The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1851-05-20 00:00:00

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The following are the amounts collected at the respective
churches specified on Sunday last :

a. d.
St. Ann's, Aigburth
13 4
St. Andrew's, Renshaw-street 34 18 0
St. Augustine's, Shaw-street
St. Bride's, Percy-street
St. Clement's, Windsor lO 0 0
Christ Church, Hunter-street l7 1 9
Christ Church, Great Homer-street 25 0 0
St. James's, Upper Parliament-street 2O 0 0
St. John's, Old Haymarket 4l 19 64
St. John the Baptist's, Park road l3 0 0
St. Jude's, Hardwick-street.
St. Luke's, top of Bold-street 5 12 7
St. Mark's, Upper Duke-street
St. Mary's, Bootle
St. Mary's, Edge-hill
St. Matthew's, Toxteth 4 16 0
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Mariner's Church, George's Dock 6 1 3i
St. Paul's Prince's-park lO5 16 64St. Peter's, Sackville-street, Everton
St. Saviour's, Upper Parliament-street
St. Thomas's, Seaforth
Collected at meeting yesterday
in addition to the meeting this evening, __
giate Institution, further sermons are announced in an
advertisement

at the Colle-

POLICE INTELLIGENCE.

YESTERDAY.

BRUTAL ASSAULT.—Thomas Scanlan, and a female
named Banning, were remanded on a charge of assault.
It appears that a disturbance arose at an early hour of
Sunday morning, between the female prisoner and another
woman, in the house of Robert Hughes, a slater, living
in Greenland-street, when the male prisoner interfered,
and a quarrel ensued between him and Hughes, whom he
struck on the head with a slater's knife, a most deadly
weapon, which inflicted a severe wound. Hughes escaped
the fury of his assailant by retreating through the window.
He now lies in the Southern Hospital.

Eaurn.AuttuiNAßY UREDULITY OF A LIVERPOOL
TRADESMAN.—WiIIiam Cowell was charged with having,
by false representations' obtained possession of property
to the amount of about £9O. Mr. Joseph Bentley, gun-
smith, of Lime-street, stated that the prisoner came to
his shop, about three o'clock on the afternoon of Friday
last, and desired to be shown some guns. He selected a
gun, a rifle, and a revolver, and then represented himself
as Squire Scarisbrick, of Scarisbrick, and would not
pay for the articles then At this point of the evidence
the court with difficulty suppressed a laugh at the expense
of the witness, for having for a moment take the uncouth
man at the bar for a country gentleman. Mr. Bentley's
son was sent to carry the " Squire's" purchase to his
hotel, but he chose to go directly to the Tithebarn-street
station, where he took the articles from the young man ;
and, it appears, after going by rail to some near station,
he returned and disposed of the goods. On Saturday the
" Squire. called on Mr. Bentley again, and got a gun, a
light rifle, and a pair of pistols. Those he took away with
him, and Mr. Bentley, who by this time conceived a faint
glimmering of suspicion, sent one of his men to see if the
" Squire" went to the Adelphi. The man followed him
to a pawnbroker's shop, and then returned to tell
his m ster that he thought his customer was no squire.
The police were communicated with, the result of which
was that Mr. Bentley immediately proceeded to Waterloo,
where he fell in with the prisoner ; lie was at the Wel-
lington Hotel. The police officer who accompanied Mr.
Bentley satisfied him that the prisoner was not the
" Squire." In a cab which had been hired by the pri-
soner two guns and a case of pistols were found. Mr.
Byford, of Dale-street, producd a gun and revolving
pistol, as well as a powder-flask, which had been pledged
for £3 ss. on Saturday evening, by the prisoner. He
asked no more, as he said he merely wanted the nufney
for some temporary purpose. One double gun and a rifle
have not yet been recovered. One of the county police
said the prisoner had become possessed of a large sum of
money some short time ago, since which time lie has been
indulging in a course of reckless extravagance. His ap-
pearance, however, is not in the slightest particular that
of a gentleman. He was fully committed for trial.
ROBBERY OF COATES, THE PEDESTRIAN.—A man and
his wife, who gave the name of Power; were charged with
having robbed Coates. the celebrated pedestrian of
.£l7 10s. The complainant arrived here late on Friday
evening, from the Potteries, Staffo:dshire. He fell in
with the male prisoner on his arrival, who took him to
several public-houses, during which time Coates lost
£l7 10s. Mr. Hale, a publican, of Lambert-street, into
whose house the parties went during the night, saw the
complainant take his purse out of his pocket, at which
time it contained, with other money, a £5 note, the
nnmber of which he saw. There was a scuffle subse-
quently, during which he heard the prisoner say to his
wife, You muzzle him while I lizzle him ;" and the
defence was, that the money had been taken in a friendly
way to prevent Coates, who was much intoxicated, being
robbed. The evidence not being conclusive the case was
dismissed.

