The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1842-02-18 00:00:00

TO THE SHIPOWNERS OF LIVERPOOL.

GENTLEMEN,—Your dignified sufferance under the many
pressing embarrassments of your interests have won for you
the heartfelt gratitude of every lover of his country, and
which, when contrasted with the venal spirit that actuates
every movement of our manufacturers, stamps you the great-
est safeguard of our nation. But, gentlemen, permit a friend
to warn you, that too much apathy is sinful ; and it is your
duty at the present moment, if you would serve your coun-
try, to come forward manfully, and demand that all foreign
corn should be imported in " BRITISH BOTTOMS." It is
true that, in doing so, wrong motives will be imputed to you;
but you must do your duty through evil as well as good re-
port. Our country is not yet so firmly fixed that the inte-
rests of her seamen can be thrown to the winds.

I remain, gentlemen, your faithful friend,
PH I LO JUSTITIA

THE HALIFAX STEAMERS.—It is a remarkable fact that
the whole four fine vessels constituting the Halifax mail fleet
—the Britannia, Columbia, Acadia, and Caledonia—are now
(owing to the return of the latter vessel) in our port. It is
a circumstance which in all probability will never occur again.
We perceive, by the Telegraph report, that a ship with a
black ball in her foretopsail was off Great Ormshead yester-
day afternoon. She was supposed to be the South America,
from New York, the packet of the Ist. She will only bring
papers one day later than those brought by the Britannia.

DANIEL OUTWITTED.—In a letter, dated the 12th inst.,
and addressed to " my dear Ray," Mr. O'Connell says—
" I intend being in Dublin on Wednesday morning. The
" debate will consume a week, and thus, I am convinced, I
" will be back to the division." We believe the hon. gent.
passed through this town, on his way to Dublin, on Tuesday
evening, and probably by the time our publication is received
by our readers, he will have found out that his calculations
for once have not been made according to Cocker.

EXPRESSES FROM LONDON.—The provincial agents for
the metropolitan press have lately evinced the greatest anxi-
ety to satisfy the curiosity of the public, by their active en-
deavours to place within the reach of the mercantile commu-
nity the London morning and evening papers, at an hour
earlier than has been hitherto attained. The Standard and
Courier have made the most extraordinary exertions to bring
each evening's debate down to the latest possible hour,
though the former has certainly been much more successful
than its talented rival. On Tuesday morning last, we were
favoured by Messrs. Willmer and Smith with a copy of the
Courier containing a candensed report of Lord John Rus-
sell's speech, and at the same moment a verbatim report in
the Standard of that noble lord's harangue, was handed to
us by Mr. Aylward, of Lord-street, who is as obliging as he
is enterprising, in the discharge of his duties.
PROPRIETIES (!) OF AN ANTI-CORN-LAW BAZAAR.—
We extract the following choice morceau from the Stockport
Advertiser of Friday last :—" O'Connell's Opinion of the
English Women in a fair way of being realized.—A corres-
pondent writes us, that at the Anti-Corn-Law Bazaar at
Manchester last week, a lady, who failing in her solicitation
to make a sale, where she expected to realize, after resorting
to every imaginable artifice to induce a gentleman to add to
her exchequer, at length yielded to the overture made her.
and liberally submitted to the sale of a kiss for the price of
a sovereign ! So much for the influence of the cold calcu-
lating science of political economy on the mind of a liberal'
female! ' What next, Mr. Merryman.' "—[What next?
Aye, what indeed! We should be very sorry to prognosti-
catc.—Ed. L. S.]
COMMITMENT.—A boy, named John Presto, was yesterday
charged at the Police-court with having received some mo-
ney belonging to his employer, which he retained. It ap-
peared that Mr. Evans, in whose service he was, kept a stall
in St. John's Market, and had, on Saturday, sold some beef
to a Mr. Youds, in Walnut-street, which he sent the prisoner
with, desiring him to receive the money, £2 9d., if it
were offered him. Mr. Youds told him to call in the after-
noon, which he did, and received the money, but did not
again make his appearance at his master's. He was found
by a police-officer, in a public-house, and stated in his de-
fence that he had lost the money from his pocket, and was
afraid to face his master. He was committed for trial.

ROBBERY FROM AN UNOCCUPIED Hot) SE.—Thos. Rourke,
a young man, was, yesterday, charged at the police-court
with having, on the previous day, entered an unoccupied
house belonging to Mr. Gandy, near Edge-hill, and the key
of which was in possession of a female in the neighbourhood.
He was observed by a person opposite who gave information,
and the woman who had the key found him in the house,
and asked him his business there. He said he had been sent
to clean the house, and escaped ; but was afterwards taken by
a police-officer, who found on his person a piece of lead pipe,
several brass door handles, &c., which were proved to be-
long to the house. He was summarily committed to gaol
for three months.