The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1851-06-03 00:00:00

have been cheapened a little. His potatoes are
twofold the price which they used to cost him six
or eight years ago. Obviously, therefore, the
labourers on Lord Fitzhardinge's estate have bad
wrested from them, to enable the tenantry to pay
his lordship's rent, considerably more than the
whole saving which has been effected for them by
free trade in the food and articles of their daily
consumption.

Copper

The missive of his lordship goes on to remind
them that tithes are becoming gradually lower,
and that poor rates, highway rates, &c., will follow,
and states, that " in stocking a farm £6OO will go
as far as £lOOO would do under the system of
artificial high prices." He forgets, however, to
add that the produce of this stock will only sell for
the same low prices i 4; is to be bought for. He
further " suspects that many of his dairy farmers
will yet live to learn that they can produce cheese
at two guineas per cwt. at a profit." The concluding
paragraph, however,is the cream of the document:—

MORNING, JUNE 3, 1851

Arrival at
Liverpool.
May, 1848

" In conclusion, I have only to remark, that a landlord
can in no degree be held responsible for fluctuations in
the marksts : he may fairly be expected to meet a per-
manently depressed state of agricultural affairs, and to let
his farms so that tenants may be enabled to live by their
exertions one year with another; but for variations in
the value if stock, bad seasons, kc., no landlord can be
expected to interfere."

\Ve suspect very strongly that if his lordship lets
his farms so that his tenants `• may be enabled to
live one year after another," and to sustain the
effect of had seasons under a system of unrestricted
imports from the foreigner, he will have to live
himself upon a very slender income, if he secures
one at all.

At the last monthly meeting of the Council a
suggestion was brought forward that the refresh-
ment, lunch, Szc., formerly provided for the petty
jury, summoned to try cases at the Sessions, should
be again allowed. The cutting down of the trifling
expenditure incurred by this practice was one of
those short-sighted acts of petty economy resolved
upon by our " liberals," immediately after the
passing of the Municipal Reform Bill. Gentlemen
of ample means have since found no scruples in
voting the payment of the expenses and luxuries of
deputations to London and elsewhere to advance
schemes of doubtful utility. But the small trades-
men and shopkeepers, who compose our petty
juries at Sessions, must be mulcted of their time,
and, in addition, be compelled to watch their op-
portunity, in the middle of the day, to snatch a
meal in some neighbouring tavern, at their own
expense, and at the risk of a fine, if they are not
present to answer to their names, should a new
jury he required whilst they are absent. All those
who have had occasion to he present during Ses-
sions trials, know that much inconvenience has
frequently been thus occasioned ; and we believe
our respected and learned Recorder is strongly in
favour of a more generous course, on the ground:,
of the better advancement of justice which would
result. The expense would be a mere trifle; and
even if it be urged that such expense would be
illegal, which we are not convinced can be shewn,
it is perfectly notorious that the Council does very
many things every day which, if the law was
strained to its strictest limits, could not be justified.

THE LIVERPOOL STANDARD.

Valparaiso.
Oct. 1848. Copper
Skins
Coquimbo.
March, 1851. Bark £4 0 0• per ton.
- -

3 7 6

Lima.
March, 1831. Guano 3 12 0 „

Buenos Ayres.
March. 1851. Tallow &hides 1 15 0

There is a considerable diversity here in the articles
carried, and in the ports from which they came. With
respect to the former, •bark, wool, and cotton may be
regarded as reaulating the rates of produce of merchan-
dise, and copper that of dead weight. We have therefore
bark, cotton, and wool, in 1848, paying from £6 10s. to
£7 104. per ton ; and in 1851 paying only £4. Copper
in 1848 paid £4, and in 1851 £3 7s. 6d. With respect to
the diversity of markets, they are so in little more than in
name, lying along the same coast, and the great expense
of the voyage to and from the whole of them consisting in
the long and tedious navigation round Cape Horn.

