The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1843-07-11 00:00:00

TO CORRESPONDENTS

best authority for stating, that whe-
surance Offices both here and
ea
% the Dire In- that injustice, if perpetrated at all, has been perpe-
We had several communications ready for insertion, but them at rates as low as those, t. plat-on viould insure 4w
rsed London, or any ' trated upon the public at large—upon the dock-rate
are obliged to postpone them in consequence of the ad- where else. (Hear, hear.)
ipayers ; and that such injustice consists in the fact
journed council meetings, and the proceedings at the " Mr. PLATT.—What lock' atehousea ?
" Mr. SANDS.—.Y
.',es.that power has been given to the dock trustees—or,
commercial associations, on the subject of the Fire
" Mr. Aldertn-
Bill. .411 AVE.—Does the estimate include rather, as we have before stated, to the " Committee
+he land?
We have received the letter of our correspondent, "An - " Mr. c'
-- of Works"—to lavish the funds of the estate in the
_ Orangeman," upon the subject of the receut attack of „ 4ANDs---,No,not the making of the land.
the Mercury upon that loyal body. Our Popish con- et.. ...tr. Aldervian EAitzt.-,-Then the cost will be some- erection of buildings, of which they do not even
temporary's heavy wit is not worth the notice of any ,mg very Inv' £4O per pint seem to know the cost, and against which nine out
Orangeman. " Let the galled jade wince." It will %. • " The re,port was then 'confirmed. "
of ten in the community are already exclaiming as
long before the Mercury's pet boys—the ribbor-
seen df it really does appear to us surprising that a body .
most injudiciously planned, and likely to be almost
Liverpool—dare give to the world a record
ings and doings of any of their concla+' the sag- lam the Dock Committee, amply provided with sur-
ruinously inoperative. Before listening to any
at all events better in our eyes tip. •-"' Loyalty Is
Union, whatever our brother lettY:nrY with
may 'veyors and other officials, should display such an
prayer, either of the Council, the Dock Committee,
think about the subject ; •
..nti it is better, toolrVin tbye extraordinary want of decided information—should
the warehouse owners, or the party "o• t of doors"
eyes of the respectab'.4 ..-pottiott of the people' of Liver- give to the world such extraordinary differences
who are agitating this question,—before giving to
pool, whatever may be the feeling in those localities -
statement—with respect to a matter so important as
where our r.,4,tdemporary is most industriously spelled the Dock `Committee those increased powers which
over. the cost of the warehouses now in course of erection
upon the dock quays. We have now had, within a two sessions ago they refused,—Parliament might
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couple'of months, three distinct statements, none of be disposed to inquire into the mode in which the.
powers of that body had been used; and
them-agreeing with each other. First, on the 18th existing
would undoubtedly receive, as no light evidence of
of May, we had, from the lips of the *Surveyor,
i tsinjurious nature the declaration of the mercan-
C 36 ss. per square yard mentioned as 'the total cost stilea '
associations to which we last week referred.
present ,of erection of the warehouses in question. ' Upon
Amongst the remedies proposed for the But we p oceed with Mr. Evans's remarks :
; - „
disaffected state of Ireland, concession to the d that statement we commented and we may say
e- He (Mr. E.) should be very loth to be the person to
ecawith truth, that, in addition to our own, it excited accompany any eminent stranger to look at the Albert
mends of agitation is the most prominent, h use
the amazement of the entire community ! At a to
oDotcelli zimhenzemnptetedastnelert:ehe43arsetronenot restriction, and
the most ready of suggestion and the most produc-
meeting of the Dock Trustees, held on the of of half the ground. that, though allowed to build the
'tine of present ease. To oppose a headlong torrent,
June, the same Surveyor who had thus deliberately foundations and vaults, they were not allowed to build
ta- even to dam 'up a gentle streamlet, requires an the warehouses. (Hear, hear.)"
given to the Committee his estimate—in writing or
effort, both of the will and of the body; whilst to So should we be loth to be the persons to accom-
not we cannot say—protested that " he could not
