The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1850-01-08 00:00:00

k. TIE LIVERPOOL STANDARD

[REGISTERED PROVISIONALLY. 3
THE NEW CORN EXCHANGE, LIVERPOOL,
IN 1,000 SHARES of 'lOO EACH.

PROVISIONAL COMMITTEE.
Thomas Berry Horsfall, Esq , Chairman.
William Earle, Esq. Charles Turner, Esq.
I Thomas Bouch, Esq. James M'Henry, Esq.
Hugh Hornby, Esq. Henry Jump, Esq.
Daniel Powell, Esq. Joseph Hubback, Esq
William Ridyard, Esq.
With power to add to their numb
SOLICITORS.

Messrs. Lowndes, Robinson, Batesoii,dird Lowndes, Bruns-

wick-street.

The inadequacy of the Preseni— n Exchange, in Liverpool,
for the wants of this great and reasing branch of commerce,
has rendered it absolutely* n ssary that a building, commen-
surate with the magnitude d wants of the Corn Trade, should
be erected.
The Provisional Co ittee (with a due regard to the interest
of the owners of Pro erty in the vicinity of the present Corn
Market) have secured a site nearly opposite to the present Corn
Exchange, covering an area of 2,400 square yards, and com-
manding a frontage of 71 feet along Brunswick-street, and 1(315
feet along Water-street, and extending the entire length of
Drury-lane. The principal front will be in Brunswick-street.
with an entrance also from Water-street. The plans being
already in a forward state, the work will be commenced imme•
diately. An area of about twice that of the present Exchange,
and capable of accommodating Two Hundred Stands, will at
once be appropriated to the Market, and the remaining portion
of the Land will be so arranged as to admit of the Market being
enlarged at any future period. In the preparation of the plans
the greatest care is being given to the lighting and ventilation.
The Provisional Committee, actuated by a doe consideration
for the interest of the Proprietors in the old Corn Exchange,
(although of those Proprietors only seventeen occupy Stands in
the Market, or are engaged in the trade,) have made overtures
to the Proprietors of the old Corn Exchange by which their
interests would be adequately protected. A portion only of the
Proprietors have acceded to the terms proposed.
Leaving, however, the question of arrangement with the old
Proprietors open for future negotiation, if that shall be deemed
desirable, the Committee have determined to proceed at once
with the erection of the New Corn Exchange.
It is estimated that the purchase of the Land and the erection
of the New Corn Exchange and adjacent Offices, will cost
about £60,000 ; but the Proprietors of the Land having offered
to take a considerable portion of the payment in shares, only a
limited amount of the capital, which it has been deemed neces-
sary to create, will require to be paid up.
Applications for Shares will be received until SATURDAY
next, the 12th instant, by Messrs. LOWNDES, ROBINSON,
BATESON and LOWNDES, (from whom Forms of Application
may be obtained,) it being understood that a preference wi l be
given to those parties who engage to occupy Stands in the
Market.

HYAM'S CLOTH MART.
RETR 0 SPE C T 1 0
OR, A GLANCE AT THE PAST YEAR.

