The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1844-07-09 00:00:00

PRICES OF GRAIN.

Wheat, s 7016 .... red, s. d. s. d. a. d. s. d
Engli• h 7 9 @ 8 0 white .. ®
Ditto, old
Irish
Ditto, old
Rye, English, * qr... • -- Irish6o/b
Barley, English -
Scotch & Irish,* 6016 4 3 4 9 d 0.....
Malt, English, * qr 6o 0 —66 0 brown..
Irish
Oats, * 70tb.
E'lish & Scotch, new 3 0 3 3 fold .... --
Irish. fine qualities 3 0 3 1 \
good -
middling .. 2 10 2 11 J
undried — -- black .. 2 9 2 11
Welsh 2 10 2 11 old .... --
Beans, English, * qr 37 0 —39 0 do, --
Scotch& Irish. 480th 34 0 —36 0 d 0.....
Pease, English, white I 40 0 —42 0 blue....
Do. & Irish.... maple 36 0 —3B 0 grey .. 32 0 —34 0
Tares, * qr — Foreign. 30 0 —32 0
Flour, * 2.801 b
English, fine 4O 0 —4l 0 .super .. 42 0 —43 0
Irish
Oatmeal, P. of 240111
Irish, new 22 3 —22 9 ;old . .. 21 6 —22 0

Prices paid , 1 DI ro !ITS
'SALES OF THE WEEK. in the week.:ThisWk. thisyear
----
400 Sea Island 1 ;24 0 23 ' 1
20 Stained
9270 Bowed Georgia
1
6240 {NI ob ile
Si '
Alabama and Tennes, 3i —4i 8.5.8.6. 4341 5565887
15660 New Orleans
1 Pernambuco &Parai. hi 04
- 1222 } 90115
812 C . v
Arica land Ceara
810 Bahia and Maseio
{ Sawginned
1080 . .... } 18298
Minas - __ 1
.... )
0.110
Para ,
Demerara•SurineAl,lkc •• • • ....
1720 Egyptian
Barbadoes
Peruvian
,
Bahama
200 Laguayra .
32 Common West India 4i } .... 0743
Carthagena
I Smyrna
.1
. .
2480
Madras
Manilla a
. i 4 }
2748 j 47539
Bengal ... .
....
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-43030 bales 15402 I 905153

Zirtl3s, illarriagrs an* Dratbs.

BIRTHS.

On the 28th ultimo, at Tessera-place, Mrs. JOHN B RYDONE,
of a daughter.

On the 2911 ultimo, at the Manor.house, Neston, Cheshire.
the lacy of HENRY HILL. jun.. of a son.
On the 3',tli ultirn,, the lady of THOMAS WILLIAMS, Esq.,
Seacombe, of a daughter

On the ^d instant. Mrs. ALEXANDER JOHN ELLIS, of
Cotmandene-lodge. Dorking, urrey, of a son and daughter.
On the 3(1 instant, at Leaze- -house, D-...rhaul, the lady of
JOHN HENDERSON, Esq , of a son.

Same day, at llimley, Sta%ord.- hire, the lady of 'W. 0. FOS-
TER. Esq.. of a daughter.
On the sth instant, at Toft-hall, Cheshire, Mrs. LEYCESTER,,
of a sou and heir.

MARRIED.

At St. Bride's Church. Mr. NATHAN GOLDING, of H.M.
Customs, at this pmt, formerly of Runcorn, to Miss SARAH
SIMS, North Birkenhead, third daughter of the late Mr. Sims,
Bath.

On the 19th ult'mo, at Christ Church. Mr. WM. WILSON, of
Nova Scotia, to SUSANNAH, eldest daughter of Mr. R. JONES,
Denbigh. _ .

On the 224 ultimo, at the Parish Church. Sefton, JAMES
DILLON, Esq., of Manchester, to ELIZABETH, daughter of
JAMES YARKER, yeoman.
On the 230 ultimo, at St. Nicholas's Church, Mr. WILLIAM
JAMES SWEENEY, book-keeper, to Miss ESTHER COWELL
KEW LEY.

