The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1850-05-28 00:00:00

APPALLI,
of the

most mel

about SO bar-

pool Brewery
rels, had been run out of the copper into the hopbeck, o
sieve. Four of the men were seated in a corner near it
taking their dinner, when all on a sudden the bear
porting the im

e quantity of scalding liquid snapped
asunder, and it flowed over, instantly filling the place to
the depth of some feet. The men were unable to escape,
and were so dreadfully scalded that three of them died,
after lingering a few hours, and the other man, named
Cartwright, lies in a hopeless condition. No blame ap-

pears to attach to any party.
REVIEW OF THE LANCASHIRE HUSSARS.—OR Thurs-
day morning last, Sir John Gerard's fine regiment of
Lancashire Hussars were reviewed at Southport, by
Colonel Arthur, of the 3rd Dragoon Guards. The weather

in the morning was very fine, bUt gradually became over-
cast. Thousands of visitors arrived long before the
appointed hour, making the town of Southport a perfect
scene of gaiety. Colonel Arthur was detained by the
want of punctuality in the railway train ; but at half-past
one be arrived, and the review commenced. The usual

uvres and movements were performed with great
accuracy ; the effect of the great cavalry charges was
magnificent; and after the review the inspecting officer
spoke of the troop in a high strain of eulogy. Almost
immediately on its termination, the crowd were dispersed
by a heavy thunder storm. The officers messed together
at the Victoria Hotel, where the usual toasts were drunk
and responded to.

RETRIBUTION UPON THE MANCHESTER
FREE-TRADE COTTON-SPINNERS.

The subjoined extracts from the New York Herald of 1
the 20th of April last, deserve attention. It is the Lan-
cashire,
Yorkshire, Cheshire, and Derbyshire cotton ma-
nufacturers who principally rule the cotton market, and ,
by their insane desire to keep down the price of the raw
material by stringent money and banking laws, have
undermined, says a sagacious writer, their own rower, and
amazingly increased the power of the American spinners
and manufacturers. This was the game of Mr. Cobden
in the last banking investigation in parliament, and of
Messrs. Strutt and Samuel Jones Lloyd (now Lord Over-
stone,) installed as a peer for his advice and assistance in
the Currency-laws of 1844. Retribution is coming upon
them more speedily than they imagined :--
"The consumption of cotton in this country," says the
New York Herald," has become so great, and is progressing
with such rapidity, that prices for any surplus that we may
have for shipment will not depend entirely on the whims and
caprices of the spinners of Manchester. The markets of Great
Britain will not be so important as in past years, and as our
shipments become more direct to the points of consumption in
Europe, we shall be better ableto establish and maintain prices.
OUR MANUFACTURERS ALREADY CONSUME HALF AS MUCH
COTTON AS THOSE OF GREAT BRITAIN ; the rate of increase
here is much greater than on the other side, and the produc-
tion of the raw material cannot keep pace with the increase
in consumption throughout the world. We have shown that
under the most favourable auspices a crop of 2,600,000 bales
is as much as can be picked, and the annual consumption al-
ready reaches that quantity.
_ . . .

time has a;Tivedfor us to dictate to the spinners of
Manchester what prices must rule, and if they do not choose
to pay what we ask for the little cotton we have, they bave
but one alternative, and that is to shut up their mills, while
those in this country will continue to do what they have been
doing for some time past, run day and night. Manchester was
at last accounts nearly bare of stock, and holders of cotton
in this country know it; and if English spinners buy cotton
for the remainder of the season lower than those of Lowell,
we have made a very great mistake in our calculations.'
Well may friend Bright be anxious for the cultivation
of cotton in our own colonies, and be importunate for a
commission to enquire into the means of producing cotton
in the East Indies. Would that some independent mem-
ber of parliament would ask our expediency ministers if
any one of them has, foreseeing what must be the conse-
quences of the above information, taken any measures to
meet such a fatal blow, not only to the manufacturing
interests, but to the revenue of the country.