The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1843-07-18 00:00:00

II P. LIVERPOOL BTANDARO.

to give assistance ; yet it is a fact, that the opposition to
the employment of accoucheura has not been overcome

in every nation until the dangers resulting from inexperi-
enced and inefficient practitioners have been so great as to
arouse the attention of the state. In England there is no
regular instruction for female midwifes. No examination

under which the legislature compels them to pass. And
consequently the results of want of information are most

ailing. In Edinburgh, Professof Hamilton has sue-
eded in establishing a class of female pupils, many of
Mom have risen to considerable local celebrity; but he
informs us that the timidity of the sex is such as to dis-
"a them in general from the performance of any capi-
In France the Midwife receives a regular
medical education, attends lectures, walks the hospitals,
Taminations necessary to her

tal operations

ies the e

graduating as a doctor in medicine.
The first lying-in hospital in London was founded so
late as 1739, by Sir James Manningham, in one of the
wards of St. James's Parochial Infirmary, Westminster
Since that period our science '

has been cultivated much
and extensively. Names high in the temple
of fame appear in rapid succession, as Levret, Smellie,
Beat, Gregoire, Mecktl, Siebold, Hunter, Osborne, Den-
man, Haighton, Clarke, Davies, Sec.; which bring us down

more widely

to the present day, and to those numerous and talented
individuals who are now so successfully enriching this
department of medical science.
Hospitals and other institutions specially devoted to ob-
stetric cases and the diseases of women and children, have
rapidly increased. Lc

)n alone now possesses thirteen
iidwifery institutions; Dublin has three or four; and
I many of the large towns in the kingdom—Edinburgh,
Manchester, Liverpool, Leeds, Newcastle, Bristol, &c.—
similar charities.—Dr. Waddp.

I posse

SECOND EDITION.

Standard-office, Three o'clock

ARRIVAL OF THE AMERICAN PACKET-SHIP

" GARRICK."
NINE DAYS LATER FROM NEW YORK

This fine packet-ship arrived in our river at three o'clock
this afternoon, bringing papers to the 26th ultimo. She
brings ❑o news beyond the fact that up to that date no-
thing was k

starting
of the Columbia steamer, which was advertised to sail on
the Ist of July, and is not telegraphed at the time of our

going to press

I LIVERPOOL CORN EXCHANGE, This DAY

(From Messrs. R. Makin & Sons' Circular.)

The receipts into this port, from the 11th to the 17th
instant, include chiefly a moderate quantity of Wheat
and Oats, coastwise and from Ireland, with a fair supply
of Flour and Oatmeal from the latter source, and 1780
qrs. of Wheat from Danzig
The advance and active

proceedings reported in the
leading markets of the kingdom last week, produced
considerable excitement yesterday in every branch of the
Corn trade here, which neither the sellers nor buyers
seem to have been generally prepared to expect : the
more sanguine holders in consequence appeared disposed
to withdraw a portion of their samples, until the result of
this sudden change be better ascertained by a more accu-
rate knowledge relative to the stocks of Grain in the
hands of British growers; the prevailing opinion being
that, without a fair supply`from abroad, much less than
the usual overplus will be left in this country at the pe-
riod the new crop may become available.

Our market to-day waa tolerably well attended by town
and country millers, but the pause in London yesterday
having checked that eager desire for buying Wheat exten-
sively, which was previously observable at an improvement
of Is. per 701bs, that f.

.advance was not supported to-day,
and the transactions this morning, generally upon a
moderate scale only, place our quotations merely 6d. to
9d. above those of this day se'nnight.

English and Irish Flour may be noted ss. per sack,
and American 2s. to 3s. per barrel dearer, which being
reluctantly complied with, few sales were effected.
Barley continued to be held for higher prices, and Malt
was the turn higher.—Beans and Pease fully maintained
the improved terms of Friday.

ARRIVALS OF CORN,
From the 11th to the 17th July, 1843, inclusive,

IRE-
DESCRIPTIONS.
LA • COAST-
I ND. WISE. CANADA ""
REIGN

Wheat
Barley
Malt ..
Rye ..

Ors,
Qrs,
Qrs,
Qrs.
Qrs.

34
36 450
2037 1829
212 i

\ 30

Pease Qrs
ShelledßarleyQrs
Indian Corn. Qrs
Rapeseed Qrs
Oatmeal .. Loads 6654
Flour. .... Sacks j 4022
Ditto Brls. 100
Into Runcorn, Wheat 488 qrs.; Pease, qrs.; Oatmeal,
oads.

