The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1845-12-09 00:00:00

contracts or new

that gentleman's ability to carry o
him with the fullest amount of vigour
necessity of
not

any work intrusted to

What was the

ineen," we could

)nless Mr. Tornkinson were

his own superintendence of the work, and his contract at
the same time; and that gentleman could just as easily
put on extra workmen as any other contractor.
The only conclusion to be drawn from the whole tenor
of the above paragraph is a corroboration of a previous
rumour that Mr. Tomkinson is about to give up, or bas
given up, the contract for these works—a circumstance

which we regret, and which, from the confidence which
the public place in his ability and judgment, is not likely
to raise them in the estimation of discerning men. If this
is not so, we shall willingly lend our columns for any ex-
planation which the Commissioners may think fit to
- The circumstance of his continuing to supply the
does not in the slightest degree alter our
The Commissioners probably could not

convictions

get it from other easily accessible sources

- .
impress with any high opinion of the soundness of the
arrangements and calculations by which the increased
exnecbtion of these works is to be ensured. The writer

understand that Mr. Rendel, under the new arrnge-
m?nts entered into, feels confident that he will have the great
tidal basin and a constlerable portion of the upper dock ready,
r the reception of shipping in 1847. The Bridge-end Dock,
about the size of the George's Dock, has, for instance, one-half
its wharf-walls completed at present. It will be opened in
July, 1846 _ _ _

ST. SIMON'S DisTarcr.—After a very eloquent and
impressive discourse by the Rev. H. M`Neile, at Christ
Church, on Sunday evening last, which was listened to
with breathless attention by a densely crowded audience,
From our own knowledge of plans 'and section=, and the sum of £56 was collected towards the erection of the
the time required for works so peculiarly situated as these new church in the district of St. Simon's. The extreme
dock woilmare, we have by no means the " confidence" destitution of that quarter of the town, and its strong
which Mr. Rendel is said to feel, as to the time in which claims on the sympathies of the Christian public, were
they may be completed. At ^ Cie in- powerfully pleaded and enforced by the eloquent preacher

rough guess, anc
pection of the plans and the works which appears to be
already completed, we should spy that from 1,500,000 to
2000,010 cubic yards of excavation remain to be got out;
and to complete the whole, it will require the large
quantity of 700,000 to 900,000 feet of stone to be set each

Of the abOve sum, £5 were a special donation from a
member of Christ Church congregation.
COMMITMENTS FROM THE POLICE COURT, YESTER-
DA.Y.—A young woman, named Mary Thomas, who had
before been in gaol, for felony, was committed for stealing
a cheese.—John Williams, who had previously been six
times committed, was
_sent for trial for stealing wearing

year, for three years to come, which, we apprehend, is as
rapidly as such works can be safely proceeded with.
Under the most favourable circumstances, we cannot see
it at all probable that the upper dock can be completed
before the end of 1848 ; and, to effect this, they Must be
pushed on at double the speed at which the. work
already done has progressed ; and, regarding, as all men
at all acquainted with such works do the progress made
by Mr. Tomkinson as surprising and most creditable to
him, it is, perhaps, scarcely reasonable to expect to see
any very greatly increased progress accomplished, and we
can hardly date the completion of the works earlier than
the end of 1849, for it must be borne in mind, that al-
though upwards of 12 months have been occupied on the
works, it is said that not over one-seventh or one-eighth
has yet been got through.
We have already several eminent names, as likely to
succeed Mr. Tomkinson in the execution of the contract,
—.amongst the rest, Messrs. Griszell and Peto, Mr.
Brassey, and Mr. M'Corrnack. It remains to be seen
whether any of these, or other parties, will be able to carry
out the sanguine hopes of the commissioners or their en-
geer. We ourselves have great doubts on the subject, al-
though they may, perhaps, have some advantage from Mr.
Tomkinson 's excellent machinery already erected on the
spot.

