The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1848-07-04 00:00:00

THE LIVERPOOL STANDARD.

LIVERPOOL SHARE LIST.

SHARES.

Yesterday's Sales
Prices. Yesterday

RAILWAYS,

21 CO 21i

.
25..31 P
74.. 7 d

7i.. 7i ti
3.. P
d

)1 10 ..9 d

I 2/..2 d
. 27 ..25 d
6Y.. d
31.. 31 d

1420 Surat .
230 Madras
.... Bengal.
26830 bales.

52
BO p
52 I

~iflarket~.

enclency no
es have decline

will be offered by auc

ACCOUNT OF SALLS AND IM PORTS OF COTTO.
For the week ending June 30, 1848.

.... ,Alinas- 1 _
• ... Para 1
.... Demerara,Surinam, &C I
760 Egyptian I 5
20 Barbadoes ' 4
.... Peruvian
13a .... Bahama
.... Laguayra
.... Common Vest India, &e.
. Carthagena
lid .. .. Smyrna

LIVERPOOL COMMERCIAL MARKET. JUNE 30.
There has been a fair demand for Sugars from the growers,
and 700 hhds. B.P. and 6000 bags Bengal have been disposed
of, at very full prices. The continued uncertainty as to duties.
has prevented any business of moment in Foreign ; the only
sate repo-ted is N hhds. Porto Rico, at the quotations.—The
sales in Molasses this week are 500 casks new Barbadoes, at
16s. 3d. per cwt. from the quay, being Is. under previous quo-
tations.

There is no improvement in the demand for Coffee
sales are limited to 75 tierces Jamaica and 300 bales I.__
former rates.-509 bags Black Pepper brought 2i(l. per lb,
sates of Cocoa or Pimento.—A few tons of African and Bari
does Ginger sold at former rates.
200 tkrces Carolina-Rice sold at 15
nary, and 18s. to 19s. ed. per cwt. • _
rather dearer; but 15,009 bags Bengal _....__
for yellow cargo, 7s. 9d. to 9s. 6d. for broken to mid(11...,
and a small lot fine at I Is., establishing a reduction in Last
India of about 6d. per cwt.
Notwithstanding the anticipated reduction in the duty on
Rum, there is only a limited demand from the trade, without
change in price; the sales this week are 230 puncheons, chiefly
common Leewards for export, at Is. 7d. per gallon. pro(
There has been a good business done in all kind
Tea, at improved prices. Several parcels of Congon
withdrawn from the market; in Green the transac
been limited

s. 6d. to 16s. 6d. for ordi-
for good and fine, being
,Id in bond at 7s. 6d.

Nothing reported in Indigo, exceptim,
2s: 7d. per-lb.—About 130 chests Shell Lac .
per cwt. ; 4-p chests Gum Arabic 17s. to 475,
Ills., a few tons of Terra Japonica Bs. 9d., 600 ha,
15s. to 16s. per cwt., and 300 bales of Senna 2#d.
2500 bags of saltpetre have been disposed of, at
cent., and 265. 6d. to 275. for better quality, being
ces.—The large sales of Nitrate of Soda advertised for this we
were chiefly withdrawn, and the sales confined to about 50 tot
at 11s. per cwt.
800 tons of ordinary Saldanha Bay Guano sold at 455. •, fot
other kinds there has only been a moderate inquiry, but full
prices paid.

brought 355. to 4(

LIVERPOOL COTTON MARKt,
The unusually large import, which from
alone amounts to near 130,000 bales, has h'
on the market, and checked the upward
week •, prices of the middling. qualiti p,
lb., whilst fair and good being in request for export, fully
maintain last week's quotations. Exporters have taken 1170
American and 2250 Pernams, and speculators 1200 American ;
and there have been forwarded into the country unsold during
the month, 6550 American and 200 Ferman. 1560 bales Bengal