The strenuous traveller, who has been,
Since the first blush of morn was seen,
Thinking and toiling all the day,
By many a rough and devious way—
Halteth as fades the dubious light,
Drops in his hostel for the night,
Takes his old place of grateful ease,
With slippered feet and crosswise knees,
Sits by the blazing ingle's side
All listless, still, and vacant-eyed;
But soon with sudden thought appears,
Roused by a rush of doubts and fears,
Draws up the table, spreads his books,
With wrinkling brows and anxious looks,
Recalls his daily cares and crosses,
Sums up his sundry gains and losses,
Clouds for a moment, clear awhile,
With flitting frown, and transient sm ,
Closes his sheets with hope or sorr. ,
And plans his labours for to-mor .
So I, on this the quiet eve,
While day and dark togethe eave
A sweet but pensive shade .at falls
Athwart my windows an. ny walls—
Sit in my wide and wel, ime chair,
And strive to cast the .lough of care,.
Gaze in the fire wit < dreamy eyes,
Watching fantasti shapes arise,
Or filling soot-flake, blown about, -
Or star-light cinder shooting out,
Whilst the blithe cricket sings elate,
And the live coal clicks in the grate,
And the uprolling smoke-wreath plays
A gambol with the golden blaze,
And rain and sleet-shower. fitful, fast,
Mixed with the morning blast,
Make at my casement wintry din,
In contrast to the calm within :
Even so I sit, my fancy fraught
With unconnected links of thought,
Until some wilder gust of wind
Brings to a pause my wandering mind,
And with a retrospective gaze
Along the mystery and the maze
Of things gone by, I dare to scan
The hopes, achievements, crimes of man,
And look with wonder, joy, and fear,
Back on the now expiring year.
And, oh, what strange things mingle there,
For exultation or despair,
For hope and wonder, fear and doubt,
Ri'idles that time must yet bring out :
Wild contrarities, that seem
Incongruous as a troubled dream.
First, I review, through memory's glass,
The evils that have come to pass,
True or apparent, dim or clear,
Since the first dawning of the year.
Behold t a nation fierce and vain,
Snaps her own objnt, weight of chain;
And, in the flash of power and pride,
Flings kings and crown and throne aside ;
Destroys old titles, fortunes, friends,
Sacks private peace, for public ends ;
Puts some in power, in prison more,
(While England's hospitable shore
Receives the straggler, who can come
As to an old and natural home.)
Uplifts a wanderer with acclaim.
To rule in Freedom's holy name.
But when another land in thrall
Takes the example of the Gaul,
And sets its face with earnest hope
Against a tyrant Church and Pope,
(A pontiff who began right well,
But wavered, weakened, stumbled, fell;)
Lo I the vain Frenchmen, sovereign, free,
The detni-gods of Liberty,
Are up in anger and in arms,
Rush to the south in warlike swarms,
Against a people, who, like them,
Were sick of throne and diadem.
Against them fought, and forged a chain
Themselves had broken with disdain :
Fettered anew the Roman brave,
Yet feigned to scorn the name of slave t
is this an evil whose array
Was false or real 1 Who can say ?
Behold another land bowed down
By stroke of sceptre, weight of crown,
Heavy and cruel, and unjust,
Crushing their victims in the dust,
Till roused by sense of hideous wrong,
They start in many a stalwart throng,
Erect, and clothed in Truth's own light,
Ready to stand by Home and Right
While great and generous souls, long pent
In sad and silent discontent,
Come forth to counsel, cheer and guide,
With pure and patriotic pride,
Plant their bold bosoms in the van,
And shout back " Hope I" from man to man !
The people come ; one spirit seems
To rouse them from lethargic dreams.
One spirit voice to thrill them through
With holy courage, high and new,
And not one breast gives way to fear
As the dread conflict draweth near.

Oh Kossuth, best among the brave
Where all were brave, the name of slave
Or traitor cannot cling to thee,
In dungeon depths thou would'st be free ;
Free in thy soul, for on thy frame,
Fetters were fetters but in name.
Kossuth, 'twas thee whose voice inspired,
Whose prudence curbed, whose courage fired
Thy people, thine, not his whose might
Ruled, wronged, and robbed them of their rigl
And even now with fierce command
Would slay them with a butcher's hand.
Transcendant patriot I droop not thou,
Albeit ye wander listless now,
Thee and thy brethren, far away
Beneath the crescent's friendly ray,
Hope for thy country and the world ;
For truth's bright banner, once unfurled,
Can never close its folds again
Till she extend her righteous reign.
Eagles may kill with beak and claw,
And bears may crush with ruthless paw,
But not for ever, not for long
Shall they rejoice in savage wrong :
Slings from the hands of the good and just
Shall smite them downward to the dust,
And plant on each dishonoured grave
Some power that would not own a slave

Come unto us, thou upright man,
Thee and thy brothers, when ye can ;
England ne'er set her rocky brow
'Gainst lofty souls, nor will she now ;
Come unto us, that we may show
How much we feel your weight of woe.
How much we reverence all your deeds—
How we can answer to your needs;
A warmer welcome ne'er was found
Than ye shall have on British ground,
If Heaven, propitious, send you here,
Where Freedom's sun shines strong and clear
But if decreed, proud men of truth,
That ye come not, farewell, Kossuth
May Heaven 'mong other men befriend ye,
And in some other land defend ye I

