The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1848-01-04 00:00:00

I fully concur with him that a few stray letters in the
newspapers are not sufficient to express the just indigna-
tion of a whole people, but I want to remind him and
others. who seem to be influenced by the same feelings,
that so long as sectarian animosity has the ascendancy
amongst us, we can do nothing, Instead of uniting to
combat the common foe, we are troubling ourselves with
unnecessary disputations altogether foreign to the subject,
which equally concerns all Welshmen. Let all party
feeling, be put away, and let all Welshmen of whatsoever
sect they be, combine to make a tangible, an effectual
remonstrance against this stain which has been cast upon
them ; a remonstrance that will be felt through the
length and breadth of the land ; a remonstrance that
shall not be quelled till the report of the commissioners
upon education in Wales be publicly acknowledged incor-
rect. Let some of our influential Welsh townsmen come
forward, and they shall soon have plenty of supporters.
Only the first movement is wanted.
I shall occupy your space no longer, but with all earnest-
ness urge the adoption of some plans to this end, and
hoping they will not fail of success, I am, yours, &c.
A WELSH CHURCHMAN.
COLLEGIATE INSTITUTION CONCERTS.

TO THE EDITOR OF THE LIVERPOOL STANDARD.
Sin,—The directors of the Collegiate Institution have
taken courage to give a course of thirty concerts, for the
laudable object of providing a fund wherewith to purchase
an organ for the lecture-room of that institution. The
sixth concert of the course was given last Saturday
evening.
The selection consisted of Ist, Overture, on the organ,
Auber ; 2nd, Quintet, " Oh rapture unbounded," Auber ;
3rd, Scena, " Fancy's sketch," Braham ; 4th, Duet, "A
Maying let us go," Macfarren ; sth, Song, " Light of
heart," Linley ; 6th, Ballad, " Scenes that are brightest,"
Wallace; 7th, Buffo song, from Cinperella, "Ye tor-
mentors," Rossini ; Bth, Rondo, piano-forte, Thalberg .
9th, Rondo, "Non fu sogno," Verdi; 10th, Quintet,
"`When winds breathe soft," Webbe ; 11th, Buffo duet,
from Cinderella, " Sir, a secret," Rossini ; 12th, Song,
" Bay of Biscay," Dibdiu ; 13th, Trio, from the 'Secret
Marriage, "My Lady the Countess," Cimarosa ; 14th,
Song, " Ciascun lo dice," Donizetti; 15th, Ballad, "The
Maypole," ancient English song ; and 16th, Buffo song,
" Robinson Crusoe," Roe.
The vocalists were Misses Thornton, Parsons, and M. B.
Marsh, and Messrs. Rafter, George Buckland, and Henry
Buckland. The solo player, conductor, and accompanyist
Mr. E. F. Smith.
The quintets, Nos. 2 and 10, were taken by nll the
vocalists, except Miss M. B. Marsh. The quintet, No. 2,
was well performed, but that at No. 10 was not so, except
by the ladies. The copies sung from by the gentlemen
were novel in shape, and, perhaps, questionably correct.
Mr. Rafter sang in good glee style ; but the other gentle-
men might have been better at home, if " When winds
breathe soft " had been something approaching the buffo
style. Besides, the singers in this glee ought not to at-
tempt such a performance without the accompaniment,
unless the contralto and basso were possessed of voices
which might render the remarkable declinations of the
key note an affair of little consequence. The comic trio,
No. 13, was given deliciously by Misses M. B. Marsh,
Thornton, and Parsons. The duet, No. 4, by Misses
Thornton and Parsons, was much and deservedly ap-
plauded. The Messrs. Buckland were completely suc-
sessful in their comic duet, No. 11. Mr. Rafter was
successful, too. in the " Picture song," No. 3, and in the
" Bay of Biscay," No. 12. This gentleman has a warm-
toned and an extensive voice, and his enunciation was as
clear as can be desired. The songs, No. 5 and 14, were
sung by Miss Parsons, and her meed of praise, evinced
by a hearty and repeated applause, left no room to doubt
the excellency of her singing. Miss Thornton sang the
songs No. 6 and 14. The former was as finely sung as it
is finely contrived, and the latter was as archly interpreted
as if the singer had been present at an ancient game
for kisses. Mr. George Buckland has been considered,
by a contemporary, as an imitator of John Parry ; and he
is so, too, successfully, in the peculiarity of his singing
and piano-forte playing. It is true that a good copy 13
better than an indifferent original. In this way he suc-
ceeded eminently in his buffo songs, Nos. 7 and 16, and
nobody thought him an ass, although he insisted upon it
in his song No. 7. The execution of Verdi's Rondo,
" Non fu sogno," was entrusted to our young fellow-
townswoman, Miss M. B. Marsh, who performed her
task so well as to elicit one of several encores. It is e
song with difficulties, which Miss M. altogether sur-
mounted, and she had the power to do so more easily if
the piano-forte had not been considerably above concert
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J. M. X

STATE OF MANUFACTURES.