JUNE 30.
United States
jurions effect
last

Prices paid Imports
1
' SALES OF THE WEEK. !ill the meek. ThisWhzThis Yi .
I
37() Sea Island
40 Stained I :34 ti 4 421371 2813 a
63u0 136 wed Georgia l, 34 —.4a`
5650 iM l obile
1 Alabama ana Tennessee,' 24 SI 107
11050 New Orleans I 34 —' 6
2430 f Pernambuco & Paraiba 5 5t 1
1 Ararat i and Ceara
200 Bahia and Maceio
Mar:11111am
- 41 54
360 { S
awginned , LI 41

LIVERPOOL CORN EXCHANGE. JUNE 27.
'Wheat moderate sale, at 2d. per bushel reduction.
Fresh flour scar ce. and fully as deur.
Egyptian Beans 6d. to Is. per qr. cheaper than on this day
week.

Outs :Id. per bushel lower, with a moderate sale ; but Oatmeal
very dull, and nominally rather cheaper.

Indian 'Corn generally 2s. per quarter lower, at which reduc-
tion several parcels were taken for Ireland.
Indian Meal participated in a proportionate reduction of va-
lue, without any improved demand.

SALFORD CATTLE MARKET, JUNE 28.
We continue well supplied with stock, and the quantity from
Ireland is now on the increase. Though we have lull markets,
still buyers could not establish a quotable decline on either
Beef or Mutton of prime quality, and prices may be called
heavy. Lamb a little lower.

WAKEFIELD CATTLE FAIR, JUNE 28.
We bad a large supply of stock this morning, and a good
ittendance of buyers. Ihe market, however, was heavy. and

pars STOCK was turned out unsold. Beet, Cs. to 7s. per stone;
Mutton, 6d. per lb. ; and Lambs, 18s. to 245. per head. Beasts
700; Sheep and Lambs, 5400. We bad a fair supply of !can
cattle and calvers.

Mame day, in-Lowndes.street, I 4d
THORNTON, Esq., eldest son r t
Esq., of Whittington-hall, in th. cot
same day, at the Rock Cottal tie
shire, aged 62, Mrs. ELEAN JR
Geo. Green, Esq., of that place
state of health for several 711011
sally regretted and esteemed by at
poor have lost a most generous ber
of acquaintances a kind and hos,
fervid and unaffected, and conso'
a lingering and painful disease,
soul into the hands of its C
perfect faith of a blessed imrr
On the 251 h, at his grandfather's Mr. Davies, of Roscommon-
street, agud 9 months, GEORGE ALEXANDER. son of Mr.
A. HULTON, commander of the barque Queen, of Greenock.
Same day, in Edge-hill, after a long and painful illness. aged
34, MARY ANN, wife of Mr. SOWERBY, landing-w•aiteriq
her Majesty's Customs at this port.
Same day, after a lingering LLIAM
son of Mr. JOHN POWNALL, of the I es, new
On the 26th ultimo, of scarlet few'- 5 year
son of Mr. WICKSTEAD, of ns.
Same day, at Northenden, Cheshire, -ed 3C
WHITELLGG, Esq., late of this town.
Same day, Mr. T. SIMPSON, pai•
was attending the quarterly meetin•
Wesleyan Methodist Connexion, in "
and rose for the purpose of arkb.-
tinning for a short period '

OIL GI

WILLIAM, the eldest
-les, neaj Prescot.

JOSEPH.

WARD

Leeds. Deceased!

Fug Otirsbiun to tie seated,
arid died almost imMediaieli.-'"
Same day, in Phythian-street, Low-hill, MARY ANN, the
wife of Mr. ALFRED.F._I3OWEN.

wite of I
ington.

WILLIAM DA.

TUESDAY MORNING, JULY 4, 1848.

