The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1847-05-11 00:00:00

5e very slig

employmen

,nd supporting themselves,

')eComing a burthen upon
--1,34; ...all t-

own industrious

Ireland, the delusion prevails amongst the— pea-
santry that they have only once to set their feet

they may be, and however incapable or unwilling
to strive for themselves, and their comfort is
secured. They have only, they imagine, to land
and commence their importunate solicitations to

posed to be given- in our streets, and money to be
in our pockets in inexhaustible supply. It is only
common justice to ourselves to be permitted to
stipulate that, in thus unreasonably taxing our
bounty, they do not bring fever and disease

amongst our population.
We trust sincerely that it will be found that the
vessels allowed us will be found sufficient to accom-
modate not only all the cases of sickness which
may hereafter arrive, but also to enable the autho-
rities to reduce materially the number of those ac-
commodated in the present injudiciously located
hospitals. Perhaps it may be found that the new
erections in Mount Pleasant need not be used at
all ; and the annoyance caused to the neighbour-
hood may be got rid of altogether.

WE may now rest assure
The
d of tli fact that a ge-
neral election is at hand.
ybeen got through.
e busi-
ness of the country has ahead
The ministry are in possession of A
powerno to
deal with the wants of Ireland, and it is announced,
upon all but official authority, that a dissolution
'
will take place in the middle of June. •fl ie °ques-
tions which most naturally suggest themselves in
such a crisis are, first, " Upon what principles is
the battle of the constitution to be fought ?" and
next, " What is our state of preparation for the

struggle ?"
Certainly :there has seldom been an occasion
when the first of these was so difficult to solve.
There is no great public question agitating the
public mind, or creating a distinctive division of
PliTtifxs. The education question is no longer such
one Ireland cannot furnish either the eniniste-

Under such
ing of a

MASTER AND MATES.—At a meeting of the Board of
Examiners, held on the 7th inst., Captain Andrew Young
Marshall, late master of the Lerwick, of Dundalk, was
examined and found duly qualified for a first-class certi-
ficate as a master.

PACKET SHIP YORKSHIRE, CAPTAIN BAILEY.—This
noble ship arrived here on the Bth instant, after a passage
of 19 days from New York, she having previously landed
her letter-bags at Cork on the 6th instant, fearing that
the easterly winds would detain her longer in the Channel.
She sails again for New York on the Ist of June. The
following is a list of the cabin passengers :—Mr. George
Vandenhoff; Miss Marshall; Dr. Boardman, lady and
servant ; Miss Holland ; Mr. R. Sherwell and ladv-; Mr.
Francis Hall ; Mr. Francis A. Hall ; Mrs. M`Donough ;
Mr. M'Cue ; Mrs. Tobias and Miss Tobias ; Mrs. Henry
Tobias, child, and 3 servants ; Mr. Lyford ; Dr. Paine ;
Mr. Clifton Augrave ; Mrs. Berkley and servant ; Mr. W.
Currell ; Mr. G. Holmes ; Mr. John F. Lowndes ; Miss
M. Mortimer; Mr. J. H. Gourlie ; Mr. R. Albruht ; Mr.
B. R. Lummis ; Mr. George Wood ; Mr. G. T. Hills ;
Miss Ellen Thaxter.

BODY OF A CHILD LEFT AT A DOOR.—Yesterday, at the
Police-court, a gentleman named Hughes, complained of
annoyance from mendicants, and also that the dead body
of a child had been left at the door of his house in West
Derby-road. He thought the police might be somewhat
more active. Mr. Rushton said it was certainly disgrace-
ful to leave a body at any one's door, but (as we under-
stood him) that the laws relating to mendicancy were,
from their limited powers and the state of the town
rendered almost unavailing, except as related to the legiti-
mate expenditure of money. If the bill now before par-
liament should pass, the magistrates hoped to be enabled
to find means of overcoming many of the difficulties that
now pressed upon the town, and of adopting remedial
measures. In the meantime the authorities and the inhabi-
tants of the town must do the best they could under. the

circumstances. The cases for relief were so numerous,
that even the Borough gaol contained 688 persons, while
it ought never to have more than 408 occupants
RECENT CASIT4T.TYV,--54UDVNN DEATHS.—On the
28th of last month, a man named William Giles, aged 42,
in the employ of Messrs. Maxwell and Co., King-street,
got his fingers hurt ht rolling a cask. Medical attendance
was profTett, but he died of lock jaw on Sunday last, the
.

.rieg-of the injuries.—William Lock. aged six years, 'who
lived with his parents in Hornbv-street, was at play in
the kitchen, a fortnight ago, when he accidentally fell
into a mug of hot water, and was so much scalded that
notwithstanding every medical appliance, he died on
Saturday last.—A man, name unknown, was, on Sun-
day morning, at one o'clock, found in a petty in Lace-
street, in a destitute and weak state. He was taken into
a neighbouring house, and died soon afterwards.—Cathe-
rine Griffin, a child three months old, who, with her
parents, bad left Drogheda for this port on Saturday, by
the Fair Trader steamer, died on board the same night.
The body was landed on Sunday for interment.—John
WlCenna, aged 46, who had for some time been ailing.

recovered to it considerable extent, and resumed his woik
at the docks. He was employed at a vessel in the King's
Dock on Saturday, when he was taken suddenly ill. He
was taken to the Southern Hospital ; but, though every
possible assistance was given, he died in a very short time.

