The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1843-08-15 00:00:00

WOLVERHAMPTON RACES.-YESTERDAX,

THE TRIAL STARES.
Col. Craddock's b m Sally, 4 yrs (Templeman) 1
Lord Chesterfield's ch h Knight of the Whistle, 5 yrs 2
Mr J. Mostyn's ch f Miss Miggs, 3 yrs

PRODUCE STAKES.
Mr Griffith's b c Newcourt, by Sir Hercules
Mr H. Arthur's ch f Miss Susan, by Bran..

Only two started.
WOLVERHAMPTON STAKES

Mr Collins names ch m Una, 5 yrs (G. Whitehouse) 1
Mr John Jones names br h Dr. Allen, 4 yrs..
Mr A. Godfrey names Queen of Tyne, 4 yrs. 3
Mr J. B. Phillipson names Scarlet Runner, 3 yrs.... 4
Eight started. Won easy.
LADIES' PURSE.

Ld Westminster's b g Martyr, 4 yrs (Templeman) 0 1 1
Mr Dawson's bl c Blacklock, br to Harpurhey, 4 yrs 1 0 2
Lord Chesterfield's b cby Gladiator, 3 yrs
Twelve started.

Mr. Holden, of Argyle-street, offers for sale in our
advertising colums a very desirable piece of land, which
appears extremely suitable for the purposes of various
trades.

THE GRAND PICTURES OF " ADAM AND EVE" IN
PARADISE.—It will be found, by the advertisement, that
the liberal proprietor of these splendidly and universally
admired works of art has invited all the Sunday and cha-
rity school children to a gratuitous view of them.
CONCERT AT THE COLLEGIATE INSTITUTION LAST
NIGHT.—The evening proved showery and cast a gloom
over the prospect; but the arrivals poured in thick and
fast, and, in spite of the discomfiting wet, the joyous
throng wended towards the hall of blaze and song, till
sralaxv of beauty and ex-
obscure, the sunshine of music's sons and daughters,
when such a treat hung out its inviting promises of cele-
brated talent—vocal and instrumental. It is impossible,
however, at the late hour at which the concert closed, to
give, until next week, any thing like an adequate notice
of the evening's entertainment.

THE WEATHER.—After three or four days of the finest
sunny weather we have yet enjoyed, the weather yester-
day underwent a rather unfavourable change, and heavy
showers fell throughout the afternoon and evening, which
will perhaps partially lay some of the crops. Should it,
however, soon become settled and continue dry and clear
for a few weeks, the wheat generally in this neighbour-
hood will be fit for the sickle, as it has already assumed
the yellow autumnal hue, and gives promise of a heavy
yield. The other crops continue to look well. We un-
derstand that some specimens of oats, the produce of this
season, were exhibited at the corn market at Chester on
Saturday last.

BIRKENHEAD NEW FIRE-ENGINE.—On Monday
week a public trial took place, at Birkenhead, for the pur-
pose of testing the power of the new fire-engine, which
has been provided by the liberality of the London Assur-
ance Corporation. The engine, which is from the manu-
factory of Mr. Merryweather, of London, consists of two
forcing pumps, each seven inches in diameter, mounted
upon a spring carriage of excellent workmanship. It was
worked under the superintendance of Mr. Baddeley, who
had come from London expressly ; and, with a single jet,
seven-eighths of an inch in diameter, threw water over the
highest building in Hamilton-square. On two jets of
five-eighths of an inch in diameter being attached, the
water was simultaneously thrown to a still greater height.
A trial then took place between the Norwich Union Com-
pany's old engine and the new one, worked by the same
number of men and the same pipes. The latter, however,
had the decided advantage in point of power. Mr. Bad-
deley's new fan or spreader, which is used by our fire-po-
lice, was then exhibited, and the extent of surface it caused
the water to cover was astonishing.
" LIVINGSTON AND WILMER'S EXPRESS."—We have
received the first number of a very neat newspaper of this
title published in New York, " expressly for transmission
by every steam-ship sailing from the United States to
Great Britain." The proprietors are our townsmen Mr.
Charles Wilmer, and his partner, Mr. Livingston, who
resides in New York, and there manages the concern. It
is intended principally to supply in a condensed form ac-
counts of all important events and occurrences in the
United States and Canada, between the time of sailing of
the last steam-ship for England and the departure of the
next; and we need scarcely say, that if it be conducted
with care and energy, it can scarcely fail to succeed. In:the
present number the principal feature is a rather interest-
ing general summary, which, however, shows that there is
a lack of general information of importance, at present,
on the other side the water as well as here. We have no
doubt but improvements will suggest themselves to the
editor, and should his available information be well epito-
mized, his sheet will become highly acceptable to English
readers.