We extract the following remarks from the monthly
circular of Messrs. M`Nair, Greenhow, and Irving, of
Manchester, published on Friday :
" An eventful year is rapidly drawins to a close, to be
succeeded, we sincerely trust, by one of a more happy and
prosperous character for all. A reference to, or recapitu-
lation of the causes which rendered It so productive of in-
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jury and ruin to many, and to compel it Co be regarded as
one of the most memorably calamitous commercial years
on record, appears to us to be so unnecessary, as they
are now so generally well understood and admitted.
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contrary,
improvement perceptible at the date of our last circulars
materially strengthened;-and to heveareacqhuilirpepdy
abatementrs tou isn
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justifying reasonable hopes for a slow but progressive ti
ad-
vance to maturity.
" Prices of both goods and yarns, which are lower thart
than they were a a month ago, have again been necessarily
very irregular, and regulated in most instances by thepo-
sition of the seller, and the extent of the operations sub.
mitted to him. Stocks may be considered much about
the same as they were at the end of November. Our
quotations represent the market value of each article AS
nearly as it can be given.

" Production is on the increase, and with it conse-
quently increased employment for the operatives. There
are still, we lament to say, vast numbers totally or parti-
ally unemployed, a matter much to be regretted, at this
season of the year particularly.
" More failures have unfor uu ately taken place, none of
them happily to any great extent, but forming collectively
considerable liabilities. '`hough the monetary panic may
be considered to be at as end, there is, we fear, consider-
able suffering to be experienced amongst the smaller class
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s, whom the consequences of the crisis have only
recently reached. The demand for goods during the
month has been but recently assisted by purchases for the
country trade ; a matter which may be readily accounted
for, by that to which we have just alluded, the abtence of

employment in the manufacturing districts, and the with-
drawal of large sums hitherto in circulation for the pay-
ment of wages, &c., connected with railway and other
undertakings.
" Such then briefly is the state of this market at the
close of another year. We are not amongst those who
anticipate a speedy improvement with the new year. The

embarrassment consequent upon the disastrous 'events of
the last few months must necessarily render it slow but
progressive. Indeed, until the East India and Chine
trade shall have become again healthful, and the means
necessary for the prosecution of legitimate operations with
" •

those important markets are available, no ieally general
and decided change fur the better in this district need be
anticipated.

I AN EXAMPLE OF WHIG IRISH LANDLORDISM.

The reckless mode in which emigration from Ireland to
Great Britain and her colonies has been promoted by
landlords and boards of guardians, is tolerably well ap-
preciated in this locality; but unless we had been ac-
quainted with the respectability of the journal in which
the facts are made known to us (the Toronto Herald),
we should scarcely have been inclined to believe that 4
statement like the following could have had any other
foundation than a maniac's dream or an Irish agitator's
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contemporary's columns ; and most sincerely trust that
they are susceptible of being incorrect, or at the least ex-
aggerated. The case referred to is a cargo of passengers
in the ship Richard Watson, which sailed from Sligo with
169 passengers, and which arrived at Quebec in the be-
ginning of November. Our contemporary says, taking
his facts from the Quebec Mercury of November 11th :
" We must premise our sad narrative by stating that
these poor creatures were tenants of Lord Palmerston, and
sent out by his agent, Mr, Smith. The tenants already
sent out this year from this nobleman's estate had almost
become a bye-word for wretchedness. Of these passengers
about one-fourth were males, the remainder women and
children ; and we have been assured by a gentleman who
saw them when they arrived in port, that a more destitute
and helpless set have not come out this year. They were
penniless and in rags, without shoes or stockings, and
lying upon the bare boards, not having even straw! hen
the health officer visited them he saw, among other visible
instances of destitution, three poor children—infants, we
might say, from their age--sitting on the bare deck, per-
fectly naked, huddled together shivering ; the only cover-
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old. One poor girl (who was sent to the Marine Hospital
where seven from the vessel were sent) was so naked she
had to be supplied with a garment made from a biscuit
bag ! and we have heard from a gentleman who saw her
land that this appeared to be her only covering. Some of
the men's attire wore no semblance of tailor's work, their
shreds being tied together with cord. We have been in-
formed that not one of the steerage passengers owned a
box. The harrowing interest of our too sad narrative is
complete when we state that this vessel sailed for Quebec
on the 27th September ! These are facts which speak for
themselves. They need no comment. The date of sailing
itself is sufficiently expressive ; as, in the generality of
seasons, the St. Lawrence at the period of their arrival
might possibly have been filled with ice, and these poor
creatures been subjected to all the chances of shipwreck."
This, if true, is really a horrible state of things ; and not
one which we should have expected to find her Majesty's
Foreign Secretary mixed up in. Little indeed of good, or
of loyalty to the sovereign of Great Britain, can be expected
from colonization of our Canadian pos race of
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