—John Valentine, aged six years, was playing close to
the pit in St. Domingo-lane, Everton, when he acciden-
tally fell into the water, and was drowned

A. man was

FEVER.—APPLICATION TO TIIE POLICE MAGISTRATE
At the Police-court, yesterday, Mr. Parkinson, keepe

Rn officer (467) had, on the previous night,

Sunday

and afflicted with fever. They were- conveyed to the
workhouse, but were not received, the establishment being
full. They were thence sent to the infirmary, but from a
like cause were not admitted, and he was obliged, finally,
to receive them into the bridewell, in which there were
fifty-five prisoners. Ho bad that (yesterday) morning
sent them to the parish receiving-house for patients in St.
Anne's-street, in a fever van, and believed they were now
there. He wished to know whether the bridewell was to
be made use of as a fever hospital, to the endangerment of
all within it. Mr. Newman, the sexton of the Roman

Catholic Chapel, Copperas-hill, had said that hundreds of
wretched and diseased persons came to Dr. EwiUg's place

►rehensive "of fatal consec

To Mr. Rushton's

inquiry it appeared that no aPpheation had been made to

though disease was in the town, much unnece
had been excited by exaggerated statements re
If he applied to the police they would prevent

lam roar,
ry alarm

lle inight state generally that places for the reception of
fever patients had been prepared by the 'parish authorities,
and that more would be constructed as soon as possible.
They must do as well as they could. .

On Saturday afternoon, the new Birkenhead
terry boat, Britannia, belonging to Messrs. Edward anu
SPV/YI cum Wil Inn hv _ of the Rirkanhearl l=intel_

TANNIA."

tried on the river, and proved h,

any of the river boats afloat. She is an iron vessel., built
by Messrs. J. Hodgson and Co., from a model by Mr.
John Grantham. Her length is 114 feet, and her breadth
of boll 17
sixty-horse pon

feet. S

his iriends, Including Mr.

the manager at Messrs

Fawcett and Co.

erected tile enkrinc
board at the time

works, whO

amongst the company on
teamed up and down the

river for about four hours, and went away with amazing
speed, beating every vessel that she neared. In a run
with The Queen of Beauty, from opposite the pier to New
Brighton, she was the winner by about half a mile. She
afterwards equally surpassed in speed the James Ather-
ton. She afterwards beat the Ayrshire Lassie, a very
powerful vessel: Both boats run to and from New Brigh-,
ton, and were hitherto considered the fastest of
_the ferry

boats. She made 34 strokes per minute, with pistons
moving three feet. She has tubular boilers, and all
modern improvements are introduced. The vessel is di-

vided into Compartments by water-tight bulkheads, which
ensures safety in case of collision, or other accident.
The " Birkenhead" is a fast boat, but this is still faster.
Her cabins are very roomy, and when finished will command
admiration from the elegance of the whole arrangements.
This is the fifth boat which the enterprise of Messrs.
AVilloughbv have added to their fleet, in return for the
liberality of. the public towards them, and we know of no
ferry where the boats are more regularly and efficiently
worked, or where greater civility and attention are paid
to passengers. They may now claim to have three of
the smartest steamers plying on the river, namely, the
Mersey, the Birkenhead, and the Britannia. The corn -
piny on board the latter, at the trial, were regaled with
wines, &c., and were highly delighted by the excursion
and the extraordinary performances of the vessel. She
actually ran from Birkenhead to George's Pier, with the
tide, in fire minutes.

PROTECTION TO THE CURRENCY.

rialist or the conservative with a war cry, if, indeed;
there
,remains any longer a difference of opinion
worth speaking of between these two parties. Free
trade is a settled question, and a protectionist fight
is hopeless now. The church is clearly as safe in Glasgow,l7th April, 1947,
the hands of a Whig ministry as in tilos; of either TO THE MEMBERS OF THE CANADIAN PARLIAMENT
questions . GENTLIZMEN,—The most headstrong Free-trader must now
conservative or protectionist, and the few
feel, and begin to see, that the untaxed SoyrtigiLlagliiitonu(c
upon which a division can be got up in parliament iasn
(,t detrimental,
coio not only. to the agricultural body
are. not of weight sufficient to agitate the public
classes,) bul'ialss,o(a(iiidr-;citrirteoctly'through them, to all other
mind to any exertion, or worth the trouble or ex-interest of the empire,
throughinorat causing a vast diminutionve7fthe re.
penrse of contesting about on the hustings. To It
isl
toruoetlgartc;anTntrie of our precious metals. currency
by
par mmentary men, indeed, and to a few hangers- of the evils this contillnetriyn Inrolranlad.sottihrseosteinsible cause of part
on and expectants out of doors, it may be. an objecti ctrouuerstehaotfoNer (under
r. Sir Robert Peel) hauviiWriabkuetnillLs suicidal`ualy
who is in or who is out of office—whether a Whig employment, and encouraging fo-
reign, is the thatgauessselonF h °
wante
or a tory ministry occupy Downing-street ;
dbut byg
.England rising superior to the plrecsity. distress without a most
the mass of the people the issue
The
sheviewe with sewteirseipterferience with the currency.
utter and disgusted indifference. prestige of Free-trade tt is ?anoauibist, tchoautnFirnigliann(hils better situated to carry out
names—the trust in professions, and almost in in- ,we
worollidatid if other coun-
tries would reciprocate, the advantae e ouri, isr EVERY
dividual honour—was buried in the wreck of the were not for even the circumstances of not' h Hindostan
so degraded as not to be lowered by British competi-
Peel ministry, and the deiertions and apostacies I tion. Englishmen would therefore ALL be Free-traders as a
which preceded its fall. matter of theory 3 but what is about to be shown to be even