DINNER TO MR. JAMES ORME.—On Tuesday last,
under the management of a committee of gentlemen, a
public dinner was given to Mr. James Orme, at his own
house, the Rimrose Hotel, Bootle, as a token of respect
for his character as a man and as a tradesman, and in order
to chow that he had not auffered in the estimation of his
friends by the late legal proceedings to which he had been,
unfortunately, subjected. About one hundred gentlemen
sat down. John Formby, Esq. one of the countyjustices,
presided on the occasion, and Mr. William Horne, of the
Mersey Hotel, occupied the vice-chair. After a few loyal
toasts had been disposed of, the chairman rose to propose
" Our guest, Mr. James Orme, Mrs. Orme, and all the
little Ormes-heads." The chairman spoke very highly of
Mr. Orme, whom, he said, he had known for a long time,
and always found him an upright, honest man, as they all
that day still believed him to he. The toast was received
with the most deafening cheers, which were continued for
some time. Mr. Orme very feelingly replied. The com-
pany spent a very delightful and harmonious evening.
NEW YORK.—The New York Packet Ship Roscius ar-
rived at this port on Friday night, after a passage of seven-
teen days, having left New York on the 25th ult. She
has brought thirty passengers, amongst whom is Mr.
Thomas Bolton, of this town, who, we believe, has been
making a tour of the States. In the case of Mrs. Gil-
mour, the commissioner had delivered a decision to the
effect that the evidence of criminality warranted the sur-
render of the woman. Apparently, tractarianism is ex-
citing hardly less interest in America than in this coun-
try. Bishop Doane, it is stated, had preached a sermon,
taking the same views and arguments as Dr. Fusel, did in
his recent memorable discourse, which is said to have
met with an extraordinary sale in various parts of the
union. Two American captains have published state-
ments to the effect that their vessels were taken out of
their course upwards of sixty miles by the current which
prevailed in the Bay of Fundy when the Columbia was
lost. The Exchange on England was 1081 to 109. The
accounts from New Orleans represent the cotton crop in
Mississippi and the adjoining States to have suffered se-
verely by the heavy rains and inundations, and the yield,
it is said, will show a considerable falling off this year as
compared with the last. A serious riot had taken place
in Kingston, Canada, on the 12th ult., in which a lad,
named Morrison, was killed.

