The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1850-07-09 00:00:00

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Poorhouse when an infant three we.
until the formation of the titroud
which she was removed to the estat
died. Supposing, then, the cost of ht
2s. Gd. per week, the deceased has
£440 in hard cash, without
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On the 13th of Mareb;off Sydni
denly, aged 39, Captain OWEN S"
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just as he was about to reap some r(
labours, will he long felt in the service
On the 16th February, at San Peddo,.T
very suddenly, Mr. WM. M. COULL,
Mr. James Campbell, Ross, 13argue, nrar Kirkcudbright
In In March last, at Rio Janeiro, of yellow fever
JOSEPH. T. KING, second son of the late
this town

this town

On the 23rd ultimo, nt the ho

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Vauxhall-road.
Same day, at Northwiel.
Mr. EDWARD ACKERS,
Same day, aged 60, at his r
Mr. ALEXANDER M'GAC

Mr. OW

Same day,
THOMPSON, talc
On the 28th ultimo, aged 45, ALICE, wire c
SON BIRKETT, upholsterer and paper hat,,
street.
On the ^ ,nd also the i
PATRICK

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Mossley-dale Ho►:

'9th ultimo, MARY, ui
VEILE, of \Vaterlc

Same day, at Chesler, in his 76th %ear, WM. MO:
Esq„ formerly of Ravens&le, county Kildare.
Same day, aged 14 months, MARGARET, daughter
P. JAMESON, glass dealer, Scotland-niad.
Same day, at Ashton-under-Lyne, in the 63d yaar of 1
ANN, relict of the late Mr. W. ---
mother of Mr. T. Micklethwaite, of
Same day, at Louth, age;i 62, STI
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edly regretted by a., „._
On the 30th ultimo, Mrs.
late Mr. Wm. Carrel.
Same day, in Heath-street, MARGARET JANE wife of
JOHN PATON, of Whitby, Yorkshire. ,
- ---.-..-rnad. aged

Same day, in Wavertree-I. __ 27, CATHERD
of Mr. THOS. JOHNSON, mathematical instrument
London.

in. his r

Same day, azed 3 years, MARGARET CATHERINE, da
ter of Mr. JOHN WILLIAMS, pilot, Prince Edwin-street
Same day, at North Egremont, after a long. -
'less, MARGARET, wife of Mr. WM. COOPI

aged 71, WM. AFFLECK, Es,
f rS-ttrel yd oa t it N!Io. hit
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New South Wales. sud-
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On the 11th of April, at the Cape of Good Hope, WILLIAM,
eldest son of the late WILLIAM HAMILTON, Esti., of the
War-office.

On the 21st April, at Pan, on board the Lancashire Witch,
18, HENRY, son of Mr. FRANCIS EGLINGTON, ,of

, wife (

RAti CARRAL, relict of the

mazer,

On the Ist instant, aged 4 months, CATHERINE ANN,
daughter of Mr. J. HARDERN, compositor.
Same day, in Mersev-view, Birkenhead. aged 87, Mr. WM.
LACE, one of the oldest captains belonging to this port.
Same day, at Maghull, aged 76, Mr. MICHAEL WOODS,
formerly of Iligh6eld-street.

Same-day, in London, in his 39th year, Mr. ROBERT DIL-
LON BROWN E, M.P. for the county of Mayo. Mr. Browne
was in the enjoyment of his usually excellent health until the
Friday previous to his death, when premonitory symptoms of
gout developed themselves. On that evening, contrary to t
advice of his medical advisers. be attem

House of Commons, for the purpose of rec)rding his vote in
favour of Lord Palmerston's foreign policy, and there is little
that the excitement and exposure to cold necessarily conse—
quent on that step tended to aggravate the illness with which.
he was threatened. On the following day he was seized with a
violent attack of gout in the head, which terminated fatally.
Mr. Browne was an accomplished classical scholar, and a very
able speaker. As a popular orator he had few superiors, and,
though he spoke but seldom in the House of Commons, he
never faded to command attention and respect. Mr. Browne
was first elected in 1836, vice the Right Hon. Do.ninic Browne,
created Lord Oranmore, and during the long period which he
represented his native county his votes were undeviatingly
given in support of the principles of civil and religious free-
dom. For some time previous to his death he was busily en-
gagedin asserting his claims to the dormant Irish peerage of
Roscommon.
Same day, in London, in his :7th year, RICHARD ERTEN-
SON DEAN, Esq., for many years chairman of the Board of
Customs.

