The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1842-10-11 00:00:00

REAL PROPERTY OF THE KINGDOM.

According to a return made to an order of the House of
Commons, last session, it appears that the total annual value
of real property assessed to the poor-rates in England is
£59,685,412, of which £30,448,991 consisted of landed pro-
perty, £22,991,472 of dwelling-houses, and £6,244,949 of all
other kinds of property.
Middlesex, although the smallest county but one, namely,
Rutland, comprising as it does the greater part of London,
is, as might be expected, the richest county of the kingdom,
its total annual value of real property assessed amounting to
no less than £7,293,369. This sum is thus distributed :
Landed property, £304,653 ; dwelling-houses, £6,680,202;
all other kinds of property, £308,514.
Yorkshire ranks next to Middlesex in point of wealth, its
total annual value of assessed property being £5,448,494,
distributed as follows : Landed property, £3,865,496 ;
dwelling-houses, £1,817,739 ; all other kinds of property,
4)75,259.
Lancashire comes next. The total annual value of real
property assessed in the county of Lancaster is £5,266,606,
made up as follows :—Landed property, £1,402,208 ; dwell-
ing-houses, £2,449,196 ; all other kinds of property,
£1,415,222. . .

Rutland, as it is the smallest, so is it also the least wealthy
county, its total annual value of real property being only
£119,184, composed as follows : Landed property, £109,119,
dwelling-houses, £9,104 ; all other kinds of property,
£3,911.
Westmoreland is the next least wealthy county, the total
annual valuc of ita real property asooa3cd being .COGG,33t,
made up of real property, £221,054 dwelling-houses,
£37,374 ; all other kinds of property, £7,907.
Huntingdon is next, the total annual value of its real pro-
perty assessed being £317,718, made up as follows :-Landed
property, £236,633 ; dwelling-houses, £71,221; all other
kinds of property, £9,864•
The sum levied for poor-rates in England for the year
ending Lady-day, 1841, was £6,079,564. The rate in the
pound on the annual value of real property assessed in 1841
was, for the whole of England, 2s.
It is a circumstance worthy of notice, that the rates are
highest in those parts of the country which we are not ac-
customed to refer to as most distressed. The highest rated
county is Wilts, in which the rate amounts to 3s. in the
pound. In Sussex the rate is only Id. in the pound less than
in Wiltshire-namely, 2s. Ild. In Buckinghamshire, Suf-
folk, and Surrey, the rate is 2s. 9d. in the pound ; in Essex,
Dorset, Gloucester, and Southampton, it is 2s. Bd., whilst in
Yorkshire it is only ls. 11d., and in Lancashire Is. Sd.
The rate per head of annual value of real property is for
the whole kingdom £3 19s. 7d. The rate per head is high-
est in Hertfordshire-namely, £5 19s. ld., and lowest in
Cornwall-namely. £2 13s. 4d. The area of England in
English statute acres is 31,770,615. The average annual
value per acre for the whole kingdom is 19s. 2d. Middlesex
is the county in which the value reaches the highest point-
the average value there is £1 14s. per acre. In Leicester-
shire the annual value per acre is £1 7s.' and in Lancashire,
£1 ss. The county in which land is of the :lowest value is
Westmoreland, where the average annual value per acre is
only 9s. id. ; in Northumberland it is 12s. 9d., and in Sussex
it is 13s. 6d.
The total annual value of real property in Wales assessed
to the poor-rates is £2,854,613., of which £2,206,146 con-
sists of landed property, £394,929 of dwelling-houses, and
£253,543 of all other kinds of property.
The total sum levied in Wales for poor-rates for the year
ended Lady-day, 1841, was £342,265. The average rate in
the pound for the whole country is higher than in England,
it being 2s. in the latter, and 2s. sd. in Wales. The poor-
rates are highest in Carnarvonshire, namely, 3s. 2d. in the
pound, and lowest in Brecon, Is. 7d.
The area of Wales in English statute acres is 4,752,000.
The average annual value per acre for the whole country is
9s. 3d. Land is most valuable in Anglesea, where the ave-
rage value is 19s. ; and least valuable in Merionethshire,
where the average value is 4s. Bd.

I do declare I am the most hampered man in the world. as
he wine-merchant's porter said to the burthen upon his
shoulder.

THE NEWCASTLE FESTIVAL.—The receipts of this festi-
val realized a sum of £2,015, and the expenses amount to
£2,66s—thus leaving a deficiency of 1:650. The charities
will, therefore, derive no benefit from the festival whatever.

The losses of the corn speculators in England, this harvest,
are estimated at £2,000,000 sterling.
GRACE DARLING.—Some distant papers state, that as her
Majesty was passing the Fern Islands, on her return from
Scotland, she was told that Grace Darling was dead. We
feel that we can take upon ourselves to contradict the report.
Some weeks ago it was announced she was unwell, but there
is not the slightest account of her being in a worse state.—
Tyne Mercury.

