The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1845-01-28 00:00:00

12} Ditto Loan Notes
5 London and Sc
6 Ditto nev
- -

ittla Western

. .
2i (Leeds
and Mork ..
B Leeds and Bradford
40 i Manchester and ilirin;nghara
Ditto quarter.
Manchester, Bolton & Rossendale
Manchester, Bolton, & Bury

:a
24
93
70
31,

Aanchester.and Li
Ditto half share
Ditto quarter shi
Midland Counties

1-sth Share

Newcastle and Ben, icl
Newcastle and Carlisle
Newcastle and Darlington June 66
North British
North Union (A.)
Ditto (B
Preston and Wyre
Runcorn Gap
Ditto preference . .
Sheffield and Lincoln
Sheffield and Manchester

Quarter
Scottish Central
Shrewsbury and Grand Junction
South Eastern and Dover

New shares
Trent Valley
Ulster

Yarmouth and Norwich
York and Ncrth Midland
Di' to half Shares
Ditto, (Scarborough)
York and Selby .'5O shares
Ditto .t'2s shares

FRENCH, &c. RAILWAYS
Bou ogne and Amiens
Central of France
Lyons and Avignon
Orleans and Bourdeaux
Paris and Lyons
Paris and Orleans
Paris and Rouen
Paris and Strausburgh
Rouen and Havre
Strasburgh and Basle
Sambre and Meuse
Tours and Nantes • .

BANKS, and MISCELLANEOUS.
Liverpool Bank
Ditto Banking C.-mpany
Ditto Borough Bank
Ditto Commercial
Ditto Royal
Ditto Uni n
Manchester & Liverpool Dsctrict.
North aryl South Wales

Stock
100
100
100
100
Stock,
20
100

Company

Anderton Carr,
3 ootie Water Works
Coal Gas Company
Ditto new• shares.

I Ex-c-
-_ _

Harrington Docks..
200 Harrington Hater Works
2A Liverpool Fire and Life
100 Liverpool Dock Bend
in !Marine Assurance Company

Nevt

s R Coke C: mpauy

Ditto, quarter
!Rock Ferry
Steam Tug Company

40 48j
22 21/

PREMIUMS OF INSURANCE AT LLOYD'S.

1 Outward

Jamaica 2ss od® 30 U; 30 d (kin 6.1
Leeward Isl. Dcm. & Berbic 20 0 0 0 20 0— 30 8
Honduras 5O 0— 60 0 50 0— 6a a
Havana 35 0 50 0 , 33 0 44 0
New York, Boston 25 0— 30 0 17 6 20
Charleston, Savannah
0
New Orleans
Canada
British North America
Newfounaiand
Brazils
River Plate
East Indies
China
Batavia
New South Wales .
Cape of Good Hope
Africa....

I 0 0 -

I 0 0 -

35 0
35 0
50 0

0 0 0 0 -

00,0 0 • •
30 0 25 6 30 •
—4O 0 30 0— (W
—4O 0 35 •-40 0
—6O 0 60 0— 70 •
—4O 0 35 0-40 0
50 0 40 0 _
40 0 . 40 0
105 0

40 0 -
35 0 -
30 0 -
15 0 -
50 0

Gibraltar .. .. 17 6 ; 17 6 20 0
Lima, Valparaiso, &c. ~ 6o 0 ' 40 0 50 e
Malta, Sicily, &c.
Smyrna and Constantinople. 30 0 0 0 40 0 0 9
Malaga .......... ....... . 17 6 20 0 ! 17 6 29 0
Madeira
Western Isles, Cape de Vents
Lisbon
Cadiz ....