But why in other climates roam !
There's food for wisdom nearer home;
And since the feebie sun did shine
On the first morn of Forty-nine,
England hath had enow of pains
Running through her disordered veins;
Enow of miseries and moans,
Enow of curses and of groans.
Murder bath walked with frightful mein,
And many a ghastly gallows scene
Has brutalised the people's sense
Of morals and Omnipotence;
Sinking them deeper in the mire,
The sordid slough of low desire;
Driving them nearer than before
To the coarse love of gold and gore.
And plague hath oped a thousand doors,
Trod palace halls and cottage floors;
But chief on that polluted ground
Where sin and sordidness abound,
In sunless lanes and crowded courts,
Where squalor dwells, where crime resorts—
Where hunger reigns, intemperance raves,
And daily digs its victims' graves.
To thy decrees, mysterious God
We bow, and kiss the chastening rod;
But may not human foresight do,
But helped by human goodness, too,
Knowledge to find the fearful cause,
Regard for thine and nature's laws—
Much to allay these dreadful things,
That scatter poison from their wings t
Forgive the question, if it be
Between thy sacred will and thee t

Again, our prisons—odious glooms,
In lands that freedom's sun illumes—
Teem with their captives, and seed crimes
Full grown and rank, to distant climes;
And poorhouse echoes to the strife
Of souls that cling to hopeless life;
And many a thoroughfare is full
Of labour's refuse, stern or dull ;
And cities vomit forth, each morn,
Their breathless thousands, spirit•worn,
Or desperate daring, cunning deep,
Prepared to scare the rich man's sleep,
Break public peace, steal private purse,
And plunge from one bad state to worse;
And woman, made to love and bless,
Creeps out to night and loneliness,

To sell fonsfood the world denies
The hope she had beyond tke skies ;
And pining virtue seeks the shade,
Lofty, yet humble and afraid,
Shrinks into silence, sad and lone,
And dies upon her cold hearth-stone!
My God t what need, what need of more?
The crowded catalogue runs o'er;
Let me subdue these dismal dreams
By tnrning into brighter themes.

Then, first and foremost, Forty-nine,
Since credit's due to thee and thine—
Public opinion sets its paw
Upon a bad and barbarous law,
Tore out the sad and shameful page,
As one an insult to the Age ;
And at the opening of thy reign,
(Long may the memory remain,)
The hideous thing, unblest and lone,
Expired, but not without a groan.
It was the cruel law outworn
That taxi the toiling people's corn,
That crippled commerce, and dismayed
The vigorous enterprise of trade;
And others, kin in shape ai" -
Shall follow after, if we try

Patience! and marls theirCOming falba
Effort and virtue conquer all.

And there are other a

whose voice

Make the desponding soul rejoice;
Peaceful apostles, men who long
To banish war's gigantic wrong;
..

Men of all colours, cre

Men fitted for enlightened times,
In that proud city ever rife
With warlike passions, party strife,
Have meekly, yet undaunted stood,
To seal the bond of brotherhood.
And men are up, sincere and pure,

_
To make our edUcation sure ;
And rich ones lend a helping hand
To 2suage the sufferings of the land;
And science grows, and art refines,
Goodness with genius intertwines ;
And poor men learn that they may teach
And priests a lovelier doctrine teach;
All help " the good time coming" on,—
Blest be their efforts, every one !

Now, for myself, what shall I say?
How shall I gratefully repay
Each public and each private friend?
Surely by striving to amend,
If I have erred, I'll wiselier do ;
If I've done right, I'll still be true;
If honest, human effort can
Win my acceptance as a man,
That will I strive to bring about,
And leave all selfish motives out;
Hyam will still act duty's part,
Nor bate one jot of hope and heart.
Thanks to the Public, whose kind aid
Hath cheered me through the toils of trade
Thanks to my private friends, who come
To share my friendship and my home,
To each and all a tranquil breast,
To each and all joys unexpressed,
To each and all good Christmas cheer,
To each and all—a glad New Year !

TAILOIt

of forei

RE AD Y-M A D E

CLOTHIER

FOR
RIC H ,

POOR,

YOUTH,
AND FOR THE

AGED,
LOILD-STREET
LIVERPOL.

