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

LIVERPOOL CORN EXCHANGE, Tins DAY

(From Messrs. R. Makin Sr Sona' Circular.)
Several further arrivals into this port since Friday,
furnish collectively a fair supply of English, Irish, Cana-
dian and Foreign Wheat, for the season; including a
tolerable quantity of Oats and Flour, with a liberal
increase of Oatmeal from Ireland, and about 2000 qrs. of
Malt coastwise.

The weather has been favourable since the close of last
week, and is very fine to-day ; which, combined with the
present depression in the leading markets of this district,
and the decline in London yesterday, appeared completely
to unsettle the trade here this morning, and render the
prices of most articles very irregular and variable.
Wheat not only lost the advance of Friday, but fine
qualities receded 2d., the general descriptions 3d., and in
partial instances 4d. per 701 b. below the rates of this day
se'nnight ; at which the transactions were extremely un-
important.

Flour was also very difficult of sale, even at an abate-
ment of Is. to 2s. per sack for English and Irish, and 6d.
to is. per barrel for duty paid foreign, from the currency
of Tuesday last.

Barley scarcely maintained the above improvement
but Malt, upon a moderate demand, was ls. per qr
dearer. Beans and Pease, with little business passing in
either, remained stationary in value.

ARRIVALS OF CORN.
From the Ist to the 7th August, 1843, inclusive.

DESCRIPTIONS. I IRE- COAST-
CANADA PO.
LAND. WISE. ; REIGN

Wheat .. Ors.
Barley Qrs.
Malt Qrs.
Oats Qrs.
Rye Qrs.
Beans Qrs.
Pease Qrs.
ShelledßarleyQrs.
Indian Corn. Qrs.
Rapeseed Qrs.
Oatmeal .. Loads
Flour. Sacks
Ditto Brls.

2524 1159
55 313
2u39
2720 656
8
18 123

1018 i 1550

7962
5752

Into Runcorn.—lreland and Coastwise.—Oats, 759
meal, 2585 lds ; flour, 548 sacks.

Averare prices of Grain, for the week ending Jui
11s. Id. Oats '2ls. 0,1. I Ryi
Is. I Pease.. 335. 9,1.

Wheat iqs

of the six
Oats 10:i

6251
368
2039
3376
8
141

qrs.; Oat

29. 144 3
3is. 2d.