apparel from a vessel.—Two sisters, named- Thomas,
servant girls, were committed to prison for fourteen days
for stealing groceries, &c., from the shop where they
were employed.—Two young men, John Branagan and
Daniel Myler, notorious thieves, who had, together, been

twelve times committed, having been found loitering
about the Brunswick Dock—one of them with a candle
and some lucifer matches—were committed to gaol for

three moot

ROBBERY IN A CART.—David Duncan, and Simuel
Morton, were yesterday charged with robbing John
Indall, of the sum of about £4O, i❑ notes and gold, on
Friday last. The prisoners had been remanded from
Saturday. It appeared Mr: Indall was anxious to go to
the Clarence Dock about eight o'clock in the evening,
and engaged a spring cart near St. John's market to
carry him there, when he jumped into the cart, of which
the prisoner, David Duncan, was the driver. The other
prisoner, with several others, got into the cart at the
:wore. r‘sacctintrninno VsknYhall-rrall_

the men in the cart took from. Indall two £lO notes, and
some gold, and when they got the money, they all de-
camped from the cart, leaving Indall and the carter,
Duncan. Indall stopped the cart, and placed Duncan in

a police c

Duncan was discharged, and was again talZensinto custody
in Crosshall-street, after the other prisoner was taken.
They were committed for trial at the sessions.

IMPOSITION BY M

Court, on Saturday, two able-bodied fellows, named
Joseph Hampson and Thomas M`Grain, were brought
up on a charge of haVing obtained the sum of £7 from
Matthew Lodge under false pretences. It appears that
Lodge was going to America and agreed with M`Grain to
give him 10s. fur putting him o❑ board the Virginian
which was lying in the river. They had not proceeded

far when MlGrain demanded £5, which Lodge said he had
no alternative but to pay. He had left home without the
knowledge of his father, and was anxious to get to
America with all despatch. The next day the other
prisoner, Hampson, came on board the Virginian, and
said his (the prosecutor's) father had arrived in Liverpool,
and that his only chance of making his escape from the
old man was to be off immediately into Cheshire. The
prosecutor got into the boat without delay, and paid the
ide £7
e been

£l2, for on the first occasion they demanded £lO for
taking him from the pier to the vessel, but be had refused
to give them more than £5. Mr. Lodge, sen., stated,

hat, in company with officer Tuck, he had gone on hoard
he Virginian in search of him. At that time, however,
ais son bad left in the second boat for Cheshire; but, i❑
.:onsequence, as we learned afterwards, of information
riven by the very bcatmen whom the unfortunate young

man bad paid so extravagantly, he was descorered by his
father at his lodgings in Liverpool. Mr. Rushton after
some remarks as to the extortion perpetrated so frequent-
ly by the boatmen,•ordered M`Grain to pay a fine of
which was done. Hampson was discharged, Mr. Rushton
saying that there appeared no false pretence used on the
second occasion.

SPLENDID SHOW OF FAT CATTLE.-Mr. E. Speed,
of Woolfall Hall, Huyton, admitted the public for the
first time, on Saturday, to view his stock of fat cattle, in
a yard on the vacant ground opposite the south end of
the new assize courts, where the whole may yet be seen.
They are shown in a range of covered stalls, and (in
common.with other visitors) we must say that we never
beheld so many fine beasts collected together, and in the
possession of one individual. They number twenty, and
every one of them prime of its kind, the greater portion
having obtained prizes at the late " Dumfries Exhibition
of the Royal and Highland Agricultural Society of Scot-
land," and the whole are intended for our Christmas
markets, which will consequently, this year at least, he
unequalled for its tempting display of the best beef. We
were much gratified by an inspection of the whole lot,
and scarcely know how, in justice, to express a prefer-
ence. Two black heifers, in the first stall, fed tbr the
Duke of Buccleugh, and which obtained the premTbm of
ten guineas, struck us as peculiarly fine, esppcially one of
them of a superb Scotch breed, two years and a half old,
with great weight of flesh and remarkably short legs. A
more compact and firmer animal was never exhibited.
Another fine heifer, solely grass fed by the Earl of Sel-
kirk, was equally attractive. Amongst the remainder,—
all oxen,—are some 'first-rate samples, fed by the same
nobleman; also, by Hugh Corris, Esq., Stair H. Stew-
art, Esq., Colonel M'Douall, and D. Tenant, Esq. Many
of these are of large size, and of noble symmetrical ap-
pearance. Several of them will probably weigh twenty
stones a quarter. Judges have pronounced the lot to be
the choicest they have seen. They are all extremely do-

cite, and may be approached without the slightest danger.
The greater portion of them are already sold—some to
Mr. Sharp, Copperas-hill; some to Mr. Lowcock. Lon-
don-road ; some to Mr. Hall, of St. John's Market ;
and others—so that those who are fond of " the roast
beef of Old England" will have ample choice of the
primest joints during the ensuing holidays.