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MORE STREET ROBBERIES.—John Dougherty, William
Lacey, Ann Hall, and Mary Ann Wilson, four well-known
thieves, were committed for trial, for having robbed John
Biddy of XI. IBs. 6d. Complainant, who is a labouring
man, was proceeding along Scotland-road, about mid-
night of Saturday, when he was dragged into an entry by
Lacey, who with Dougherty, almost strangled him. The
two women took the money after Dougherty had cut his
pocket off. During the taking of the depositions, the pri-
soners conducted themselves in the most insolent manner.
ASSAIILTS.—John Graham, the man who was remanded
last week on a charge of having thrown his wife out of the
window, was again remanded yesterday for the like time,
owing to the continued weakness of the woman, who is
still in the hospital.—A boy also remanded from last
week, was committed for fourteen days, for having
stabbed a little girl in the head. —An American
was remanded for seven days. He assaulted a
man named Patrick Murphy, in Denison-street, on
Sunday evening, so violently that Murphy still lies in a
dangerous state. Joseph M`Cann, and a woman named
Lindon, were committed to prison for two months for
assaulting officer Lea, No. 4, on Sunday. The prisoners
reside in Hughes-street, Jerry-hill; they both pre-
sented marks of severe handling.

LIVERPOOL AND HARRINGTON BUILDING SOCIETY.—
It will be seen by an advertisement that a building society
bearing the above name, has been formed in Toxteth-
park. A meeting of the provisional committee was held
in Mr. Davies' school-room, Hill-street, on Wednesday
evening, when there was a good attendance. This step
has now been some time in contemplation, and as an evi-
dence of the want of such a society at the south end of
the town, upwards of 150 shares have already been taken
up.

INTERESTING EXPERIMENT.—An amusing and also
interesting experiment may be performed as follows :
Take four glass tumblers, invert them upon the floor, lay
a board on them, let a person stand on the board, and an-
other standing on the floor, beat him over the back a short
time with a fur cap, muff, or anything made of fur or silk
plush; then apply your finger to his nose, and a spark of fire
will be seen to flash from his nose to the finger. Th,.: room
should be dark when the experiment is made.
COSTUME OF THE NEW ORLEANS BAR.—The lawyers
of our bar are not more distinguished for their learning
and varied accomplishments than for their independence
and originality of dress and manner. England the
barristers cumher themselves with huge wigs and long
robes. In the United States seedy black cloth is the usual
costume of our legal gentlemen. But, in our freo and
original city, the lawyers both practice and dress pretty
much as they please, and generally prefer the greatest
variety of colours and fashion to any style which would be
calculated to distinguish them from the general mass of
the people. Some of them, indeed, appear to take, as
their "glass of fashion," the costume of the English cock-
neys and fox-hunters. We were in the Fifth District
Court yesterday, during the trial of an important case, in
which two dissinguished councillors were engaged, who
are not only regarded as gentlemen of note in the legal
fraternity, but also luminaries in the beau monde of
fashion and gallantry. One of these learned gentlemen
was dressed in a dark green hunting coat, with steel but-
tons about two inches in diameter, engraved with immense
fox and deer heads, and a vest of buff with large black
figures, resembling the black double eagle of Austria on a
light ground. Both these gentlemen have boxes at the
opera, and would as soon be convicted of putting in a
bad plea or admitting too much in answer as to be seen
at the Orleans Theatre without white kids and the most
unquestionable Parisian coat and pants.—New Orleans
Della.

