The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1843-11-28 00:00:00

isIDOWNERS AND MANUFACTURERS.

444...._—f4rie
esPondent of the Times shows in a powerful
ii,a'ntli remarkable inferiority of the manufacturers,
EX°OY, to the landowners, in their support of objects
7lllabenefit of the poor.
dates from. Manchester. He says, " Towards the
'l;o'4 of a new church for a manufacturing population
4 at 4 ono
with no resident landowner, the contribu-
Ma were as follows :—Landowners and others not ma-
iNeterers, but exclusive of shopkeepers, £B9B ; manufac-
ir4l.l including £260 from one firm,* £4lB ; clergymen,
the
Iknin r Parish comprising the above district, and con-
g+ all, about 12,000 souls, a subscription was
rad into last winter for the poor, chiefly manufac-
i447. To this fund, which bad peculiar claims on the
they contributed not one-fifth of the whole, after
ain
late. g what they must have paid in the shape of poor-
the tio
°ll°aislvi re the sum. I have analysed the report, and
ng is the re salt :
• Subscrip-
lion

Deduct Net sub.
rate. scription.

X.
190
86
28
44

Lando X.
man wners and others 210 .... 20
ufaeturers
glergYlnen 3O .... 28
• •
—"'Pkeepet 58 .. 14
The r
tecou.. eport of the National Society for 1841 contains an
459'4 of donations from Manchester to the amount of
They were contributed as follows i—Manufac-
la, 3s. ; others, £l2l. lls. ; uncertain, £23. 18s.
Ala "lid that most of the manufacturers are dissenters,
If true, would account for this mean and miserly
Rittict. Still, it might be supposed, that however they
qi decline supporting the Church Educational Society,
href:°11),1•1 do something for their own—the British and
.5,11 ochool Society. But the reports of that institu-
,Z°w a woful indifference to the education of the
Vie under any shape. In 1837 the subscriptions to
tglhlctif etY amounted to £72. 11s. 6d. Of this sum the
telacturers contributed £2O; others, £33. ]6s. 6d. ;
Iu laio, £lB. 15s.
14 '842 the snbscriptions to the Chester Diocesan
hirs°lBociety from the Manchester board were as fol-

Manufacturers .
Landowners and others
Clergymen ...

X. s. d
.. 13 5 0
.. 193 0 6
.. 43 8 6

249 14 0
top, number of firms engaged in woollen, silk, and cot-
liptureafactures in Manchester and the immediate neigh-
liptio"cd is about 1,500, and the sum total of their contri-
the 14 for the improvement of their workpeople through
0
Perations of three educational societies is only £47.
tir: and yet these men can give thousands for the
i promo-
Sojet acY selfish objct f their on.t The Natioal
pOtiA, n their reporte ino 1841, hasw given the names of
fotio,;B"Ps, peers, and peeresses, whose united contri-
theirle amount to £8,260. Now, if a readiness to give
kpbu'oney for the benefit of the poor be any evidence of
7evo for their well-being, the manufacturers can put
i; a very miserable claim. They have ample means
Opq %citing the temporal and spiritual welfare of their
Ne4l3"Ple ; but, with very rare exceptions, they treat
With the most callous indifference.
irterid in a district similar to that in which I reside,
lkopur;fently built a school, chiefly for the children of
gently
parents, workers in mills, printworks, dye-
s' and handloom weavers. The cost of the erection
ttiteruPwards of £l,lOO ; towards which the manufac-
hos contributed £76, or less than one-fourteenth of the
4; the landowners and others, £420 ; the clergy, £l3O.

