The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1850-06-11 00:00:00

STATE OF TRADE.

TO THE EDITOR OF THE LIVERPOOL STANDARD.
[Were we at liberty to publish the name of the intelligent
writer of the following note it would arrest instant
attention o his statements.]
Manchester, June 9th, 1850.
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SIR,—In all your statements as regards the prices of
Cotton and Goods you must be careful not to say the
latter are advanced SO to 100 per eent. The labour, &c.,
comes to twice the amount of the cotton used, so that 33
per cent. on Goods is something like 100 per cent. on
Cotton. The Guardian has once or twice fallen into this
error.

In looking over the Board of Trade returns you ought
to deduct 25 per cent., for the advance in Goods that have
gone out this year, and which has been paid on Cotton
(only), and yet the price they have been sold at leaves a
great loss to the producer, and it is greatly magnified, in
the cost it will take now to replace them.
You will see a trial to set aside a bequest of £2OO for
the best essay on emigration, which the vice-chancellor
declared void, as it would be the means of inducing per-
sons to emigrate to North America, and make themselves
subjects of the United States, and by that means throw
off their allegiance to their Queen and country.
How does this agree with the encouragement held out
by the government ? It is a singular fact that all their
acts, since 1845, have been clothed with inconsistency ;
they have never passed one law that has spread equal
benefits.

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MAN CATCHERS DEFEATED.—We are glad to learn
that Mr. Ramshay, of the County Court, has reversed
the decision of the late Mr. Lowndes, by refusing a
verdict for a plaintiff, who sought to recover commission
from Messrs. Tapscott and Co. for passengers shipped by
his vessels. The act is rather ambiguous, but as the
complainant had no written authority from the firm sued,
he was defeated—properly so.
BIDSTON RACES.—The quiet and rural village of Bid-
ston presented on Saturday a scene of somewhat unex-
pected excitement. A number of young gentlemen of
the vicinity, practising athletic exercises, contended in a
steeple chase on foot across the valley lands of Mr. Rim-
mer. Mr. Howard, and Mr. Hazlehurst. The course was
about a mile and a half, and the numerous besmeared
habiliments of the competitor clerks—aspirants to athletic
fame—shewed that the leaps were of no insignificant
width or depth. Mr. Grindrod was awarded the silver
cup. In the evening the party, with some invited far-
mers, took supper at the Claughton Hotel. Tne invited
parties, preferring home to expensive wines, retired early,
but the greater body kept it up till midnight.
WATERLOO CHURCH.—The labours of the lamented
Rev. Charles James Graham Jones will be continued by
his father, the Rev. John Jones, the respected incumbent
of St. Andrew's Church, the latter rev. gentleman having
accepted the appointment from the trustees. This was
announced by himself, in most feeling and affectionate
terms, on Sunday morning last, to his flock at St. An-
drew's, most of whom were taken by surprise at tidings
so unexpected, and few could refrain from tears. St.
Andrew's Church and the Rev. John Jones have been
almost synonymous for more than thirty years past, and
deeply must the congregation feel their loss ; and yet we
hardly wonder at the course the rev. gentleman has tc.ken,
for at his time of life he is entitled to seek for less labo-
rious occupation in his Lord's vineyard, and being still
in good health, we trust there are funny days of useful-
ness and peace before him. The congregation at Water-
loo may well rejoice at the appointment, and the trustees
will feel that they have faithfully discharged the impor-
tant trust, and while the large congregation of St. An-
drew's cannot but lament the position they are placed in,
we have every confidence in Sir John Gladstone, the
patron, that a successor will be appointed worthy to follow
in the footsteps of their kind pastor, and to carry on the
good work at which he has laboured so long and so suc-
cessfully.