ONE SOURCE OF NATIONAL DEMOB A LIRATION.-lt
appears to me the most calamitous effect which has fol-
lowed the measures which have lately been pursued in
this country, is, a rapid decay of the domestic affections
among the lower orders of society. This, effect the pre-
sent rulers of this country are not conscious of, or the'
I:ay.ornr,l it. Fr

sregaru for many years past, the tendency of so.:
ciety, amongst almost all the nations of Evrope, has been
to produce it; but recently, by the speeding of manu-
factures through eve; y pan of the country, by the hea% y
taxes upon postage, by workhouses, houses of indust.y,
and the invention of soup-shops, 84c., superadded to the
increasing dispropot Lion between the price of labour and
that of the necessaries of life, the bonds of domestic
feeling among the poor, as far as the influence of these
things has extended, have been weakened, rnd in innu-
merable instances entirely destroyed. The es il would be
the less to he regretted, if these inst itations were regarded
only as palliatives to a diseese ; but the vanity and pride
of their promoters are so subtly interwoven with them,
that they are deemed great discoveries acid blessings to
humanity. In the meantime, parents are separated from
their children, and children from their parents; the Rife
no longer prepares, with her own hands, a meal for her
husban, the produce of his tabour ; there is little doing
in his house in which his affections can be interested, and
but little left in it that he can love. I have two neigh-
bours, a man and his wife, both upwards of eighty years
of age. They live alone. The husband has been confined
to his bed many months, and has never had, nor tilliwithin
these few weeks has ever needed, anybody to attend him
but his wife. She has recently been seized with a lame-
ness which has often prevented her from being able to

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carry him his food to his bed. The neighbours fetch
water for her from the well, and do other kind offices for
them both. But her infirmities increase. She told my
servant two days ago, that she was afraid they must both
be boarded out among some other poor of the parish ;
they have long been supported by the parish;—but she

said it was hard, having kept house together so long„to
come to this, and she was sure that " it would burst her
heart." I mention this fact to show how deeply the spirit
of independence is, even yet, root?d in some parts of the
country. These people could not express themselves in
this way without an almost sublime convictions .If the
blessings of independent domestic life. If it is true, as I
mreal Ponce of th(e pSropnaouliianredesd,
believe, that this spirit is rapidly disappearing, no greater
curse can befell a land.—Life of Wordsworth.
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THE INEVITABLE CONSEQUENCE OF OUR
COMMERCIAL LEGISLATION.

THE COTTON

Yesterday, at one o'clock, according to the announce;
ment, Mr. Jonathan Duncan addressed the merchants of
Liverpool upon the above subject at the Cotton Sales
Room ; and, notwithstanding its being one of the busiest
parts of the day, and the excitement which prevailed in
the Cotton Market owing to the arrival of the Asia, mail
steamer. from New York, late on Saturday evening, a
numerous and influential meeting attended, composed of
members of the leading mercantile firms in this port.
Esq., was in the chair, and among the
-• noticed T. A. Bushby, J. M.
S. Colebourn, 11. Littledale, J.
Boult, C. Logan,

ad, Isaac Buchanan, Hender-
son. Jas. Harvey, ... 4. Smith, Henry Wood, J. High-
field, W. H. Wyli2, Ro'ut. Procter, F. Forster, T. B.
Grinston, J. Bingham, Vianna, E. Jones, V. Higgins,
H. J. Hampshire. P. Witherby, F. Pennington, J. I-1.
Holderness, S. Rickman, J. 0. Johnson, Jno. Faram, C.
E. Rawlins, jun.' R. Duckworth, F. P. Sleddon, H.
Grazebrook, jun., J. Dorning, jun., Esqrs.
Mr. SHAND, on taking the chair, said he was always
very happy to preside over the intelligent gentlemen who
met in Liverpool on such occasions, and it gave him great
pleasure in introducing a subject which he was sure must
he of so much it-0,-4.

