The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1848-03-07 00:00:00

FIRST CLASS

Newton .... Wm. Canncer
Lostock.... Geo. Glassford

SECOND CLASS

Daresbury.. Thos. Swinton

Plumby

W►n. Higginson

GROWTFI OF COTTON AT PORT NATAL.—SOI most
gratifying evidence of the capabilities of Port Natal to
produce abundantly and constantly every quality of cot-
ton required for manufacture, was given at a meeting of
the Blackburn Commercial Association, on Wednesday.
Some questions were asked as to the respectability and
probable stability of a company which had been formed
at Port Natal for the cultivation of cotton. We are in a
great measure enabled to answer the inquiry by a refe-
rence to the proceedings which took place at a meeting
of the Manchester Chamber of Commerce on Thursday
last. It appears that a gentleman named Bertheil, of the
firm of Messrs. J. P. Jung and Co., merchants, of Cape
Town and Port Natal, who was one of the originators of
the company, in which he holds fifty shares, attended the
Manchester meeting, and offered excellent evidence both
as to the respectability and prospects of the Cotton Com-
pany, and the easy means by which cotton could be cul-
tivated at Port Natal. Families of Germans had been
sent out, and were each to receive 210 acres of land from
the Company-10 acres to be quite free for their own use,
on condition that they cultivated cotton on the other 200
acres, and took the crops to the warehouse of the owners.
It was shown that for small capitalists, say with £4OO, a
very profitable cultivation of cotton could he forthwith
commenced. All the papers published at Cape Town
and Port Natal, spoke very favourably of the Company.
Out of 2,000 shares, 1,500 allotted to Cape Town were
taken up in less than two hours : the other 500 were re-
served for Port Natal and England ; and we shall be very
much surprised if a single share is by this time left.—
Blackburn Standard.
MYSTERIOUS CIRCUMSTANCE.—LOSS AND EXTRAOR-
DINARY RECOVERY.—The Manchester Courier contains
particulars of the following extraordinary affair:—On
Tuesday afternoon last Mr. Appleton, the principal ma-
nager of the banking establishment of Messrs. Hardcastle,
Cross and Co., of Bolton, was in Manchester, and dined
at the Star Hotel, Deansgate, with several other gentle-
men from Bolton, amongst. whom we may state was Mr.
Thomas Cross, bleacher, of Mootfield, one of the partners
in the bank.. After dinner, the party, numbering about
a dozen, adjourned to the " smoke room," where, after
remaining in conversation until about four o'clock, Mr.
Thomas Cross rose to leave for the Bolton Railway Sta-
tion, on his return homewards. Wishing to have some
conversation with him, Mr. Appleton accompanied him
to the hotel door, where they remained together some few
minutes, when they mutually shook hands, and separated,
Mr. Cross proceeding to the railway station, and Mr.
Appleton rejoining his friends in the smoke room of the
Star Hotel. On re-seating himself, however, he made the
painful discovery that he had lost from his pocket a roll of
notes amounting to £1250. He searched his dress and
every portion of the room, but in vain. The other rooms
of the house where he had been were also searched. He
had felt the notes in his trowser's pockets shortly before.
He then acquainted Mr. Beswick, chief constable, who
advertised bills, offering a reward. Mr. Beswick after-
wards entered the smoke room, where he found about a
dozen gentlemen whom he had seen there before. He
told them the notes were lost there, and addressing one
of them, a wealthy man and hitherto considered respect-
able, he inquired if he know anything of them, saying
also that he must make a strict search. The man appear-
ed indignant, hut being peremptorily questioned further,
he at length falteringly and faintingly acknowledged that
he had picked up " something." Do you know what
it is, have you looked at it ?" exclaimed Mr. Beswick,
" No, I don't," was the rejoinder of the gentleman ;
when hurrying him into an adjoining room, Mr. Beswick,
who from the moment he laid his hand upon the gentle-
man's shoulder seemed to be convinced he had got hold
of the right man, shortly returned with the lost notes in
1 his hand. . .

