The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1846-07-14 00:00:00

appearance of being intended to persecute a gentleman
whose chief offence is that he is opposed to them in poli-
tics. Surely, if even his worship were inclined to
indulge his political feelings in the administration of the
hospitalities of the Town-hall. or in the performance of
his public duties, the Whig- Rad.cal party are not the men

we have had in this town have not shown such very sensitive
nicety upon these points. At the present moment we
have before us an address of congratulation, issued by the
Whig-liadical Mayor of Manchester to the people of
England, upon the successful carrying of the late free
trade measures. Doubtless, were any one of the same clique
Mayor of Liverpool just now, we should have little of
delicacy used in following the same, or even a more ob-
jectionable course._

, VISITORS AT CROXTETR.—The following noblemen
and gentlemen are at present staying at Crosteth, and will
remain during the week :—Hon. Mr. Balfour, Hon. Mr.
Forester, Mr. Glynn, Sir W. W. Wynn, Piinee George
of Cambridge. Mr. and Mrs. E. G. Hornby, Duke and
Duchess of Montrose, Capt. Rouse, Earl and Countess
Eglington, Hon. Mr. Leslie, Lord Glamis, Mr. and
Mrs. J. Townley, Hon. E. G. Mostyn, Miss Hornby,
Sir' R. Pigot, Bart.
His Royal Highness the Duke of Cambridge will honour
the Earl of Sefton with a visit at Croxteth this weak. His
Royal Highness will arrive, we believe, on Friday.

ELECTION OF COMMISSIONERS OF WALLASEY...—
The promoters of the Wallasey Improvement Act have
taken a very unusual and, as it appears to us, a very fair
and impartial course, in omitting from such act any aa_
mination of the existing commissioners to act under it,
leaving them to be elected by the ratepayers. The follow-
ing gentlemen therefore retire, as they would have done
had no improvement act been past—viz., Mr. T. B.
Hughes, Mr. J. North, Mr. K. Edwards, Mr. Edwards,
Mr. H. Meadows, Mr. J. Mawdsley, Mr. Thomas
Dean and Mr. J. Bewley. The promoters, nevertheless,
think it their duty to recommend a list, of which the
following are the names :—Messrs. J. D. Maddock,
Miles Barton, Thomas Dean, Thomas Lester, Liscard ;
and Messrs. John Mawdsley. Seaccmbe; Henry Melt_
dows, Poulton ; and Evan Jones, Liscard. The re.
spectability of these gentlemen will ensure them, we
should suppose, the support of the ratepayers. The elec.
tion is to be held on Thursday next, at the Queen's Aram
Hotel, Liscard

him, which he received with much good-humour and

THE WOOLLEN CLOTHS OF YORKSHIRE.—The letter
of Mr. William Beckett, M.P., addressed to the mer-
chants and manufacturers of the borough of Leeds, has
excited considerable interest on the subjec's principally
referred to by the hon. gentleman—viz., the comparative

excellence of English and foreign woollen cloths, and the
prospects of the manufacturers of that description of
goods in the West-Riding of York-hire. It is felt in
many quarters that this branch of manufacture is in far
from a satisfactory state, and that vigorous efforts should
be made by all parties concerned, with a view to reeain
our lost pre-eminence in the markets of the world. There
is a strong impression that British woollen cloths cannot
even retain their present position compared with those of
the F ench and Belgians, without such efforts being made.
—Leeds Mercury.

MR. RIPI EY AND THE LIVERPOOL COMMITTEE FOR
THE REGISTRY OF SHIPPING.—A lengthy correspon-
dence has just been published, which has tiken place be-
tween the secretary of the Liverpool committee for the
registry of shipoing and Mr. Ripley, upon the subject of
an alleged imputation brought by the latter gentleman
a

instthe committee, of unfair preference in the classifi-
cation of a vessel—the Anne Armstrong—belonging to one
of their own body. The committee, through their secre-
tary, required from Mr. Ripley that he should inspect the
renoct of the survey of the vessel, in order to enable that

gentleman to retract his imputation, if found unjust.
Mr, Ripley's reply was in the form of a demand to know
the precise language used, the names of the parties who
had reported the conversation, and when it had occurred.
The secretary to the committee then specified the par-
ticular nature of the charge; that it had been publicly
made in tne Underwriters' Rooms, was talked of on
'Change, and been published in the London and the
local otpers. M . Ripley still declined to take any steps,
witho it the names of the committee's informants being
given ; and, after a further exchange of letters, with the
same result, the I llowing unanimous resolution of the
comtn'ttee was er nveyed to Mr. Ripley:—
That, as Mr. Ripley, in his correspondence, conti-
nues to evade a denial of the unwarrantable charge which
has been referred to, the vindication of the conduct of
the committee will be sufficiently attained by publishing
the correspondence, in order that the public may form
their own conclusions as t 9 the entire groundlessness of
the charge."

PARATIONS BY THE YACHT CLUB

The Royal Mer-ey Yacht Club purpose to do as much
honour to the royal visitor as time and circumstances

will permit, and the Dock Committee will, we learn,
afford them every possible encouragement. A display,
in the shape of a sailing match, or showing off in the
river, would be precarious, and the Prince, from the ne-
cessary rapidity of his movements. might be unable to
witness it. It is therefore contemplated—though no pre-
cise arrangement is yet determined upon, that the yachts
will congregate on the spacious half-tide basin north of
the Albert Dock, all decorated with fLigs, with their
spars manned by their crews in similar nautical attire,
and their owners, and all their friends, (of the club) •n
board of them in their full uniform. After the Royal Yacht
has entered the dock, it is intended that the whole of the
yatchts, thus appointed, shall be towed into the Albert
Dock by a small steamer, or steamers, and take their
places, in lines, from north to south, or p.trhaps in minia-
ture representation of two fleets in order of battle.
Should this be accomplished, (and we see nothing to pre-
vent it,) the sight, conjoined with the presence on the
same expanse of water with the Royal Yacht, will present
a beautiful appearance, and no doubt add to the gratifica-
tion of the numerous ladies and others who will on that
day throng the extensive galleries, or platforms, erected
on the south and west sides of the dock, who will obtain
an uninterrupted view of the whole fleet.

•
Tux SUGAR DUTIES —We learn from a sure source
that the min.sterial plan is—first, to impose immediately
a uniform duty of 235. 4d. on all foreign sugars of free
labour or slave labour origin for three years; second, after
the lapse of three years the differential duty in favour of
British sugars to be eliminated in the course of three
years by a regularly decreasing scale. This, with the abo-
lition of the restrictions on the free use of sugar and mo-
lasses in this country, and the equalisation of the duties
on rum and British spirits, will do.—Colonial Gazette.
FATAL RAILWAY ACCIDENTS.—On Thursday a
one months a
la-
bourer on the Birmingham and Derby Railway, whilst
crossing the line, was run over by an engine coming up
whilstsee
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unexpectedly. The wheels passed over his body. and al-
mostold
,
tingharn, was knocked down by a train. which unfortu-
nately killed it. The little thing was the child of a game-
keeper living near the line, and being placed in a chair
severed
straying it in t
onw ° the O
railway a i l Friday
way a B
e child, 22 r
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by its mother whilst she made tea, had ktrayed away.