The O'Connell Tribute has lost a plumper of £lOO a-year,
by the death of the late Master of the Rolls. This sum was
regularly paid into the fund, with the signature " Anonymous '
attached. --Limerick Chronicle.
RENT OF A LORD MAYOR'S HOUSE.—lnithe year 1275
George Rokersley, lord Mayor of London, occupied a house
in Milk-street, Cheapside, for which he paid the enormous
rent of 20s. per annum.
A BlTE.—Talking of alligators, the mate of a vessel bound
for Liverpool had bought one, about four feet long, to take
home with him, and tied it somewhere on deck. In the
night it got loose, and sought more comfortable quarters in
the cabin. The mate was under a musquito-bar on the floor,
and thought he felt the cat rubbing alongside of him. " Pussy,
pussy !" said he. putting out his hand to pat his feline fa-
vourite, when such a row was instantaneously kicked up in
the cabin as made the sailors in the forecastle jump out of
their berths like chestnuts off a hot shovel. The mate caught
considerably of a bite, but was not seriously injured.
FEARGUS O'CONNOR'S MODESTY.—This outrageousboas-
ter, whom the most ignorant now perceive to be a mere
charlatan, if not something worse, thus writes in last week's
Star—" How proud must I be to find the whole nation once
more rallying around me as their prop and mainstay; laugh-
ing at the attempts of the wicked, and smiling treason out of
countenance." And thus O'Connor writes; while O'Brien,
at least his equal in authority, is denouncing him as a coward
and a traitor ; while he reciprocates the compliment by cal-
ling O'Brien "a starved viper."
BANK OF MANCHESTER,—The directors of this establish-
ment have made a call upon the proprietors of £2 per share.
We understand that yesterday there was a meeting of the di-
rectors and some of the principal shareholders, to whom was
submitted the present position of the bank ; when it was
unanimously agreed to recommend to the general meeting of
proprietors on Friday next, the winding up of the affairs of
the company. With this view, we have reason to believe
the directors have made arrangements which will enable them
to meet engagements in the most prompt and satisfactory
manner.—Manchester Guardian.
THE LATE MARQUIS WELLESLEY.—The following re-
markable passage, regarding the classic attainments of this
much-esteemed nobleman, is extracted from the evidence of
the Rev. Joseph Goodall, D.D., Provost of Eton College,
before a committee of the House of Commons on education
" I should be sorry to detract from the merit of such a man
as Professor Porson, whom I loved, esteemed, and admired ;
but I would name the Marquis Wellesley as infinitely superior
to him in composition. The marquis, as a genuine Greek
classic scholar, exhibits the exquisite style and manner of
Xenophon."
LUNACY IN FLEAS.—A descendant and namesake of the
great philosophical author of the inductive system, recently
puzzled a modern man of science by asking him if he had
read Dr. Von Shienmycher'e treatise on the cause of lunacy
in fleas. " No," replied the hoaxee, " but it is a very inter-
esting subject, and it must be curious to trace the disease
among the lower insect tribes. But, (added he, after a
solemn pause,) how has it been ascertained that fleas are lia-
ble to insanity ?" " Oh, very
,easily," rejoined 8., " since
so many of them die cracked !

Ely' Etherpool Atanbartt.

TUESDAY MORNING, OCTOBER 11, 1842.

There is no quality possessed by the gentlemen (!) of
the Anti- Corn-law League in greater abundance than
that of IMPUDENCE. Day by day we hear of the
private dwellings of our neighbours being invaded by
the promulgators of their seditious and blasphemous
tracts. If the door is shut in their faces, and the
fellows kicked into the street, their offensive wares are
foisted upon us through the medium of the postman.
At every turn their walking placards meet our eye;
and the begging-box, for money to feed the hireling
mouths which defame and slander the noblest in the
land, is shaken in our faces with an " assurance"
which is almost Palmerstonian, and a pertinacity equal
to that of the Great Beggarman himself.
Consummate, however, as is the impudence of this
body, we were scarcely prepared for the glaring display
of that quality which has just been perpetrated. Some
few weeks ago, it seems, a noble duke, a conspicuous
supporter of the landed interest, entertained a portion
of his tenantry in his own castle. The entertainment
in question was strictly a private one ; and in the
unreserved confidence of such a communion between
landlord and tenant, the noble entertainer gave free
expression to his known opinions upon the subject of
our native agriculture and its enemies, the Anti-Corn-
law League. A report of the festivity, and of the
remarks in question, furnished by some of the guests
present, found its way into a local paper, and was
copied thence into the Mark-lane Express ; upon
which the Anti-Corn-law League proceeded instanter
to direct against the noble duke—the Duke of Cleve-
land—that vulgar insolence which they. have made
their peculiar weapon. A letter is written to his Grace,
by their chairman, enclosing a collection of that nau-
seous and blasphemous stuff which they denominate
Anti-Corn-law tracts, and " venturing to hope that
when his Grace shall have carefully studied these
documents, he will arrive at a different conclusion to
that which appears in the speech referred to, and that
he will take the earliest opportunity of correcting his
error" ! The noble duke, schooled and corrected by
these pragmatical impertinents, is to go down on his
knees, turn up the whites of his eyes, fold his hands,
and " take the earliest opportunity" of confessing that
he has been through life, and until " corrected" by
the superior information of the cotton-spinners of
Manchester, in a state of woful and utter ignorance of
that very subject which, from its superior importance
to himself and his order, he may be supposed to have
studied most carefully