IMPORTANT MEETING OF HOUSEOWNERS,

Last night, a very numerous meeting of the house-
owners of this borough was held at the Clarendon- rooms,
for the purpose of taking such, steps as might be deemed
necessary to oppose the new sanatory bill of the Health
Committee of the Council, and now in progress of being
brought before Parliament. Amongst the gentlemen
present were Messrs. James Holme, John Johnson, Adam
Norris, Peter Robinson, -- Bennett, Jones, Roberts,
Ovien Elias, Gregory, Gardner, M`Knight, and many
others. _ _ _ _

Mr. GEORGE SIMMERS was called to the chair—He said,
that in consequence of the new sanatory bill not having
been in the hands of the houseowners' committee until
last week, they were not so fully prepared to offer as de-
cided an opinion upon it as they might otherwise have
done ; and that the presnet meeting should therefore be
considered more in the nature of an adjourned one from the
last, to a town's meeting. No cut and dry speeches were
to be delivered. Contrary to the usual boast of Englishmen
that they had a voice in the laws that affected them,
as regarded the measure to be considered, they had not
this advantage. He thought, therefore, it would be wise,
if possible, to nip the bill in the bud, and thus save the
expenses of opposing it in parliament. The Health Com-
mittee were to meet on Wednesday next, and it was for
the meeting either to say that they would reject the whole
measure, or send a deputation to the committee with a
view to prevent them proceeding with the bill as it was
now proposed. He expected a burst of honest indigna-
tion against it from several speakers, and called upon the
secretary, Mr. Jones, to recapitulate the heads of the bill.
First, however,
Mr. GREGORY expressed his strong disapproval of the
bill as iniquitous and oppressive, and considered that it
was got up merely to support the large house at the end
of Cornwallis-street. It was concocted by members of
the Council and others, who, though they might have
property, were not ratepayers in the town.
Mr. JONES then explained the several obnox!ous clauses
of the act, which resolved itself under three heads—sewer-
age and paving, levelling, and amendments of former
acts. It was virtually a bill for sewerage and paving, as
the third head chiefly affected only owners of land. It
went for a power to put down more costly paving, and to
charge the extra cost by a rate, As regarded drainage, it
required the owners of houses built to have them drained
into a main sewer, at a distance, it might be, of 30 yards ;
and hour to be built were to be drained to the next
sewer, or to the place where such sewer was to be, if not
yet, constructed I Then they were required, under a
heavy daily penalty, to make water-closets in small
houses, for parties who never properly use them. After
complying, too, with the former act as to cellar
dwellings, and going to much expense in adapting
those already built, and building others in accord
ance, they were now to be prevented,
similar penalties, from having dwellings in cellars in
courts at all. He considered the whole act a spoliation
of property. The town council had already, by the act of
1836, unlimited power over all the bricks and mortar
in town, but this new bill wont to repeal all that, and to
do away with all cellar dwellings whatever. The additional
rates which the bill would impose would drive still more
out of the town than had already left it, and the r-'
would fall the heavier on those who were necess:
remain. The poorer classes, too, would be huddled to-
gether in such a manner as to cause immorality, pestilence,
and death. (Hear.)
Mr. JAMES HOLME said he was a large owner of pro-

les
tated to

perty in the town. Commercial difficulties had depressed
its value, but enormous rates had depressed it more.
For himself, if he measure were to be carried, he
would not lay another brick within the borough, but
would go beyond its limits, when he could do what he
liked with his own. He certainly thought the great land-
owners ought to sewer their land that came in for build-
ing, as they could well afford it, and to that part of the
bill he did not object. But if owners had to pay all the
rates, he knew not what would become of them. He
finally suggested that a deputation should be chosen to
confer with the Health Committee—say six of a deputa-
tion to meet six of the committee, to go through the
whole of the clauses before they came to be considered by
the Council. After that a general meeting of the house-
owners might be called to take the necessary measures.
Mr. FORBES concurred with the last speaker.
The CH AIRMAN said, Mr. Holme's view was embodied
in the resolutions which had been prepared, one of which
went to appoint a deputation.
Mr. HOLME upon this moved the first resolution,—for
which and the others see the advertisement. He said we
were not now as formerly when there were no omnibusc
or railways, or steam-boats, and if the authorities op-
pressed the town too heavily, they would clear out the
inhabitants. (Hear.)
Mr. P. ROBINSON seconded the motion. He quite
agreed with Mr. Holme's last expression. Last year only