rr
O EDWARD, son
siolnsitoafntsisru.dEdDenl,
RofDcoDnAvvulislions, aged 15
n
Hunter-street.
Same day, at his residence, Hope-street, Mr. WM. WOOD-
WARD, son of Mr. Samuel Woodward, Breck-road, Everton.

mch-proprietor,

Same day, at the house of his mother, aged 44, Mr. JOHN
HENRY WALLACE, of Lionel-street, for many years princi-
pal leader of the alto singers of the Liverpool Choral Society.
Mr. Wallace was nearly drowned on the 9th uit., and never
recovered from the shock.

On the 3rd instant, at FlAfi Clough, Denbigh, Mrs. CATHE—
RINE TATLOCK, widow of the Rev. Jolinson Tatlock, M of
Everton.

and pain-6;1 in

Same day, at his residence, Mansfield-street, London, after a
short illness, Lord PEYRE.

Same day,- at the residence of her father, Mr. It. Ewan, Post-
office, Bootle. aged 31, Mrs. AGNES REAY, wife of Mr. An-
drew Reay, chief mate of the ship Ursula, of this port.
Same day, at his residence, oldfield-liall. Altrincham, sod-
denly, of disease of the heart, aged 60, EDWARD JEREMIAH
LLOYD, Esq., one of her Majesty's justices of the peace for
the counties of Cheshire and Lancashire. „ , •
Same day, at his father's residencof dysentery and fever,
aged 27, THOMAS, eldest sou of Mr. TIOMAS DICKINSON,
of Stalmine.
On the 6th instant, aged 65, Mr. THOMAS MURTHWAITE,
of Low-hill.
Same day, at Killiney, near Dublin, in the 58th year of hig
age, Lieut. W. SIVAINWN , R.N., formerly of this town,

TUESDAY MORNING, JULY 9, 1850.

A GREAT and good man has just been dismissed
from the world's cares to his eternal rest, by one
of those mysterious dispensations of Providence
which are ever reminding us, in vain, of the frail
hold which we possess upon earth, its honours,
and its enjoyments. But yesterday, Sir Robert
Peel was the observed of all observers in the British
Senate. Never had his powers of intellect and
judgment appeared more unclouded than in his
speech condemnatory of the foreign policy of her
Majesty's present government. To-day the bitterest
of his enemies would blush to launch a reproach
against him ; and the fondest of his friends recoil
from the contemplation of the soulless dust of him
whom they so recently idolized.
The shock which this untimely event has caused
through the length and breath of the land we shall
not attempt to describe. To the honour of Eng-
lishmen be it recorded that it has been universal,
and universally acknowledged. Many there are
who, like ourselves, have conscientiously differed
from him in opinion, and freely censured many
acts of his political life. If the grave, however,
were not a protection sufficient to screen the ashes
of the dead statesman from rude reproach, the
virtues of the man would do so. Mistaken as we
deem Sir Robert Peel to have been on many sub-
jects ; inconsistent as he has seemed to us to have
been in many of his political measures, we can con-
scientiously accord to him the credit of having
been actuated throughout his political career by a
deep sense of duty to his country, of devoted loy-
alty to the throne, and consideration for the well-
being of the humblest of his fellow beings.