In our last publication, we noticed that Daniel O'Con-
nell had replied to the charges brought against him by the
" Commissioner," with respect to the condition of the
property and tenantry at Cabirciveen ; and somewhat too
hastily expressed our opinion that the former had the
best of the battle. The commissioner, however, has re-
turned to the attack ; and in the following slashing re-
marks has placed the demagogue in a position from which
he will have a difficulty in getting out without the truth of
the question at issue between them being fairly tested.
What course his wily opponent will adopt under the cir-
cumstances remains to be seen. We venture to predict,
however, that Daniel will be " too busily engaged with
Ireland's affairs," and the filling of his own pocket, to
have leisure at any time-for going into the arbitration
suggested :—" I will not, however, stoop to bandy talk
with this man. I came not here to humbug the English
people, and I shall at once take a course which every Eng-
lishman and every honest Irishman will say is a fair
course, and offer to appoint six gentlemen, whom I will
select from different parts, of Ireland; Mr. O'Connell, if
he dare, may do the same ; I will proceed with them, in
ten days, or whenever he pleases, to Cahirciveen ; I will
show them, and him too, if he chooses t 6 corne, its dila-
pidation—its filth ; I will show them the inn of which he
has said so much, and which (because of the incivility of
its landlord to me) I willingly say, that with one excep-
tion it is the very worst that I have been in in the United
kingdom ; I will take them to his estate under Mr. Har-
top, in the hills behind Wateruille, from which, as a mid-
dleman, he derives a profit rent of one-third of his in-
come, and about which, in his laboured defence, he has
not said one word ; I will show them his tenants living
there in a state of neglected wretchedness such as none
would believe who did not see it, in huts not weatherproof,
badly roofed, often with sods, without chimneys or win-
dows, and with literally an iron pot and a turfbasket as
their only furniture. The beds, usually a heap of stones,
covered with turf and leather; the tables, the turfbasket
bottom upwards ; the mud-floor their seat. They shall
see the multiplied pauperism, the infinite subdivision of
land, the utter neglect and misery of the people, left
there in a sta'e of nature, untaught, unheeded, to mul-
tiply in misery as they list. These poor people must be
of necessity removed when the lease is out by Mr. Har-
top, who will then get all the odium of the misery which
this middleman's neglect has created. They shall hear
from the mouths of these poor people—this middleman's
tenant farmers !—that they are in the habit of migrating
to Cork, to Limerick, and to Waterford, in the potato
season, in order to earn enough at potato digging, in corn.
petition with the poor peasantry of those counties, to pay
this middleman's rent. I will take them to Derrynane
Beg,—l will let them look for themselves through the
hovels there. They shall for themselves hear the stories
about " Old Huntingcap," as O'Connell's father was
called,—about whom I do not wish to say one word, and
they will judge of the weight to be attached to his brag
about his ancestry! Before " Huntingcap's" time they
were unknown to fame," They shall hear for themselves,
too, the stories about his morality, of which he makes so
perpetual a boast. They shall hear, too, from tt dozen
witnesses, who saw his tenant's cattle impounded and
sold for rent but a month due, that Serjeant Jackson's
charge against him, on whatever testimony founded, was
true. They shall hear and see for themselves all this, and
if they do not unanimously conclude as l aid, that this
same Daniel O'Connell is the most unprincipled impos-
tor—the most•unblushing—pardon me ; I will not imitate
his foul-mouthed phraseology) inventor of unfoUnded
statements that the world ever saw, I will submit to be
termed what he pleases. Now, this I challenge him to
do, if be dares. Do not let him flatter himself that I
shall shrink from the task, hateful as it may be, of fully
exposing to the gaze of the world the whole history of
his career, the full picture of his tenantry's condition.
No glozing over, no cunning, no evasion, no talking
about the Cahirciveen convent, and churchyard, and the
butter market, shall avail him ; in allits appalling wretch-
edness, the condition of the poor, neglected, peaceful,
and intelligent people on his property under Mr. flartop
and under Lord Cork, at Derrynane Beg, shall be ex-
posed." Daniel has got hold of an awkward customer in
this same " Commissioner."

SABBATH-BRI

FAKING BY TEIE BOARD OF

TRAM.

