The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1848-07-04 00:00:00

THE EITERPOOL STANDARD.

Omen! lifliatliany.

Mr. Thomas Wood (late alderman) has been appointed
chief clerk in the Guildhall Police-court, London.
Her Majesty and Prince Albert have sent a donation of
£lOO in aid of the funds of the Ragged School Union.
On Wednesday Mr. Justice Erle, in chambers, accepted
baii on behalf of the Chartist prisoner Vernon.
It is said that flour will be sent from New York in a
few weeks at four dollars per barrel.
One of the Paris journals states that about 1,000 Pari-
sian milliners have left for London,
On Friday last seven quarrymen were crossing one of
the lakes situate in the beautiful pass of Llanberis, when
the boat was capsized, and six of them drowned.

The office of Sheriff of London has been going a-beg-
ging. Several gentlemen have been proposed for thd
honour, but declined.

An old wedding ring, with some initials and the date,
1594, on the inside, has the following inscription :—" One
quyet, both happy."
The Irish ship Royal Sovereign, of London, from Ham-
burg to Quebec, foundered, on Friday morning, off Cas-
tlehaven ; captain and crew, 17 in number, were saved.
THE NORWICH RIOTS. —One of the constables injured
by the mob at Norwich, in an attempt to rescue some re-
fractory paupers from their custody, has died.
The sale of the magnificent effects at Stowe, the Duke
of Buckingham's seat, will positively take place next
month.

Mrs. Newlove, the old lady, who, with her son, was so
brutally injure.' by some burglars at Warthill, near York,
has since died of her wounds.
The British brig Brothers was wrecked on Tampico
Bar on the 3d of May, and it was feared would be a total
loss. Her cargo was valued at 150,000 dollars.
It has been remarked, that nearly all the Duke of
Buckingham's farms, which have lately been sold, have
been bought by the tenants who occupied them.
Mr. Macready has been engaged at the Birmingham
theatre for Thursday and Friday next, the 6th and 7th
instant.

A large fragment of an ancient canoe, measuring about
22 feet in length, and hollowed from the trunk of a large
oak, has been found in the bed of the river Tay, at Sleey-

A London cabman has been committed for trial, on a
charge of having forged one of the plates furnished to
hackney carriages by the officers of the hackney coach
department of the excise office.

The foundation stone of a new corn-market, in Eiin-
burgh, for the erection of which a large space has been
cleared on the south-west side of the Grassmarket, was
laid on Wednesday
A des

)erate struggle took place on Tuesday at Ports-
between some smugglers and two government
officers, during which one of the latter was so severely
beaten that he was left for dead. .
The Arbroath Guide mentions a boy of thirteen who
goes about preaching in the open air. The close of the
discourse is the most moving, as a collection is then made
for funds to complete the callant's education !
The Gipsey steam-ship was lost on a voyage from Lon-
don to Bahia, during a severe storm. The crew escaped
on board a pilot-boat belonging to the Scilly Isles, and
the steamer was seen to go down in deep water soon after.
DERBY SWEEPS.—In the House of Commons, on Wed-
nesday, Sir G. Grey said that what are called " Derby
Sweeps" are illegal, and that the Excise had received
instructions to put a stop to them for the future.
J. R. E. Holmes, Esq., of Llangoed Castle, Breconshire,
was drowned in the Wye on Friday week. It is supposed
that whilst fishing be ventured too deep into the water

and was carried away by the stream.
Mrs. Thom, widow of the late bard of Inverary, died
on the 17th ult., of typhus fever, leaving her three chil-
dren, the eldest of whom is only four years old, now or-

phans indeed.
Ann Thomas, a woman living at Peterchurch, Here-
ford, has been committed for trial for the murder of her
illegitimate offspring, by burying it alive immediately after
its birth.

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Nothing can show more clearly the extraordinary specu-
lative and flattering nature of mining property than the
changes which have taken place in the value of the Real
del Monte shares, to possess which, some years since, was
considered fortunate at £1,300 per £4OO share, and which
are this day quoted akfilteer— shillings I I —llfinngi Jour.
Six INCENDIARY FIRES.—On Friday, Saturday, and
Sunday se'nnight, there were no fewer than six incendiary
'fires in Hertfordshire. One of 'them was at Harlow, on a
farm in the occupation of Mrs Win. Barnard, belonging to
the late Marquis of Bute. The value of the stock de-
stroyed is estimated at £3OO, and of the buildings £l7OO.
Both are insured.—ln another case, that of Mr. Squires,
of Waterford-mill, the loss of the tenant is calculated at
£2OO. A man is in custody on suspicion.