yield to their influence, it only requires that we pang any stranger, illustrious or otherwise, to look
the mistake" (qy. whose mistake?) "had
should close our eyes from the view of that_ralf to say how
but at erections, and foundations of erections, and to
arisen ; that the actual "estimate was £ll is.
which they are surely and rapidly bearing us.have to tell him that already it was a subject of
" Strive -to remove the grievances of the Irish public debate whether those erections would have
peoplel." is, therefore, the cry of the 'timid and to be moved back, and those foundations, completed
lethargic Protestant—who would be puzzled to de- at an enormous expense, be rendered wholly use-
scribe in what those grievances consist. " Put less !
down the nuisance of an established church !"
shouts a demagogue of the Roebuck school.
'Take away only her surplus C) revenues," ejacu-
lates an admirer of Lord -John Russell. " Give
!Ireland a Whig ministry," lisps out the faded beau
'who lately protocolled in the Foreign-office. The
'burden of the song is still ,concession; whilst if any
loyal Englishmen, a little bolder than his fellows,
dares to look one step beyond present expediency,
and to ask the question, " Why yield up one out-
work of that constitution—why yield up one stone
of the buttresses of those walls, upon which we
must ultimately stand, to battle for our liberties and
for the integrity of the empire-?" he is straightway
denounced as a fanatic, an intolerant, and an enemy
of the Irish people !
We care not for such denunciations. We detest
that cowardly expediency which, to ward off the
hour of struggle—to buy a treacherous and hollow
peace—would negociate terms of submission to
armed and menacing rebellion. We would concede
to justice freely, and all that Ireland can claim.
At length we have before us the opinions of the
We would concede to menace, NOTHING! With
l
the result of such concessions in past years before leading members of the Council, with respect to the
us, how can we, as men resolved to maintain the in-
question recently mooted by the commercial asso-
stitutions of our country, pursue a different course ? ciations of the port, and upon which we have lately
-
The history of the struggle with popery for the last
remarked:; viz. whether as the remedy for the fre-
fifty years has been one of concession after conces-
quent fires which have of late occurred in our exist-
ing warehouses, it is expedient, or just, to seek the
sion; and have those concessions purchased for
Protestantism peace or security ? No I Only a withdrawal of those clauses in the Dock Act, which
restrict the powers of the committee to erect ware-
few days ago, in the House of Commons, we were
reminded by an Irish member, Mr. Wyse, an advo-
houses upon the dock quays. We most confess
sate of popish claims, and the would-be supporter
that, upon such a subject, we have referred, with the
g
of popish supremacy in Ireland and throughout the greatest interest, to the remarks of Mr. Alderman
Evans.; not because we conceive that there is any
world, that, " from 17'93 to 1829, concession had
thing which we ought to receive as oracular in the
followed concession.; England had passed from
sayings of that gentleman; but because we have all
necessity to necessity. She must go on." And
again : " Let no man suppose that Catholic eman-
along entertained the opinion that the alderman
cipation was a final act ; it was the last of a series, was the motive power, of which the busy and loqua-
but it was also the beginning of another series" cious Mr_ Todd, who has come so prominently
before us of late, was the vox et preteria nihil. To
This is THE TRUTH. Disguise the fact as we
er-ccb of Mr. Evaixao, we Wall tot the
may, we are embarked upon the waters of a torrent,
which are bearing us over fall after fall, still in-
most potent arguments which can he adduced, for
setting aside the deliberately-recorded opinions of
creasing in depth, until at length we are approach-
the town, and of Parliament, as to the extent to
ing a " lower deep," upon the brink of which we
which his favourite experiment of dock warehouses
must pause—if pause we can—for the chasm below
it contains the elements of our ruin as a Protestant should be tried.
nation ! The act of 1829 was " the last of a series." But first let us set ourselves right with respect to
We were promised, as its result, PEACE ; the ces-
our own objections to ride upon Mr. Alderman
sation of agitation ; the quiet submission of the Evans's hobby horse. We have no objections, in
