The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1848-05-09 00:00:00

Nay 9, 11848,

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THIRD EDITION.

Standard-office, Two o'clock, p.m.

,ys that
of per-
)f them
Wales,
orning.
mated,
50,000
; and
►n were

cRATUM.
The sale of 689 tierces, 34 barrels, and 413 kegs American Lard,
&C., (ex Yorkshire, Tuscarora, Memnon, and Charlotte,) by
Messrs. Stitt, Day, and Co., announced in our fourth page
for sale this day (the 9th), should have been announced for
sale on Tuesday next (the 16th).

:LIVERPOOL SHARE MARKET.—TH is DAY.
We have had a very lively morning at our Stock Exchange.
All stocks are in great demand at higher prices, and many
orders to buy were not executed from the scarcity of stock.
The following is the list of business done :—Cheshire Junction,
6i d; Erewash Valley, 7 d; Dover No. 4,2 d d; West Riding,
d; London Stock, 132 i 133 ; Thirsk, 101 d ; Manchester and
Birmingham, 4-shares, 2p; Sheffield, No. 1, new 2,
York
Midland Stock, 1041.--new, 41 541 d ; Mineral,, d ;
and Newcastle, 33—ditto, late Berwick, 30. North Midland,
Preference, 31 p ; Old Dovers, 241 ; North Staffords, 2# ; Gas
and Coke, i-shares, 38*.

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LIVERPOOL CORN EXCHANGE—THIS DAY.
Upon a change of wind, a very large number of vessels have
arrived here from various parts of the world since Friday, which
came chiefly from America; but, as not many of them are laden
With grain produce, the imports of such from abroad are only
Moderate in amount, except Indian Corn, which exceeds 19,000
quarters; and whilst the supplies from Ireland are tolerable,
we have very few coastwise.
Under the influence of splendid weather, the Wheat trade
In the leading markets of this country continues on the wane ;
yet, in most of the shipping ports of Ireland, the supplies from
the growers are reported to be small, and higher prices steadily
re
q
uired : during the summer, however, the value of most kinds
or grain must, as in ordinary seasons, depend mainly on the
pVearance of the crops on the ground, and extent of imports-
ions from abroad ; as in the former case the result cannot be
prejudged, and the latter, in the present critical state of the
continent of Europe, is extremely uncertain. The best opi-
nions can scarcely be relied upon for the moment.
tioNNo'e have had a limited retail trade for Wheat of all descrip-
not s at this da's market ; the prices being again lower, we
clesecrt'he decline on the week 3d. to 4d. per 701bs. upon most
iptiona of this Grain
4illsrtir:s,also taken off.sparingly,.at a decline of Is. ger sack
Of Male" €d. per barrel on American.
but
fi:l3arieY, there was scarcely any left in the market,
Ss last
Used
samples are in moderate request, at the same price
agrltin.4:
• Bea" and Pe'ia meeting a dull sale were rather depressed
in value.
of Oats, being taken off more freely to-day, resumed the prices
Tuesday last; and Oatmeal, though difficult of sale, was
Unaltered in value.
Indian Corn continuing to be taken freely for Ireland, the
extent of business done to-day was rather considerable, at the
decline of Friday.

iniiiciian Metll little business was apparent, and is noted 6d.
under the rates of this day week.

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?L tterature.

POETRY.