IMPROVEMENT OF BILLINGSGATE MARKET.—The cor-
poration of London are about to remodel this market, and
erect a structure, the architectural proportions of which
shall harmonize with the new Coal Exchange now erecting
opposite Billingsgate. The chain of houses known as
Darkhouse-lane are to be removed. The old dock, from
the fish now being chiefly brought to market by railway,
is to be filled up, and a commodious market-place formed
on the entire site, being an area of about 15,000 square
feet.

A verdict of wilful murder has been returned against a
man living in Sandgate, Newcastle-on-Tyne, for the
murder of his infant illegitimate child. The wretch went
to the residence of its mother, took the child from the
cradle and dashed it on the floor;, he then took it by the
legs and swung it about and then clashed it again to the
ground, exclaiming, " There, it it will not need much
after that." It only lived a few minutes.

SUICIDE OF A CLERGYMAN.—An inquest was held,
few days since, on view of the body of the Rev. H. Brad-
ridge, aged 62, for some years minister of the Parish
Church at Slapton, Devon. Deceased had been out of his
mind during the last five years, and had been constantly
watched over by a keeper. Unfortunately, on Friday
week, he found an opportunity of getting out at a private
door. Search was made for him, but without avail, till the
next day, when he was discovered drowned in a quarry pit
containing six feet of water. He had a rope round his
neck, with a stone attached to the end of it.
SHOCKING PROFANENESS.—On Friday an inquest was
held at Hampstead-road, London, on the body of Mr. E.
A. Ashford, aged twenty-five, a medical student of Uni-
versity College, who destroyed himself by taking prussic
acid. The deceased left behind him the following letter
to his mother :—" Dear Mamma,—Tell the twelve idiotic
cheesemongers, grocers, &c., who will form the British
jury, that the proper verdict to return is, that E. A. A.
died because he could not live. By G—d, that's the
truth. God bless you, my dear mother and sister.—E.
A. A." Verdict, " Temporary insanity."
THE SEVEREST REPRIMAND.—On Friday week, Mr.
Davis, one of the clerks of her Majesty's ship Prince Re-
gent, 92 guns, was called upon the quarter-deck, and com-
pelled to read aloud, so that the whole of the officers and
crew (about 900 in all) could hear distinctly, a series of
letters, in which he had slandered the captain, officers,
and the ship in very unmeasured terms ; these letters
were addressed to a friend on shore, but who having quar-
relled with the officer, sent the letters of the latter to
Captain Martin, who reprimanded the author in the above
manner.

SUNDAY CRICKETING.—The minister of Horton, Oxon,
and Studley, Bucks, has signified his intention of provid-
ing bats, balls, wickets, &c., for the young men to play at
cricket after service on Sundays, and also on other days.
The scenes of " pitch and trustle," and other gambling
tricks on Sundays, have been very annoying to many in

the parish and to strangers ; and is in a great measure
with the view of preventing them that the rev. gentleman
has determined on introducing the healthful recreative
game of cricket amongst those who have hitherto spent
their time in a much worse way.—Hereford Journal.—
[This is only substituting one sin-for another. On our
contemporary's own showing, it is worse than "doing
evil that good may come."]
CATTLE FROM PORTUGAL.—TWO large and powerful

steamers are now plying between Oporto and
ton, for the purpose of importing Portuguese oxen
average cost in Portugal is about £8 per head, and the
fetch here about £2O per head, some of the finest
At first they were sold in the London market,
good market has now been found at Southampton
Portsmouth ; in fact, the butchers of those towns have
agreed with the shippers to purchase all that are brought
over. The beasts are in excellent condition.
time since Spanish cattle from Vigo and Corur

imported, but they required fat
landed, and the speculation failed.
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EVIDENCE BEFORE THE COMMITTEE ON SUGAR
AND COFFEE PLANTING OF MR. BURN, THE
COMPILER o' :THE " COMMERCIAL GLANCE,"
AS TO THE EFFECT ON THE COTTON TRADE,
OF THE DISTRESS IN OUR SUGAR GROWING
COLONIES.

