The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1846-10-27 00:00:00

PITT-STREET WARD

A portion of the burgesses in this ward who profess to
hold liberal principles, met last night in the Vine Tavern,
Pitt-street, for the purpose of promoting the return of
Mr. George Holt. Mr. Holt has abstained hitherto from
issuing an address, conceiving Op the first approaches
should emanate from the represented, instead of from tho
would-be representative; and therefore he appears in the
character of a candidate only under the protection of Mr.
Jas. Mulleneux, and not upon his own account.
The meeting was very fairly attended, and the " sweet
voices" of those present were, as might be expected,
unanimous for " Holt and liberal principles."
The chair was filled by Mr. J. MULLENEUX, who said
the object of the meeting was to enable the liberal elec-
tors to be properly represented in the Council. On no
former occasion was the choice of the electors of so much
importance, for the business to come before the Council
in the next year, including as it did the sanatory im-
provement of the town and a constant supply of water,
would he most important and responsible. Mr. Holt
was the very best man who could be selected to assist
in performing this business ; but his opponent, from the
peculiarity of his mind, from his bigotted and warm
views, which had always brought him into opposition
to the improvement and the welfare of the great mass of
the order to which he himself belonged, was decidedly
unfit to fill the office to which he again aspired.
Mr. Wm. R ‘THEONE i❑ moving the first resolution
remarked that this ward had been the cradle of his first
introduction to the Town Council, and that they had
turned him out and selected another, but he did not
really think a better, man. At all events he had no hesi-
tation in saying he considered himself a better man than
Mr. Toulmin. He moved "That the known political in-
tegrity and moral worth of Mr. George Holt eminently
qualified that gentleman for a seat in the Town Conncil,
and that the meeting returned their cordial thanks to him
for having come forward asa candidate at the ensuing elec.
ion." Mr. Rathbone made some strong observations in
relation to the retiring member for the ward, and said
that the Town Council, as now composed, was a disgrace
to the constituency. He called upon the burgesses to
redeem their unenviable character by positively forcing
such men as Mr. George Holt into it. Mr. Holt was a
m an who "did good by stealth, and blushed to find its
fame," in reference to which he referred to his efforts in
support of education, by promoting the female school in
the Mechanics' Institution, and many other objects.
The Sanatory Bill would be a very burdensome and se.-
vere bill for the burgesses unless proper men were sent
into the Council who would properly carry ;it out ; and
one of such men was Mr. George Holt.
Mr. C A MVIMIL seconded the motion; and it was car-
ried with one dissentient.

Mr. JOHN SMITH, in a speech of much length, moved
a resolution, to the effect that the meeting pledged itself
to use all legal means to secure Mr. Holt's return at the
ensuing election. What, he asked, had Mr. Toulmin
done? The fact was, his oratory, his abilities, and his
industry, were absolutely unknown ; and if he (Mr.
Smith) were to attempt to describe his efforts in a public
capacity, the very attempt would make him speechless.
He was dying, really, to know what Mr. Toulmin had
done. Many high deeds might be stated of what Mr.
Holt had done. Among them, he had paid £6,000 for
the female school of the Mechanics' Institution, and re-let
it at a pepper-corn-rent. He was remarkable for what he
alas not. He was not the agent of small property, which
be could conveniently• manage to let run into a quarter's
arrears of rent ; he could not consent to advance a few
pounds at the proper time, to pay the taxes. The fact
was, that a comparison berween two such men as Mr.
George Holt and Mr. Toulmin could not be sustained.
Mr. M'CLELLAN seconded the resolution. The regis-
ter, he said, was in such a state that if the burgesses were
really of opinion that Mt. Toulmin had not properly re-
presented the ward, there could be no doubt of Mr. Holt's
return. . .

The resolution was unanimously carried.
Mr. J EFFREYS, in moving the next resolution, said,
that many Conservatives had recently come round from
supporting Mr. Toulmin, because he had not attended to
the business of the ward. There was, he added, not the
slightest reason to doubt the success of Mr. Holt at the
forthcoming contest. The resolution was to the effect
that a committee be appointed to conduct Mr. H alt's
election.
Mr. JONES seconded the motion, and it was unani-
mously adopted.
This being the whole of the business, the meeting
separated, after giving three cheers for Mr. Holt.