Roman Catholic Church in Ireland to the supre- the abstract, to the principle of erecting warehouses
'
macy of the British Crown ; the blending of the upon the dock quays, although we feel convinced
Roman Catholic people of Ireland into the mass of that any land which we have to spare—and that we
loyalty and devotedness which are the characteris-
have little enough is notorious—might he devoted
to a better purpose. If there is no safety, however,
tics of the Protestant people of Great Britain, and
of Ireland as well. Have these promises been kept ? in any other locality, build them on the dock quays ;
Have the hopes with which we regarded them been but build them as private speculations, or sell the
realised? They have not; and we are reminded land to public companies, under any restrictions, as
that if the agitation which preceded the act of to plans of erection or management, which you
choose. We object only to the Dock Committee
1829 was the last of one series, it was also
" the beginning of another" ! And that other, becoming warehouse owners, or warehouse keepers,
,provided by the Jesuit faith of Rome as a lash for on the dock quays, or anywhere else ! We object to
our past credulity,—withheld from our gaze for a the capital of the dock estate being lavished in an
i
while, and now paraded, in insulting mockery, be_ injurious and unfair competition with the capital
and the management of-.private individuals; and so
fore our eyes,—is this agitation for the objects which
are comprised in the term " repeal of the union" strongly is this principle impressed upon our minds,
that we would almost go the length of Mr. North,
And yet we are urged, even by Protestants, to
concede to that agitation. Even now, when its
and allow the docks themselves to be leased to pri-
vate individuals or to companies. From all that we
leaders stand up, with arms in their hands and
ARMIES within their control,—when we have ring-
have seen of corporate management, or dock ma-
nagement, we are convinced that the public interests
ma-
ing in our ears the boast of a traitor that wields
" more physical force than ever monarch corn-
would be better served by any other management!
manded or general led,"—we are urged to go on in Again we must protest against the frequently-
that fatal course which has already brought the
expressed notion that the restrictions under which
empire to the verge of dismemberment !Do the the Dock Committee—or, rather, that imperium in
advocates of such a cowardly policy really imagine imperio which is styled the Committee of Works,
that any concession—that even the sacrifice of the and which is the Dock Committee—labour, are re-
Protestant Church of Ireland, and the setting up of strictions imposed upon them by "the warehouse
Rome upon its ruins—would purchase for them any owners." Whatever may be the sins of that vilified
body of men, this sin is not to be laid exclusively at
greater amount of quiet than past concessions have
secured ? We give them, for their information, the their door. The Council—which, if we mistake not,
declaration, as to the result of such concession, of represents, or ought to represent, the town—willed
the arch-apostle of treason—the leader of the phy-
that these restrictions should be imposed. The
sical force of Ireland—Daniel O'Connell himself! great majority of the community, who elect the
Council, willed the same. The restrictions, there-
" I had a conversation," exclaimed diib hiceil-
fore a e not the result of " an improvident bargain
diary, at the meeting of the Repeal Association on i
with a few warehouse owners," but a security taken
Tuesday last, at the Dublin Corn Exchange,—" wI
by the community against the carrying out of the
had a conversation lately, with gentlemen whose
!
names I will not mention, but whose opinions are hobby of a few crotchetty experimentalists
considered to be adverse to repeal ; and what did And now to Mr. Alderman Evans's speech. We
, pass by the somewhat flighty portion of it, in which
they advise me to do ? ' Accept of no compromise,' he refers to the warehouse owners as the parties
said they. (Loud cheers.) You will perhaps be
originating the restrictions to which we have re-
offered THE SACRIFICE OF THE ESTABLISHED
ferred, because we have already shewn that the
CHURCH, and an appropriation of the ecclesiastical
imputation is senseless ; Lod proceed to quote the
revenues to the purposes of the state ; so take all
I most material part, in extenso

