The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1851-09-30 00:00:00

There was nothing left them after the affair in the
House of Commons but the issuing of the order in
council to which we have referred, and accordingly
they concocted it as much as possible in a style to
insult the Bishops, and take a little of the wind out
the sails of Sir Benjamin Hall.
In the meantime, the experience of every day
proves more and more how necessary it is for
Churchmen to find some neutral ground, where
their own peculiar opinions may not clash, in which
to make an effort to give the Church true and real
power to remedy by her own act such abuses as
may have crept into the administration of her
affairs. It is, we think, an anomaly, and one that
ought as soon as possible to be :swept away, that
the Church of England shall be at the mercy of
such orders of the. Council, while the Scottish Kirk
and every body of English Dissenters have their
own affairs committed by law to their own hands.
How and under what form this self-ruling power
can he restored to the Church, we leave to abler
minds to say; but that for the sake of true religion
it must be done, the events of every hour prove
beyond a doubt.

THE NEWSPAPER STA.4IP RETURNS

In our publication of Tuesday last we stated
reflecting in the least on any of our contempora
in the official return of the number of stamps
the Standard, in 1850, the circulation was put

I—without

LESS THAN HALF of what it actually had been, or about

ONE-THIRD of its average during the present quarter."
Notwithstanding this, the Mercury and Chronicle, in
their anxiety to "puff" themselves off, by depreciating other

journal

s, have not found it convenient to make the

st allusion to our explanation. We can assure

them that we value such littleness at what it is worth

We entertain no unworthy or petty jealousy towards any
newspaper. Oar desire is to " Live, and let live," and

while we enjoy the proceeds of a steadily increasing cir-
culation, and—as ourcolumnswill testify—an extensive ad-
vertising onnexion, we are satisfied to let the conduc-
tors of the papers alluded to follow their course.
From one of the best-conducted and most respectable of
our Liberal contemporaries, the Liverpool Times, we
copy the following very just remarks :

We were not aware, until last Saturday, that there was
any intention of publishing the stamp returns of each
newspaper separately. The practice of publishing those
returns was discontinued some years since, and ought not
to have been resumed without inquiry. When it was
discontinued it was considered that it had led to fraudu-
lent practices on the part of unprincipled persons, who
had bought up large quantities of stamps and given them

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away, or destroyed them, to impose upon advertisers,
with the appearance of a large 'circulation ; that, even
where no fraud was committed, it was no part of the
business of Government to puff one man's business or

property at the expense of another's ; and also that, after
all, circulation alone was no criterion of merit, Foargus
O'Connor's Northern Star having suddenly risen to a
circulation of from thirty to forty thousand copies a-week,
without a single thing to recommend it except its violence
and its subserviency to the worst_ prejudices of the most

not appear; but, probably, it was a job, to promote some
man's private interest; to give some editorial rival of
Moses and Sons the opportunity of puffing the wonderful
merits of his paper, at the expense of all others. It has
been the wish of the most respectable men connected
with the press that it should take rank as a profession ;
but what would the profession of medicine be, if it was
the custom for medical men in largo practice to stick up
a list of the number of their patients on the walls of Li-
verpool and other large towns, and to compare it with
the number of the patients of others ? What would the
legal profession be, if eminent solicitors published, on
the walls, how many skins of stamped parchment they
used more than their neighbours ? Would not those
professions at once sink to the level of the quack doctor
and the pettifogger ? Nay, to go from professions to
trades, what would be thought of a butcher, who, not
content with announcing that his beef was the best beef
in the market, should stick up in the streets a list of the
number of carcases sold by himself and every other man
in the shambles ? What would be thought of a tea-dealer
who should thus puff his teas ? or a grocer who should so
puff his sugars ? Would they not be thought low fellows?
And would not men who know the world conclude that
the beef was bull beef, the tea chopped besoms, and the
sugar the product of our native sand-hills? It it were
for no other purpose than to prevent this outrageous
puffery, Parliament ought not again to have sanctioned
the publication of these returns.
Tte newsrooms, in which three or four thousand of the
most respectable men in Liverpool read daily, for the
tenth part of a farthing each, newspapers which they
ought to buy and take home, are the great obstacles to
the increase of the circulation of newspapers which dis-
cuss commercial questions, and matters interesting to the
mercantile classes.

COMMERCIAL AND MONETARY NEWS,

Monday Night.

