The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1835-06-30 00:00:00

STATE OF TRADE.

There was a brisk demand for goods on Saturday, iii both thi
coloured and white cloth halls, in Leeds, and on Tuesday there
was a good deal of business done, but not to the same extent as
on Saturdirv.

Firadfort market, on Thursday, was again brisk. A fair
quantity of manufactured „..00ds were sold, and there was a good
demand for yarn, but no alteration in prices. Wools were dull
sale at falling prices.
There was a very good attendance of rnrerchants at Hudders-
field market on Tuesday, but the sales were not proportionably
extensive. The buyers seemed very chary of purchasing beyond
their orders in the present state of the market.
The demand fur woollen cloths at Saddleworth, particularly
finest sorts for export, remains unusually brisk, and low sortg.
for America have within the last few days been much inquired
after. Several very large sales have been effected.
Rochdale flannel tnaiket on Monday last was very dull, and
sales could only be effected on reduced terms, which were in
many cases submitted to by the needy manufacturers.
The flatness noticed in our last week's report of the wool
market at Wakefield continued during the whole of last week;
and a purchaser would find no difficulty in laying in a stock ort
better terms than he could have done for three or four previous
weeks. The•general impression with the trade is that the pre-
sent high price of wool cannot be maintained.
There was a good supply of wool at York market on Thin's-,
day, which, notwithstanding its wet condition in consequende of
the heavy rain, was nearly all sold up, hut at a further decline.,
iu price from our last quotations of nearly Is. per stone of 14lbs.
Therefore the prices of the day are for super hog 18d. to 19d.
_per lb.; half hog and ewe 16d. ; one-third hog'd 15(1. to 151 d.
'locks and cots 9d. to 11d.; pasture wools 7d. to 71d. ; no moor
wools at market.

There was a numerous attendance of buyers at Doncaster
wool market on Saturday, and the quantity of wool offering for
sale was large; in .the morning few sales were effected, thd
market being exceedingly slack, but in the afternoon busrui
evinced more disposition to purchase, and nearly the whole wai
bought up with briskness, at the following rates :—Hog 225.6 d.,
boa and ewe, 19s. 6d,, ewe 16s. Gd., pet stone of 14tbs. ; locks'
103. per lb.
WooL. —The weight as well as quality of the present year's
clip is the subject of general remark, but the following circum-
stance it is believed is almost unprecedented :—A few days since
Mr. Hewett, of Land Farm, Silverton, Devon. sheared a two
year old rain, which gave the extraordinary quantity of 22 tlbs:.
of Wool,'of 14 Inches in length. This animal was
sheared .a,;
hog last year, and gave 18ilbs. of wool.

DENBIGHSHIRE CONSERVATIVE AtSOCIATION.—WC
much pleasure in stating that the firFt annual meeting of the
above association will take place at ituthin on Friday next, and
that a numerous attendance of the members is expected. De-:
putations, we understand, are invited from Cheshire, Liverpool;
and South Lancashire.

REMOVAL OF THE ASSIZES TO LIVERPOOL.—The Gazette of
Friday contains an order of the King iu council, that the assizes
and sessions held under the commissions of gaol delivery, and
other commissions fur the despatch of civil and criminal busi-:
ness, for the county palatine of Lancaster, heretofore holden at
Lancaster, shall be hereafter holden, on the' same circuit, bath
at Lancaster and Liverpool, in the said county palatine; the
county to be divided into north and south, the northern division
comprehending the several hundreds of Lonsdale, Amounder-
nest, Leyland, and Blackhurne; the sontlietn, Salford and.
West Derby.

CLOSING THE SEWER Gl2 ATINGS.--On Saturday last a gen-
teel-looking young man Was brought before the magistrates, in
custody of one of the officers of the nightly watch, who complaip-
ed that the prisoner bad, during the heavy rain of Thursday
night last, closed the gratings of several sewer! In Byrom-street.
Mr. Whitty, superintendent of the nightly watch, informed the
mayor, that, in consequenbe of conduct similar to that alleged
against the defendant, the cellars of several poor individuals in
the neighbourhood had been inundated riud their property much
injured ; and that no less than fourteen latch of sand had since
been removed from the street, which had been left by the water.
Alderman Bourne pointed out to the prisoner the impropriety
of his conduct, and discharged him.