THE first step in the ministerial crusade against
our sugar-growing colonies has been successful. In
a house of 505 members, on Thursday night, the
motion that the members resolve themselves into a
committee to consider the question of the sugar
duties, was carried by a measuring cast majority of
15. How far, however, this decision shows the
ability of ministers to carry through their measure
as originally proposed, remains to be proved, com-
prising, as the majority does, a number of honour-
able members differing from the government both
in the direction of free trade and of increased pro-
tection. From the weakness of the former, how-
'ever, as shewn in the small minority (36) which
voted in favour of Mr. Bright's motion, and from
the unreserved support given to the ministerial
plan by Sir Robert Peel, we fear much that all
further opposition will be futile, and that our sugar-
growing colonists are doomed men.
The speech of Sir Robert, announcing the course
he is determined upon pursuing, is worthy of that
most inconsistent of all modern statesmen. It is
throughout a happy combination of Jesuitical flat-
tery and insult. He sets out with a glowing exor-
dium upon the past loyalty and value to Great
.Britain of her West Indian colonies. He " cannot
_forget that they shared in our victories and our
defeats,—in our hopes and our despondings ;—but
be thinks, independent of all this, there are great
• social considerations which would require us to ex-
tend a fostering hand to our West India possessions.".
'These social considerations are the advantage to
civilization to be derived from the maintenance in
prosperity of the white population,—the planters,—
of the West Indies. • " I believe," he goes on,
•" the white population to be a barrier to the spread
.of barbarism." (Cheers.) "If they should, from
any reason, disappear from the colonies, the cause
of civilization, humanity, and religion will materially
suer." Naturally these sentiments, so true and
so just, drew down cheers from the house. Who
could suppose that, with the evidence before the
house, that this barrier against barbarism was fast
disappearing, under the influence of our legislation
—that the planter was a ruined man already—and
-.that cultivation was being given up in every colony
—Sir Robert Peel was, after this honied expression
of sympathy with his interests, and regard for the
importance of his position, about to pronounce his
determination to abandon him in his hour of trial ?
No one who had not attentively studied the man.
Yet such is the fact. Sir Robert was about to
• affirm his intention to vote for the miserable, in-
efficient measure of the Whig government.

Yet even whilst doing this the Right Honour-
'able Baronet had .his reservations, his doubts as to
the correctness of our past policy. He entertains
"regret that a further experiment of the bill of
1845 was not permitted." But "we cannot revoke,"
he says, " the settlement of 1846." The "settle-
ment ! ' Why we are revoking it by affirming this
very measure. Is Sir Robert, after all, about to go
a step beyond ministers, and to bid in advance for
popularity with the free trade section of the house,
by binding them to the terms of the bill of 1846 ?
There is not a passage in his speech which is incon-
sistent with his adoption of such a course. He
objects to the proposed protection of ten shillings
per cwt. for six years, on the ground that it would
not benefit the West India body ; that it would
check their efforts to reduce the cost of cultivation,
and that it would not deter the Cuban planter from
extending his power to supply us, knowing, as he
would do, that at the end of six years, he would
have the unrestricted use of our markets. The
same arguments apply to the limited additional
protection granted by the present measure, even
more strongly, inasmuch as the latter violates a
"settlement" without affording-efficient relief to
the planter. The latter says, and Sir Ro'.:ert Peel
6onfirms the assertion,—that time will be required
before an adequate supply' of labour can be
secured ; and, pending that period, he asks for
such a protection as will enable him to continue his
cultivation without ruinous loss. The ministerial
measure does not afford such protection ; and,
Under its provisions, cultivation would not be con-
tinued.

