The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1844-08-06 00:00:00

river ; and Mr. Jackson admits that we might
"justly fear" such tendency. We have supported
the course taken (such fears impelling them) by the
Dock Trustees and the Corporation of Liverpool,
which Mr. Jackson says "it was their duty, and,
at all events, they were justified in" taking. And,
therefore, when a gentleman—Mr. J. W. Harden—
proposed, at the meeting, "The Public Press," and
prefaced that toast by sentiments which allowed to
that press the possession of public spirit, honesty
and usefulness, it was scarcely in the same good
taste on the part of the gentleman who acknow-
ledged such toast (although belonging to " that
portion of the press which advocated the interests
of the great cause, the success of which they were
then met to celebrate"), to fly off from the plain
duty, prescribed to him by the better taste of the
proposer and of the previous speakers, into ad cap-
tandum allusions such as the following :
" Surely those boatmen" (who had looked with dis-
favour upon the introduction of steam navigation on
the Mersey) "must have been the fathers of certain
warehouse monopolists of the present day ; and the
dread of competition and of any success, but their
own, has proved to be hereditary" :—and the still
more unfounded charge that the Dock Trustees
and the Corporation of Liverpool (who on Mr.
Jackson's testimony had been actuated in their opposi-
tion, from "just fears" of the tendency of the scheme to
injure our river and " the large property in their
charge") " had acted like very puppets, at the
pulling of the wires by certain warehouse owners and
jobbers." Such trash as this, as applied to honour-
able men, acting in what was admitted to be a public
duty, strikes us as rather evincing in the utterer a
disposition to curry favour from his hearers than
the possession of that amount of good sense, taste
and modeky, which are required to render a man's
advocacy of any value. We repeat, that we could
have pardoned such an outbreak from a party hot
from recent struggle; but from the gentleman
from whose lips it fell, and especially from one re-
turning thanks on behalf of a not unanimous press,
conducted by men quite as honourable as himself,
it was unbecoming. 'On reconsideration, per-
haps he may be of our opinion; and we are
sure the Commissioners of Birkenhead will at
once see that, if it be desirable that their various
projected improvements should be regarded by the
public upon their own merits alone, irrespective of
party feeling, such an end will not be accomplished
by this babbling of " warehouse monopolists," or
other monopolists.

THE WEATHER AND THE CROPS.—V e have had some
fine heavy feeding showers during the past week, with
alternate bright and warm sunshine—the very weather
required for the filling and ripening of the corn crops,
and the promotion of all other kinds of vegetation. A
few fields, and a few only, of wheat have already been cut
in this neighbourhood, but, with sun and warmth, nearly
the whole will be ready for the sickle in a week or ten
days. The wheats will here be a good average, if the
month be favourable for gathering. The spring corn also
looks remarkably well, and the rains have greatly im-
proved the potatoes, turnips, &c., so that notwithstand-
ing the long and threatening drought in the early part of
the summer, the labours of the husbandman will in all
probability be amply remunerated.
THE FUNDS : SATURDAY NlGHT,—English securities
continue flat, and business has been limited. Even for a
Saturday the dealings have been of small amount. Bank
Stock left off at 1991 to 2001; Consols for money and the
account; 991 to :Exchequer-bills, 765. to 78s. premium;
Three per Cents. Reduced, 100 to 1; Three-and-a-Half
per Cents. Reduced, 1024 to 103 New Three-and-a Half
per Cents., 1014 to -1 ; India Stock, 285 to 287 ; and Long
Annuities, 12 9-16. In the foreign market no material
alteration has occurred for notice. Prices were rather
heavy under the influence of the business in the English
market. Final quotations were—Belgian, 1031 to 1041;
Brazilian, 831 to 81& ; Buenos Ayres, 35 to 37 ; Chilian,
104 to 106 ; Colombian, to -4 ; Danish, 89 to 90 ;
Dutch Two-and-a-Half per Cents., 611 to -4 ; the Five
per Cents., 1011 to s' • Mexican, 36 to 4- ; the Deferred,
154 to 16 ; Peruvian, 25 to 27 ; Portuguese, 434 to 441 ;
Spanish Five per Cents., 221 to ; and the Three per
Cents., 331 to t.
