The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1851-02-11 00:00:00

THE LIVERPOOL STANDARD.

the precise moment when it is wanted. If an ugly
fact transpires, or an awkward question is asked,
on the subject of our imports or exports, just in
the nick of time the minister receives an elaborate
return from the Board of Trade, with which he
can walk confidently down to the House, prepared
to throw the enemy into utter confusion. Blue
books, full of elaborate statistics, spring up at a
moment's notice, as beneath the wand of Harle-
quin, to hear him triumphantly over every diffi-
culty. Correspondents from every quarter of the
empire drop letters into hie lap with such remark-
able appropriateness, as to time and subject, that
wicked people, not acquainted with the immacu-

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late character of liberalism, might almost be in-
clined to imagine the correspondents in question
to be abcut as real personages as Sir John Fal-
staff's " men in buckram," or that their actual
locality was a stool in some snug private office in
Downing-street.
An instance of the value and excellent working
of such machinery has just occurred. During the
debate on the address, on Tuesday evening last,
Lord Stanley and Mr. Bankes expressed their
opinions gathered from personal observation, that
the condition of the labouring masses was not of
that coleus de rose complexion, in which it had
been painted by Mr. Peto and Lord John Russell.
Now this very question—as to the condition of the
country—happens to be one of the most important,
according to the admission of the leading minis-
terial organ, the London Times, which is likely to
occupy the attention of Parliament during the pre-
sent.

ssion. We want to know, according to our
contemporary, what is " the actual, ascertainable,
plight of that large majority of the population who
live by labour in its various forms." Well, there
are no statistics bearing directly upon the subject.
We have no means of guaging the stomachs of our

working population, co-tinting the number of coats,
shirts, and shoes they are able to buy in a year, or
of ascertaining the extent of their dilapidation.
Luckily, however, in this dilemma a return of the
Registrar General, made up to the last day of 1850,
and which the Times triumphantly remarks "com-
prises the identical period to which the representa-
tives of the agricultural interests must necessarily
refer" turns up at the very moment it is wanted;
and from this return our contemporary proceeds to
make out a prosperity case to his own infinite satis-
faction. The report in question, we are told, states
that " the returns of the last quarter of 1850 are
still highly favourable, and imply a happier condi-
tion of the population at the close than at the
commencement of the year, fewer lives having been
lost by epidemic diseases, and marriages and births
having increased." Now we are quite ready to
grant, as contended by our contemporary, that de-
ficiency in food, or a deterioration of its quality, is
a provocative of disease ; though scarcely of epi-
demic. Atmospheric conditions are generally con-
ceived to have something to do with the latter.
We ignore the fact of the increase of births being
decisive of the improved condition of the people
and the increase of marriages is only a doubtful
test. We are perfectly ready to admit that a large
portion of our labouring masses have been of late
enjoying the advantages of cheapness, the price of
labour not having as yet been reduced to the level
of the price of food. Our middle classes and su-
perior artizans have been able to command a more
generous diet. The shopkeepers and traders in our
country towns—and all these cases are embraced
in the return quoted from—have not yet been so
far impoverished as to deny themselves the food
requisite to secure health. The common labourer,
too, provided with what he trusts will be perma-
nent employment, and seeing the staple ar-
ticles of subsistence within his reach, is not
unlikely to have been tempted to risk marriage.
But we want better reasons than the registrar's
return gives to convince us, against our senses and
information, that our labouring masses, or any
other great portion of the community, are in a
state of advancing prosperity. Which of the
various leading branches of industry, upon which
the country relies for support and the labpuring
masses for employment, is in a state of advancing
prosperity ? The farming interest is not : that is
admitted. The landowner is being mulcted of a
portion of his income, and his tenant is paying
rent out of capital, and seeking to dispense with,
as much as possible, or to reduce the wages of,
labour. The small traders throughout the country
find their business decreasing, and experience
immense trouble and difficulty in collecting their
accounts

Commercial travellers and wholesale
houses everywhere admit the declining condition
of these classes. Is the mining trade in a very
flourishing condition ? Is the building trade fully
employed, and our foundries and machine shops
at full work ? The answer given by every candid
man who has made inquiries for himself, and not
sought his information from blue books and
returns, will be a decisive—NO! The bulk of
these classes are progressively declining in condi-
tion ; many of them are drawing nearer and nearer
daily to the gulph of insolvency and despair; and
hundreds of thousands of skilled workmen, of
yeomen, and sturdy and honest labourers, have
either fled already, or are preparing to flee, to other
lands, where they hope to meet with that reward
for their skill and industry which is denied them
in their own country,