EXPORTS.—Foreign. Beans 25 qrs. ; Pease, 20 qrs. ; Flour,
801 brls.—lreland, Wheat, 760 qrs. ; Barley, qrs ; Indian
Corn, 795 qrs. ; Flour, sacks brls.—Coastwise. Wheat,
429 brls. ; Oats, 2g qrs. ; Pease, 8 qrs, ; Oatmeal, lds, ;
Flour, 336 sacks 1030 barrels.

Average prices of Grain, for the week ending July 8, 1843.
Wheat 4gs. 10d. I Barley 28s. Bd. I Oats lgs. 7d. I Rye 325. Bd.
Beans.. 2gs. gd. I Pease.. 314. 7d.
Aggregate average of the six weeks.
Wheat 4gs ld I Barley 27s 8d
.1 Oats 18s gd. I Rye 31s Id.

Beans.: 283. 9d. j Pease.. 303.-6 d:
Duty on Foreign Grain, &c . this week

Wheat 2050 d I liarley gs I Oat; Os od I Rye..los. 6d.
Beans Is 6ci I Pease .. los 6d Ind. Corn Os Od I Flour 12s.Oid
Ditto from British Colonies out of Europe.
Wheat.. ss. Od. I Barley.. 2s. 6d. I Oats ..2s. Od. I Rye..3s. Od.
Beans 3s. Od I Pease 3s. Od. I Indian Corn os.od. I Flour 3s Od
Liverpool Averages, week ending July 11, 1813
Wheat. Barley. II Oats. Beans. 1 Pease.
Qrs... 205 mg()
Prices 51s. Bd. 00s. Cd. 175.104 d. Os. Od. Os. Od.

My precept to all that build is, that the owner should
be an ornament to the house, and not the house to the

owner.

THE JONAH MOUSE.—" The Tay trout," says John
Crorar, " lives in that river all the year round. It is a
large and yellow fish with a great mouth, and feeds chiefly
on salmon spawn, moles, mice, frogs, &c. A curious cir—
cumstance once happened to me at Pulney Loch ; one of
my sons threw a live mouse into it, when a large trout
took the mouse down immediately. The boy told me what
had happened, so I took my fishiug-rod which was leaning
against my house close to the loch, and put a fly on. At
the very first throw I hooked a large trout, landed it, and
laid it on the walk ; in two seconds the mouse ran out of
its mouth, and got into a bole in the wall before I could
catch it."—Scrope's Days of Salmon Fishing.
OUR SCINDIAN CONQUEST.—It will further appear,
that the present, or rather the now deposed, dynasty of
Ameers, were intruders, whose occupation of the country
is not of fifty years' date ; who have not, therefore, ac-
quired that species of right to which sufferance gives a
qualified sanction, and who could justify their title by no
plea but the choice and approbation of their subjects.
Now, the universally consenting testimony of all persons
who have visited the territories of the Ameers, declares•
that they are detested by the Scindians, who sigh for any
change, and who hailed the approach of the British, when
on their march towards Affghanistan, in the vain hope
that they were coming to release them from the absurd
and intolerable tyranny of their princes, which condemned
the people to misery and the very soil to reluctant sterility.
Every traveller in Scinde speaks loudly in praise of the
fertile and productive properties of many tracts in that
neglected country, and of the resources which it would
afford to commerce if its energies were not depressed.—
Asiatic Journal.

P.lcas iH 1793.—The celebrated Count Mirabeau, in
a letter written from London just fifty years ago,. thus
speaks of English prices ; it is remarkable how very nearly
they are the same as those paid at the present time. "To
enable you to form a judgment of the dearness of London,
take the following bread, 2d. a pound ; coarse meat, 4d ;
roasting beef, Bd. to 9d. ; bacon, 10d. ; butter, ls. ; can-
dles, 7d. ; the price of a cow, 12 or 15 guineas ; an acre
of land, in the neighbourhood of the metropolis, 45 or £6
per annum. This great dearness of provisions is continu-
ally exc►ting murmurs among the peole ; but famine is not
the consequence. The only measures taken a few years
ago, by the legislature, under similar circumstances, were,
laying an embargo upon English corn; and suffering the
importation of foreign grain during three months. In the
debates, upon that occasion, one of the first peers of Eng-
land observed, that the dearness of provisions was not so
much a proof of a dearth of corn, as of the great super-
fluity of gold and silver, which war and commerce had
brought into the kingdom ; that the country partook of
that superfluity, which extended even to the farmer."