FRANCE AND MOROCCO.—The Morning Herald of
yesterday has the following, which it very naturally heads
in large characters as " most important :"—" We are
enabled to state on good authority that the French Consul
General and his fellow-countrymen have quitted Tangier.
and embarked in vessels belonging to the squadron of the
Prince de Joinville. Reports prevailed at Paris on Sa-
turday that the Emperor of Morocco had rejected the
mediation offered by Mr. Drummond Hay, and the with-
drawal of the French Consul from Tangier would indicate
that nearly all hope of a favourable arrangement being
made between the two Governments is abandoned."
LIST OF PASSENGERS PER " GREAT WESTERN,"
FROM NEW YORK.—Mr. Abrams, Mr. Abrams, jun.,
Mr. E. Acosta, Mr. W. Anderson, Mr. W. Barber, jun.,
Mr. J. Byleveld, bearer of despatches to Holland, Mr.
J. A. Barril, Mr. E. Bech, Mr. C. Bickle, Mr. Charles
Benard, Mr. F. Colloinb, bearer of despatches to France,
Mr. A. Calatrava' two children, and servant, Mr. J.
Chamberlain, Mr. M. de Las Casas, Mr. Robert Cruit,
Mr. J. E. Dumont, Mr. T. Ducasse, Mr. T. H. Eimer,
Mr. H. Eisemblat, Mr. J. D. Green, Mr. J. H. Green,
Mr. J. Hiddleston, Mr. F. A. Hamilton, Mr. R. Hut-
cheson, Mr. J. B. James, lady, two children, and ser-
vant, Mr. F. Meyer, Mr. J. S, Manson, Mr. M. Malone,
Mr. llilston Maury, Mr. R. Cahuzoc, Mr. J. Munroe,
Mr. W. C. Murray, bearer of despatches to England,
Mr. 0. Memene, Mr. L. G. Melizet, Mr. R. M'Alister,
Mr. C. Mcneekee, Mr. Thomas Orr, Mr. E. Oxley, Mr.
S. Pratt, Miss Pratt, Mr. L. Paradis, Mr. F. Rodewald,
Mr. J. Lawers, Mr. T. J. Spense, Mr. E. M. Sager,
Mr. S. Shaw, Mr. S. Thompson, Mrs. Tallmidve and
son, Mr. C. L. Tiffany, Mr. Louis Wolz, Mrs. Vander-
burg, Mr. D. B. Winton, Mr. F. R. Wallen, Mr.
Wheelwright, lady, and daughter, Mr. F. A. Yznaga.—
Total 65. Left the wharf at New York at a quarter past
three o'clock, p.m., 20th July. Arrived off the rock,
Liverpool, at ten minutes past eleven, a.m., 4th August.
Making the passage in 14 days 16 hours.
THE SCOTCH CHURCH, IN OLDHAM-STREET.--A
motion for an injunction to restrain the Rev. Joseph
Rodger Welsh, the minister of the Scotch congregation
assembling in Oldham-street, Liverpool, from using, and
also to restrain the trustees of the kirk, or meeting-
house, of the congregation in Oldham-street, from allow-
ing him to use, the pulpit in that kirk or building, and
from permitting any other person or persons not being a
licentiate of the Established Church of Scotland, to
preach or teach there, was brought before Sir F. J. Wig-
ram, at the Vice-Chancellor's Court, on Wednesday last.
