The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1843-08-08 00:00:00

THE LIVERPOOL STANDARD.

classification of the good;
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In this latter proposition of the insurance
companies is the real origin of the registration clauses
in the Fire Prevention Bill, and not in the dictation—

of porters being

enforce

if even two members of the council could possibl)
have dictated to the whole council !—of Messrs
Birkett and Harbord.

In corroboration of the fact of the warehouse occu•
piers not having originated the clauses in question,
we refer our readers to a letter advertised in our co•

lumns this day

ARRIVAL OF THE DUKE OF PALMELLA Lc
ENGLAND.—COMMERCIAL TREATY WITH Poe-
TUGAL.—\Ve have for some days been in possessim
of the fact, from an undoubted source, that this dit-
tfnguished member of the Portuguese governmeit
was on the way to this country, for the purpose )f
concluding_ with our government the long agitated
commercial treaty between the two nations. It tell
he remembered that the terms proposed by Greet
Britain were, after a long negociation, refused to ie
submitted to by Portugal, who demanded much,
more from us that we could possibly grant, in e:-
change for the limited concessions which she offend
us ; and that all further treaty upon the subject was
in consequence broken off. It would appear, hot?.
ever, from the information which has reached U 3,
and which we consider almost amounting to the
certainty of official information, that the present em-
broiled position of Spain has prompted the Portu-
guese government to seize this as a favourable op-
portunity to make a step in advance ; and that Pat-
mella visits Great Britain prepared to settle a treat'
upon the terms originally offered by this country.
By this arrangement, important advantages will le
gained by Portugal, her wines, which are at present
subject to a uniform duty of ss. 6d. per gallon, beitg
rendered admissible into consumption here at tie
respective duties of 3s. for Port, 2s. 6d. for Lisbm,
and 2s. 9d. for Madeira; whilst it will relieve ",he
trade" in this country from their present state of
uncertainty, and no doubt open, in addition, n-
creased markets in Portugal for the manufactured
goods in Oreat Britain.
Nor is this all the benefit which must accrue to
us from a satisfactory conclusion of this long pro-
tracted negociation. The admission of Portugtrse
wines into more extensive consumption in this coin-
try must, by its operation upon the sherry trade of
Spain, stimulate that country, so soon as her inter-
nal affairs become sufficiently settled, to the neces-
sity of an effort of concession, to prevent her grcw-
ers being driven entirely out of the British market;
and even France herself may find herself impelled,
by necessity, to be a little more yielding in the set-
tlement of her commercial relations with this coun-
try.

By the London Times of yesterday, we find that
the Duke of Palmella arrived at Mivart's Hotel on
Sunday.

A PRIEST OR A PUNCHINELLO ?—Who has not
heard of Father Tom Maguire ? No one save a
man who is ignorant of the existence of whiskey,
and its effect upon the priestly character. For the
enlightenment of such a man—to enable him to
form an idea of the " fantastic tricks" which potheen
will inspire the most holy and learned theologist to
perform—we give a specimen of Father Tom's exhi-
bition at the recent repeal gathering at Mayo. Here
it is, undiluted and genuine !

" The Irish people were ready to fight—they were
ready to fight against the ministry, but not against the
Queen. For her they would do battle to the death.
(Cheers.) Let the people persevere and repeal was cer-
tain. It was with them the consideration next in impor-
tance to eternity itself. He had come 100 miles to attend
that meeting. (Cheers.) He had thrown up his hat in
the air and shouted Hurrah for repeal!' and he never
would desist dancing until he had kicked the bottom, not
out of his hat, but out of the union. (Laughter.)"
There's a specimen of Maynooth teaching, reader.
" The Irish people are ready to fight ;" and Father
Tom will "never desist dancing until he has kicked
the bottom (not of his hat, hut) out of the union ! !"
Amiable and amusing process this of carrying the
repeal !