FROM SINGAPORE,

Freights.
Sago ''-1 15 0 per ton.
Hides 5 0 0 per 16 cwt.
Pepper
July, 1850. Ti,
Sapanwood 2 10 0 „
Valonia
Linseed
Cotton 3 5 • „

The falling off here is large, as will be acknowledged by
parties acquainted with the comparative rates of freights
paid for, and the relative space occupied in a vessel's bold
by different articles.

•' One of the greatest competitors which we have had
in all these ports has been the American shipowner, who
possesses an incalculable advantage over us, both in the
ports of the West Coast arid of British India. t his ad-
vantage he derives from the extensive commerce now
carried on from the ports of the Atlantic to his newly-
achieved California. American ships are constantly sail-
ing with goods and passengers, at high rates, to the gold
diggings. Thence they can well afford to run in ballast
to the ports of South America, British India, or China,
and underbid us there for a cargo for England, or any
part of Europe, whence they are certain of a very lucra-
tive return freight of goods and emigrants to their own
country. The British shipowner, however, is stopped by
the American laws from this advantageous business. He
cannot take a cargo of either goods or passengers from an
Atlantic port of America to California, because the Go-
vernment of the United States persist in regarding that
distant settlement as included in the regulations which
secure for its citizens the exclusive possession of the
coasting.tradel The result is seen in the immense in-
crease in vessels of the largest description, and splendid
build, adapted pecnliarly to this trade, which is now tak-
ing place in the United States, and which threatens to
render Great Britain only a second-rate maritime power,
" There is no portion of the trade with this country
which has felt more severely the effects of our mad policy
than the coasting trade-that oft and truly boasted nur-
sery of our naval and maritime strength. It is the repeal
of the Corn-laws, however, by which it has been most ma-
terially damaged. A few years ago a large amount of
this class of our tonnage was employed in the transport of
wheat and flour from port to port along our coasts. It
was the great agency by which the abundance of one por-
tion of the kingdom was allowed to supply the deficiency
of other portions. The repeal of the Corn-laws has al-
tered all this. The foreigner brings his grain and flour to
Cork, or to the Nore, " to wait for orders ;" and in what-
ever portion of the kingdom a demand has been expe-
rienced, thither he is at once sent to glut it with his sup-
plies. As the result, a coasting freight of grain cannot be
had ; and the vessels formerly employed in that trade are,
driven to underbid each other for the conveyance of mine-
rals, coals, salt, &c. The disastrous effect will be seen at
once by the following comparison of freights now ruling,
with those which were being paid two years ago :-
Feb. 1849. Feb. 1851.
Per ton. Per ton.
Liverpool to Tralee (Ireland) 9s. 6d. 7s. 6d.
Dingle B ,y (Do.) los. 6d. 7s. 6d.
If Westport (Do.) los. 6d. Bs. Od.
Londonderry (Do.) 6s. 3d. 4s. Bd. to ss.
Waterford (Do.) 6s. 6d. 4s. 6d.
Dublin (Do.)
Galway (Do.)
Limerick (Do.)
Belfast (Do.)
Newcastle (England) Bs. ed. ss. Od.

PHILHARMONIC SOCIETY'S CONCERT.

