The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1848-01-18 00:00:00

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stead a-good tea. He defended t
some beverage. He held in his ham
showed that it was useful in a medical

ise of to

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that its sanatory effects are visible, mainly in the class of
diseases which are common in this country. The evidence
is given before the committee of the House of Commons
by a physician, eminent also for his knowledge of botany
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Jr. Hume concluded with quoting the opinions of Sir
George Staunton and other gentlemt g favour of P -
of the tea duties, and moved the fourt resiThl•

n in tavour ot a rer

was carried.
Mr. J. R. JEFFERY moved the fifth resoli
giving a variety of statements, relative to tra
petition generally, he said that taking the cm
46,000,000 pounds of tea, at 2s. 21d., that c

.nd cora-

ption of

ld give a

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revenue of more than five millions to the revenue. A
reduction of the duty, to do any good, must be made of
one shilling and twopence farthing per pound. It must
be cut down to one shilling at once. If it was to be done
bit by bit, he would give up all responsibility of the mea-

sure. The present consumption was 11b.
In the Isle of Man it was 21b. 12oz. per I

Le duty

the duty was ten per cent. the consumption was 7lbs. per
head. A population of thirty million
would

duty of one shilling per pound, would yield fou
half millions.
_The present consumption bein,

forty-six mi

This would r

six millions of pounds of sugar to

tea, instead of five pounds, as was
this would yield an additional rev

Mr. Jon TAYLOR then proposed a resolution, object

ing to any substitute for a reduction of the duty on tea
A WORKING MAN seconded the resolution.

Bistritt Aletvo.

The Cockhedge factory at Warrington has commenced
work, but all the other factories remain idle.
The Fury steam war sloop, built by Messrs. Rigby and
Sons, of Hawarden, arrived at, and departed from Rio de
Janeiro from Plymouth without a single defect.

During the List three months 30,00°0 money orders were
granted at the Liverpool post-office and 20,000 at Man-
chester.

DARING ROBBERY.—On Tuesday, about three o'clock
in the afternoon, a man, named John M'Clure, was de-
tected stealing lead from the roofs of houses opposite the
Town-hall, Salford.

Captain Charlewood, the efficient secretary of the
Cheshire Junction Railway, has been appointed by the
Admiralty to command the Coast Guard on the Deal
Station, and will have to vacate his present appointment.
Last Monday, a man named Haworth was found
drowned in the canal near Blackburn. His sister-in-law
was so overwhelmed with grief at the circumstance, that
she died in a few minutes after hearing of it.
FATAL ACCIDENT.—On Monday, Mr. Edward Halli-
well, agent to Earl Ellesmere, was crossing the railway •at
Preston Brook, he could not get out of the way of a train
which came up, and which, passing over him, killed him
directly.

On Saturday last, a farmer named Ledsom, residing at
Saughall Massie, left Upton on horseback, on his way
home, but lost his way, and was found the next morning,
dead, in a bye-lane, and his horse grazing in an adjoining
field. He is supposed to have fallen off his horse, and
died from the effects of cold.

William Ratcliffe and Mary Duckworth have been
committed to Chester Castle, charged with having at-
tempted to murder Ann Scrimmager, by throwing her
into the Ashton Canal. The unfortunate girl was preg-
nant by Ratcliffe, and the crime was committed to prevent
the child being affiliated on him. The female prisoner
appears to have been a mere tool of Ratcliffe.
THE NAVIGATION LAWS.—A public meeting of master
mariners, shipwrights, and seamen, was held in the Town-
hall, South Shields, on the evening of Monday week, in
support of the navigation laws. The meeting was very
numerously attended, and very ably addressed by Mr.
Thomas Young, master mariner, chairman, Mr. James
Mather, and Mr. Henry Woodroffe, secretary to the
Seamen's Loyal Standard Association, when a petition to
the Legislature was adopted, which has already been very
numerously signed. _ _

MANSLAUGHTER.—On Tuesday last an inquest was
held at Ormskirk, before J. Hayes, Esq., coroner, touch-
ing the death of Peter Travise, aged 20 years. From the
evidence given, it appears that about a fortnight ago de-
ceased and a man named Baybut, quarrelled, and blows
were exchanged, after which the deceased became very ill,
and in consequence of the injuries he had received, he
died on Sunday last. A verdict of manslaughter was re-
turned against Baybut, who was present at the inquest,
and he was committed to Kirkdale gaol to take his trial,
REDUCTION OF WAGES.—At Stockport the
manufacturers have given notice of their intention to re-
duce the wages of their men 10 per cent. At Blackburn
the whole of the master cotton spinners and power loom
manufacturers gave a month's notice, on Friday last, of a
reduction of wages, the card-room hands of 71 per cent.
weavers ten per cent. On Tuesday, the operatives posted
placards in the town and neighbourhood, stating that the
attempted reduction of wages would amount to upwards
of £3OO per week. Several meetings have taken place

during the week without anything definite haN

master

EMPLOYMENT. -At Manchester there are fourteen
more mills at work with their full complement of hands
which were previously entirely stopped. This brings
nearly 3000 more hands into employment who were pre-
viously entirely without work ; nearly 2000 of these are
now on full time, and 1000 on short time. This is as re-

Bards the operatives in all kinds of works ;" still one half
the improvement is amongst the cotton mill operatives.
Out of thirty-three mills at Blackburn, employing 17,116
persons, ten mills, employing 2304 persons, are entirely
without work; eleven mills, emplo

persons, are
working eleven hours per day ; three mills, employing
315, persons, are working eight hours per day ;_ and two

SERIOUS CHARGE AGAINST THE VICAR 0
We learn from the Manchester Guardian of Wednes-

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upon the
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Church by a charge of
v. David Seddon, Vicar of

Alottrarn, in

in arriec

.d that t

harge was

t a con-
►rialised
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of Chester for an inquiry

two other
ellor, and

o his unblame-