MR. ISAAC BUCHANAN'S PAPERS, CONTINUED FROM

THE SIXTH PAGE

England's experience of free imports without reciprocity,
_ „ircurnstances, and with such feel-
which, in bitter irony, is called Free-trade, (in me convertite
,
)athy weighing upon the public mind, it ferruin !") viz.—that it matters not whether the cause of im-

Or Free-trade;'the result to those who labour fOr their bread is

the position of parties will be the result. If '4l"s7".'"'"'"u'.
Wet have a reduction of employment to the people of
of the most prominent of the Peel renegades.. willew Engla.nd very nearly the whole amount we pay for foreign
labium.
probably be driven into retirement by the indigna- 2nd. A reduction of England'sability
a the superstructure of .to manufacture, through
tion of county constituencies, thus streno-therf its
Ir currency being brought down by the
removald of gold,
the_ hands of the protectionist party. But'the irno"
yu ffeeorofirvozotth et gain to our rivals in manufactures.
b. bility is great that the loss of conservative seats being exactly our loss,
wawbeerttetro stmoac,k)ffoetge pre-
cious metals giving an ee
in the boroughs will balance the gain in the coun- fpoorvetignwitr
the better.)
(so that increasedin fact the less gold England hia.es to
ties. The registers, it is ascertained, have been
.well worked under the auspices of the league and To these aenerat effects might be andedwedltate.spwarititctuolantr oan eas
regards the United States, that our
its local offshoots, whilst conservatism has been lsittheiteotton land into whear and Indian corn, thusp,r4
portion
making no corresponding efforts. In addition to English miflow
its quantity, raising the price of cotton to the
these circumstances, operating to depress the ex- Such
under
the experience of England, what would the Cana-
citement usually attending a general election, the das be
So that, wcie‘trheeer-trtdsei?each s y ?jun convenedor ato Montreal for
circumstances of individuals, the cramped' and your first session under LordeEll
weto
precarious position of commercial men, and of Ttso:cl
callrelyrVsonfidence of. ;our constituyenYssnntwitetk
used toe
tradesmen of every class, contribute to deprive al- ipmroteett protective
byprinciplea at a general elec-
tion. I feel it equallypresent steamer to let
most of all interest those political questions which you know the exact thingsposition of this country
ordinarily decide such struggles. I particularly d
. ...
. Upon one question alone a stand might be mat
I I and ought to be made, by men who love and wi

the stiff now being written by some of the London newspap'eri,
le, into the idea that Free-trade_has little or nothing to do with

to the church and the constitution of their You will observe I have been cautions'in not charging Free-
protecttrade with getting us into this state, (though I believe. Sir R.

cumibry. a nab question is tine um maintenance Peel's 1842 measures have much to do with it,) and that my
of PROTESTANTISM, and its protection, at all ha- charge against Free-trade is, that under it no elasticity or con-
fidence exists to get us out of the scrape.
zards, from the open assaults of popery and infide- I may, however, state my firm convicton, that the evils aris-
lity on the one hand, and of expediency-mongers ing from the potatoe rot are nothing compared with those which
the pricetty
(011
wthheettalio si;enicoe,olfouroetctitoone
one-half,
wouldno
and apostasy on the other. There is something
intelligible in such a ground for conservative exec- of our own growth, t have
‘ti'entlionwcnrefar°selcil
but by foreign importations, for whicha we
tion. We may differ amongst ourselves in our had to pay gold.
~ Our home trade would now be going through the ordeal of a
' views upon questions of protection, of finance, of general bankruptcy, unconsoled even by the prospect that, after
commercial or general policy ; but here we might thus getting white-washed, they can live under the unCue and
combine, and form a powerful body, whom neither cnl
i epl
rcompetition
sotf aua nt
itsafixeedd
tfhoarte ittne Iparbeoa ue
or. .
t sufferings of this
whig, radical, nor ultra-protectionist could safely country are in no degree caused by the conduct of the Bank of
outrage in the pursuit of their selfish interests. England, but entirely by the want of confidence caused by Sir
Robert Peel's Free-trade measures.
With a purely Protestant party in the House of This is incontrovertibly a bullion, and not a Bank of England,
of Commons—say of but a hundred good men and Panic; and one which will convulse the monetary affairs of the
true—we should hear of no such bills as that of whole
_ empire, and not only those of Lombard-street.
To be sure we have not as yet got a bullion panic in the shape
Mr. Watson, and have little to dread from the of a run upon the bank, and this shows the bank's innocence
combined assaults of whigs, trimming conserva- of the cause of the suction of gold; but we have a bullion pa-
tives, and that Class of protectionists who are will- count
nrytfhoer equivocal
ghoipearo:i.nfdromles:heas
that rua s
theoamtohset
en(tiriog sense
cause of a
i
ing to throw into the ditch every other interest, profitable and disposable property foreigners can take abroad.
however valued and however solemnly committedl havea s
deapidrectliiaattioSoirofßtreerrot
currency
Free-trade measures will
render
to their keeping, provided by the sacrifice they can Ido not believe that the Bank of England will be able to sell
save their own. Goiernment securities' so as to prepare for the payment of the
July dividends, unless Parliament, before it rises, passes a no
less sweeping measure than MAKING SILVER SHILLINGS A
LEGAL TENDER TO ANY AMOUNT, AND ALLOWING THE BANK
Or ENGLAND AND ALL OTHER BANKS TO ISSUE (confined by
Sir Robert Peel's regulations) ONE POUND NOTES.
This would, by raising gold to a market price, place the
foreign trade on the same footing as the home trade, which
draws no gold, but has its prices inflated to the amount of the
depreciation of the silver currency.
It will soon become evident that gold cannot be had except at
a premium, and then will come the run on the Bank of Eng-
land, not from shippers only, but also by parties to hoard for
the premium.
Such are the direct and legitimate consequences of Sir
Robert Peel's departure from the principle of protection to
British labour at home and abroad.
I believe that he has undermined the prosperity, and struck
a fatal blow at the integrity of the empire.
Even the national debt of England will be found to be only
so much wastepaper if we persist in our present suicidal course,
for it is secured only by the industry of the empire, from which
we have taken away the ability to perform peculiar duties and
bear peculiar burdens, by the removal of all its peculiar
privileges.
One shudders to think of the individual misery which will be
inflicted on the population here, if we persist in viewing the
currency and Free-trade as two questions instead of one, as in
reality they are—a fact that you know well, from the cruel ex-
perience of Canadian industry, when the Legislature of the
State of New York stopped specie payments in 1837.
And begging von not to suppose for a moment that I am less
the irreconcileable opponent of class interests than you knew
me when I had the honour to represent the metropolis in the
first parliament of United Canada,
I remain, Gentlemen, your obedient humble servant,
ISAAC BUCHANAN.