" The same ruinous reduction of freights is observable
in the whole of the coasting trade, and especially between
the various ports along the eastern and southern coasts,
except in those cases where the owner of the vessel is also
owner of the freight, as is the case with many of our large
millers and maltsters. In such cases the old rates are
charged, thus crediting the ship's account to the detri-
ment of the mercantile operation itself. The precise figures
relating to this portion of the kingdom, however, I find it
almost impossible to ascertain. But with respect to the
entire coasting trade of the kingdom, and the far greater
portion of our sea-going ships, the estimate I believe to
be a fair one, that there has been a deterioration of at
least thirty per cent. within the past three or four years.
" I am quite prepared to find these facts, and my mode
of arriving at them, unpalatable to the Free-trade party.
If they are true, however, and I wait to hear them dis-
proved—what a lamentable picture do they present of the
result of that policy which was to have raised Great Bri-
tain to the highest pinnacle of commercial prosperity, and
to have carried peace, happiness, and plenty to every fire-
side throughout the land ! We see around us, instead, a
prostrate agriculture, a depressed shipping interest, com-
plaining shopkeepers, and a mass of abject poverty in the
bye streets, alleys, and courts of our large towns, grovel-
ling in squalor and ignorance, and already becoming ini-
tiated into the beginnings of crime, which ought not to
exist in any Christian country. Why, if the success of
our Freetrade policy is a fact, have we been told, by Free-
trade organs, of men toiling in fever-tainted cellars and
garrets for eighteen or twenty hours per day, to earn only
a miserable subsistence ; or of women plying their needles
during the long and weary watches of the night, and yet
only enabled to exist by the sacrifice of their virtue ?
Why are outrage, incendiarism, and murder stalking
abroad throughout the land ? Why are our gaols and
union workhouses not emptied, and a prosperous and con-
tented population not lifting up their hands to Heaven, in
praises and thanksgiving for blessings conferred ? Free-
trade was to have brought about this result. Under its
humanising and beneficent influence, there was not to
have been an unemployed man, woman, or child within
these realms. It has failed, however, in realising its pro-
fuse promises to these and other classes; and I more than
fear, I believe, that before very many months pass over
their heads, its selfish authors will have to confess, in
humiliation before the world, that it has failed even in
bringing what worldly minds consider a blessing to their
own doors."

On Tuesday evening last the Society gave one of the
most attractive concerts of the season, composed of se-
lections from " Semiramide" and " Masaniello." The
vocalists originally announced were Miss Louisa Pyne,
Miss Dolby, Mr. Rafter, and Mr. Weiss. The former
young lady, however, had received the compliment of a
command to sing before the Court; but the engagement
of Miss Catherine Hayes amply made up for the disap-
pointment which the first announcement of her absence
excited, and even added to the attraction of the concert.
Miss Hayes occupies a very high place in the estimation
of the musical circles of Liverpool, which she has won
not alone by her rare talents, but as well by the grace
and purity of her private character. Her appearance on
this occasion was the more welcome after the successful
career which she has lately run in Rome, where she has
crowned herself with laurels. Miss Dolby is also a fa-
vourite, and Mr. Weiss has claims upon us not only from
his abilities, but as a townsman.
The first part consisted of selections from " Semira-
mide," the effect of some portions of which was a little
marred by an obvious unpreparedness on the part of both
the orchestra and the chorus. This was particularly
apparent in the quartet and chorus " Kings, Princes,
Nobles." In some of the solo parts, also, the accompa-
niments shewed want of rehearsal. The singing of Miss
Hayes was excellent throughout, as was also that of Miss
Dolby. The second part comprised selections from the
well-known and favourite opera of " Massaniello," which
was well received throughout. A brilliant song by Miss
Hayes, substituted by her for another which had been set
down for her, elicited an enthusiastic encore, and was
responded to by the delightful air of " Ah, Mon Fils,';
from " Le Prophete," which brought down thunders of
applause. The duet with Miss Dolby--" 'Tis well, my
Life I tender"—was beautifully sung by both ladies.
Miss Dolby also sung a cavatina—" Ah, that Day I well
remember"—very prettily ; and, in two duets with Mr.
Weiss, both parties were loudly applauded. The im-
pression made by Mr. Rafter was not great.
As a whole the concert was a very successful one.

