The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1846-08-18 00:00:00

THE LIVERPOOL STANDARD.

ments;—and the sale of the scrip representing the
amounts so signed for has not torn the seal from
the bond, " Litera scripta manet." Parchment is
an enduring thing. The names of the original al-
lottees must be registered in the place of those
scripholders who refuse to own their now d pre-
ciated property. The gentlemen who have all
along been fancying that the harvest of premiums
which they have reaped was all their own, "to
lend, to spend, or to give," discover that, to snatch
that harvest, they have incurred responsibilities of
no very pleasurable kind to contemplate ; and that
calls are corning, the presence of which is not very
likely to change discount into premiums, or to ren-
der their property a very buoyant article. Grim
visions of secretaries' and lawyers' letters rise up
in the distance; and the postman's double knock
is not half so grateful a sound as in the days when
every other letter was an .allotment, and Exchange-
street East and Royal Bank Buildings were El
dorados.

Seriously, it is fearful to contemplate the havoc
which must occur amongst the unfortunate allot-
tees of one-fourth of the railways which, being sanc-
tioned by Parliament, have been attempted to be car-
ried on. A glance at even one page of the Parlia-
mentary blue book, just published, containing the
names of parties, who have signed railway bills to
the amount of £2,000 and upwards, will abun-
dantly show the utter impossibility of going on,
without involving thousands in ruin. It is not for
bankers and merchants, and their responsibility for
upwards of thousands, that we fear most, although
to many of them the issue of their attempt to grasp
so large a portion of the golden shower may be
sufficiently disastrous. Generally, however, such
parties have secured shares in undertakings of a
valid character, which they may part with, at some
price, and get out. Some of the heaviest amounts
which appear, have doubtless been: subscribed by
gentlemen, as directors or trustees for public com-
panies or parties quite able to sustain the weight of
respo sibility incurred in their behalf. But, the
small traders, the shopkeepers, the professional men,
the clerks, the household servants, whose names
are appended to such instruments for such heavy
amounts, compared with their means, absolutely
startle us. What is to become of them ? It is
frightful to think of their position, and of the con-
sequences, to innocent persons, which may result
from their mingled folly and avarice. It is fright.
ful to contemplate the shock to commerce which
must follow the general conviction that these par-
ties are irretrievably in the net; and the long
period of suspended confidence which may occur
before they are fairly and completely released.
The ordeal, however, must be gone through, and
it will be a severe one. In such a crisis as the pre-
sent, the price of the very best share property is
affected by the pressure of a call. That price in mid-
dling and unpromising concerns will fall to nothing.
Nay, we doubt whether, with even two or three
calls paid, the shares in some may not be difficult
to give away. Under such circumstances, what
can we expect but expensive and unproductive liti-
gation and widely spread distress and embarrass-
ment ? The only hope of safety lies in the pru-
dence of railway directors themselves, who ought
now seriously to consider how little prospect there is
of any good resulting from an attempt to carry out
their various undertakings in the present state of
monetary affairs. One half of them, at least, ought
to be shelved until the commercial horizon brightens.

We don't know whether it is the genius of the
Popish system, or the natural wish of mankind, to
stand well with their fellow creatures, which
prompts to such scenes as the following, the de-
scription of which we extract from a Dublin

paper :
" Preceded by the Rev. Messrs. HenneSsy, Roughan,
Mahony, and Fahy, the wretched man unhesitatingly
walked up the stairs; and after conversing privately for a
few minutes, was about to mount the awful scaffold, when
turning round suddenly he said—' I would wish to say a
few words.' `Do not; take my advice (said the anxious
clergyman,) do not say a word.' After some well timed
expostulation the scaffold was ascended, and the culprit
cried out—' I will explain all—my prosecutors swore
falsely.'

"A voice then came from the boundary wall, saying—
' Stop as you are, don't mind them.' The speaker, we
understand, was a near relative to the dying man.
" Sexton, addressing the crowd, said, ' I am going to
die, and may I never enter the kingdom of God, if every
word of what my prosecutors swore was not fat=e.'