The same objection holds with respect to Sir
Robert Peel's further specifics for the relief of the
colonists. Sir Robert proposes the application of a
considerable portion of the £500,000, proposed to
be raised on loan for the purpose of procuring an
increase of labour, to other purposes—irrigation,
thoroughdraining, the formation of railways, &c.
The suggestion is undoubtedly a valuable one; and
by the by, it is easy for a member of parliament,
in his place in the house, with his hand unfettered
by practical difficulties, to make suggestions, and
to ask why were not these things done before,
`during the palmy days of prosperity. It is suffi-
`cient, however, to know now that they were not
done; and Sir Robert may be assured that, so long
as the planter is subjected to unequal and ruinous
competition—so long as his property is productive
only of a yearly loss of the capital employed upon
its cultivation—they must remain undone. Besides,
all these improvements—this irrigation, draining,
&c.—are equally open to adoption by the slave
planter, who can apply to them the very money
which we give him, by his more favourable position
in the British market.
There is one argument upon which Sir Robert
Peel appears especially to rely in his opposition to
a temporary protection being given to the British
planter. He says :—" You admit that a very con-
siderable time must elapse before you have any in-
crease in the supply of labour to the West Indies;
hut the stimulus of protection to the East Indies
will be immediate, while the amount of available
Tabour there is enormous ; yet the East Indies
and the 'Mauritius are to receive an encouragement
to compete with the West Indies,though not labour-
ing under the same disadvantages, which competi-
tion will be as injurious to the West Indies, in a pe-
' cuniary point of view, as foreign competition."
Now, what does the Right Honorable Baronet here
admit ? In the first instance, he admits the fact of
a large increase of free labour sugar being raised,
under the encouragement afforded by a temporary
protection. We know the effect of an increase of
supply of any product. It is cheapness. He ad-
mits it himself, when he says that "competition
with the East Indian planter will be as injurious to
the West Indies, in a pecuniary point of view, as
foreign competition." The consumer, therefore,
will not be taxed to the amount of this increased
measure of protection. He will still have cheap
sugar, the result of an increased supply, produced
by free labour in our own colonies, and paid for in
the manufactures of Manchester, of Leeds. of Shef-
field, and Birmingham—not the cheap article,
wrung by the lash from the blood and sinews of the
slave.
But there is another important deduction to he
drawn from this argument of Sir Robert. He had
113 t been saying to the planters :—" It is only under

the influence of competition that you can hope that
these improvements—these drains and modes of
irrigation—will be had recourse to ;" and he quoted
afterwards, with approbation, the following evidence
of Mr. Barklay, as to the effect of increased protec-
tion in putting a stop to the reduction of the price
of labour:—" At the present moment, in those co-
lonies, we are engaged in a struggle to reduce the
wages, which is the only means of putting the cost
of production on a sound and satisfactory basis. I
think the effect of a differential duty to that extent
would be at once to decide the struggle in favour
of the negro." But Sir Robert tells us that the
West India planter will be still subjected to a severe
competition with the East Indian, who has abun-
dant and cheap labour. He cannot afford, there-
fore, to stay his efforts to reduce the cost of culti-
vation. He will be driven out of the market, if he
does not make use of all the appliances and advan-
tages within his reach.
It was to be expected, of course, that so consum-
mate a master would not conclude without at least
touching that very important phase of the question,
its connexion with the system of slavery and the
slave trade. Sir Robert has reserved this point for
the close of his speech, and, in our humble opinion,
weak as the whole is, the conclusion is the weakest.
We quote it here :

" I would not despair of the result of competition with
the foreigner, because I think that the man must be blind
indeed to the signs of the times who can believe that this
system of slave labour can ultimately be maintained.
(Hear, hear.) Now look to what the state of this slave
labour is in Cuba. Lord Howard de Walden has lately
paid a visit there, and this is his account of the condition
of Cuba. Being asked if the overseer of an estate was
obliged to go armed, he answered, " Yes, I believe, in-
variably ; the overseer had a cutlass and dagger, and
three bloodhounds at his heels close by him. I under-
stand it was the custom of the island, that no white man
belonging to an estate should go unarmed. They would
nct go on foot at any distance, but even on horseback they
have always their pistols at their sides." (Hear, hear.)
When you look to the United States, are you sure that
the status of slavery can always be maintained Do you
believe that the inhabitants of the United States are easy
and confident under the maintenance of it ? What is the
reason all discussion of it is put down ? Look to the state
of Martinique, and remember also that these events are
furnishing a lesson which the governments of Brazil and
Cuba—aye, and of the United States—should learn, and,
in fact, are learning. (Hear, hear.) My opinion is, that
the events which are happening in Europe must precipitate
the time when there shall be a final extinction both of the
slave trade and of the slave. I believe that slavery cannot
long survive, and that the slave, at no remote period,
must be emancipated. (Loud cheers.)