" But," adds the-Times, " concurrently with this
official report, we have the returns of the excise, the
statistics of pauperism, and the general accounts
of consumption from important localities." These
returns, which we should have wondered at not
seeing turn up " concurrently" with the other
documents requiring corroboration, the Times tells
us all point in the prosperity direction, and prove
that " the working men of this country have within
the last twelve months purchased for themselves
and their families more bread, more tea and sugar,
more meat and better clothing, than in years past."
In the aggregate, this may have been, to some
extent, the case. When employment has been
constant, the working man has been well off ; and
when only half employed, he has still been able to
find a meal for his children. But to suppose that
this is proof of a permanently improved condition,
is to take for granted that employers will continue
to pay present wages ; and are there not thousands
of industrious men in every large community, and
throughout the agricultural districts, who are daily
on the brink of starvation, and who are glad to be
employed for the merest pittance? But then, we
are told, the poor-rate statistics show no increase
of pauperism. To this we reply, that men neither
deprive themselves of all the comforts of life, nor
sink down into the condition of paupers at the
first touch of calamity. Beyond a certain demo-
ralised and thoroughly depressed portion of our
population, there are few who will not struggle on,
amidst sufferings incredible, and fearful to con-
template, clinging, to the last moment of human
endurance, to the shelter of their furnitureless
cottages or rooms, and the society of their wives
and children, rather than stain their names and
forfeit their liberties by entering a union work-
house. To argue prosperity, then, from the non-
increase of pauperism, is but to say that the
working-classes have not reached that depth of
wretchedness which compels them to become
paupers, if it do not previously hurry them into
outrage and crime.

IT will be remembered by the mercantile portion
of our readers that, in August last, there appeared
a disposition in the United States to retrace the
steps of their government towards a more restric-
tive tariff. The movement in question was, how-
ever, shelved for the time, owing to the then hostile
position of the Northern and Southern States,
caused by the discussion of the Fugitive Slave Bill.
It is now, however, as we find by the papers re-
ceived by the Asia, resuscitated ; and, so far as
regards a portion of the American imports, higher
duties are proposed to be levied. The proposition
in question has been mooted as an amendment to
the Deficiency Appropriation Bill in the House of
Representatives at Washington; and we quote the
following from the New York Herold for Evrope,
just received, as showing what Brother Jonathan is
driving at :

" THE DEFICIENCY APPROPRIATION BILL.
" Several amendments were made, when all the clauses
of the bill were got through with.

" Mr. Strong,(dem.) of Pa.. moved to amend, by pro-
viding that on and after the first day of April next, all
duties required by law to be levied, collected, and paid on
goods, wares, and merchandise, shall be assessed on the
market value, with the addition of such charges as are
now imposed by law, at the time and place of export :
Provided that, upon all descriptions of iron, upon ma-
chinery made wholly7or in part of iron, and upon an-
chors, chain cables, and anvils, the duties shall be assessed
upon the average prices, with the charges added, which
like descriptions of iron bore in the principal porta during
the ten fiscal years immediately preceding the year of im-
portation, such values and charges to be ascertained and
declared by the Secretary of the Treasury, as the basis for
esch succeeding fiscal year, Dulietirn witadow gbAs3 4114

linseed oil shall be thirty per cent ; and upon all descrip-
tions of iron, upon 'machinery made wholly or in part of
iron, and upon chain cables, anchors, and anvils, the
duties shall be forty per cent, provided that any excess of
duties imposed by act on any railroad iron, imported for
the use of any railroad, and actually and permanently laid
down for the use of such railroad, within one year after
the passage of this act, shall be remitted by the Secretary
of the Treasury, on satisfactory proof being furnished that
such iron was so imported and laid down. Duties upon
all cordage and yarns, composed fully or in part of hemp
or grass ; upon all manufactures composed wholly or in
part of sheep's wool ; and upon all refined sugars, shall
be respectively ten per cent, ad valorem, over and above
the rate of duty now assessed by law.