" Mr. llenne;eZT—Now, Sexton, if you persevere, you
are wrong, and if you persist in making a dying declara-
tion, lat least will not be accountable. Do you forgive
your prosecutors?
•` Sexton—` I do from the bottom of my heart, and all
my enemies.' Again, addressing the crowd he said, ' I
have a good deal to say, but the clergy won't allow me ; I
forgive my prosecutors, and may the Lord have mercy
on my soul—l will die with what brought me here—
courage.' "

Here was an undoubted ruffian—a murderer. He
had made his peace with Heaven, as his creed tells
him he can make it, by confession to his priest—a
brother mortal and sinner. He was annealed, em-
balmed, ready to go out of the world : yet he was
anxious to die with a lie in his mouth. He forgave
his enemies; yet he accused the witnesses who had
proved his crime, of perjury. Happily he had a
spiritual adviser who was, to some extent, a check
upon him :—an honest man, and a man considerate
of the conscience of his unfortunate devotee. But
what are we to think of such men as the attempting
assassin of Sir Frederick Hopkins ? What of the
numberless men who have attempted murder, or
committed murder, and denied their offences on the
scaffold ? Do Popish priests, unlike the party in
this case. wink at such things ? The question is an
awkward one, and we refrain.

We are really tired of exposing the inventions of
such papers as the Liverpool Albion. Of course his
worship the Mayor has been above the meanness of
conciliating the people who have to do with concoct-
ing the paragraphs which appear in this paper. We
ourselves are said to have affected something like
chivalry in defending the Mayor against the attacks
of the Albion and his brethren. We cannot see
anything chivalric about the matter. We are not
" the organ" of the Mayor, or any other functionary.
We are simply the organ of any man we see perse-
cuted by Whig-Radical spite. The poor puling
beings, who do the mischief (or the Albion, are as
little in our eyes as any other libellers.
We therefore pass over all the " Hey diddle did-
dle" of the Albion directed against ourselves. We
have no " chuckling" to do; but we don't tell lies,
and we don't allow the Albion to tell lies without
calling him to account. We did so on a late occa-
We told our contemporary that a certain
penny-a-line manufactured story of his was a manu-
facture from first to last. It is so. There is no

mistake about the sending in of the officer's card,
which was vouched for by the Albion. There was

Ent not

delivering the card, the idea is preposterous. The
rest of the story, as to the second message, we ye-
peat—and as our contemporary is not satisfied with
plain language, we repeat it plainly—is a deliberate
falsehood—a s" lie with a circumstance"—the most
enormous and barefaced of lies, inasmuch as inven-
tion is called in to aid dishonesty.

We are really sorry to have to use this kind of
language ; but there are people, it seems, who un-
derstand nothing more polite. We apologize espe-
cially to the respectable proprietors of the Albion,
which. used to he a paper as honest and courteous
as it was talented. We could pardon the loss of the
latter feature in our contemporary ; but when stu-
pidity is added to vulgarity, it is a duty which we
owe to ourselves, who are attacked, to the public,
whose ear is outraged, and to the proprietary, who,
we are sure, do not wish their property to be made the
vehicle of personal scurrility, to speak our sentiments.

The Rev. Charles Henry Burton, M.A., of Corpus
Christi College, Cambridge, has been appointed to suc-
ceed the Rev. Dr. Wl' as Minister of St. Philip's Church,
in this town. Patron, John Cragg, Esq.
THE WEATHER AND THE CROPS.—From a somewhat
1 observation, we may state that the wheat crop
.eighbourhood is by no means what we were led
to expect from the favourable summer we have had.
The late heavy rains, together with the hot weather, have
caused the grain to sprit in many fields we have seen,
and in Orrell, Garston, and other places south of this
town, and exposed to the wind, the wheat (not already
housed,) has been laid down to a very considerable extent.
So far as regards this locality, the soundness of the article
cannot to any great extent be depended upon. Good
wheat will be the exception, not the general rule. The
other crops are upon the whole good.
STEALING MEAT FROM ST. JOHN'S MARKET.—A
woman named Margaret Roves was yesterday charged, at
the Police Court, with having stolen a quantity of meat
from St. John's market. Mr. George Whittaker, of Rich-
mond-row, said that, about eleven ;o'clock on Saturday
night be was in the market and observed the prisoner
going from standing to standing, but buying nothing.
He at last saw her take a breast of lamb from a stall,
which she walked away with, and gave to a girl near her
who put it into a basket which she had in her hand. The
prisoner was taken into custody, and it was afterwards
found that she had also managed to purloin a part of a
neck of lamb, and three pieces of beef from different
parties. She was committed for trial.