How miserably must the man have sunk in his
own estimation, and how low he deserves to sink in
the estimation of the world, who could bring him-
self to utter this wretched trash ! Whither have
fled all those noble aspirations of British statesmen
and of the British people, to be the pioneers of the
liberty of the African throughout the world ? Whi-
ther has fled their determination to carry out, cost
what it might, the great experiment of cultivating
the tropics with free labour ? To the winds ; and
now we have a reputed great statesman—one ac-
customed

" The applause of listening senates to command,"
instead of standing upon the high and holy ground
of principle upon this great social question, taking
refuge in the hope that the abolition of slavery is'
only to be accomplished at last by the negro being_
goaded to desperation and outbreak. Spirits of
Wilberforce and Clarkson, of what value were all
your eloquent appeals to the humanity of England
and the world, when the great object of your life's
labour an English statesman now leaves to be con-,
summated by the same instrumentality which drives
a hound to fly at his master's threat; when at!,
last the real emancipator of the negro is to be some'
Cuban overseer, with cutlass and pistols at his
sides and bloodhounds at his heels, more wicked
and cruel than his fellows in crime ? Alas for Sir-
Robert Peel !

WE observe that, to some extent, the question of.
our Water Supply will be again brought before the
Council, on Wednesday next (to-morrow), on
motion by Mr. Parker, affecting Mr. Hawksley's
appointment. Little hope, certainly, seems to exist.
that the Council can be induced to deviate from:
their course by any coercion of argument which;
can be brought to bear upon them. The Water of
Rivington Pike, or the supposed water, for it is
altogether in nubibus, and may never come down,
is that which it seems determined upon that the
inhabitants of Liverpool shall drink and bathe in.'
It is of little moment therefore whether to Mr.
Hawksley, or any other engineer, we are to be in-'
debted for bringing it. But we would suggest to,
the Committee that, putting out of consideration',
the fact that it has never yet been satisfactorily
proved that we have not within our reach, and be-
neath our feet, an ample supply of water for the in-
habitants of Liverpool, it is not at all certain that
we cannot get the Rivington Pike water without
going to the fountain head, or rather to the ;j
rainfall, for our supply.
It is notorious that at RivingtOn, as is the case
in all similar localities, where surface drainage is
depended upon, the supply is intermittent and
precarious; and the bulk of the evidence goes to
show that the Douglas and some other streams
are, during times of drought, or slight rainfall,
barely sufficient, if sufficient at all, to furnish the
requirements of the immediate locality. Has it
ever entered into the minds of any of the members
of the Health Committee, or of their engineers, to
endeavour to ascertain whether .it is not possible
to avail ourselves of the same water, after it has
received the subsidization of a portion of the
country through which these streams flow before
discharging themselves into the Ribble? Thoie
acquainted with the country know that at Lathom,
about thirteen miles from Liverpool, the Douglas,
the Tawd and the Elderbrook contain a consi-:
derable volume of water, by which in heavy rains
the meadow lands are overflowed and the highwayS
frequently rendered impassable; that,at such times.
there is frequently a weight of water in one day
wasted, or employing itself only in devastation,
sufficient to keep Liverpool for years; and that in
ordinary and average seasons the quantity available
is ample. These streams are within reach of the
Liverpool and Ormskirk Railway, down which
pipes might be brought at a light engineering cost,
in the same way that Manchester is supplying
itself from the hills of Derbyshire, by the route
of the -Sheffield and Manchester Railway R and
there would be these great advantages frOm a
supply from this quarter, over that from the
head source at Rivington. First : there would be
only thirteen miles of piping, instead of twenty-
two miles.. Secondly, the water being brought
along the line of railway, there would be no heaXry
engineering works required, and no expensive land
purchases to be made. In the third place, we
should escape the whole of the claims for compen-
sation, in money and in water supply, by the inha,
bitants of Wigan, the canal proprietors, and the
millowners in the district. This is one of the most
material features of the plan ; and would save some
thousands yearly of the cost, and remove,. at the
same time, the most serious difficulty of the Ri-
vington scheme.

