The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1848-07-11 00:00:00

The government have shown still more determination to
)ut an end to the Jacobin writings of the Dublin papers.
It will be seen from paragraphs elsewhere that informa-
tions have been filed against several of the repeal leaders,
and on Saturday and Sunday further arrests took place.
On Saturday evening last, at half- past eight o'clock,
Charles Gavan Daffy, the proprietor of the Nation news-
ipper, when on his way home was arrested on sworn in-
--nation for sedition, alleged to have been published in
that day. This gentleman is by far the most
of the sedition leaders. Mr. Duffy
,-street Police-office, and the ma-
.. .yndall, was shortly after in attendance, be-
whom informations were sworn, and Mr. Duffy was
informed that be was committed for trial at the ensuing
commission, to be held on the Sth of August.
Bail was offered, but the magistrate stated it was not in
his power to take it.
About half-past nine o'clock, Mr. Duffy left the Police-
office, in a covered car, for the gaol of Newgate, accom-
panied by the officer who arrested him, followed by an
outside car with police.
"'he Nation nublish" office was enterer

was brought to C

4. .1. ..ing om. dby the police
when it was known that Mr. Duffy was arrested, and all
writings, documents, books of accounts, &c., and pews_
papers, were carried off, and are retained by the police, in
whose custody they are to remain, the magistrate declining
to accede to the application for their restoration.

he Police-offiCe, while Mr. Duffy was there, was
crowded. It is said that both he and Mr. Martin will be
tried by a special commission, for the purpose of bringing
them to a speedy trial.

On Saturday night, Denis Hoban, printer of the Tri.
--)uffv's committal, arrestp.'

On Sunday bit, Richard Dalton Williams, of Mount-
pleasant Square, in the county of Dublin, anti Kevin Izod
O'Doherty, of Hamilton-row, in the city of Dublin, pro-
prietors of " the Irish Tribune " were brought up on
sworn information before Mr. Tindall, the magistrate at
College-street Police-office, for publishing certain sedi-
tious articles in the publications of the Ist and Bth July
instant, and were committed for trial at the ensuing com-
mission, on the Bth August.
Mr. Tyndall was asked to admit them to bail, but re-
fused.

OUR IMPORTS FOR THE FIRST FIVE MONTHS
OF 1846, 1847, AND 1848.

we have before_ us the " Accounts relating to Trade

and Navigation," for the month ended sth Jane, 1848,
and the five months ended the same date, which bring to
our notice a few rather important facts as regards the
consumption of the country of focid and raw materials,
compared with that for the same period in 1846 and 1847.
In the articles which come into consumption free of duty,
we can only be guided by the quantities imported. Thus
we find that we imported of the following articles, in the
first five months of the three years respectively, viz., in
1846. 1847. 1848.
Bacon cwts. 313 27,601 70,452
Beef, salted, not corned.... 63,012 54,742 54,234
Pork, salted
Of articles of food upon which duties are levied, we
consumed as follows, viz.:—

Cheese

1846.
t. 110,617
1. 1,392,611
, 15,073,757

1847. 1848.
149,124 148,940
1,589,310 1,342;700
16,804,614 16,169,878

Cocoa

„ .
Eggs No. 37,766,019 31,488,407 40,522,656
Hams.....
Sugar,unrefined, 2,057,531 2,473,155 2,455,979
Tea ..
There is no evidence here of a material diminution of
consumption, so far as the above articles are concerned.
It must not be inferred, however, that the comforts of
our population have been the same in the three periods.
We well know that our working population, in periods of
distress, resort to tea and coffee as substitutes for more
nourishing meals ; and hence the large quantities of those
articles and of sugar in the past year. Cheese is also a
substitute for better food ; and foreign bacon, hams, &c:,
for fresh meat. For similar reasons, we by no means
regard an undiminished consumption of spirits as a sign
of prosperity, although a Chancellor of the Exchequer
parades this fact and an increase in the Excise as such a
sign. The consumption of foreign corn we pass over as
not affecting what is our main object, the bearing of these
returns upon the question of the position of the country.

The only important fact with respect to the import of
foreign grain is the immense falling off in our receipts of
Indian corn, from 1,649.516 qrs. in the five months. of
1847 to 530,689 qrs. in 1848, and of Indian meal, from
561,048 cwt. in 1847 to 121,215 cwt. in 1848.
The falling off of the imports of raw materials and
articles used in manufactures is significant of the decline
in the industrial energies of the country. We select a few
of the most important items. The import of indigo has
fallen from 27,450 cwts. in the five months of 1846,. to
9,610 cwts. in the same period of 1848; logwood front
13,137 tons in 1846, to 9,825 in 1848 ; madder from 47,429
cwts. in 1846, to 25,135 in 1848; madder roots from
89,121 cwts. in 1846, to 49,983 in 1848 ; raw silk from
2,336,355 lbs. in 1846, to 1,965,049 in .1848 ; sheep's and
lambs' wool from 20,158,835 lbs. in 1846, to 15,772,128 in
1848. We pass over
.the articles of cotton wool, in which
there is an increase, inasmuch as its supply is influenced
entirely by the produce of the crops. Against this de-
crease of the import of raw materials, we have to set down
an increase in our imports of the silk manufacture, thus
further limiting the means of employment of our indus-

trious artizans'i viz., of broad silks and satins from 57,634
yards in 1846, to 130,073 in 1848, and other silk fabrics
in the same proportion. With their wonted absence of
fair dealing towards the public, the officials of the Board
of Trade abstain from all mention of any other manufac-
tured articles, save those of silk and gloves. They tell us
nothing about our impotts of cotton goods, lace, hosiery,
flannels, smallwares, watches and jewellery, cambrics,
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enabled to show further the extent to which we are sup-
plying ourselveswith the cheap productions of the foreigner,
whilst our unfortunate native artizans are starving in the

streets, stripping of their furniture their once comfortable
homes, or flying to the last loathed remedy, the poor
support afforded by the Union Workhouse.