_ -,..-rency, in refe-
rence to the controversy between protection and free trade.
At the present time, when, notwithstanding the alleged
prosperity of the country, government seemed incapable
getting on or doing anything, it was of importance that
"al world should be decided, not only
Ntion to this particular subject, but
carry out th9.t which was

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_ _tes to the trade of this
great empire, but -it did so happen in the history of the
world that men who had passed their lives in leisure,
devoted to particular subjects, alighted upon principles
which in the hurry of business escaped the practical man.
(Applause.) He had no political object to serve, nor had
he to utter a single sentiment having a political character.
He had nothing to do with Whigs, Tories, or Radicals;
he merely wished to present views before that audience,
in order if pos3ible to solve some of the difficult industrial
problems which were now in a state of confusion through
the antagonistic principles of what were called free-trade
and protection ; and the necessity for doing so was the
more important, since it was well-known that the next
general election, which was not far off, would in a great
degree determine the future prospects not only of agricul-
ture but of commerce, not only of the people of this
country, but of all the people connected with our
very extended colonies. (Hear.) Now, he thought that
the very first reason that could be assigned why tlila
question should be re-opened and re-discussed was, that
all the promises and all the expectations of the Free
Trade party had been completely falsified. [This Mr.
Duncan showed by the fluctuations in the value of wheat
since the repeal of the corn laws, which we were told were
to give steadiness of price.) The quantities of cora
which could be produced by foreign countries had
also been over-rated. The trade he saii which we
now bad under the name of Free Trade, was no
such thing in reality—(hear, hear)—it was nothing but
a system of free imports. After illustrating this and other
general principles, Mr. Duncan then came to the imme-
diate subject of his lecture. He said :—As to the cur-
rency, had the people of Manchester really and truly un-
derstood the monetary question,—of which they knew
nothing, (a laugh) and never did know anything,—but
had they rightly understood the principle of money, they
never could have entertained the views which they now
held, of the destruction of British agriculture, and of the
destruction of colonial prosperity. They could sea
that there was something wrong in the monetary
system, but instead of attributing that evil to legis-
lation, they attributed it most wrongfully to the
Bank of England. Now the propor way to deal with
this question, and the fairest way, was to allow Man-
chester to speak for itself. He had before him the
report of the Chamber of Commerce of that town, dated
12th of December, 1839, in which they endeavoured to
account for the enormous losses which they had sustained,
those losses amounting in one year to forty millions of
Property. Mr. J. B. Smith was chairman on that day
and in opening the business he
said—
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-- At that time resolutions were adopted by the chola•
ber that these sufferings had come over the country while we
had been in possession of the blessings of peace, ample harvests,
and mitigated taxation ; but they resolved that they were un-
able to find a rational cause for this adversity amid these
blessings. The recurrence of another period of distress so
soon after the last has naturally directed the attention of this
board to the causes of those sudden panics which were paralys-
ing trade, suspending our commerce, and bringing distress
upon the whole community; and the directors might, as their
predecessors had done, resolve that they were unable to find
any rational cause for the recurrence of such adversity. But
they felt that it would be departing from their duty if they
took such a course. They found there were causes, and that
these causes were the erroneous management of the currency
by the Bank of England."
Now that was the charge they brought, and how the
bank operated to produce those disastrous effects was ex-
plained in the next paragraph which he would read :--
"Towards the close of 1838 the stock of bullion in the bank
had fallen to little more than four millions; whilst, at the same
time, it was indebted to the world upwards of thirty millions
for its circulation and deposits. The directors now determined