HUMANE AND INTREPID CONDPET.—On Sunday, as Mr.
Longhottom, of Great Howard-street, was walking round thci
Clarence Dock, he noticed the sudden disappearance of a young
man and a woman who were crossing from the. Princess Victo-
ria steam-packet to the shore. Mr. Longhottom immediately
hastened to the spot, and found them both struggling in the
water. Throwing off his coat, he plugged into the basin to their
assistance, and seizing the woman bytme of her arms, kept her
afloat until he had succeeded in getting hold of the man
In this situation they remained until a rope was lowered from
the packet, which the :young man caught hold of, and was
hoisted into the ship ;—it was again lowered and passed round ,
the waist of the woman, and after she had been safely lodged
on the deck of the vessel, was again throWn down to M r. Long-
bottom. By this time Mr. Longbottom was so exhausted that
when he had nearly reached the deck of the Victoria his strength
failed him, and he fell again into the basin. He was, however,
speedily raised to the same place of safety that be bad been the
means of securing to those whom he had so fortunately preserved.
The gallantry and presence of mind displayed by Mr. Long=
bottom entitles him to the highest commendation.
STEALING A WATCII.—A young man, named Garner, wit's;
on Saturday last, brought before the magistrates, haying been
taken into custody by Ainsworth, the police-officer, and charged
with having stolen a watch. The proprietress of the watch
stated, that the prisoner had been in the habit of visiting at her
house, and that, on the 18th of June, she had left him alone
in an apartment where the watch hung upon a nail over the
chitnneypiece. She was nut some time, and when she returned
both the watch and prisoner were missing. The prisoner ae=
knowledged to having pledged the watch a, Mr. Grindrod's, in
Brownlow-hill. He was committed for Lial at the 80r0u441-1
sessions.

BOROUGH OF OLDHAM.—The death of Mr. Cobbett havin;
occasioned a vacancy in the representation of this borough, it
is about 4, be the scene of a contested election. The candidates
are Mr. Lees, of Werneth Lodge, a conservative; Mr. Ashton
Yates, a Whig; and Mr. John Cobbett, son of the late member.
Au active canvass has been begun by the friends of the differ:
ent candidates; but we have not heard any particulars.
Ola-
ham, we know, possesses a strong conservative party; we trust
strong enough to return a conservative member; but to insure
success great exertion will be necessary; and we trust the
friends of the constitution will not have occasion to reproach
themselves that by apathy or neglect they have lost an opportu-
nitv of strengthening the cause of good government in the
flo-use of Counnous.—Mancliester Courier.

DROGHEDA EIJECTION.—On Saturday afternoon the com-
mittee appointed to try the merits of the Drogheda election pe-,
tition. after a few hours deliberation, resolved.—" That Mr.
O'Dwyer was NOT duly elected,—how very shockin..!—and that
the Honourable Randle Plunkett was duly eirt•tecr, and ouFht
to have been returned, and that the petition and the opposition
to the petition were neither frivolous nor vexatious."

Roan Ear SY A soi-digant CATHOLIC PRIEST.— On Saturday
se'nni<rht, a man, named Robert Spencer, called at the house
of the'ltev. Mr. Kaye, the Catholic priest, in George-strecti
and told the servant-girl that he had just seen Mr. Kaye at the
vestry of Rook-street chapel. and hail roceivvd instructions from
hint lo wait at his house until he came. The girl having seen
Spencer With her mast,r before, on occasi •na when Mr. Kaye
gave him some relief, had no suspicion that his story was false,
and accordingly shoWed hint into the parker, aert then went
about her household work. In a few minutes she heard the
front door open, and on going to see who had opened it she-
found that Spencer had taken his departure, carrying with hits
a black coat and waistcoat of Mr. Kaye's. She immediately'
went out in search of him, Init he was soceessitil in making his
escape. He was taken into custody on Tuesdv last, and on
the following day he was brought up at the New Bailey for ex-
amination. when Mrs. Edwards, a pawnbroker, proved that he
had offered to pledge a coat and wtystcoat with her similar to
that stolen from Mr. Kaye's, but they could not agree nun the
terms, and he went away, taking with him another waistcoat
which was lying on her shop counter.—The prisoner, in his
defence, said he was formerly a Catholic priest, and declared
upon his honour that he was unjustly accused. Ile called Mr.
Kaye as a witness in his behalf, but that gcntleinays declared
that he knew nothing of the Prisoner but what he heard from
his own mouth, and that he did not know him to he a Catholic
priest.—The prisoner was committed for trial at the sessiorrs
Afanchester Courier.