On the 2ith ultimo, at the Parish Church, Runcorn, Mr.
JOHN PRESCOTT, jun.. cherni t and druggist, to JANE, fourth
daughters f WILLIAM RIGBY, of Runcorn.
On the Ist instant, at St. John's Church. by the Wm. W. M.
Falloon, M.A.. Mr. BARTHOLOMEW POISSON, of New
York. to ANNA MATILDA, el est daughter of MA-. SAMUEL
ROLSTON, of Brownlow•s'rect, Uverpool.
Same day. Mr. HUGH ROBERTS, plasterer, Denbighshire, to
ELIZABETH, eldest daughter of Mr. HENRY LATHAM, plas-
terer, Toxteth park.

On the 2nd instant, at St. Paul's Church, Mr. WM. DEW-
HU as.r. to miss JANE WILLIAMS. both of this town.
Same day, Mr. GEORGE BETTELY, of Windsor, Toxteth-
park, to Miss SUSANNAH PARKS, fourth daughter of the.
late John Parks, innkeeper, of Birmingham.
On the 4th instant, at St. Catherine's Church, by the Rev.''',
S. Dale, Incumbent of Hollinfare, Mr. JAMES FINLAY, of
this town, to CAROLINE, youngest daughter of the late'
CHARLES GARTHORNE BURRE.L, Esq., of North Shields....
Same day, at St George's Hanover.square, London, by the' •
Rev. Lord Wriothesley Russell, Lord ALEXANDER GEORGE
RUSSELL, youngest son of the late Duke of Bedford. to ANNE
EMILY, youngest daughter of the late Sir LEONARD WOES
LEY IiOLME-;, Bart., of Westover, Isle of Wight.
On the 6th instant, at St. Bride'- Church, by the Rev. J. H
Stewart. Mr. WILLIAM D. STEVENSON, of Great George-
street. to SARA t 7, only daughter of Mr. WILLIAM JONES, or
Dale-street.

Same day. at Whitchurch, Salop. by the Rev. J. R. Peake,
M.A.. T. B. COLLIER, Esq., solicitor, of this town. to EMMA
CH A RLOTTE, oungest daughter of the late ROBERT PEAKE,
Esq.

DIF,D.

At Buenos Ayres, on the 27th April, in his 31st year, Mr.
GEORGEBRENELL, of this tt wn.

At St. Pirre, Pas tie Calais aged-86, GEORGE JONES, Esq.
At Scholes, liolmfirth, aged bl years, JANE, relict of JOHN
FA RRER, Esq.

At Creraghtnore. county Longford, aged 96, ELIZABETH;
relict of ROBERT SANDYS, Esq.
On the 25th May. at sea, en board the ship Queen, after giving
birth to a son on the 7th, the lady of W. VANSITTART, Esq.,
Bengal civil service. _

-
On the Ist ultimo. at Black Bock, Connecticut, U.S., aged 58
years, Captain NATHAN H. HOLDRE I:GE, well known as one
of the oldest and most successful commanders of the American
packet-ships.
On the sth ultimo, at Coburg, Canada, Mr. F. HODGSON;
formerly of England.
On the lath ultimo, at Terreglestown, Dumfriesshire, in her
82d year, JANE BARRY, relict of JAMES BLOUNT, Esq.
On the 20th ultimo, at Robgill Tower, Scotland, aged 83, Mrs.
JANET LENNOX CRIRIE.

Same day, in her Both year, ANN, widow of Mr. J. SCHOLES,
of Harpurhey.
On the 22d ult., at Moffat, aged 54 years, Mr. J. AITCHISON.
On the 29d ultimo, at Ormskirk, in her Sad year, ANN, relict
of the late JOHN BRIDGES, Eq.. of South Lambeth.
Same day, at Worcester, aged 82, ELIZABE t LT, wife of the
Rev. JAMES HASTINGS, rector of Martley, Worcestershire.
On the 25th ultimo, at Orehardtun Mains, Buittle, in his 82d
year, Mr. MUNGO KELLY.
On the 26th ultimo, at Gateshead, aged Si years, MARY, relict
of Mr. JOSEPII WILLIS, solicitor.

Same day, aged 44, Mr. JOHN CORTEEg, son of the lat.
Mr. Edward Corteen, banker. Isle of Man.
Same day, at Louth, aged 78, Mr. JOHN HUDSON, formerly
surgeon in the royal navy, and well known in the neighbour-
hood of Louth as the " old Scotch doctor."
On the 28th ultimo. at Chelsea, aged 84, MARY, relict of the
late BENJAMIN HOLLINGWORTH, Esq.