ALLEGED " FIX" OF THE DOCK COMMITTEE.
A Contemporary of Saturday states that " the talk is
that the Dock Committee are in a' fix' ;" that they have
" advertised for contracts from Insurance Companies on
goods and buildings at the Albert Dock, but that no pro-
posal has been made, and for the sufficient reason that the
insurance offices in town and country have resolved to
submit no tender." We are enabled to state that beyond
the fact of the Committee having advertized for tenders,
there is not a word of truth in this talk. The time for send-
ing in contracts does not expire until Tuesday next, when
it will be seen wh,...t tenders are sent in and to what extent,
or whether at all any combination amongst the Insurance
offices exists. It is however a fact that the Committee
have offers already from other quarters quite sufficient to
render them perfectly independent of all the combination
spoken of, if the Insurance offices should be absurd
enough to make such an attempt.

It has we believe been demanded by some of the offices
—preliminary no doubt to sending in their Tenders—that
Iron Shutters should be affixed to all the Windows; and
a specimen is now being prepared by the Committee to
be submitted for approval. Double doors to the com-
munications with• the Warehouses have also been sug-
gested ; and are about to be adopted by the Committee.
The Hoists inside have been required to be closed over
by folding doors on .each floor ; and this too is conceded.
In fact every effort is making to meet the views of the
Companies, and to enable the Committee to insure at the
lowest possible rate. It would really be well if our Con-
temporary would ask himself whether it can advance any
good purpose, beyond providing matter for his columns
in these dull uneventful times, to dignify by notice every
absurd piece of gossip which is sported in the town, or
conveyed by some credulous specimen of humanity to his
Editorial sanctum.

On Sunday, after a sermon by the Rev. C. A. Graham,
the sum of £l5 was collected in St. James's church, for
the sufferers by the late fire in Newfoundland, in com-
pliance with the Queen's letter. Collections were also
made in several other churches in the town for the same
benevolent object.
VAUXHALL WARD.—On Friday night, a numerous and
highly respectable meeting of the burgesses of this ward
was held at Mr. Hayes' Vulcan Vaults, Vauxhall-road.
The candidate for the representation of the ward in the
Council—J. G. Morris, Esq.—met with a most enthusi-
astic reception from the whole of the gentlemen present,
among whom were J. Holme, Esq., J. Radley, Esq.,
J. Cooper, Esq.. and T. 'Wilson, Esq.
The Rev. J. Jones, minister of St. Andrew's Church,
has announced to his congregation his intention to com-
mence a Wednesday morning service at half-past eleven
o'clock, consisting of the Litany, (the ancient noonday
service of the Church) and a short exposition of Scrip-
ture. It will prove a boon, we trust, to many, both of
his own and of other congregations, who are prevented,
by delicate health and other circumstances, from attend-
ing an evening service. _

SMUGGLING.-At the Police-court, yesterday, a sailor,
named Thomas Lamasnera, was brought before the sitting
magistrate, Mr. Booth, charged with landing or removing
from the steamer Victoria, two pounds and a half of
foreign manufactured tobacco without a permit; and the
case being proved, he was fined (under the act) £25, or,
in default, to be imprisoned for three months.—Another
seaman, charged with smuggling six pounds of tobacco
from the ship Oriental, in the Brunswick Dock, and
which had only just arrived, was fined 205., or to be im-
prisoned for ten days. had the tobacco exceeded the
weight stated by a quarter of an ounce, the fine would
have been £lOO.

THE WILTSHIRE CHAMPION COTJRSING.MEETING

This important meeting closed on Saturday last, after five
days' sport. The Elstone Stake, for bitches pupped in
1845, £BO, was won by Lord Eglinton's Frolic; Mr. F.
Parkinson's Position ran up. The Beacon Hill Stake,
for dogs, £BO, was divided between Mr. Miller's Young
Cecrops and Mr. F. Parkinson's Pro Tern. The Fver-
leigh Stake, for bitches, £BO, was won by Mr. Miller's
Mischief ; Mr. Jenner's Lily ran up. The Great Western
Cup, for puppies of 1845, £320, was won by Lord Eglin-
ton's d. Auchenleck ; Mr. Jones's b. Juverna ran up.
The Druid Cup, for all ages, £320, was won by Mr. Mil-
ler's b. Magic; Lord Eglinton's b. Bessy Bell ran up.
The Stonehenge Stake, for dogs pupped in 18-15, £BO,
was won by Mr. W. Etwall's Windfall; Mr. A. Graham's
Knight Marshal ran up._