This
Illitov firm is labouring in the most praiseworthy manner to
the condition of their hands.
wEiCb,7 subscriptions towards the objects of the League, the
Nit I° are sacrificing both the bodies and souls of their poor
.
isDle at thshrine of Mammon, reported in the Times of
atnountete s 10,50 0 • the subscribers (firms and indi-
„lock4) amount to 48. None'of these subscribe to the National
jl and only eight of them to the British and Foreign, and
contributions to it are only £7. 14s. 6d.

voN
1014, ,SERVATIVE TRIUMPH.—The election at Salisbury
rettipPlace on Thursday, and tei urinated in the triumphant
" Mr. Campbell the consconservative candidate. The
era at the close of the were
Campbell . 318
13ouverie

It/, ....
Mg il,'—'lY OF GEESE AND ASSES TO THE FARMER.—It
Ito_ een long remarked, that all kinds of catty are never
rt::4lthY where geese are kept in any quanthy ; and
...on
tot assigned is simply this—that geese consume, with
wil, Mete
ifas impunity, certain noxious weeds and grasses,
the-r taint more or less, according to their abundance,
ettetfinest paddocks, depastured by horses, bullocks, and
Dla,„°' Most farmers are aware of this; and in many
itileit where the beeves appear sickly, enanegrteecilsfotrritehde,
Gym bee's". which the tacklers tread is co
St% ing into a sort of infirmary. ansvturinc, of two
itievree asses with sickly cattle has also Pbeen found
Fpro-
s...47e of the best effects, from a similar reason.— ar-
-',l' Journal.
h. NI,
41 --. " OASTLER LIBERTY FUND."—The Central
Intoljonsltee
appointed for the purpose
.of raising suo.sctriip-
ket dof the fund for the liberation of Mr. as er,
V,atiot/ntls Friday evening. Communications were read frcm
lath° Parts of Yorkshire respecting efforts being made
Wasa se Places for the same object. It appears that
_up-
Sesd 8 °f X\li
1000 have been already subscribed. On ed-
litidaY, the 15th instant, a meeting for this purpose was
Yorks Yew Tree Inn, Robert Town, Test Riding of
'llea "re ; John Tweedale, Esq. in the chair. It was
11514 Fesolved that meetings in favour of this object be
de 1° every part of the kingdom, commencing at Hod-
&Meld
"Ao • On Wednesday last a meeting held in that
44' and John Fielden, Esq., M.P. for Oldham, pre-
Of 4
.seeWreitallira: Beckett, Esq., M.P., accepted the office
liergarleral treasurer ; and M. L. Pitkeithley that of ge-
.—Mr. Walter, of the Times, was present,
for Promised to render every assistance in his power to
is_lvard the object in view. Sir. Fielden, in addition to
ilta former bi . .
esrah, su seription, £lOO, gave £50.. Wm. Busfield
I.l4ilj,u' Esq., M P assured the meeting that he would
~.- most strenuous..' exertions on behalf of Mr. Oastler.
Ilas'Autlty SMITH.—The facetious canon of St. Paul's
(loliulsilressed another letter to the Mornino Chronicle,
Pie I'2 will be found in our columns,) on the subject of
4rinerican " repudiation," of which he is a victim.
tht repwonder (says the London Times) it does not strike
.cien,"/erend gentleman that there is something insuf-
Nil :14not to say rather indecorous, in a wealthy clergy-
IS the`ting thus roundly to work to abuse his neighbours
kef, tin" Public journals. He has never, that we are aware
Le Were anything literary in a professional way. Suppose,
e e—
t° publish a volume of sermons upon the subject.
thug°lves it to his. friends who promoted him to do some-
),e t°liti ti p ointments—sorneting to show why
4444111,°,°41thlsialvYe been preferred to the office of canon of St.
than to that of Queen's Toastmaster or
lititistehert:f thee Staghounds. People often ask the question,
Ikass.-"ePresent is a noble opportunity for attempting. an
44 -et. It is seldom that passion, interest, and propriety
80 •
%eta Invitingly united. He will avenge himself of his
rai.eo--he will, or at least may, recover some of his