MARY Y.d
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Same day, aged 85. Mr. ANDREW BOYD, of Bangor.
Same day, at Chapelton, Borgue, near Kircudbright, after a
iwhorpSacmhh children, has
day,rb ee ne poi nmf
which• hetrh eBro.
t grandmother,number ymeab re
'r
Mrs.
aboutl are now living.o
lingering illness. bor e with becoming fortitude and calm resig-
nation, aged 27, THOMAS GORDON, M.D., recently of Maid-
stone, Kent, eldest son of Mr. Matthew Gordon. His mild, un-
assuming manners, amiable d sposition, exemplary deportment,
varied attainments, and rising professional skill, won and se-
cured the respect, esteem, and confidence of those with whom
he had intercourse, and his untimely removal is deeply lamented
by his afflicted relatives ar,d by an extensive circle of warmly-
attached friends.

On the 29th ultimo, aged 78, Mr. STEPHEN WALMSLEY,
of Everton.

Same day, at Lower Bebbington, Cheshire, aged 56, ALICE,
wife of Mr. JOHN WHARTON, master of the Berlin lazarette.

Same day, aged 83, JAMES COUSEN, Esq., of Boldshay-hall,
Yorkshire.

Same eay, at Bath, aged 65, Mrs. POLLARD, of Oldchurch,
Cumberland.

Same day, at Croyden, Surrey, in his 84th year, HENRY
WRIGHT, Esq.

, .
On the 30th ultimo, aged 83, JAMES BROWN, Esq., M.D., of
Norwood, Beverley.
Same day, Pged 64, MARGARET, wife of Mr. JOHN RO-
BERTS, of Bunbury, Cheshire. late of this town.

Same day, at Sanilymount, Dub in, aged 64, Capt. THOMAS
HOLMES. of Wiiitehaven, many years in the West India trade.
On the ist instant, aged 47 years, JANE, wife of Mr. ROBT.
OLLEY.

Same day, aged 15 months, MARY ELLEN, daughter of Mr.
THOMAS KNOWLES, 13, Kensington.
Same day, at Dornock Manse, the Rev. NICHOLAS SLOAN.
Same day. in Cambridge-street, Connought-square. London,
aged 95, MA RY, widow of the late R. H. CRO WE, of Burnham,
Norfolk.

On the 2d instant, ELIZA ANN LOWNDES, wife of Mr. John
Ilope Lowndes, wine merchant, Liverpool, after a protracted
Illness, aged 44 years.

Same day, of paralysis, Mr. MATTHEW TEIOMPSON, en.
gineer and victualler, 24, Brownlow-bill.

Same day. in his 83il year, Mr. ALEXANDER NV LEAN, shoe.
maker, Lendal, York.

Same day, at Netherton, ELLEN, wife of Mr. WILLIAM.
WATKINSON, Brush-maker, V% hitechapel.
Same day, aged 14 months, ROBERT, infant son of Mr.
ROBERT GILL, jun., Edge-hill.

Same day, at infield, aged 86, RICHARD WELI3ANK, Esq.
Or, the 3rd instant, at Hardwick.street, Pembroke-place, MT.
THOMAS ROBERTS, draper.

. .
Same day, in her 66th year, MARGARET. wife of Mr.
JAMES FISHER, Clare-street, and second daughter of the late
James Moore, Esq., of Lancaster.
On the 4th instant, WILLIAM BUTLER, infant son of W.
H. RAI NBRIGGE, Esq , Everton.
Same day, in London, after a short illness, in his 70th year..
JOSHUA SCHOLEFIELD, Esq., of Edgba,ton-grove,
mingham, M.P.
Same ciay, at Glossop, where he had gone for the benefit of
his health, aged 32, Mr. CHARLES THOMAS FIX, of this
town.

On the Sth instant, in her 66th year, Mrs. PRITCHARD,
of Mansfield-street, late of Minera. near Wrexham.

