The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1843-06-23 00:00:00

r. James said, he had no. furtheievit.

r. Grocott said, L

had nothing further to offer on the
f the note mentioned on the preceding day.

Mr. Rushton sai

tots was one of the eases in which a
_.,,-Istrate might use his utmost endeavours to discover the
truth,
,but could not decide. Here was high character on
one hand : the prisoner, he understood, had for a number of
years borne an excellent character, and -been largely trusted ;
on the other hand, here was a person who had been twenty-
five years in her present service-, who said she saw him take
the pocket-book from where it was left. Another said, he
was in the bar at the time the pocket-book must have been
removed. Under such circumstanees he must leave it to the
tribunals of the country to deal with the case. Ilis duty was
clear; the prisoner must be committed for trial, but eon-
,g the peculiar circumstances of the case, he would be
on bail.

ount of bail would be required

his own iecogni-

Mr. Jame

d two sureties in a.. Au.,
d there were friends of Mr. Orme in court
'—til immediately.

who would give the required
Mr. Rushton said it would be necessary that all the depo-
sitions should be more perfectly taken, which could not be
well done till the next morning, andttben the prisoner would
be liberated upon giving the required sureties.

win on Wednesday.
e d that the defendant's statement to
.he had been in the house as late as
ur o'clock, but that he was not i❑ the bar.l

We ha

'Whitty was, that

ZTA )161.'S' CONCERT.—During the present season in
e met, °paha, there has been no artiste (as it is now the
ishion to term singers and musicians of every sort) who has
made so strong an impression upon the public as Herr
Staudigl, who sang at a concert given at the Royal Assem-
bly-rooms on Tuesday evening last. The London prints
have eulogised him in the warmest terms ; and we are bound
to state that, in this instance, they have not bestowed praise i
unworthily. Staudigl isindeed a wonderful singer, and
'ssesses a magnificent voice. We may safely say that such
-ne has never been heard in this country before. Nor is
'1 : he ranks in the highest degree as a musician, ai.d
attainments enable him to give a powerful effect to
kes.

the metr
fasls:

Aatever he under, In displaying the passions—and
in that of anger his merit is immense—he is unrivalled.
Every one who heard him sing Mr. J. L. Hatton's song of
• • •

In " De

he was equally

composition showed his versatility of talent. In all his
tones he is sonorous, clear, and, rich. The very lowest
note has a power and vigour that leaves an impression

upon the hearer 'hat he can master lower tones still.
In all his performances on Tuesday night, Herr Staudigl
was rapturously applauded, and we never heard a more
decided and unanimous encore than in our townsman's
" Revenge." Of the other vocalists who made their ap-
Madelle.

pearance we can speak in terms of much prais,
Lang (who is from the Opera. Vifmoni

voice, and has much taste, execution, and knowledge of “,••••••,41 pvoo,uo.o Ca b
her
art. Her "Die Post Horn"
was charmingly sung, and re-
ceived a decided encore. Madelle. Lang sang also Bellini's
"Se Romeo tueeise nu figlio," charmingly. Of. Miss Jo-
seph we can also speak well. Her voice has good compass,
and she sings wirh great taste and feeling. There is an ab-
sence of all assumption, and she 'evidently made a very
pleasing impression upon her hearers. This lady is a de-
cided acquisition to our musical entertainments. Mr.
Shrivall acquitted himself with great credit, and proved at
once that he will maintain a high position amongst our fa-
vourites. His voice is beard to great effect in a concert-
room : it is fuli of tone, sweet and clear, and every
pord he enunciates can be heard, and its meaning felt.
Mr. Shrivel' sang"
Woman Donizetti's " Bee°, ilpegno" well, and
Mr. Hargreave's ! May Heaven watch over her
very beautifully. Mrs. St. Albin per-
_, and effect, and was loudly
One thing, doubtless, marred considerably the

fantasia with brilliant

pleasure of die evenir

thinness
Of the room. It appears incomprehensible that so seldom
does talent of any sort appear before us, that we do not eagerly
' the pleasure to be, afforded by its presence

.vail ourselves c

as taudigl makes
In only draw a thin room, it betrays a
e or something else to account for the
ence of the fashionables and those possessing any diseri-
ination. It will be seen that Herr Staudigl is announced
r another concert.

want of either to

RAILWAY INTELLIGENCI

understood that the subject of discussion at the
Blackwall Railway meeting on Tuesday, was the appoint-
ment of additional members to the committee for the purpose
of co-operating with the directors in carrying out the junction
of a steam-boat company: The sum desired to be raised,
and which is to be called " the Guarantee Fund," amounts
to £lO,OOO, and the directors appear to think a subscription
„e ncir.hlp ho rails of 2a. fad. each at intervals.

hareholders who

result of the last expedient for th

This is following out the

wring Committee, who proposed a simi-

whether it will sueceed or not

COAREgPONDZIVCE.

