The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1846-12-29 00:00:00

TRADE OF LIVERPOOL AND BRISTOL.

On Tuesday last, we gave a statement of the arrivals in
this port, by which it appeared that in the course of three
or four tides, from Saturday Dec. 19th to Monday, we had
arrived in this port upwards of 40,000 tons of shipping,
about three-fourths from foreign ports, or from our own
colonial settlements. On the same date from which our
arrivals commenced, the 19th December, the port of Bris-
tol contained, in all, from foreign parts, 14 vessels, of
5,518 tons. Our own tonnage in port we cannot estimate,
so enormously out of proportion was it with that of Bristol;
and the bulk of the latter were vessels bringing timber for
railway purposes. The arrivals up to Monday morning,
the 21st, with which ours of 40,000 tons are to be com-
pared, are 9 vessels,—aggregate burthen. 1784 tons. On
the 22nd the arrivals were "none;" on the 23rd" none;"
on the 24th " one," and coasters. Of course the relative
charges of the two ports have something to do with the re-
sult; yet some people complain of our own as excessive,
in the face of the fact that timber vessels for Bristol re-
quire two shillings per load more than if chartered to Liver-
pool.

THE COTTON MARKET.—Yesterday, there was again
a good business done, and from 12,000 to 15,000 bales
were disposed of, as may be seen from our Cotton cir-
cular, at prices quite as high as those obtained on
Monday fortnight.
We perceive from the Gazette of Tuesday that her
Majesty has appointed Mr. Richard Harbord, eldest son
of Richard Harbord, Esq., of this town, to an ensiency of
the 36th Foot, which is under orders to proceed to the
lonian Islands.
THE LIBERAL (!) MERCURY.—OUT contemporary of
the t' paper and a half for sixpence" announces his in-
We are not without intimation that, whatever tention to advance (!) his price for subscribers, this year,
may be the course taken, with respect to the pro- inasmuch as there will be in it 53 Fridays. This would
posed increase of salary to be given to our stipen- have been all very well in a paper ordinarily situated.
diary magistrate, an endeavour will be made in A papri.however, already double the price of the majo-
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generous
etc; list esma iti)soerraiee sr
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some quarters to relieve that gentlemen from theeroousns to
extreme pressure of business, which has been urged imagine, was sufficient to secure him from loss, to arise
as the ground for such advance, and to provide for from the year being so prodigal of the particular day on
which we were the first to advocate a division of which he shines.
the duties of the bench. We have heard it sttg- THE PARISH OF LIVERPOOL AND
,THE IRISH POOR.
Bested, that those cases not involving questions of
—The whole of last week, particularly Saturday, and again
yesterday, the parish officers in Fenwick-street were be.
law,—the drunken and disorderly cases, &c.,— sieged with masses of Irish paupers clamorously waiting
should be disposed of by the borough magistrates, for relief. Great difficulty is found in inducing these
sitting in a different part of the Sessions House. poor people, most of whom have landed in a miserable
There are others, we understand, who would be state of destitution, to be passed backf to theireer afterown
disposed to appoint an additional stipendiary, to the countrypass ;
has
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made
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escaped ew ,
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take, in another of our existing courts, a portion of officer in charge. What with those who are determined
the general business now performed by Mr. Rush- to remain here, and with daily fresh arrivals, all in a con.
ton. Some of the latter would give the dock and dition of the lowest pauperism, the funds of this parish
nautical cases to one magistrate, and the remaining have unprecedented calls upon them, with no prospect
business to the other ; and some would act upon wthhaante4viemrooffathmensileisghwteesrtearbealtieemveednt.
of Lvrabsntmwebeky nfar
fewertnore
our proposition of forming the whole borough, in- than 3000 were Irish. The relief dispensed was 12,000
eluding the docks, into two divisions, hut having still soup tickets, and 10,000 rations of bread, in addition to
a central place of judicial authority. By two of these £525 in money. The money payments alone last week
projects cheapness appears to be the object sought amounted to £l3O more than was expended in relief in. the
of 1815 ; the bread doled out weighed
after ; and, by that party who propose to devolve 3 correspondingn o
weekwhich, at .11d. per lb , would amount to
a portion of his duties entirely upon the borough £23 Bs. 4d.;
. Tile soup tickets cost upwards of £5O. Al-
magistracy, consideration for Mr. Rushton's claim together, mere than £6OO was expended in relief last
appears to be the chief one. week. We are given to understand that the expenditure
To the latter we feel that little remark need be of the present week will probably exceed thiS amount,
addressed. If it is difficult now to get a borough firgett as swi
et
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magistrate to give an occasional hour or two to the week, and 2000 rations of beingbread, weighing 6 ounces each,
duties of the bench, merely as an assistant to the or after the rate of twelve thousand for the week. The
stipendiary, and to fulfil the requirements of the money relief yesterday amounted to £ll5, which, if
law, it will be still more so to get those magistrates, it may be estimated as the daily average, would amount
we
as a body, seriously and regularly to devote their toa Xr6s9nOnnfol;
et heeali week
called upionn etoasiclisehargee ratepayers
increased
bueens,
I time to the public service. If an arrangement i
1 unless some means can be devised to lighten the existing
I could even be made that the duty should be taken pressure upon the parochial resources.