WHAT MUST BE DONE WITH SCINDE ?—The country
is now placed in our hands—how is it to be disposed of?
There are but three modes : first, that of restoring it to
its late possessors, with such curtailments and under such
conditions as may diminish the moans of annoyance here.
after ; secondly, that of replacing it under the independent
authority of some member of the Calora dynasty ; or,
lastly, that of administering tha government of the country
ourselves. Now, it is obvious that the late rulers of
Scinde, educated as they have been, and identifying their
interests with those of an army of Belooche ruffians, could
never make their country a useful ally of Britain, or
part to it sufficient strength to resist any invader. Want
of attachment on the part of their subjects would alone
enfeeble their authority, and Scinde would still remain
weak, disorganised, and poor. The change of dynasty, if
it were practicable, would be merely an experiment. The
Calora family bad no hold upon the affections of the peo-
ple, and if restored must be upheld, like Shah Shooja, by
British bayonets. There seems, therefore, no other pru-
dent alternative than that which the Governor-General of
India appears to have adopted,—for no formal annexation
of Scinde to the British dominions has yet been pro:nul-
-1 gated,—that of boldly doing in the face of the world that
v.Li...11 must Lc done ctncrtly of the etlha ceur.e,,
I Asiatic Journal.

INIQUITY Obi THE SELIIsaa PRINCIPLE. —lf men
bounded their desires after this world's goods, by what
they might fairly acquire without approximating to the
verge of another woe, proclaimed against him "that useth
his neighbour's service without wages, and giveth him
not for his work," or who gives so little, it is next akin to
nothing ; there would be a manifest check put to the
augmentation of estates, the embellishment of dwelling
houses, and the countless etcetera of personal emulation
and display. Waste land would not be enclosed as now
it everywhere is; the village common would still pasture
the poor man's cow, and afford picking to his little stock
of poultry, instead of being made to bear grain for the
wealthy farmer, or to form an addition to the nobleman's
preserve. The frame of woman would not be bowed un-
der such burdens as ought not even to be laid on the more
inevitably
vitiated structure of man, nor would her mind be
vitiated by compulsory admixture with labourers of the
other sex, at such times, in such places, and under such
circumstances as render mental contamination at least a
matter of course. Children would not be immured
throughout the livelong day in gloomy buildings, and
their exhausting effurts protracted to thirteen, fourteen,
fifteen hours of labour, to the utter exclusion of every
hope that instruction, even on the most vital subjects,
may reach them. The common sense of mankind assents
to what inspiration declares—" Man goeth forth to his
work and to his labour until the evening." Twelve
hours is the limit prescribed, by universal consent, for the
work of adults ; yet under the influence of this money-,
getting mania, we find employers pertinaciously refnsing
to bring the daily service even of their juvenile operatives
within that limit. No other excuse is, or can be ad-
vanced ; the market, say they, must be supplied, and
whatever advantage we sacrifice, others will seize. It
may be so ; but the policy is very short-sighted that
looks no farther than the duration of this demand ; this
unhealthy, feverish craving for a supply only to be ob-
tained by means pregnant with destruction alike to the
markets, the goods, and those who bring them there. The
least taste of licentious liberty, such as our working po-
pulation recently obtained a snatch of, is perilous in the
extreme to those who know no medium between it and
the most heart-sickening drudgery ; combined with im-
prisonment, and the constant spectacle of luxury in ano-
ther class that seems to mock their privations, and to
count them but as the beasts that perish.—Perils of the
Nation.