NAVIGATION LAWS AND FREE TRADE.-1M
PORTANT PETITION RECEIVED PER THE

CAMBRIA

We have before stated with sufficient distinctness our
opinion that we must either, as the result of free trade,
be prepared to see our most valuable colonies secede from
their connexion with us, as from an onerous tie without
its equivalent, or demand from us some concession which
will render them a burthen uvn the country rather than
an advantage. Our readers know sufficiently what is our
own opinion as to tae importance and benefit to us of
these colonies. They consume, in the ratio of their popu-
lation, more of our fabrics and of the products of cur in-
dustry, than foreign countries. They are, in this respect,
counties of Great Britain, rather than colonies. They
have our habits, our language ; they feel with us and for
us ; they favour our industry and prefer our manufac-
tures. We have legislated for them, moreover, as if, with
regard to their imports, the fabrics which Ur y are com-
pelled to consume, and the mode in which they dispose of
and convey their exports, they were British soil, as they
are inhabited by British subjects.
We cannot, however, expect that our colonial fellow-
countrymen can tamely sit down, when we abandon them,
without an effort to save themselves from ruin. (cur
Canadian fellow-c.,untrymen, we are glad to see, are not
content to do so; hut have laid before her Majesty the
quern a case most difficult to gainsay—loudly calling for
legislative interference, and which appeals most forcibly
to the sympathy of the British public. We give here the
case in question, as stated in a petition from the mer-
chants and others of Canada West, which has been for-
warded to this country by the royal mail steamer Cam-
bria, for presentation to Royalty :

. , , .
TO THE QUEEN'S MOST EXCELLENT MAJESTY.
The Petition of the Board of Trade of the town of

Hamilton

Humbly shrweth,—That the proposed changes in the
commercial policy of Great B:itain are such as to cause
serious apprehension in the minds of your petitioners,
that the value of grain, one of the great staple produc-
tions of this colony, will be depreciated to such an extent
as to prevent our farmers from being able to compete suc-
cessfully with the corn growing countries of the north of
Europe, which have the advantage of proximity to Great
Britain, cheapness of labour, and greater facilities of
transportation.
That whilst your petitioners are convinced of the ne-
cessity of strenuous exertions on the part of the people of
this colony, in order, as far as may lie in their power, to
neutralise the effects of these changes, they at the same
time look for the co-operation and assistance of your Ma-
jesty's Government in carrying out such measures of
relief as may conduce to this end.

That a large portion of the costs of our agricultural
proceeds, before reaching Great Britain, (at present the
only market open to us for our surplus,) consists of the
expense of transportation, as will appear from the follow-
ing calculation of the present cost of conveying a barrel
of flour from this port to the port of Liverpool, viz,
Shipping charges and storage here... Os. 3d. currency.
Burlington Canal tolls
Transportation to Kingston ........ Os. 6d. ~

Ditto 'thence to Montreal ..
Insurance on lake and river

2s. Od.
Os. 2d.

Equal, at 8 per cent. premium, to ster-

ling
Atlantic freight from Montreal to
Liverpool..
Insurance, 1 per cent. on 235. sterling Os. 3d.

2s. 7d.

3s:ld.

83.10 d. sterling,
or more than one-third of its value in Great Britain.

We would further represent to your Majesty, that a
large portion of the best wheat growing districts of Ca-
nada West, namely, that part bordering on Lakes On-
taro and Erie, is situated so as to be able to use to
advantage the route via the Oswego and Erie Canals and
Hudson River, thereby effecting a savinz of time, in-
terest, insurance, and cost of transportation, when com-
pared with the route via the St. Lawrence, as will be
shown by the following calculation of the present cost by

this route, viz

Storage and Shipping charges here3d., Canal
Tolls, 2d
Freight to Oswego 6d. ; Freight to New
York, 22c.; Canal Tolls, 18c.
Lake Insurance 20s to 3s. Bd. .....

Equal in sterling at 8 per cent. premium, to..
Freight to Liverpool sterling 3s. Od. ..
Insurance, i per cent. on 255..... Os. nd...