446 houses were built in the town, and three years ago
upwards of 3,000 were built. He had built water-closets
in a number of houses in Rose-place, and found it neces-
sary constantly to employ people to cleanse tham, for the
pipes were filled up with leatheri'parings, coal, &c., so
that the houses were overflowed and rendered uninhabit-
able. Ile complained of the rates, on small property,
which had had the effect of emptying them of tenants.
Mr. SAVAGE, in moving the second resolution, also
strongly adverted to the exorbitant and increasing rates,
which had driven many out of the town. lie considered
the powers which the Council already had, and yet sought
to extend over private property, as quite unconstitutional.
Mr. BENNETT seconded the resolution, and instanced
many of his own houses in Byrom-street, which were de-
serted, owing to the exorbitant rates. He was of opinion
that any councillors who supported the bill now sought,
were either great ignoramuses or downright knaves. He
complained of the harsh conduct of the rate collectors,
from recent orders, to poor persons who had not the means
to pay. Since last Friday the threats and oppressions of
these men had been worse than ever, and especially at a
season when not one in ten of the poor people were in
work.

Mr. BANNISTER moved the resolution appointing a
committee, in a speech strongly expressive of the bill
being unjust und oppressive,
Mr. LEYLAND seconded the resulution, which was also
carried unanimously.
The Secretary said the deputatio would meet the
Health Committee on Wednesday, and another meeting
would be called to report progress.
Thanks were then voted to the Chairman, and the
meeting, which was very animated throughout, separated,

During the recent debates in the American House of
Representatives one member denounced another as a
" liar." A rush was made by the aggrieved representative
to avenge the insult; but friends interposed, and after a
few days' danger of a duel, the affair was amicably!irralltged.z.

On Wednesday night a meeting was held at the City 9f
London Mechanics' Institute for the

purpose of °tip-
urning, instead of burying,, the

nating the practice of I

Mr. Jennings

-lane,

and resolutions ir
ing were adopted.

accordance with the at

1 LATEST INTELLIGENCE.

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TELEGRAPH.)

LATEST BETTING

'ERSALL'S, LAST NIGUT

LIVERPOOL STEEPLE CHASE.
Knight of Gwynne and Rat Trap each 15 to 1—t"; St.
John 20 to 1 ; Farnharn 30 to 1 ; Silent Friend, Rescue,
and The Hero 50 to 1.

CHESTER CUP

1000 to 20 agst Essedarius—t
1000 to 20 .. Chanticleer—t
1000 to 15 .. Lismahago—t
1000 to 15 .. Sir Richard—t
1000 to 15 .. Westow
1000 to 15 .. Woodlark-1000 to 10 taken
50 to 1 Lady Evelyn—t
40 to 1 .. John Cosser-50 to 1 taken

Melody, Baronet, Hotspur, and Raby, Damask, Emma,
Esther, Legerdemain, 'Grid, Van Dieman, R,pland, Har-
riet, Ciarissa, Snowstorm, Collingwood, and Flatcatcher,
each 1000 to 10, and all taken.
Mounseer and Horn of Chase, each 1000 to 15—taken.
Lismahago, Mounseer, and Clarissa backed for most
money at odds quoted.

DERBY

17 to 2 agst Bollingbroke--9 to 1 taken
10 to 1 .. Ghillie Callum-11 to 1 taken
12 to 1 .. Knight of Avenal—offered
1000 to 60 .. Voltigeur—taken
25 to 1 .. Sweetheart—taken

25 to 1 .. Clincher—taken
30 to 1 .. Mayors—taken to £lOO
50 to 1 .. Nutshell—taken.