The facts of the case, as elicited by the shabby attempt
of the bank to deny to these two useful auxiliaries the
remuneration really and justly due for services of such
vast extent are briefly these. Somewhere about 1838, the
Bank of Manchester began to feel a little difficulty in
making the world believe all the fine things which its
half-yearly reports represent •, as facts. It was in bad
odour with the Bank of Eng and with its own Lon-
don bankers; and its bills were looked at in the discount
market as very so-so things to have to do with. In this
dilemma we find its manager going up to London and—
not succeediug in dissipating the doubts of either their own
bankers or the Bank of England, but—discovering a
new bill-broking firm in the city, by whom their bills
were arranged to be got cashed in the general market.
One member of this firm was in 1837 a partner in a bank-
rupt firm in Monument Yard, as a hat manufacturer.
The other was we know not whom ; but both were in the
delightful predicament when they commenced business—
or were started in business for a purpose which we need
not hint at—of being without capital. "We had no capi-
tal," remarks one of the firm who was under examination,
" neither of us. It is the practice of brokers to trade
upon the capital of others." With some joint stock
banks it appears to be the practice "to trade upon" the
credulity of the world at large, and their shareholders in
particular! Well, this firm, which had no capital and
traded upon the capital of others, went forthwith into the
market with a quantity of the flash bills of the Bank of
Manchester; and, in the course of their operations, which
appear to have extended over little more than three years,
succeeded in raising upon them nearly three millions of
money ! One of the partners states that " placing credit
in the statement which was put before the world," that
the paid up capital of the bank was £741,000, " we pledged
our credit and our honour for them to the amount of more
than £1,842,000. We relied upon these representations
of the bank, and we felt bound in honour to see that these
liabilities were run off ;" and another partner states that
the total advances procured by the firm amounted to
£2,000,000 or £3,000,000." Ultimately, upon the ab-
sconding of the manager, Burdekin,—who, by the bye,
says that he was " advised to abscond" by one of the pre-
sent officers of the bank,—the useful functionaries were
proceeded against by the very concern which they had so
long plopped up, and now, being driven into the Bank-
ruptcy Court, they are not only denied any fair remune-
ration, but their certificate even opposed on the ground
that one of the parties, relying upon his assumed profit
from all this discounting and advancing of MILLIONS, has
committed the enormity of expending upon his living the
sum of a thousand a year !
Most heartily we wish the gentlemen who have resorted
to this very shabby proceedure, a joyful contemplation of
the exposure which they have drawn upon themselves ;
and heartily, too, we congratulate the community. Every
ray of light thrown upon such enormities as are here
proved to have been committed, will contribute to fasten
upon the public mind the growing conviction that some
legislative effort will have to be made before long to pro-
tect the commerce of the empire from the dangers entailed
upon it by such bubbles as this very pattern joint stock
bank.

Loss OF THE SHIP MEMPHIS.—This fine ship, re-
cently purchasedifor one of the Liverpool line of packets,
was lost, about thirty miles north of Cape Hatteras, on
the 22d Wt. She had stretched a little too far in shore,
and struck while in stays. The passengers and crew were
saved, and a portion of the cargo will also be got on shore ;
but the ship will be lost. The Memphis cleared from
New Orleans for New York on the 6th instant, with a
cargo, consisting of 727 bales of cotton, 91 hhds. tobacco,
5863 pigs lead, 1647 sacks wheat, 625 do. corn, 55 barrels
whiskey, 93 do. oil, 80 do. lard, 37 do. flaxseed, and 84
bales hemp. The vessel is insured at the different offices
in New York for 50,900 dollars. The amount of insurance
on the cargo has not been ascertained. She was com-
manded by Captain Allen, for many years of the packet-
ship Sheffield.
FIRE PREVENTION 1311.1..—A meeting of the occupiers
of Warehouses was held on Saturdry last at the Claren-
don-rooms. I. C. Hallowes in the chair, to consider upon
the expediency of sending a deputation to London on the
subject of the fire prevention bill now before the House
of Lords. It was determined to oppose those clauses in
the bill which required the warehouse keeper to superin-
hvofct'cloing-ahytheriklvantidtlgaikakte but, otherwise t.o
now stands, it was stated, was valued by thelsn' Insurance
Companies as so much waste paper. It by
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the Warehouse-keepers were the only parties that the bill
bore hard upon ; the Warehouse-owner, the merchant,
and the porter were relieved from those clauses which
were considered hardships. Arrangements were made
to send witnesses, and money subscribed to meet their
expenses, and that of the deputation.