"'W, Rottwr.L:'
" I observe that. in your report of Mr. Wagon's speech on
the evening of the same day he.is reßresente&to 'haVe
,said that
he had resolved to take the responsibility of the affair upon
,his
own shoulders; that fact he had communicated to Mr. Hodwell,
and that gentlenaan appe4re:2 to'.be" siiiisd with it.'
" lo reply, to. this. I beg to Say that ;the only indication I gave
of being satim..fied was my letter to .Mr.,Wason, of Friday? in
which. I repeated that .`the statement made by Mr. Wason on
the day of nbiniitation was. totally false.' togeiher with the tir-
cmustauce of rn'y declining any further direct communication
with a person Who had so sLonally failed to fulfil a. pledge from
Which I belleVe no man but himself would have receded.—l am,
Sir, your most obedient servant,
" 'lpswich, June 22;1835.
Mr. Wason has certainly very odd notions as to what
" taking the responsibility of an affairopon one's own
shoulders" consists in, and as to the kudos to be derived
therefrom.
• We wouldbeg to ask Mr..Wason,
Ist.. Whether it be usual to publish a letter addressed
to a gentleman,-_and•to take credit for all contained in
that lettep,, with the certain and positive knowledge that
the contents of such a letter . were utterly unknown to
the person to whom it was; addressed=with the, con-
sciousness. that he -had never opened such letter—and
with the - knowledge that he' could not, therefore, by
Any, possibility, reply to what it contained ?
.Is the follNing answer to a statement,
.anan-,
swer which 11,fr. Wason conceives to afford grounds for
the, belieV that a man is " perfectly satisfied" with such
statement ?
Statement—that so and so is the case.
Answer—The: so ancOo.is, "totally false."
Corollary,. by Mr. Wason—That, respondent is perr
fectly satisfied.
.3dly. When Mr. Wagon writes a letter to a gentle-
man, telling him that he helieVes anbther person's word
in preference to hist-rand when he .publishes such letter
for the purpose of gaining credit of having,,so,told him
—does he conceive it to be..at all necessary for him, in
order to make good his claim to all thelialos iarising
from suchintrepidity, to omit the fact that HE WAH-AWARE
that the gentleman' in queition had never opened the let,.
ter in
,question ? .
T4'e follOwingis Mr. Wason's letter; which he.' pub-,
lished„, but which Mr. Rodwell never. opened, and, which
Mr. Wason knew that. he had never opened
" Saturday Morning.
" Sir—After having informed you that I hold myself respon-
sible for every statement I made respecting you, I presume it
is quite unnecessary 1 should reiterate the assertion I made in
the Hall—' that I believe the word of a voter in preference to
yours.'-1 am, Sir, your obedient servant,
"W. Rodwell, Esq. "RIGBY WAsoN."
Wason, if he have established the character at
Ipswich of being a very valiant gentletrian,- has certainly.
established it at aless cost than any other gentfeman who
ever bOre.that character.before.—Morning Post..

W. RODWELL.. "

-7-
DlssoLupoN, OF T.,,,,v A* dEiiT.—We have beard it afl
' firmed, on.authority on which we place the .greatest reli-
ance, that the present ministry have detern-iined to dis-'
solve parliament in the course of next October. They
believe that they will be'able.'.to appeal,to the,constituen-.
cies. with.gbodetreCt, artei• cairied the municipal,
reform bill into a law. From the
.operation of that mea-
snre they' anticipate an addition to their nnrOlvs in the
House of COmmons of not --
fewer than ten members !
Such,,we have heard,' is the calculation of.the whigs: it
certainly does not sound very magnificently;, but we can
hardly suppose'that • theie best hopes will' dedeiVe liteM
into more_fat Tot it is for sdch aq ad 7
vantatre that thewhig-radical ministry are resolved'to,try
a.dissolution, in the expectation that such a proceeding
will:extricate them' from the perilous position in which
they are at present placed.'
With to, the afithOrits, on which these facts . are
stated,, we canNOnly say here that we are perfecijy satjs-
fiedof ita accuracy; the report, in fact, is quite current
amongst well-informed circles; and we have ourselves
• not the slightest doubt that the design imputed to mini-
sters is entertained bt then], and will, he carried into ef-
feCt at'or near the
,period which we have mentioned. We
confess that, even without t he information which we have
received, we shoUldnattnally arrive at the conclusion to
which it:points. Ministers are: so situated that they re-
quire to obtain an accession of strength in order to meet
their antagonists, severally, -in a fair proportion of
strength;jhe tvhigjadiCals believe that a dissolution of
partameheyThdirenable them to attain this point--; be-
cause, they feel that, with the machinery and patronage,
besides the perquisites, of government at their disposal,
their partizans and supporters would be increased in num-
ber, and stimulated to tenfold greater exertion than would
be the cas'e'in Ordinary circumstances. With such a pro-
spect as this we do not wonder thattninisters should seek
in a diss. Ohition a desperate remedy for the preOrions-
ness of their present situation.—Edinburgh, Evening
-Post.