LONDON MONEY MARKET

YESTERDAY

The English Market opened steady, and was very st

[bout noon a reaction took

as below, with

good appeara

ditto Money, shut; Thre

Exchequer Bills, 59/ to 6:

Quarter per Cents., 91

LONDON SHARE MARKET

YESTERDAY

The Railway Market closes better than it has been all

and with rather an upward tendency, not much do
don and North. Western, 110 to 111 ; ditto new quarters
7/8; Midlands, 421 to 31; ditto halts, 23i to 2i; Dovers, 18i to
191; ditto No. 4 Reg., 6/ to I ; ditto ditto Scrip, 61 to ;
Caledonians, 101 to;; ditto Preference, 7/ to 1; Eastern Coun.
ties, 7to ; Great Northern, 12 to ; Great Western, 57i to

Si; Berwick Preference, 4i tc

Mexicans, 29i

LONDON CORN MARKET.-YESTERDAY

The show of Wheat this morning from neighbouring counties
moderate, and the millers conduct operations with caution.
Trade ruled firm, at the currency of

,nday last

n Wheat is less than for several weeks, and the attend-
ance of country buyers being limited, former terms could not
be exceeded. Barley commanded late terms, with moderate
sale. Beans and Peas move off slowly, but previous rates are

supported. There are fresh arrivals of Oats to a moderate ex-
tent from our own coast and foreign ports,—business steady,
and the currency of Monday last maintained. English red

Wheat 38s. to 445. ; white 41s

ARRIVALS,

English—Wheat
Barley

2,150 Foreign—Wheat
4,339 Barley
3,735 Oats..
5.917 I Flour..

. bbls 12,384
sacks 3,006

225 I Beans.

LONDON PRODUCE MARKET

Refined Sugar Market rather quiet to-day, and only a small
extent of business done, at previous rates. Brown 495. to
495. 6d., and fair 50s. to 51s.

Tallow quiet, but in price
spot 388. to 38s. 6d., and for delivery up to March 38s. to 38s. 6cl

yet no change. P.Y.C. on th

Stock this day 46,396 casks, ag

inst 35,390 same time

Deliveries last week 2,142, against 2,609

SMITHFIELD CATTLE MARKET.—YESTERDAY.
The supply of beasts being moderate, and the weather
favourable, trade was a little better. The sheep trade was
steady at Friday's prices, while calves realised 4d. per stone
advance. Prime Scots realised 4s. 2d.

HULL SHIPPING

ARRIVED—GazeIIe, S., Antwerp.
SAlLED—Albatross, S., Antwerp; Julius, (
which sailed on 27th, has put back.

tptain Holm(

CUSTOMS RECEIPTS OF THE PORT OF

LIVERPOOL

We cannot congratulate our renders upon an increase of
our customs' receipts this year, nor did we expect to have
been able to do so ; but it is not to-be at all inferred that
the trade of the port has retrograded. The following are
the amounts of the two years respectively :-
1848.
474,202

Apparent decrease,

The fast of the sugar duties yearly decreasing in their
rates, and a few other circumstances, are sufficient to
account for the above result, which has been aided by the
fact of a large quantity of foreign shipping being held
back, in order not to arrive here until after the coming
into operation of the Navigation I

POLICE COURT .-YESTERDAY -Y ESTERDAY

SMUGGLING.—The captain of the Charles Brunell, from
Valparaiso, was fined £5 for having on board, concealed,
21bs. of foreign manufactured tobacco, and a small quan-
tity of eau-de-Cologne.

ROBBERY OF M6NEY.—William Tynan, Edwd. Grif-
fiths, Elizabeth Jones, Maria Smith, John Baker, and
John Hoskey, were charged with robbing a man named
Thomas Corkhill, of £l2 in money, of which a £5 note,
which had been taken from an empty house where it was
concealed, was changed by one or more of the prisoners,
who got the change from the prisoner Baker, whose
charge for the transaction implied that he knew the note
was stolen..
~Corkhill had, it appeared, been robbed in a

house of ill fame on Tuesday last. There was no positive
evidence against Tynan, Jones, Griffiths, or Hoskey, and
they were discharged. The others, Jones, Smith, and
Baker were committed for trial.
CASE RELATING TO NOTES FOUND IN A CAR.—It

has already been betore the public that a married female,
Susan Linton, was last week charged on suspicion with
having been connected with the robbery, in September, of
a man named S. m iel Musgraves, of a considerable sum,
five £lO -notes and other money, while ho was in a back
yard. A married woman, named Susan Linton, was then
remanded on suspicion, and she was yesterday main

placed at the bar. A car driver, named Da
tosh, in the employ of Mr. John Davies, wa

