The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1848-11-28 00:00:00

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by the way, however. Our concern is only with
the folly and unreasonableness that would debar
any member of the united kingdom from that post
to which he was otherwise suited, and thereby pre-
vent the cordial amalgamation of the entire empire
into one body of symmetry and strength. It is
only with reference to Ireland, or rather to the
Irish Church, that this feeling at all exhibits itself.
And it is here especially that the injustice and im-
policy of such feeling is most demonstrable. For
all purposes of good or evil, Ireland may now be
regarded as near to us as Wales or Scotland. We
can't help it if we would. It is of the first impor-
tance, then, that the two countries be drawn more
closely together, and held together in the bonds of
mutual benefit, dependence, and sympathy. The
United Church, as by law established, is the great
bond of union : and as the high places have not
been hitherto dispensed in a manner to conciliate
the sympathies of the Irish portion of it, it is really
little short of adding insult to injury whenever an
outcry is raised against the Irish clergymen in
England, who, with hardly an exception, occupy
nothing else than posts of ill-requited toil.
The dawn of better things, we think, has over•

taken us. Let each man, irrespective of country,
be judged of according to his own merits. The
man who would keep alive a smouldering jealousy
and prolong a party feud is not the friend of either
country, but the enemy of both.

IN directing our attention to a series of articles,
in recent numbers of the Manchester Courier, in
refutation of the Bullionist Dogmas,—the second
of which, in part, appears in our columns this
day,—a correspondent, whose opinions, both from
his commercial experience and thorough knowledge
of the subject, are regarded by us as most valuable,
offers a few remarks, which may serve us now as a
text for an exposition of our views as to oee branch
of the currency question, upon which we have not
as yet entered in detail. Our correspondent says :

" Now it may be that our Liverpool Currency Reform
Association is quite right in sailing so nearly under the
same colours as the Birmingham extreme incontrover-
tibles."—

which, by the bye, is scarcely a correct description
of the Association's principles; and he proceeds :

THE DOCK TRUST AND THE DOCK CHAIR-

MANSHIP.

A fortnight ago we remarked upon the Parliamentary
notice which appeared in our columns the same day, pro-
posing to apply for power to remodel our present Dock
Trust, and to take away from the Council all control over
its affairs. Since then the project has been actively can-
vassed out of doors, and various opinions expressed as to
its object and propriety, and the parties from whom it
emanated. With respect to the latter question, we are
credibly informed its originators were the Committee of
the Shipowners' Society. Nine members, out of twelve,
it is said, met together, whether for ordinary business or
specially called together we know not, on the 11th inst.,
when the proposition in question was submitted to them.
Five voted in favour of it; two were neutral, and two
voted against. On the authority of this decision the no-
tices were at once issued. So we are informed.

It has been observed that~an effort was made by the
shipowners ten years ago, to secure to the dock ratepayers
the power of electing to the Trust a number of members
equal to those nominated by the Council, the proportion
being then, as now, eight by the ratepayers and thirteen
by the Council, including the chairman. The attempt,
however, was a failure ; and from the apparent hopeless-
ness of an attempt to secure the nomination of the whole
body, after failing so recently to secure that of half of it
only, a strong opinion has gained ground out of doors that
the present proposition is only a demonstration, and that
its object is to deter the Council from proceeding to effect
the rating of the Dock Estate. Acting upon this opinion,
the pro-rating party in the Council, which body has, by
existing law, the privilege• of appointing the Dock Chair-
man, have come to the conclnsion that it is imperative for
the success of their cause that such chairman should be a
pro-rater; and we believe we may state that Mr. Hender-
son has been fixed upon as a candidate, and will receive
their undivided support.
Of the perfect fitness of this gentleman for the office
there cannot be a doubt, especially in the minds of those
who, like ourselves, have had the opportunity of observ-
ing his indefatigable exertions, and the acumen which he
has displayed t s a member of one of the most im3ortant
sub-committees of the Trust—that of the Albert 'Ware-
houses,. It is most important that the public should be
early and constantly put into possession' of the paying capa-
bilities^ of this expensive property, before permitting the
Trust to• be further committed to its principles, and from
Mr. Henderson we need fear no reserve on this point.
Independently of the split between this- Committee and
the Council on the rating question, and the hostile de-
monstration•of the shipowners, it is highly probable that
the unanimous- voice of the Council would have nominated
to the vacant chair Mr. Alderman Nicol, the present
deputy-chairman•, and the able coadjutor of the late
Chairman, the present Mayor, in his most successful
efforts to extend the efficiency of the Estate ;= and that
gentleman will 'to doubt be influentially supported: But
we feel, with the friends of Mr. Henderson, that the great
question of relieving the oppressed Burgesses of the
town from the fearful burthens which they have to•bear,
by calling upon this great Property to contribute its• fair
share, cannot be allowed to be compromised on the score
of private friendships, or individual fitness for the office.