We shall merely advert to the effect of such an
alteration of the American tariff upon iron and iron
goods, which are amongst the most important items
of our exports. The highest price of common bar
iron is at present about £5 10s. per ton; and the
duty at 30 per cent. is 335. per ton upon the iron
alone,the duty upon the shipping charges remaining
the same under the proposed new regulation as
under the old. From the inquiries which we have
made amongst the first houses in the trade here,
the average price during the past ten years has been
little, if at all, under £8 per ton. Take it, however,
at £7 lOs., and with the duty at the proposed new rate
of 40 per cent., we have a charge of 605. per ton.
The same iron, under the present duty, and at the
present maximum price of £5 103. per ton, would
pay about 275. 3d. per ton. By the new scale of va-
luation and duties the pig iron, at £3 10s., the
average of the past ten years, would pay 28s. per ton;
and by the present duty of 30 per cent., and at the
present price of £2 10s, the duty would be only 15s.
We do not know what our Free-Trade friends may
think of this state of things; but to ourselves it ap-
pears only the precursor of a still more restrictive
movement. The cotton manufacturing interest of
the United States are grumbling most seriously at
the present tariff, as affecting the import of manu-
factured goods. By the law of 1828, subsequently
modified, every piece of cotton goods imported was
valued at a minimum price of 33 cents., or Is. 6cl.
the square yard, and paid duty therecn. The dimi-
nishing scale of 1842 has brought the minimum
value of the square yard down to 8 cents. or 4d ; and
hence, in a great measure, and not to the effect of
Free Trade, the increased export of cotton goods to
the United States during the past two years. Under
the tariff, as at present operating, America has found
that she could import from us cheaper than she could
manufacture, as is shown by the fact, that she con-
sumed in 1849-50 31,000 balesof cotton less than in
1848-9, and 44,000 bales less than in 1847-8. Now it
must be borne in mind that, so far as the tariff is
concerned, the Southern States have always been in
favour of reduction of import duties. In 1828, when
the Tariff question was under discussion, the hosti-
lity of the south to protection in favour of the New
England manufacturers brought on the agitation of
what was called "the nullification question," which
threatened to break up the American union into
fragments. The planters of the Southern States
demurred to being taxed for the protection of the
manufacturers of the Southern States. During the
last two years, however, the Southern planters have
established manufactures of their own, thereby mak-
ing protection from the competition of the foreigner
a common interest; and in any new agitation
of the Tariff question, such as that which appears
approaching, we may depend upon it that we shall
have every portion of the Union banded against us;
and that the present assault against our iron trade
is only a foretaste of something more to come.

THE, ADDRESS OF THE LIVERPOOL PROTES-

TANT

ASSOCIATION

The following correspondence sufficiently explains

itself :

" Liverpool, 2ith January, 1851.
" Sir,—As chairman of a meeting of the members and friends
of the Liverpool and Reformation Society, at which an Address
to Iler Majesty the Queen was adopted, and a resolution passed
that it should be signed by the chairman on behalf of the
meeting, I have the honour to forward the Address to you,
with our united and respectful request that you will do us the
favour to present it to our most gracious Sovereign.
" I am. sir, with great respect,
" Your faithful and obedient servant,
" lIUGII M`NEILE.
" To the Hon. Sir George Grey, Bart., M.P., &c."

" Whitehall, 6th February, 1851.
" Sir,—l have had the honour to lay before the Queen the
Address signed by you, and transmitted in your letter of the
27th ult., on the subject of the easures taken by the Pope to
establish a Roman Catholic hierarchy in this country.

And I am to inform you that Her lirajesty was pleased to re-
ceive the same very graciously.
" I am, sir, your obedient servant,
" G. GREY.
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" Rev. Hugh M'Neile, D,14., Liverpool."

A FEW AWKWARD ADMISSIONS.

Mr. Richard Cobden is rather an indiscreet speaker,
and, when excited by the cheers of his auditories, is in the
habit of going much beyond what he probably would have
uttered in his cooler moments. At the meeting which he
recently addressed at Bradford, for example, he delivered
himself of some opinions which, we suspect, he would not
have done if he had maturely considered their bearing.
A septennial parliament, he contended, was an absurdity.
" Why, your opinions may differ widely two years hence,
for circumstances may occur which may render a change
of opinion both necessary and justifiable ;" and, amongst
other grounds for more frequent parliaments, is the fact,
he says, that " we have the discovery of California, which
may in a short time completely alter your standard of
value, and you may have many other things that may
make it necessary to have the choice of wise men, and
men who are able to meet an emergency." The admis-
sion of the depreciation going on in the value of the pre-
cious metals is important, coming from such a quarter ;
and we trust that we may hail in Mr. Cobden a convert
from the bullionist ranks. It is true, also, that we may
want a few " wise men, capable of meeting an emer-
gency" in the House of Commons ; and the inference we
draw from this admission is that the members of the pre-
sent house are not very wise men, or capable of meeting
such an emergency, for example, as the failure of
their free-trade policy. A modification of our present
septennial bill " would prevent the great danger of go-
vernment not being in harmony with the wants and
wishes of the people." We do not go quite the length
of Mr. Cobden with respect to shortening the duration of
parliaments ; but, in the mean time, we cannot see how
Mr. Cobden, bolding such opinions, can object to the
dissolution of the present parliament, a third portion of
which, he well knows, in voting for the repeal of the cornand navigation laws, deliberately betrayed their consti-
tuents, and have been supporting the measures of a go-
vernment which is any thing but " in harmony with the
wants and wishes of the people."