THE advices received from the United States,
together with all the information which we have re-
ceived from intelligent members ofthis'great mercan-
tile community, tend to confirm the impression, pre-
viously conveyed in our columns, that the cotton
manufacturing interest of this district is about to
experience a check, such as may well cause the
most obstinate free-trader to doubt the absolute
wisdom of that policy which has staked the very
existence of this country upon its growth and con-
tinued prosperity. There are no longer two opinions
with respect to the shortness of the cotton crop of
the years 1849-50; and as little, with respect to the
probability of even a less for the coming year. Yet
we see our cotton manufacturers keeping up their
consumption of the raw material, almost to the ex-
tent of the past year, which they commenced with
a stock on hand of 470,000 hales, and with the
prospect before them of a crop of unexampled abun-
dance, which ultimately reached, of American sorts
alone, to 2,728,596 bales, whereas the highest esti-
mate of the yield of the crop of 1849-50 is not ex-
pected to be much, if any, over 2,050,000 bales.
Taking into account the stock at present on hand,
and estimating at a liberal rate the probable stock
to arrive, it will be seen, from a calculation con-
tained in our commercial article, that allowing
27,000 bales per week as the probable consumption
of the remaining twenty-five weeks of the current
year—and the consumption is at present going on
at the rate of nearly 29,000 bales—we shall reach
the 31st of December next, with a stock of only
185,000 bales, barely sufficient to afford an assort-
ment with another year of short yield in certain
prospect.
To reasoning men such a state of things, bearing
upon the future condition of a leading branch of
the manufactures of this country, is anything but
satisfactory. Long ago we expressed our opinion,
in which we were borne out by far better authori-
ties upon the subject than ourselves, that a consi-
derably decreased production was the true policy
of the spinners in this district. We saw no en-
couragement to induce full time working, whilst
there was every ground for proceeding at a less
than average rate. The price of the raw material
was advancing faster than the manufactured article
could keep pace with it. There were no markets
which offered great prospects of a favourable trade,
or advanced prices. Yet our spinners and manu-
facturers have gone on, month after month, swell-
ing the amount of their exports, which we very
much fear have been to too great an extent of a
speculative character, in the nature of consignments
on their own account. Most sincerely we wish that
their result may turn out satisfactorily ; but it is
greatly to be feared that such will not be the case
to any great extent ; and that even those amongst
them who have merely shipped to orders, will find
that such orders have been given in anticipation of
such a scarcity in the quantity and rise in the price
of the raw material as will place them in a serious
dilemma when they are driven to compete in foreign
markets with their own previous unwarrantable ex-
ports, after cotton shall have become further and
very materially enhanced in price.
The following very sensible remarks, which we
quote from Messrs. Littledale's monthly circular,
published on Friday, contain a view of the subject
with which we entirely coincide. They were writ-
ten, be it remembered, previously to the arrival of
the Canada, which has brought full confirmation
of the opinions previously entertained with respect
to the shortness of the next crop :

" The business of the greater part of the past half
year has been of an undefined character productive of
little satisfaction and little profit to those engaged.
Opening, as it did, with all those elements in favour
which have hitherto been looked upon as the sure indi-
cations of a large and prosperous trade, sanguine expec-
tations were formed and extensive speculations entered
into in the first few weeks of the year ; but a change
quickly followed, and for three or four months a general
dulness and apathy pervaded our different markets. The
causes appeared to be, the renewed depression of the rail-
way interest, and the marked falling off in the deliveries
for consumption of all the leading articles of import,
cotton, sugar, coffee and tea : the latter of these causes
was clearly traceable to the depression of the home trade,
and in the case of cotton to the rapid advance in price of
the previous autumn. This last continued so long as the
extent of the crop remained a matter of doubt, but when
it became evident at the end of April that the present
Stock was fully as short as estimated, and that the growing
one was again late, spinners began to buy freely, and ex-
porters came into the Manchester market with large con-
tracts, both for present and forward deliveries :—The
increased demand for the raw material and manufactured
goods has continued to the present moment, until the
consumption nearly equals that of last year, and exports
for the six months of 1850, with cotton at 61d. per lb.,
exceed those of 1849, when cotton was 31-d. per lb."
" This is an anomaly which at first sight has caused
much surprise, as being a new feature in the history of the
cotton trade, which it undoubtedly is, and when veiwed a
little more closely presents two most important points for
consideration ;—if these exports are really consumed, it
shows that the field for cotton fabrics has so increased that
price is not now the object it was a few years since, and
that the consumption:of cotton has fairly overtaken the
production ; but if these exports have not been sent
out from the promising position of Foreign markets.
few of which have risen in proportion to the increased
coat of goods in this country, it must be simply from
the almost universal impression both amongst manu-
facturers and merchants that cotton is yet to go higher
and goods become dearer, from the very great deficiency
in the cotton crop of the United States, and that nearly
the whole of that deficiency will fall on this country, with-
out any other quarter to look to for supplies. We have
no wish or intention by these remarks to force up the price
of cotton ; far otherwise ; low prices'of an article so vastly
important to the prosperity of this Country are equally es-
sential-to the safety of the merchant as of the manufac-
turer ; but as each succeeding steamer confirms more and
more strongly the apprehension of a second short crop,
the necessity of providing a supply by increased cultivation
elsewhere demands more prompt attention, if we are to
maintain our position as a manufacturing country."