(Dr Xtittrpoot &ianbarl3.

TUESDAY MORNING, JULY 11, 1843.

per square yard." We have now, from the re-
spected Chairman of the Dock Trust, 'another ver-
sion ! " The cost of the warehouses, including the
vaults, will be £lO 10e. per square yard, and with-
out the vaults, £8 Bs."

How are we to reconcile these conflicting ac-
counts—first £36 Bs.-; then £ll Ile.; and then,
with the vaults, £lO 10s. ? The latter, we are fur-
ther informed by the 'Chairman, does not include
the land,—or, as he says, perhaps more correctly,
" the making of the land." The'land cost £2 12s.
6d. per square yard. The " making of the land"—
the piling, filling,,&c.—what may that cost ? Any
man who has gone over the stupendous works
which have been tarried on upon the site of these
warehouses, and to form that site, may almost be
disposed to believe, with Mr. William Earle, and
in accordance with our first calculation and the
Surveyor's first calculation of their cost, that these
warehouses will not be completed, including land,
piling, &c., for less than £4O per square yard
When will the Dock Committee solve, beyond
dispute—it cannot be very difficult—this most im-
portant question.? At the present moment, it is
all important 1

" He should blush to tell the stranger that Liverpool
was under the control of a private interest that oppressed
her commerce and her trade; that, whilst every one of
these men was at perfect liberty to build any kind of
trashy warehouses he liked, 'on hill or dale, or wherever
he would, the public were inhibited from building the
best of warehouses on the most eligible site. (Hear, bear.)
Men must be under the most degrading influence in the
world, to suppose that the commerce of Liverpool was to
be checked, interrupted, •and curtailed by a few men,
whose interests were, after all, comparatively unimpor-
tant; and there could be no doubt that the corporation
ought to be released from such a degrading position as
this. The memorial alluded to a new circumstance—the
vast number of warehouses that had been burnt. When
these were to be replaced, would they deny the public the
application of the principle which they had already con-
ceded, by allowing half of the proposed dock warehouses
to be erected ? He did believe that if the warehouse in-
terest had effected the conquest of Liverpool just as an-
other William the Conqueror might have done, they could
hardly,bave imposed more destructive and more degrading
conditions on the town than they did by the late Dock
Act. He did hope that, under all the 'circumstances,
and considering the evident want of warehouses, the
warehouse interest would withdraw their opposition, and
allow warehouses to be built, which would be a model to
the world."

We, too, should blush ; but it would be to be
found talking such empty trash as this, and to be
so palpably displaying to the world how totally our
judgment and common sense we e obscured by the
absorbing. influence of a pet crotchet

Mr. Alderman Evans must know, or he ought to
know, that any application to Parliament to permit
the engrafting of a clause, so vitally important and
so extensive in its operation as the clause proposed
to he engrafted upon the Fire Phvention Bill, could
only tend to prevent the passing of that bill itself.
We have the distinct declaration of the Town Clerk
that such would be the effect of the application in
question; and really, when we see a gentleman, in
defiance of such an opinion, persevere in an obsti-
nate attempt to hurry the Council to the adoption
of a course so suicidal, we may almost be justified
in the suspicion that he cares less for the Fire Pre-
vention Bill—less for the providing of a remedy
which will contribute to arrest the frequent confla-
grations occurring in the town—than for the tri-
umph, by the aid of a temporary ferment in tho
public mind, of that hobby with which he has so
sedulously endeavoured to ride roughshod over the
will and the properties of a large portion of the in-
, habitants of the town.

TIME OF PARLIAMENT CONSUMED IN THE
DISCUSSION OF IRISH AFFAlRS.—Referring to
the complaint of Mr. W. S. O'Brien, that Ireland
is neglected by the British Parliament, the London
Times on Thursday remarks—
" What proportion of time do our readers suppose has
been actually occupied in the two Houses of Parliament
by exclusively Irish subjects? The time we cannot pro-
fess to guess at, but the matter spoken, even as abridged
of some of its most superfluous trash by the judgment of
our reporters, has occupied in our paper, since the Easter
recess only, no less than one hundred and four columns
and three-quarters, and seems but too unlikely to stop
even there. This at least, if not a disproof of, may be
taken by Mr. O'Brien as at least some revenge for the
neglect of the Legislature."

