The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1842-01-21 00:00:00

(LIVERPOOL NOTE.)

Goods. Rate. Paid on. Cartage. Total.
Butter, 15 cwt. 1 qr. .. 9s. ..,20s. 8d... Is. 4d. ...C1 9 0
(FLEETWOOD NOTE.)

Paid on. Total.
Better, 22 cwt. 2 qr. 14s. 6d. £1 9 6
The ' rate' is the charge per ton between Liverpool and
Manchester ; the paid on' shows, in each case, the freight
from Belfast to the English port, with all dock and port
charges. In the Liverpool note there is a charge of ls. 4d.
for cartage, which, we believe, is Is. 6d. per ton : in the
Fleetwood note there is no corresponding charge; the goods
being transferred, at the quay. from the hold of the vessel to
the railway lurry on which they are conveyed to Manchester.
The total charge for the freight, &c., of this butter, from
Belfast to Manchester, is, via Liverpool, about Is. 9d, per
cwt. ; via Fleetwood, less than Is. 4d. per cwt. ; being a dif-
ference of about Bs. per ton between these two routes from
the ports in the north of Ireland. The goods come from
Fleetwood to Manchester by railway ; whilst from Liverpool
they come by water conveyance. The great difference in
the cost is, doubtless, chiefly due to the heavy dock and port
charges at Liverpool ; hut the [natter is one of some impor-
tance to those importing goods, especially provisions, from
the north of Ireland."

We dare say the grocer's boy who accommodated our
friend with the two documents, upon which he has founded
this venomous attack upon the port of Liverpool, was quite
as ignorant of the meaning of the various terms therein, as
the Guardian himself. Our contemporary says that " the
paid on ' shews in each case the freight from Belfast to the
English port,'with all dock and port charges;" and whilst
making this gratuitous assumption, we presume that the
Guardian believed it to be true. We have, however, the
satisfaction of assuring him that it is not true. The sum of
20s. Bd., which, because stated to be " paid on," he con-
chides to be the freight and port charges of 15 cwt. 1 qr. of
butter from Belfast to Liverpool, is nearly 10s. more than
such freight and charges would amount to by steamboat be-
tween the two ports, as the Guardian might easily have dis-
covered if he had been as anxious to learn the truth as to
fling up his heels against us ; and his attack, therefore, and
his argument as well, go for nothing, except what they are—
viz., an emanation of spiteful ignorance. We dare say the
porter at any Manchester coach-office, or any Old Quay
carter, for a gratuity of a pint 01 ale, would be able to inform
the Guardian that the mystic words " paid on " in a freight
note mean just—paid on, and nothing else in particular.

A duel with swords took place a few days ago between two
Ladies of Paris ! The fair
combatants, who are known for
their wit, beauty, and fashion, quarrelled about an affair of
love, and a hostile meeting was the consequence. One of the
ladies was wounded, but we learn not dangerously.
DIABOLICAL OUTRAGE.—a'I'e much regret to be obliged
to record one of the most fiend-like outrages that we have
beard of for a long time- Some evil-minded wretch, having
gained admission to the Flax Spinning Mill at Beer's-bridge,
placed a bar of iron. between the cogs of a wheel attached to
an upright shaft, by which, when the mill was set on, a
horizontal shaft was smashed, and other parts of the machi-
nery seriously damaged.