The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1842-07-19 00:00:00

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and spirit', is sufficient to impress you with the conviction,
that it becomes all those who are in any way connected with
the literature of England, to take that high stand to which
the nature of their pursuits and the extent of their sphere
and usefulness justly entitle them—to discourage the uphold-
ers of such doctrines by every means in their power, and to
hold themselves aloof from the remotest participation in a
system, from which the moral sense and honourable feeling
of all just men must instinctively recoil.
ti;ePor myself, I have resolved that I will never from this
ellterinto any negociation with any person for the
1 transmission,m. across the Atlantic, of early proofs of anything
sue—hy- Ir_i_tece; and that I will forego all profit derivable from
ing e'po'nuuryou- Ido not venture to urge this line of proceed- I
stress upon the but I would beg to suggest, and to lay great
Lion, to whale ,inecessity of observing one other course of ac-
" The penio,:aannot too emphatically call your attention.
can public or, tna exert themselves to mislead the Ameri-
to suppress andsquestion—to put down its discussion, and
possible way,
mart the truth, in reference to it, in every
have a strong iote4sutlan may easily suppose) those who
plunder ; inasmuch as, austthe existing system of piracy and
a very comfortable livin long as it continues, they can gain
while they would find it °t of the brains of other men,
These are to earn bread by the
exercise of their own. the editors and proprietors
of newspapers almost exclusively
more than
for the most part, men
of popular English works, agcy are,
to the republication
than indifferent reputa-
tion very low attainments, and of
in the same sheet in
; and I have frequently seen them,
insolently
vnttihousand copies
which they boast of the rapid satodf insea
.y. attacking the
of an English reprint, coarsely
author of that very book, and heaping sm.
nlity and slander
upon his head.
" I would therefore entreat you, in 'the name of the ho-
nourable pursuit with which you are so intimately connected,
never to hold correspondence with any of these tnn
never to negotiate with them for the sale of early proofs f:nodf
any work over which you have control; but to treat, on all
occasions, with some respectable American publishing house,
and with such an estalAshment only.
" Our common interest in this subject, and my advocacy
of it, single-handed, on every occasion that has presented
itself during my absence from Europe, form my excuse for
addressing you.—And I am, faithfully yours,
" CHARLES DICKENS."

CAIN AND ABEL.—It is somewhat
hirwular that at the
sessions held at Rotherham last week, two
bothbearing
the names of these two ancients were btr
ed prisoners
for
felony.
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The order of things, however, in this case was reversed,
r
Cain was returned not guilty, but Abel, lessfortunate, was
sentenced to be transported for seven years.
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COAL-FIELD OF LANCASHIRE.—FueI and c -
may be mentioned as pre-eminently forming part of the local
advantages of Manchester. It has been calculated that
the
available coal-beds of Lancashire amount, in weight, to the _
enormous sum of 8,400,000,000 tons. The total annual
consumption of this coal, it has been estimated, amounts to
3,400,120 tons. Hence it is inferred, that the coal-field of
Lancashire, at the present rate of consumption, will last
2470 years. Two thousand persons, it is believed, are em-
ployed in supplying Manchester alone with coal. The fol-
lowing calculations were furnished to the Manchester Sta-
tistical Society, by Mr. Meadows :
Coal brought into Manchester in 1834. 1836. 1840.
By canals tons 463,238 579,728 637,830
By turnpike-roads and railways 273,770 334,263 396,260

Total tons,

.. ~ , . 737,008 913,991 1,034,090

Mr Meiklam's b g Wee Willie, aged (Templeman) 5 5 1 1
Mr Clarke's ch c Woldsman, 3 yrs..
Lord Stanley's b g Sybarite, 4 yrs .
Mr Singleton's ch c Smike, 3 yrs
Mr F. R. Price's b c Croyden, 3 yrs
Lord Milltown's b f L'Uccello, 3 yrs 3 d
Mr Holker's bik f Tariff, 3 yrs