The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1846-07-14 00:00:00

The toast was responded to by H. G. Harbord, Esq

The D. M. proposed the "Army and Navy," and
several other toasts followed.

MR. BRAMLEY-MOORE AND THE ALBION'S

DISCOVERIES

This gentleman, too, is coming in for a slice of Whig-
Radical abuse, as witness the following letter, addressed
to the Burgesses of Liverpool, in yesterday's Albion :
" GENTLEMEN,—I would recommend you to watch this
gentleman pretty closely, for two reasons.
First,—At a Free Trade meeting Mr. Moore was put
forward to complain that a private compact was broken
when Mr. Holland moved that CORN be included.

Second,—He has received the thanks of the warehouse-
owners for attending to their interest in that Council-
room, where your interests only should be consulted.
A gentleman so recommended must not sit in the
Mayor's chair. J. H.
With respect to the first charge, we need only remark
that the assertion that Mr. Moore was put forward at a
" Free Trade Meeting" for this or any other object, is
palpably untrue. That gentleman never attended a Free
Trade meeting, or advocated Free Trade in sugar, corn,
or any other commodity. With respect to sugar and
coffee, he has always been in favour of a moderate protec-
tion to colonial interests; and with regard to corn, he
has always advocated and still inclines to a fixed duty.
The meeting referred to was a meeting of the Brazilian
Association, called for the special consideration of sugar
and coffee, at which it was distinctly understood that the
subject of corn would be out of place, and should not be
introduced. Mr. Charles Holland intruded the corn
question, and was of course, and deservedly, checked.
The second is still more completely unfounded. Mr.
Moore has not " received the thanks of the warehouse.
owners." On the contrary, it is well known that the
course which he has pursued has made him rather unpo-
pular with that body. But the animus of the letter-
writer creeps out sufficiently in the last paragraph of the
letter. Mr. Moore "must not sit in the Mayor's chair."
Perhaps Mr. Eyre Evans, or some of his clique, would
like to sit there.

The bills of exchange, railway shares, and other docu-
ments, which were stolen from the Royal Bank, Liver-
pool, in May last, have been restored to Mr. Hobler.
The thieves have kept the money.
GALLANT AND hIUMANU CONDUCT.-011 Sunday last,
Captain Jannion, of the tug-boat Colchester, saw a young
man who was drowning in the river, off the Albert Pier,
and immediately jumped into the water to his rescue, and
succeeded, after great difficulty, in saving his life.

UNFORTUNATE MISTAKE.—The successful candidate
for the first of the members' prizes (Dissertation in Latin
prose), at Cambridge, is Mr. J. J. Peroune, 8.A., of
Corpus Christi College. Owing to an error on the part
of the examiners, in opening the mottoes, the successful

dissertation was attributed to the wrong author. The
latter repaired to Cambridge from a distant part of the
country, and was present on Monday to recite his pro-
duction in the Senate-house, when the unfortunate mis-
take was explained, and the necessary apology made to
him, which he received with much good-humour and
kindness.

THE WOOLLEN CLOTHS OF YORKSHIRE.—The letter
of Mr. William Beckett, M.P., addressed to the mer-
chants and manufacturers of the borough of Leeds, has
excited considerable interest on the subjects principally

ieferred to by the hon. gentleman—viz., the comparative
excellence of English and foreign woollen cloths, and the
prospects of the manufacturers of that description of
goods in the West-Riding of Yorkshire. It is felt in
many quarters that this branch of manufacture is in far
from a satisfactory state, and that vigorous efforts should
be made by all parties concerned, with a view to regain
our lost preeminence in the markets of the world. There
is a strong impression that British woollen cloths cannot
even retain their present position compared with those of
the nench and Belgians, without such efforts being made.
—Leeds Mercury.
MR. RIPLEY AND THE LIVERPOOL COMMITTEE FOR
THE REGISTRY OF SHIPPING.—A lengthy correspon-
dence has just been published, which has taken place be-
tween the secretary of the Liverpool committee for the
registry of shipping and Mr. Ripley, upon the subject of
an alleged imputation brought by the latter gentleman
against the committee, of unfair preference in the classifi-
cation of a vessel—the Anne Armstrong—belonging to one
of their own body. The committee, through their secre-
tary, required from Mr. Ripley that he should inspect the
report of the survey of the vessel, in order to enable that
gentleman to retract his imputation, if found unjust.
Mr, Ripley's reply was in the form of a demand t? know
the precise language used, the names of the parties who
had reported the conversation, and when it had occurred.
The secretary to the committee then specified the par-
ticular nature of the charge ; that it had been publicly
made in the Underwriters' Rooms, was talked of on
'Change, and had been published in the London and the
local papers. M . Ripley still declined to take any steps,
without the names of the committee's informants being
given ; and, after a further exchange of letters, with the
same result, the 1, flowing unanimous resolution of the
committee was er nveyed to Mr. Ripley :
" That, as Mr. Ripley, in his correspondence, conti-
nues to evade a denial of the unwarrantable charge which
has been referred to, the vindication of the conduct of
the committee will be sufficiently attained by publishing
the correspondence, in order that the public may form
their own conclusions as to the entire groundlessness of
the charge."