Showing a difference in favour of this route
over that by the St. Lawrence at the pre-
sent time of

That in addition to the foregoing advantage in point of
cost of transport, the route via New York is available
earlier in the spring and later in the autumn than that by
way of the St. Lawrence, the dangers and disadvantages
of which we conceive to be so great as to lead us to
express our decided and deliberate conviction that ship-
ments from Montreal or Quebec cannot be made on such
favourable terms either as regards freight or insurance as
from New York.

We would further humbly represent to your Majesty
that up to the present time we have not been able to avail
ourselves of this route, owing to the restrictive laws of
the United States ; but as these are in course of being
modified, we will be in a position to export our produce
through their territory, in bond, on favourable terms.

Under these circumstances, we humbly pray that your
Majesty and the Imperial Government would sanction
the importation of Canadian produce into the ports of
Great Britain, shipped in bond, through the United States,
on the same terms as if shipped direct from Canadian
ports, under such regulations as may be deemed expe-
dient, such as the production of proper certificates of
growth or manufacture from the Collector of Customs at
the port of shipment in Canada, or in any other manner
that may be deemed advisable.

It may be urged that should the prayer of this petition
be granted, the result would be to throw both the inland
and Atlantic carrying trade into the bands of foreigners ;
we would, however, humbly submit that the interests in-
volved in the former are of minor importance when com-
pared with the great and general benefits that would re-
sult to the agricultural interests they conferring the boon
now asked for. While your petitioners conceive that
British shipping may be employed in the carrying of our
produce from New York as well as from the ports of
Montreal or Quebec. _ _ _

In further confirmation of the importance of the prayer
of this petition we humbly submit the following calcu-
lation, as showing the small proportion received by the
agriculturists of this country of the value of his products in
Great Britain,and as showing the importance to him of such
a saving as that which would be effected by adopting the
route via the United States, viz _ _

Suppos9 value of flour in Liverpool, 255., deduct the
following charges :
Duty 71d, dock and town dues ...... . lO
Porterage receiving and delivering 2d, cartage to
buyers,

Fre insurance on sheds and interest and bank com-

mission on duty ......
If warehoused, additional cartage, porterage, ware-
house rent, fire insurance, &c., &c......
Commission and delcredere 4 per cent. on 25s .,

Atlantic freight 65., insurance 20s. per cent., and
policy 3id • oo •

Sterling 16 1
Equal in currency at 8 per cent. premium on ship._

board at Montreal Currency
Shipping charges at Montreal as under :
Cartage to store, ld., cooperage, lid., inspection,
2d., storage, 2d., cartage to ship, Id., wharfage,
ld., shipping, 2d., insurance, ld.
Freight from Kingston to Montreal ..2 0
Insurance on river and lake, per cent. 0 2
Lake freight, 6i., Burlington Canal
tolls, 2d.. wharfage, storage, and '
shipping, 3d., fire insurance. ld. .. 1 0 ,

Interest, say an average of six months, on
205., at 6 per cent.
Carriage from interior, say Brantford, Paris,
and other places similarly situated

19 31

13 0
Leaving only the small sum of 13s. currency to remune-
rate the farmers, equal, at 8 per cent. premium, to 10s. 10d.
sterling per barrel. •

We inimbly solicit that your Majesty would be graci-
ously pleased to grant the prayer of this petition, and
your petitioners, as in duty bound, will ever pray.
Can we, in justice, refuse the prayer of these peti-
tioners ? Let us examine their position. They are our
fellow •countrymen—our sons and our brothers. We
have drawn them from their homes on British soil, to
fertilize, by their industry, the woods and prairies of the
far west, by the legislative promise to foster their industry
in preference to that of the foreigner. We have encou-
raged them by our legislation to incur heavy debts, for the
purpose of carrying out works whose tendency is to pro-
mote the exclusive employment of British shipping in the
transport of their goods to this country ; yet, without
some measure of protection, those works are inoperative.
The western farmers of the United States have the better
of the farmers of western Canada. Their route to Great
Britain is cheaper than the route by way of the St. Law-
rence. What is, then, the duty of the legislature of the
mother country ? Evidently, there are but two courses;
and from adopting one of these we have already closed the
door. The adoption of the principle of free trade pro-
hibits the adoption of any favouritism, as to duties,
towards the produce of ouccolonies. We have, however,
another course open to us. We may allow these fellow-
countrymen of ours, from whom we have withdrawn our
protective code, to send their: goods by the route which
they find the cheapest. We may allow them the same
advantages which they would possess ff they were Ameri-
can subjects. Not for a moment do we insinuate that
they wish to be such. But they must have fair play.
Two races, with but a river or a lake to divide them, can-
not long be kept from fraternising, when to the one
race connexion with us is a prohibition. Canada
must send her Corn by the cheapest route, or she
must become a portion of the American Union. She
does not say this. Her loyalty prevents such expression
of her feeling. But it must come to this. Even English-
nien can forget their country, when their country forgets
them.
The document, which we have already quoted, suf-