We have had occasion to present to our readers abstracts
of the vtluable labours of Mr. Burn, of Manchester ;
and we have now the pleasure of laying before our readers
a detail of some important evidence, on a subject upon
which he, above most other men is well informed, given
before the Select Committee on Sugar and Coffee Plant-
ing. We may mention that it is introduced in the Com-
mittee's Report in the most complimentary manner :

"Mr. Burn gave information to the Committee, derived from
the most industrious research, of the deepest interest and the
greatest value. He presented to the Committee a Table, by
which he showed that the total value of cotton goods exported
to the British West Indies, Mauritius, Bombay, Madras, and
Calcutta, in the 19 months from the 22nd of January, 1845,
to the 22nd of August, 1346, was £5,988,544; that in the same
period the total value of goods exported to Cuba, Porto Rico,
and Brazil, amounted to .£2,490,776, making a sum total of
£8,479,320. That in the 19 corresponding months after the
passing the Act of 1846, from the 22nd of August to the 22nd
of March, 1848, the total value of goods exported to the British
Colonies was £'4,856,286, showing a decrease of £1,132,263.
To counterbalance which, the exports to the slave-holding
countries increased to £'2.946,151, showing an incyease of
£455,381 to valance against the larger decrease to the British
Colonies; showing, as the general result, a decreased trade to
the sugar-growing countries, slave holding and free, of
£676,887.

" But Mr. Burn did not stop here, having shown to the Com-
mittee that the weight of Cotton consumed in the goods ex-
ported in the first period was 144,224,977 lbs., and that the
price in the former period was 4id. per lb. ; that the value of
the raw material was but £2,854,452,. which would have to be
deducted from the £8,479324, leaviug £5,624,872 for wages,
and profit, and working, in the period of 1845-46, while the
price of Cotton having risen in the period between the 22nd
August, 1846, and 22nd March, 1848, to Od. a lb., the di-
minished weight of Cotton, amounting only to 124.768,560 lbs.,
constituted a value of W 3,139,214, which, deducted from
£7,802,437, the value of the manufactured goods exported in
the latter period, left only £4,683,223, being a diminution of
£941,649 in the sum left for wages, and profit, and working,
in the period of 1846-48, as compared with 1845-46; and whilst
thus he showed that instead of bringing wealth and pros-
perity, a diminished trade and diminished amount of wages
to the extent of £941,649 had followed upon the passing of the
Act of 1846, he went into a calculation, by which, having
shown that there were employed in 1846, 617,252 hands, in
1847 there were but 451,727 hands employed in the manufac-
ture of Cotton in England, leaving unemployed in 1847, as
compared with 1846, 165,827 hands. And then he went on to
show that, assuming even that the Act of 1846 had a right to
take credit for the cheapening of sugar to the extent of 1i a'b.,
which your House is aware would be equal to Wl4 a ton, and
allowing that the whole 617,554 persons, employed and out of
employment, had consumed 23f lbs. of Sugar per head per
annum, they would only have gained by this reduction
£144.702 to set off against their loss in wages, and profit, and
working, of £941,649; so that upon the balance of gain and
of loss, it would seem that the Cotton manufacturers of En-
gland, in wages, profit, and working, have lost £796,947,'
simultaneously with the change of policy which was to confer
such mighty benefits and such unbounded prosperity upon
them. Now, taking the wages of the operatives at 9s. a week
upon the average, £796,947 would be equivalent to the wages
of 18,533 operatives in full employment for 95. weeks, and for

34,976 operatives for one year. Asked if in the history of
Lancash►re a period had ever been known when for so very
long a time so many operatives had been out of employment
and working short time: he answered, he never recollected
so many; that it was decidedly worse now than it was in 1840
and 1841 ; that they had decreased in quantity more Cotton in

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1847 than they coniumed altogether in 1826. -That in 1826 there
were only entered for home consumption 376,733 bags of Cot-
ton; the decrease in 1847 was 441,053 bags of Cotton as com-
pared with 1846. The greatest decrease that had ever ap•
peared having occurred in 1839, when the decrease in the
manufacture amounted to 221,605 bags of Cotton. And with
respect to the state of Manchester he said, that in 1826 the
casual and Irish poor amounted to but 72,362 persons, and the
cost of their maintenance to £10,475, whilst in 1847 their
casual and Irish poor amounted to 149,504, and the cost of

1826 amounted to ss. i
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in 1847
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