CURIOUS CASE OF MISTAKEN IDENTITY.—A very
pretty and well-dressed young woman, named Ann
Clarke, was yesterday placed at the bar of the Police-
court on a charge of having robbed an Irishman, named
Peter Kirwin, of £4 17s. 6d. Complainant stated that
he met the prisoner about half-past eleven o'clock on
Saturday night, in Lime-street, and was induced to
accompany her to a house in Skelhorne-street, where she
robbed him of the amount stated. The girl stated that
she was coming from home on Sunday, when she was
apprehended by the complainant on the charge of robbing
him ; she knewnothing of him, nor was she ever in the place
where he seld he was robbed. She called two young men,
one of whom is a porter in the employ of Mr. Higgs, of
Lord-street. Both had been in her company on Satur-
day night, and both deposed to her respectability. The
girl's mother, and several female friends, came forward to
rebut the charge. They stated in whose employment she
was, and furnished other information, which gave the
charge the character of [improbability, and Mr. Booth
dismissed the case.
IRON-RIBBED AND WOODEN-PLANKED VESSELS.—
Messrs. Jordan and Getty have now a fine vessel upon the
stocks, building upon their new principle, and which is to
be launched in July next. The dimensions are 164 feet
between perpendiculars, 33 feet beam, and 21 feet 6 inches
depth of hold. Her register, new measurement, is about
840 tons. The iron frame-work and wooden planking of
Messrs. Jordan and Getty we have before described. The
timber used far planking in this case is rock elm in the
bottom, and Indian-teak and green-heart above that.
The ship will be coppered, and to prevent the galvanic
action of the copper upon the iron, the builders have made
a cement of a simple material to cover the bolt-heads
which come through the plank, and which will prove a
perfect non-conductor. Besides this, the vessel will be
sheathed with one-and-a-half inch, on felt or gutta percha.
Messrs. L. 11. Macintyre and Co. are the owners of the
new ship, the firm for whom the Marion Macintyre, also
built by Messrs. Jordan and Getty, was launched some
time since. The keel of another vessel, intended for the
China trade, has been laid in the same yard of 400 tons.
CHAMBER OF COMMERCE.—The monthly meeting of
the council was held yesterday, at the offices, T. B. Hors-
fall, Esq., president, in the chair. The president stated
that he had had some conversation with one of the di-
rectors of the London and North-Western railway, and
was satisfied that there was a mis-apprehension existing
on the subject of the rates which were charged to ship-
pers of goods from Manchester, by way of Liverpool and
London respectively. The directors naturally looked to
the interest of the proprietors in the first instance ; but
he was satisfied, from what he had heard, that there was
no intention on the part of the directors to give undue
favour to the shipments via London.—After the routine
business, a report was brought up from the special com-
mittee on the patent laws, containing observations on the
bills now before the House of Lords. The report was
received, and memorials on the subject ordered to be
prepared.—The communications comprised letters from
the Foreign-office, on the Sound dues ; from the General
Brokers' Association, and the Warehouse-keepers' Asso-
ciation, on Customs reform • and others upon the Russian
Company, and various subjects.—A special committee
was appointed to carry out the resolution of the general
meeting on the subject of commercial laws.
TRIAL OF A STEAMER.—On Thursday last, a
neautiful paddle-steamer, lately launched from the build-
ing-yard of Messrs. John Reid and Co., of Port Glasgow,
was tried in the Clyde, and attained a very high rate of
speed, having steamed from the Clock Light to Cumbrae
Head, a distance of 161 statute miles, within one hour. She
is named the Herald, and is intended to ply between
Glasgow and Dublin, with mail and passengers, under
the command of Capt. Stokes, who has been for fifteen
years in that service. The Herald is 200 feet long, 25
feet beam, and 15 feet depth of hold ; her burthen about
650 tons. She is propelled by engines on the side-lever
principle, the beams or levers of which are formed
of wrought-iron plates, bolted together at each end,
and by which greater security from fracture and
less dead-weight is gained, and also metal economised.
Her paddles are fitted with the patent feathering floats,
and she has every modern improvement to insure speed
and safety. Tile Herald is fitted with a saloon on deck,
similar to the Cunard boats, but quite a novelty in steam-
ers of her class. This will add greatly to the comfort of
her passengers, who may thus enjoy a delightful prome-
nade, even in the wettest weather. Altogether, she is a
model of naval architecture that will fully support the
fame of her err inent builders. Her machinery was manu-
factured .by M.tsrs, Thompson: of Clyde-hank Foundry,
.Ciaegow.