If to this be added the time consumed by the
British press and the British public, in recording
and perusing the ruffianism of O'Connell's repeal
gatherings, it cannot with any degree of reason be
urged that the alleged evils, or the sayings and
doings of the Irish people, do not occupy a full
share of the attention of the world.

A RADICAL GRIEVANCE !—ln the Manchester
Guardian of Wednesday last, we find the following
somewhat amusing paragraph :
" DISGRACEFUL USE OF A COURT OF JUSTICE.--The
sessions-room or moot-hall of the borough of Wigan, on
Monday last, was set apart for the accommodation of the
Orange lodges, who had a grand gala day in that town,
and were ' honoured ' with the company of several of the
more distinguished members of the order. A band, en-
gaged by the body, was playing during the whole of the
day in the neighbourhood of the hall, and an adjacent
public-house, where one of the lodges is held ; and the
Orangemen dressed in full uniform, paraded the streets
to and from the building, the door of which was kept by
one of the fraternity. In addition to the above, several
banners bearing the arms of the order, and inscriptions,
Church and state,' Loyal Orange Society,' &c., were
hung from the windows of the grand jury room, outside
the hall, and the members were in deliberation during a
great part of the day, with closed doors. What the go-
vernment will say to this gross perversion of the use of a
public court of justice, if represented to them, remains
to be seen : it certainly reflects the highest discredit on
the authorities of the borough."

A shocking thing, truly, that the " sessions-room,
or moot .hall," of the borough of Wigan, should be
occupied—whether they paid or not for theaccom-
moaation—by a body of men who, in addition to
their other enormities, their " closed doors," &c.,
could have the assurance to exhibit from its win-
dows banners bearing inscriptions so offensive to
the eye of liberalism as " Church and State,"
" Loyal Orange Society," &c. ! A repeal meeting
might have been held in this same " moot-hall;"
and, we venture to say, we should not have had any
great outcry against it from .the Manchester Guar-
dian. A dissenting gathering would have been
quite fitting and proper within its walls. But a
meeting of loyalists, whose motto is " Church and
State"—" what will the government say" to such an
enormity ? A place of worship may be desecrated
by anti-corn-law meetings ; town councils and ves-
tries may be turned into normal schools of agita-
tion ; but a meeting in a court of justice, of men
devoted to the support of the Church and the in-
stitutions of their country, is an enormity which
the Guardian thinks ought to be put down by the
hand of the executive ! Oh, the consummate im-
pudence of "liberalism" !

that you can get, but don't promise to give up any-

thing'! I WILL TAKE CARE TO FOLLOW SUCH

" It was a principle of English law, quite consistent
with the practice of the constitution, that parliament
.. . .. .. .

ADVICE

Is this not warning sufficient ? Can the blindest
the maddest, after such a declaration, advise the

should give relief wherever an injustice had been perpe-
trated; and whatever might be their views in that room,
however they might feel themselves restricted by the late
act, the public at large would feel no more restricted by

!oncession of an inch of ground to the demands of

it than by any other act of the legislature which they
wished to have repealed. It was a rule of law, as the
professional gentlemen would tell them, that for every
thing valuable there must he an equivalent. Now, the
warehou-e interest could not pretend that they had given
any equivalent for availing themselves of their momentary
political power to impose upon the public an unjust re-
striction. On these grounds, he believed that the mea-
sures adopted out of doors, or likely to be adopted, would
in all likelihood succeed ; and lie did consider that it
would be a great deal more creditable for the warehouse
interest themselves to take the initiative in the business,
and to abandon a restriction which they never had the
least right to propose."