THE WAREHOUSE QUESTION.

TO THE EDITOR OF THE LIVERPOOL STANDARD.
Sta,—As the question of Dock Warehouses is now re-
newed with increased vigour, you will perhaps permit some
space of your paper to be devoted to that subject, especially
as the-Albion has employed a column and a half upon that
topic in his last Monday's number.
That the increase of the rates of premiums of insurance
from fire is a great injury to the port, is universally allowed;
but, to prevent the continuance of this tax upon the com-
merce of the port, the Council have taken prompt and vigo-
rous measures. They have introduced into parliament a bill
for the abundant and instantaneous supply of water in the
front of every warehouse in Liverpool; and they have also
brought forward the Fire Prevention Bill, which requires
every warehouse-owner to make such alterations in his ware-
houses as the act shall direct. In addition to this, they have
appointed a committee to suggest such regulations as to the
registering of porters, penalties for smoking, and manage-
ment of warehouses, that, with the restrictions now imposed
by the fire insurance-offices as to nitrate of soda and salt-
petre, the danger of tire must be greatly diminished. When
all these regulations come into full operation, we may rea-
sonably expect that the rates of insurance will gradually re-
turn to their former level. But some influential parties, not
content to await the result of these new precautionary mea-
sures, attribute the whole mischief to the want of dock ware-
houses, and use the plea of the late fires as an argument for
an application to the Lords of the Treasury to be permitted
to build dock warehouses instanter on the west side of
Prince's Dock, and also to erect additional warehouses round
the Albert Dock. The great object in view is to reduce the
rates of insurance; and yet, Mr. Editor, it has been stated,
and it, is notorious, that at a deputation from this town of
warehouse-owners who some weeks ago met the different
London tire-agents, the chairman, on being asked if he
would insure the dock warehouses at Liverpool if they were
built on the verge of the docks, replied that he would not
insure them at all, and said he believed he spoke the senti-
ments of all agents present, to which they all assented.
Now; Mr. Editor, as this is a very important fact, you shall
have enclosed the names of two or three gentlemen who were
present at that meeting ; and if this statement be not true,
you will have an opportunity of stating its erroneousness.
This is the more necessary, as, at one of the meetings of the
association, this statement was not credited. Why ? Be-
cause Sir John Hall had said that the offices would still
insure goods in the St. Katharine's Dock, although the
warehouses were built on the verge of that dock. No one
doubts Sir John Hall's account ; but the statement did not
relate to the London St. Katherine's Dock, but to the Li-
verpool Albert Dock. It is certainly curious reasoning to
doubt a statement relative to a Liverpool dock, because a
remark is made by Sir John Hall respecting a London dock,
which remark no one denies. The reason why the London
offices object to insuring Liverpodl warehouses, if brought
to the verge of the docks, is evident enough. They think
that, in case of the warehouses taking fire, the flames would
extend to the ships, and a general conflagration would ensue.
This is the reason why they object to insuring the Albert
Dock warehouses, and a very sufficient reason it is. The
Albion, however, dismisses this subject very cavalierly, as
being a matter of very little importance ; because, as they
say, if the London offices won't insure the Albert Dock
warehouses, the Liverpool offices will. The proprietors will
perhaps consider awhile before they verify the editor's prog-
nostication. To insure produce and warehouses to the
amount of some millions (to say nothing of the ships and
cargoes in the dock) is not a matter to be treated with such
perfect nonchalance; and notwithstanding the wish of the
shareholders to serve the good old town of Liverpool and
the trade thereof, they will perhaps hesitate to involve their
own personal responsibilities to such an amount. In the
face, then, of such an opinion on the part of the London
offices, is it not an act of the highest imprudence to apply to
the Lords of the Treasury for permission to erect additional
warehouses on the verge of the Albert Dock—thus running
the risk of the warehouses and produce being uninsurable,
or, at all events, being insurable only at an exorbitant pre-
mium, when the professed object of the application is to re-
duce the premiums? But there is another party deeply
concerned in this project—the shipowners. What will they
say to this scheme ? If the London offices will not insure
the warehouses, they may refuse to insure the ships in the
dock; or, if they do insure them, they will probably require
a very high premium. On this point no information has
been obtained ; but it would be a prudent precaution on the
part of the shipowners to acquire this knowledge, before it
is too late to be of service to them.