We may be asked how are we to get the neces-
sary elevation for flushing sewers and extinguishing
fires. We answer, by mechanical means. Nothing
can be easier. We can raise the Bootle water to the
highest elevations in the town. We do the same
every day with the Harrington. It is not at all
necessary, in an era in which the principles of
hydraulics are so well understood, that we should
draw our supplies from distant elevations at an iu-
mense cost, whilst a couple of engines will give us
the same elevation at a tenth of the cost in our own
locality.
_ _

We- have merely mooted this source of supply.
It is worth being inquired into before running our-
selves headlong into the expense of the Rivington
scheme. Our own impression remains, however,
that we have at home water in abundance, if we
chose to sink for it in our red sand stone formation.

SUGGESTED NEW NAMES FOR STOCKPORT AND MAN-
.CHESTER.—An American correspondent of Blackwood's
Magazine speaks of these two seats of the miliocracy as
" Cottonburg " and " Calicopolis." We should strongly
recommend our Manchester friends to accept of' the
latter. It is at once euphonious, dignified. and classical.
Calicopolis—city of calico. If it were only for the sake
of the reporters for the Manchester papers it ought to be
adopted forthwith. It would save them the iteration of
" our city " half a dozen times in every local paragraph.
" The hon. member for Calicopolis " would sound well in
the house, and impart to plain John Bright a majesty of
which he is very short.
KNOWN THIEVES FOUND ROAMING THE STREETS AT
UNSEASONABLE HOURS OF THE NlGHT.—There are
many persons of this description to whom the attention
of the constables is directed by their superior officers.
Yesterday, the following were brought to the bar of the
Police-court, having been found in various parts of the
town prowling about, with no good intent :—Wm. Sed-
don, Wm. Tetlock, Thomas O'Neale, Jeremiah Burns,
and several others. They had all frequently been com-
mitted, and were sent to gaol for three months,

ENORMOUS POOR RATES IN MANCHESTER

The overseers of Manchester have been compelled, in
order to meet the demands upon them, to increase greatly
the poor's rate for the coming year. The estimated ex_
penditure for the past year was £120,000, raised by a rate
of 4s. 6d. in the pound. The actual payments, however,
have exceeded the estimate by £42,000, a large portion of
which the overseers have had to borrow from their ban-
kers. The funds are now entirely exhausted ; and, whilst
laying the rate for the present year at 6s. SI in the pound,
they have to appeal to the inhabitants for early payment,
to rid them of their present debt, and to enable them to
meet the very pressing claims upon them, made by the
guardians for the relief of the poor. Our neighbours of
Manchester have certainly profited little, thus far, from
the advent of what was to be the free trade manufactur-
ing millenium. And, certainly, they seem to be taking
a very odd method of relieving themselves, if they rely
upon the effects of the semi-chartist movements of the
Hume and Cobden school of reformers. A few years of
this six-and-eightpenny visitation ought to open their eyes
a little to the folly of looking at the every-day business
matters of legislation through the spectacles of this hum-
bug school of politico-economical philosophers.

THE DIVISION ON THURSDAY NIGHT AND
THE SUGAR DUTIES.

The market for sugar has been very little influenced by
the division of Thursday night, affirming the motion for
going into committee. The trade is at present only from
hand to mouth ; and anything like speculation is quite out
of the question. Among the members of the sugar
growing interest the feeling is strong, that a perseve-
rance in the act of 1845,—the total exclusion of slave.
grown sugar—preferred by Sir Robert Peel to the " set-
tlement" of 1846, would have been the most desirable
course in every respect for us to have pursued. We were
in 1845-6 increasing our production very greatly ; and
would in a very few years have been independent of any
slave labour supply. The advantage to be derived from
the offer of half a million for immigration purposes, is
less regarded than it was at first, little as it was then
valued. The colonists want to know where they are to
find the security, when it is well known that in most of
the West Indian Islands there will be no revenue to
pledge.