REMEDY FOR THE EVIL EFFECTS OF FREE-TRADE.
From the foregoing it will be gathered that Mr. Buchanan sup-
poses, "that not only the existence of our national industry,
but our existence as AN EMPIRE WITH DEPENDENCIES
ABROAD, depends on our immediately reverting tO A
PRINCIPLE OF SELFISHNESS, OR ACCUMULATION, to the
extent the currency or otherwise the general prosperity (class
interests he does not for one moment argnp tor), demands

He believes that ~.764. -impossible to preserve the attachment
nf comnists, of the British sailors, or even of the indus-
trious classes at home, without protecting the severely-taxed
labour of the British freeman, who will insist on somewhat
higher enjoyments than a mere animal existence, against
ruthless invasion by the untaxed labour of foreign serfs and
slaves, whose climates are so infinitely superior to ours as to
render little or no clothing or fuel necessary."
Mr. Buchanan farther says, that "The easy victory rained by
Free-trade over Protection was wholly caused by the country
having got disgusted with the exclusiveness and rapacious
selfishness of the English landowners, who, while they had
the legislation of the country in their hands, obtruded, in
every way possible, their own selfish, exclusive interests and
dogmas into the vitals of the liberties and general interests
of the empire."
" He would not be an advocate for a return to the Corn Law of
1815, or even to that of 1842; but he thinks that, even under
a depreciated currency, the Corn Law introduced in 1846 by
Sir Robert Peel (improved by there being no duty when the
price is over 505.) must be perpetuated as a protection to the
currency of the country; for Mr. Buchanan holds "That the
currency can only he protected through such protection to
our home industry as will practically keep up its amount in
fair proportion to the amount of foreign labour sold in our
markets, and for which specie has to be paid.
Mr. Buchanan further argues, "That it is utterly unreason-
able to expect the population of this country to be• such fools
as long to submit to their Home Industry being trammelled
11* Excise duties and restrictions, after untaxed foreign in-
stry has been let loose on theirs; so that the only chance
of the Interest of the National Debt of England being punc-
tually met is to be found in our retaining moderate Customs'
Duties, (even if these were not imperatively required for the

which is the life's blood of our native industry

any great increase of the Income Tax (however objectionable
it may be in abstract principle) must lead to the absenteeism
of capital from England, as_ was broadly stated by Lord Ash-

Mr. Buchanan, as will be more particularly seen in his paper
headed "THE POSITION OF THE PROTECTIONISTS AT TIIE

OPENING OF PARLIAMENT," proposes a BRITISH COMMER-
CIAL LEAGUE similar to that tetween the States of America
and Germany. "HE WOULD EXTEN T) THE PRIVILEGES AND
EVEN THE NAME OF GREAT BRITAIN OVER ALL OUR. COLO-
NIES, VIEWING THEM AS COUNTIES, AND ESTABLISHING
BETWEEN THEM AND THE MOTHER COUNTRY, AND BE-
TWEEN EACH OF THE COLONIES RESPECTIVELY, THE SAME
UNRESTRICTED AND UNTAXED COMMERCIAL INTERCOURSE
AND POST-OFFICE COMMUNICATION AS BETWEEN TWO
COUNTIES IN ENGLAND. HE WOULD AT ONCE REDUCE THE
DUTY ON PRODUCE FROM CHINA TO 10 PER CENT. ON THE
VALUE IN THIS COUNTRY ;• AND MAKE THE LAW PROVIDE
THAT ANY FOREIGN COUNTRY CAN, AT ANY TIME, OPEN A
TRADE WITH THIS COUNTRY, ON RECIPROCAL DUTIES OF
10 PER CENT. ON THE VALUE IN THE COUNTRY WHICH
RECEIVES THE PRODUCE."

tionary C

F:CIISLATORS DO

gee in our commercial and monetary systems,

for a time when the population must be thrown back hi
their ordinary fields of industry, there cannot fail to be e

terienced in this country a misery fur more extensive and
widely ramified than any distress ever before felt in Eng-
land."

itntt Mr. Buchanan farther states—" But ex

or the greatest itri-

provements.in any, even the Most pitriot

systems, will prole altogether insalcient for more Wan a
very limited period, if means are not taken to remove away
or rather to induce to go voluntarily) from this country an
amount of our population, equal, at least, to one-half the
yearly increase thereof ; and it therefore becomes the co Rf M 0 N

PEOPLE IN THIS COUNTRY NEVER TO LOSE SIGHT OF THE
FACT, THAT THERE IS NO COUNTRY IN THE WORLD, EX-
CEPT OUR OWN COLONIES, WHICH WILL NOT SHUT THEIR

COUNTRIES CEASE TO BE BRITISH COLONIES.'

