The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1845-11-11 00:00:00

LIVERPOOL SHARE MARKET.-YESTERDAY.

Aberdeen, 7i; Birkenhead, Lancashire, and Cheshire
Junction, 71 ; Bolton, Wigan, and Liverpool, 26 ; Ca-
ledonian, 10 9i ; Extension, 3 ; Cambridge and Lincoln,
4,1 4 ; Extension, 3/ ; Chester and Birkenhead New £2O
Shares, 9 ; Eastern Counties, 20 191 ; Glasgow and Dum-
fries, 21; Great Grimsby and Sheffield, 14; Huddersfield
Canal and Railway, 9; Huddersfield and Sheffield, 151 ;
Leicester and Bedford, 2; Liverpool and Manchester
New Shares, 52; Liverpool. Orrnskirk, and Preston, 4 ;
London and Birmingham, 214 ; Loc-rdon and York, 48 1;
Leeds and Thirsk, 71; Manchester and Birm. / Shares,
131; 'Manchester Midland and Great Grimsby, 21 41s. 6d.
2; Midland, 133, ditto £4O shares, 20; North Stafford-
shire, 5, ; North Wales Mineral New Shares, 41 ; Not-
tingham and Grantham, 31 ; Oxford and Birmingham
Junction, 31 ; Oxford, Worcester, and Wolverhampton,
161 1; Runcorn Gap, 34; Sheffield and Manchester
Quarter Shares, No. 3, 51; Shrewsbury, Wolverhampton,
and South Staffordshire, 3-1 ; South Devonshire, 35 ;
Scottish Central, 161; South Midland, 51; Dutch Rhe-
nish, 6k

MANCHESTER SHARE MARKET-YESTERDAY

(From Mr. J. B. Locke's List)

The few sales reported in this market are, Boston,
Newark, and Sheffield, 31; Dudley, Iron Brdg., and S.,
21,1 ; Edinburgh and Perth, 41; Fleetwood, Preston,
and West Riding, 21; Grand Union, 1 15-1 G; Halifax,
Huddersfield, and Bradford, 81 ; Huddersfield and Man-
chester Railway and Canal, 91, 81 c.n. ; Leads and
Thirsk, 13 ; Liverpool, Manchester, and Newcastle, 3/ ;
Liverpool, Ormskirk, and Preston, 4, 3'l; London and
Manchester, (Remington'r) 3; London and York, 4/;
Manchester and Birmingham, (new quarters) 121 c.n. ;
Manchester and Leeds, 130 x.n ; Manchester and South-
ampton, 3/ ; Manchester, Wigan, and Southport, 2 ;
North British, (Carlisle Branch) 4 : North Staffordshire,
; Oxford, Witney, and Cheltenham, 1 ; Oxford,
'Worcester, and Wolverhampton, 17; Shropshire Mine-
ral, 2/ ; Trent Valley and Midland Grand Junction, 21;
Worcester, Shrewsbury, and Crewe, lt.

WILLIAM RATHBONE AND THE PUBLICANS'
DEPUTATION.

An amusing story is current respecting that very
" liberal" personage, the new member for Vauxhall Ward.
Previously to the day of election, it appears, he was wait-
ed upon by three influential members of the Licensed
VictuallPr.,' Protective Society, to represent to him the
oppressive nature of the persecution to which their trade
was subjected, and to ascertain his sentiments towards
them. The parties in question, do not seem, in the first
instance,:to have announced themselves es licensed victu-
allers ; and Mr. Rathbone—not conceiving, perhaps, that
members of that body could appear with decent coats
upon their backs, or conduct themselves like respectable
men—having heard a portion of their story, interrupted
them to express his surprise that men of their appearance
could think of taking any care of the interests of such a
body ! When made aware of his mistake, and that be
was addressing three licensed victuallers, the amiable and

"liberal" gentleman was not a little taken aback; and
had no slight difficulty in floundering out of the dilemma
into which he had brought himself! Surely, this little
incident ought to shew to the publicans of Liverpool, in
what light they and their business are regarded by the
radical faction.

DR. BUCKLAND ON THE POTATO DISEASE

A short while ago, this eminent chemist and geologist
recommended, as a mode of preserving potatoes from in-
fection, their being pared and sliced and dried in the air.
In the Times of Saturday, however, he has published a
letter stating that be has found, by subsequent examina-
tion, that the disease is not thus prevented spreading,
unless the sliced potatoes are placed in an oven and ren-
dered as hard as biscuits. His latest recommendation is,
that potatoes touched with disease should be boiled, and
then rammed down air-tight in casks or jars, covered at
the top with a layer of fat, like potted meat. For this
process, he suggests the application of a Pappin's digester,
or other boiler, to the bottom of casks filled with potatoes
and placed upright, so that the steam emitted may circu-
late through the mass, thus killing the obnoxious fungus.
The potatoes thus steamed or boiled may be stored in
casks of any size, from sugar hogsheads to butter firkins,
and a little salt should be sprinkled on the potatoes as
they are put into the casks; but it is essential that they
should be rammed quite close and air-tight throughout,
and that the top and bottom of the casks, and every joint
and crack, should be rubbed over and filled with grease
or pitch. If this be done, the potatoes will keep like
meat and vegetables potted in air-tight tin cases, which
are sent to India and back quite fresh. This process may
be performed in all cases where the potatoes are short of
rottenness, and is better than paring. When they are
rotten, the starch still remains, and is all that can be
saved.