How long we can, or will, submit to go on
under such a state of things as these figures exhi-
bit, he must be a bold man who can predict. To
ourselves it seems certain that a persistence in that
disastrous policy, by which it has been brought
about, cannot hut be fatal to the mercantile marine
and the naval supremacy of this once great empire.
Another excellent article, " The Experiences of
Free Trade," in which the working of the
system upon other branches of industry is further
exposed, we commend to the serious attention of
the public.

DISGRACEFUL ATTACK ON THE REV. R. W. COMMERCIAL AND MONETARY NEWS.
WOLSELEY.

Monday Night.
An Irishman, named Fitzpatrick, who resides in Great The late low prices of Sugar have caused rather more
Crosshall-street, was charged at'the police-court, yester- inquiry from our grocers, and the sales of Saturday and
day, with having assaulted the Rev. R. W. Wolseley, cu- to-day consist of 150 hnds. Barbadoes, at 355. to 415.;
rate of St. John's Church, on Sunday afternoon, under 100 hhds. Demerara, and 1500 bags of low to middline
the following circumstances:— white Bengal, at 403. to 41s. For the latter description
Our readers are aware that several clergymen have of Bengal there is literally ne market, though for good
recently set the example of street preaching ; and though, and fine Compore there is a fair inquire, 48s. 61. having
as yet, the practice has not been very extensively carried been refused for 1000 bags of the latter. In Tea and
into effect, we believe the results, in every instance where Coffee there is no change, and the market continues flat.
it has been adopted, have been very satisfactory. By the Europa steamer, arrived yesterday from New
On Sunday afternoon last, the Rev. R. W. Wolseley York, we have a week's later news. The weather in the
went to Standish-street, a street leading from Great States was generally cold and uncongenial, and the re-
Crosshall-street, for the purpose of addressing the people ports from the South confirmed the late appearance of
in that neighbourhood. The Rev. Gentleman knowing frost ; but, on the other hand, the receipts at the ports
he was in a neighbourhood densely populated by Roman were again some 18,000 bales in excess of those for the
Catholics, intimated before he commenced his discourse, same week last year, which, coupled with the unsatisfac-
that he did not wish to say anythina that would be tory accounts from this country, had caused a decline in
calculated to give offence. He accordingly abstained from prices. The estimates of the present crop now rule from
touching upon any controversial subject ; his text being 2,300,000 to 2,350,000 bates. The sales sum up 7000
from the sth chapter of St. Mark, the 22nd and succeed- bales, at Saturday's prices, except for the lower sorts of
ing verses. He proceeded fora considerable time with his American and Surat, which are again rather lower.
subject, when a drunken fellow, named Michael,Kelly, The commercial advices from Bombay, received to-day,
commenced making use of insulting and abusive language, state that the money market had not been greatly relieved
and endeavoured to incite the mob to a breach of the peace, by the large imports of bullion. Freights to Liverpool
which in the event succeeded. The chair on which the were £2 17s. 6d. to £3 per ton. There was no improve-
rev. gentleman was "standing was pulled from under him, meet in the import market during the fortnight. The
and a man named Fitzpatrick attempted to strike him, export market had also exhibited less animation. The
but was prevented by Conolly, 460, who received Mr. large sales reported in cotton piece goods had had a dull
Wolseley in his arms, and, with the assistance of Rim- effect, and no improvement was looked for during the
mer, 142, bore him through the crowd to a coffee-shop. present season.
The officers, to effect this, were compelled to fight their We have had more business doing in our Share Market
wap step by step, through a dense mass of people • and during the past week; and prices, under the influence of