he splendid exhibition of paintings in the Exhibition
ms will positively close on

arday nex'

On Sunday, 25th June, the Rev. t. Nolan preached
ro sermons at Hoylake Church, in aid of the Hoylake

hied to the school

LING A CART

!fit the Police

-court, yester

meson and Joseph Lenion, wer

:ed with

a cart, the

Tty of another );art
lling it piecemeal.

y, and with breaking it up and
It appeared they had stolen it on

o a yard

Irt was worth £l6

troth prisoners were committed for trial at the sessions.
LIVERPOOL CUSTOMS RECEIPTS._We are glad to find
that there is a small increase in the Customs' receipts for
rt of Liverpool, in the month just ended, compared
be corresponding period of 1847 ; but this ariscs
'rom nearly £20,000 being recovered in foreign
.•

aid" y

led sev

&c., thiin Livery

ever done

s toual

ar, tea, currants, and raisins, have
se during the period referred to, but
,
Issas, spirits, tobacco, wine and wool, have

flee, mol

:y politic

the footsteps of the

tional swoon

viatica less. ine receipts on July 6th were nearly
£40,000, principally en foreign sugar, the duty being re-
luced by the Sugar Act of 1846 nearly one shilling and
xpence per hundred weight. A

Now it is to the

call for a decrease of the ala
plained. He paid a high con

Ling rate; of which they corn-
iment to Mr. Booker, who had

of the 1

RE !NATIONAL BANES OF iIMERICA.—The weekly
1 of a steamer from America, and the commercial
connexions between this country and that great continent,
having made Liverpool the residence of many genuine
offsprings of Uncle Sam, a desire for the establishment of
an American bowling club, the principal game of the
country, has for some time existed, and it will be gratify-
ing to learn that its conduction has been committed to
the management of Mr. Saunders, so long connected with
the Cunard mail line of steamers from this port, whose
experience augurs well for its success. The strangers
who visit Liverpool during the present week will at least
be pleased with the sight. The rooms in which the clnb
On Saturday, Mr. Duke, governor of Dorset gaol, was is held, in Slater-street, are most handsomely fitted up.
elected by the magistrates to the governorship of the TRIAL TRIP.—On Thursday, a trial of the beautiful
Borough Gaol, Liverpool. The list of candidates had new iron steamer Cambria, constructed by Mr. John
previously been reduced to four, viz. :—Mr. Duke Mr. Laird, was made between this port and the Menai Strait.
Parkinson, keeper of the Main Bridewell, Col. Duke,
The vessel is the property of the Chester and Holyhead
governor of Preston House of Correction, and Mr. Law- Railway Company, and is intended to ply between the
tracted pain. rence, deputy-governor of Millbank Penitentiary. latter port and Kingstown. The speed of the vessel was
Surely it is time at length to lay aside this insane STEALING COTTON.—TWO men,Wood (a warehouseman during the trip ascertained to be full seventeen miles an
submission to our tormentors. Surely it is • • at the transit shed) and Richard Evans, a porter, were hour, and on this rate there will, no doubt,. be a consider-
within yesterday committed for trial charged with having pur- able improvement when the machinery is in proper work-
our power to do so. The last quivering of the joined a bag of cotton-pickings, the property of Messrs. ing order. She steers remarkably well, and is a very
insensate corpse will drive the vulture from his Chapman, Bowman, and Co., from a shed on the quays. pleasant boat for passengers. Although she had to go by
prey; and will not the resolute stirring of the not On Sunday morning, a woman, with a child in her arms, the Victoria Channel, and had to steam against a strong
yet inanimate social frame be equally effective to jumped off Blackfriars-bridge into the Thames. The tide, she made Beaumaris in three hours and twenty
body of the child has not been found ; but that of the minutes. During the voyage, Mr. Laird invited his
the political vultures who are seeking to drain the woman has been discovered dreadfully mutilated, her friends to lunch in the cabin, where a substantial cold
vitals of this great people ? It must, The resolve head having in the fall caught a stone pier. collation was laid out.

y of thc

put fror.

ook as thi

second resolution, to the effect that a memorial, founded iipon
the resolutions, should be presented to the Council,:by:the mem-
bers for the ward, said that he heartily concurred in nearly all
that had been stated by the previous speakers.
. .

Mr. DENTON, in seconding it, took occasion to chide the
Chairman, rather severely, for his defence of the Council
against the rate-payers of the ward.
The motion was put and carried, as was also a hearty vote oh
thanks to the Chairman, who explained some errors the
speakers had fallen into. Thanks were then voted to Mr.
Plumpton, who replied, and the meeting dispersed.