BOAT RACE ON THE CHESTER. WATERS.—On Thurs-
day last, notwithstanding the inclemency of the weather,
a most interesting match was rowed between two crack
crews, one belonging to the Dee and the other to the
Thames, for £lOO a side, from the Heron Bridge to Aik-
man's Garden, a distance of nearly three miles. For
about half-a-mile it was neck and neck, but the Cestrians
not finding the speed quite fast enough, applied more
steam, and came in victorious by twenty boat-lengths.
The plucky Londoners supposing that a change in their
position in the boat would give them an advantage a
second challenge was given for a similar amount and dis-
tance, which was immediately accepted by the Chester
men to come off on the following day, when some of the
four to one on the Chester men.
most splendid rowing that was ever exhibited was wit-
nessed by some hundreds of lovers of the sport. The
Chester men, Messrs. Bolton Littledale and William
Dixon again proved themselves victorious over the
EARLY CLOSING CLOSING OF SHOPS.—We have all along ad-
vocated the early closing of shops, for various reasons,
dthorneec,r andew Messrs. Mawdsley and Perry. Betting, two,
but especially with a view to afford the assistants that re-
laxation after the labours of the day which their generally
youthful years require for health, and that time for men-
tal improvement which is not otherwise within their reach.
We feel, moreover, convinced that if early closing could
be effected throughout the town, the masters would be
gainers, rather than losers, in the diminished consumption
of gas; and when the practice became general, purchasers
would supply all their necessities within the prescribed
hours with equal advantage to themselves. We therefore
direct attention to an announcement of a public meeting
on the subject this evening, at the Concert-hall, Lord
Nelson-street, for the purpose of furthering the closing of
shops at seven o'clock, an hour sufficiently late for all bu-
siness purposes, particularly when it is considered that
our mercantile establishments and public offices are now
closed long before. A number of influential gentlemen,
of all parties, whose names are given, will address the
meeting, and we doubt not but they will adduce irrefra-
gable arguments in behalf of the desired change which
would, we think, without injury to any class, tend much
to the improvement and elevation in society of a large and
useful portion of the community—the tradorpme as-
sista%

Oct. 27, TRW.

LATEST INTELLIGENCE.
(BY EXPRESS.)

MEETING OF PARLIAMENT.
The rumour of a meeting of Parliament next month is
confidently revived in the very be: informed circles.
Lord J. Russell and the Chancellor are said to be bent
upon this object, and determined to resign if the other
members of the Cabinet will not conform to their opinion.
The question will, however, be finally settled on Wed-
nesday, if not before.

It is said, that at the next Council it will be proposed
to open the ports, suspending the duty of 4s.—Slandard,
of last night.

LONDON CORN EXCHANGE.--TEsTERDAv

At this day's market, there was a fair supply of English
Wheat. No further advance conld be realised, but it met a
steady demand at the currency of this day week. k good con-
sumptive and country demand exists for free foreign at late
rates.

The show of Barley was moreliberal. Fine selected Cheva-
lieris 2s to 3s, and other sorts Is to 2s dearer.

Malt scarce; and brought a similar improvement. No Indian
Corn here, and floating cargoes in great request, as well as a
large business done for future shipment.

Peas are 2s, and Beans Is dearer

Since last Market day, we have had a good supply of Oats
from Ireland; but the supplies coastrays and foreign are only
limited. Owing to the excited advices from Ireland, factors
firmly demanded an advance of is to 2s per qr. This paralysed
the trade, and little business resulted.
SMITHFIELD CATTLE MARKET.—YESTERDAY.

With home-fed beasts we were moderately well, but not to.
say heavily supplied. On the whole the beef trade was steady
at prices about equal to those obtained on Monday last, and at
which a good clearance was effected.
From the northern districts we received 7800 short-horns,
from the western and midland counties 700 Herefords, runts,.
Devons, &c., and from other distant parts of England 800 of
various breeds.