The ground of the information was, that Mr. Welsh hav-
ing given in his adherence to the Free Church of Scotland,
and had sentence of deprivation pronounced against him
by the presbytery of Greenock, bad ceased to be a licentiate
of the church of Scotland, and thereby became incapaci-
tated to remain a member of the body which was united
into a presbytery in 1833, called the " Lancashire Scottish
Church Presbytery," to which the kirk in Oldham-street
belonged. It appeared, moreover, that not only such
presbytery required that the minister of Oldham-street
should be in connexion with the church of Scotland, but
that the condition of the grant, by the corporation of Li-
verpool, of the land on which the church is built, requires
that the edifice shall for ever remain a place of divine
worship according to the doctrines and discipline of that
church. The court did not sit again until Saturday, but
the case was not mentioned on that day.
M. LEOPOLD DE MEYER, who has, we believe, been
heard only once or twice in public since his arrival in this
country, had a concert on Monday morning at the Hano-
ver-square Rooms, London, at which a very numerous
audience was a.sembled. He is a most extraordinary
performer, and it may fairly be said, that no pianist of
the present day, with the exception of Liszt, is capable of
exciting in so great a degree the wonder of his auditors.
His vigour and energy produce an effect truly electrifying.
But his power is not mere noise, and clearness and intel-
ligibility are never sacrificed to it; on the contrary, every
note tells distinctly even in passages of the most rapid
execution. The smoothness and delicacy of his touch
in piano passages vie with that of Cramer and Hummel.
He gave several most brilliant performances during the
morning, the most remarkable of which, as affording op-
portunities for variety of effect, on the part of the per-
former. was a caprice on the Carnival of Venice.—Times
GOODWOOD MEETING.—The importance, to which the
Goodwood meeting has now attained, may be gathered
from the following particulars of last week's racing. On
Tuesday there were 12 races, with 61 starters, the value
of the stakes being £11,850. On Wednesday the number
of races was 7, the starters 59. and the amount of stakes
£2,335. On Thursday the number of races was 12, of
starters 67, and the stakes £7,670. And on Friday the
races were 9, the starters 57, and the stakes £3,045. Thus
in the 4 days we had 40 races, with 244 starters, contend-
ing for stakes to the amount, in• all, of £24,900. The
above includes forfeits, veat
walks-or, but not dead beats, or
more than one heat for the ples. These would make 7
races more. The greatest winners (their own stake in-
cluded) were the Earl of Eglintoun,3,2os ; h
£ts,le DukeBs ; L
oford Stan
Stan-
ley, £3,600 ; Mr. Wreford, x
Rich-
mond, £3,172 10s.; Lord G. Bentinck, £2,815; Mr.
Gully, 1,752 10s. ; Mr. Gratwicke, £1,150; Mr. Salvin
(the cup included), 1,040 ; Lord Chesterfield (the Ches-
terfield cup), £630; and Captain Harcourt, (Stewards'
cup included), £570. The Goodwood stable, which
started nearly 80 horses, won 13 races—John Day's four ;
Robert's (Lord Eglintoun's) four; Scott's, two ; Boyce's,
two • Forth's, two ; Hesseltine's and several others, one
each.' Lord Stanley is one of the Stewards elect for 1845.
The Goodwood Stakes already has nearly 120 subscribers;
the Cup, upwards of 30 ; and the March Stakes, nearly 50.
ROYAL AMPHITHEATRE.—The performances at this
place continue varied and attractive. Mr. Hudson
Kirby, an American, and certainly talented actor, made
his debut yesterday week, and has been exceedingly well
received. The pieces, at least the opening ones, are all
from striking authors. Other engagements with noted
personators have been entered into, as will be seen by the
advertisement.
TWENTY HOUSES DESTROYED BY FIRE AT EXETER.
—On Friday morning upwards of twenty houses were
burnt down at Exeter, besides other property of value.
The fire broke out in the extensive tallow-chandlery of
Mr. Tolu,ecakettth,einwShto.leMary Arches-street, from, it is sup-
posed,the melting-house, and speedily enveloped' and
water, and twenty of the surrounding houses burnt
down. premises. There was a want of
down. The loss was at least£
involved,o,ooo ,
and
at
he were London
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insurance offices are principally