REMEDY FOR THE PRESENT MONETARY CONVULSION
Mr. Buchanan, it will be observed, holds "That the presen

—because, in fact, it is nlita

[gement of our

THE LIVERPOOL STANDARD.

kalP7n,

THE DEPUTATION FROM LIVERPOOL TO
THE CHANCELLOR OF THE EXCHEQUER, ON
THE MONETARY CRISIS.

The result of the application, made on Thursday last
by a deputation from this town, to the Chancellor of the
Exchequer, praying for a relaxation by Government of
the stringency with which the supply of money for com-
mercial purposes is regulated, appears not to have been
attended with the deference to Liverpool interests which

Iwas expected. It is stated that the materials of which
the deputation were composed. were not altogether such

as to influence the action of Government in our favour.
Ministers have already demurred to stepping out of their

course to assist the views of speculatins in the raw ma-
terial of our manufactures ; and the admission of one of

the deputation, that he was the largest holder of cotton
in Liverpool, told materially against the objects which
they had in view. It is said besides, that the people of
Manchester have been beforehand with us, representing
that any money facilities afforded to Liverpool will have
the effect of keeping up speculation in cotton ; ankl. that,
if this be done, the operations of the manufacturers will
have to be suspended, and the mills thioighout the dis-
tricts either closed or their owners compelled to resort to
a further reduction of the time of working.
How this result of an appeal, from which much was
expected, may affect the position of our mercantile commu-
nity, it is difficult at present to say. Government, however,
seem to be in earnest; and no lenity islikely to be shown
towards any parties• who have brought themselves within
the meshes which ever surround men, who trade or specu-
late unduly. Solvent, undoubtedly, these parties are ; some
of them men of undoubted wealth. But it is not to be
admitted that men, however wealthy, should be allowed to
adventure upon speculations, from which they can only
get out scatheless by the aid of government, and the alter-
ation, in their favour, of measures and modes of supply-
ing the wants of the public, which have been deliberately
resolved upon, and upon which the ordinary transactions
of commercial men have been based.

FORTHCOMING SUPPLY

OF BREADSTUFFS

FROM THE UNITED STATES

As an antidote to the exaggerated representations circu-
lated with respect to the ability of America to supply the
wants of the old countries of Europe, an extract from the
circular of an eminent New York firm may be interesting
to our readers. After allowing for the deficiency of stock
at the ports this year, as compared with the last, the
writers give the following as an estimate of the quantity
which is likely to be at disposal in the port of New York,
for export to Europe, up to the Ist of September next

bls. Wheat, bush

Flour and wheat now in store and to
arrive at and be shipped from the

various shipping ports on the Western
Lakes prior to the next harvest
.. .

" Deduce- from this the drain through

Canada

952,500 5,100,000

200,000 1,000,000

"Leasing of flour
" The wheat (a large portion of which will
be manufactured into flour) five bush.
to the barrel

752,500 4,100,000

" Making a total to arrive at tide water
reduced to flour
"Allowing that the consumption of this
year does not, up to the Ist of Sept.,
exceed last year, it was as follows

Leaving for export

820,000

1,572,500

1,537,614

" Now, it is not pretended that only 35,000 barrels of
flour will or can be shipped from this port previous to the
Ist of September next. But in view of the extravagant
statements recently put forth of " hundreds of millions"
of bushels in this country, and that the quantity of flour
and grain to be exported will only be limited by the capa-
city of transportation, is it not surprising, when the facts,
as near as they can be come at, are put upon paper, how
people can be led away by their imaginations, or perhaps
by more interested motives ?
"In review of the above estimates and calculations' nide,
as we verily believe, from the best data which can be ob-
tained, and allowing for all reasonable errors of under or
over estimates, and taking into consideration the fact
well known to all engaged in the trade, that the usual
supplies of flour received at New York and the New
England markets from New Orleans and other southern
places during the winter, have all been 'diverted by the
export demand to Europe--leaving: not only the city of
New York, Boston, and other eastern places, but Phila-
delphia, Baltimore, and Richmond, almost entirely bare
of stock—we are led to the irresistible conclusion, that if
as large a quantity of wheat and flour are taken for export
from this port during the next four months as were last
year in the same time, we shall have a serious compe-
tition between the consumers in this country and the
consumers of Europe for the ' staff of life.' "

GUN CorroN.—A further experiment was yesterday
made of the patent gun cotton by the agents Messrs.
Ingram and Clarke. at the tunnel, London-road, in the
presence of the contractors and several scientific gentle-
men, all of whom expressed their decided opinion of its
superiority over gunpowder for blasting purposes. We
give in another column the result of several experiments
made on Friday.