MORMONITE FALSEEI OODS.—I told my informant that
I had seen quite enough to convince any person of ordi-
nary understanding, that Smith was an impostor. He
replied that Smith might be as bad as he was reported to
be, but that is prophecies would not thereby be proved
false. He might be a swindler, a liar, a drunkard, a
swearer, and still be a true prophet. David was a mur-
derer and an adulterer, and yet was a true prophet. St.
Peter said that even in his time " David had not yet
ascended into heaven." David was in hell, for no mur-
derer had eternal life abiding in him. So Smith might be
as infamous as David was, and even deny his own revela-
tions, and turn away from his religion, and go to hell;
but this would not affect the revelations which God had
given by him. It was in vain that I attempted to correct
the doctor's false positions; the stream of his heretical
eloquence had begun to flow, and, finally, I suffered it to
flow unchecked. He said that the truth of Mormonism
did not depend on the character of Smith or of any other
man. That our Lord had told the Jews that there were
other sheep, not of that fold, whom He intended to bring,
and that in accordance with this declaration, after his as-
cension into heaven, He descended again in America and
preached the Gospel to the Indians, as the veracious his-
tory of the book of Mormon assured us. That for his own
part, his faith had been produced solely by the power of
God, and that if he was deceived, God'Almighty had de-
ceived him, and no other. " I was once an honest Athe-
ist," he proceeded ; " I felt that Christianity could not be
true, since Christians have not yet decided among them-
selves what Christianity is. I was induced by curiosity to
listen to the preaching of a Mormon elder. My attention
was strongly arrested ; I began to believe in God, and for
many weeks and months was earnest in my prayers to
Him for a knowledge of the truth. After a space of six
months, I was one night lying awake in my bed medi-
tating, when suddenly a conviction of the reality of the
Christian religion flashed upon my mind like lightning.
I saw the truth of the Scriptures and of the book of Mor-
mon. I felt powerfully convinced that the prophecies of
Joseph Smith were from God. At the same time I was
filled with a supernatural extasy which resembled heaven
itself. I could not restrain my feelings, but cried out, 0
my God, if it be thus to be baptized with the Holy Ghost,
what must it be to be baptized with fire! From that time
I have been a member of the ' Latter-day Church,' and,
believe me, I would rather be an honest Atheist again,
than embrace the doctrines of any of the sects. If the
religion which I profess be false, there is no true religion
upon earth."

IMPROVEMENTS IN AGRICULTURE, CHIEFLY THE
WORK OF THE ANGLO-SAXON RACE.—It is a most re-
markable fact, if you will pardon me for indulging in a
general reflection, that till lately all great discoveries and
improvements in agriculture seem to have been the pro-
duct of the very earliest infancy of mankind. Who can
tell, my lord, when that instrument that lies at the basis
of all civilisation, the plough, was invented? Who can
tell when man first called in the partners of his labour,
the horse, the ox, the cow, the swine, the sheep, and took
them into profitable alliance with himself? If you could
find out who was the shepherd that first caught the wild
dog, and taught him to help and tend the flock, you ought
to rear a monument of brass or a marble cenotaph to his
memory—a higher monument than was ever raised to
hero or monarch. Who knows where the cereal grains or
the esculent roots were first cultivated ? There is but one-
of them as you know, the potatoe, of which the history is
known—all the rest retire back into the darkest antiquity.
They were cultivated at a time when your ancestors were
roaming over the morasses of the now beautiful free and
merry England—(cheers) : when our ancestors were roam-
ing painted savages through the land. Aye, and when the
Romans and Greeks were living on beech nuts and acorns
—(hear, hear). It seems, in fact, that in reference to the
progress of agriculture, mankind has followed that curious
law which Mr. Owen alluded to at the council dinner yes-
terday—the law that governs the ruminating animals in
the tropics. He pointed out to us most beautifully that
the ruminating animals there have a large fat lump
between the shoulders. This is nourished and grows in
the first five months of the year, when there is plenty of
food, and they get along with the hump as well as they
can through the seven succeeding months of scarcity. So
it seems with mankind with respect to agricultual discove-
ries. In the very infancy of the race they get this large
fat hump between the shoulders, and for 3,000 years they
lived upon little or nothing else—(cheers and laughter).
The very plough that we read of in Virgil we may now see
in use in the south of Europe. We see it still in the
hands of the peasantry as we discover it in bas relief on
the sculptured remains of antiquity. It is a most pleas-
ing fact that this revival of the great art of agriculture in
these latter days of the world is the work of the Anglo-
Saxon race of which you have spoken. It has been left
to you, and if you will permit me to say to us, living as we
do in this ungenial climate, beneath these weeping skies ;
(the rain was at this moment descending in torrents, and
the observation was loudly cheered); it has been left to
us to do that which not Italy nor Greece has been able to
do with all.their sunny climate. Yes, and it is the want
of those tropical luxuries, those enervating breezes of the
south that has given you, that gives us, that hardihood,
that perseverance, that industry, that resolution, that are
worth all the spices and all the gold of the tropics—
(cheers). Yes, it is this that enables you to make that
boast in which I hope you will permit me, for my country
to join—

" Man is the nobler. growth our soil supplies,
And souls are ripened in our northern skies."
—Mr. Everett, at the Royal Agricultural Meeting.

THE ILLUSTRATED LONDON NEWS ..—The second
volume of this spirited and elegant newspaper, for the
half-year ending with June, is made complete with a noble
and boldly executed title-page, index, preface, &c., issued
with the usual weekly number of last Saturday. The suc-
cess of this publication has been unprecedented ; we need
not say that it has also been deserved.