CAN THE REPEAL MOVEMENT BE STAYED?—IS Mr.
O'Connell competent t i stand still? and if he be, is he
willing ? We entertain serious doubts upon both heads.
Mr. O'Connell has launched his boat upon a very strong
current. He has hitherto managed it well, steering with
remarkable adroitness round the rocks and shoals which
would have long ago made shipwreck of a less dexterous
pilot. But there are limits even to his skill at the helm.
It seems to us impossible that he should stand where he
does. If he make no ulterior move, his partisans will
make it for him ; and the moment they begin to act of
their own accord, either in advance or in retreat, there is
an end to his influence over them. On the other hand,
we greatly question his will to subside into the condition
of an ordinary person. Neither the state of his finances,
nor the conformation of his mind, would allow it ; and
Mr. O'Connell is not what we take him for, if he resist
the pressure of two such influences as these. The proba-
bility, therefore, is, that he will go on. He is already
wielding the functions of a government in some of its
most important details. He levies taxes, issues edicts,
forms laws, and prevails on some millions of people to
obey them. His next step will be—indeed, it has just
been taken—to appoint tribunals before which the people
may appear, and judges to administer justice among
them ? Will this he permitted ? Perhaps it may ; and if
so, we shall by and by see something still more curious.
He has told us that there is no law to prevent three hun-
dred noblemen and gentlemen from meeting in Dublin,
and discussing, at their leisure, plans for the general im-
provement of the country. He has hinted at the possi-
bility of their recommending to the people of Ireland a
cessation of commercial intercourse with England ; and
should such a recommendation actually appear, who can
doubt that it will be attended to? What then ? There
will be found in Dublin, as there were in Boston, indivi-
duals who prefer their own gain to the united wishes of
their countrymen. A ship will arrive in the Liffey,
freighted with English broadcloth. The parties to whom
it is consigned will make ready their warehouses to secure
the cargo; when suddenly, in the dead of night, the ship
will be boarded, and the broadcloth cut to ribands. Now
all this, if it occur at all, will occur so suddenly, that the
power of preventing it will be wanting. There may be
ten thousand troops in the garrison, and a couple of gun-
brigs close to the quays ; yet the Repealers will maaage
matters with such dexterity, that neither soldier nor
sailor shall know anything of their plan, till they find it
anticipated. The morrow dawns, and it is discovered at
the castle that an atrocious act of piracy was perpetrated
over night. His excellency the lord-lieutenant is filled
with indignation ; and a steam-boat being sent to sea, the
government in Downing-street is informed of the occur-
rence. How are they to act ? Will they now at length
establish martial law in Ireland ? Vs ill they issue a royal
proclamation, send patrols abroad in all quarters, arrest
the leaders of the Repeal movement, and otherwise bestir
themselves? If they do not, we shall have more acts of
piracy in abundance ; if they do, will they not be precisely
where they would have been had these proclamations been
issued while as yet the Dublin convention had not met,
nor the organisation of its voluntary subjects been ren-
dered so complete as now we find it ?—Frazer's Maga-
zine for August.
ADDISON AND LADY WARWICK.—It was probably in
consideration of his political services that Addison re-
ceived the lucrative appointment of one of the Commis-
sioners for Trade and Colonies ; but the most interesting
circumstance of his life, at this period, was his marriage,
on the 2d of August, 1716, to the Dowager Countess of
Warwick. The history of this alliance will probably
never be clearly understood ; but, if we cannot produce
all that is true concerning it, we are at least enabled to
shew that much which has already been related is false.
It is not surprising to find Tonson imitating the incom-
parable phraseology of the Ducal Squeers, already men-
tioned, and attributing to Addison a design of obtaining
the countess from the moment be was " recommended
into the family ;" but we do feel mortified when a man
like Johnson substitutes supposition for fact, and disco-
vers in the behaviour of Sir Roger towards his disdainful
widow a reflection of the conduct of the author himself.
Tonson's insinuation is unconsciously refuted by Addi-
son's own correspondence. In 1708 we find him writing
to the young Lord Warwick ; and three years after, in
enumerating to Mr. Wortley the calamities which had
overtaken him, he says, " I have within this twelvemonth
lost a place of £2,000 per annum, an estate in the Indies
of £14,000, and, what is worse than all the rest, my mis-
tress;" and why Addison should have looked with such
a reverent and retreating humility towards Lady War-
wick, it seems by no means easy to comprehend. He
was not altogether a man without mark. He had filled
distinguished offices in the government, and was conspi-
cuously pointed out for higher duties still ; he was a mem-
ber of the British senate, he was celebrated for his intel-
lectual powers and his literary attainments, his reputation
was unblemished ; into what society would Addison not
have been welcomed ? what gate of exclusiveness would
not his name have opened ? If it be said that the Coun-
tess of Warwick possessed great wealth, and that Addison
sought her for the sake of her dowry, Miss Aikin has sup-
plied us from the MSS. in the British Museum with a sa-
tisfactory answer : " Tell Lady Henrietta," wrote Dr.
Cheyne, to Lord Harley, at Wimpole, " that Lady War-
wick's marriage with Mr. Addison was upon terms, he
settling (or giving) £4OOO, in lieu of an estate which she
gave up for his sake." " But," says Johnson, "it is
certain that Addison has left behind him no encourage-
ment for ambitious love." How is it certain? where are
the proofs? Does Addison reveal, in any paper or writ-
ing which has descended to us, the misery which he en-
dured? But his contemporaries affirmed the fact. Did
they ; so then the story of Addison's matrimonial infeli-
city rests upon that most dangerous of all foundations,
uncontradicted report. Now we agree with Miss Aikin,
that it must be shewn that this report, so decisively ad-
vanced, ever came to the knowledge of the parties con-
cerned; and, when that has been shewn, we are entitled
to ask for further evidence as to the cause of their silence.
They might have passed the report over from a sense of
its veracity, or they might have despised it from a sense
of its malignity and its falsehood. Is every uncontra-
dicted report to be converted into a witness? The late
Dr. Southey formed an early resolution, which he kept,
never to expose the injustice or the untruth of any criti-
cal report respecting his own productions ; are these cri-
tical reports now to be received as authentic illustrations
of his genius ? Addison's marriage was dissolved by
death, after the brief period of three years. Now, though
we have no means of shewing in what manner that season
was spent, we can, fortunately, throw some light upon its
close; though we are unable to prove that Addison enter-
tained feelings of love and esteem towards his wife doting
his life, we are able to shew that he loved and esteemed
her in the closing days of his existence. In his will,
dated only one month before his death, he bequeaths to
her his entire property, real and personal, charged only
with a legacy of £5OO to his sister, Mrs. Combs, and an
annuity of £5O to his father's widow ; and he adds this
most affecting and emphatic testimony of his respect and
regard :—" And I do make and ordain my said dear wife
executrix of this my last will, and I do appoint her to be
guardian of my dear child, Charlotte Addison, until she
shall attain her age of one-and-twenty, being well assured
that she will take due care of her education and mainte-
nance, and provide for her in case she live to be married."
Thus is Addison called, as it were, from the very shadows
and silence of the grave to speak to the character of his
wife. We hope to hear no more of domestic annoyances
that embittered the life of a good and gifted man, or
drove him to seek in a tavern those consolations and en-
joyments whichit was impossible for him to obtain at
home.—Fraser's Magazine.