called, and

said that, on the night of the 27th of September, he was
hailed in Vauxhall-road by a female very like the prisone
liom he aereed to take to Great George-street, end of
a. After she left the car he found the notes
,d up together in the bottom of the car, and on

cv
Duncan-

stated r

lg home he delivered them to his master, who gave
them up. To the best of his opinion the prisoner was
the woman, but he would not swear to her. Mr. Davies
said, the witness had honestly handed him the notes on
the same night. The complainant said he had been with
the prisoner (as before stated) ; had given her a £lO note
to get changed, and she had returned him the balance,
after making some purchases for him. Two of the notes
produced were identified as having been paid from the
North and South Wales Bank in Birkenhead. It was
also proved that the prisoner was seen in a house in Dun-
can-street, and in another house, with a considerable
quantity of silver in both instances, to wrap up which
was, at her own request, supplied with, at one plat
silk handkerchief, a rd, at the other, a piece of clotl
case was again remanded, some furth
, requisite

.er evidence be:

MINOR OFFENOES.—Hugh Dyer, for stealing
of timber in Jordan-street, to be imprisoned two

John Palmer, for stealing two sailors' shirts in S

James's-street, two montt

The usual liberal dc
and fuel, have been male during the
the venerable and truly benevolent Lord Raven sworth, ti
all the deserving poor in the neighbourhood of Ravens
worth Castle.

tions, in money, food, clothin

season

An Indian complained to a retailer that the price of
liquor was too high. The latter, in justification
that It cost as much to keep a hogshead of brandy ___
keep a cow. The Indian replied, " May be he drink as
much water, but not eat so much hay

An old lady said her husband was very fond of pea
and that was his only fault. " Fault, madam," sail
" how can you call that a fault ?" " Why, because
are different ways of eating them, sir. My husband
them in the form of brandy."
" I tell you," says a warm friend of a n
Fenator to an old sober-headed politic
may say what they please, but you car
C— is a sound man." " That's je:
on," replied old Beeswax : " now, it's our opinion
he's all sound :"
The directors of the London and Northwester
way have recently improved largely their stat!on
and Stafford. At the former a closed-i —"—
thrown over the line to obviate the
At this inclement season of the },
ing which furloughs are granted
peculiar and unnecessary hard
many regiments allowed to t
them
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bump of order was very 'all
his service whose habits we

carelessness. is said to

employer, who quoted the old pie
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counsel for the plaintiffleibjeulrysutiht
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for damages from a desire to obtain money, but
an indication that his client had been wronged
verdict in his favour, givingdamages, was retu
1 one cent of the money would be taken from the d

The jury thereupon returned a '
tiff of 460 dollars, not to be paid,

verdict for the plain-

PROPOSED NEW CORN EXCHANINE IN

LIVERPOOL

A meeting of those interested in the prosperity of the
corn trade was held yesterday at the Clarendon-rooms,
for the purpose of meeting the Provisional Committee
engaged in the promotion of the erection of a new Corn
Exchange in Liverpool. The meeting was convened by
circular, and was most numerously and influentially at-
tended.

On the motion of Mr. Ridyard, T. B. Horsfall, Esq.,
was called upon to preside. _

The CHAIRMAN, in opening the proceedings of the
meeting, said,—The object of our present meeting may be
stated in a very few words. It is held in accordance with
the circular which has already been issued to you, and
for the purpose of ensuring the erection of a new
corn exchange in Liverpool, the provisional committee
will be happy to receive any suggestions at your hands,
for the purpose of carrying out that object in an efficient
manner. (Hear, hear.) It is desirable, at the outset,
that I should allude to the circular which has recently
been issued by the committee of the old Corn Exchange,
and which bears the signature of the chairman of the
body, Mr. W. Lowe. I allude to it because he states in
that circular that the plan which has been submitted to
the committee of the old Corn Exchange, by the pro-
jectors of the new one, is unfit for the purpose. All I
have to say is, that the provisional committee of the new
exchange are bound to no plan. (Hear, hear.) The plan
submitted by the projectors, and which has been before
the committee of the old Exchange, has been likewise
submitted to your committee ; they are not bound to it—
That plan is before them, but it is not the plan of the
committee; they are open to every plan, and committed
to none. When that plan was submitted at the very out-
set, one member of our committee took exception to the
architectural design ; and another took exception to the
internal arrangements and the planning of the accommo-
dation, and I now repeat that the committee are commit-
ted to no plan, yet they do not entertain a doubt but that
with your assistance, and the practical advice which they
will receive from the gentlemenengaged in thecorn trade,
they will be enabled to bring before the public a plan
worthy of the corn trade of this great port, and worthy of