The railway department of

aws, common, statute, moral,
and religious, determined to desecrate the last Sunday by
receiving on that day the plans of the new. railways, and
thus making all England work, as it had never done be-

of Trade, in de

fiance, we believe

circumstances, save thos

of invasion

d warrant its doing again—ori a Sunday. It seems'
rent in this unlucky department to act absurdly and

,t the sanction of 'Ate

.ocular proceeding.
But instead of seeking the authority to declare that the
law of Standing Ofders should overrule the positive statute
of 29 Charles 11., and the dictum of Lord Coke, who says

to this

the Sabbath is.no't a dies juridicus—as well as the univer

on, which re

zes no

gal processes

as valid, if executed on a Sunday, and the
gs of the community; instead of thus act-
ing railways with all the odium, we insist

could, with p

have taken another course, by receiving the plans on the
Monday. Since Parliament had selected a day, which in
fact was no day in law, common sense under the particular
circumstances, would have taken the next, and no com-
mittee of Standing Orders would have dared to declare
against the proceeding. It would not surprise us to find
that railways which deposited their plans on the Monday
should succeed in an argument that they were not prepared
to violate the Sabbath, even though an oversight of "
Standing Orders commanded, and 0-

neither courage to do the right thing, and appoint Satur-
day, nor the cowardice to keep them from doing the
wr.,ng, and taking Sunday.

We copy the-preceding remarks from the Railway
Chronicle, and are sorry to say, that the conduct of the
Board of Trade has given rise to the most scandalous
country. The desecration of the
The following statement from the
f the state of that town on Sunday

hat wa

Dec. 9, 1/444.

LAST NIGHT'S MAIL:
MARK LANE CORN AIARKET—YEsTERDA.Y.

The supply of Wheat by land carriage samples from Essex!
Kent, and Suffolk, was small this morning, and the millers
availing themselves of the present uncertain state of teed__
(created by the reports of the " Times" paper, asrocee Po.x
in these descriptions. Fine malting Barley ded
prices of this day se'nuight. Holders of free foreign and bonoccurred
chasing the same at a reduction of 3s. per qrier under tne
refusing to sell at any decliue, few if any transactions b
secondary qualities were difficult of disposal. Beans must 7
noted is, and Pease of all kinds 2s to 3s per quarter cheaptoer
Oats are a slow sale at a decline of Is per quarter. The P
price of Flour is altered to 57s per sack. s .Id freely, ~.s

SMITIOIELD MARKET—YESTERDAY•
to thos.
large,he tiletteßnedeafntcreadoefrebleodthtitromw,netapnrdieeceoufenitlryy
equal
irs bele!
obtained on this day se'nnight, and at which a good clearance
was effected.
ourse
mutton
roi Although
dethewansumhrbmer,s
at
tf
fSheepfull
p prices, the
on thheesti necirdeaso,4h
Doff
readily producing as per B.b. Very few Calves were on
while the Veal trade was firm at Friday's advances. In Pigs I

steady business was transacted at full prices

PRICES OF STOCKS, &c.—
Public securities have been tranquil this morning, with vet/
limited extent of business. Consols have been last done for
money at 94k, the Three per Cents Reduced at 431, the ThreL
and a Quarter New at 954 Exchequer Bills have again
slig
improved, the quotation being now 21 23 pm., Bank Stock has
been last done at 200.

YF sTF PrAlr*

_
THE CORN LAWS.-LATEST INTELLIGENCE.

The question of the truth or untruth of the announce-
ment of the Times, on the subject of the repeal of the
Corn-laws, continues to occupy the attention of the Lon-
don paper", and indeed of every circle. The Globe of
last night expresses its firm belief in the substantial cor-
rectness of the Times. The Standard, of course
feebly, however, reiterates its contradiction :
" We are at this moment ignorant, we are not ashamed
to own it—for without a breach of trust and the violation
of an oath on the part of some one, all but the Cabinet
Ministers themselves must be ignorant—to what extent
the Corn-laws have lately occupied the attention of het
Majesty's advisers, or whether they have occupied it at
all; but we do know, that the Cabinet has come to no
decision upon the subject."
This is pure trifling after the charge of " atrocious fa-
brication," and the pointed and detailed contradiction.
In our report of the corn market, it will be seen that
wheat declined yesterday 3s. per quarter, at Mark Lane.
The report in the Standard states the decline at 3s. to
45., and that some quantity remained unsold at the close of
the market, which it accounts for by the circumstance of
" the Times adhering so strongly to its original statement,
which continued to exercise a powerful effect on the
trade, and caused a timidity and reserve on the part of all
buyers." —more

LIARPOOL COTTON MARKET,

MONDAY,

A decidedly firm market, and holders do not show their
stocks freely. The sales to-day reach 6,000 bales, chieflY
American, all to the trade. Indeed speculation has quite
disappeared for the present. Very full prices are being
paid for a quiet market.