DESTITUTION IN IRELAND AND SCOTLAND

The congregation of St. Jude's church are engaged, at
this moment, in contributing most liberally, many of
them upon principles of self-denial, to the relief of the
destitute and starving poor of Ireland in this season of
distress and famine.

The appeal to them was initiated on Friday and
repeated on Sunday by the Rev. Hugh M'Neile. A
church collection alone being inadequate to correspond
with the vast necessities of the occasion, and there being
some difficulties on the subject of a general subscription,
the reverend gentleman, from the pulpit, invited the
members of his congregation to meet, in order to concert
measures to give practical manifestation of charitable
sympathy with their suffering fellow creatures.
The meeting took place yesterday in the Clarendon-
rooms. All the leading members of St. Jude's congre-
gation were present. The attendance consequently was
large, and it will be seen, in the course of the proceedings,
that the original object of the meeting was enlarged so as
to embrace the destitute poor in the highlands of Scot-
land, whose privations, though less known, areas great as
those endured in Ireland.

The Rev. Hugh M`Neile took the chair. In the room,
besides many others, there were the Rev. Drummond
Anderson, Mr. John Pinnington. Mr. Cotesworth, Mr.
Win. Jones, Mr. Edward Jones, Mr. S. Woods, jun.,
Mr. R. W. Preston, Mr. Wynne, Mr. Bell, sen., Mr.
Bell, jun., Mr. Pilcher, Mr. John Rigby, Mr. Carlisle,
Mr. Langtry, Mr. Parsons, Dr. Taylor, Mr. Ketghtley,
Mr. Forsyth, Mr. W. J. Paton, Mr. Stewart Ker, Mr.
Skerrett, Mr. Frost, Mr. Bamber, Mr. Townley, Mr.
Woodall. Mr. H. J. Webster, Mr. Jones.
Mr. M'l\lxiLe opened the proceedings. Assembled as
they were, in the midst of providential bleQsings, freely
and largely bestowed upon them, to consider the condi-
tion of those who had been mysteriously deprived of even
the common necessaries of life, he proposed that, in the
first instance, they should bend their knees before God,
to thank Him for his mercies to them, and to implore His
blessing upon all they might do for the benefit of others.
(Hear.)
The whole meeting then devoutly knelt, and the re-
verend gentleman offered up a most impressive prayer.
Mr. M'Nerr.e, in continuation, said, the purpose be-
fore the meeting simplified itself into three considerations.
The first was the reality and extent of the existing dis-
tress; second, the relief to be supplied by that congrega-
tion ; and third, the mode of administering that relief.
Upon the first of these considerations he need not detain
them, because, by public accounts, too painfully authen-
ticated, they knew the reality, and something of the ex-
tent, of the existing misery in Ireland. He had himself
received private accounts of it, some of which he would
read. The reverend gentleman then read the following,
among other documents of a similar character:—

EXTRACT OF A LETTER FROM THE REV. JAMES STEWART,

LISLEE GLEBE, SOUTH OF BANDON (ON THE SEA COAST).
Dated 18th December, 1846
ADDRESSED TO THE VERY REV. THE DEAN OF CORK.

" We want all the assistance we can get, for our people are
nearly starving, they are beginning to be in despair; our hall
door is beset by great numbers through the entire day."