the town of Liverpool. (Applause. It is necessary that
I should allude to the position of the proprietors of the
old Corn Exchange ; because when this proposal was
first submitted to me, I said that I would take no part
in the erection of a new Corn Exchange, without due
consideration being given to the interests of the proprie-
tors of the old one. (Hear, hear.) The Provisional

Committee, adopting this view of the case, sent a circular
to the whole of the proprietors of the old exchange, pro-
posing to them as the basis of an arrangement, that
they should have three shares in the new building
for every one which they held in the old; or, failing in
that, that they should receive £360 per share for each
share in the old Exchange, being the highest price which
had ever been received for those shares. A portion of the
proprietors only answered this proposal; the greater por-
tion have abstained from answering the communication at
all; I regret that they should have done so on their own
account. Ido not regret their doing so as far as the in-
terests of the proprietors of the new Exchange are con-
cerned ; for it is not on the proprietors of the old Ex-
change that we rely for support, but on the standholders
who may occupy stands in the building. The next point
will be one for the consideration of those who take stands
in the new building. On no account will there be any-
thing done which will not be calculated to promote the
general interest of the market—good light and good ven-
tilation ; and although there may be some difference in
price for locality and accommodation, still the average
price will be considerably less than is now paid. (Hear,
hear, and applause.) Several objections to our proposal
have been mentioned. I was asked, certainly in the
most friendly spirit, why I, as an individual not at all
connected with the corn trade, should enter into such an
undertaking as the erection of a new corn exchange ?
This question I might answer by another question : How
is it that of the 76 proprietors of the old exchange only
17 are standholders, or engaged in the corn trade ? Ano-
ther question has been put to me by the chairman of the
committee of the old corn exchange. The question I bee
to say was put in the most perfect good humour. He said,
" Mr. Horsfall, I am told that you have land in the
neighbourhood of the proposed site of the new corn ex-
change." Now, gentlemen, though Ido not think it
would have been any very great sin had this proved to be
the case, yet I must say to you, as I said to him, " that
unfortunately I have not one yard of land within a
mile of the proposed site." (Hear, hear, and applause.)
I mention this circumstance, as many persons may have
beard the same report, and if so, in order that their
minds may be disabused upon the subject. I deeply
regret to understand that the proposal for erecting a new
Corn Exchange in Liverpool should, as I hear, have given
rise to some ill feeling. lam sure that there has been no
ill feeling of the kind on the part of the provisional com-
mittee; and, as f

)cvn feelings go—anxious as I

am to have 'a good building—one worthy of Liverpool;
anxious as I am that the undertaking should prove remu-
nerative to its promoters, I do not hesitate to say, that I
should consider any, building, however splendid, or how-
ever lucrative it might be, as far too dearly purchased at
the sacrifice of the good feeling of my fellow-townsmen.
—(Loud applause.)
Mr. D, POWELL proposed the first resolution, as fol-
-" That in the opinion of this meeting the present
"ate to the wants of the trade."
NI besides himself had reason
,roper accommodation in the
men who had stands in the

Corn Exchange is in
He said that several

new Corn Ex

t of p

I great advantages over
d ends in regard to the
which they had for exhibiting their. samples.
applicable to flour in particular. The practice
.ence to flour was,—a gentleman buying flout

centre of the building y

rho were at tt

took a sample f

look at it, fie went with the

de into the centr

room, and the probabilit
the stand from which I

that he never returned to
,k the sample, some more

_ located broker getting hold of him in the
meantime. In the new Exchange everything would be
sacrificed to the market, and every person would have equal
advantages, both as regards light and ventilation. He
had taken some pains to ascertain the imports of grain
and breadstuffs to the port of Liverpool in the year 1849,
as compared with the average imports of 1809 and 1810,
e old Exchange had been built.
built in 1808.

ortunatel

DIVELI

t Exchange might be very