The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1848-08-01 00:00:00

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I Jury, at the

which lately took-place in this town. We understand
this is the third time the same officer has been compli-
mented in a similar manner by a Liverpool Grand Jury.
The new docks at the north end of the town being nearly
completed, the Dock Committee have decided to name
them as follows :-Ist, Salisbury; 2nd, Collingwood ; 3rd,
Stanley ; 4th, Nelson ; sth, Bromley Moore ; 6th and
7th, Wellington Dock and Basin : Bth, Sandon Dock ;
9th and 10th, Sandon Basin and Graving Dock.
EXTRAORDINARY SPEED.—A gentleman left Dublin a
few days ago for Liverpool, by the new government
steamer Banshee, built for the Holyhead station; the
passage—a distance of 138 statute miles—was performed
in seven hours and five minutes! He then stepped into
the express train and was in Gloucester thirteen hours
after leaving the Irish capital.
THE PIKE SCHEME.—Mr. Procter will move at the
council meeting to-morrow, the suspension of further
proceedings in regard to the Rivington Water Scheme
for twelve months ; and the appointment of the borough
engineer to the superintendence of the water works for
twelve months ; who at the end of that period may report
as to the capability of the immediate district to furnish

the required supply.
SALE OF BARTON, IRLAM, AND HIGGINSON'S SHIPS.
—The sale of the remainder of the vessels belonging to
this firm took place on Tuesday last, at Messrs. Little-
dale and Co.'s office. The ship Cheshire, of 377 tons,
was put up at £l5OO, and the bidding advanced to £2lOO,
at which (being below the reserved price) she was bought
in by the assignees. The ship Frances, of 620 tons, was
put up at £2OOO, and purchased by Mr. Magee, for
£2600. The barque Mary, of 227 tons, put up at £1209,
was purchased by James Poole and Co., for £1550.
THE WEATHER.—Since our last publication the weather
has been very variable, with frequent showers resembling
those of April, but at other times amounting to more
continuous rains. On Sunday much rain fells particularly
at night, when we had a heavy downfall, which lasted
several hours, at least in this neighbourhood. No injury,
however, has been done to the grain crops, which (both
wheat and oats) are becoming heavy, and assuming the
yellow tint. Yesterday was fine, with a powerful sun,
and a welcome drying wind. We need but add that some
few fields of wheat have already been cut ; that all the
crops look remarkably well, and that but little of the hay
remains to be stacked.
PRINCIPALSHIP OF THE COLLEGIATE INSTITUTION.—
The Rev. J. S. Howson, M.A., of Trinity College, Cam-
bridge, and Chaplain to the Duke of Sutherland, has been
elected to the Principalship of the Collegiate Institution,
which will be vacated by the resignation of Mr. Ccnybeare
in October next. Mr. Howson was formerly vice-princi-
pal of the Collegiate Institution, and resigned that office
rather more than two years ago, on his acceptance of his
present post in the family of the Duke of Sutherland.
Mr. Howson took the highest honours in the University
of Cambridge, havinc, taken what is commonly called a
double first degree, that is, lie was a wrangler, and also
in the first class of the classical tripos. He also obtained
two university prizes for Latin essays.
FURTHER SEIZURE OF ARMS IN LIVERPOOL —On
Tuesday morning at an early hour, as police-constable 590
was on duty in Hurst-street, he observed a young man
removing pikes and other weapons from a cellar beneath
a public-house at the corner of Garden-lane. They were
being removed to the garret of a neighbouring house.
The officer obtained assistance, and the arms, which con-
sisted of three rusty pikes, a gun with some bayonets, a
cutlass, and a sword in its scabbard, were seized and car-
ried to the police-office. The occupant of the garret and
the young man found removing the weapons, were both
taken into custody, and brought on Tuesday before Mr.
Rushton. The above facts were deposed to, and the
prisoners remanded.
THE " FREE " CHURCH.—On Wednesday, the Pres-
bytery of Lancashire met at Liverpool to resume the con-
sideration of the resignation tendered at the previous
meeting by the Rev. Robert Cowe, M.A., of St. An-
drew's Free Church, in Manchester, not only of his
charge, but also of his connexion with the Presbyterian
Church in England. The committee appointed to meet
Mr. Cowe, and the office bearers, reported verbally
- had had two interviews with Mr. Cowe, but had
They had likewise

with
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!tied in changing his views,

seen the office bearers, who bad expressed their desire to
retain Mr. Cowe as their minister. Mr. Cowe accom-
panied his resignation with a statement of his belief that
there existed in the church an indisposition openly to
avow and fairly to carry out Free Church principles. The
Presbytery determined, after a good deal of discussion, to

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CorroN FROM INDIA.—A cargo of cotton, ex Argyra
from Cochin, consigned by the East India Company to
Mr. Hugh Fleming, secretary of the Manchester Com-
mercial Association, has recently arrived in Liverpool, is
now being discharged, and may be expected to arrive at
Manchester in a few days. It consists of 483 bales, grown
in the Chimbatore district, and comprises lots of cotton,
of different species, and grown under different circum-
stances, upon the value and capabilities of each of which
the honourable court of directors have sought the opinion
of the Commercial Association. There is farm-grown
cotton from New Orleans seed, of the crops of 1846, and
1847-48, among which, are a few bales grown from seed
planted at the end of May, and there is also New Orleans
cotton grown by the natives ; indigenous cotton, farm-
grown ; indigenous cotton grown by the natives, and gin
cleaned ; and indigenous cotton, also grown by the natives,
but cleaned with the churka, and thrashed. _

WHO ARE THE REBELS?—The Irish, whom we have
admitted to free competition with the English labourer,
and whom we have welcomed to all the comforts of old
England, are to reward our hospitality by burning our
warehouses and ships and sacking our towns. Of course
we cannot answer for Irishmen as we can for Englishmen,
but the Irishman is not quite such a fool as to burn his
own bread when he has got it. If the Irish porters and
coal heavers of Liverpool attempt a row, they are fighting
against nobody so much as themselves. It is the security
and tranquillity of England which enables it to find em-
ployment for more than its own people. Once unsettle
England, and credit, enterprise, employment, and wages
fly away. The houses we live in require their foundations
to be absolutely firm. If the ground yields in any part by
ever so little, the most solid wall will crack from the foun-
dation to the parapet. It is exactly so with the fabric of
our commercial prosperity. Shake its foundation, which
is social confidence, and the whole edifice totters. An
Irish rebellion. spreading into England would throw half
its people out of work, and condemn them to poverty and
degradation. The Irish sojourners in this island may hold
a few meetings and express a-good deal of wordy sympa-
thy, but they have been too long among us to think they
will gain anything by revengeful or wanton devastation._

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IN RE JONATHAN HIGGINEON.--The case of this bank-
rupt came on again for hearing on Thursday, before Mr.
Sergeant Ludlow. Mr. Deane and Mr. Lowndes, the so-
licitors in the case, were present ; and Mr. Hollams, soli-
citor, in the firm of Marten, Thomas, and Hollams,
Mincing-lane, London, appeared on behalf of Mr. P. L.
Hinis, of London, who was a creditor on the estate to the

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