Most assuredly they have not been the real friends
of the cotton manufacturing community, who have
taught them to disregard altogether the opinions of
men of character and intelligence in the United
States, with respect to the prospects of the crop of
this important staple. There may have been years
in which such opinions have been falsified. There
may have been years in which they have been erron-
eously given from interested motives, or without
sufficient opportunities for giving them with ac-
curacy. The increased facilities of intercourse with
America, which we now possess, and the increased
ease with which by means of railways, telegraphic
despatches, &c., information :from all parts of
the cotton growing districts may be concen-
trated in one locality, have enabled us to get
rid of .much of the uncertainty which formerly at-
tended the acquirement of accurate information as
to the actual condition of this important crop.

THE debate in the House of Commons, on Fri-
day night, on the motion of Mr. Cayley, for a
repeal of the malt duty, as being a just concession
$0 the auffering agricultural community, elicited

from the Premier a declaration, the cool impudence
of which has rarely been exceeded, even by that
self-confident personage. Mr.llisraeli had reminded
him and the House that the existing distress of the
farmers of Great Britain, arising from low prices,
bad been unexpected by the free•trade party. As
a proof of this, he referred to the fact that, from
the opening of the session to the present time, they
had been labouring to induce the belief that the
extremely low prices prevailing were only temporary;
and that they must shortly rise. No such improve-
ment having taken place, he asked of Government
the very pertinent question, what they thought
must be the future condition of the agricultural
classes, and what course they would be disposed to
adopt in the event of the present, or still lessremune-
rating prices, being permanently established. We
cannot trust ourselves to condense, or to convey, in
our own language, the substance of Lord John
Russell's reply, but shall give it in his own words,
as reported in the London Times. Here they are

" The hon. member for Buckinghamshire had told the
House that the present policy of the Government had
proved destructive to the agricultural interest, and they
had also been told that the unexampled distress of that
part of the community had taken the government by sur-
prise. He must say that they had not experienced any
surprise whatever—he never supposed that, in the great
transition which the country had undergone, suffering
could have been altogether avoided. The hon. member
opposite asked, with great appearance of triumph, whether
this was a benefit or an evil ; on these points, however,
he had given opinions frequently upon former occasions
when other opportunities of discussing them had been
afforded ; but, considering all the circumstances of the
country, whether living under protection or free trade,
he could under no circumstances resist the conclusion
that whether prices were high or low, whether they sank
or rose, the Government should never seek by the intro-
duction of an act of Parliament to produce artificial
prices. That was a plain proposition. Whether hon.
gentlemen considered that prices were at present not
remunerative to the producers of the country, or whether
they considered them generally beneficial to the country;
whether they considered them one thing or another, the
principle of legislation on the subject was a principle
perfectly clear, and by which the Government meant to
abide. (Cheers.) Whether prices remained at their
present level, or whether they sank below it, they would
not attempt to raise the price of the food of the people
of England. (Cheers and cries of "Oh !") And that
was his answer to the questian of the hon. gentleman.
It was a matter of curious disquisition whether or not
prices were or were not likely to r;se. Gentlemen might
discuss, if they pleased, what was likely to be the produce
of next harvest. For himself, he would not have the
arrogance to predict either on the one subject or the
other. (Hear.) He would leave prices to be regulated
by the supply of this country and of the world, and he
would not interfere with prices, whatever they might
happen to be !"

There can certainly be no mistake here. What-
ever the circumstances of the country may be;
whether prices fall below the rates which will allow
of the land of this country being cultivated or not;
should the whole agricultural population, in fact,
he swept into one vast gulf of pauperism and ruin,
Lord John Russell will stand by unmoved, will
cling to his dogma, and not raise a finger for their
relief ! Petitions, motions in the House of Com-
mons, remonstrances, however influential the quar-
ters from which they come, must, from this time,
be regarded as a farce and a mockery. The remedy
must come from the undivided and resolute action
of that important majority of the people of this
realm, which feels itself oppressed and insulted.
The battle must be fought in the Registration
Courts of every county and Borough of Great Bri-
tain; and the time for that battle is at hand. The
cry should now be raised by every lover of his
country—every lover of his home and his children.
" Register ! register! register !" and drive from
office, and from the pay and patronage upon which
they feed, at the cost of a nation's very existence,
this insolent and obstinate faction.