ficiently shows the opinion of the Unner Canadians,. The
following, which we quote from a Montreal paper, may
perhaps be equal!y conclusive :
" At the present moment, there is, perhaps, no object of
equal importance to the well-being of this colony th in
can be sought for from the mother country, as that of
bringing about a repeal of the British navigation laws, in

as far as they affect cur interests. Well may we exclaim,
in the words of the memorial lately presentel to Govern-
ment by the Free Trade Association, " This colony is
now labouring under the loss of protection on the one
hand, and the crushing effects of the severest restrictions
on the other." Protection, or preference for our pro-
ducts in the markets of the mother country, there is now
none of any value; but all the restrictions that were im-
posed on us as an equivalent for those lost advantages, are
left in full vigour, depressing our industry and paralysing
our commercial enterprise.

"Whilst a reciprocal state of things existed, we were con-
tent, although, on a review of our past circumstances, we
candidly believe that England had the best of the com-
pact. It was, in the language of Mr. Gladstone, " a mu-
tual sharing of benefits, or rather a mutual bearing of
burdens." But now the case is altered : the benefits are
destroyed ; but the burdens are left to oppress and gall
the industry of our hard-working population. And what
are the burdens? We cannot too often draw public at-
tention to them. First, the differental duties ; but next,
and by far the most important, the restrictions imposed
on our commerce by the ruinous operation of the British
navigation laws. Let us not be misconstrued. Let no
timid person turn upon us here, and accuse us of dis-
loyalty, or a desire to weaken the springs of England's
naval grandeur. To such we would reply, that our love
of country cannot be shaken, nor ought it to be ques-
tioned. But we have a duty to perform to ourselves, as
well as our snccessors ; and craven must be the individual
among us who refuses, at this crisis, to exert himself to
obtain those comprehensive reforms that our peculiar
situation renders manifest and necessary. At present,
we shall confine ourselves to the discussion of the most
important of them,—the repeal, absolute with reference
to Canada, of the British Navioation Laws!

" Of what avail is it to the Canadian to raise abundant
supplies of wheat and other staples for exportation while
these laws are in force ? Can he procure their convey-
ance to British markets on as favourable terms as the far-
mer of the United States can forward his ? No. But
why ? Because the British navigation laws restrict him
to the use of British ships, depriving him of every option.
and compelling him to use such at exorbitant rates of
freight, although foreign vessels could be procured on
greatly reduced terms. The interests of the Canadian
farmer—nay, of the Canadian people—are thus yearly sa-
crificed to an extent that, we venture to assert, they have
no adequate conception of. Averse to making unsup-
ported assertions, we will appeal to facts and figures to
prove what we affirm respecting the intolerable effects of
this monopoly of our carrying trade thus unjustly secured
to the British shipowner. Let us compare the rates of
freight between New York on the one hand, and Mon-
treal on the other, and Great Britain, that have been
current during the present summer; and the result will
be seen to bear out what we have asserted.

Rates of Freight current at New York in the year 1846

To Liverpool
May 13.... 2s. 3d. per barrel.
„ 30....35.
June 13.... 33.
27.... 3s. 91
July 11.... 2s. 3d. „
„ 18.... 2s. 3d. „

Bd. per bushel.
„
9d. „
Bd. „
Bd. „
Bd. „

Average.... 2s. 641. BA-d.
Rates of Freight current at Montreal in the year 1846

To Liverpool. .
May 18.... 43. 3d. per barrel. Ss. 3d. per quarter
„ 28.... 4s. 3d. „ 83. 3d. „
June 11.... ss. 3d. „ 9s. 3d. „
~ 26....65. 9 1 lOs. /1
July 11.... 6s. /0 lOs. 19
„ 22.... ss. 9d. ~ 10s. ~

Average ... ss. lid.