The numbers of sheep were by no means large; yet the mut-
ton trade was in a sluggish state at barely, butt at nothing
quotable beneath, last week's prices.
In calves only a moderate business was doing at late rates.
Pigs ruled dull, at our quotations.

The ball at Warrington, for the Dispensary, has been
postponed to the 2nd of December.
An excellent Berlin repository, for the sale of Con-
tinental articles, is about to beopened at Bold-street.
The Court returned from Hatfield House to Windsor
Castle on Saturday.
A number of melancholy casualties will be found in our
shipping news.
On Saturday, whilst Mr. Newdegate; M.P. was hunt-
ing at Ansley, near Birmingham, his horse, in leaping a.
brook fell, and when on the ground kicked out, and struck
Mr. N. on the jaw and fractured it.

FIRE IN SCOTLAND ROAD—Yesterday evening a fire
broke out in the premises occupied by Mr. Roberts, joiner,
and which are situated in the middle of a new stack of
buildings, on the east side of the street, a little beyond
the Scotch church. The damage done was trifling.
FAREWELL SERMONS;--The Rev. W. R. Hunt
preached an affecting farewell sermon, at St. Saviour's
Church, on Sunday morning. The Rev. Mr. Warre has
been appointed incumbent of the church. On Sunday,
the Rey. Mr. Townsend preached his farewell sermon, at
St. Philip's Church.

Cape of Good Hope papers to the 3rd of September
have• been received. The skirmishes with the Kaffire
have been continued, and were of much the usual cha-
racter. The colonial troop 3 succeeded in driving the
enemy before them, killing several, wounding many, and
capturing 400 or 500 head of cattle, sustaining little or no
loss themselves.

The last accounts from Alenandria, of the 9th inst.,
mention that the Nile had risen 24. feet, and considerably
injured the growing crops. In the province of Lagachie
upwards of sixty villages were under water. The Ariel
steamer, of the Peninsular and Oriental Company, ar-
rived at Alexandria on the 9th, having effected the pas-
sage from England in 12 days.

PHILMARcIONIC CONCERT.—The fifth undress con-
cert of the Philharmonic Society, for the yresent season,
took place yesterday evening. The attendance was unu-
sually numerous and respectable, and the music, which
was a miscellaneous selection, chiefly instrumental, was
admirable, and went off with great eclat. We are sorry
our space precludes us, at the late hour we write, a de-
tailed notice. Mozart's "Jupiter" mnphony was admi-
rably managed throughout.

MUSICAL ENTERTAINMENTS.—Mr: Dempster, the
eminent American vocalist and composer, has announced
his intention of appearing at the Concert Hall next week.
He is the author of the pathetic ballad; the " Lament of
the Irish emigrant," so feelingly sung by the Hutchinson
Family. The New York papers speak in the most rap-
turous terms of Mr. Dempster's powers.
AMMERICAN BEEF.—We have tasted some of the
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.merican beef offered by Mr.C. A. Tate for sale: Though
tot equal to prime English beef, it is nevertheless of ex-
cellent quality—tender and tasty. We are confidently
assured that there is no worse quality in any of the tierces
than that which we tasted. Mr. Tate has imported 300
tons, and is selling it largely in all parts-of the country,
especially in the manufacturing districts. Several gen-
tlemen—professional and otherwise—have given testi-
mony to the good quality of the beef.
IMpoRTANT CASE.—On Saturday a young woman
named Catherine Comerford, who was in •so weakly a
state as to be almost incapable of supporting herself in the
was
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servant at a house of ill fame in Hart-street,
Thursday night she complained of a dreadful pain in the
stomach and retired early to bed, and on the following
morning the dead body of a child lying with. its face down-
wards•was discovered under the bed clothes. The surgeon
could not say whether the child had been born alive orpot.
The prisoner said she went to the workhouse on the
Wednesday before she went to Hart-street, but that she
was turned out next morning by the doctor who said she
was too far off her confinement, and that she would only
be an incumbrance if kept until she was delivered.
Police-officer 165 said :—When I went up to the Work-
house for the prisoner this morning, for the purpose of
bringing her down to the court, there came on a very
heavy shower of rain, and as the day was so bad, and the
poor woman very weak, I asked the governor for a cab to
put her in. His reply was, that they did not keep horses
at the Workhouse for such purposes ; that she was, be be-
lieved, a bad woman ; and that, if she committed murder
she ought to be executed for it. He came out with a great
deal of that sort of language, Mr. Rushton : Let her be
removed in a car, and on Monday let the governor and
also•the surgeon of the Workhouse be in attendance here.
The case was not brought forward again yesterday, in con-
sequence of the prisoner being too ill to be brought to the
court, and also from the absence of Mr. Rushton, who well
indisposed.
Mr. Stewart, a barrister in Lincoln's Inn, has written
a letter to the members of agricultural societies, calling
on them, "now that we are to have free trade in the
produce of land, to direct their efforts also to have free
trade in the land itself." He says—" You all know that
the buying and selling of land is at present anything but
free ; you all know the expense and delay which now
embarrass all dealings in land. Is it not worth your
while to consider whether these must be submitted to 80
inevitable evils ; or whether, by taking the proper means,
you cannot materially lessen them?" He also iostances
the trifling expense and simple character of a transfer of
land in other countries compared with the enormous
cost and intricate proceedings necessary for the same
purpose in Great Britain.