FIRE AT BIRKENHEAD.-011 Tuesday night last, about
twelve o'clock, an alarm of fire was given at the Town-
hall, Birkenhead, and the new engine with which the town
has recently been provided was immediately sent out, un-
der Mr. Bowie, superintendent of the night watch, and
soon reached the spot, a newly-built and yet unfinished
house, in Market-street, belonging to Mr. Rae, painter
and gilder. The doors and windows of the premises were
found to be nailed up, so that an entrance could not easily
be effected. The doors were, however, soon forced open,
and the fire, which had begun below, and was rapidly in-
creasing, was got under by hand buckets. The police
remained for about an hour. The damage to the wood-
work, &c. amounts to about £l2. Besides the nailing up
of the doors, there were other indications plainly showing
that the premises had been designedly fired. No clue has
been found to the party or parties. The house was in-
sured by the London Fire Assurance Company, of which
Mr. Kennedy, Hamilton-square, Birkenhead, is agent.
THE FUNDS, SATURDAY EVENING.—The market for
the public securities has not exhibited any new feature
to-day, and quotations remain much as before. A con-
tinuance of fine weather appears to be the chief support
of the government stocks. Consols for money and the
account left off 948 to ; Three per Cents. Reduced, 941
to 95; Three-and-a-Half per Cents. Reduced, 1022 to
1021; New Three-and-a-Half per Cents., 101-a to I.; Long
Annuities, 12 13-16 to 8 ; Bank Stock, 1811 to 1821 ;
India Stock, 263 to 264 ; India Bonds, CBs. to 70s. pre-
mium ; and Exchequer-bills, 595. to 61s. prerdium. The
foreign securities underwent little alteration. Spanish
was a trifle flatter. The Actives closed 188 to 182; and
the Three per Cents., 258; Mexican left off 341 to 35*
for the Five per Cents., and 91 to 101 for the Deferred.
Colombian was last quoted 24i to 51; Brazilian, 70 to
72 ; Belgian, 104 to 105 ; Austrian, 113 to 114 ; Portu-
guese Converted, 411 to Russian, 115 to 116; Dutch
Two-and-a-Half per Cents., 52/ to 53; the Five per
Cents., 100 k to 100*; Buenos Ayres, 26 to 27 ; and
Peruvian, 20 to 21.

ST ATE OF TRADE, MANUFACTURES, &C.—We have
again had:an active week in our cotton market, the buy-
ers being principally for consumption, and the prices fully
supporting those of last week. The sales amount to
28,590 bales, of which 6,600 American are on speculators'
account, and 750 American, 600 Pernam, and 350 Surat
for export. In the cotton manufacturing districts busi-
ness has been a little interrupted by the turn-out amongst
the spinners and weavers in the neighbourhood of Ashton-
under-Lyne. A fair amount of business has, however,
been done in the principal staples ; and this seem scarcely
so much to be attributed to the diminished supply, arising
by the stoppage of upwards of 20 mills, and the conse-
quent cessation from labour of more than 12,000 opera-
tives, as to the actual healthy proportion of demand to
the supply of most kind of goods. The turn-out is ex-
pected very shortly to be arranged ; and really it ought to
be arranged, by an agreement on the part of the masters
in Ashton and the iielglibuut hood, to pay the prices cur-
rent in other places, for it is a fact that, owing to the low
price of the raw material, the margin of profit to the
manufacturer was never—at least of late—more than at
the present period.
CHARGE OF FORGERY.—On Wednesday last a young
man named Thomas G. Rigby, stated to be a joiner and
builder, was brought before the sitting magistrates, at the
Police-court, on a charge of having uttered a bill with a
forged signature. Police-officer Lloyd said, that on the
previous afternoon Mr. Smith, chemist and druggist,
Great Homer-street, came to him, and said he had re-
ceived a bill for £47 55., to which his name was forged.
Having learned that it had been paid to another Party
previously by the prisoner, he (witness) apprehended him.
A memorandum (relating, it appeared, to other money
transactions, and found in the prisoner's pocket) was
produced by Lloyd, but Mr. Wardle objected to it being
read, as it did not bear upon the present charge. Mr.
Smith said he received the bill on Tuesday, from Mr.
Pritchard, who said he had received it from the prisoner.
The signature to the acceptance, purporting to be signed
by him, (witness,) was not in his handwriting, and he had
not authorised the prisoner so to make use of his name.
The signature was something like his (witness's) writing.
He could not take upon himself to swear that the signa-
ture to the acceptance was in the same handwriting as that
to the bill, which was the prisoner's. Mr. John Pritchard
said he was a timber merchant, in partnership with his
brother. The prisoner had had transactions with them,
and on Tuesday he tendered him the bill, in part payment
of his account. It was dated in May last. It was sent to
the Union Bank, where it was dishonoured. The pri-
soner, it afterwards appeared, was apprehended in his
house in Bootle. The prisoner, on being asked, with the
usual caution, what he had to say, declined saying any-
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