I have dwelt so far upon the impolicy of this scheme,
by its tendency to increase the danger of fire instead of di-
minishing it; but I must now state our reasons for deeming
it an act of injustice. You are aware, of course, of the con-
test between the warehouse-owners and the dock-trustees,
when the latter applied for a bill to build warehouses on the
margin of the Albeit Dock. Which party might have ulti-
mately conquered in parliament. is questionable ; but a com-
promise was agreed upon between the two parties—the
warehouse-owners agreeing to withdraw their opposition, on
condition that the dock-trustees abandoned their intention
of building warehouses on the west side of the Prince's
Dock, and in lieu thereof agreeing to erect transit-sheds,
and also to restrict themselves from building more than a
certain number of warehouses within a given time at the
Albert Dock. On these conditions the warehouse-owners
withdrew their opposition, and the bill passed—these condi-
tions, however, being embodied in the bill. You would
think, Mr. Editor, that the faith reposed in an act of parlia-
ment would be held sacred—that no attempt would be made
to violate a solemn compact; but not so ; an attempt is to
be made to violate this compact : the Lords of the Treasury
are, we understand, to be appealed to, with the view of in-
ducing them to permit the violation of this compact; but
we presume to think that the government and the dock-
trustees and the town-council have too much honour to
sanction breach of public faith.

It is right to state that the warehouse-owners gave their
support to the Water Bill and Fire Prevention Bill; that a
deputation from the warehouse-owners in district B met the
committee of the council, and settled the clauses of the Fire
Bill ; that when that bill was withdrawn, though not by their
consent (Mr. Harbord having spoken his own opinions only),
the warehouse-owners petitioned the council to reintroduce
the bill, with which they complied, and the bill is now con-
sequently before parliament. It was necessary to give this
explanation, because the warehouse-owners have been ac-
cused of obstructing this bill, whereas file bill would have
been lost for the session had it not been for their application
to the council.

It is right also again to disclaim the imputation continu-
ally made against the owners, that they are opposed to
building dock warehouses. It is right to disabuse the public
mind on this point. They do not oppose the building of
dock warehouses ; but they do oppose the building of ware-
houses on the verge of the docks by the dock masters or the
corporation. They say it is unfair and unjust to erect build-
ings at the public expense, in opposition to buildings erected
at private expense ; that private capital cannot compete with
public capital; that the competition must terminate in the
rain of the private capitalist ;—therefore they oppose dock
warehouses erected at the public expense. Would the pro-
prietors of the Liverpool and Manchester Railway tamely
submit to a bill empowering the corporation to cut a new
railroad from hence to Manchester, at the corporation ex-
pense? The principle in both cases is the same : the rail-
way-shareholder and the warehouse-owner are both in the
same position. Let the same motion which formerly was
brought forward by Mr. Sands be now renewed, and I
think it would not be opposed by the warehouse-owners.
These were the terms That the Dock Committee be
authorised to sell, or let on long leases by public auction,
such portion of the dock-quays as they may think suitable
for the erection of warehouses, upon such terms and condi-
tions for insuring the due management thereof as may be
hereafter determined upon." To this proposition the ware-
house-owners will not object. The resolutions of some of
the associations recommend that the Liverpool dock ware-
houses should he put under the same management as the
London warehouses. Well, the London warehouses are
owned and managed by companies of individual sharehol-
ders: let the Liverpool dock warehouses be owned and ma-
naged also by individual shareholders, and the opposition
will probably vanish. D. W.