We have little to report since Friday's Circular. For
Sugar there has been a fair inquiry, but at rather lower
prices ; to-day, 500 bags of Pernambuco brought 15s. 6d.
to 16s, 3d. for brown. Rather more inquiry for Coffee,
and prices rather looking up ; 400 bags St. Domingo re-
ported at 38s. 6d. In Tea and Rum little stirring. For
Indigo and Drysalteries generally there is little inquiry.
Our sharemarket has been very active all week. The
amount of real business done has been considerable, and
prices generally have advanced materially. There appears
to be a disposition on the part of the public to buy shares
for investment, and stock being exceedingly scarce, the
buyers tend to raise prices daily. The market to-day
closes at the best of the week with good buyers at
the highest prices. We annex this day's closing prices :
Caledonian preference, 7k; Chester and Holyhead, 171;
East Lancashire, 14 16/3; Lancashire and Yorkshire,
56i ; Do. fifths, 81- d ; Southport, 2k d ; London stock,
116 k; Do. new quarters, 3p; Do. fifths, 2a p; Sheffield
stock, 271-; Do. £lO preference, 111; Midland stock,
471; Do. halves (undivided), 18k d; Old Dovers, 1911.
The railway meetings of the week have not been numer-
ous. The dividend declared by the shareholders of the
Shropshire Union Company has been at the rate of £2 15s.
per cent. per annum, in accordance with the terms of the
London and North-Western agreement. At the Glasgow,
Airdre, and slonklands Junction meeting the report has
been agreed to, and the directors have been empowered to
recover arrears of calls. The Lancaster and Preston divi-
dend has been declared at the rate of 71 per cent. per an.
num, the accounts showing an encouraging appearance
through the favourable results of traffic.
The preliminary meeting of the Iron trade was held
at the Union Inn, Birmingham, on Thursday last, and
was very fully attended. The only resolution arrived at
was, that the nominal prices of iron should remain as be-
fore. There is no perceptible impulse, either in the home
or foreign demand, to establish any advance, while a re-
duction could only be carried out by resorting to a general
lowering of wages, and no individual seems willing to incur
the odium of such a proposition, an impression being still
cherished that before all available resources are used up
better prospects may open. The long-continued depres-
sion and indefinite removal of all expected improvement m
the position of the producers of iron is becoming a subject
of the most serious anxiety in the neighbourhood, as the
interests of all other trades in this district are so imme-
diately connected with it, and dependent to so large an
extent upon it, that they cannot long remain in prosperous
circumstances while the iron trade is declining.—Birminq-
ham Gazette.

The return of the movement of the Bank of England
for the week ending on the 20th inst., in the Gazette of
this evening, gives the following changes compared with
the week ending the 13th inst. :—ln the department of
issue the notes in circulation had increased £137,750,
which had been produced by an increase of £137,750 in
the gold coin or bullion, the silver bullion remainin
unaltered. On the debit side of the banking department
the Rest had increased £4,452, the public deposits had
increased £628,330, the private deposits had increased
£14,742, and the seven-day and other post bills had
increased £8,557, making the total of the liabilities
£36,963,110. On the credit side the government securi-
ties remained unaltered ; the other securities had increased
£348,029 ; the notes had increased £297,135, and the
gold and silver coin had increased £10,917, which equa-
lised the account. The bullion in both departments of
the Bank had increased from £14,516.473 to £14,665,140,
being a difference of £148,667. The paper in actual
circulation had decreased from £20,322,054 to X 20,171,226,
being a difference of £150,828.

THE REVISION COURT.—This court, which opened yester-
day week, as stated in our last publication, still continues to
sit. The objections numbered 1,100, and these were chiefly
urged by the Radical party. The court resumed on Tuesday,
and proceeded with the list of objections to freemen, which

occu.pied until one o'clock on Frithly, when the county list was
entered on, and the business of the county court will continue
until this evening (Tuesday. We shall give an analysis of the
result next week.
PROTESTANT ORPHAN SOCIETY FOR IRELAND.—On Sunday
evening a sermon was preached, in Christ Church, by the Rev.
John Eccles, of Delgany, in aid of the above-named admirable
society. Last night a public meeting was held in the school-
room under St. Jude's Church. The proceedings were exceed-
inglyinteresting. The Rev. J. Eccles attended as a deputation.
Theinstitution at present maintains, clothes,,and educates,
375 orphans, who, with 341 who have been apprenticed, 64 who
died, and 152 given up to friends or otherwise provided for,
make a total of 932, to whom the society has afforded an asy-
lum. This evening (Tuesday) another meeting will be held in
Christ Church School, and on Friday evening a further meet-
ing will be held in the Abbey Chapel, Birkenhead.
EXTENSIVE HOUSE ROBBERY AT BOOTLE.-011 Sunday
evening last, between seven and nine o'clock, while the family
were at church, the house of Mrs. Garnock, a widow lady,
residingat No. 20, Bootle-lane, was entered by means of skeleton
keys, and a vast quantity of silver plate, money in value to
.e4O 105.,a silver watch, and other articleswere stolen. Amongst
the property taken were a silver cream jug marked "J. E. G.,"
a French leather pocket-book containing 3 half-crowns, 2s. 6d.,
and a ring; amethyst ring. lettered " A. M. G.:" a topaz ring.,
marked "E.G. ;" dozen large silver, and I doz. small silver
forks; four table, three dessert and two salt spoons, all marked
"G"; a silver lever watch, maker " Lecomber." The money
consisted of 2 -'lO notes, a £5 note, and 15 sovereigns, besides
the three half-crowns, and 2s. 6d. In a pocket book, from
which the other notes had been taken, the thieves left behind
them three £lO notes and one £2O note. No clue has yet
been made as to who the thieves are.