FUNERAL OF THE LATE MR. WM. COBBETT.

(From the Dimmer.)
On Saturday the mortal remains of the late Mr.
William Cobbett were consigned to the same grave in
Farnham church-yard, where lie the .remains of his
father and grandfather. Farnham is a small town in
Surrey; 37 miles west of London, and from an early hour,
of the morning up to one o'clock, numbers of persons
continued to arrive both there and at Normandy (a place,
so called from the
.time of the conquest), about seven
miles from Farnham, and between Ash and Guildford,
where Mr. Cobbett died. It had been decided upon that
the funeral should be conducted in a plain manner ; the
4z body was placed in an oaken coffin, and that enclosed in
one of lead. About half-past twelve o'clock the hearse
and four horses began to move from Normandy, fi;llowed,
by four mourning coaches, and many private carriages,
ate., frbm London and places adjacent, towards Farnham.
In the first coach were Mr. Cohbett's four sons, Mr.
Fielden, M.P. for Oldham, and Mr. John Leach, late
M.P. for Surrey. The other coaches contained Mr.
Wakley, M.P., Knowlea, Esq., Captain Donnelly,
Faithful, Esq., to ,whom Mr. Richard Cobbett. is
articled, Mr. Beck,' of Bolt-court,. Fleet-street, Mr.
Mellish, the banker, of Godalming, Mr. Swaine, of
Fleet .street, and Meiars. Scales, Lutchins, Elliman,
Coppin, Wells, Grey, Oldfield, Gatsell, &c. mr.,
O'Connell joined the procession about thiee miles down,
the road. A vast number of persons followed on foot,
and the assemblage was considerably increased as the
proceSsion approached Farnham,, where • it arrived at
abhut a quarter to. three) o'clock.; It was the wish of
some . of the friends of tbe..tleceased,.that he should be
buried in the church, but as .Mr., Cobbett had expressed
a desire to be deposited in the same grave with his
father, it was of course complied with. The grave lies

opposite the church-door; and is about nine feet in
depth. The coffin was carried into the church, followed
by Messrs: William, John, James, and Itiehard 'Cobbett.
Mr. O'Connell left the procession at the church-door,. it•
being stated that he declined to enter from religious
motives.* The other gentlemen named above followed
the Messrs. Cobbett. The funeral' service was. per-
formed.by Mr, Menzies, the curate of Farnhani church,.
and at the conclusion the rev. gentleman led the proses,
sion to the grave. The coffin was then lowered, the in-
scription on' • which was as follows :—" Mr. William
Cobbett, IVI.P. for Oldham; died 18th June,
.1835, aged
73..7' Mr. O'Connell, who remained beside the grave,
we, understand said in reply•to a question put to him,
" I would have spoken, but his family did not wish it, and
of course they-knew best." It was anticipated that art
oration would have been delivered, and one or two per-
sons Were named as the probable. speakers, but all passed
off as usual on these melancholy occasions. After the
. service over the grave, during the delivery. of which. Mr.
O'Connell put on his travelling cap, the mourners left
the church-yard. One of the late Cobbett's sons
waS'so much affected that his friends carried him to the
vestry. Mr. p'Gonnell. and Mr.. Harm, left, for town
shortly afterwards ; but a large crowd lingered beside the
grave, many of whom appeared sensibly affected.
It is supposed that about 8,000 persons were present
at the funeral—about three thousand more than'the-popu
la.tiori of the town: • . _

A headstone to the memory of Mr. Cobbett's grand-
father, Mr. George Cobbett, who died in 1760, was re
moved in order to dig the grave. The deceased has left
a widow and seven children—one brother, and many
relatives.
The house in which be was horn was v4ited throual-
.
ous the day by numerous parties.. It is-by the side of a
little bridge over the river Wey, and has teen known for
many years as an alehouse 'by the sign of 'the Jolly
Farmers. The room in which he, was born is to be seen
yet, and hundreds have profited by .the opportunity.