~ ~t6)', and he will vindicate his canonical character."
ht,..:` The reverend creditor has advanced in skirmish-
clt f,uer,—let him follow up by a salvo of heavy artillery.
74 discharged the haft of his wit,—let him smite
'elmll divinity and mersit in earnest the gratitude of the
h7ola'Lla children, miserable women, and aged men'—the
le,l47'lltry-yard of swindlers [we presume the Times
bifiLa.htswindled] of which he is himself so consider-
sty-Ote)) To do the dignitary only common justice,
b.' °EC 4 most amusing composition, and in the best
4.44 ~.'' Writer—caustic and cogent.
-er
t '`ltAi MARKETS.—The editors of the Leeds
ith,,ekry following N
.
ka'lliell'eri in the wake of the Economist, make
be theta h." effort to disturb the quiescence which the grain
°ref 01 'aye for some time exhibited, by inculcating the
heatat in consequence of the increased consumption
ii:PIY nf g to the improved state of trade, a large
i4lOf - It'reiwheat, amounting to at least half a mil-
ItG quarte gn •
44 4 Nat tri r', will be required to meet the consumption
totbapport tam up to the period of the harvest in 1844.
\Ware 41- °f this hypothesis the Mercury professes to
to
liii!efiekil.e quantities of wheat sold at Leeds
tvoq2 ajn the two months preceding the Ist of and
Octoberd at
14the uu .1843. These are stated to be, at Leeds, ii-
h. 30 Pseriod mentioned, in 1842, 22,370 qrs., and in
4mlip 11,1, 04 qrs. ; and at Wakefield, in 1842, 19,105 qrs.,
%el tli '43, 33,761 qrs. But the Mercury overlooks the
oLitle_t the sales of wheat which are returned to the
ji,,,ide6Pectors relate only to British grain, and do not.
C%•lo„the transactions in Foreign wheat ; and as it is
cht,,-8 that the quantity of foreign wheat imported in
lli:tot tilliln of last year was militia less than that imported
sh,dift, e Present year, it is not too much to assume that
'1 th.rence in the amount of sales of British wheat du-
el. it"..!)resent year was compensated last year by the
thaiutot.tint of foreign wheat thrown upon. the market,
\i't4t b I;ie imagined excess of consumption during the
14,,sei Ink period has, in reality, no existence in fact.
illalie:telligencer. [The editor of the Intelligencer
Frio 4 tables of the transactions in grain last autumn,
iiiett °lit his argument.]
OltAt.:"B.—The following is from the list of English
00, granted between the 27th of October and the 21st
'wS, foe:ober, 1843 ;—John Kibble, of Glasgow, gentle-
Nlnaprovements in apparatus for propelling yes-
-414 ,of°.,..vetriber 2 ; six months. Joseph Dickinson
044 t
4 tia middleton, in Teesdale, Durham, manager of
p 4 eatfdWorks, for a new and improved plan for collect-
tilAllthei.ensing and purifying the fumes of lead, copper,
144taetai Ores and metals, also the particles of such ores
Sltlifaet 8, or produced from the roasting, smelting, or
Ik tIN aria thereof, and also the noxious smoke, gases,
tk,rtatiheeids, soluble and absorbable in water, generated
!114,2, .-B.:and working such ores and metals. Novem-
lak,kbitbV months. Robert Raynsford Jackson, of
1 L'''iteh-, cotton spinner, for certain improvements in
tvsiltta,;nerY of apparatus to be used in the preparation
isi; arid other fibrous substances for spinning..
kite b: 4 ; six months. William Bush, of Unicin-
th.stie4tford, engineer, for improvements in rendering
lus °„..eedles leis re'udicially influenced by local at-
Nratin November 91; six months. Walter Handcock,
NtlfesChrd, Essex, engineer, for improvements in the
Ntlihe-re of caoutchouc and caoutchouc in combination
hvA liiitir, substances. and in machinery or apparatus for
Nit‘etialheacutchouc and other materials. November 9 ;
'qv Jeih"a• William Shepherd, of Kingston-upon-
Oto ei A "er and builder, for an improve( -
N itd an i -, - '
114,, , 5,,, imps
is'.lll,'.',er. ".,?. for