The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1844-09-03 00:00:00

remainder of the works. The grand total of the
dock accommodation of Liverpool, when the whole,
both north and south, are completed, will be 195
acres 373 yards, and the extent of actual working
quay space will exceed thirteen miles in length ; "an
amount of accommodation," as remarked by Mr.
Bramley Moore, " not to be found in any other town
in the world, and exceeding that of the metropolis
itself."

We believe we are correct in stating that to the
activity and talent of that gentleman himself, aided
by the ability of the Dock ,Surveyor, the public are
mainly indebted for this judicious alteration ; and
we are confident that his fellow townsmen will pay
off that debt with a:lasting gratitude. To Mr. James
ASkin, also, much credit is due for important sug-
gestions offered ; and we gladly seize this opportu-
nity of awarding our humble need of approbation to
a gentleman politically opposed to us, but whose
talent and honesty of purpose are undeniable. It is
pleasing to see, in a body to whom is confided such
important trusts,—by whom such great powers are
wielded, political rancour ceasing, and political dif-
ferences and even prejudices laid aside, for the prac-
tical advancement of the public interests. With all
its members working_ together in this spirit, we have
little fear indeed of the Dock Commfttee of Liver-
pool being able, with the vast resources al their com-
mand, to neutralize all the efforts of competing
bodies and competing localities, and to maintain the
noble estate committed to their keeping in its pros-
perity and unparallelled usefulness.
There is one point of Mr. Bramley Moore's speech
upon which we must offer a few remarks, inasmuch
as it appears to have given rise to an idea that the
worthy alderman is veering round in his opinions
upon what has been known as the warehouse ques-
tion, to the opinions of the minority in the Dock
Committee; that, in fact, he is getting Evansized—
the word has been coined for our use. There seems,
however, to be a trifling mistake here as to the
chairman's meaning. When we had this question
of dock warehouses originally broached, we were
told that its great value was the centralization of its
management in the hands of the Dock Committee.
That body were to become the warehouse keepers,
carters and porters of the whole town, and were to
conduct everything as nobody else could conduct it.
They were to fight private individuals with the pub-
lic's money; and to such a course the public natu-
rally, and very justly, demurred. Mr. Bramley
Moore, however, hints at no :ucli project. He is
convinced that warehouses round our central docks
would much promote the convenience of business
and increase the facilities afforded by our port; but
he sets up no central and no monopolizing body to
work them, to the ruin of private property. He says
the sites for such warehouses may be leased to pri-
vate individuals or to companies, to be worked, of
course, as other property is worked, for profit, and,
therefore, so as not absolute:y to ruin such other
property, and to absorb into one hand the business
of whole classes of our fellow townsmen, as would
have been the effect of the gigantic scheme of mo-
nopoly at one Lime contended for by the Dock Com-
mittee and happily resisted successfully by the peo-
ple of Liverpool. A re-perusal of this portion of the
Chairman's speech, and a little reflection, will, we
are confident, abate any apprehension which it may,
at first, have created.

BANK OF ENGLAND.—The return of the circulation of
notes in England, Ireland, and Scotland, for the four
weeks ending on the 17th of August, furnish the following
results upon a comparison with the previous statement.
The circulation of the Bank of England has been aug-
mented from £21,448,000 to £21,980,000, and that of the
private and joint-stock banks of Ireland from £1,571,284
to 1,993,533. The private banks of England have re-
duced their circulation by £73,826; the joint-stock
banks by £135,866 ; the chartered, private and joint-stock
banks of Scotland by £8,469 ; and the Bank of Ireland
by £62,575, or to £3,378,125. Total of issues as per pre-
sent return £38,001,324; last time £37,730,811. In-
crease in the aggregate, £270,513.
THE FUNDS, SATURDAY NIGHT.—The funds have ad-
vanced to-day: and notwithstanding the limited amount
of business transacted, there was much firmness in the
market. The official contradiction of the rumours of
yesterday respecring war with France has done something
to restore the confidence of the speculators. Consols for
money left off 981 to 1; and for the accoun, 981 •, Bank
Stock, 198 to 199 ; Exchequer-bills, 745, to 765. pre-
mium ; India Stock, 279 to 281 ; Three per:Cent. Re-
duced, 914 to 1; Long Annuities, 12§; India Bonds, 95
to 97 premium. Spanish followed in the wake of the
English stocks, and rallied to 224 to 1 for the Five per
Cents., and to 331 to 4 for the Three per Cents. Tha
other foreign securities were steady, with increased busi-
ness, but no material variation occurred in prices. Bel-
gian closed 1014 to 1024; Bruzilian, 83; to 842; Buenos
Ayres, 34 to 36; Chilian, 103 to 105; Columbian, 131 to
; Danish 881 to 89; ; Dutch Two-and-a-Half per Cents.,
604 to 61i; the Five per Cents., 1004 to 1; Mexican 35/
to 1; the Deferred, 154 to • Peruvian, 23 to 25 ; and
Portuguese Converted, 434 to 442.