9s. 3d. per quarter.

Is. 21d. per bushel

"What do these tables exhibit? An average loss to the
Canadian producer of 2s. 7d. stg., or nearly 3s. 2d. cy.
per barrel on his flour, and 511 stg., or about 7d. cy. per
bushel on his wheat, by being restricted to the employ-
ment, of British vessels. Canada will this year. in all
probability, export fully 450,000 barrels of flour, and
400,000 bushels of wheat, besides other staples of great
importance, but we will restrict our calculations to those
main articles for the sake of clearness and brevity ; and
what amount of loss will be entailed on our producers in
consequence of the laws complained of ? A simple calcu-
lation will show it to be no less than £71,250 on flour,
and £16,666 13s. 4d. on wheat, making a total of
£87,916 13s. 4d. on these two articles alone! Will
it be believed that the country is in its senses,
if it submit any longer to such manifest injustice,
without making an effort to get rid of the laws that oc-
casion it ! Why should this colony make a yearly sacri-
fice of nearly £90,000 for the benefit of the British ship-
owner ? We appeal to it then, as friends having one
common interest to be up and doing. Let the whole
country arouse itself, and petition, Besiege the imperial
parliament with petitions, while it is yet in session ; let
the country present, as it were, one unanimous petition
against the continuance of these oppressive laws. Op-
pressive, did we say ?—nay, iniquitous towards Canada, if
their maintenance is persevered in after their effects are
are clearly pointed out."
We cannot question the loyalty of our Canadian fellow-
countrymen. But we ask of her Majesty's Ministers—
can they expect two millions of industrious people, how-
ever loyal, to cling long to a connexion which offers them
only the worst part of a bargain ?

We observe the arrival in our river yesterday of the
splendid new Glasgow trader " Sapphire." This vessel is
certainly a gem of surpassing beauty, and adds another
superior vessel to the fine line of traders, " Opal,"
" Topaz," " Amethyst," &c., for which Messrs. M'Ar-
thur and Co. are agents.

CRICKET.—A single-wicket match will be played this
day, between Mr. Cambridge of the Edge-hill, and Mr.
J. F. Rose of the Olympus Cricket Club, on the Edge-
hill ground, Hall-lane, Kensington. The wickets will be
pitched at 5 p.m. A good deal of money is pending on
the result, the friends of each being sanguine of victory.
SPORTING.—There is no great abundance of game in
the neighbourhood of such a town as this. We may
state, however, to the regret of those interested, that the
poachers have already been at work, and several fine
coveys which had been seen have, we fear, disappeared. The
birds were well grown, strong on the wing, and sucn as
sportsmen would wish them to be on the Ist of Septem-
ber. Four coveys, recently seen near Garston, have
already been pvt hors-de-emnbatby depredators.

ROBBERY AT THE PRINCE'S. BANQUET AT 7HE
TOWN-HALL, AND AT THE LICENSED VICTUALLERS'
DINNER.—At the Police-court, yesterday, a respectable
looking elderly female, named Susan Handles, was com-
plained against as having stolen from the Town-hall a
small brass pan, the property of the corporation of Liver-
pool, on the night of the royal:banquet, and also, of hav-
ing subsequently stolen a broom, &c., from the Licensed
Victuallers' premises, in St. Anne-street, on the night of
their annual dinner, on the 15th instant. The prisoner
had been employed on both occasions to assist in the
cuisine. Some things having been missed at the latter
place, and suspicion having fallen on the prisoner, her
house, in the neighbourhood of St. Anne-street, was
searched by two police-officers, who found not only the
besom, (belonging to Mr. Towers, of the Angel Inn) but
the pan, both of which were identified. The prisoner
said she had received the pan, full of soup, from the bead
cook, at the Town-hall, and had intended to return it,
but being called to see her daughter, who was in child-
bed in Cheshire, she had not had time to do so. She ad-
ded, that with respect to the besom, she had been allowed
to sweep up some potatoe parings, &c., at the Licensed
Victuallers' house, and to take them ; that the brush
happened to be amongst them, and that, from the reason
before stated, she had not had time to ascertain whether
it belonged to Mr. Towers, who had provided the dinner,
or to the victuallers, but that she intended to return it
also. She bad, it appeared, told a different story rela-