Such, obviously, is the direct and practical path
to success. Such is the surest mode to save the
millions who toil or own the soil from utter and
speedy ruin. And we venture to predict that it
will be approved by a large majority of the British
people, in whose breasts above those of all others
the love of justice and rights, combined with ster-
ling common sense prevails. This House of Com-
mons, which " will never seek by the introduction
of an act of Parliament to produce artificial prices"
of grain and other products of the soil, has dis-
tinctly refused to give its sanction to any measure
by which that taxation presses most vigorously
upon the farmer, and enhances the cost at which he
is able to grow such grain, may be more equally
levied. Is that justice? It imposes a heavy in-
come tax upon the agricultural classes, whilst it
declares by the lips of the prime minister that it
will be immaterial whether those classes shall be in
possession of an income or not. Is that justice ?
It tolerates, moreover, such rubbish as is contained
in the declaration of Lord John, that whatever may
hefal, " he will not attempt to raise the price of the
food of the people of England ?" Who are they ?
Why three-fourths of the very parties who raise
that food, and can only subsist by raising it. The
house indeed tolerated still worse rubbish and folly,
when it listened to the following passage in the
noble lord's speech, in which he stated stated his
belief that " to enable the people (!) to obtain their
food at the cheapest rate at which it could be pro-
cured, and to exchange the products of their in-
dustry with foreign nations, would afford the best
foundation for the increased prosperity of the
land !" Why, "the people," at this rate, must he
the manufucturing classes exclusively; for what
could the agricultural classes exchange with the
foreigner? If it is not to be considered whether
the tillers of the soil can live or not, by their in-
dustry, it is time for the manufacturer to consider
whether or not those tillers of the soil will be
enabled either to consume manufactured fabrics,
or the produce for which they are exchanged with
the foreigner, His grace the Duke of Bedford, for
example, without a rent-roll, would be but an in-
different customer to his free trade draper, tailor, or
boottnaker ; and small supplies of sugar, coffee, or
tea, find their way to Woburn Abbey.
We may, in conclusion, address a prophetic word
or two to our very wise and flippant prime minister.
It is very true that, as he remarks, the prosperity of
the commercial and manufacturing classes ordi-
narily reacts favourably upon the agricultural
classes. But we cannot discover at present any great
amount of the prosperity in question. Lord John
has forgotton that the prosperity of the native
agriculturist, and the classes dependant upon, or
deriving an income from the soil, is equally an im-
portant element in the production of manufacturing
and commercial prosperity. Without a home trade,
the customer of the foreigner is a sorry support to
lean upon ; the free traders themselves are bitterly
experiencing the truth of the fact; and we venture
to tell him that from their own lips he will be
shortly doomed to hear the loudest condemnation
of the policy in which he prides himself, and which
he so stoutly proclaims his intention to maintain.
Let him even now appeal to " the people" for their
verdict upon that policy, and be will discover two
striking facts :—the first, that Manchester, Leeds,
London, and the West Riding, do not hold all "the
people;" and the second, that a majority in these
imagined seats of " the people" would be glad to
be rid of himself, his colleagues, and their policy.

THE Pike scheme now seems to be a settled
fact. Our very clever managers have confirmed its
infliction upon us by their bungling in the matter
of the petition required to secure them a locus
standi in the Committee of the Lords. Petitions
got up in Liverpool, in the preparation of which
law stationers' clerks are employed by the day, or
paid at a fixed amount per sheet, will henceforth
be regarded by the Legislature, to use the memo-
rable words of the Duke of 'Wellington, as " a
farce." We have now, as the result, only to devise
the most economical means of carrying out the
project, to which the inhabitants of Liverpool have
been unfortunately committed.
How is the money required for the necessary
works to he raised ? Of course the answer will be,
by borrowing. A loan, at 41 or 5 per cent., will be
advertised for, and with success. Money is abun-
dant, and the Corporation of Liverpool is in good
credit. To the cost of the project, which we unhe-
sitatingly set down at a million sterling, will,
therefore, have to be added the interest of the
outlay during its progress and after its completion.
Vet this large item might, with the utmost ease
and certainty, be saved altogether. The estate of
the Corporation of Liverpool and the proposed
water-works themselves are regarded as affording
sufficient security for the loan required ; and, if so,
in the shape of bonds of £5OO or £l,OOO each, only
payable five years after date, why not in one pound
notes, or even in notes of a less amount, which
would pass current as money amongst the trades-
men of the town, and be received in payment of all
local imposts ? Our existing Corporation bonds
are nothing more than renewable securities. They
de not possess the advantage of being accepted in