That a nobleman like the Duke of Cleveland should
have condescended to notice such an impertinence in
any other manner than by desiring his butler or his
footman to convey the communication and enclosure
of " George Wilson, Chairman," upon a coal-shovel,
to the kitchen or the scullery fire, is to be regretted.
His Grace did, however, reply; and the result of his
indignant disavowal of the authority of this insolent
body to call him to task, for the expression of his
known opinions to a private party in his own castle, is
that the League has directed one of their most foul-
mouthed itinerants to proceed in person to the neigh-
bourhood of Raby, the seat of the noble duke, and to
insult him in the presence of his own tenantry ! From
the " Queen's Head, Staindrop," the " bottle mounte-
bank," A cland—(he will recognise the term)—has
addressed himself to his task, of pelting the contents
of his literary dunghill, with an unsparing hand, at the
unfortunate object of the League's enmity. We shall
certainly not soil our columns with the insolent trash
in question, which, we dare say, will be furnished, as
" a dainty dish," by our radical contemporaries. But
we will take the opportunity of putting the question
seriously to the respectable portion of the opponents
of the Corn-laws : do they think that the cause which
they profess to have at heart can be advanced by the
reckless and impudent course which the Anti-Corn-
law League are pursuing—that the confidence of the
British people can ever be earned by a party who thus
insolently unloose upon the nobility of the land the
hired tongue of any quondam mountebank and quack
doctor, who happens to possess, in addition to his
fluency of vituperation, a brazen countenance and a
person upon which the horsepond is innocuous ?
Let the respectable members of the Anti-Corn-law
party take this question into their earnest considera-
tion. They may depend upon it that by their present
course they are offending all that is decent and right-
minded in the community; and for what ? To feed a
few itinerant hirelings, and to let forth upon the world
the venom of a clique of baffled and sinking adven-
turers, who, but for a certain joint-stock bank, which
is at this moment, we perceive, itself in extremis, would
never have possessed more influence upon the opinions
of the world around them than any half-dozen pro-
fessors of timble rig or shove penny, or any half-dozen
tailors, of " Tooley-street, or elsewhere.

A vast quantity of " excellent indignation" has
been wasted of late upon his Excellency, the Governor-
General of India. Decrepit whiggery has blustered,
chuckled, and threatened by turns. Conservatives,
even, have looked grave, and expostulated with his
lordship and the ministry, upon the impropriety
and even dishonour of the course which it was
assumed they were pursuing with respect to our
Eastern embroihnents. The news, however, by the
last overland mail has, we are proud to see, put a new
face upon matters. Whilst the detractors of Lord
Ellenborough, in India and at home, have been de-
nouncing his supposed inactivity, and proclaiming the
degrading character of the policy which he had
adopted, his lordship has been steadily concentrating
his forces, and providing the requisite materiel—artil-
lery, camels, and treasure—for a decisive movement;
and we have now the assurance, not only that the
British forces are about to advance to the rescue of
their captive fellow countrymen and countrywomen,
from the hands of the murderous fiend, Ackbar Khan
—not only that they are about to endeavour, at least,
to wipe away the stain which has fallen upon the
British arms in Affghanistan, and by a bold attack
upon the very stronghold of the barbarian, to put an
end for ever to his ability to injure and insult—but
that they are about to do all this, provided by the
wise and foreseeing care of Lord Ellenborough, with
every appliance necessary to ensure early and complete
success !