lot, THE OLD CHURCH.
• .41 stood within those ancient walls : time's ruthless sway I felt :
81 e Curtained niche was still unchanged wherein my childhood
45 .„,; knelt ;
I 7 nere Firihood's thoughts of vanity roamed from the sacred
;60 ~, shrine;-
85 , un, memories—how full and deep !—throng this changed heart
at mine!
•
01 • Before that solemn altar my young sister knelt a bride ;
9ft b,l!_!ewed the bridal company with childish glee and pride;
07 .
ruh wreaths of fairy roses, and tears so strangely springing,
71 4 sported down the sombre aisles while marriage peals were
03 ringing.
66 '4/41 again at that old altar, in the spring time of my youth
- - Robed
15 , Mid bands of young companions, and hand in hand with one
;14 , Whose sweetness even then was doomed—whose death-call
forth had gone I
ith girlahmoo,idia'sr
Within these saed walls I knelt, a newly-wedded wife
smiles
faces,
life;yet lingering, and hope still charming
The old f • •
May never gaze on my changed brow, nor I on theirs again.
Father .• within this nobl pile, once,
that looked good-bye with pain,
at And rim.- • •
! 'tis thou 1 e - the pangs thy creatures
feel a one canst know
once again I kneel—
Fond memories are clinging fast; dark shadows claim their
~, _ sway;
''''ung years have passed—one vivid dream—since childhood's
careless day.
A.ll are unchanged within these walls—all as in days of yore;
lit ; Will
plaints
!twill be in future years, when I shall be no more;
da•
ht; Wzillivitr;,aouontda SS mournful as my own, from living lips that come,
ope tomb , old Church, along thy aisles, like voices from the
Pool, 181 May, 1848

VARIETIES.

fa, -'

ia-
eg

know- "iiVALUABLE LESSON TO STUDENTS.—What you doi
After
ltfots.(l4nKnow thoroughly. There are few instances i,
times of a rise equal to that of Sir Edward Sagd p.
°Tie of the Weymouth elections I was shut up with
WIC a carriage for 24 hours. I ventured to ask him
les_ at was the secret of his success ; his answer was, " I
t?olved, when beginning to read law, to make everything
equired perfectly my own, and n ever to go to a second
Z°lg till I had entirely accomplished the first. Man of
-7 competitors read as much in la
day as I read in a week; ut, at the end of twelve months, my knowledge was as
%fresh as the day it was acquired, while theirs had glided
7,voy from their recollection."—Memoirs of Sir T. F.
Jukrton.
L ENGLANDTAICEWARNING ?—Thatbarrierbehind
-"°se protection the bonds of society have been hitherto
Preserved, and a check maintained upon the violence of
the
human heart, and the ragings of the impetuosity of
-"e naman character,—that salutary check which fallen
tnen stand so desperately in need of,—now broken down,
And succeeded by wide-spread anarchy and desolation :
hi" 4no mountains cast into the depths of the sea,"—the
1,
g•-• places of authority merged into the chaos of the
People,—revolutionary madness, democratic fury, distress
ef nations, perplexity, consternation, and alarm,—these
Itte the last signs ; we have already seen an earnest of
,„:4111 a neighbouring country, and something like the
ej"ering of the storm in our own. France has had an
,ltful warning,—aforetade of the still wider desolation
inat
shall be hereafter. Their authority, as such, was
deposed ; the church was turned into a scene of murderous
e„ reitY
thtY ; the ministers were driven from then' charges, by
wide-swelling waves of democratic vinlence,—all life
ngs sacred were laid prostrate,—thndecenges of social
e no longer sheltered the weak and helplesS,---the sand of domestic privacy were rifled, and all Were mad-
th, contusion, and blood. God has spared for a season,
at
.reinstated, as another opportunity to hear and repent,
tI guilty nation: and He has warned us? Will En-
and take warning ?—Extract from a Sermon preached
knthe Rev. Hugh itrNeile, Nov. 30, 1834.
4ARRIAGE BY TELEGRAPH.—The American journals
fielhort a story, which, if true, throws into the shade all
Zl;ae feats which have been performed by our British tele-
Ph- It appears that a daughter of one of the wealthiest
haerehants in Boston had formed an attachment for a
coirlds°me young man, who was a clerk in her father's
thnting house; and she determined to marry him, al-
Zat._ ugh her father had previously promised her in marriage
nother suitor. The father having heard of the attach-
to Pt, fe4ned ignorance of it, but determined to cause it
Inane broken off. For this purpose he directed the young
atonl° Proceed to England, by steamer, upon business ;
x. t e lover accordingly arrived, en route, in New York.
12,1ue mean time, the young lady had gained some know-
trge of her father's intentions, and sent a message to
effect to her lover in New York by the following ex-
tento.o :_-she took her place in the telegraphic office in
office Pi;
_iind he did the same, with a magistrate, in the
given New York ; and the exchange of consent being
ular_o3: the electric flash, they were thus married by
hert,9ll.! Shortly after, the lady's father insisted upon
44d Talriage with the gentleman he had selected for her ;
alre:_,nuge of his amazement when she told him she was
ada;_ujath exife of Mr. B. then on his way to England ;
4415 npination of the novel way in which the cere-
test was performed. The merchant threatened to pro-
hi.
_,ganst the validity of the marriage, but did not carry
threat :
etvrop4, alto execution.—Anecdotes of the Electric