THE ARCHBISHOP OF CANTERBURY ELECT

On Monday, the Council and magistrates of Chester
proceeded in state to the Palace, preceded by the police
force and the civic regalia, for the purpose of presenting
an address to the Bishop, on his preferment to the see of
Canterbury. The address, after expressing sentiments of
reverence and affection for the professional and personal
character of his lordship, and regret at his removal from
a city where he had done so much to ameliorate the con-
dition of the unfortunate, the distressed, and the destitute,
contained the following sentences

" It is no part of our province, combining as we do persons
of various shades of opinions, to enter upon questions affecting
the present position and future prospects of the Protestant
Church as established by law in these realms, but we may be
privileged to express our sincere belief that a more vigilant de-
fender of the principles of the Reformation than your lordship
is not to be found within the pale of the Establishment, and our
ardent hope that iii these days when public opinion (not hastily
expressed but deliberately matured) is favourable to an en-
lightened toleration being extended to all cusses of her Majes-
ty's subjects, that the advancement of your lordship to the
highest honour anti trusts in the Established Church will tend
to preserve, strengthen, and enlarge the influence of those
principles, and that they will be upheld in their full integrity so
far as your lordship's example and influence may prevail. We
congratulate your lordship on the attainment of honours which
are most worthily bestowed, accompanied, however, by grave
responsibilities, which our past experience of your lordship and
your labours within this diocese assures us you will faithfully
discharge. We congratulate the Church that in these times,
when somewhat of disquiet has fallen to her lot, that in the ele-
vation of your lordship she will enjoy the pastoral superinten-
dence and affection of a firm supporter of the Christian
faith and a lover of peace. We congratulate the people amongst
whom your lordship will hereafter dwell that they will have the
advantage of the residence of a prelate not only pre-eminently
fitted to fill the highest station in the Church, but who is de-
serving of their affection in the less dignified but useful capaci-
ties of friend, neighbour, and citizen."

The Bishop, on receiving the address, spoke as follows

" Mr. Mayor and Gentlemen,—lt is difficult for me to ex-
press the strong emotion with which I have heard your address,
speaking of me as it does in terms far more honourable than I
had any right to expect, or am conscious of deserving. My
appointment to the Primacy has been received in many quar-
ters with a favour which I could not have presumed to antici-
pate. But the opinion which is especially valuable is that of
my neighbours and fellow-citizens, who have had opportunities
of judging concerning me, and speak from their own observa-
tion ; and I must be devoid of all proper feeling, if I did not
acknowledge a high degree of gratification for the testimony
which you now dyer me, founded on the experience of twenty
years, during which we have been known to each other. I may
advert to another source of satisfaction derived from your Ad-
dress. I cannot but be conscious to myself that lam removed
to a station of far greater responsibility, and far greater diffi-
culty, than that which I have hitherto filled ; and I cannot but
feel an apprehension, lest I should prove inadequire to the
right discharge of my duties, many of which are new and
strange to me. Under such disquietude, there iii consolation
in reflecting that the duties which 1 have hitherto discharged
were once new to me, and that in the opinion of kind, but dis-
passionate observers, i have been found faithful in the fulfil-
ment of them. In this thought I take courage, trusting that
the same Power which has hitherto strengthened me, may sus-
tain me still, and the same grace which has procured me favour
in the judgment of my fellow-citizens at Chester may prove
sufficient for me in the high eminence to which I am now
called. Certainly in one respect you do me no more than justice.
I do hope to be always a vigilant defender of the doctrines of
the Reformation. Toleration, in its fullest legitimate extent.
will always be my principle ; but toleration must not slide into
indifference ; there is an essential distinction between truth
and error; and one of the chief dangers of the present day is
the danger of confounding them. The Scriptures assure its
what is Truth ; and what I receive as truth from the Scriptures,
it will always be my endeavour to maintain, uncorrupted by
German neology on the one side, or by Romish tradition on
the other."