20 0-25 0 1 17 -20 0
20 0 -- 17 -20 0
30 0- 2O 0-25 0
40 0-50 0 I 30 0-40 0
50 0-60 0 40 0-50 0
0 0 - 0 0 -
0 0 -- 0 0
0 0 - C 0 '

France
Holland
Hamburg, Bremen, &c
Gottenburg, Stockholm
Petersburg, Riga, &c.
Oporto

NEW SUPERINTENDENTS AND INSPECTORS.—On Sa-
turday Inspectors Abram and Towerson and Mr. Lawson
were elevated to the rank of superintendents of the bo-
rough police. Six of the force were, at the same time,
appointed inspectors.
LOOK AFTER THE YOUNG—We have already given an ex-
tract from Douglas Jerrold'smagazine, showing the graphic
manner in which the tale is told. The description of the
poor woman lying on the step, apparently frozen to death,
presents itself to the reader as a reality ; and the excla-
mation of the watchman, when it is discovered that the
heart of the poor creature yet beats, is perfectly in ac-
cordance with the habits and language of that by-gone
race. " Werry drunk but not a bit dead." Cradled on
the knees of this creature of " misery and vice," a poor
child is found sleeping ; and hearts, heardened in scenes
of crime and destitution " are softened, and one cries out
" Poor little heart," and another cries " God help it!"
" Yes," says the author, " God help it ! And with such
easy adjuration do we leave thousands and tens of thou-
sands of bums 1 souls to want and ignorance 7 doom them,
when yet sleeping the sleep of guiltlessness, to future
devils—their own unguided passions. We make them
outcasts, wretches ; and then pun'sh, in their wickedness,
our own selfishness—our own neglect. We cry, " God
help the babes !"—and hang the men. Yet a moment.
The child is yet before us. May we not see about it—
contending for it—the principles of good and evil? A.
contest between the angels and the fiends ? Come hither,
statesman ; you who live within a party circle ; you, who
nightly fight some miserable fight ; continually strive in
some selfish struggle for power and place, considering
men only as tocls, the merest instruments of your aggran-
d ment ; come here in the wintry street, and look upon
God's image in its babyhood ! Consider this little man.
Are not creatures such as these the noblest, grandest
things of earth ? Have they not solemn natures—are
they not subtly touched for the highest purposes of hu-
man life? Come they not into this warld to grace and
dignify it? There is no spot, no coarser stuff in the
pauper flesh before you, that indicates a lower nature.
;There is no felon mark upon it—no natural formation in-
dicating the thief in its baby fingers—no inevitable blas-
phemy upon its lips. It lies before you a fair unsullied
thing, fresh from the band of God. Will you, without
any effort, let the great fiend stamp his fiery brand upon
it? Shall it, even in its sleeping innocence, be made a
trading thing by misery and vice ? A creature borne
from street to street, a piece of living merchandise for
mingled beggary and crime? Say ; what, with its awa-
kening soul, shall it learn ? What lessons whereby tol)ass
through life, making an item to the social sum? Why,
cunning will he its wisdom ; by pocrisy its truth ; theft its
natural law of self-preservation. To this child so nur-
tured, so taught, your whole code of morals, nay, your
brief right and wrong, are writ in stranger figures than
Egyptian hieroglyphs—and—timepasses—and you scourge
the creature never taught, for the heinous guilt of know-
ing nought but iil. The good has been a sealed book to
Lieu, and the dunce is punished with the gaol. Doubtless
there are great statesmen ; wizards in bullion and bank-
paper ; thinkers profound in cotton, and every turn and
variation of the markets, abroad and at home. But there
are statesmen yet to come ; statesmen of nobler aims—of
more heroic action—teachers a the people; vindicators
of the universal dignity of man ; apostles of the great so-
cial truth that knowledge, which is the spiritual light of
God, like his material light, was made to bless and corn-
'ort all men. And when these men arise—and it is worse
Ilan weak, it is sinful, to despair of them—the youngling
our will not be boundon the very threshold of human
re, and made, by
want and ignorance, life's shame and
There is not a babe lyng in the public streets on
s mother's lap—the unconscious mendicant to ripen into
he criminal—that is not a repr,ach to the state ; a scan•
dal and a crying shame upon m n who study all politics,
save the politics of the human heart.