to check tile drain upon their coffers, and to increase their
stock of bullion on hand. It had been stated, upon the
theau-
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of gold can be procured from abroad only by reduced prices of
commodities ; in other words, at the expense of the manufac-
turing and mercantile interests : and the object in advancing
the rate of interest, in two months, from 4 to 5 per cent., to
which we have alluded, was undoubtedly with the N mew to depre-
ciate the value of commodities 25 per cent. This step on the
part of the bank directors caused,' to quote the words of
Mr. Horsley Palmer, in his pamphlet, a moral apprehension
in all prudent minds that there was mischief abroad, and
created an effect more powerful than the actual advance in the
value of money.' In other words, it caused a panic."
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The significant port of this paragraph was this, that a sup.
ply of gold could be procured from abroad only by the
reduc d price of commodities. Well, the Bank of Eng-
land had to get these quantities of gold from abroad
and of course contracted the issue of their notes ; that
suspended trade; the price of all commodities fell, and
when they fell to 30, 40, or 50 per cent. below the cost of
production, the foreigner was tempted by the bargain he
could make to return the abstracted metal. But in the
meantime Manchester suffered. and suffered as she says,
to the extent of 40 millions. Now, the uarrel was with
the Bank of England, and that the Bank of England
when prices were high would not keep accommodating
the merchants. Had the Bank of England done so
in the first place, it would have been bankrupt, and
in the next place, it would have acted in defiance
of acts of parliament. The act of 1819 was stringent, and
it insists that the Bank of England, for every note which
must have gold. The price of coined gold
there was a tendency in all other commo-
ws she sfihxael s
butsue ,
dities to rise above that level. Whenever that happens,
the price of commodities becomes dearer than gold, and
the consequence was, that the foreigner takes away the
cheap gold, and leaves the dear goods in our warehouses.
Now although the price of gold in our coinage was fixed,
everybody was well aware that the price of bullion or raw
ore was not fixed. It fluctuates like other commodities ;
hut immediately the Mint stamp was put upon it, then
its price was fixed. He should state an argument by Mr..
Cobden, borrowed from Mr. James Wilson, with the
view of showing its complete fallacy; and then he should
ask those present if they were Free Traders, to be con-
sistent, and be free traders in all commodities circulated
between man and man. In other wends, if there were to
be free trade in goods, let there be in money. (Applause.)
Now, Mr. Cobden says—" Take a definite quantity of
wheat—call it a quarter—divide it into eight equal pa-ts,
and call them bushels ; here is no fixing of price, but
merely a question of weight and division." So far be
aareed with him. "Now, take the parallel. Take a
quantity of gold—call it an ouncE—divide it into four,
and call each a sovereign ; here, he said age4i,
there was nothing but the process of weight or
division." But here was his fallacy. No money value
was put upon the quarter of wheat or the bushel, but in
gold a money denomination was put upon the ounce, and
the law says that 123 grains of gold shall ale.-- -a for

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a commodity, necessarily fixed the ptice of that commo-
dity, whether it was a bale of cotton or a quarter of wheat.
Now, Mr. Cobden had objected to put any money denorr.'-
nation upon wheat; he let it find its market value • and by a
parity of reasoning, lie (the lecturer) asked him, if he were
a free trader, to let the commodity—gold find its level also.
(Applause.) Ile, and those who thought with him. had
no objection that the sovereign should weigh 123 grains,
and that the quarter loaf should weigh 4 lbs. • but
since wo did not put a definite price upon the 4 lbs. of
ground wheat, neither should we put a definite price upon.
the 123 grains of gold which constitute the sovereign.
Now, versed as his audience were in business, he would
ask them if they ever looked into the price current to
ascertain the price of 123 grains of gold embodied in a so-
vereign .? (A laugh.) They knew very well that it would sl-
ways puss. Let there be only 1000 ounces of gold or five
millions in the Bank of England 192 _
sovereign. Not so wit'