while in the coffee-shop the mob threatened to pull the considerable purchases. have in a great measure recovered
place down. They succeeded in procuring further assis- from the depression of last week. A portion of the pur-
tance, when Mr. Wolseley was conveyed to a place of chases have been on the part of those closing accounts ;
safety, and Fitzpatrick, the man who was seen to strike but a larger portion have been for real investment, as the
at the rev. gentleman, was apprehended on the charge of abundance of names, principally received from the London
assault. In his evidence before Henry Booth and David market, (having been received there from the provinces)
Hodgson, Esqs., Conolly stated that he saw Fitzpatrick sufficiently prove. It is said that Mr. Hudson has been
rush from the parapet into the crowd and strike at Mr. buying Yorkshire, Midland, and Berwick, for next
Wolseley ; there were seven or eight hundred people account to some extent. Great Westerns are in strong
congregated, and the assault was of the most violent kind : demand at higher prices, and look like again touching par.
he was compelled to use his staff most vigorously to Our market to-day has been very good, and considerable
protect Mr. Wolseley. Mr. Davenport, who appeared purchases have been made. The prices at the close are
for the prisoner, endeavoured to shake the witness's testi- not the highest of the day, but the tone of the market is
mony with regard to any blow being struck, but Conolly decidedly healthy. We annex the quotations :—Birken-
persisted in saying he distinctly saw the man strike at head L. and Chesh. 10iel ; East Lancashire, 15ic ; Old
Mr. Wolseley. Rimmer, 142, corroborated this testi- Leeds, 58 952 ; Do. £2O F shares. lAd ; London stock,
monv, and also said he heard Fitzpatrick threaten to kill 126 464 6; Do. new Quarters, 4411111 t, -.21p •, Man-
Mr. Wolseley; he deposed to the difficulty they expe- chester Shef & L'coln, 31i 1 ; Do. pref. 12; Do. £6 new
rienced in protecting the clergyman from the frantic fury pref.9-16p; Midland, 56 -.1; Do. Halves, 151 al,-1.1 id;
of the mob. Officer 557 further confirmed this evidence. Old Dovers, 25k s's 4-1 5 44c; York, Newt. and Ber-
The Rev. R. W. Wolseley, on being called on, briefly wick, preference unpaid up, 241 ; York and North Mid-
stated that on Sunday afternoon he went down to Stan- land, 232 c ; Great Western, 87.
dish-street, which is situated in St. John's district, for In transcribing from the monetary article of yesterday's
the purpose of imparting religious instruction to such as Albion, a free trade paper, the following remarks, we
might be inclined to listen to him, a course which he may remind our readers of the fact, that the writer is in a
deemed to be no more than discharging his duty. He position to enable him to obtain the most accurate corn-
then went on to describe the scene as of the most alarm- mercial information ; and whilst affording the Conser-
ing kind, and stated that, under God, his life had been vative public an opportunity of perusing his arguments
preserved by the officer Conolly. and conclusions it will be noticed that his reasoning is
In reply to Mr. Davenport, the rev. gentleman said he precisely the same, in some instances almost in the very
did not receive a blow, nor could he see the prisoner aim words, as that repeated again and again in these columns
one at him, as his (Mr. W.'s) back was towards him. I for the last dozen years :
Miles Lambert, James Nolan, and a woman named "As at present understood, free trade means modified free
M`Kinsey, were called as witnesses for the prisoner. They imports and nothing more; for instance, it levies is. per quarter
all agreed in saying that they saw no blow struck ; but I on foreign corn, is. 6d. per cwt. on foreign tallow, and admits
considered that the prisoner had been very harshly treated cotton duty free. This is free trade. Now, to term such a sys-
by the police. tem free trade is altogether a misnomer. What! admit the
Another man, who gave his name M'Galligan, with I wcttonnv,o.efsthend it United States into this country