BANKRUPTCY COURT.-YESTERDAY

LATEST FROM AMERICA.
ARRIVAL OF THE HIBERNIA.

The royal mail steam-ship Hibernia, Captain Stone,
arrived here yesterday morning at ten o'clock, having
made the passage from Boston in eleven days and a half.
She left Boston on the 15th inst., and Halifax on the
17th, and has brought seventeen passengers.
The West India steamer Forth arrived at New York,
from Bermuda, on the 12th instant. and sailed again on
the 14th. The Great Western was at Cat Island.
We have advices from New York to the 14th instant.
There is now no doubt of the election of General Taylor
as president. The whole number of electoral votes is 290.
Necessary to a choice 146. General Taylor has 154,
which secures his election, with eight votes to spare. He
will probably receive, in addition, the vote of Florida, 3,
and that of Louisiana, 6, .to say nothing of other states.
The states in which General Taylor received the greatest
number of votes were New York, Pennsylvania, Ken-
tucky, Massachusetts, and Tennessee. General Cass re-
ceived 97 votes, and his strongholds were Ohio, Virginia,
and Indiana.

A hundred and twenty-six members of the thirty-first
congress have been already elected, the result of which
shows a Whig gain. In the last congress in the states
from which returns have been received, there were 65
Whigs and 60 Democrats. The same states have this
year returned 72 Whigs and 53, Democrats. The returns
of the congress show a net Whig gain of seven members.
The house, when full, comprises 130 members. If the
remaining members should correspond with the same
delegations in the present congresg, there would be a
Whig majority of 15 or .20. The senate is strongly
democratic.

On the 14th New York stocks fellf and left off with
every prospect of a further depreciation. The demand
for sterling exchange, for remittance by the packet, waa
only' to a moderate extent. We quote best bills on Lon-
don at 9 to 94- per cent. pm. • on Paris, sf. 20 to sf. 211.
The Washington correspondent of the New York Jour-
nal of Commerce informs us, that the basis of an adjust-
ment of the postal difficulties between Great Britain and
the United States had been arranged between Mr. Ban-
croft and the British government.

There are' some points of great importance' which are
yet the subject of negotiation. The preliminaries arranged
extend only to, a reciprocity of sea rates and port charges
and rates for interior transportation.
No arrangement has yet been agreed upon for recipro-
city in regard to the transit of mails and for the transport-
ation of the mails• in bulk through the United States to

Canada as heretofore, which the American government is
said to demur to, without a similar privilege for their own
mailsthrough_Great'Britain to France and Germany.

Nor. 28, 1848,

active, and sales of sugars light, Without change in prices
There was more doing in cotton, and more firmness in tbe
market prevailed.

FREIGHTS.-5,000 bbls flour were engaged for Liverpool, on
Saturday, at 2s. 40. Today few engagements were reported,
while rates remained about the same. For flour, 2s. 6d. was
asked; Sd. for corn, in bulk; and id. for cotton.

PHILADELPHIA, Nov. 14.
The market for Flour is firm with a moderate export inquiry
and further sales of 500 bbls. fair brands 85 314, and 1000 bbls.,
a good straight brand at 85 37, are reported ; stocks continue
light. Corn Meal firm at kr 3 per bbl.; 700 bbls. Brandywine
sold at 83 12i. Rye Flour—No sales. Wheat quiet, with sales
of 3,000 bush good red at 113 c. Corn is scarce and wanted at
68 a 70c for prime old parcels of flat and round yellow; new
Corn sells at 56 a 57c. Oats—Further sales of Southern are
making at 30c. Cotton--130 bales sold at private sales. Noth-
ing doing in Groceries or Provisions worthy of notice. Whis-
key steady at 23ic.