* We believe that
,Rginark catholick .are
,forbidden; to hold
corninnoion in things that aro sacred, or in religious observances,
with persons profeSsing a different creed!

JAMAICA.

The Jamaica Despatch of 15th May, received here on
Saturday, contains in a second edition the fullbwinf
article :

UNPARALLELED ROBBERY.

The following proclamation of his excellency the Marquis of
Sligo, declaring the slaves of the Carmanas free, is a tine
sample of whip atrocity and villany. The inhabitants of the
Cavmenas, we are told, submitted to the act of spoliatiou with
"decorum and dignity !'"rhat they submitted. is most true;
but ,their submission was in consequence of the, force sent to
require it; and on the principle which induces a gentleman to
surrender his purse to the highwayman! The registry act of
1816 had no reference whatever to, the slaves of the, Grand Cay-
manas.; neither have they been included in any act of the
Jamaica assembly. Those slaves, in consequence, have never
been registered—nor has any return whetever, of their number
been furnished to the .British British government; consequently the
whole of the acts relating,to slaves were inoperative, as far as
they, were concerned; yet, in the face of all this, Lord Sligo
is ordered to proceed to the Caymanas, and with force and arms,
to tell the good people there—" I am ordered to see you robbed
of your .property; but if you will be good boys, and petition
King William, 1 will urge your claims with his Majesty's
gekernment: but I must rob you first, and you must trust to
the well-known faith of the British government for justice! !"
Our only surprise is, when this robbery was determined upon,
that the richly marquis's orders did not go a little further, merely
for the sake of consistency. He should have told the planters
of the Cayinanas—" Gentlemen, in robbing you, by order of his
Majesty's government, of your property in slaves, I Must also
rob you of a portion of your lands, as cabbage ga"tdens for your
late dependents, that they may be able, by cultivating them, to
live independent of you, and being as free as you are, they
ought to have the means of existence with as little trouble as
possible."
The whies will say that these orders emanated from
_the tory
administration; but we deny this, as they were a remnant of
the infamous plans concocted, and ready to Be issued, by the
Whigs.
Robbery in every shape is detestable, and we condole with
the inhabitants of the, Caymanas for two reasons. The robbery
is admitted; but to be taunted with it in bad English is insup-
portable. The inhabitants of the Caymanas submitted to. the
sppliation with "decorum and dignity! !" Decorum and dig-
nity with a vengeance! but we are not told the whole farce took
place under the, guns of the Forte frigate, the Serpent brig of
war, and the bayonets of two companies of the 84th Regiment,
and the marines from the two ships! These naval and military
arguments,.no doubt, induced the inhabitants to submit to. their
fate with "dignity,and decorum;" and we regret.to find ,that
our gellant defenders should be employed to enforce such, a
robbery-rfor such it is in all its bearings; and the Marquis of
,SligO is so ashamed of it, that he throws the whole odium of
the measure up,on those, who "commanded" him to carry them
into effect. His lordship says:—
"Fully alive, however, to the inconvenience which,the course
I am commanded to pursue must entail
,ppon the private inte-
rests of the community of this island, and• the apparent injus-
tice inflicted on the proprietors of the negroes by this con-
stru9tion,ef the law, owing to the injury which they will sus-
tain in 'tieing deprived of the services of the apprentices, still
hip Majesty's government have no power to interpose; and, it
will'he for parliament itself to provide a remedy, and, to decide,
how far those affected by the omission may be entitled to com-
pensation for the loss, unintentionally inflicted upon them."
All the islands and places ,named in the abolition act ,are, of
course, subject to its enactments.; but the inhabitants of the
Caymanas well& never cotssulted on the subject—their assent,
was never obtained, nor iias. the slightest semblance of legisla-,
Lion, ever' been made to apply to them. Yet they are now, in
the, face of the world, deprived of their property by a proclama-
tion ! PeOPle of England, look to this ? If one class. of your,
fellOw7subject's can be thus despoiled in this unheard of mapper,.
the day may not be far distant when similar measuressoey be,
Tal yourselves, as one, arbiyary „encroachment, on the, sacred
rig.bts of, property may poe, The
,way for further aggressions.
Pedpie.of England, we tell you again to keep a sharp look out,
and " BEWARE."