been enjoined to be careful
to prevent inmates of depraved appetites gaining ac ess to
the bone store. If I say that the assistant-commissioner
made this communication orally that will possibly suffice.
This report must not be produced. It must be treated
as if it had never been made." (I)
By way of discrediting the only witness likely to
." peach,' we suppose it was that poor Mr. Assistant-
Commissioner Parker was dismissed. • How instructive is
the whole affair if, correctly reported, with respect to the
credit to be given to the explanations of some ministers.
It is easy to treat reports as if they were never made.

The Rev. Hugh M`Neile's important work, entitled
" The Church and the Churches ; or the Church of God
in Christ, and the Church of Christ Militant here on
earth," will he published in a few days.
CHARGE OF ROBBERY AGAINST A SERVANT.—YeS-
terday, Mary Kelly, a girl in the service of Mrs. R.
Mc Alister, publican, Richmond-street, was charged be-
fore Mr. Rushton with having stolen £3 15s. from her
mistress. It appeared that on Friday night the money
was missed from a drawer, and suspicion falling upon the
prisoner, she was given into custody on Saturday evening.
She was remanded for further evidence.
LECTURES ON ROMANISM.—The lecture at the Concert
Hall, Lord Nelson-street, will be delivered this evening
by the Rev. Ilenry Carpenter—the subject being, " The
superstition of the Church of Rome in the veneration of
relics." The reverend gentleman bas given too many
proofs of his ability to demonstrate the fallacies of Romish
corruption, to cause the slightest doubt that he will on this
occasion exhibit with withering effect, the absurd idolatry
of the Papacy in immediate connection with the subject in
hand. We are very glad to find that these lectures are
extremely well attended, and that they are producing good
results.

THE MANIFESTED ONENESS OF THE CHURCH OF
CHRIST. —A SERMON BY THE REV. HUGII 111'NEILE.
—We had in preparation some remarks upon this most
effective and convincing exposure of the fallacious nature
of the proposed Scriptural Alliance, of which a third edi-
tion will be ready this day,' with an introductory preface,
and an appendix. The pressure upon our space, how-
ever, and circumstances incidental to newspaper manage-
ment, we regret, prevent us this week doing more than
directing the attention of Churchmen to a work full of
sound scriptural views, and well calculated to warn the reli-
gious world against the snares which are daily being
spread before their feet.
ROBBERY OF COTTON.—Yesterday, four lads, Edward
Mc. Culley, William Halworth, William Noble, and
George Reynolds, were brought up at the Police-court,
on suspicion of having stolen a quantity of cotton, some
spun yarn, and half a hundred weight of oakum. The
property belonged to Messrs. Fletcher and Messrs. llum-
ble and Milcrest, and had been stolen a few days previ-
ously to the prisoners being brought up. They were ap-
prehended at a marine store warehouse, in Perry-street,
kept by a person named Riley, where the property was
also found. It was stated by the officer, that Riley, who
had only come out of gaol a few days since, had de-
camped. The prisoner had the keys of the marine store,
and apparently carried on the business. On Culley
making his appearance in the dock, he was recognized as
haring stolen eighty-four guano sacks, from Messrs. Hal-
head and Lord's abed, Sefton-street. Culley was com-
mitted for trial on account of the sacks ; the other pri-
soners were remanded.

March 10, 1846.

LATEST INTELLIGENCE.

(I3Y EXPRESS.)

LONDON CORN EXCIIAN3E.—YESTSRDAY.
The supp.y of Englis whet by land carage samples
morning was very s:•nal!h , anda the condition being sornewha,
improved an advance of Is. per quarter was realised upon
the white, but red and damp qualities cannot be noted higher'
Free foreign continues in goad request. In bonded we did not
hear of any transactions. Fine barley sells freely, but ordinari,
descriptions are offered at low figures. The show of beans and
peas was good and we reduce our quotations is per qr on all sorts
of the latter. Oats are scarce; English and fine qualities ratisi
be written 6d. per quarter dearer.