The Great Britain steam ship had not arrived when we
went to press. She was advertised to leave New York on
the 25th ultimo, but it is thought she would not leave that
port for several days after that date.
HUNGERFORD BRIDGE COMPANY.—The adjourned
meeting of this company was held oa Thursday, Mr.
Hawes in the chair, when the contract with Mr. Jackson's
party for the purchase of the bridge, was confirmed by a
very large majority. £lO,OOO deposit money has been
paid ; £lOB.OOO is to be paid upon the royal assent being
obtained, and the remainder within six months after-
wards.

COURT OF ItEQUESTR.-CAUTION TO DEFAULTERS.—
Ou Saturday last, the Commissioner of the Court of
Requests, in this town, committed a debtor to Lancaster
Castle for twenty-one days, for refusing to pay an instal-
ment due by him in liquidation of a debt. This is the
first instance of the exercise in this court of the power
given by the clause in the new act, which authorises the
judge to imprison a defaulter, (as for contempt of court)
for any period not exceeding forty days.

EFFECTS OF SPECULATION.—The circular of Messrs.
Colmann and Stolterfobt, of this town, says :—" Railway
speculations have been indulged in to an incredible ex-
tent amongst all classes, down to the most humble ; and
there is some reason to apprehend that the great home
demand which existed for the consumption of produce
as well as manufactures, has been partly caused by the
country shopkeepers extending their orders to larger
amounts than usual in order to gain additional sums for
their share speculations. Thus we find the wholesale
dealers unable to get their outstanding debts paid, and
they limit their own purchases in consequence."
TESTIMONIAL OF RESPECT TO A CLERGYMAN.—On
Friday last, the Rev. Evan Jones, curate of St. Bartholo-
mew's Church, Liverpool, was presented, 'v the congre-
gation, with a handsome copy of Bagster's Comprehensive
Bible, rcyal 4to, bound in Morocco, together with Hoo-
ker's works, accompanied by an address, expressive of
their regret at his leaving the district, and of their affec-
tion and esteem for him as "a faithful preacher of the
Gospel of Christ, as a warm advocate of the doctrines of
our established church, (and what is to us refreshing in
these degenerate days,) as a strenuous opponent of Po-
pery." Mr. Jones, a few months since. published some
valuable statistical tables showing the moral destitution
which exists in the district of St. Bartholomew's.

CHARGE OF STEALING LEAD WEIGHTS.— Yester-
day, at the Police Court, three men, John Might, James
Lawrenson, and John Marrow, were charged on suspi-
cion, the two first with having stolen, and the other wlth
having received a quantity of leaden sash weights. The
evidence went to show that Alight (who had been em-
ployed by Messrs. S. and J. Hoime, for thirteen or four-
teen years in situations of trust as a sort of foreman),
had latterly been placed by them to superintend what is
called the prison-yard, near the borough gaol, where his
masters deposited old building materials, &c., some of
which be had the occasional power to sell and account
for, but was especially restricted from selling lead. The
old Northern Hospital in the vicinity was, under Messrs.
Holme, being pulled down, and be had there got the
weights in question, and given them to Lawrenson to sell.
There was nothing elicited to show that the store-keeper
(Marrow) knew they were stolen, and he was discharged.
The other two were committed for trial at the sessions.
The weights were the property of R. B. Hollinshead, Esq.

A GLANCE AT THE COUNCIL MEETING,

YESTERDAY.