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SHIPPING INTELLIGENCE

MONDAY, 26th OCTOBBR.—Wind S. light.
A RRlVED.—Acadia, Younger, from St. Petersburg, and Helen/
Anderson, from Dram.

SAILED —Accevita, Sophranich, and Richard, Currie. Trieste'
—Volant, M'Murchy, St. Andrew, N.B.—Lunatia, Leghorn--
Rival, Shipley, and Arethusa, Morris, Halifax—Paolina, Triege
—Hope, Hanson, Rotterdam—John and Elizabeth,—, mold?.

Braily, Lisbon—Jamaica, Baillie, Havana—Albert,
Larkin, St. John, N.B.—Anna Elizabeth, Rotterdam—Tory,
Sharp, Mobile—Excelsour. Williams, New Orleans—Amalie,
Moller, Memel—Patriot King, Ponsonby, Hong Kong—Asia,
Chnmbers, Newfoundland—Eliser, Belling, Riga—Lady Sbagt
Stewart, Roper, Payti—Asia, Hannah, Mobile—Jenny Rine*
Wakeham, Coustantinople—Mandane, Hutchinson, ChariestOn
—Mountaineer, Boguit, and Jane Anderson, M'Kellar, S a Lar.
nah—Britannia, St. John, N.B.—Lady Constable, Poole, 1"
Orleans—Cynosure, Yabsiey. Messina—Watchword, Downing*
Constantinople— Stafetto, Gheut—Palmyra, Waldao'
Ghent—Joseph Bushby, Sparks, Bombay.

TERWYN, (MONMOUTH Sll I RE,) Oct. 23.—The Elizabeth, 11C
kle, from Liverpool for Jamaica, was wrecked to-day on thin
coast. One man drowned ; cargo expected to pe saved. ,
A BERYSTWITR, 23rd Oct.—The Three Sisters, Davies, Ire"'
Pentrewan for Liverpool, in running for this harbour, grounded
outside, and was hove off into the Channel, and there fi11ed....1
CARDIFF', 24th October.—The Royal Saxon, from Liverpool
for New Orleans,,has put into Penarth Roads, with topgallant
masts cut away to weather Hartland Point. There are
ip is rted
reP°
15J sail of vessels lying in these roads.— A large sh
to have gone down at her anchors off the MuMbleS 1814 or less
Llverp for
Bone, 23rd October.—About 6J tons of goods,
more
damaged, have been saved from the Eliza, from night.
Valparaiso, on shore at Undercliff. 23rd
The Damascus, Bliss, hence for Boston, was at anchor .
instant to the northward of Boscastle, (Cornwall,) In 13 fathoms
water, with masts cut away, and one man lost overboard.
Messenger, Garrick, hence for New Orleans, was driven on
shore in Cardigan Bay 24th instant. Crew saved
Olinda, Thompson, hence for New 0
with water casks stove