fa without
ic duty, and,
e back to them worked into brs. have a heavy
great warmth requested that he might be heard. His advalorem duty levied upon the raw material produced there,
evidence had for its object the exculpation of the prisoner which we have admitted free, as well as upon our labour ! We
and the crimination of the police; but as it turned out admit the product of American labour free, but, when we send
that, like the rest of the witnesses, he knew little or noth- it back to her increased in value by our own labour, she taxes
ing about the matter, his warmth went for "nothing." liroetehttrhalerawonuiratleairlaelsatnd ouri labour
p p farinaceousand
ttlodo Zceotme reins from
Mr. Aynesley, an inspector of nuisances, who happened France, yet she heavfly taxessu iron, one of the prodactions of this
to be present, observed that a more disgraceful scene could country; and this we also term free trade. We admit the ships
not be conceived ; he never before heard such horrible of all nations into this country, and the cargoes they convey, on
language made use of. As he did not see the blow struck, equal terms.with our own, yet Spain levies a discriminating
his evidence was not taken. duty upon the cargoes by British ships, both in the mother
Several other witnesses who were present corroborated country and her colonies; and this also is recognized as free trade.
Free trade with all the world is a noble principle, as it involves
this statement. that of equal justice, or in other terms, reciprocity, but to term
Mr. Booth told the prisoner that his conduct had been the emasculated system of the present day free trade is an out-
very disgraceful. There could be no doubt he had struck I rage upon commonsense. W:iy should the productions of
the blow ; such conduct could not be allowed. As to the
America be admitted free into this country and the productions
officers, they were quite justified in using their staves.
of this country be subject to a heavy duty in America? the pro-
Fined 20s. and costs, or 21 days' imprisonment. ducts of` ur skill and labour ought to enter as free into the
United ates as theirs do into England. Why should the
planter of Mississippi have an advantage over the manufac-
turers of Lancashire, Yorkshire, Staffordshire, Birmingham,
or Sheffield? Labour is the basis of the productions of each,
and though it is skilled labour in our own case, that is no rea-
son why it should be taxed in America, for, if it be, the princi-
ples of free trade are violated."
We quote the following report of the wool market from
the circular of Messrs. J. Robinson and Co., of this town,
issued to-day :
"Considerable improvement has been manifested in the Wool
market throughout last month in the demand for most descrip-
tions, which not only confirms the general expectation of no
further deterioration in value, but also is an evidence of the
soundness of trade in the consuming districts. In whatever
direction the eye is turned in the manufacturing towns, the
consumption is going rapidly onward ; whether remunerative
or otherwise, is a question that those concerned must deter-
mine ; therefore, as long as the mills are working, and stocks
in the hands of the producer light, there seems a great proba-
ility of the new clip, now in progress, selling much higher than
last year's prices at the same period. The chief business here
has been in low Wools, and all by private treaty. Notwithstand-
ing the public sales in London, the demand ! ere has been
somewhat animated, and an advance is notified in some classes,
causing a firmness which is likely to endure. The transac-
tions of the month have been in East India Oporto lambs and
shorts, Oporto skin, Russian, half fine Servia, Albanian,
Egyptian, Lisbon, Peruvian, and Alpaca, &c. Egyptian, Rus-
sia, East India, and Oporto lambs are scarce, and much wanted
the markets generally being indifferently supplied with most
kinds of good useful low Wools. All the Alpaca is sold, and
numerous buyers are ready for fresh arrivals; the same remark
app hes to Mohair.