tive to the pan to one of the police-officers, and under the
circumstances Mr. Rushton committed her for trial. A
daughter of the prisoner, who appeared to be much dis-
tressed, addressed the magistrate, stating that she had
witnesses in court who could speak to the good character
of her mother, but the case appeared to be too palpable
to admit of theirbeing heard atthis stageof the proceedings.
SPLENDID PAINTING AT MR. GRUNDY'S.—We had
yesterday the pleasure of a cm sort' examination of a
splendid painting " Feeding the Horses," by J. F. Her-
ring, senior, Eaa., now on private view at Mr. Grundy's
repository, Church-street. The subject is one of intense
interest, representing a scene of rustic magnificence, " A
Halt with horses, and refreshments beneath the cool
shade of ' Mine Host'3' Gateway," a subject the artist has
handled with that powerfully graphic pencil that has ad-
vanced him to the envious position of a leading artist of
the modern school, dwelling not on the delicacy of finish,
the elaborate detail, or beauty of conception. We must
pronounce it a splendid composition.' which, though dif-
fering in subject and style from any we have seen pre-
viously by the same talented painter, partakes of all that
warmth of f' *--,z so folly exhibited in his other produc-

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It is truly said, that however talented an artist
may be, he will ultimately find a rival ; and this picture,
which is painted as a companion to Landseer's Shoeing,"
goes far to prove the veracity of that assertion, and will
doubtless place the painter as a delineator of animal life
in the hignest reputation amongst the admirers of British
art. The subject is an exceedingly happy one. A fine
modelled chestnut horse forms the principal feature of
the picture, which is being fed from a riddle by the os-
tler, a brawny Scotchman, who is seated on a tub looking
intently at " a Grey" thatis held by a Scotch lassie.

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of the ostler is admirably depicted, as also is the dra-
pery
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the colouring so harmoniously warm—the high lights
mixing so invisibly with the powerfully toned shades
that it not only gives a rotundity. but an indescribable
semblance to nature. The saddle sits beautifully and
perpendicular hanging of the stirrup greatly increases the
effect that the well-fed silken coated animal presents.
The back ground, like many of Landseer's is an archway,
from which a depth of tone is derived that throws forward
powerfully the whole of the figures. In detail the pro-
duction is equally admirable. The poultry (the plumage
of which is varied soft and delicate)—picking the scattered
grain from the pavement—the " Iron-bound bucket"—
the gothic window, filled with exotics—the horse-cloth—
are pleasings übjectsintroduced by the enlightened imagi-
nation of the painter. Our space precludes us from
further detail. We must urge our readers to take their,
earliest opportunity of viewing the picture itself.

Aug. 18, 1848.

;;ONSOLA.TORY TO THE BRITISH FARMER.

In the debate upon the New Tariff Bill, in the American

senate, Mr. M`Duffi:?, after highly eulogising Sir Robert
Peel for repealing the Corn Law, gave his opinion that,
under the operation of a free trade in grain, "in less than
ten years the Missisippi valley would export fifteen
mirions of produce to England, in exchange for manu-
factures, atone-half the cost under the protective system."
Of course the Missisippi valley is not to have the privi-
lege of supplying us all to itself. The Ohio and other
valleys will put in a claim ; and Hungary, Poland, and
Russia, are ready to enter the lists. From all these
sources the supply must, in time, become quite plethoric;
and the difficulty will be, not to procure grain and floor,
but to find stomachs to put it in. John Bull is emphati-

cally an eating animal ; but, unfortunately, he cannot eat
:21l the corn of all the fine valleys of America and the rest
of the world, even if supplied at half price, and paid for
in calicoes.

It is clear, however, that we must get our digestive
powers in order for the impending surfeit; and equally
clear that the British agriculturist may turn his plough-
share into a loom, his spade into a shuttle or a
spindle, and his fields into bleach crofts, as soon as he
likes. His present avocations cannot be very profitable
ones, with wheat at " one-half the cost" it was under the
protective system. We may cease to trouble ourselves

with questions of currency, bank notes, and bullion, since
cottons and woollens are to become our only circulating
medium.