The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1848-06-20 00:00:00

THE LIVERPOOL STANDARD.

nst this decrease there was a slight increase to

being plain calicoes, 1847, 955,066
s; printed calicoes, 1847,

, 1,140,278 yar

30 yards, against 1,283,547 in 1848

The aggregate

12,369,043 yards of plain calicoes, and 10,514,073 yards of

calicoes, or one-

Ile exports of each article

A FACT FOR THE PSEUDO-HUMANE ON THE
OLD SLAVERY QUESTION.

In a pamphlet just published by Mr. Jacob Omnium,
a gentleman well informed on West Indian affairs, a fact
, and the authority for it is given, which ought
to be regarded with attention by that class of free-traders
ly, whose quondam horror of slavery and the slave
of late, as noticed by Dr. MilsTeile on Tuesday,

is stated

so mysteriously vanished. We quote the paragraph con-
taining the fact in question :—" In 1828 the British West
Indian slave colonies, not however importing slaves,"--
mark that circumstance, gentlemen of the Society of
Friends !—" produced 198,000 tons of sugar. Cuba and
Brazil importing annually, according to the accurate and
well-informed Mr. Bandinel, (first Report of Mr. Hutt's
Committee on the Slave Trade, p. 220,) 94,000 negroes,
but 93,000 tons." At that time, the paragraph goes on
to say that the West Indians were able, in addition to
supplying the home market, to have a surplus for Europe.
Now, what in 1828 must have been the nature of the in-
stitution since put down—slavery under British laws—as
compared with the slavery of Cuba and the Brazils, from
whom we are now receiving our slave-grown sugar ?
Without importing an additional slave, we could in 1828
supply ourselves and a portion of the world besides. Our
hands were clear at least of the sin of man-stealing.
Ours, too, must have been a mild sort of slavery—one
under which human life was fostered—one under which
it was not necessary to wear down our poor toilers to a
premature grave. But to enable Cuba and the Brazils to
produce 93,000 tons of sugar, with other produce of course
—and we too raised other sorts—it required an annual
importation of 94,030 negroes—one human being, and a
fraction, for each ton of sugar ! We make no comment.

LIVERPOOL THE FIRST PORT IN THE WORLD,

We take the following figures, showing the increase of
the business of Liverpool over that of London, from the
excellent circular of Messrs. Stitt, Day and Co. They
have been gathered from parliamentary returns :

TOTAL CLEARANCES OUTWARDS OF EACH PORT DURING 184.7
LIVERPOOL

LONDON.
Tons. Ships. Tons.
771,857.... 2664.... 656,500
548,289.... 892.... 156,448

With cargoes,

2598 British ships,
1409 Foreign do..

With cargoes

1,320,146,

812,948

In ballast,

438 British ships.. 108,460. ... 1276.... 377,216
83 Foreign d 0.... 23,888.... 2106....320,770

Total tonnage.. 1,542,503.

1,510,934

tifying to every lover of the good old
town ; but it is still more gratifying when we -look at the
fact that whereas of the total amount of tonnage only 521
ships, 222,357 tons came here in ballast, London had
3,332 ships, and 697,916 tons in ballast. It will be noticed
that the total amount of tonnage cleared from Liverpool
exceeds that of London, our metropolitan city.

'This must

Messrs M'Clcllan and Lee, of Price-street, have pre-
sented to the Industrial Sc lo°ls a costly and richly_
executed banner.

Air. A. Wilson, son of the Rev. A. Wilson, of the
Scotch Church, Rodney-street, was in the first class at
Trinity College, Cambridge. He obtained the University
Exhibition at the Collegiate Institution last year.
Tun HISTORIC SOCIETY.—The inauguration of this
society will take place this day at the Collegiate Institu-
tion, His Worship the Mayor in the chair, when it is
hoped all lovers of archceology will enrol themselves as
members. Lancashire and Cheshire are very rich in an-

into. and we anticipate great good will result from the
working manner in which this society is about to carry
out its intentions—that of thoroughly investigating all the
British Roman and midiceval remains, &c., and publishing
the results of its labours. Already the society has had
several valuable presents ; and the exhibition of antiqui-
ties and historical documents, which will be laid before
the society at its meeting this evening, will continue open
for the inspection of the public, gratis, the whole of to-
morrow (Wednesday).
UNLAWFULLY SIGNING A LUNACY CERTIFICATE.—
J. Arthur, a surgeon, was indicted, on Friday, in Lon-
don, for having unlawfully signed a certificate.—Mr. Bod-
kin appeared to prosecute, at the instance of the Com-
missioners of Lunacy. The prisoner signed the certifi-
cate in question, not from any corrupt motive, but as an
act of kindness to a man whose wife had been for some
time a confirmed lunatic. The certificate averred that he
had seen her the same day, and that she was a lunatic;
but the defendant had not seen her that morning. The
lunatic's husband was anxious to have her removed to a
private lunatic asylum, and he asked Mr. Arthur as a fa-
vour, to sign the certificate, a favour he very imprudently
granted. The commissioners did not press for punish-
ment. —The defendant pleaded guilty.—Mr. Baron Rolfe
said he was very glad that the commissioners had insti-
tuted this prosecution, for it was fraught with consider-
able public importance. He should order the defendant
to pay a fine of 20s. ; but if any similar case came before
the court after this public example the result would be
very different. The defendant paid the fine, and was
liberated.