a traitor, so daring in his designs, and so insolent in

tis menaces

A RUNNING COMMENTARY UPON CONTEM
PORARY JOURNALISM.—A contemporary of Tues-
day last, in an article of stupendous wisdom, enti-
tled " State of Trade," has perpetrated a collection
of dicta, upon which we propose to present to our
readers a " running commentary:" Indeed, this
form of criticism is the only one in which we have
found ourselves able, after many fruitless trials, to
do anything like justice to the production in ques-
tion. We begin ; and now—loquitur the Liverpool
7inzes

In the report of the Council meeting of Wednes-

Say last, under the head of "Dock Committee," we

1 the following conversation

We may premise

hat eve take it frog

Mercury,

because it is a

source not generally su

mosed to

be favourable to

our views of

the question to which it refers

DOCK COMMITTEE. We are perfectly ready to admit the soundness of
"
The report of the committee having been read, the Alderman's view of the spirit of British parlia-
Mr. G. H LAWRENCE said the cost of the proposed
mentary law and practice. Parliament will, no
warehouses at the Albert Dock had been differently stated,
it being, according to one account, £36 ss. per square doubt, give relief, even to the extent of revising its
yard, according to another, only £ll. He wished to know
which was correct. own acts, "wherever injustice has been perpetrated"
" Mr. SANDS was as much surprised as anybody to see by the operation of those acts; but it will first re-
it stated in the papers that the warehouses were going to Can
cost £4O per square yard. His friend; Mr. Stewart, knew quit proof of the existence of such injustice.
that that was quite fallacious. The cost of the warehouses, Mr. Evans, or any one else, prove that injustice? I
including the vaults, would be £lO 10s. per square yard.
Upon whom has it been committed ? Upon tha
and without the vaults, £8 Bs.. They would be fire-proof,
as far as it was possible to make them so, and he had the dock trustees ? We rather think, on the contrary, I

" STATE OF TRAM

" The quantity of cotton purchased in Liverpool, by
the manufacturers, in the first half year of 1843, is
648,740 bags, against 568,570 bags purchased in the cor-
responding period of 1842. This gives an increase of
upwards of 80,000 bags in the quantity bought for con-
sumption in the half year just ended, on comparison with
the first half year of 1842, and a still greater increase in
comparison with the consumption of 1841."

The arithmetical question here given 'is correctly
enough solved. If the consumption of cotton in

THE LIVERPOOL STANDARD

the first half year of 1843 was 648,740 bags, and
that of the sarne period in 1842 was 568,570 bags,
the fact flat there has been an increased consump-
tion. of upwards of 80,000 bags is one of those
truths" " which nobody can deny "—nobody, at
least, who has studied Cocker. Again, the Times
loquitur

" So great an increase as this proves (what indeed is
generally admitted) that the last half year has been one of
activity and prosperity to the cotton manufacturers, and
though business is at present rather duller in the cotton
districts than it has been for some time, yet it will be
seen from the extracts from one of the monthly circulars
just published at Manchester, which we give in another
column, that there is even now no reason for complaint."
Increased consumption of cotton proves the existence
of increased " activity" of manufacturing. The
conclusion is most logical and undeniable, and
worthy of our philosophic contemporary. We
rather apprehend, however, that increased con,
sumption does not always " prove " increased
" prosperity" to the manufacturer. This question,
however, we leave our contemporary to discuss with
his free-trade friends. The fact may be true; the
proof is not so apparent. We leave out some twad-
dle, and proceed :
" The accounts from Canada, brought by the Acadia,
prove, beyond doubt, that there can be no importation to
any extent either of American or Canadian grain or flour
into this country, except when prices are much higher
than they are at present in England."
Very old news this ; and we rather imagine that,
even with prices " much higher than they are at
present in England," we shall have, under a system
of free trade, as little American or Canadian impor-
tation as may be, The free-trade friends of the
Liverpool Times will again thank him for cutting
from beneath their feet their favourite argument—
the extent of the importations to be derived from
the United States ! Go on again with our most
candid contemporary:—