The first meeting of the Council, after the annual elec-
tion on the Ist of November, is generally one which ex-
cites a more than usual amount of interest amoi,g,t the
constituencies. A new chief magistrate has to be elected;
new members have to take their seats ; and the note of
preparation is often sounded, which enabes the discerning
to ascertain what will be the leading questions of conflict
for the coming year, and what the relative strength of
parties. The meeting of yesterday was especially interest-
ing, as re-introducing to the Council Chamber three of
the shining lights of Radicalism, who have been for a
time " chewing the cud of sweet and bitter fancy in re-
tirement, viz. :—Messrs. Wm. Earle, Wm. Rathbone,
and Eyre Evans. From the former of these gentlemen
some of the fun and buffoonery which he carries about
with him, and from the second some of his superabund-
ant bitterness, were anticipated. Nor was the Council
doomed to be disappointed, as our report of the proceed-
ings given elsewhere will prove. But to our glance at the
day's proceedings.
The first business, the election of the Mayor for the en-
suing year, brought on by Mr. Shand, who, in a very neat
and appropriate speecb, proposed that tried and fearless
champion of true Protestantism and civil and religious
liberty, Mr. David Hodgson. This nomination was se-
conded by Mr. Bramley-Moore, in equal terms of enco-
mium, which:those of his fellow- townsmen who do not
allow themselves to be blinded by party rancour and spite,
must admit were most deserved by Mr. Hodgson. Out
of doors, we believe, it was generally anticipated that the
election of that gentleman was a settled thing, and that no
opposition was to be offered to him. Sir Thos. Brancker,
in opposition to his usually judicious conduct, afforded
the small Radicai clique in the council an opportunity of
showing their teeth, by bringing before the council the
conflicting claims of his friend, Mr. George Hall Law-
rence. The speech of Sir Thomas was not much calcu-
lated, in our opinion, to place Mr. Lawrence in a digni-
fied position, in the eyes of his fellow-townsmen. Its
tone was partly beseeching and partly dictatorial. It was
a prose edition of " pity the sorrows ;" and said in behalf
of his protogee, almost as well as words could have said it
—" Oh, make him Mayor, and Heaven will bless your
store." The able chairman of the Finance Committee,
whose valuable services in that office none are more ready
to acknowledge, or have more frequently acknowledged,
than ourselves, possesses many recommendations which
might have been urged in his behalf more powerful than
tbo'e brought forward on this occasion.
The motion of Sir Thomas having been seconded by
Mr. Lace, it was the general expectation of the council
that on a question, involving the personal qualifications of
two of its members, they might at once have gone to the
poll. But not so thought the new member for Vauxhall
Ward,—and rejected of half-a-dozen others,—Mr. W'm.
Rathbons. The past year had been a year of business in
the council ; its proceedings had been conducted with
courtesy, and had not once been sullied by personal
attacks and indecorous language. But this halcyon calm
was to cease; and Mr. ttathbone, as his first act since
his new elevation to office, promptly offered himself to
throw in the apple of discord. In an insulting speech,
which could only have emanated from so bitter a spirit,
he objected to the election of Mr. Hodgson, on the
ground that " in the ensuing winter it was important, and
involved even the peace of the town, that they should not
elect as mayor a man in declared hostility to any portion
of the community." For the credit:of the council, we are
happy to be able to say this ebullitirn of acid bile was re-
ceived with disgust. On a division, Mr. Hodgson's elec-
tion was carried by a majority of 35 to 25, the minority
being swelled by the votes of the whole of the Radical
body in the council.

The standing orders of the council were next read and
confirmed, after which Mr. William Earle, who, through-
out the proceedings, has evidently been labouring under a
new idea, rose—jumped up would be the more appropriate
expression—to propose an additional standing order; and,
from the amiable and bland expression of his features, we
really thought he was going to propose that he should be
tied in his seat during the deliberations of the council,
furnished with filberts and a pair of nut crackers, or by
some mode or other restrained in his ebullitions to pro-
mote the order and decorum of the council, which he is in
the habit of disturbing. The first few sentences which be
uttered, however, satisfied us that he was not so peaceably
disposed ; that William was still himself—the same of
whom it can be said, "None but himself can be his paral-
lel ;" and when, after a few of his usual offensive person-
alities, he at length propounded his new standing order,
we verily believe that there was scarcely an individual in
the council that was not petrified with its mingled hoper-
tinence and absurdity. The purport of this precious fruit
of his recent leisure hours was a proposed exclusion from
seats on the Watch Committee of all gentlemen dealing in
wines, spirits, or other strong drinks ; and the grounds of
such exclusion, the possibility that such dealers were not
likely to treat with proper impartiality and rigour that
horrible class of men, the licensed victuallers of the town.
Mr. W. Preston seconded the resolution. The motion
was indignantly denounced by Mr Procter, Mr. Alderman
Nicol, and others, the latter gentleman pointing out the
fact that, if fairly carried out, it must extend to Mr. G.
H. Lawrence, who, as a West India merchant, imported
and sold spirits; and Mr. Bushby, and others, who also

dealt in them, as brokers. Mr. Parker denounced the
proposition as a direct attempt to thrust the tradesmen of
the town out of the council; and after enduring some
good natured ridicule, and cutting a very sorry figure, the
motion of the irrascible member for St. Anne's was re-
jected by a large majority.
The Ball was next taken up by Mr. Vincent Higgins,
who, on the nomination of Mr. Harbord, as a member
of the Watch Coalmittee, objected to him, on the
g round of his being the chairman of " an illegal society,"
viz. the Orange society. This petty attempt, the emana-
tion of a little and cankerous mind, was defeated by an
overwhelming majority. NH-. Higgins does not seem
likely to be an acquisition to the council. Like all frothy
subjects, he will very speedily become flat. After ano-
ther exhibition of pompous inanity on the school ques-
tion, from Mr. T. Chalmer, whom we should strongly
advise to correct both his grammar and pronunciation
before he next obtrudes himself upon the council, to the
evident annoyance and dismay of his own party,—the
business was at length got through, and the council
separated.

We ought, by-the-bye, to notice a most uncalled for
and offensive attack made by Mr. Earle, on one of the
most valuable but unassuming members of the council—
Mr. Mann—which we were glad to see that gentleman
treated with a smile of contempt and pity. In conclusion
we must say—and the exhibition of yesterday proved the
fact—that the council is not at all improved in its com-
position, by the accession of the new radical mem ere,
who clearly indicate their determination to obstruct,
rather than forward , the business of the town.