The Boston Post
ATLANTIC STEAMERS.— says, that
the arrangements for the conveyance of the mails from
Boston to Montreal are complete, and that the mail
steamers will ere long run direct between Liverpool and
Boston, not touching, as at present, at Halifax, which is
justly deemed the most disagreeable and dangerous part
of the route. The time saved by this change will often be
material, and on the average a day would be gained in the
passage. The New York Herald says there is a fair
prospect of the establishment of a line of American steam
ships to run between this port and New York.
OBTAINING GOODS UNDER FALSE PRETENCES.—At
the Police-court, yesterday, a married woman, very
poorly dressed, named Elizabeth Allport, was charged
with having obtainee under false pretences a number of
pairs of stays from Miss Eleanor Parr, who keeps a stay
shop in Berry-ftreet, and by whom she had been employed
as forewoman. It appeared that over some weeks past
the prisoner had obtained the articles from her mistress
on representing that parties whom she named, and who
were all respectable females, wished to be supplied from
the shop. She succeeded in this way in taking away
pairs to the value of, it was stated, nine guineas. Sus-
picion was at length excited, and the fraud was disco-
vered. The prisoner was apprehended, and was then in
liquor. Most of the articles were found in vurious pawn-
shops. The prisoner was committed for trial for ob-
taining," &c., with, however, lerve to go out on bail her-
self in £4O, and two sureties in £2O each.

MISS WHITNALL'S GRAND CONCERT ON FRIDAY
NEXT.—We are sure the public must be thankful for this
spirited effort of IVlise Whitnall to afford them another
opportunity of hearing the celebrated singers who, on
Tuesday last, delighted us at the Amphitheatre. The
programme, on this occasion, is a well selected one, and
embraces several gems of musical composition, Miss
Whitnall herself making an addition to the list of vocal-
ists, and interspering their Italian with a little homely
English music. In the first act she gives a new song,
written expressly for her by Samuel Lover; and in the
second, besides a duet with Lablache and a part in a con-
certed piece, the beautiful Scotch ballad " Bonnie Prince
Charlie." Miss Christiana Weller will perform a grand
fantasia on the piano-forte, which to those who have not
heard that young lady's delightful playing, we need not
say will be worth their attendance, and of which we say
to those who have not had that pleasure, go and enjoy it
on Friday evening. We have no doubt the house will be
crammed, and would advise our friends to apply early for
tickets, if they want to have a seat.

COMPLAINT AGAINST A TEACHER IN THE CORPORA-
TION SCHOOLS.—At the Police-court yesterday a com-
plaint was heard, brought by a boy named Joseph M'Cabe,
against John Harris, a teacher in the North Corporation
Schools, to the effect that the complainant had been
savagely beaten by his teacher and several bruises in-
flicted with a cane upon his body. Upon the boy being
sworn, he stated his age to be eleven years, but, when
questioned, be seemed so ignorant of the consequence of
false swearing that Mr. Rushton at once refused to receive
his testimony. His mother, however, narrated the cir-
cumstances of the case and called a witness who saw him
shipped and on coining hoMe from School and noticed
the marks upo❑ his body. A monitor of the school,
however, a very intelligent boy, who was present on the
day i❑ question, deposed that lie saw the boy punished by
mere beating onthe hand, and that he had no other
punishment whatever on that day. It appeared on re-
examination of the mother that the boy was subject to
epileptic fits of a serious nature, and was occasionally
beat by his father; and Mr. Rushton was not satisfied
that the bruises shewn on his body had not been the con-
sequnces of such a beating. The toacher was at once
discharged. We connot but remark, before leaving this
sase, that would have been much better if our stipendiary
magistrate, before granting a warrant, upon the evidence
of a boy, so ignorant as the boy, from the effect no doubt
of his disposition to epilepsy, had had his attention
drawn to the following Rule of the Corporation schools
and allowed the complaint to go through the course there
prescribed. The rule in questiou is No. 10, and is
exhibited in the Schools.—
"As the Committee will take care that no injurious treatment or
improper correction will be allowed, the parents or friends must
freely submit their Children to the discipline of the school, and for,
bear from disturbing the master or mistress with complaints; for-
by such conduct, the Chrildren will be countenanced in their faults,
and the master and mistress discouraged in performance of their
duties. If, however, a parent or friend really believe that there is
good ground for complaint, the Committee will at all times willingly
hear the case "
By a proper attention to this rule much public scandal
might have been averted, and the time of the Bench
saved.

NAVAL PREPARATIONS.—By a letter just received
that, in addition to thosePa
from
a friend in Devon t rpiil dated
yAauagnuosutnredth,,twwoe
ships
of the line, the Super
measuresserue allibeing taken to
harbour,laicuarrids are ea-
Vanguard are to be commis-
ttansgaalde-
sioned next week, and active
obtain able-bodied men for the
tensively posted throughout the
able-
bodied seamen to enter the service, and offering,
in-
ducement, to allow them to be borne on the books of'
flag-ship until drafted off. Between five and six hundred
supernumeraries are at present on board the St. Vincent,
waiting for other ships to be ready to go to sea. Great
activity is also apparent in all the dock yards. Several
men of war building are being pushed forward with all
despatch, and will shortly be ready for launching.