" Owing to the dull state of the timber trade, and the
large arrivals of shipping in the St. Lawrence, flour can
now be brought to this country at half the usual cost of
freight, that is about 2s. 6d. a barrel, and yet scarcely any
is coming, the price at Montreal being such as to render
the shipping of it unprofitable even at that unexampled
rate of carriage. And this, it must be remembered, is
not the result (flailing crops either in America or Canada,
for the wheat crops have been quite as good in both these
countries during the last two pears as they ever are." (!)
Good again ! When, we ask, are we to have our
extensive imports from the United States, which
are so materially to benefit our export trade to that
country ? What becomes of all the trash-upon-
stilts which we have had spouted about the " fertile
plaini of the West," &c., &c. ? Messrs. Thornely,
Evart,' Rathbone—tell us what ! Ye have told us
that America could supply our millions with corn
cheaper than any other of the nations of the earth;
but hear what says your candid philosopher, the
Liverpool Times :
" The truth is, that the general range of prices in
America is much higher than is usually supposed, (!)
high wages there adding nearly as much to the cost of
production as high rents and taxes do here, and though
farming produce is occasionally sold at wonderfully low
prices in remote districts, that proves no more as to the
general rate of prices than the equally wonderful cheap.
ness of the remoter districts of Scotland, and Wales,
and Ireland." (1)

Excellent blunderer ! You have as fairly cut your
throat, or your reputation, as a free-trade authority,
as any philosopher within our remembrance ! But
the gem of the production is to come. Hear it, all
the wiseacres of the Anti-Monopoly Association,
and at your next sitting award the cap and bells to
its erudite author !

" It is quite certain that, without an exceedingly low
rate of duty, or entire freedom, THERE CAN NEVER BE
ANY CORN TRADE OF IMPORTANCE EITHER WITH
CANADA OR THE UNITED STATES, except when prices
are high in England." (!!)

The freight of American or Canadian flour from
Montreal is only 2s. 6d. per barrel. The differen-
tial duty now payable is an absolute protection, and
a large one, against the cheap corn of Europe.
And yet, with these advantages, the flour of the
St. Lawrence cannot he profitably imported into
Great Britain, " except when prices are high in
England," unless under " an exceedingly low rate
of duty or entire freedom"—unless, in fact, you
WITHDRAW THE ADVANTAGE WHICH THE DIF-
FERENTIAL DUTY AFFORDS ! Excellent logician !
Tell us how " a low rate of duty" (which they have
at present), or " entire freedom," will better enable
the entintripc nn the hanks of tho Rt. Lowronoo to
supply the British market, when that "low rate"
or that " entire freedom" are enjoyed by their con-
tinental competitors ?

We recommend this production of the Liverpool
Times to the consideration of the Anti-Monopoly
Association at its next sitting.

LOCAL NEWS,

During the thunder-storm, on Wednesday, a hay-stack
was set on fire at Lark-hilt, West Derby, but some men
being in the neighbourhood, the fire was soon extinguished.
Two old women, at Prescot, were condemned for
drunkenness to sit in the stocks, last week, during the
market day, and performed the penance accordingly.
Such an occurrence has never taken place before in Pres-
cot in the memory of the oldest inhabitants.

TESTIMONIAL TO A CLERGYMAN.—It gives us much
pleasure to hear that the ladies of the Rev. W. Badnall'.
congregation, at Wavertree, have lately presented him
with a handsome suit of canonicals, as a token of respect.
which is another'proof of their esteem for him, and, doubt-
less, very gratifying to his feelings.

We understand that Mr. Edward Dalton, secretary to
the Protestant Association of London, has just been or-
dained by the Bishop of Cashel, and that the future
scene of his labours will be in Ireland. From his untiring
and indefatigable exertions in the cause of Protestant
truth, we feel assured that the rev, gentleman will, by the
biessing of Almighty God, become a most useful and
laborious minister of our beloved church.