STEALING A LOAF.—A man named James Connor,
was charged before Mr. Rushton, yesterday, with having
stolen a loaf from the shop of a young woman named
Margaret Gerard. He said he was in such want of food
that he was tempted to the act by fear of starvation, and
a consequent desire to be put into gaol. Inquiry was
made as to whether the prisoner was in receipt of any
parochial relief. It being ascertained that he had not
received such assistance he was discharged with an admo-
nition, aro advised to make application to the proper
officers.

THE " PRIDE OF ERIN."—A beautiful new steamer,
bearing this name, arrived here yesterday. She was built
by the celebrated Napier, of Glasgow, and is 478 tons
burthen, with engines of 400-horse power. She is com-
manded by Captain John Williams, late the experienced
master of the Finn M'Coull, and belongs to the Dundalk
Steam Packet Company, to which port she will ply in
conjunction with the Dundalk. Her cabins are most
beautifully and conveniently fitted up, and the sides are
decorated with papier mache panels, containing elegant
views of Irish scenery.

DISGRACEFUL RUMOUR.—Yesterday, some ignorant
and heartless wretch found means to circulate through the
business parts of the town, a report to the effect that the
American packet ship "The World," which sailed several
days ago with a large number of emigrants, for the United
States, had returned to the port, fever having carried off
from 100 to 130 of the passengers and crew. We were
somewhat astonished that so great a mortality should
have occurred on board the fine ship named, after her
leaving the land, and entering th pure atmosphere of the
Atlantic • and are glad to say that there is no truth what-
ever in die rumour.
_ _

THE WEATHER.—After some days of strong and rather
cutting winds from the southward and eastward for several
days last week, the cold on Friday partially gave way, and
some rain fell during the day, and still more at night.
On Saturday the rain continued throughout a great part
of the -day, and the temperature became milder. Rain
also fell thick on Sunday morning, greatly refreshing the
crops and wetting them to the roots. The day was fine,
the thermometer having risen from 49°, on Thursday to
temperate, or 60°. Yesterday was peculiarly fine, the
glass rising to 62' and 63°. The appearance of the whole
face of the country has been greatly improved, by the
downfalls stated; and though the crops generally are
backward for the season, the husbandman and gardener
may yet have all their labours and anxieties fully repaid,
by alternate kindly showers and sunshine. The cuckoo is
heard in various districts, and the more located songsters
of the field and grove are in full note. The progress of
vegetation, so long retarded, is unusually rapid, and the
country presents a beautiful and fresh appearance. A
farther remarked to us that one might almost hear the
things " crack," by force of growth.
ROCK FERRY.—There is no more beautiful spot on the
banks of the Mersey than Rock Ferry; and, considering
its present aspect to that which it presented a few years
ago, the change is certainly wonderful. Where hut re-
cently was nothing but a few meadows, sloping to the sea
shore, now are erected villas, which, fur their beautiful ap-
pearance and variety of design, can scarcely be equalled.
But the most prominent feature in this neighbourhood is
the hotel. Situated on an eminence, and standing out in
bold relief amid the surrounding scenery, it appears just

and ever-

:hanging view

An inspection-of the interior

fully corroborates this assumption. Well-furnished
apartments, with newly-papered walls, and pervading
cleanliness, even to scrupulosity, impart an air of comfort

lie resort

The desire of the

to render his hotel one of the inost attractive in thiS
vicinity, has not been confined to internal embellish-
ments. The accommodations externally are of the high-
est order. The gardens, which at this season have
been thrown open to the public, contain unquestionable

evidence of most perfect taste in selection, arrangement,
and management. The walks arejudiciously laid out, inter-

green contiguous forms no inconsiderable object of attrac:
tion. It is in first-rate condition, and the sward perfectly
1.1

faultless

latrons and

committee is composed of active. and intelligent gentle-
men. We take the following extract from the prospec-
tus—" The Roscoe Club is .especially intended to supply
the social and mental requirements of a numerous and re-
spectable body of young men and tradesmen, who at pre-
sent have no suitable place in which they can profitably
employ their leisure hours.. It will be provided with a
Carefully-selected library ; a news-room well supplied
with the best and most popular newspapers and periodi-
cals ; and a lecture-ball in which dissertations on the va-
rious branches of literature' science, and the fine arts, will
be delivered, and concerts of a high class occasionally
given. Classes will be formed fol. instruction in the lan-
guages and the higher branches of education ; also essay
and discussion societies, which will be assisted andpided
by judicious professional persons. Frequent soirees and
conversazioni are intended to be held, similar to those
which have been attended with so much eclat at the
Royal Institution. These will, no doubt, be an interest-
ing and valuable feature in the club, and prove a: source of
great attraction to. the members. In this department it is
expected that the literary and scientific gentlemen, under
whose auspices the club has originated, will give their va-
luable assistance by occasionally delivering lectures on
subjects they have made their peculiar study. A gymna-
sium will be attached, in order that, while every facility is
afforded for the development of the mental faculties, the
increase and improvement of the physical powers will not
be neglected. Spacious and well-furnished dining and
coffee rooms will bc provided, in which every arrangement
will be made to secure the comfort of the members." The
tams of membership are very reasonable.