THE COMMISSION OF A MURDER BOASTED
OF !-At a repeal gathering held last week in Man-
chester, a Mr. W. R. O'Connell, Captain General of
Repeal Wardens, or some such thing, delivered
himself of the following pretty effusion:—

"Adverting to'the services of Mr. Daniel O'Connell,
the basest portion of the English press had, day after day,
called their own experienced general a coward. Called
the man a coward who left his amiable and accomplished
wife and young children 'upon a fine morning, and did
not let her know where he was going to. Where was he
going ? He was going to fight for the nationality and the
liberty of Ireland 0) and to sustain his honour as a gen.
tleman. And who was he going to fight? He was going
to fight a celebrated fire-eater, that was put upon him by
the rotten corporation of Dublin,—a man who fought four
duels before meeting with the liberator of Ireland ; but
oh! how futile was it for them to place their bully before
him! for though they now called him a coward, HE
SHOT THAT BULLY DEAD THE FIRST SHOT !"

The speaker, of course, imagines that he has sue.
cessfully vindicated his protogee from the charge of
cowardice. A man who "leaves his amiable and
accomplished wife and young children" in a morn-
ing, with the determination either to make her a
widow, and her children fatherless, or himself a mur-
derer, may be no coward. But he sufficiently proves
himself to be a criminal. The deed of death referred
to is surely not one to glory over ; and the world at
large, under all the circumstances by which it was
attended, will be very much disposed to think that
its mention was not in the best of taste.

DRAWBACK ON COTTON.—The merchants of Liverpool
are making a most important movement just now, and are
likely to induce the Government to accede to the adop-
tion of a measure which will be highly advantageous to
the commerce of the port, namely, to allow a drawback
of the duty paid upon imported cotton whenever it may
be required for export.

STATE OF TRADE, MANUFACTURES, &C.-01.11* cotton
market during the past week has been freely supplied by
holders of American at firm prices, which have been met
with a good demand. Sea Island maintains full prices,
and a fair business is doing in Egyptian. Surat, though
in demand, is more freely offered, especially of ordinary
qualities. The sales of the week are 31,610 bales, in-
cluding 3,500 American on speculation, and 400 American,
and 450 Surat for export. We have before us a copy of
the circular for July, published by an extensive mercan.
tile firm in Manchester, from which we extract a few
facts bearing upon the state of the market in the cotton
manufacturing districts. The demand for printing cloths
has been considerable during the past fortnight, and large
purchases of other descriptions have been made for the
Levant. Our own printers, too, have taken somewhat
freely for the autumn dark styles. As an assuring fact,
accounting in part for the complaints which we have heard
of declining consumption of this description of cloth, it is
remarked by the writers of the circular that if the con-
sumption of 7.Bth cambrics and 9-Bth jaconets " have not
of late kept pace with the extent of our commerce, it is to
be borne in mind that the printing of de laines, velvets,
and other fabrics, have supplied the difference. The pro_
duction of these latter descriptions of goods is finding in-
creased employment for the workpeople of this district,
and the demand for mousselines-de-laine and velvets is
likely to be good for autumn and winter consumption."
A decline has taken place in some descriptions of shirt.
ings ; but as the weavers of many of these are just now
fully engaged in field labonr, the production is but scanty,
and stocks do not press upon the market. The yarn
market exhibits no appearance of activity, yet prices re-
main without alteration from our last. Several qualities
and numbers are very bare. The diminished consump-
tion for the Hanse Towns alone keeps the market de-
pressed. As soon as the orders for Germany comes again
in their usual extent to the market, prices will quickly get
up, as there are literally no stocks. Owing to the favour.
able reports of the autumn of 1842, the spring exports of
1843 to Germany, more than doubled those of the cor-
responding period of the antecedent year, and these, too,
were at the high prices then prevalent. Until the mar-
kets abroad shall have been somewhat cleared of those
stocks, we eannot expect other than a decline of demand
here : the falling off during the past three months very
much more than counterpoises the increased exports of
yarn on India and China account. Contracts for Russia
account will keep several of our spinners fully engaged to
October. Operations for Turkey, the Levant, and the
Austrian ports, are a little more spirited this month. Re-
ferring- to the prospects of the harvest and its effect upon
markets, the Circular remarks—" Should the ft uition of
the season be as expected, we may calculate that in the
present plethoric state of the money-market, speculation
will be entered into by the capitalists both in cotton and
manufactures (the bullion in the Bank of England being
neatly twelve miliions, or nearly as large an amount as
ever has been held by this establishment, and discounts
at only 21 per cent.) ; in which case, as stocks of almost
•,11 descriptions of yarns and goods are uncommonly bare,
may fully count upon an advance from the current low
Notwithstanding the present depressed condition
Mme trade, owing to the distressed state of the
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