Same day, in Everton-road, in the 86th year of her age, Mrs.
FRANCES BOYDELL.
On the 6th instant, at his residence, Mr. JOHN CRITCHLEY,
of Windsor, aged ;3 years.
Same day, at Egremont. aged 7, HARRIET CLARE HOGH-
TON, daughter of Mr. BEATTIE, portrait-painter, Bold-street.
Same duy, MARGARET ELLEN, the beloved wife of Mr.
ROBERT E. KEMP, Liverpool.
Yesterday, Mr. JOHN LANG, of Everton, in the 74th yeas of
his age.

tiberpool

TUESDAY MORAING, JULY 9, 1814.

. We appear certainly to be progressing, as rapidly
as we can progress, towards a state of things which
will scarcely leave us room to boast that we live un-
der a representative government, or enjoy the bene-
Its of a mixed constitution. But a week or two
ago we had to grieve over the spectacle of a House
of Commons (in the case of the factory bill and sugar
duties question) consenting to stultify itself and eat
its twice recorded opinions at the dictation of a
minister. Next, we had to witness the same process
performed by another branch of the legisl,ture,—
the House of Lords, in the case of the bill of Lord
Cottenham;—but on that occasion we were left rather
more in the dark as to the inducing causes of the
ready changes of opinion displayed. We have now,
however, to behold the prerogative of the Crown
interposed to prevent the further progress of a mea-
sure in that House, which is distasteful to Govern-
ment, although prayed for by a large and influential
portion of the people. We refer, of course, to the
proceedings in the case of the bill of Earl Powis, for
preventing the amalgamation of the Sees of St.
Asaph and Bangor.
The circumstances of this last outrage upon the
constitution are of course familiar to our readers.
The House of Lords had affirmed the principles of
the bill of Earl Powis, in opposition to the wishes of
Ministers and their supporters. What, then, were the
next steps which an adherence to the spirit of the
constitution would have pointed out ? The bill would
have gone down to the House of Commons, where,
if it had withstood the ordeal of further ministerial
opposition, the refusal of the royal assent might still
have been interposed to prevent its passing into a
law. But this was not the straightforward course
adopted. A discussion by the House of Commons
of the question involved in the bill might not have
been convenient,—might have elicited a decided ex-
pression of public opinion upon the principles which
it involved,—and accordingly a more crafty mode of
effecting the object of ministers was hit upon. It
was discovered—for the first time after the passing of
the second reading of the bill, and subsequently the
discovery was affirmed by a committee appointed to
search for precedents—that the rules of the house
required that, previous to its introduction, the royal
assent should have been obtained, on the ground
that it was a measure affecting (beneficially by the
way) the patronage of the crown ; and the house was
exultingly told by his Grace the Duke of Welling-
ton, that her Majesty would be advised to withhold
such assent. The proceedings up to the present
time are accordingly vitiated ; and the ministry are
saved from possible defeat upon a measure, against
which their minds are apparently set, by a point of
mere form, the resort to which we cannot but con-
eeive to he shabby and contemptible. . .
We lament certainly to see a government, com-
posed, as is the present government, of men who.
have earned the respect of their fellow-countrymen,,
descend to courses such as this—so calculated to
reduce the estimation in which we have hitherto •
been accustomed to hold them ; but we regret.such.l
courses the more, from the disposition—the cos.:
firmed disposition—which they evince, on the part .of
Government, to outrage the spirit of the constitu-.
tion, and to arrogate for the executive alone the au-
thority which ought to belOng to the three branches
—Queen,Lords, and Commons—of which that con-
stitution is composed. We are satisfied that no
practice can be so fraught with evil and danger to
the solidity and permanence of the institutions of
our country as the exhibition of such a power wielded
by an executive, and of the tendency of those insti-
tutions, as at present regulated, to lead, in practice,
to such an utter infraction of their spirit : and we
much fear that ultimately it may lead to an up-
heaving of the currents of public feeling and their
direction towards remedial or quasi-remedial mea-
sures, to which the agitation of the Reform Bill was
but a feeble and trivial demonstration.
We cannot conclude these few remarks without
taking the opportunity of referring our readers to
an able letter in our columns of this day, under the
signature of " Cato," in which the whole subject of
our legislative position, with its tendencies and ek'ils,
upon which we have barely touched, are treated with
a depth of discernment and sound judgment which
must win for them the attention of all reflective men.
To ourselves the letter in question is additionally gra7
tifying, not only because we discern in it many views
which completely coincide with our own, but because,
from the rank and position of the writer, we are .as-
sured that the views in question are not only those
of distant and humble spectators, but as well of inen
forming a portion of those institutions and, orders,
whose prosperity and permanence we desire to main•
• tain as the surest guarantee of the liberties of the
people.