SM UGGLIN G.—Joseph Hayes, Wm. Brown, and Joseph
Hampson, three boatmen, were yesterday brought before
Mr. Rushton, at the Police-court, charged with attempt-
ing to smuggle 112 lb. weight of foreign-manufactured
tobacco. The evidence against Hampson and Brown was
decisive, but rather slender against Hayes. They were
all remanded until Thursday next, to know the decision
of the Board of Customs.---A respectably-dressed youth
was committed for seven days, for smuggling two quarts
of brandy, from the Isle of Man steamer Queen of the
Isle.

COMMITMENTS.—A boy named Charles Summers was,
on Saturday, committed for trial, charged with stealing
about 21h. of coffee from a bag which he had cut open at
Mr. Hollis' warehouse in Ironrnonger-lane.—A woman
named Mary M'Noltes was also committed for trial at
the ensuing sessions, charged with stealing a basket of
clothes from a public-house in Hurst-street.—William
Kelley for one month, for stealing a barrel from on board
a ship.—Joseph Lythgoe for the same time, for robbing a
till; and several women, for stealing articles of wearing
apparel, for times varying from one to three months.
SHIPPING DISPATCH.—The superiority of Liverpool
over other ports, in her facilities and accommodations for
shipping, has,, we think, been fully proved in the case of
the Phoenix, Captain W. R. Greaves, from Antigua, be-
longing to Messrs. C. W. and F. Shand ; which vessel,
with a cargo consistine of 464 hh,lc. cnwir and 291 pun, molasses, besides a number of smaller packages, hauled
into dock on Thursday last, discharged and took on board
100 tons ballast and 150 tons goods, and sailed again for
Antigua on Saturday, having been only the short space of
sixty hours in dock ! We believe this exceeds anything
of the kind ever accomplished in Liverpool before.
CASE OF STABBING.—On Tuesday last, as two men,
named. Daniel Holland and William Sickle, were return-
ing to St. Helen's from Prescot, they met a man of the
name of William Dowdell, a porter, residing in this town.
Holland and Sickle asked Dowdell to treat them to a
quart of ale. Some altercation took place between the
parties, and Dowdell pulled out a broad bladed dagger,
and stabbed Holland above the left eye, and Sickle on the
right side of the forehead and eyebrow; the police was
immediately in attendance, and took the instrument from
Dowdell, whom they placed in the station-house. On the
following morning the case was gone into by Mr. Earle,
when Dowdell was committed to take his trial at the

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ANOTHER CASE OF STABBING.—On Saturday, at the
police-court, a rough-looking elderly man, named James
Lunt, was charged with stabbing a coal-heaver named
Cornelius Walker. From the evidence it appeared that
some dispute had existed between the prisoner and
Walker, and that they met on Friday in a coal-yard at the
top of Old Hall-street, when, after some words, the pri-
soner took out his knife and stabbed Walker in the breast
and stomach. Little hopes are entertained of his recovery.
The prisoner was remanded.

LATEST NEWS FROM THE UNITED STATES.—By
the arrival of the England, line of packet-ship, we have
New York papers to the 19th June. The only event of
importance of which they bring us intelligence, is the ce-
lebration, by a public procession in the city of Boston, of
the completion of the monument erected on Bunker's-
hill, of which the foundation-stone was laid eighteen
years ago. It is calculated that there were about 300,000
people assembled in the streets of Boston, and 200,000
more upon platforms, balconies, and the roofs of houses,
amongst whom were the President of the United States,
Mr. Webster, and 108 soldiers of the Revolution, who
were engaged in the action, most of them, of course, ap-
proaching the age of 90, and one we perceive nearly 100
years old. Much attention was excited towards this
veteran band. After marching in procession through the
town, Mr. Webster addressed the vast assemblage, from
a platform erected for the occasion, in an oration of great
power and beauty, but entirely American in interest.
The Columbia arrived at Boston on the morning of the
18th.