In alluding to the rapid passage of the Washington from
New York, last week, we erroneously gave the name of
her commander as Capt. Funk, instead of Capt. Pitkin
Page.
Messrs. Milner and Grantham intend to bring before
the Polytechnic Society on Monday week, their original
design of superseding the powder magazines, by securing
the dangerous material in compartments sunk under
water from floating depots.
DEATH OF AN EMIGRANT.-0a Saturday, Thomas
Collanning, an emigrant, was brought ashore from the
" Epatninondas," on board which vessel he had received
injuries which caused his death. A female child died on
board the same ship, on the same day.
The United States' mail steam-ship Baltic,
Comstock, sailed from Liverpool for New Yo

captain

o'clock on Saturday afternoon, with the usual waii

very large freight of manufactured goods, &c., and thiri s-
ail passengers.

CURIOUS ANTIQUE PORTRAITS.-Mr. Robert Hughes,
of Birkenhead, has in his possession a Lumber of full-
length portraits of the Earl of Chester. These curious
specimens of mediaeval art formerly formed part of the
gallery at Hooton. They are painted on wood, and at
first sight give the idea of sign boards. They are, how-
ever, by no means unfinished, and though possessing all
the rigid characteristics of early art in this country, the
features and general expression of the faces are very good.
The figures are clad in armour, over which rather unbe-
comingly is thrown the furred cloak, worn by high officers
of state and men of rank. All the uortraits appear to have
been executed about the same period— probably the Eliza-
bethan.

CHAMBER OF COMMERCE.—The first meeting of the
Council since the annual general meeting was held yester-
day, at the offices, at which the election of president, &c.,
for the year, took place. Thos. B. Horsfall, Esq., was
unanimously re. elected president ; Hugh Hornby, Esq.,
vice-president; and James Stitt, Esq., treasurer. After
the appointment of committees, and other routine busi-
ness, the motion on the subject of the duties on soap was
brought forward. and it was decided to memorialize
Government for their total repeal. Many communications
on various subjects were read, among which wore some
relative to the question of the proposed extension of dock
accommodation for the timber and shipbuilding trades,
and it was agreed that the matter should be deferred until
an adjourned meeting of the Council on Wednesday.
LIVLRPOOL ARCHITECTS.—It has been frequently re-
marked that Liverpool cannot boast of her church archi-
tecture; but we have some reason to be proud of her
ecclesiastical architects. After a severe competition of
thirty-nine architects—some of the most eminent names
in the profession—the premium of fifty guineas has been
awarded and paid to Jehn, William, and James Hay, for
the best and most practicable design for rebuilding All
Saints' Church, Cockermouth. When we know how
much is done by private influence and favouritism in
deciding upon a matter of this kind, it is not less to the
honour of the gentlemen of Cockermouth than it is to the
merit of our townsmen, that the committee submitted the
whole of the designs to Mr. Atkinson, architect, of York,
with the names and mottoes sealed over, when he reported
decidedly in favour of the design discovered to be by the
Messrs. Hay, Liverpool. We have but to repeat oar
congr.tulatioit4 tc these gentlemen on their deoerved
tiIiCOONL