honorary mem

THE IMMIGRATION OF IRISH INTO
LIVERPOOL, AND THE EFFECT OF THE

QUARANTINE REGULATIONS

We have referred elsewhere to the steps adopted by
Government to meet the difficulty under which the rate-
payers and the authorities of Liverpool are labouring, in
the effort to maintain the masses of Irish paupers who
have been arriving by every packet, and to prevent the
spread of fever arising from their contact with our own
population. It is gratifying to find that the owners and
agents of the packets, by whom they are brought over,
are co-operating with the authorities, and are willing to
throw their own interests into the shade, and to consult,
first, the more important end of the health and condition
of the people around us. The following handbill, signed
by the agents for the city of Dublin Company, the Bel-
fast, Drogheda, and Newry Packets, has been extensively
circulated in Ireland, to prepare passengers for the rou-
tine-of treatment, to which they will be subjected on their
arrival in this port, and the condition on which they will
be permitted to embark from ports in their own country :

"DECK PASSENGERS.
" ORDERS having been issued in Liverpool, that Steam Vessels
arriving from Irish Ports, and having Deck Passengers on
board, shall be compelled to hoist the Yellow Flag, and pro-
ceed to the Lazaretto ground, to ascertain if one or more Deck
Passengers on board be in a state of Fever, and that the same
shall be removed to the Lazarettoes ; and farther, if any
Steamer be found on a SECOND voyage to have any person on
board in a state of fever, such vessel shall be placed under
quarantine,

" And as such orders are incompatible with the necessary dis-
charge of Cargoes and Live Stock, and the disembarking of
Cabin Passengers, and also of persons intending to emigrate
from Liverpool,

" NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN,
"That no Deck Passengers can be allowed on board, or be
taken to Liverpool in any vessel belonging to the City of Dub-
lin Company ; the Drogheda Company ; th Dundalk Company ;
and the Newry Companies, unless examined by some Medical
Officer, that may be appointed for that service, at the respective
Ports, as to their freedom from fever; and, also, that no desti-
tute persons, who may not be able to support themselves by
their own labour, will be allowed to embark between the above
Ports and Liverpool.
"ON AND AFTER THE I2TH INSTANT, THE DECK FARE

WILL BE ss. EACH WAY.”

Yesterday a deputation, composed of parties interested
in the Irish steam-boat navigation, had an interview with
his worship the Mayor, at which it was suggested that
Government should appoint medical officers at each port
in Ireland, by whom parties applying for passages might
be examined, and certificates of health given. It was
urged by them that the regulations laid down were a little
over-stringent. Fever, they suggested, might break out
on board from natural causes ; and it was hard that the
proprietors or charterers of steam boats should be mulcted
for what they could have no control over. Death might
also occur on board from natural causes ; and it was
thought by the deputation that the captain's certificate
of the health of his cargo of passengers ought to be suffi-
cient to warrant a landing, without the detention of sur-
vey by the medical officers. The lazarettoes, too, it was
urged, might be moored off the Magazines instead of
in the Sloyne, by which a tide might be saved for the
steamers. Of course, all these suggestions, upon which
we express no opinion, will receive his worship's consi-
deration. It is not a time just now to be precise or ex-
acting ; and the respectable companies and agents, who
conduct the packet trade between this port and Ireland
will, we doubt not, act with every consideration for the
life and health of their fellow townsmen, whilst they ex-
tend every aid and full facilities for the transport of their
unfortunate countrymen in the sister isle. The following
letter was yesterday addressed by the Mayor to Mr.
Rounthwaite

Town-hall, 10th May 1847.
DEAR SIRS I thought I should have seen you and the other
steam-vessel agents at four o'clock, and that I might have
verbally communicated to you that the Lazaretto is ready for
the reception of such fever patients as may possibly be found
on board your vessels, that three medical officers have been
appointed, and that it is intended they should commence their
duties to-morrow. It is not proposed that the steamers should
go in the first instance to the quarantine ground, and every
desire will be manifested to cause you no unnecessary obstruc-
tion ; and I hope that you, on your parts, will offer the needful
facilities to the authorities, that you will instruct the com-
manders of the vessels to hoist the yellow flag, and keep it
flying until visited, and remind them of the prohibition which
forbids their entrance into the docks until the medical officer
has discharged his duty.—Dear sir, truly yours,
J. K. Rounthwaite, Esq. G. H. LAWRENCE.

The select vestry have engaged a steam-boat for the
purpose of boarding the Irish steamers on their arrival at
the mouth of the river, and placing on board three medi-
cal officers to examine whether the passengers are free
from fever, and if so the Irish vessels will have no need
to pass on to the Sloyne. The medical officers would be
called on to perform this duty last night for the first time.
We understand that the period fixed on for any vessel
bringing passengers infected with fever, a second time, to
remain in quarantine is fifteen days.

REDUCTION IN THE LIVERPOOL DOCK DUES.

An important motion was announced at the last meeting of
the Dock Committee by the chairman, Mr. Bramley Moore :
and will be laid before tNat body in detail at its next meeting.
At present, the dock chairman has not entered fully into the
details of his plan. Sufficient, however, has transpired to
enable.us to lay before our readers a statement which may be
relied upon as correct. Last year we had a surplus of dock
revenue, amounting to at least XlOO,OOO. In the ten months
of the dock ycar now expired, upwards of :'-'28,000 increase
upon last year has accrued to the estate. What is to be clone
with this surplus? Mr. Bramley Moore, we believe, is pre-
pared to submit a proposal to the Dock Committee? that a por-
tion of this surplus shall be dealt with by abolishing the dues
upon the staple import of the port—cotton. This is to be done
as a matter of just consideration towards the most important
of our imports. At pfesent, the dues upon this article produce
upwards of .e37,k10 per annum; and the surrender of this
amount of revenue ought to be regarded by the manufacturing
interest and the public generally as a judicious and generous
measure. Several other remissions will accompany this
abolition.