By this time, weleei assured, the British flag floats
from the- walls of Caubul, and the leader of a
triumphant army has dictated to a savage, and lately
exulting enemy the terms of an honourable peace.
What those terms will be, or what will be the course
pursued by Lord Ellenborough, after he has rescued
the lives of his brave fellow-countrymen, and vindi
cated the character of British arms, we do not presume
to know. Wisely, we think, his lordship preserves
his own councils secret even from the ear of gossiping
journalism, until he is prepared to carry out his
designs effectually; hut we much mistake his cha-
racter, and that of his colleagues at home, if those
designs are not such as will promote the interests and
the honour of Great Britain, and the stability of her
Indian empire infinitely more than that step to which
the Palmerstonian oracle would urge them—viz., the
colonization of Affghanistan. `` Open a path for the
commerce and the manufactures of 'England through
the passes of Caubul !" Fudge, my Lord Palmerston !

The editor of the Albion, if we may take all which
appears in that paper, graced with his leader type, as
the production of that gentleman, must have been,
during the past week, in a somewhat unusual ill-hu-
mour. Commenting in his would-be-witty manner—
(and of anything approaching to sterling wit the Albion
is as innocent as the gentleman who does the " think-
ing man's " bufiboneries)—upon the speeches of Mr.
Samuel Holme and Mr. Glazebrook, at the recent
meetings in St. Peter's and Castle7street wards, our
contemporary proceeds to utter the following amongst
other impertinences :

" Mr. Glazebrook, on presenting himself to the meeting,
was, we are informed, " received with immense applause."
Thereupon the worthy gentleman delivered himself of a
speech, and such a speech! A conglomeration of ideas! a
hotchpotch of nonsense ! We have read it, and read if
again, and every reading has had the effect of rendering
meaning the more obscure. Mr. Glazebrook, if he has not yet
given the proprietors of the Liverpool Standard notice of an
action for libel, for publishing in their paper a mass of nonsense
and attributing it to him, ought to give them notice immediate-
ly. He cannott pass another day without vindicating his head
and his heart from the imputations which the reported
speeeh in the Standard is calculated to bring upon both.
The reporter who has thus dared to put nonsense into a re-
spectable gentleman's mouth, and sentences which "lead
to nothing," for they have no end, must be as ignorant and
illiterate as he is impudent and designing. Mr. Glazebrook
must punish both him and his employers, for the insult
offered to his understanding, by their report of his speech
on Thursday night."

We have already explained, in our " Notices to
Correspondents," the cause of the inaccuracies which
occurred in our last publication, and apologised for
those in the report of the speech in question. Such
inaccuracies, every man conversant with the manage-
Anent of a newspaper knows, must occasionally be
committed. No one knows better than the writer of
this splenetic trash that in nine cases out of ten they
occur from circumstances over which no control can
be exercised ; and that in a journal like our own, in
which every occurrence of interest is recorded up to
the hour of publication, without an intervening Sunday
to allow us to polish up our phrases and revise our
corrections, they occur more frequently than in any
other ; and it is therefore only evidence of a nasty
spirit, such as we do not suspect the pioprietor of the
Albion of entertaining towards ourselves, when a bro-
ther journalist steps out of his way to indulge in such
remarks as those contained in the paragraph which we
have quoted.
There are people in the world,—we have met with
many such—who entertain a magnificent opinion of
themselves, and whom it would be a good mercantile
speculation to purchase at the price which the public
would put upon them, and sell again at that which
their own inordinate conceit imagines to be their value.
Such a gentleman, evidently, is he who so oracularly
denounces our reporter as being "as ignorant and
illiterate as he is impudent and designing "(.9 We are
not bound to find the gentleman in question, whoever
he may be, with intellect to comprehend the speech of
Mr. Glazebrook or any other speech ; but we would
just hint to him that, being so little gifted with com-
prehension himself, it would be wise and .decent in
him, when next venturing upon the editorial stilts, to
adopt a style more becoming him,—less bombastical,
and more intelligible. " Asignorant and illiterate as
he is impudent and designing! " Gramercy, good
sir what high-flown rubbish is this ?

THE REDUCTION OF THE DUTIES ON FOREIGN MEAT.—
The provisions of the New Tariff, with respect to foreign
meats, cameinto'operation yesterday, aed these articles are
now admiisable at the reduced duties. A reference to our
advertising columns will, we think, sufficiently show that
this measure is not destined to be inoperative. This day,
will be offered for sale, by different brokers, 368 barrels of
American and Canadian beef, 1,417 barrels of American and
Canadian pork, 238 barrels and 15 hogsheads of American
hams, and 260 boxes of American cheese. Upon the latter
article, we may remark, no alteration of duty is made by the
tariff. Next week we observe 'another sale announced of
538 barrels of American beef; and, no doubt, a considerable
quantity of the article is offering which is not advertised in
our colomns. In a few weeks we venture to predict that the
effect of this extensive introduction of foreign meats will be
sensibly felt in our provision markets ; and, if the quality of
the article be at all tolerable, the operation of the measure
must confer a very material boon upon the labourinit classes
during the approaching winter.