IMPORTANT TO RAILWAY COMPANIES

COUNTY COURT.
JEFFERY AND OTHERS V. THE LONDON AND NORTH-

WESTERN RAILWAY

A case of some interest to railway companies, as well
as to the trading community, came before Mr. James,
yesterday, who is at present acting as deputy for Mr.
Ramshay. The court was crowded with gentle men at the
head of the various large retail establishments in this
town. The attorney for the plaintiffs was Mr. R. A.
Payne, under whose instructions Mr. Atkinson, the bar-
rister, acted. This gentleman stated the case as fol-
lows :—The plaintiffs in this case were the well-known
silkmercers and drapers, Jeffrey, Morrish, and Co., of
Church-street. The defendants were the better known
firm, the London and North-Western Railway Company ;
from whom it was sought to recover the sum of £1719.8-d.
the value of a piece of silk which was sent by the plain-
tiffs by the North-Western Company to London, on the
19th of October last. He believed he should distinctly
prove that the piece of silk in question was enclosed care-
fully in a box on the 19th of October, and then given to a
porter who delivered it into the custody of one of the
company's porters at the Railway Station. The learned
gentleman proceeded to state that in all probability the
defendants would appeal to the act of the first Wrri IV.,
called the act for the protection of carriers, in proof of
their exemption from the responsibility in the matter.
That act was passed when the ordinary mode of conveyance
was by coach, waggon, or van, and when the risk of rob-
bery in transitu was greater than it could possibly be now
that railways are the ordinary mode by which goods are
conveyed. The preamble of this bill set forth that
whereas it had become customary for bankers and others
to transmit by mail coach, stage waggons, and vans,
bankers' bills, notes, watches, jewellery, and other pro-
perty of great value, and that by the frequent loss of this
description of property by robbery great responsibility
had .levolved upon the carriers of such property, it should
be lawful that the said carriers should charge on all par-
cels containing property exceeding £lO in value an extra
rate of carriage, and that the parties entrusting such par-
cels to their care should state the nature of their contents
and the amount of their value at the time of delivering
them. The learned counsel was of opinion that the act
had reference merely to gold, or valuables of small bulk,
and not to packages of manufactured goods, though he
admitted that among the articles enumerated as liable to
the charge for assurance in the act manufactured silk was
specified. He supposed the possibility of the goods
having been purloined by some of the company's ser-
vants; for, unfortunately, it was notorious that dishonest
men had been discovered among the persons so employed.
In making these remarks he entirely acquitted the com-
pany of laxity in their arrangements, and paid a high
compliment to Mr. Braithwaite Poole, the gentleman who
has the more immediate control of the company's ser-
vants. In conclusion, Mr. Atkinson, addressing the jury,
said the two legal points for their consideration were,
whether an act of misfeasance or larceny had been com-
mitted—whether the goods had been lost by the com-
pany's negligence, or by the felonious act of some of their
servants ; for if they were satisfied that the piece of silk
had been placed in the box, and the bulk had been broken
and the silk taken out, then no person could have com-
mitted the felony but one of their servants. He went on
to show tlrat the railways had superseded the old mode of
transit to which the act of William applied, and now en-
joyed a monopoly ; that for the exemption from competi-
tion it was but fair the public should be assured of the
safety of all goods entrusted to the care of railway com-
panies. He showed that an extra charge of five per cent.
on goods of the description in question, as assurance,
would act ruinously on the owners, as it would take away
the trade profits.
Thomas Pugh, a packer in the employ of Messrs. Jef-
frey, Morrish, and Co., was then called. He proved that
on the 18th or 19th of October last he enclosed in e box
one piece of silk, measuring one hundred yards. The
box was addressed to T. Balmer and Son, Gutter-lane,
London, and immediately given to Geo. Mizon, one of
Messrs. Jeffrey Morrish, and Co.'s porters, who took it
to Wapping-station. The box was nailed up and a rope
was passed round it.
Geo. Mizon, the porter referred to, stated that he re-
ceived the box from the first witness and carried it to the
Wapping-station, where it was received by one of the
railway porters. The receipt was produced.
James Nolan, a-porter from Mes-rs. Balmer and Sens',
Gutter-lane, London, deposed to having received a two-
piece box on the 22d of October, addressed to his em-
ployers, by Pickford's. it was delivered by one of the
porters of the London and North-western Co., who de-
manded the payment for carriage. Witness took out the
money, but, on finding the box was empty, refused to pay
carriage—empty boxes being chargeable only with porter-
age. He opened the box in the presence of the man who
brought it, and proved it to be empty.
Mr. BLAIR, for the defence, addressed the jury at con-
siderable length. He was of opinion that no case at all
had been made out. Taking up the points adverted to by
the learned counsel on the other side, he showed that the
company could not have committed an act of misfeasance,'
inasmuch as that implied a breach of contract, and to have I
committed a breach of contract it must be shown that the
parties bound had the direction of the parcel during the
whole of its transit. He disputed the conclusion, that if
a felony had been committed, it must have been by some
of the servants of the company having " broken bulk."
The box was sent• from this town on Saturday evening,
consequently it remained during Sunday at Camden Town.
He likewise drew attention to the circumstance of the de-
livery in London not having taken place until Tuesday,
instead of Mondays as was usual, and thence inferred that
the box so received in London had never come from Messrs.
Jeffery and Morrish at all. He dwelt on the strict terms
of the act, and observed that if the principle attempted to
be set up were admitted, property to the amount of thou-
sands might be claimed from the company : if the plaintiffs
could recover in this case, the court would be giving
them the advantage of having their property assured
without payment of the considerations required from other
parties.
Mr. ATKINSON rose to reply to the case for the de-
fendants.. Two-defences, he said, had been set up,—one,
that the defendants were not liable under the statute;
and, secondly, that there was not sufficient evidence as
to the identity of the box. It was for the defendants
themselves to show that they had performed their duties,
not for the plaintiffs to prove that they had not. His
friend was wrong in laying down the law to them, to say
that it was necessiry that the plaintiffs should prove
clearly and distinctly that the servants of the defendants
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sufficient evidence for them to infer that it had been com-
mitted by some dishonest person in the service of the
company ?
The learned JUDGE, in summing up the case to the
jury, said, that in common law all common carriers were
the insurers of the goods transmitted by them ; but
by the first section of the act no common carrier was held
liable for goods where the value should exceed £lO, unless
their nature and value should have been declared by the
person delivering the same, and an increased charge paid
thereon. The responsibility of carriers was limited in
certain instances, and it was quite clear that this was one
of those instances. But there was another question raised
by the same act: although they were not liable, through
non-declaration, yet if, during the time the goods were in
their custody, any person stole the same, then their com-
mon Irw liability was re-open ; but it was quite clear that
the plaintiffs were not entitled to recover unless they could
satisfy them that they came within the Bth section of the
act, which made it imperative that the plaintiff should
show that the goods had been stolen by some servant in
the employment of the carrier. After recapitulating the
case, the learned judge concluded thus : " Upon this state
of circumstances can you arrive at the conclusion that
this property has been stolen ? That is one question ;
'.ett it is not the only question, because you must fix the
felony upon some servant of the defendants. The law
eill not allow you to give the benefit of this act to the
plaintiff, for it is for him to satisfy you that a felony was
committed by a servant of the company; because if you
are satisfied that there was a felony, but not by a servant,
the defendant is not liable. If you, think, however, under
a:l the circumstances of the case, that the silk could not
!lave been taken by any other person but a servant of the
company, you will find a verdict for the plaintiff."
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The JUDGE observed that it was not necessary that
they should say that Aor B took the goods : they might
say that a felony had been committed by some person
unknown ; but they must say whether it was by a servant
of the company.
JURYMAN ; It is out of our power to do that ? (Laugh-
ter.) -