The calls on railways, for the month of July, exceed
£3,800,000.
DOCK ACCIDENT.—On Saturday William Remblance,
a boy aged 15, belonging to the schooner Good Design, at
present lying in George's Dock, left the cabin to go on
shore, and was not afterwards seen or heard of until the
grappling was used, when his body was brought up from
the water.

A MAN FOUND DROWNED.—The body of a young man
named Charles Batten, was picked up by a boatman on
the river near the North Dock walls, on Saturday. De-
ceased who had lived in Jones-street, Toxteth-park, with
his father, had on the 4th June gone to bathe and was
drowned.

SUDDEN DE/fa/U.—Soon after nine yesterday morning
a man name._ Slater, residing in Stanley-street,
went into a $ .I,'• se in the street, and complained of
cramp in the legs. He then smoked a pipe, and while
doing so fell sideways, and died in a few minutes in an
apoplectic fit.
DEATH FROM BURNING.—Henry Jackson, aged four
years, living with his parents in Penryhn-street, Scotland-
road, lighted a piece of paper at the fire, which he after-
wards threw upon the floor. He then stooped near it and
his clothes taking fire, be was so much burnt, that he died
on Sunday.
ANOTHER THEFT BY A FEMALE SERVANT.—At the
Police-court yesterday, two women, Ellen Crosson and
Hughes, were charged by Mrs. Leyland, of Seymour_
street, with stealing a cloak aid shawl also, two silver
teaspoons and a pair of silver sugar tongues from the com-
plainant's house, where Crosson, was a servant. She took
the articles to a woman, (a pawnbroker,) whose name we
did not learn, and who in place of detaining the plate,.
sent it to a cellar in the same street. The cloak and shawl
were found on the prisoner's back when she was appre-
hended, but she had stated that the spoons, &c., belonged
to her mistress. The other prisoner was implicated, and
both were committed for trial at the sessions.

NEW PASSENGER ACT.—The new American Passenger
law comes into operation here on the 16th instant. Under
this act vessels carrying steerage passengers have, in ad-
dition to improved cooking accommodation, ventilation,
&c., to provide each passenger during the voyage with,
per week, 2 lbs. of oatmeal, 14- lbs. of biscuit, 1 lb. of
flour, 1 lb. of rice, 1 lb. of peas, 1 lb. of pork, and a
quantity of vinegar. The Black Star packet-ship Ivanhoe,
of 1151 tons register, Captain W. Edwards, now on her
third voyage, ownid by Taylor and Me:ner, f New York,
the founders of the Black Star line of packets, is intended
to sail for that port on the 19th instant, and will probably'
be one of the first packet-ships to comply with the regu-
ations of the new act.
HANDSOME PRESENTATION. There are few com-
manders connected by transit with the port of Liverpool,
whose general character and seamanlike -conduct has
given more satisfaction than that of Captain Watson
Ferris ; and it is gratifying to have to record a slight tes-
timonial, to his acknowledged talent as a transatlantic
navigator. He was presented, on Thursday last, by Mr.
J. C. Taylor, on behalf of a few friends, with a splendid
gold lever watch, whieh,as the in=c ription justly inscribed,
was not presented on account of its intrinsic value, .but
as a slight testament of the high esteem in which he was
held as ga social friend and a valourous and humane
commander. Captain Ferris acknowledged in suitable
terms his high appreciation of the spirit which bad dic-
tated the gift.
SUDDEN DEATH FROM DISEASE OF THE HEART.'-On
Saturday last, Michael Wiltshire, a car driver, and about
40 years of age, was driving a car along Dale-street, when
he asked another driver (Picton) to get on to the box
with him, which he did. The car went for a fare to a
street near the Zoological Gardens. On coming back,
and when near the stand in Islington, deceased suddenly
pulled up; and exclaimed, " Oh dear ! I'm done for,"
and called to some men to put him inside, and take him
home. He was put inside, and Picton drove him home
to Sir Thomas's-court,,Dale-street. On taking him out
he-was found to be insensible. A surgeon was called, but
he d:ed in half an hour after. Mr. Cripps, who examined
the body said, that death was caused by disease of the
heart.