across the Atlantic, the United States and Canada are
the countries to which the great mass of our emigrants
proceed. But confining ourselves to British colonies,
some idea of the emigration question will be conveyed by
the startling fact, that the number of emigrants to Canada
which in 1846, a year of larger emigration than any pre-
ceding one, was 32,242, amoounted in 1847 to nearly
90,000. Such vast numbers, chiefly composed, too, of the
most. destitute Irish, going to sea under the distressing
circumstances which marked their case, must necessarily
have baulked all ordinary calculations. But it is inapos-
sible to read the accounts of the crowded decka, the
imperfect ventilation, the want of medical attendance,
and the consequent disease and death to a most alarming
amount, without a regret that more care had not been
exercised, or without the expression of an earnest hope
that for the future some adequate measures may be devised
both for the physical and moral well-being of the emi-
grants during their passage out. Some important amend-
ments, indeed, have already been effected by a bill which
has lately received the sanction of Parliament. This
measure secures the advantage of a medical officer for
each ship ; and we would fain see every body of emigrants
provided with their spiritual instructor. Of this, how-
ever, considering that probably not fewer than 300 would
have been required for the Canada settlers alone, we must
confess that we see no immediate prospect. Although,
therefore, it would be chimerical to propose that a chap-
lain should sail in every emigrant ship, yet much good
might be effected by employing a few zealous clergymen
at the several ports of embarkation, for the special service
of the emigrants. It would, of course, be the duty of
such men to visit the ships as often as possible, to advise
the emigrants as to their conduct during the voyage, and
on their arrival in the new country, to bring them together
into classes for mutual instruction and improvement, to
supply them with Bibles and books of devotion, and to
furnish them with letters commendatory to the clergyman
in whose district they were about to settle. If it be said
that the time is too short to allow of a clergyman making
any impression upon emigrants while they remain in port,
it may be answered, that though very limited, the time is
peculiarly favourable to those who can turn it to account.
He who speaks to persons about to leave their friends and
country for ever, is sure to have serious hearers ; and-the
impression which he may be enabled, by God's grace, to
make upon their hearts is likely to be lasting. At all
events it seems but fitting that the Church, if she can do
no more, should at least speak words of warning and ex-
hortation to the children who are about to leave her, and
commend them with prayer to the protection of their
Almighty-Father. Such solemn words, dictated by sym-
pathetic and affectionate hearts, accompanied, too, where
it may be required, with a parting gift of the Book of
God, and the Common Prayer of the Church, would, it is
conceived, do something to strengthen the religious im-
pressions of the emigrants, and secure their attachment to
the " Old Country." That such good offices would be
cordially welcomed by the emigrants, there can be no
doubt. The experiment has been tried, and it has suc-
ceeded.—The Colonial Church Chronicle and Missionary
Journal for the present Month (May.)

THE REPEALER'S WISH GRANTED.=-AN IRISH

TALE.-IN ONE SHORT CHAPTER.