JUDGE : That is for you, gentlemen, to say.
The jury then almost instantly returned a verdict for
the plaintiff for the amount claimed.
We understand Oa; there is no appeal against this de,
cision, the amount recovered being under twenty pounds.

The Queen will again hold a privy council. to-day.
Chancellorship is prepared.
An influential meet•ng held .
• was on Friday, at Lincoln's.
It is understood that the bill for the division of the
inn-fields, the Hon. Colonel Ogilvy. in the chair, for the
purpose of establishing a hospital for the exclusive treat-
ment of cancerous affections amoust the poor.
By a recent return from the various fire insurance com-
panies of the amount of property in the metropolis
insured by them, we find it exceeds the enormous amount
of one hundred and sixteen millions sterling.
,a and other
building is
tois tthoe
AMERICAN MOTELS.-A new. hotel. is about to be built
at Boston, six stories high, with a dining-hall containing
blieu
erectedm b erof
by2oo,
a
joint-stock company.—Builde►•.
We understand. that the expense of the additional police
5i
a, 6
due2s square
proportion.
force, (amounting to 900,) to be employed during the
ft
Exhibition, will not fall on the ratepayers—the amount
being about to be defrayed out of a reserved fund in the
hands of the commissioners, which has been accruing for
some time past.

THE ORANGEMEN.—The address of that noble-hearted
Protestant, Lord Enniskillen, has exposed the inconsis-
tency of the Government in refusing to present an address
to the Queen on the Papal aggression from the Orange-
men of Ireland ; whilst, not long since, they presented
several such 4orucaents with evident pleasure. The
English Oraagemen have been treated it‘ no less scurvily
a manner;, mid we hope the brethren will remember this
cowardly and unworthy conduct of t‘Whil Government
on q futucv ukcAsion.