FUNERAL OF THE LATE SUPERINTENDENT BROWN.
—The remains of the late respected Mr. Brown were con-
veyed to their last resting place on Saturday, with all the
honours available, by the body to which he belonged. The
police officers who were not on actual duty, and their su-
periors in the force, assembled in the neighbourhood of
the Exchange at eleven o'clock, and proceeded, in order,
to the house of the deceased in Exchange-street East.
Shortly afterwards the procession moved forward as fol_
lows, through the principal thoroughfares, to St. James's
(Mount) Cemetery :—The fire brigade, under Superin-
tendent Hewitt ; the hearse; a mourning coach, with the
relatives of the deceased ; the police forces, all wearing
swords, and about five hundred in number • the inspec-
tors ; the superintendants ; and, finally., dr. Dowling,
the head-consable, on horseback. A vast concourse of
spectators not connected with the force, collected on the
ground, and all, during the service and burial, appeared
to be impressed with regret for the demise, and respect for
the memory,, of so long tried, active, and faithful servant
of the public..
THE FERRIES.—We last week stated that it was, we
believed, the intention of the Woodside Commissioners to
issue halfpenny tickets for the Woodside ferry, in quanti-
ties of not less than six. It is since said that the con-.
tracts are also to be reduced. Nothing definite has yet,,
however been decided upon : but a new proposition has
been talked of in some quarters—the result of which re-
mains to be seen—namely, to render the ferry transit
across entirely free, as if it formed a portion of the high-
way, the boats. &c., to be kept up by a general rate.
This project has been favourably spokeh of in some quar-
ters. Some questions, however, arise as to how such a
plan would practically work ; first, as regards inducing an
indiscriminate rush to the boats of all classes, especially
on Sundays and other holydays, so that two classes of
boats might be required and second, as affected the
other ferries which are private property, and which, even
at very reduced fares (if they too sere not supported by a
fair share of the rate) would be unable to continue to run
at all.

CHARGE OF MAKING BASE COIN.—At the Police-
court, yesterday, John Ryan, Catharine Ryan, (his
daughter) Thomas Quin, and a boy named Michael Ca-
icy, were placed at the bar, charged with being found with
materials for making base coin, and several of them with
uttering the same. One of Ryan's sons, a mere boy, ap-
peared to give evidence against them ; but, being alarmed
before he proceeded, his evidence was not taken. The
whole of the prisoners lodged with an old woman in Beau-
street, and it was through the information of the boy
Ryan that they were apprehended. The house was
searched by police-officers, and there were found in the
cellar several old iron spoons, some plaster of Paris, &c.,
but no mould. The boy had told one of the officers that
his father used to make ten shillings at a time, by melting
metal in one of the spoons which he pointed out. The
girl had passed a base sixpence to a party who appeared,
and the elder prisoner had endeavoured to pass a base
shilling. They were all remanded for further inquiry.
STEALING FILOM A DWELLING HOUSE.—Yesterday. a
servant woman named Ann Mc. Cabe, was charged before
Mr. Rushton with having stolen from the house of Mrs.
Hannah Harwood, a bag containing £23 12s. Bd. Com-
plainant said she kept a butcher's shop and house attached,
in Mill-street, Toxteth-park. The prisoner had been in
her service for about three weeks, but was about to give
place to another servant. On Sunday evening, about halt-
past six, witness went out to go to chapel. It appeared
that during her absence, prisoner had gone up stairs to
witness's room, and there told one of witness's daughters
who was present to go down stairs and she (prisoner)
would follow her. Prisoner added that she was going to
set up business for herself, but, did not know how she
should get the money. Prisoner had got leave to go out
for an hour or two, and did not return till late. On going
to the drawer in which she kept her money in a bag, com-
plainant found it was gone. She had seen it safe between
eleven and twelve o'clock in the forenoon. A key was
found upon the prisoner when she was apprehended, which
it appeared would open the drawer ; and it was not com-
plainant's key. A dress and shawl were also missing, and
supposed to have been taken from the house by the pri-
soner. As further evidence is expected the prisoner was
remanded,