METEOROLOGICAL CHARACTER OF THE QUARTER
ENDED MARCH 31, 1843.—We copy the following "mete-
orological table of the winter quarters ending March 31st, as
deduced from observations made at the apartments of the
Royal Society, London," from the last quarterly table of
mortality, issued by the registrar-general :

Ten win. Wint. Wint. Wint.
1831-40. 1841. 1842. 1843.
Mean heightabarorn. in inches 29.849 29.793 29.913 29.715
-:t2m
og
Lowest
1 Igl le S t ...... ..d e g. s.. 64 64 2 561 0
11
414 927 323 8
1`..) E Mean of daily maxima.. 44 545 545 345 8
421" Mean of daily minima.. 36 136 536 4
cy) :•`-: Mean temperature.... • 43 341 041
Dew point (mean) .......... 36 237 337
Difference between wet and dry
bulb of the tbermom. (mean) 2 2 2 0 2 4 `2, 0
Rain in inches. ............. 2.886 4.061 3.695 3.429
Number of days in which rain fell 26 36 33 22
From the same source we also derive the following table,
exhibiting the prevalence and direction of the winds in the
average of ten winter quarters, and in the three last winter
quarters :
Winds in the winter quarters 1841-3.

-'

'r•li r 3 Jl

Z ZZ4w wc,3th-cn

Winters
1&41....
1842,...
1843....

a
9 6 14 1 7 ..D 23is: 7 3 5 6 6 3
10 26..32 29 4 5 5 222 ..14 8 7 311 421133 1 14

11 5 9 1 7 2 24 4 4 4 3 14 1

* The observations are made at nine, a.m

THE HAMPDEN MEMORTAL.—The monument erected to
the memory of this great patriot was publicly dedicated on
Monday last. The 18th of June, 1643, being the day that
Hampden received his death-wound upon Cha!grove field,
the 18th of this month, being the two hundreth anniversary,
would have been fixed upon but for its occurring upon a Sun-
day. The spot was covered with an assemblage anxious to
testify their reverence for the memory of the martyr, and
their adherence to those grand principles of freedom in de-
fence of which he fell. The ceremony appeared to be very
known, and to excite great interest over the
erks, Oxford, and Buckingham, numbers of
personslslyf of Brom the very confines of each of these districts
being present. The memorial itself is a simple and massive
square pillar, of the most plain and chaste design and con-
struction. Upon the side facing Warpsgrove is placed the
medallion portrait of the patriot, carved in marble by
Scoular; on the opposite side are engraved his arms. The
third side exhibits a list of the subscribers to the monument,
and the fourth side bears the following inscription, written
by Lord Nugent

" Here, in this field of Chalgrove,
"JOHN HAMPDEN,
" After an able and strenuous, but unsuccessful resistance in
Parliament, and before the judges of the land, to the measures
of an arbitrary court, first took arms, assembling the levies
of the associated counties of Buckingham and Oxford, in
1642. And here, within a few, paces of this spot, lie re-
ceived the wound of which he died, fighting in defence of the
free monarchy and ancient liberties cf England, June 18th,
1643. In the two hundreth year from that day, this stone
was raised in reverence to his memory."
The monument stands at the junction of the lane leading
from Chalgrove village. Tents and booths were erected in
great numbers near the monument, and the crowds of
country people who surrounded it, dressed in holiday attire,
mingling with vehicles of all kinds, rendered the whole scene
a very lively one. The out-door part of the ceremony was
very simple. It consisted merely of the removal of the cloth
which concealed the medallion portrait of the martyr; and
shortly after two o'clock this slight ceremony was performed.
Lord
y, and remain undisturbed and
Lord Nugent t
then
afroe m his Carriage exclaimed, " May this
Three loud cheers were
given in honour of the occasion, followed by three cheers
e las
children's
d lr ono,
s s tcehrii
it d
re n
more for Lord Nugent, the originator, we believe, of the
onul
unhurt üby our
memorial. A tolerable band then struck up a military air,
and the company moved off the ground towards a neighbour-
ing barn for the important purpose of dinner, at which Lord
cled and was supported Nugent presided, on his right and left by
Sir John Easthope, M.P., Mr. Tancred, M.P., the Rev. Dr.
Hampden, Sir Samuel Hancock, Lowndes Stone, Esq., John
Lloyd, Esq., with a number of members of the University of
Oxford, and gentlemen from the various adjacent towns. A
considerable number of ladies Were also present. Numerous
toasts were given, and the Party broke up about seven o'clock,
highly delighted with the day's Proceedings.