MR. REEVES.—In presenting the following condensed
extract from onr contemporary, the Albion, of the 22nd
ult., we would remind our readers that the subject of it,
confessedly the bset English tenor singer of the present day,
appears at the Grand Concert of the Roscoe Club, at the
Theatre Royal, on Monday next. The long popularity of
Mr. Reeves, in Liverpool, before he attained the national
and European celebrity he now enjoys, renders his debut,
as primo tenore of her Majesty's Theatre, a circumstance
of no little interest to the early admirers of his genius. A.
triumph more complete and unequivocal, in every pos-
sible sense of the term, no tenor within memory, on any
stage, ever accomplished than he has done to-night; and,
in modern times at all events, it is paralleled only by his
own success on his recent first appearance at Drury-lane. .
The part he chose, or rather that was chosen for to
suit the long-announced soprana, Madame Tadolini, was
Carlo, in Linda di Chamouni—a character of indifferent
importance, as compared with many others in his rate—
Edgardo, for instance, in the Lucia—but one which he
invested with an effectiveness never imparted to it, either
vocally or dramatically, by any other representative. His
reception was of the most animated kind imaginable, and
every instant he was on the stage contributed to augment
the feeling, till partiality became enthusiasm, and en-
thusiasm vented itself into plaudits and acclamations
seldom indeed manifested towards any one, and probably
never before in the same degree, within these walls, in
behalf of a native artist. We observe, from the pro-
gramme of the forthcoming Concert, that two of the
pieces are from the opera in question. One of these is a
duet, in which our favourite, Miss Birch, takes the other
part, and in which, at her Majesty's theatre, Reeves and
Tadolini received a rapturous, and even double encore.
The programme, as a whole, manifests much taste and
judgment, the selections are exceedingly attractive, and
the combination of vocal and instrumentel talent is of so
high an order, that we augur one of the fullest and most
fashionable audiences ever beheld at our theatre.
OBTAINING MONEY UNDER FALSE PRETENCES--GILD-
ING GOLD DUST.—Yesterday, at the Police-court, a
young man who had given his name to be John Ogden,
was charged by Mr. Levi, of Paradise-street, with having
obtained from him a sum of money under false pretence.
It appeared that the prisoner had taken to the complain-
and a quantity of metallic substance representing "gold"
ant that notwithstanding the acuteness of the two parties
with whom he had dealt, (both Jews) they were
taken in, and found that "it is not all gold that
glitters." Mr. Levi said that the prisoner had, a
day or two ago, called upon him, and offered him for
sale, a quantity of gold filings, or. gold turnings—
(shavings we suppose)--and pushed his bargain so
strongly, that he was induced to be a purchaser. The
vendor asked 50s. an ounce for the material, and com-
plainant gave him 455. and a gold ring, to make up the
balance, thinking himself quite safe, and secure of a
handsome profit. Mr. Marks, another gentleman of the
Jewish persuasion, was, it appeared in evidence, after-
wards honoured by a friendly visit, by the same specula-
tor, and also purchased a quantity of the same "dross,"
which had a very bright and captivating appearance--
albeit the descendant of Moses did not discover the cheat.
The representation was, that the gold was just imported
from China. A third party, named Healy, a gold refiner,
also purchased some of the lot, and afterwards found that
it was not the genuine metal. It appeared that the com-
plainants had tested the metalin the usual way by acids,
and being scarcely satisfied that it was " sterling," had
expressed a doubt. The prisoner, it was admitted by one
of them, had told him that he was commissioned to sell
for gold, whether it was gold or not. It was sworn to by
one of the parties deceived, that there was only half-a-
grain to the drachm, or 10 grains to the ounce, of pure
gold in the composition ; but it was so cunningly wrapped
up in real gilding, that the deception was not detected in
the first tests. The stuff was a composition of gold size,
blended with some mineral substance, and so gilded over
with real gold, that the acid applied to test it did not im-
mediately disclose the deceit. The prisoner was coin-
mined for trial.