We are again in a position to congratulate our
readers upon the continued improvement of the na-
tional revenue in all those branches whose condition
is usually considered to bear upon the prosperity of
the country. The quarterly return of the revenue
which is now before us, and of which an abstract will
be found in another column, exhibits an increase
for the quarter ending July 5, 1344, over the cor-
responding quarter of last year, under the heads of
customs, excise, stamps, and taxes, of £448,574,
of which £312,029 are derived from the customs
alone. Upon the year ending sth July, 1844, we
find under the same four heads an increase; over the
corresponding period of last year, of £1,334,501, df
which £835,349 is the produce of customs; "anti
f 420,073 of excise. The total nett increase of the
year amounts to no less than £2,440,436.
Of this large amount, the sum of £1,929,666
is the increase under the head of property tax,
reduced, however, by a decrease under the head
of Miscellaneous, which is accounted for by a
greater amount of the Chinese ransom having come
into the accounts last year than during the present.
But for this deficiency of extraneous income, the
total increase of the year would have been somewhere
about Three Millions.

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Upon the whole, therefore, it must be admitted
that the position of the country, as exhibited bythis
return, is highly flattering, although we are far from
saying that it is one of permanent prosperity, or
which will warrant us in expecting the removal of
the Income Tax at so early a period as we may hate
toped for. The elasticity of our commerce and in-
aul.trY, however, as is shown in the fact of our Cus-
toms having already recovered from the effect of the
reduction of duties which took place under the new
tariff, is abundantly proved; and with the gradual
improvement which is
going on from quarter to
quarter in those branches of the revenue, -upon
which alone a nation ought legitimately to depend,
we may still, and with confidence, look foiward to
an early release from the necessity of resorting to
any extraneous and unnatural supports Oe the na-
tional credit.

We perfectly agree with the Mercury, with re.
apect to the importance of a proper selection be-
ing made of a person to fill the office of " Super!n-
tendent of the Parochial Industrial Schools," about
to be opened in this parish; and we are prepared to
approach the consideration of the question, im-
pressed with a sense of that importance, and in a

spirit of candid and single-minded earnestness. II e
should indeed be no ordinary man—he should indeed
be chosen from other than mere party considera- ,
Lions—to whom is committed the task of superin-
tending the education and training, in habits of
industry, of some eighteen hundred of the most de-
solate and neglected of our species, the children of
our unfortunate poor. The moral responsibilities
of such a man will indeed be great ; and propor-
tionately so will be his reward, in the satisfaction
with which he will look back upon his work in after
years, if, by the blessing of God, he succeed in
moulding the mass of ignorance, idleness, and early
vice, committed to his charge, into one of industrious,
right-minded, Christian men and women.
But, alas, a Herculean and, we fear, a hopeless
task is this for any man to undertake ! The very
magnitude of the charge imposed would defeat its
efficient fulfilment. It is preposterous to imagine
that any superintendent, however talented, however
indefatigable, could do more than barely see, and
that but imperfectly, that his subordinates, who
must necessarily be very numerous, in an establish-
ment containing eighteen hundred children of the
worst class, were doing their duty ; were even coldly
and mechanically going through their ordinary rou-
tine tasks. To render educational superintendence
worthy of the name—to enable such superin-
tendence to attain any practically beneficial results
—the master should have opportunities of watch-
ing closely the temper, not only of every child uncle'
his care, but of every teacher ; of becoming familiar
with the character and capabilities of each ; of
winning the confidence, the respect, the love, of
each. No cold abstract of morality, or even of ex-
cellence the most perfect, merely exhibiting his vir-
tues or amenities afar of, could accomplish any ma-
terial portion of these requirements.
By way of practical illustration of our meaning,
let us suppose that of this eighteen hundred chil-
dren, each hundred are placed under the care of a
trained teacher, who is assumed to be competent to
the proper performance of his duties. Eight hours
per day may perhaps be taken as the period allotted
for school hours, Supposing, then, this eight hours
uninterruptedly devoted by the superintendent to
the duty of visiting, he can at the utmost devote
twenty-seven minutes per day to each teacher. But
no hundred boys or girls can be efficiently taught
in one class. Say then that twenty-five is the limit
of the classes, and it will be only once in four days
that each class can be visited, for twenty-seven
minutes each. Surely there are not presented here
those opportunities of exercising, on the part of a
superintendent, that " knowledge of the human
character and of the world" spoken of by our con-
! temporary, or of " infusing by precept and example
high moral sentiments and moral purposes into the
minds of his young charge !" The idea is palpably
vain that any amount of success, at all approaching
that calculated up on by the Mercury, can be
achieved.