Nobody doubts that there was hot blood—misunder-
standing—difficulty—at the beginning. It is clear enough,
also, that many arrangements which followed were not of
a soothing kind. Nor can it well be denied; but stop a
little ! The other side of the question seems to be per-
petually consigned to oblivion. Numbers of people are
in ecstasies' with the year 1782. The wildest democrats
of the present day revert with pride to the glimpse of na-
tionality exhibited by Ireland immediately before the
Union. The grand choral of repealers is for a parliament
once more in Dublin. Oh, melancholy, deplorable, al-
most ludicrous inconsistency ! The year 1782 and repeal !
The independence of Ireland after 1782 and repeal ! The
old Irish parliament and repeal ! Plunket—a son of Ire-
land—talked of history being an old almanac. Memorable
indeed was the year 1782. But its trophies were the han-
diwork of the Saxon. Bright may have been the gleam
of independence which succeeded that year. The whole
movement owed character and solidity to great Saxon
leaders. Conspicuous is the fame of those men who pro-
tested with fiery eloquence against the treaty of the union ;
and these were all Saxons. It is very strange, but very
true, that the sinews and loins of the agitation now a-days
are all begotten of Saxon spirit and Saxon freedom. There
is not a letter in the alphabet of self-government—there
is not a syllable in the code of municipal law—there is
not a sentence in the charter of political liberty—of Ire-
land, which is not the lesson, the example, or the boon
of the Saxon. Every thing now that Ireland demands 'is
an imitation of a Saxon institution.. And Ireland only de-
mands these things, because for ages Saxon institutions
have pervaded her soil, and imbued her people. Grattan
and Charlemont are Saxon names. In all the principles
for which these remarkable men contended, no vestige of
a Celtic idea can be traced. Until the Saxon—conqueror
as he was—touched the Irish soil, there did not grow,
blossom, or bear fruit any intelligible notion of social
order, or public liberty. But the gratitude of nations is
not different from the gratitude of individuals. Away
with the Saxon !

Can nothing cure the madness ? Large practical wis-.
dom in legislation, exuberant boundless prodigality of
munificence, are equally unavailing. Away with the
Saxon ! But disgust may at length do what force never
could have done. Honest, sober, orderly folks in Britain
begin to cherish strange thoughts. And the wings of
thoughts are words outspoken.
Are ye ready, 0 Milesians ! for such a dawn when it
breaks ? .