Hayes and Tetlow have been again matched to run four
miles, at Aintree, on the 29th September, for 1100 a side.
A beautifully executed bust, in Parian marble, of the
Rev. Dr. M`Neile may be seen in the window of our
publishing office. The price at which it is sold is very
reasonable.

The Birkenhead steam troop-ship, Master Commander
Robert Salmond, arrived at Woolwich at noon on Satur-
day, after a remarkably short passage of only 131 days
from Halifax, Nova Scotia. There were 355 officers, non-
commissioned officers, and men, with 120 women, and
124 children—all well. There were no deaths on the
passage, but two births took place on board.
SERIOUS ASSAULT.—A lad, named Abel Moore, who
supported himself by a crutch, charged another lad, named
Conway, at the Police-court, yesterday, with having stab-
bed him in the legs. The outrage occurred about a week
since, in Milton-street, since which time Moore has been
under surgical treatment in the hospital. The prisoner
was fined 20s. and costs.

SUDDEN DEATHS.--A woman, named Price, who lived
in a cellar in Garden-lane, Edge-hill, expired, suddenly,
on Sunday, under circumstances which have induced the
coroner to direct an inquest to be held on the body, which
will take place to-day.--A man, named Mills, who resided
in Vernon-street, also died yesterday morning ; his habits
were not very regular. An inquest in this case will also
take place to-day. _

GEORGE HOTEL.—The following distinguished persons
were among the fashionable arrivals yesterday at this
well-known establishment :—Earl and Countess of Arran,
General Withehead, United States, Colonel Law, Capt.
Eccles, Capt. Yates (Lancashire Hussars), Capt. Dean
and lady, Capt. Pritchard and lady, Capt. Dalrymple,
Rev. S. Palmer, and about thirty other passengers by the
steamers from America.

ROME'S ALLIES.—A. ballad singer was yesterday de-
prived of his stock-in-trade by a policeman. The fellow
was singing a doggrcl in the neighbourhood of Fontenoy.
street. The burthen of the precious rhyme was laudatory
of the Roman Catholic religion, and denunciatory of the
" tyrants" who are opposed to it. It represents Dr.
Cahill " calling on all," and says that in Erin " there's
ten hundred thousand ready to march to the field." The
effusion was altogether of such an inflammatory nature
that the police interfered, and took the man's stock from
him.

THE LATE SUICIDE OF MR. J. POWER.—It is now
ascertained that the cause of suicide was the receipt of a
solicitor's letter announcing prompt proceedings against
him as security for £lO,OOO for a receiver, whose debts,
however, did not exceed £2,000. He insured his life for
£5,000, which he assigned for a valuable consideration
some years ago to a bank, and which will be paid by the
Royal Exchange Insurance Company within three months.
Mr. Power's amiable widow has £l,OOO a-year marriage
settlement. He has left seven children.

NEW SHIP FOR AUSTRALIA.—In making arrangements
for our increasing trade with Australia, one firm in Liver-
pool—Messrs. Gibbs, Bright, and Co.—have eminently
distinguished themselves by their enterprise, and the ex-
cellent manner in which they provide and sail their ships,
of which they have formed a line expressly built for the
trade. They are now about to bring out a new clipper-
built ship called the Eagle. She is of colonial build, and
has been constructed under the instruction of their own
agent. The Eagle is one of those ships which, from her
description, appears exactly suited to the trade. Her
length from stem to taffrail is 185 feet ; between perpen-
diculars she is 178 feet; and has a keel measuring 164
feet ; which, with a beam of 36 feet, and a depth from the
main-deck of 22 ft. will give no ordinary dimensions of car-
rying capacity. In point of strength she may be classed as
British built, for there is a faithfulness in the workman-
ship as well as in her material which will give her, as the
Yankees say, a stability to last from " June to Eternity."
Her kelson, of white oak, is 36 to 42in. deep. Her sister
kelsons, of heckmatack, sided 16in., and moulded 12in.
The bilges are equally large in dimensions. Her princi-
pal frame-work is oak ; the keel is 15 inches, moulded 18
inches. The stem and stern posts are 14 inches by 17
inches, The timbering of heckmatack varies from the
first floors, where eaeh piece is 14 inches by 17 inches to
the futtocks, which, first, second, and third are on the
average 14 feet square. The planking, commencing at
s inches;at tl at bilge she is 7
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top sides are 6 inches. In fastenings the Eagle is all that
can be desired ; she is cross, verti"ally, and horizontally
bolted wherever the timbering will allow, and her beams
are said to be (of southern pine) the largest ever put
into any previous ship. She is handsomely sparred
of course, as a full-rigged ship, and, from her model, she
will carry any amount of canvas. She has a neat en-
trance, a very round bilge, and a fine run ; she falls
nicely home on deck, gatheringerni(nxiii the main
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breadth line, to a stern remarkably light and neat, and
ucted solely for passengers,
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the main saloon being fitted gorgeously in St. Domingo
Mahogany and Black Walnut ; while those for the ordi-
nary class.of emigrants, though lessdecorative, are equally,
yea, more spacious and comfortable. The Eagle will be
about 1,100 tone register, a most admirable size for the
service, in which we trust she may be ever successful, She
may betzpeeted t941:11 /I'M here early in July.