We contend, then, that the utmost that can be
expected from the superintendent of a school, so
injuriously large as is this experimental industrial
school, with its eighteen hundred children, must be
the preservation of an efficient and watchful control
over the various teachers and sub-teachers or moni-
tors ; an attentive care that the routine Or the sys-
tem adopted is faithfully carried out, and that order
and industry are made to prevail : and here even is
a vast and important respinsibility. There is much
in the character and temper of those who form the
channels by which instruction is communicated,
which influences its effect upon the recipients ; and
it is therefore perhaps more important that the
teachers, to whom the children are most imme-
diately committed, should be scrutinised with a ju-
dicious eye, than that a superintendent should strain
at the performance of further duties, to which he is
manifestly incompetent.
Admitting then, most fully, the importance of a
judicious selection being made for ihis office of su-
perintendent, we come to the question—what fur-
ther steps are necessary to effect the full realisation
of what we must conclude to be the views of the au-
thorities—viz., the education and training of these
poor children in habits of Christian and social use-
fulness. And here we. must submit that no mere
effort to instil and " exemplify, by thousands of
proofs, the great truths"—rather say the cold, ab-
stract, lifeless truths—" that honesty is the best
policy,' and that occupation is pleasure,' " will
ever bring about, or has ever brought about, the
consummation aimed at; will ever even insure that
" not one in twenty of all the children" so taught
" should be beard of in future years as connected
with pauperism or crime." Such a system, we are
confident, is not that to which Dr. Kay looks for
success, and to which the parochial authorities of
Liverpool will ever give their sanction. Of a sys-
tem calculated to be of real usefulness to those to
whom it is afforded, the inculcation of vital religion'
and not mere worldly advantage—that " honesty"
is required from them by their Maker, not merely
that it is their " best policy"—must be the founda-
tion; and it is to the instruments to be provided, as
necessary above all things for forming the substra-
tum of the character of an estimable and valuable
member of society in all its grades, that we look
with infinitely more anxiety than to the appointment
of a mere superintendent of the general manage-
ment of the schools. Such proper instruments,
who we contend should be Ministers of the Esta-
blished Church, may already be within the contem-
plation of the authorities and of the Poor Law
Commissioners. The tone of our contemporary,
however, would almost lead us to the suspicion that
they are not; that religious teaching is to be admi-
nistered, cut down into abstract and worldly maxims
of expediency, by the same hands which administer
mere secular knowledge ; and if so lamentable an
error he committed in the details of this already ill-
contrived and extravagant scheme, it needs no fore-
sight to be able to predict that it will result in utter
and irredeemable failure.

Mr. Alderman Evans, we proved long ago in the
columns of the STANDARD, to be a master of
figures ; in other words he can throw them into as
many different combinations as the Wizard of the
North, or the Wizard of the Portico, can create in
a pack of cards. But we were not aware, until the
expose in the Dock Committee's meeting of Thurs-
day last, that he could, in the presence of counsel,
witnesses, accountants, and members of a commit-
tee of Parliament, convert a plus into a minus quan-
tity, and make a credit balance of seventy or eighty
thousand pounds assume the appearance of a debit
balance, or deficiency, of some fifty odd thousands.
Yet such a feat, it would appear, the "enthusiastic"
alderman performed before the committee upon the
Liverpool Docks' Bill ; and for the sake of Cocker,
Walkinghame, and the science of arithmetic, we
regret that, on account of the expense with which it
would be attended, we are not to be indulged with.
a printed copy of the evidence from which to en-
lighten ourselves, the public, and the Dock Bond-
holders in especial, upon the mode of ratiocination,
or conjuration, by which a positive was on this oc-
casion converted into a negative quantity, and the
security of their dividends made to assume so
shadowy an appearance.
There is a hope in store for us however. There
is a safety valve in existence which will at once pre-