FREE TRADE AND THE MONETARY CRISIS

We give, elsewhere, some letters, forwarded us for publica-
tion by a respectable and able correspondent, Mr. Isaac Bu-
chanan, with respect to one of which, however, we feel bonnd
to state, that we cannot enter into the views of the writer or of
the Protectionist party, if Mr. Buchanan is a correct exponent
of their views. We refer to the letter headed "New British
Colonial System." Our confidence in his integrity of intention
and principle? hisloyalty, and a knowledge of the extensive in-
formation which he possesses in matters connexctedwith our Co-
lonies, has mainly induced us to admit into our columns senti-
ments so averse to our own. Admirers as we are of the Church of
England, we cannot help feeline,,, that if a party possessed of un-
doubtedly British hearts, like Mr. Buchanan 's . can be organized
in our colonies, although enemies of an establishment, we shall
have in them much better stuff to contend against than the
popery and infidelity which at present assail us. Such a party
we might accuse of wrong beadedness ; but we could not accuse
them of venality, or of treacherously betraying a church,
against which they object, as some of that church's professing
supporters have done in time past.

BREADSTUFFS FROM AMERICA.—From the Ist Sep-
tember last to the 10th ult., there were exported from the
United States to Great Britain and Ireland 1,420,557 bar-
rels of flour, 325,127 barrels of corn meal, 1,400,942
bushels of wheat, and 8,508,176 bushels of corn. The
total export from the States was 2,200,412 barrels of
flour, 1,916,367 bushels of wheat, and 9,084,161 bushels
corn.

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ALLEGED THEFT OF INDIAN CORN.—Yesterday, at
the Police-court, a man named Thomas Shaw, driver of a
float owned by one Coyle, was charged on suspicion with
having stolen a bag of Indian corn, one of 100 bags dis-
charged at the Clarence Dock, for Stewart and others.
They were loaded. into Coyle's cart, with instructions to
he taken to a warehouse in Vaudries-street. The cart,

on being unloaded, was found to have brought only. 99
bags. It appeared that the cart• which the prisoner drove
was, on this occasion, driven from the ship Lehigh, in
Clarence Dock, to the warehouse, by a carter named
Burns. Mr. Superintendent Anders, happened while in
Waterloo-rood to see a bag on the pavement, behind a
cart, and found it to be marked " G," the same as the
rest of the consignment. As it was expected that further
evidence would be adduced, the prisoner was remanded.
The Duke of Wellington gave an entertainment on Fri-
day last at Apsley-houso, to Major-General Sir Harry
Smith, G.C.8., and Lady Smith.
FRIENDLY SOCIETIES—PARNELL V. SMITH.—This waS
a case which came before the Queen's Bench on Saturday,
)er and trustee of a friendly

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hers, who had agreed to dissolve the society and divide the
funds, and had divided them accordingly. Lord Denman
said the court held that no trustee of this sort has power
to decide a question relating to •the conduct of the society
against all the members thereof. The judgment of the
court, therefore, was that Mr. Parnell could not maintain

ilVoisT4 TNen V. SHAne,—ln the Common Pleas, on§a-
turday, judgment was given_in this cage, whioh was
plication for a new tria

he action was brought by the
nt, as one of the committee of
-
management of a railway company, called " The Direct
London and Exeter Railway,' for the return of his de
posit on GO shares in that company. The particulars o
the case were given at t'

of the cause,
The court re-

when a verdict, was given for. the plaintiff

fused to grant the rile for a new trial, stating that there
was no ground for either a uonsuit or a verdict for the de-
fendant. This decision establishes the liability of the
committee of management for the deposits paid by share-
holders, nndcr circumstances similar to those of this now
notorious case.

THE FUNDSAC., SATURDAY NIGIIT.---There was more
steadiness in Public Securities to-day than has occurred
for a considerable time, and a more limited amount of
business.' Consols opened at about full 1 per cent. de-
cline on the close of yesterday, and for money they were
done from 86 to /, and for the account, from 87 to 80.
The quotations at the close. were ty. for money, and
q
86it for the account. Reduced Three per Cents, were
done from 851. to 1; the Three-and-a-Quarter per Cents.,
871 to a 4; Exchequer Bills, 1 to 5 pm. ;. and Bank Stock,
189. There were no decided operations, the parties
hitherto contending for the rise and the fall having for
the time being, by mutual consent, retrained from active
hostilities. The transactions in Foreign Securities were
more numerous than usual, but the amounts were incon-
siderable. Somepurchasesweremade in Mexican Bonds, on
the faith of peace followingthe capture ofVera Cruz it being
believed that the course of events is precisely in the direction
of theprevious understanding between Mr. Polk and Santa
Anna. The Mexican Bonds were done at 201; Brazil
New, 821; Gillian, Deferred, 511; Portuguese Four per,
Cents:, 35; the Five per Cents., 821; Spanish Five per
Cents., 224; the Three per Cents., 33-ft; Passive 4i-•
Venezuela; 38.1; Belgian Four-and-a-Half per ants.;
1.
91; and Dutch Two-and-a-Half per Cents., 57 Railway
Shares were flat, with a reduced amount of business.
The shares of some of the old lines have not altered much
for several days, but in other cases the prices are giving
way piecemeal, and do not recover. The shares of the
North Western have, in this respect, been most conspicu-
oua during the week.