The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1851-08-19 00:00:00

a meeting cv

11 be held in- the
e ot organising a common

league to oppose the exumtion of the law of England.
The meeting will be presided over by the person who styles
himself " Paul Cullen, Archbishop of Armagh, Primate,
Er.c." We find the atrocious objects which the promoters
have in view detailed in an address to the people of
Ireland, put forth on the eve of this occurrence, in the
weekly journal which is the recognised organ of the
Romish party, and not only signed by Dr. Cahill, a
Roman Catholic priest of some notoriety, but expressly
Catholic dated from the
thattilic seminary of Londonderry, in
which we presume this person contributes his share
to what is called Catholic education. The following
patsage relates expressly to the subject before us :
"But, fellow.countrYmen' England shall not have every-
thing her own way. Ill'e are now forming a society such as was
It
never seen in Ireland before.wilta be a society. fairly em-
bodying the mind and the heart, and the service of every
man, woman, and child in the kingdom,' and we shall live
and die in defence of the decisioo, of this new and
glorious, and with the blessing of (sic)
successful associa-
tion. Depend upon it that Englund has sapped her own
foundations. Depend upon it that France is not settled,
and that France owes England a grudge which never will
or can be forgiven. There is not one Frenchman,,cor one
Frenchwoman, or one French child who would not dm
frantic joy at the glorious idea of having an opportunity dance
before
they die of burying their eager swords and plunging their awn ' •
_
toned French steel in the inmost heart of every man bearing the
hated name of Englishman. Therefore keep up your courage,
and wait your onportunity in a strictly legal attitude, and Eng-
land will very soon be in your power. We shall now demand
perfect equality with our oppressors, we shall demand the com-
plete annihilation of the temporalities of the Protestant Church,
and I tell you we shall have all England at our back, we shall
have the moral support of Europe, and of the civilised world."
Snell (says the Times) are the sentiments of the re y. prin-

cipal of the Catholic seminary of Londonderry, and such
are the objects ascribed by that high authority to an asso-
ciation formed under the direction of the strict hierarchy
to which he belongs. From whatever church they pro-
ceed, and to whatever political objects they tend, such
sentiments are abhorrent to God or man. They are the
atrocious principles of the night of St. Bartholomew,
aggravated by the guilt of foreign treason. They unite
the double curse of priestly domination and civil anarchy;
falsely attributing to a foreign nation the diabolical pas-
sions which exist only in an Irish seminary, and appealing
for the promotion of these detestable objects to an aggre-
gate meeting of the Roman Catholics of the United
Kingdom.

Time is giving more shape to the great plan on foot to
which I some time since referred, of entirely remodelling
and thoroughly reforming the Corporation of London. Cat-
tle have been as ominous to them as to the early Romans.
The removal of Smithfield tested the power of the corpo-
ration, and it was found to fail, and now a full cry will
open upon it in the next parliament. whether it open
under Whig or Tory auspices. It is proposed to destroy
altogether the distinction of " the city" from the remain-
der of the metropolis, and to base a municipal constitu-
tion on the principle of representing the entire of the
mighty mass of which the city forms so small a part, and
it is fully time. The rabble of intriguing small shop-
keepers and licensed victuallers, called the commcn cann-
el', was reason enough why the great merchants despised
city honours and avoided city offices. and the manner in
which the city funds have been administered shows that
the corporation, as at the entertainment to the Queen,
were able to take care of themselves. It has been, indeed,
scandalous that in a population like that of the metropo-
lis no municipal power existed but that of a few persons
penned within the imaginary walls. The charm, however,
left the corporation of London. Instead of being,
•ice was. a nnw•er in th `, it t ,econie about

.tate, it has
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COMMERCIAL AND MONETARY NEWS.

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Monday Night.

There is little of importance to notice in our markets.
The system of business in the present day seems to be to
buy from hand to mouth, and though prices generally are
exceedingly low, it prevents them from rallying. Since
Friday 500 hhds. of West India Sugar, and 2000 bags of
East India, have found buyers : the latter were chiefly
Cossipore, as 455. 6d. to 475. 6d. per cwt. Any anxiety
regarding the harvest seems to be now set at rest, the
weather being fine, and the crop generally at least an
average. The accounts from the Continent and America
are highly satisfactory with respect to Grain crops also.
The Potato disease has undoubtedly made its appearance
in some localities, but not to any extent, and where the
plant was thought to be lost, upon closer examination
the Potatoes were found excellent, and in unusually large
quantity,

There is nothing new regarding Cotton from America,
and at the present moderate prices spinners seem inclined
to keep up their stocks. The sales on Saturday were 6000,
and to-day 10,000 bales, at very full prices. From the
free trade organs we hear constantly of the extent and
healthy position of the manufacturing trade of this coun-
try, and they point to the Board of Trade returns as evi-
dencing the fact. Now, the fact is, that there is scarcely
a part of the globe where you can export to a profit, and
where there are not large quantities of goods waiting a
market, at a ruinous loss. But the spindles must be kept
going, and if the manufacturer cannot sell on the spot, he
consigns. This is the reality of the case, and a vTy
flourishing position it is, no doubt; but the shallowness
of it must become apparent to all. The India mail has
jnst arrived, and but too truly bears out the foregoing
remarks.

In our Share Market this week there has been a conti-
nuous decline. This has been caused chiefly by the report
of the London and North-Western speech of Mr. Glyn at
the meeting. The apprehension he entertains of severe
competition with the Great Western and Great Northern
Companies, destroying the prospect of an increased divi-
dend for some time, has shaken the whole system. To-
day, however, at the lower prices we have had a consider-
able amount of good buying, which may be the precursor
of better prices, especially as stock is very scarce. The
quotations of the day are :—Chester and Birkenhead,
155 ; East Lancashire, 13.1 s ; Old Leeds, 474 I ;
dttto fifth-shares, 9d. ; Leeds and Thirsk, 10; Liver-
pool, Crosby, nod Southport, 1 d. ; London Stock, 119
118; 119; Ditto new Quarters, 2i ti s s p.; Man-
chester, Sheffield, and Lincoln, 26.1; Midland, 39 81 9 ;
Ditto half-shares, 214 d. ; Old Dovers, 214 21c. 20i 1 ;
York and North Midland, 17 ; Great Southern and West-
ern, 384.

The colonial wool sales in London, which began on the
17th of July, have arrived at their termination, and the
advance obtained, as compared with the last series, has
been Id. to 11d. per lb. on an average. There has been,
throughout, an unusually large attendance of buyers, par-
ticulat ly from the north—a circumstance partly attri-
butable to reduced railway fares. From the commence-
ment to the close, notwithstanding the unprecedentedly
large quantity offered, the buoyant tendency of prices was
fully maintained. Foreign buyers were also numerous,
and the total quantity taken by them is estimated at about
8,000 bags. Annexed are the quantities put up and sold :
Sydney ...... .
Port Yi,ilip
Van Diemen's Land .
Adelaide
Portland Bay
Cape ..
New Zealand
Swan River

757 ~

Total
There now remain unsold in the warehouses 15,000
bales, which, together with about 5,000 bales off the
coast, will stand over for the next series, to commence
probably in October.