There was nothing either very bright or very dull about
the morning. Yet not a single human being you met was
inclined even to whistle merrily or recklessly. And was
there, then, silence, over the whole land ? Very far from
it, I assure you. At the harbour of every sea-port, where
a vessel of any size could come there was a most unmis-
takeable noise. Heavily, steadily, dreadfully, came down
along the rugged stones of each quay the continual tread
and tramp of armed men, who, cold and speechlessly as
statues, marched towards the ships. But there was no
other noise. The officers gave no word of command ; nor
was any command needed. Unbroken as the stream of
the river, hundreds after hundreds, without any clash, or
din, or tumult, passed from the solid land on board of the
floating bulwarks of old England, and without a shout or
a sigh—without a murmur of adieu--without the momen-
tary radiance of of a smile on a solitary face—departed
from Ireland. The Saxons were going. The quick
strokes of the paddle-wheels whitened the waters ;—the
sail bellied bigly to the wind. From Erin the Green, the
Saxons were gone. Then rose from earth to sky—what ?
For many a day thousands of eyes had been gazing at
the bustling scene. At first, the spectacle of such crowds
of all sorts of people going leisurely away with all their
kith and kin, with all their bag and baggage, brought with
it no distinct idea. The first loaded ship which left the
harbour with such a freight took its departure beneath a
shower of triumphantly derisive shouts. And so did many
a vessel afterwards. But people become tired of shouting
at the same thing. Likewise, a constant repetition of the
same thing, which in certain circumstances will destroy
wonder, does in other circumstances beget and spread
wonder. The sameness of the business began to be pain-
ful. Countless throngs of lookers on still choked the
quay : but the gibe was rarely heard ; tie cheer had quite
died away. It was incredible how time lagged in its flight.
Suddenly, once more, a stir ran through these gazing tens
of thousands. A feeble cry—more like a cry of pain than
of joy—rang from the discord of the innumerable lips.
Every body was gone, except the soldiers. Of the hated
Saxons, all who lived by the arts or occupations of peace,
all were at length away—men, women, and children. The
soldiers remained till all their peaceful brethren were on
the bosom of the. treacherous sea—safer than the bosom
of ungrateful Ireland. The soldiers now went themselves.
It was not an hour or a day, in which that embarkation
could be completed. On it went without interruption.
And the people stood by, and saw it going on. Why was
there not the continuous roar of exultation from moment
to moment, as file after file, regiment after regiment, mass
after mass of the bloody servants of the Saxon sullenly
and silently retreated ? Strange, surely, that it was not
so ! Strange, surely, that there was no whisper all this
time from the bystanders ! Strange, surely, that the by-
standers, as the ships, ship after ship, sailed away with
those very Saxon soldiers, began to turn their regards off
altogether from the ships, and to fling unquiet doubtful
glances one on the other ! The detested foreigner was
gone ;—and was there, therefore, more neighbourly love
among those that remained ?
What ! Erin Mavourneen, is not your emancipation
come ? Why is there no shout ? The Saxons are going.
The quick strokes of the paddle-wheels whiten the waters.
Where is the man of the ransomed and redeemed ? The
sail bellies bigly to the wind. From Erin the Green, the
Saxons are gone. Then rose from earth to sky—what ?
Ireland is left to itself—wholly, entirely, absolutely to
itself. The repealer has his wish. The sea runs between
Ireland and England—and all that is Irish and all that is
English. The cable is cut. The Emerald Isle is adrift.
No Saxon soldier pollutes her soil ; but not a Saxon shil-
ling glistens in her purse. The British viceroy is no more;
neither is the British Chancellor of the Exchequer any
more—there. Ireland has got its own parliament. Also
Ireland hasgot its own poor. Not a stiver of English mil-
lions now crosses St. George's channel. Not for one
death by starvation now is England or the Saxon answer-
able. Ireland has her own exuberant exchequer. Ireland
pours abundance into the myriad mouths of her famine-
stricken people. Shout, then, 0 Ireland ! shout !
The sail bellies bigly to the wind. From Erin the Green
the Saxons are gone. The sun of repeal is at its noon.
Then rose from earth to sky—what ?
And they looked into the faces of each other with a
dull, blank look—and from earth to sky arose the yell of
wild despair, of irretrievable confusion, and of maddening
perdition.
The repealer had his wish. The cable was cut. Ireland
was adrift—and left to itself. Order, law, justice, peace,
trade, industry, money, prosperity, and—oh terrible truth !
Independence were gone away—quite away with the
Saxon.

And the Milesian republic endured—we blush to num-
ber the hours of its ephemeral and horrible existence.
Everywhere the fair face of the beautiful isle was hideously
seamed with scars of civil war. Everywhere mounted up-
wards the smoke of roof-trees destroyed, and hearthstones
desolated. Everywhere over the surface of the great sur-
rounding ocean boomed the discordant wail of the land
torn by the vultures of anarchy.
Again ! at the harbours of sea-ports there was an un-
mistakeable noise. Over the rugged stones went the con-
tinual tramp and tread of armed men, who, with bursts of
brutal insolence, marched from the ships. The clang of
foreign arms again sounded in the cities, along the plains,
and across the hills of Erin. Ireland had become the
province of a foreign power which did not speak the Eng-
lish tongue. Ireland was that day trampled on by the
iron heel of a new master,

Albion, from its-white cliffs, saw the scene. But the
ties had been long broken..